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George Jinda - drums
Yochk’o Seffer - wind instruments
Jean-Luis Bucchi - electric piano
Janik Top – electric bass
Shiroc - percussion
+ strings

“Understated French fusion LP that hits all the requisite pleasure centers, once you are already deeply acquainted with the scene.
Side one is an invigorating mix of early Magma and Zao with Janik Top on bass, and in gloriously compressed (i.e. "French") sound. Side Two is more esoteric and atmospheric for most of its length,

"1001 years after the first original SPETTRI Album recorded in 1972, nothing has changed!

In the year 2973 Black Widow is proud to present again the original band from Florence well alive and kicking!
Stefano Melani ( Hammond, piano...

"First-ever vinyl release of these legendary prog recordings. Recorded in January 1972, this rare recording features a unique event where seven gifted progressive musicians came together to record a session of unique experimental music. Keyboard player J. Peter Robinson (a member of Quatermass, later of Brand X), John Gustafson (had also been in Quatermass and would go on to play with Steve Hackett, Ian Gillan and Roxy Music), Martyn Ford had been an arranger for Barclay James Harvest before working with...

“Laurie Spiegel’s second full-length album, Unseen Worlds, arrived just over ten years after her debut album. Having realized the pieces found on The Expanding Universe (1980) on an instrument no longer available to her, the GROOVE System at Bell Laboratories, Spiegel moved on to composing and developing for the Alles Machine, alphaSyntauri, McLeyvier and various other instruments before creating an instrument entirely her own.
Spiegel created “Music Mouse - An Intelligent Instrument” on...

Previously completely unknown to me, this is nice, very Italian sounding jazz/rock of its time! Comparable to Perigeo or Napoli Centrale, with more acoustic piano.

“Sourced from the original master tapes and housed in a deluxe gatefold cover. Edition of 500 copies. The Milan based imprint Dialog, returns with the first ever vinyl reissue of Spirale's lone 1974 self-titled LP. Resting at a fascinating juncture between progressive and free jazz, it was years ahead of its time when it first...

“Fantasy writer/art rock visionary Michael Moorcock and Don Falcone's space rock collective Spirits Burning return for an all-new collaboration on this epic new album!
Moorcock has been named one of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945 and his unique talents have been applied to not just literary works but to the rock world contributing to bands such as Hawkwind, Blue Öyster Cult and his own projects as well!
Performers include Albert Bouchard (Blue Öyster Cult), Alan Davey (Hawkwind)...

"In 1972 the band’s second album was released on the Pegasus label, featuring a line-up of Martin Cockerham (guitar, vocals), Barbara Gaskin (lead vocals), Mark Francis (Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards) and Steve Borrill (bass), with guest musicians Dave Mattacks (drums), Julian Cusack (violin, keyboards), Rick Biddulph (mandolin), Alan Laing (cello)."

“This is an official re-release on vinyl licensed courtesy of BMG Rights Management, UK, remastered from an original master copy out of the vaults...

Good price on this lovely, replica edition of the mid 70s album.

“Limited 180gm red colored vinyl LP pressing. Newly remastered from the original master tapes. Dizrythmia is the third album by New Zealand outfit Split Enz. First released in 1977, the album includes the singles 'My Mistake' and 'Bold As Brass'. For this album, the Finn brothers and co were joined in the studio by legendary engineer Geoff Emerick (The Beatles, Elvis Costello, Ultravox), the result is an eccentric pop record with...

Good price on this lovely, gatefold, replica of the mid 70s Phil Manzanera-produced album.

“Limited 180gm white colored vinyl LP pressing in gatefold sleeve. Newly remastered from the original master tapes. Mental Notes (or Second Thoughts as it was named in Australia / New Zealand) is the 1976 studio album by Split Enz. Hailing from New Zealand, the group would go on to achieve international success with their unique new wave sound. On Mental Notes, the group were joined in the studio by Roxy...

"Spock's Beard are a band who are in a continual state of evolution, as is always the case with genuinely creative musicians. And their new album, 'Noise Floor', fits perfectly into this process. “We are always about evolution, not revolution. But what we have done this time is make the songs more melodic,” believes vocalist/guitarist Ted Leonard. “We still love our crazy prog, but now appreciate how important it is to grab people's attention early on.” Leonard states furthermore: “If you enjoy what we...

