Rob is the leader and main composer of the very excellent Wei Zhongle. This solo album features him as a 'multi-dimensional multi-instrumentalist sings ethereal folk ballads with a voice defiant of taditional Western tones."

"Black vinyl LP in electric mango jacket with UV gloss coating over opalescent grey portrait, includes IARC obi strip and dome pattern inner sleeve. LP insert contains lyrics and credits with doodles by Rob Jacobs."

As usual, this is an excellent, indefinable release which sounds very modern yet is still very ‘band oriented’, something which is no longer considered a modern concept. Sadly. Great melodies, as always!
Personally highly recommended.

“Jaga Jazzist return with their new album where the legendary Norwegian eight-piece takes a deep dive into post-rock, jazz and psychedelia influences. It’s their first album since 2015’s “Starfire”, their ninth album in a career now spanning four decades...

The second, final and definitely much more whacked album of the two by this (acid) folk/progressive trio who released this to complete indifference on Transatlantic in 1971. Derek Noy wrote the material, sang lead and played guitar, trumpet, trombone and 'zelda chord', Denis Conlan played drums and Michael Bairstow played flute, clarinets and saxophones. There were also some excellent and at times really odd orchestrations. Three long tracks here. Wonderful to see this reissued legitimately and rather...

Janel and Anthony burst upon most folk's consciousness with the release in 2012 of "Where Is Home" on Cuneiform. But they have been working as a duo for a very long time, and this reissues their 1st album, recorded in 2006 and released by the group...

"In December 1979, two Art Ensemble Of Chicago members -- Joseph Jarman and Don Moye, along with the great South African bassist Johnny Dyani -- gathered together under the name of Black Paladins. Inspired by the words of the great black poet Henry...

"Considered as the first piece of electronic music to accompany a ballet, Totentanz is the arrestingly abstract and mightily expressive result of Warner Jepson’s experiments with tape and Don Buchla’s groundbreaking synthesizer, the Buchla 100. Totentanz, originally self-released in 1972, reveals a composer relieved of convention.
In the 1950s and 1960s, Jepson was part of an informal circle of Bay Area artists that included Pauline Oliveros, Terry Riley, La Monte Young, Morton Subotnick and Steve ...

Sven-Ake Johansson - vocals
Alexander von Schlippenbach - piano
"Trost present Schraubenlieder, unreleased songs by Sven-Ake Johansson and Alexander von Schlippenbach from 1988, recorded by Radio DRS Bern."

I saw Chuck Johnson perform about a few years ago, and he was really terrific. He was doing the post John Fahey thing, except he was doing it on an electric guitar (not just an electric guitar, but a Fender Telecaster) and making it work and carefully also using pedals to give what he was doing it's own flavor and bite.
This was the record I bought from him at the show and it’s different from what I saw, but really great.

“"Chuck Johnson's impact on the contemporary guitar world continues...

"Jono el Grande is a self-taught composer, musician, conductor, painter, and prankster and remains an outsider on the far margins of the Norwegian experimental music scene. He released his debut mini-album Utopian Dances in 1999, a collection of absurdist instrumentals recorded at home using not much more than a workstation synth. 2003 saw the release of Fevergreens, an album that drew upon classic progressive rock, film music, easy listening, and a variety of pop idioms and featured a nine-piece...

"Minne was the fourth LP by Joy Unlimited from Mannheim; it was recorded in 1974 and released in 1975. It is, as its forerunners �Schmetterlinge� and �Reflections�, a ballet work with progressive music, this time sung in Middle High German. With every...

"Thunderous applause, then a pause; then thunderous applause after an eloquent sophisticated dignified storm!"
Joelle Leandre-double bass
Mat Maneri-viola
Greald Cleaver-drums