There were certainly some mighty, mighty bands in the first wave of jazz/rock in the early 1970s and Herbie's Mwandishi band was one of the mightiest.

This is a radio broadcast from March 22, 1973, in very, very good sound, with some radio...

A modern Palestinian band who fuse traditional Arab & Mediterranean instruments with modern (read electric) instruments & influences. [Felmay/New Tone]

Featuring DON PULLEN, ROBBY AMEEN, CARMEN LUNDY, CHARLES NEVILLE, JACK BRUCE, BRANDON ROSS, EL NEGRO HORACIO HERNANDEZ, HENRY THREADGIL, SILVANA DELUIGI, MIKE CAIN, DD JACKSON, ANTHONY CARRILLO, FERNANDO SAUNDERS, PUNTILLA ORLANDO RIOS, MILTON CARDONA...

"He leads the band, and doesn't really play, but Kip Hanrahan is a forward thinker and an incredible organizer of all-star progressive bands. The founder of the American Clave label, his style is a blend of Latin rhythms and avant-garde."-AllMusic

"Brand new album from eclectic composer - producer - musician Kip Hanrahan. Staying true to his signature style, Hanrahan works here with notable players like Fernando Saunders, Steve Swallow and the late Jack Bruce to create a heady blend of Latin...

Bo Hansson is best known for his absolutely wonderful 1970 album, Lord Of The Rings. But his career extended before that album (as a member of the legendary rock duo Hansson & Karlsson) and after as well (with three additional much lesser known, but...

Very excellent, Indonesian-only release by this master of the keyboard from Indonesia. This was brought to my attention by (and is made available to us at domestic pricing) by Leonardo Pavkovic of MoonJune, who is bringing many previously unknown to the USA musicians to better attention in the west.
Sri Hanuraga: piano and Fender Rhodes piano
Mattia Magatelli: double bass and electric bass
Kristijian Krajncan: drums
Rodrigo Parejo Mateos: (flute on 3 tracks)...

Kenichi Morimoto - keyboards
Takahiro Izutani - guitar
Hidemi Ichikawa - bass
Keiichi Nagase - drums

Note: This 21’ release was originally planned as a digital-only release, but once our friends at Arcangelo in Japan got wind of it, they wanted to release a physical version, so we partnered together on this one. These CDs are Japanese imports.

“Following the release of our previous album, Minimal Gods, and a European tour, we found ourselves slipping into a state of near...

"Skewered blasts of noisome, Red metal shatters through rough and tumble landscapes of shuddering percussion, ominous, gravelly basslines and wheezing synths. An all-instrumental bulldozer of an album..." – i/e...

For me personally, Happy The Man was the greatest symphonic rock band that the US ever produced. Their greatness lay in their excellent musicianship and their willingness to really 'push the envelope' both in terms of their writing and performances of their rich sound.
They came out of rural Virginia and moved to Washington D.C. where they exploded on the scene and where they quickly signed to Arista and released two classic albums, eventually breaking up at the very end of the 70's.

For me personally, Happy The Man was the greatest symphonic rock band that the US ever produced. Their greatness lay in their excellent musicianship and their willingness to really 'push the envelope' both in terms of their writing and performances of their rich sound.
They came out of rural Virginia and moved to Washington D.C. where they exploded on the scene and where they quickly signed to Arista and released two classic albums (this is the first), eventually breaking up at the very end of the....

Huge 23 piece band directed by Vancouver composer John Korsrud. This band uses elements of jazz (of course), but with a decidedly modern esthetic. You will also hear elements of rock, 20th century composition (Korsrud studied with Louis Andriessen), mi...

"This is the first album by the Turkish band Hardal ("Mustard") which was recorded in Turkey in 1979 by Sukru Yuksel (guitar), Aydin Sencan (bass), Cahit Kukul (guitar) and Sedat Avdikoglou (drums). The band was only known by a very small insider-group...

“The relationship between Alex Harding and Lucian Ban has been long and fruitful. Their combination of elements of improvisational music native to their homelands, namely the United States and Romania, have helped the pair develop a unique musical language that transcends the expectations of the jazz genre. Their new recording, Blutopia, highlights their attuned rapport while allowing their music to unfold with their own singular ensemble.
Pianist Lucian Ban arrived in New York City from Romania to...