"Featuring John Edwards, Mark Sanders and Evan Parker. The interventions of Spring Heel Jack -- sly repetitions, uncanny intrusions of feedback and melody, expansive organ chorales -- subtly transform the proceedings, focusing with microscopic precision on the dramatic power and lyrical poise of their collaborators and throwing the sonic complexities of the ensemble into vivid contrast."

"Electronic duo Spring Heel Jack return with a collaboration with the legendary American trumpeter and Pulitzer Prize nominee Wadada Leo Smith. Wadada was born in the Mississippi Delta and became immersed in the music of the great blues masters as a young musician. He then moved to Chicago and became an early member of the AACM alongside the likes of Muhal Richard Abrams, Anthony Braxton, Malachi Favors and Roscoe Mitchell. Recorded 2017 in London, this LP sees Smith's authoritative trumpet joined by...

"Their music is so unique, humble like typical old-fashioned Japanese women, but also strong like typical recently Japanese women... "-Makoto Kawabata

Hagi : guitar, vocal
Natsue : guitar, vocal
Akemi : drums

"Makoto Kawabata (Acid Mothers Temple) presents squimaoto. squimaoto is a female trio from Kobe, Japan formed in 2003. They have been preparing their comeback for 2017 with the help of Kawabata, who has been remixing and adapting their self-titled album (2007). Just on...

Moe! Staiano is the former percussionist with Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, who also had a solo career before joining them and continues to have one! This is something a bit different, as Moe said to me; "It's an album of two of my music concrete pieces...

Much sought-after first solo album by one of the geniuses behind the Bonzo Dog Band. First-ever reissue. An uneven if brilliant ride.

"Four years out of the Bonzo Dog Band, Viv Stanshall's debut album arrived more than two years after he first..

Kristoffer Berre Alberts alto and tenor saxophones / Jamie Saft hammond organ, whitehall organ, moog, lapsteel guitar / Ingebrigt H�ker Flaten Ibanez 8-string Fretless Bass, Fender Precision Bass, Univox Hi-Flyer Bass / Gard Nilssen drums, percussion, electronics.
"It�s not the first time we find Scandinavian and American musicians playing together � some of the bands founded by Ken Vandermark have this characteristic �, but Starlite Motel comes with a different focus than the ones trying to...

As "Stay Fucked", they approached Cuneiform and they were a great band with a hopeless name. Now they are a great band with a not hopeless name!

"STATS are an aggressive, stylistically omnivorous rock trio based in Brooklyn, formed in 2002...

Steamboat Switzerland are a great, Hammond organ, electric bass & drums trio who inventively switch back & forth between heavy organ-driven progressive rock ala Egg & Collegium Musicum & equally great improvisations/noise interludes that use the many...

“Remastered from original tapes. Bonus disks of unreleased demos, outtakes and alternate mixes. Co-released by band's own label Duophonic UHF Disks and Warp Records. Fold-out poster insert with lyrics and sleevenotes from Laetitia Sadier and Tim Gane. LP in bespoke gatefold sleeve with DL card, housed inside a heavyweight clear PVC wallet.”

“The fifth and final volume in the classic Switched On series which compiles non-album tracks and sought after deep cuts by the group Stereolab. This volume is unique in that it does not hone in one particular period but gathers together unavailable tracks across the band’s career, from early EP Low-Fi, to the brain-scrambling mid-90’s Nurse With Wound remixes to unreleased installation tracks for sculptor Charles Long, culminating in a live version of fan favourite “Cybele’s Reverie” captured at the...

“Remastered from original tapes. Bonus disks of unreleased demos. Vinyl edition has an album artwork etching on the final side. Co-released by band's own label Duophonic UHF Disks and Warp Records. Fold-out poster insert with lyrics and sleevenotes from Laetitia Sadier and Tim Gane. Vinyl comes in bespoke gatefold sleeve with download card, housed inside a heavyweight clear PVC wallet.”

