"Connecticut's Landing have specialized in a mild and rural kind of psychedelia since the late '90s; they have since moved closer to post-punk and shoegaze territory, but Third Sight -- recorded specifically for El Paraiso Records' Impetus series -- builds on the hallucinatory soundscapes of the band's earliest days. There's a unique sense of motoric drift to these four long pieces, and an organic blend of rock instrumentation and analog electronics that brings to mind Eno's best collaborations in the...

"Langsyne from Barmen (Bergisches Land region) played a subtle kind of psych-folk with a wide range of partly unusual, exotic, and medieval instruments: sitar, psaltery, koto, glockenspiel, flute, etc. Especially remarkable is the instinctive...

"Vita sul pianeta" is a concept album released in 1973 by Car Juke-Box record label - the same of the first Le Orme's LP's - and recorded by Laser, a five-piece band from Rome previously named "Il Laser di Elvezio Sbardella" after their founder's name...

When Last Exit, a supergroup of musical avantists and trouble-makers first appeared in the mid 1980s, I can not begin to explain what a shock they were to the jazz and improvised music scene. Here were three well established jazz and improvisational figures (Peter Brotzmann, Sonny Sharrock and Ronald Shannon Jackson) playing with a 'rock' guy (Bill Laswell) and playing fucking LOUD.

Playing major festivals, bursting eardrums where ever they went and recording and releasing a number of live albums..

"The Last Hurrah!! is the project of Norwegian guitarist HP Gundersen plus a jamboree of international players and singers. Based in Bergen in western Norway, Gundersen has a long history in Norwegian music and beyond. As a producer he discovered and...

This was the 2nd, and probably the best release of this group's three E.L.P. - inspired albums that this very young Italian band released.
A very nice fusion of keyboard-driven progressive rock and classical music.

"Dominique Lawalrée (b. 1954) is a composer born and based in Brussels. First Meeting is Lawalrée's first archival release to date. Culled from four different albums originally self-published on his private label Editions Walrus, circa 1978-1982, this compilation highlights the composer's unique sense of ambient and minimal composition. Originally considered for release on Brian Eno's Obscure Records, Lawalrée's music is now no longer hidden.
In this collection the listener finds the sounds of piano...

A truly great new studio release by the MIGHTY BIB, and for the first four weeks only, this is $3.00 off the regular price!

"Easily the most adventurous and audacious outfit on today’s UK jazz scene, Led Bib has built a reputation over the course of seven albums for expansive improvisations and treks into genre-defying music of throbbing intensity. All Music Guide called their singular brand of jazz “explosive enough to blow up your speakers” while The Wire weighed in with: “This is the sound....

Steve Lehman alto and sopranino saxophones / Mark Dresser double bass / Pheeroan Aklaff drums.
"When the re-edition of past works of an artist has no immediate commercial justification, the motivations of a particular label and the musician himself can only be one of two: to show from where he came from, in order for the listener to compare recent achievements with old developments, or to give a broad perspective of his path as a flux of equally considered ideas and performative realizations, if that..

"A persistent favorite since its original release in 1982, this is an almost-soundtrack for the Alan Greenberg film of the funeral of Bob Marley. Robert Palmer wrote in the New York Times that “Mr. Greenberg’s cinematographer was Jorg Schmidt-Reitwein, a longtime associate of Werner Herzog, and his eye for color and detail and use of a pleasantly grainy film stock give "Land of Look Behind" its distinctive appearance and texture. K. Leimer’s electronic background music contributes some drama and a sense...

This is a real one-shot mystery album from Italy that I only became aware of due to Ken Golden (thanks!) and it's a great one.
Originally released in 1977. Leprino plays guitars, synthesizers, vibraphone, bells (and I suspect does the effects/tapework), and is joined by Arnaldo Ciato-grand piano, Franco Lazzaro- organ, synthesizers & Alfio Squaiello-flute and 'Tosi' on oboe.
This album consists of two side long tracks that combine this instruments into a wonderful, flowing, cohesive whole...

"Finnish Jazz musician and composer with a respectable career and numerous appearances in Jazz-oriented albums.As Make Lievonen he released one and only album in 1977.But what a monster line-up he recruited for this work with huge names from the Finnish Jazz and Prog scene: Bassist and Olli Ahvenlahti's collaborator Pekka Sarmanto, Pentti Lahti on clarinet, Eero Koivistoinen and Pekka Poyry from Tasavallan Presidentti on sax/flute, drummer Esko Rosnell and Reino Laine (known for his work with Olli...

"One of the very best records on Garden of Delights, if not the best one in general. Purely psychedelic music. There are no weak parts on the album at all. Only impressive songs played by talented musicians, recorded professionally, and taken from the...

"1973 was an extremely prolific year for many a Finnish jazz musician. Guitarist Jukka Tolonen and saxophonist Eero Koivistoinen released a few albums of their own and also participated on Esko Linnavalli's project Finnish Design, the aim of which was to perform jazz interpretations of Finnish folk songs. The result was so successful that one can't help but wonder while listening to the album that why it hasn't been reissued until now. The Svart reissue is presented with the original gatefold layout and...

"Following their debut in 1981, Liquid Liquid wasted no time with their second release the same year. Successive Reflexes picks up where the previous EP leaves off with "Lock Groove," a slow-paced deconstruction of Fela Kuti and Can that shows how quickly the band was able to capture their stripped-down approach in the studio. "Push" drives forward with unapologetic funk, yet still sounds utterly unique. Like their 99 labelmates ESG, Liquid Liquid created music on their own terms and artfully avoided the...

Considered by many to be the final great Italian symphonic rock album! "By 1977, progressive rock in Italy was all but dead. Most of the movement had moved either underground or more towards the experimental (Pierrot Lunaire, Picchio dal Pozzo). It mus...

Jon Lundbom, guitar Jon Irabagon, alto and soprano saxophones Bryan Murray, tenor and balto! saxophones Moppa Elliott, bass Dan Monaghan, drums.

"The daring guitarist/composer Jon Lundbom is back at it again, meting out intense, unpredictable...