"Zwei Osterei is the second half of a recording session which took place on a single day in November 1970. Klopfzeichen is the first part. Yet the uncompromising Zwei Osterei surpasses the earlier Klopfzeichen album by some distance in terms of its...

Nina Berman, soprano
Charlotte Mundy, mezzo-soprano
Blythe Gaissert, contralto
Paul Orbell, guitar
Andrew McKenna Lee, guitar
Jude Traxler, percussion, Rhodes, electronics
Jeff Gretz, drums
Joseph Higgins, bass

The Knells return for a second helping. The line-up is a little smaller than before, but it still features the distinctive three female vocals front line! Having seen them twice, and now, with a fine second album, I can't decide if I like them

Knifeworld is the long worked on solo project by Kavus Torabi, of Cadiacs, Guapo and Monsoon Bassoon. It's a very English, very modernly English progressive release - it's not filled with mellotrons and it doesn't sound like it's from the 70s, but it is full of good songs with great hooks and huge depth in terms of what he does with the song forms. If you like and appreciate Cardiacs, you'll definitely like this; although it doesn't sound anything like Cardiacs, it mines similar ground. Nicely done....

"While they have released a decent number of cassettes & CDs, Jurad is only the fourth vinyl album released by this long-running DC-to-Philly-based space-juggernaut. Recorded by a quartet iteration of the always mutating ensemble, the music on this one veers between the kind of psych-prog wallow for which Kohoutek is most often celebrated, and the less formally rockoid improvisational proclivities they sometimes display.
The session for Jurad went down at Philadelphia's Sex Dungeon studio in 2012...

"In March 1973 the band recorded its first LP, with Conny Plank as co-producer and sound-engineer, for the legendary Brain-Metronome Label. Acclaimed by progressive and krautrock fans and critics alike, it showed a different, more innvative style of playing contemporary German rock music and was honoured with a nomination for the German Schallplattenpreis. They produced an incomparable, unmistakeable sound with echoes of Organisation and early Kraftwerk: spacey but melodic, elevated yet rocking...

"Krzysztof Komeda was a Polish film music composer and jazz pianist. Perhaps best known for his soundtrack work, Komeda wrote the scores for Roman Polanski's films ROSEMARY'S BABY, THE FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS, KNIFE IN THE WATER and CUL-DE-SAC.
Komeda's album Astigmatic (1965) is widely regarded as one of the most important European jazz albums; critic Stuart Nicholson describes the album as ''marking a shift away from the dominant American approach with the emergence of a specific European....

Beautiful reissue of a classic 1977 Norwegian folk / folk-rock release.

"Far up north, in the realm of the Norsemen, he ruled. Well, actually he was a band, playing Norwegian folkrock, like few others have done. Not many before them have done so except bands like Convivium and Folque, and then later Ym-Stammen, Storm and Gate. Kong Lavring was different from them all, as they were digging deep into our treasure of ancient Norwegian folksongs. Although electrified, the national tonality of the...

Electronic music that fits somewhere between ‘library music’ style and space music that, as it says below, has a definite ‘positive vibe’.

“Caught up in the first wave of pandemic doom/gloom which resulted in a bizarre creative bloom for Patrick, both albums have unique sounds anchored in the immense Patrick R Pärk/Kösmonaut discographies. This one is definitely a Kösmonaut record, however.
Patrick’s ”Contagion Vapors” is a chilled out vaporwave sonic adventure which soothes the worn soul...

"Takehisa Kosugi is an inter-media artist and performer who started his career back in the '60s in Tokyo. With his first band Group Ongaku (free anarchist-conceptual improvisations) he was introduced to the Fluxus avant-garde movement. During the '70s, he was a member of the mystical, psychedelic, droning rock band Taj Mahal Travellers. He co-founded the band in 1969. Since the end of the '70s until now, he has released several solo albums and commissioned works for events and sound installations. His...

We did a deep dig into the lost warehouse to come up with these; they are new and unplayed, but they’ve been sitting for over 30 years and there may be small corner dings, seam splits from travel, etc etc.
These are the original issues on Points East, which was ReR’s pre-CD vinyl label ‘dedicated solely to new music from Central Europe’.

“Deep, eternally haunted compositions, rising like ghosts from the decaying earth, circulating like brittle leaves in the contaminated air.”-rym

A ‘one and done’ Dutch experimental prog band formed in 1977 with their album appearing in 1978. Kracq was apparently an acronym of: King's Ransom And Carmine Queen.
Included in this first ever vinyl reissue (of 300 copies) is a bonus CD of never before released live and studio tracks.

"The re-release of yet another diamond in Europrog’s chamber of obscurities has been brewing for quite some time. Circumvision, the sole progeny of Dutch progsters’ Kracq, is a typical case of atypical...

"The most recent full-length LP from New York's Krallice marks yet another distinct evolutionary leap in their recorded output, and includes vocals and synth by Dave Edwardson, who is most well known as the bassist of the legendary NEUROSIS.
Although still distinctly Krallice in sound, they once again prove their masterful ability to contort and twist their works into a new beast while maintaining a natural feeling of songwriting progression. Edwardson adds an entirely new element with his...