Chuck Stern was the keyboardist and co-vocalist in the great and lamented Time Of Orchids.
Stern is his new band project, featuring Toby Driver (Kayo Dot), Keith Abrams (Kayo Dot, Time Of Orchids) and Tim Byrnes. While it doesn't sound like Time Of..

Chuck Stern - vocals
Toby Driver - guitar
Keith Abrams - drums
Tim Byrnes - synth

A vinyl-only release by this band fronted by 25% ex Time Of Orchids and rounded out by 75% ex or current Kayo Dot!

"The quartet twists meticulously, almost seductively, through pop-rock songs refracted at disorienting angles. Stern himself is a provocative lyricist and an oddly endearing singer... His voice, like Scott Walker's, can quickly curve from a croon to a caterwaul... Like th

Holy moly!
Well, they have been promising that all of these Pilz/Ohr/Kosmiche Kuriere releases have been from Dieter Dirk’s master tapes, and I think that they have just proven it 100% true, by issuing, A FULL HALF-CENTURY LATER, the never released follow up to Gilles Zeitschiff! And with the surprising participation of Roberto Cacciapaglia!
Minds are blown!!

“"Timothy Leary!" -- That was "Sternenmädchen" Gille Lettmann's almost breathed closing words on the 1974 album Gilles Zeitschiff..

Luke Stewart - bass
Jarvis Earnshaw - sitar, loops
Ryan Sawyer - drums
Devan Waldman - alto sax

Nicely flowing, mostly acoustic (+ loops!) session from these youngsters; the sitar is a nice and unexpected touch.

“Bassist Luke Stewart was called “one of the 25 most influential jazz artists of his generation” by Downbeat Magazine.
Few artists have been more central to my listening over the last few years than Luke Stewart. His work is in constant motion as he maps o

Tony Levin: Chapman Stick, Touch Guitars® U10, Vocoder
Pat Mastelotto: Acoustic and Electronic Drums & Percussion
Markus Reuter: Touch Guitars@ AU8, Soundscapes

“This 30-minute EP is the first new STICK MEN music in 6 years. Jam packed with musicality, its grooves and high energy are truly infectious. You won't hear this kind of music from any other band!”

“Another stellar release from this long-lived ensemble. Though the King Crimson influence is obvious & that comparison...

“With King Crimson alumni Tony Levin on the Chapman Stick and drummer Pat Mastelotto, Markus Reuter brings is various Touch Guitars and soundscapes to a tour of Japan back in 2022 to mix original compositions with a salute to Robert Fripp in both sound and tune selection.
Vintage Crimson material from the golden days are delivered with 21st Century Schizoid fashion, as “Red” has Mastelotto delivering an avalanche of percussion around the fiery metallic strings, while “Lark’s Tongues In Aspic”

Fred Lonberg-Holm • cello, electronics
Nick Macri • bass
Charles Rumback • drums

Stirrup’ss latest (you DID hear their previous one, The Avondale Addition , yes?) is vinyl-only and released in a micro-edition of only 100 copies!

“This longstanding Chicago trio returns for their fifth album. Consisting of Fred Lonberg-Holm on cello and electronics, Nick Macri on bass, and Charles...

Nicolas Stocker: drums, tuned percussion unturned percussion
No loops, no click track, no overdubs were used on this recording.
Music written and arranged by Nicolas Stocker.

"The drum set is the core of every band but also an orchestra in itself. It is a band within the band: with various sounds and resonances, often hidden and unheard behind its rhythms, patterns and structures. Nicolas Stocker is on a mission to open our ears for these sounds, shapes and spaces. As band member of...

Markus Stockhausen-trumpet, flugelhorn, piccolo trumpet, voice
Alireza Mortazavi-santoor

“I met Markus Stockhausen after inviting him and his wife to “Musiche Nuove In Piacenza” festival in autumn 2018. Immediately I felt a strong empathy towards him. That doesn’t happen very often. I knew his work and had always admired it, especially the spontaneous compositions he performs and the way his unique talent blossoms in these situations. We talked at lunch and I dared propose to him to record...