“Hardy Fox used to be composer for The Residents. He left the group when he didn't feel fit enough for touring. Since then, he has released many albums under the name Charles Bobuck, switching to his real name Hardy Fox when his albums became more personal. The first, self-titled and also known under the name Heart, is a study of the young Hardy Fox, an album about Love. The second, Nachtzug is about his last days touring with The Residents.
After a break from recording, Hardy Fox is now back with...

So, Harmonia put out this sexy, vinyl-only box set of all their work and included the box included a vinyl release of never-before heard studio material.
But until now, you had to either get it in the vinyl box or you could buy it as a cassette (as CASSETTE? I know it was recorded in 1975, but did they have sell it like it was 1975?).
FINALLY you can buy it on CD and it’s really great!
This album consists of two unearthed live recordings, capturing the Deluxe-era incarnation of the group...

One of the all-time classic, classic Krautrock albums! The first of two by guitarist Michael Rother (Neu!) & synthesists Hans Joachim Roedelius & Dieter Moebius (Cluster).
Extremely high quality instrumental melodic-yet-proto-industrial texture music for guitar, organ, synthesizer, piano & percussion. Highly, highly, personally recommended; one of my favorites of all time, along with its brother "Deluxe", which I like just a tad more, but in terms of 'hipster factor', I can see that this one has had..

I am a firm believer that the two Harmonia albums that were released in the 70s are among the very, very best records released from Germany in the 1970s and maybe anywhere in the 70s. So, this set of previously unreleased recordings which first came to...

“Harmonious Thelonious is the solo project of the Düsseldorf musician Stefan Schwander. His works combine American-influenced minimal music with African rhythms and European melodies. "I was busy experimenting with noisy rhythms when Bureau B asked me if I would like to release an album on their label. I was aiming for a more industrial sound; backwards cymbals, loops generated from non-musical sources such as slamming doors, and had the feeling that this would align nicely with Bureau B's own story."...

Harmonium were a Quebecois band led by singer/songwriter Serge Fiori, & they started as a folk band with nice progressive touches. By their 2nd album, they were very strongly a cross between a symphonic rock band and a folk band; an interesting combination.
With L'Heptade, their third and final studio album, they reached their symphonic/progressive zenith. In addition to the now increasingly large band, classical instruments and mellotron are used throughout. Both additions are really nice; if you...

"The anthroponym Araminta means "lofty" and "protective." Araminta was also the given name of one of the most important figures in US and world history, abolitionist Harriet Tubman.
Guitarist Brandon Ross, bassist Melvin Gibbs and drummer J.T. Lewis have proudly worn Harriet Tubman's chosen name as their eponym for nearly 20 years, reaching for the heights of musical expression while preserving elements of their musical path. Harriet Tubman's recording Araminta is about becoming....

Unless you already own them, this essential set includes Joe Harriott's two legendary classic releases: Free Form (1961) and Abstract (1962) along with their predecessor, Southern Horizon (1960).
This is essential Brit-jazz from someone who was a modernist before anyone else in Britain! Are you a fan of Ornette, Vandermark 5, Eric Dolphy, Cosmologic, etc? You NEED this

"The few recordings of Jamaican born saxophonist Joe Harriott have been hard to come by since they were initially released...

A reissue of a rare early 80s album + 25 of bonus material, by this LA-based saxist whose music is very much in the African-jazz stylings of Brotherhood of Breath, etc. With Horace Tapscott-piano, bass, drums & percussion. [Nimbus West]

"A core member of Secret Chiefs 3 and the leader of the exciting West Coast ensemble Estradasphere, Timba Harris is a composer and multi instrumentalist of great passion and skill. His first Tzadik CD is a remarkable extended composition about the...

“The United States has been in the midst of a foreign military engagement nearly every year since composer Joel Harrison's birth in 1957. This endless state of war has had lasting impacts on the country’s wellbeing, and far reaching repercussions on generations of soldiers and their families. Guitarist and composer Joel Harrison’s new large ensemble recording, America At War, is a musical meditation on a lifetime of ruinous armed conflicts conducted by the United States...