Ako Doma's music is a scoop of less known prog rock, but also has its impurities or its "new-culture" leanings. Despite that it isn't hard to get their works, it's on the other hand a bit hard to savor them completely, every spin taking you deep in...

Canterbury history lesson 101: Before Soft Machine and Caravan, there were the Wildeflowers. But even before the Wildeflowers there was the Daevid Allen Trio. This document of one of their very, very few performances, at the Marquee Club as part...

"Shadow Border is the second album from Dutch progressive rock band The Aurora Project. Their 2005 debut, Unspoken Words, brought them much acclaim in the worldwide progressive rock community. The band has twice been invited to perform at...

This is definitely one of the great Italian progressive/symphonic efforts! Dual keyboard classical Italian rock band with a fabulous, operatic singer, this is their classic third album.

"Jeremy Beck has created a special kind of musical world; one which combines hope with a gentle sadness and nostalgia. It is the kind that you glimpse upon waking on a Sunday morning and seeing a steady rain in the garden, knowing that you can go right...

"A live recording from the Leipzig Opera House is the debut documentation of the duo of Ketil Bjørnstad and Terje Rypdal (working together since 1999). Material revisits pieces from Bjørnstad’s “Water Stories” and “The Sea” and from Rypdal’s...

This is the first album by guitarist Marc Bonilla who has played with a lot of different folks since this debut from 20 years ago (1991) and now, most notably with Keith Emerson in Keith's band (Keith appears here), Kevin Gilbert (who appears here) and...

This is a French-only Blue Note release by this Swiss-born pianist who leads a band consisting of fine if unknown French musicians on trumpet, bass, drums and percussion. It's recorded and mixed by Jan Erik Kongshaug at Rainbow Studios, so you know it...

This is packaged in a very simple cardboard sleeve, as if it were an EP, but this is a full length, new album by the latest band of Pierre Vervloesem (X-Legged Sally, Flat Earth Society). Perhaps a bit more raucous and wild than before (hey - a simple...

A great album, but you must remember that I *like* Granny music. If you have an appreciation for 'the great American songbook, this is a as good as anything released in that vein in the past decade!...

I was going to say that this is the latest Circle album, but since their website states that this is 'aproximately' the 7th Circle album released in 2007, I am afraid I will cough and an 8th one will come out. This presents the band in full NWOFHM ("new w

Eight great works, all of which came out in 1954-1960 by one of the great if under-rated by all except other musicians, bop/hard bop tenor man out there. Many of these feature his long time band mate Zoot Sims, and they were pretty much a perfect...

"Recorded live in November 2000 at the Copenhagen Jazz House with the Danish Radio Jazz Orchestra, Winter Oranges was commissioned by the Danish Radio Jazz Orchestra as part of a programme of new music. The title was inspired by an old orange tree on...

A 2009 release featuring: Ravi Coltrane-tenor sax, Luis Perdomo-piano, Drew Gress-double bass, E.J. Strickland-drums with guests Charlie Haden and Brandee Younger on one track.

"This album while having many sections that could be described as...

"One of Chick Corea's most ambitious projects was the recording of almost 60 hours of music with nine different groups over a three-week run at the Blue Note in December 2001; it must have been a challenge to choose the dozen performances for this two...

Famous and rare on vinyl 1973 Japanese psych/hard rock release.

"A really beautiful and very atmospheric hard rock album. The melodies are strong, carried mostly by keyboards. The bass is quite loud and up-front. The vocalist sings sometimes...

Somewhere between The Fucking Champs and Canvas Solaris lie Coulier. "In Coulier's world, each night ends in king-sized beds with gold satin sheets. Their bodies are caressed by millions of tiny visco-elastic memory cells (originally developed by NASA...

This 1996 release has got to be the last - or at least one of the very last - CMP releases. Scott Cutshall-drums, percussion, Dave Liebman-soprano sax, Russ Lossing-piano and Tony Marino-bass.

"Scott did the RIGHT THING!! He let the musicians...

Born in Paris in 1926, and originally a classical composer, Francis Dhomont is one of the earlier practitioners of musique concrète, giving up all other forms of musical work for electronic music in the early 50s.

"A hybrid thing in four...

"Al Di is certainly not resting on his laurels after the phenomenal, and sublimely beautiful, "The Grande Passion"! "Flesh on Flesh" expands on the strong latin influences of the previous CD, but fans of his ferocious talent on electric guitar will be...

An amazing, newly lowered price on perfect copies of the Japanese mini-lp sleeve version of this classic fusion album, which is sadly completely and utterly out of print in every part of the world.

All good things must come to an end, and...

"Sufi brotherhoods have handed down their religious repertoires by word of mouth since the fifteenth century. Compositions by the great Muslim mystical poets are performed during ecstatic religious celebrations and ceremonies. Although harshly treated...

This is the 2003 version that includes their non-lp single No Mule's Fool/Good Friend Of Mine, as well as 4 bonus live tracks! How to explain Family's 3rd album (1970) 30 years later? Take a idiosyncratic vocalist, who, like Peter Hammill or Don Van...

A Blue Note from September, 1958 with Art Farmer-trumpet, Benny Golson-tenor sax, Bill Evans-piano, Addison Farmer-bass and Dave Bailey-drums. [Blue Note]

"This superb collection of skewed psychedelic pop was produced by Buzz Cason (renowned for his work with Elvis Presley, Jimmy Buffett and others) and made by a Texan quartet. Originally released in May 1970, and billed as "a rock novella," it follows....