Alden Doyle-violin
Leila Henley-saxophones, vocals
Sam Arnold-bass, acoustic guitar, banjitar
Charlie Duncan-drums, percussion
Henna Chou-cello, keyboards
Mohadev-guitars, synths, piano

Clever, well-performed and FUN second release by this linchpin of the Austin, Texas new-music scene!
Elements of folky RIO-inspired bands like Hamster Theatre, L'Ensemble Raye, Lars Hollmer and others of that ilk, Frank Zappa, and much more.
Recommended to fans of instrumental...

“Retro-futurist cinematic synth-fest from Supersilent keyboardist and composer, Ståle Storløkken. Just as radio drama is said to provide the best pictures, so some music can make for a perfect film soundtrack without the need for a film to exist at all. The Haze of Sleeplessness is a case in point: as the album starts to play, the listener's imagination kicks in and does the rest, supplying the necessary plot, character and setting until a full-scale narrative unspools behind one's eyes. A suite of seven...

I actually had a test pressing of this title, from way back in the Wayside days when we were selling a LOT of releases on Atem! Nice to see it out as it was meant to be out!

“The saga of composer Tim Story's 1982 debut is a case study in the shifting sands of the early progressive music industry. Recorded on a Tascam 4-track reel-to-reel in his basement bedroom in Whitehouse, Ohio using a ragtag array of equipment - salvaged vibraphone, pawn shop Les Paul, his mother's spinet piano, a PAiA synth...

First released by Britain’s then foremost folk label, Transatlantic Records in 1970, Storyteller’s first album is a forgotten gem of Psychedelic Folk Prog Rock. Warm and silky production courtesy of Andrew Bown and Peter Frampton, fabulous dual vocals and a wistful arrangement of top-drawer UK Folk Prog, make Storyteller a diamond worth digging into.
Around 1969, after being a part of the band The Other Two on Decca Records, working with people like Chuck Berry, Duane Eddy and Jerry Lee Lewis, and

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’.

"The musicians do not bear any responsibility for publishing these tapes"

“Strannye Igry (Russian: Странные игры, Strange Games) was a Soviet...

It’s now, what? Almost 55 years since their very first recordings? Dave Cousins is joined by Dave Bainbridge, Dave Lambert & Blue Weaver and this very much has their 70s sound intact.

"Settlement is Strawbs’ umpteenth album and the follow up to The Ferryman’s Curse which was a superb prog record released in November 2017, but unfortunately associated with the untimely demise of producer Chris Tsangarides a month later. This record too is similarly tinged with sadness as it is dedicated to...

“Pauline Anna Strom (October 1, 1946 – December 13, 2020) was an American electronic music composer and synthesist. Strom made seven recordings between 1982 and 1988 including three LPs and four cassette tapes.
Though Strom’s work developed during the dawn of San Francisco’s influential new age and ambient scenes, her music remains non-programmatic, an adventurous tangent diverting from the era’s ideological tropes.
Spectre is the third album by the late West Coast composer, healer, and medium..

“Pauline Anna Strom (October 1, 1946 – December 13, 2020) was an American electronic music composer and synthesist. Strom made seven recordings between 1982 and 1988 including three LPs and four cassette tapes.
Though Strom’s work developed during the dawn of San Francisco’s influential new age and ambient scenes, her music remains non-programmatic, an adventurous tangent diverting from the era’s ideological tropes.
Plot Zero is the second album by the late West Coast composer, healer, and...

“Pauline Anna Strom (October 1, 1946 – December 13, 2020) was an American electronic music composer and synthesist. Strom made seven recordings between 1982 and 1988 including three LPs and four cassette tapes. Though Strom’s work developed during the dawn of San Francisco’s influential new age and ambient scenes, her music remains non-programmatic, an adventurous tangent diverting from the era’s ideological tropes.
Trans-Millenia Consort is the near mythical debut album by the late West Coast...

“Did Swans Ever See God? is the fourth studio album by Submarine Silence (Side Project of the founding members of 'Moongarden', Cristiano Roversi, keyboards and David Cremoni, guitars) which reconfirms Guillermo Gonzales on vocals and, indispensable and very welcome guest, Valerio Michetti, otherwise drummer of ' Oblique Grace '.
Absent from the scene since 2016 (Journey through Mine, Ma.Ra.Cash Records), they return to delight us with an album that continues the long journey that began in 2001 with...

