"Talk to any connoisseur of '70s-era double live albums, and many will agree that Steve Hillage's Live Herald, recorded and released in 1977-1978, rates among the finest jewels that the genre has to offer. So it's astonishing to discover that someone...

“Now and then, you get a bit suspicious about old recordings showing up, but not in this case. Great recording and great songs! Wow.”-Jorn Michelsen

“Live archive release from the Prog Rock icon. Steve Hillage, known for his exceptional work in Progressive Rock powerhouse Gong, Khan and pioneer of the Canterbury scene began his solo career in 1975. Venturing to other side of the world, Steve arrived in Los Angeles for the first time in January of 1977 to support ELO on their US tour. On January...

“Steve Hillage is releasing nine previously unreleased tracks of his recordings during an a capella echo guitar jam session in addition to 5 tracks from the session previously only available in the ‘Searching For The Spark’ box set.
The recordings are part of a series of archived tapes liberated from deep storage by Hillage for the box set, and this tape was labelled 'Wata Trip! 1973'. It was recorded when Hillage was 21, living in the Gong communal house in Sens, France with Miquette Giraudy, as...

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Excellent, heavy Swedish spacerock/stoner-rock/psych trio. Their first was on Sulatron and now they've moved to Transubstans and they've turned up the electricity and heat. Simple, but very effective, trancey/psych music made with guitars, organ, bass...

This fusion effort is led by bassist/composer David Hines and appearing with him is Steve Hunt-keyboards (Mahavishnu Project, Billy Cobham, Stanley Clarke), Steve Kirby-guitar and Steve Michaud-drums (Allan Holdsworth). In addition to this core band, A...

Yet another great winner from trumpeter Hino from 1975. Recorded April 14, 1975, this features a relatively large band: tenor sax, electric piano, alto sax, trombone, guitar, electric and double bass, drums and 2 percussionists!...

This is a great, energetic, soaring, spiritual jazz live album where you can hear the audience just going crazy with enthusiasm and firing up the musicians to even greater heights.

Recorded live on April 8, 1975 the musicians performing here...

"The charismatic raconteur Shelley Hirsch returns with a fabulous new ensemble led by the talented Swiss composer Simon Ho to present her greatest extended work to date. Combining new compositions with reconstructed fragments from previous work, this...

A 2007 release by one of the great songwriters and lyricists of our time, up there with Peter Blegvad, but much more prolific. "Viva Seattle Tacoma, Viva Viva Viva Sea-Tac; They've got the best computers and coffee and smack!"

What a great idea; set Robyn loose on the things that inspired him in the first place!

1 A Whiter Shade of Pale
2 Itchycoo Park
3 Burning of the Midnight Lamp
4 I Can Hear the Grass Grow
5 San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)
6 Waterloo Sunset
7 See Emily Play
8 My White Bicycle
9 No Face, No Name, No Number
10 Way Back in the 1960s
11 Vacations in the Past
12 A Day in the Life

“1967: Vacations in the Past is a...

Very good, modern big band album. In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida works much better than you would think!

"A composer who writes a 16-minute big-band piece based on "In-a-Gadda-da-Vida" isn't going for subtlety — but then, he probably wouldn't appear nude...

Hoahio's second CD is even more quirky and varied than the first. Joining koto virtuoso Yagi Michiyo and Kansai vocalist Haco (After Dinner) this time is Era Mari, a remarkable young percussionist from Kyoto. Her brilliant vibes and marimba playing giv...

Jim Hobbs - alto saxophone
Timo Shanko - contrabass

"Jim Hobbs and Timo Shanko were founding members of the Fully Celebrated Orchestra in 1989. This is their first duo record. Their decades of playing together can be heard in these pieces."

Lester St.Louis cello /Bram De Looze piano / Dre Hocevar drums / Chris Pitsiokos saxophone / Philip White electronics, signal processing.

"After the success of "Coding of Evidentiality", Dre Hocevar is back—not with his trio, but with a quintet, considering the inner transformations to a quartet and again to a trio, expanding the original quest of "Collective Effervescence". Cellist Lester St. Louis and pianist Bram De Looze are one more time associated with the percussionist and composer...