“Kreidler celebrate the tenth anniversary of their groundbreaking 2009 album, Mosaik 2014, with a remastered edition. Mosaik 2014 -- that's how it is meant to sound. Arrangements that feel right, without it being possible to map everything out, because all of the lines are woven together so intricately, and because the album was recorded mainly in a week of live sessions. Above all, this record has more: more rhythm, drums, percussion; more keyboards, better yet synthesizers that are immediate and cannot...

Volker Kriegel (electric guitar, acoustic guitar, octave guitar)
Albert Mangelsdorff (trombone)
Alan Skidmore (soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone)
Heinz Sauer (tenor saxophone)
John Taylor (electric piano)
Eberhard Weber (bass)
Cees See (percussion, voice, flutes, effects)
John Marshall (drums)

First time available on vinyl in nearly 50 years, for this great jazz/rock album! Guitarist Volker Kriegel was an important part of the German jazz/rock scene in its...

This 1972 release came out one year after their most famous work, An Invisible World Revealed.

“Founded in 1969 Krokodil was a Swiss band that emerged in the late '60s as a blues rock band that played and recorded progressive psychedelic underground music in the style of bands like Amon Düül II. From their second album 'Swamp' they started to introduce a psychedelic sound to their music, a sound which is very much dominant on 'Invisible World Revealed.' On that album they used Mellotron, organ...

"On their third album in just three years, Krokofant typify a new and invigorating movement currently sweeping the Nordic region: hard-boiled improvisation and strong instrumental personalities bolted onto rock beats and driving rhythms. Equally powerful on record and on stage, Krokofant pull no punches, sounding off like some unholy three-way marriage of early '70s jazz rock (think Mahavishnu Orchestra, Terje Rypdal), the sprawling progressive odysseys of King Crimson and Van Der Graaf Generator, and...

Mario Marolt: sax #3, #5, #10, #12
Nino De Gleria: bass #4
Hugo Sekoranja: piano #11
Mire Lovric: vocal #14
Borut Krzisnik: guitar, piano, sampler, rhythm machine, tape, noise
Anton Kovac: bass #13, rhythm machine #15

“Borut Krzisnik is a Slovenian composer of contemporary music, based in Ljubljana. With his unique way of composing, he integrates live playing and music software on computer platform, and breaks free from confines of specific methodology.
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“A new timely studio album from the duo of Peter Rehberg and Stephen O'Malley. Recorded and mixed during an unexpected extended stay in Berlin when the borders of the world suddenly closed. The claustrophobic urgency of this scenario is seared into the colossal vibrations set into this vinyl release. Unlike many of their releases this is a studio record made unto itself as opposed to the many soundtracks they have made for theater works and the like. It also stands as one of their most fully realized...

Rolf and Joachim Kuhn in an early jazz-meets-rock thingy, with Volker Kriedgel, G�nter Lenz and Stu Martin.

"Experienced jazz avant gardists Joachim and Rolf K�hn joined forces with Volker Kriegel, Gunter Lenz and Stu Martin to release this...

"WRWTFWW Records announces the official reissue of Daisaku Kume's original soundtrack for the highly acclaimed 1989 Japanese crime/drama movie Violent Cop. Available for the first time outside of Japan, the album comes in a limited edition of 500 copies worldwide with a 45rpm cut providing full audio pleasure and an iconic record sleeve featuring the movie director and star: the one and only "Beat" Takeshi Kitano! Violent Cop marks Kitano's directorial debut -- a gritty neo-noir in which he stars as...

"Fela used the cover of Ikoyi Blindness to announce his change of middle name from Ransome, which he now considered a slave name, to Anikulapo, which means “he who carries death in his pouch.” The front cover shows Ransome crossed out and Anikulapo added above it. Fela also used the album cover to announce the Africanisation of Africa 70’s name, changing it to Afrika 70.

In the title track, Fela draws attention to the economic chasm separating the haves and have-nots of Nigerian society...

"Original Sufferhead was the first album Fela released under Egypt 80’s name (he had disbanded Afrika 70 in 1979).

On the title track, arguing from the personal to the political, Fela describes the inhuman treatment and poor living conditions experienced by working class Nigerians, the people he called sufferheads. In “Power Show,” Fela sings about the two-tier system dividing Nigerian society, in which the rich get treated one way and the poor another."

"For their third album, Finnish quartet K-X-P – whose Twitter biog describes them as Original-Electronic-Motorhead-Space-Trance-Spiritual-Rock-Meditation-FreeJazz-Godz (!) – have decided to capture the raw energy of their live performances in the studio.
That description is not serious, of course, but neither is it far wrong, because their music is surprisingly adaptable, despite it not having an obvious melodic interest from first listen. Rather, it taps into a primal place of rhythm and percussion...

“Vox Humana is a double album that released to critical acclaim and is considered an ‘obscure classic’ by those within progressive music circles.
Based on a fleshed out rock opera written by Shelby Logan Warne and Joey Frevola, Vox Humana splits the story arc in two distinctive parts across two separate discs. Disc one consisting of more ‘regular’ length songs that build up to the 42 minute gapless epic spread across disc two.
Not afraid to take songwriting and musical experimentation to a whole.