“Out of the savage suburbs of Oslo comes the brainchild of Trond Gjellum – drummer & main man from the legendary Norwegian prog rock band Panzerpappa. Suburban Savages are back with their third album, Demagogue Days, and continue to distinguish themselves as a playful ensemble with a willingness to expand the boundaries of pop and rock. The result is unique: The catchy simplicity of pop music mixed with the mind-blowing complexity of progressive rock. With a direct and to-the-point delivery of power...

“French jazz-rock with a wonderfully laid-back feel to it, some fine strings and lead guitar accompaniment. Weird and groovy music with a difference!
Certainly the most obscure album on the Pole label. I hadn't even heard of it until recently. Featuring a crude black and white cover, it's exactly the sort of album you would expect to find on the FLVM label a few years later. This pre-Falstaff outfit mixed complex progressive rock in the Memoriance / Pulsar vein, along with jazz rock sections and...

"On Suicide's First Rehearsal Tapes, recorded in 1975, Alan Vega and Martin Rev create minimalist aural structures, traces of which would surface on their eponymous debut album, released on the Red Star label in late 1977. These songs are not a sketchpad of semi-formed ideas. The First Rehearsal Tapes comprise an audio diary of two men out in the ether, measuring themselves as evolving individual artists and as a unit who would rely on inseparability to realize their unique and often confrontational...

Nasoni 25th anniversary edition! Not only inspired by the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, but this is nevertheless exactly as psychedelic and mind-boggling as the chosen bandname suggests, thanks to loads of spacey effects, drippin' acid guitars, hypnotic kraut beats and a strong late-'60s psychedelic attitude. Limited to 300 copies on 180 gram orange vinyl.

"Sula Bassana's first soundtrack album features 60 minutes of totally spaced out and minimalistic music for the sci-fi feature-film 'The Ape Regards His Tail', directed by Michael Yates. The music was made with synthesizers, string ensembles, mellotron, organ, e-guitar and e-piano. It shows the mellow and relaxed, but also deep, dark and melancholic side of Sula Bassana. Wide and floating soundscapes combined with deep melodies and spaced out sounds. Close your eyes and watch a movie inside your head...

"Good space rock should always send one on a mind trip, but great space rock, or any great music for that matter, should move the listener emotionally. To my ear, Dave Schmidt has done that on this album with "The Night". Parts 3 and 4 are just majestically beautiful as well as otherworldly. Unfortunately, the earlier parts of the piece contain vocals that are less than stellar, so the song does not quite reach perfection, but it still soars nonetheless. The opener, "In Space", is another fine track...

"2014 release, the seventh full length from Experimental/Psychedelic musician Cameron Stallones AKA Sun Araw. Belomancie is a series of corridors that lead to specific chambers. It's designed to be an active listening experience, yet is not designed...

“Nuclear War
Don’t you know
When they push that button
It’s a mother-fucker
Don’t you know
When they push that button
Your ass gotta go.
Oh, what you gonna do, without your ass?”

I had the great pleasure of seeing Ra in 1984 or so at on July 4th at Freedom Plaza in DC (1300 Pennsylvania Avenue) – 3 blocks from the White House. Regan was president and Ra did this song while pointing at the White House. It was beautiful and surreal and that song and others are here

Solar guided improvisations of unbridled cacophony! Recorded in 73 and rejected by tin-eared major label execs in 75, Crystal Spears (or Crystal Clear as it appears on the tape box) subsumes a cathartic brawl between Minimoog and Yamaha combo organ, with percussionists providing tonal textures, and plaintive oboe colliding with roaring electronic keyboards over waves of rollicking marimba, devilishly chattering below the fray. Crystal Spears is Ras once lost aural cinematheque! Includes a quad-ra-color...

Since there are so many posthumously released Ra discs, some of which are pretty stinky sonic quality, I thought I would mention that for a live 1972 show at the [in]famous Slug�s, this sounds quite good and the balances are good.

�Art Yard continues their voyage into the omniverse of unreleased Sun Ra tapes with I Roam The Cosmos, an unreleased, previously unheard 1972 live session recorded at Slug's Saloon in New York. Fronting a stellar 18-piece incarnation of the Arkestra, I Roam The Cosmos...