Sam Pluta live electronics, signal processing Aaron Larson Tevis trumpet Bryan Qu saxophone
Mette Rasmussen saxophone
Jeremy Corren piano
Zack Clarke synthesizer
Lester St. Louis cello
Henry Fraser bass
Dre Hocevar drums, interaction

"Voice of a new generation — what is anticipated by the listeners today? When one begins a personal voyage incited by the title “Transcendental Within the Sphere of Indivisible Remainder,” the first impressions may deceive. Composer

“Three long and recent compositions: Under the Void, scored for flute, oboe, clarinet, trumpet, horn, trombone, 2 violins, 2 violas, cello, bass, piano and percussion, here virtually realised; Then, for virtual strings, brass, woodwinds, accordion and piano -combined with real Siberian frame drums, gongs, viola, electronics, bowed cymbals, lap steel guitar and Yamaha DX21 keyboard assembled by ear in the studio, not from a score, and Ortemchei, scored and assembled from parts of a live performance by...

“Hoelderlin were one of the leading representatives of "Krautrock", this independent rock music, primarily of West German bands, at the end of the '60s, beginning of the '70s. Hoelderlin began their career in 1972 with the release of their album "Hölderlins Traum" on the Pilz label of the journalist and "Krautrock" pioneer Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser. The Wuppertal musicians mixed folk with progressive rock and psychedelic elements and used classical instruments such as viola, cello and flute. The group's...

“Voices From the Empty Moor seeks to honor the mystery and beauty of Anne Briggs’ music while maintaining its own unique perspective, foregrounding powerful emotion and, hopefully, magical transformation.
Bassist, composer and arranger devin hoff has been intensively studying the music of Anne Briggs for over a decade. Briggs was a leading light of the 1960’s English folk scene, a gifted songwriter and improvisor, as well as an amateur musicologist who revived traditional English, Scottish, and...

Christopher Hoffman - cello

“Christopher Hoffman attempts to obliterate misconceptions about the capacity of the violoncello.” — PostGenre

This is the debut solo album by cellist Christopher Hoffman, and is a tribute to one of America’s great bird artists, Rex Brasher (1869–1960). In Hoffman’s words “REX is a solo cello record written and recorded while living in the former home of Rex Brasher, a self-taught painter who created over 1,200 watercolors of North American birds. Composed...

"Robin Holcomb is a rare talent, with a foot in the pop world of singer/songwriter through several acclaimed releases on major labels, and roots in the downtown avant-garde that reach back to the first generation of Studio Henry mavericks. For her firs...

Circles in Time features contributions from an array of Prog luminaries;
Mark Atkinson, Peter Jones, Sally Minnear, Jean Pageau and That Joe Payne - vocals
Nick D’Virgilio, Henry Rogers - drums
Robin Armstrong – bass
Vikram Shankar - keyboards
Zaid Crowe, Oliver Day, Eric Potapenko – guitar
Frank Van Essen - violin

Holden says, “This album came together over the last 8 months. Because of the lockdown situation I found myself with unexpected free time

“2018’s Capture Light was English musician/ songwriter, John Holden’s debut release and, two years later, it has been great to listen to the follow up, ‘Rise and Fall’, a combination of John’s music with lyrics by his wife Elizabeth and himself. In a similar manner to, say, Big Big Train, each track is based on a historic event and the accompanying booklet not only has an individual image for each track, but the “background story/ myth”, is the listener can immerse themselves in the narrative and the...

“Frankfurt '86 is the third in a continuing series of classic Allan Holdsworth live performances. In this performance at the 1986 Deutsches Jazz Festival in Frankfurt, Germany, Allan Holdsworth is accompanied by Gary Husband on drums, Jimmy Johnson on bass and Kei Akagi on keyboards.
Gary Husband also contributed some very personal liner notes to the package. The performance of Frankfurt '86 was beautifully recorded and filmed and was originally broadcast on German Television.
The sound....