“A new, hugely expanded, remastered four CD clamshell boxed set featuring the original album remastered from the master tapes, outtakes, live recordings, and much never-heard material from before and after their sole album, this is compiled by Mo Foster and featuring his liner notes, by the legendary progress/jazz rock group, Affinity.
The band’s origins go back to 1965 at the University of Sussex in Brighton when Lynton Naiff (keyboards), Grant Serpell (drums), and Nick Nicholas (double bass) formed..

Received direct from label, unsealed and outer box has some shelf wear. It's not bad, but could be better. I guess that's how these come now, so it is what it is. You have been warned. The box and the booklets are really beautifully done. Now here comes the party line:
"The Art Box marks the 25th anniversary of one of the most eclectic, dynamic and productive creative alliances in the history of experimental music. Featuring...

“A founding member of SOFT MACHINE, Kevin embarked on a solo career in 1969, signing to EMI’s Harvest label and recording the album ‘JOY OF A TOY’ the same year. It is a mark of Kevin’s stature that his recordings during this period would feature contributions from notable musicians such as arranger and keyboard player DAVID BEDFORD, ROBERT WYATT, SYD BARRETT, MIKE OLDFIELD, LOL COXHILL, STEVE HILLAGE, ARCHIE LEGGET and more.
This 10” x 10” box set includes the albums:
Joy of a Toy
Shooting

“Clamshell boxed set of archive live recordings by Baker Gurvitz Army made for BBC Radio & TV, independent radio & Radio Bremen, all from 1975.
Baker Gurvitz Army was formed in 1974 by former Gun and Three Man Army members Adrian Gurvitz (guitar, vocals), Paul Purvitz (bass, vocals) and virtuoso drummer Ginger Baker, formerly with Cream, Blind Faith and Airforce. The trio was soon augmented by the arrival of vocalist Mr. Snips (Steve Parsons) and keyboard player Peter Lemer (In Cahoots, Seventh...

Their fourth album from 1972 by this British group that came out of the English progressive movement of the 60's. Their music combines elements of The Moody Blues, to whom they are always compared, but also the more mellow parts of early King Crimson and Genesis. One of their greats from a great, under-heralded band.

“Released in November 1972, their fourth album was mainly recorded at Strawberry Studios in Stockport with the epic ‘Moonwater’ being recorded with a full orchestra at Abbey Road...

Third album by this British group that came out of the English progressive movement of the 60's. Their music combines elements of The Moody Blues, to whom they are always compared, but also the more mellow parts of early King Crimson and Genesis. This was their 3rd album, released in 1971 and is yet another strong symphonic rock contender.

“This expanded edition of “…Other Short Stories” comprises 40 tracks and features the original UK stereo mix re-mastered from the original master tapes and...

This is your last chance on this apparently now out of print set!

Chicago’s Bitchin Bajas have released a bunch of great, vinyl-only, cosmic, deep space, electronic / krautrock albums.
Think Cluster + Terry Riley + 1975-era T Dream sequences and you get the idea.
This totally wonderful set takes all of their USA vinyl-only releases for Drag City and reissues them on CD for the first time in a nice and very reasonably priced package; you want this! “It wasn’t so long ago....”...

"Containing all the Blegvad Trio and Quintet studio releases: Downtime, Just Woke Up, Hangman’s Hill and Go Figure – all re-mastered and repackaged - plus two additional CDs of unreleased studio recordings and live performances, mostly featuring songs not available on the studio CDs - as well, of course, as a fat, definitive, book of photographs, memorabilia, drawings, documents and recollections by the main actors.
ReR released the first Peter Blegvad Trio LP in 1988 and since then there's been a...

Pete Brown was the lyricist for Jack Bruce and even though I love Jack during and post-Cream, I never paid any attention to Pete’s own bands of the same period, wrongly assuming, for no good reason, that they weren’t any good.
When I finally played played Battered Ornaments and Piblokto!, decades and decades later, they were pretty much uniformly great; I know that if I heard this when these tracks were actually recorded in 1969/70, it would have ripped my head off!
I heard hints of things...

John Cale’s mid 70s, three-album run at Island was a highlight of early art-rock proto-punk and this is a great set.

“In 1974 John Cale relocated to London and signed with Island Records, for whom he was to release three inventive and influential albums within a period of just over a year. ‘Fear’, released in September 1974, was a fine work and featured contributions from Brian Eno and Phil Manzanera (also credited as executive producers) and Richard Thompson. ‘Slow Dazzle’ appeared in April...

• NEW 2CD / MULTI-REGION BLU-RAY BOX FEATURING OF THE CLASSIC ALBUM ‘MOONMADNESS' BY CAMEL.

• FEATURING THE ORIGINAL STEREO MIX ALONGSIDE STEREO & 5.1 SURROUND SOUND MIXES BY STEPHEN W TAYLER (REGION 0 - FSK RATING 0).

• INCLUDES BONUS TRACKS DRAWN FROM THE 1976 DEMO SESSIONS & THE CONCERT VIDEO OF CAMEL AT HAMMERSMITH ODEON IN APRIL 1976

• WITH AN ILLUSTRATED BOOKLET & ESSAY.

Issued in April 1976, the album was a top 20 in the UK and Europe and was a hit in the USA....

• NEW 2CD / MULTI-REGION BLU-RAY CLAMSHELL BOX SET FEATURING THE CLASSIC ALBUM ‘NUDE’ BY CAMEL.

• INCLUDING THE ORIGINAL STEREO MIX ALONGSIDE STEREO & 5.1 SURROUND SOUND MIXES BY STEPHEN W TAYLER.

• WITH AN ILLUSTRATED BOOKLET & ESSAY.

Issued in January 1981, the album was a concept worked based upon the true story of a Japanese soldier who was marooned on a small island in the Pacific in World War II and did not realise that the war had ended.
Eventually returning to...

“CARMEN initially came together in Los Angeles as seven-piece band formed by guitarist DAVID CLARK ALLEN and his sister ANGELA ALLEN in 1970. The band’s unique style blended both Progressive Rock and Flamenco styles, with Angela Allen also being an accomplished Flamenco dancer aside from being keyboard player.
Despite interest from music mogul Clive Davis, the band failed to make any headway in getting a record contract they relocated to London in 1973. The Allens soon assembled a new line-up of the...

“Genesis of Genius: The Contemporary Albums combines legendary jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman's albums for Lester Koenig's Contemporary Records. It features his first albums as a bandleader - Something Else!!!! and Tomorrow Is the Question! - both of which were originally recorded by legendary engineer Roy DuNann and have been newly mastered by Bernie Grundman. 2 CD Digipak box set includes a 32-page booklet with photos and extensive liner notes by GRAMMY-winning music historian Ashley Kahn.”...

My dear, late friend Scott had a big collection of 'spoken word' albums that he inherited from his father. There was a lot of weird stuff in there, but the weirdest were the two albums he had by these two guys. The description below sums it all up...

A quintet of albums by the legendary British singer packaged together in a slim-line slipcase. Includes
The North Star Grassman & The Ravens
Sandy
Like An Old Fashioned Waltz
Rendezvous
Gold Dust : Live 1977

Compiles FIVE of Bob's NINE solo CDs, with a disc of rarities and outtakes included, JUST SO the fans will want to spring for this.

"This includes Bob's solo CDs Little Black Train, The Skull Mailbox and Other Horrors, XIII Songs and a Thing, The Shunned Country, & Bob's Drive-In, plus a specially curated collection of outtakes...in a sturdy box w/ cover & spine art.
Like Bob's most recent album Arx Pilosa (2016), much of the material on the CDs in this box set are so remarkable it's..

The oeuvre of Ekseption, one of the most idiosyncratic progressive rock bands in Dutch music history, is honored with the 13-CD box set Planet Ekseption.
After several name and lineup changes since 1958, Ekseption debuted in 1966 with the single "Ekseption At ABC." In 1967 and 1968, Ekseption released two singles on the Imperial label, but their big breakthrough came in 1969 when the band signed a contract with Philips, where their self-titled debut album was released. The album immediately...

“‘Middle Class Revolt’ was originally released in 1994 and was the bands 16th studio album. This greatly expanded edition contains singles, demos as well as a BBC session and three complete live shows from the era.
This Set as with the other Fall reissues has been compiled in conjunction with Fall expert Conway Patton and has notes by Fall guru Daryl Easlea. Mastered by long time engineer Andy Pearce with art by Becky Stewart.”

“The Real New Fall LP (Formerly Country on the Click) is the 23rd studio album by The Fall. Originally recorded at Lisa Stansfield’s Gracieland Studios in between December 2002 and January 2003 with producer Grant Showbiz.
The subtitle is explained by the fact that the tracks were originally scheduled for release in April 2003 under the title ‘Country on the Click’. Promotional copies were sent out and three of the new songs were previewed in the band’s 23rd Peel Session, but Mark. E Smith was...

How to explain Family's 5th album (1971) 30 years later? Take a idiosyncratic vocalist, who, like Peter Hammill or Don Van Vliet you either grow to love or hate (Roger Chapman) combine his talents with a standard guitar-led rock format, but add a multi-instrumentalist who plays vibes/piano/flute, a great bassist (John Wetton!), and have the guitarist add mandolin at the right times. Stir this wild and creative mix of hard rock and and folk and shake it all up with a lot of thought and experimentation...

“Ninth in a series of boxed sets collecting King Crimson/Robert Fripp material from 1969 to 2008, this is the single largest set in the series and one of the most comprehensive boxed sets devoted to a single period of an artist’s career released to date
Features the complete collection of Robert Fripp’s studio and live solo material from 1977-1983
Covers the period from the first Exposure sessions to the end of The League of Gentlemen and final Frippertronics concerts.
Steven Wilson mixes...

First of a three-box collection by one of the most innovative guitarists and composers of his generation, containing 8 ReR CDs, a bonus Fred title and a fat historic booklet with artwork, photographs, extensive notes & other comments by Fred, all packed into in a sturdy box - and at a budget price.

Box 1 Contains:
Guitar Solos
Gravity
Cheap at Half the Price
Killing Time
Impur
Middle of the Moment
Keep the Dog (2 x CDs)
plus bonus CD
Dropera

“The ultimate presentation of Fruupp in a bespoke boxed edition containing DVD, a live CD, book, six postcards, badge, & poster.
With a title that betrays exactly what resides in the box it refers to, this lavish presentation is the perfect tribute to, and celebration of, Northern Ireland's symphonic prog legends 'Fruupp' who split in 1976 without recording their projected fifth album 'Doctor Wilde's Twilight Adventure'.
Their reputation has grown in recent years via the discovery of a cassette...

"Amsterdam based Slovenian pianist and composer Miha Gantar has a very personal and very wide music vision, and the simultaneous release of several of its aspects seems logic, from the point of view of the artist but also of the listener, who is capable, this way, to achieve a complete experience of that sound world of a new, fresh, surprising and much welcomed player in the international creative music game. Each configuration (solo: “Origins of the Pure”; duo: “Songs and Serenades”; trio...