Totally wonderful round up of all the 7” and EP titles that Geoff Leigh (ex-Henry Cow) released in the late 70s and early 80s. Quite wonderful arty-art-damaged post punk whatever whoo-haa! Recommended.

“Zig-zagged music, the specialty of MCCB. Across a wide spectrum of sound comes minimal electronics, jilted avantpop, artpunx, and progressive music. Some folk in there as well, somehow. This is a very fine collection of Leigh's various musings, and with it his sharp humor and immense talent shines...

Right after Henry Cow ended, Fred Frith moved to NYC. He played a little with people here and there and worked on his Gravity album, but Massacre - formed on Valentine's Day, 1980, and lasting until late summer 1981, was his first real post-Cow band. R...

"One of the first, longest running and most acclaimed improvisational rock ensembles in the world presents a special collection of live recordings culled from the private archives of guitarist extraordinaire Fred Frith. Hand picked for this release...

Simone Massaron-electric guitars, loops, Daniele Cavallanti-tenor sax, Steve Piccolo-bass & vocals, Elliott Sharp-electric guitars, Tiziano Tonori-drums

"[...] excellent debut album for a top level guitarist. [breaking news] is favoured by a...

Håvard Nordberg Funderud – guitar
Lauritz Lyster Skeidsvoll – saxophone
Karl Erik Horndalsveen - double bass
Martin Heggli Mellem - drums

“Master Oogway are four young musicians aged between 23 and 26. They met at the Norwegian Academy of Music in 2015 with a common desire to play vibrant, improvised music with strong themes and room for spontaneity at a high energy level. Like many players on the young, Norwegian progressive jazz scene their instrumental skills are already highly...

Unbelievably great price on a great release. Mastermind were one of the very first of the new progressive revival bands who began to emerge in the late 1980s. They were a guitar power trio whose guitarist and leader (Bill Berends) used midi-guitar to...

Mark Masters is a interesting and talented arranger who has done excellent work highlighting the compositions of Jimmy Knepper, Dewey Redman, Grachan Moncur III & other forward thinkers.

“Sam Rivers 100 grew out of a series of performances in late 2023 to celebrate what would have been Rivers' 100th birthday on September 25. Masters was drawn to Rivers' earlier, mid-'60s work for Blue Note Records, in particular the saxophonist's classic 1964 debut, Fuchsia Swing Song. He arranged all six of...

Algumia is a precious Mediterranean jewel; like the coral necklaces so typical from this beautiful town. If you've been to Alghero at least once, you know it's a place totally different from any other place in Sardinia with the sea, the people, the langua

Markus Reuter: Synthesizers, Samples, Treatments, Soundscapes, Field Recordings
Tobias Reber: Electronic Rhythms
Raphael Preuschl: Basses
Gary Husband: Keyboards
Andi Pupato: Percussion
Brian Krock: Saxophones and Flute
Luca Calabrese: Pocket Trumpet
Aralee Dorough: Flute
Colin Gatwood: Oboes
Charlotte Pelgen: Vocals
Zoey Gley: Vocals
Graça Cunha: Vocals
Lisa Fletcher: Vocals
Deborah Carter Mastelotto: Vocals
Pat Mastelotto:

"Great sound, great artwork - so thanks once again." – Robert Wyatt

Bill MacCormick – bass
Dave MacRae – electric piano
Phil Miller – guitar
Robert Wyatt – drums, vocals

Formed by drummer/vocalist Robert Wyatt after he left the pioneering UK jazz/rock Soft Machine in 1971. The band was exceedingly active for a band that lasted less than one year, recording two albums and playing dozens of shows throughout Europe.
In 2001, Cuneiform released...

"In October 1974, the first number of L'Indépendant du Jazz, a small self-produced magazine DIY -- before punk supposedly invented the concept -- was launched by Jef Gilson, Gérard Terronès, Jean-Jacques Pussiau, and a few other specialists of a different kind of jazz in France, it looked at the already long career of Jef Gilson and in detail at the album with saxophonist Philippe Maté: 'The 'Workshop' is, with Philippe Maté (alto-sax), an undeniable success. Maté is genuinely 'the' most inventive French...

Japanese-only CD release of the incredible, first full-length album by Material, which somehow ended up being released in the USA on a major label.

When this was released in 1981, it was one of the very earliest of the 'downtown sound' albums...

Keyboardist Mats Öberg and drummer Morgan Ågren have been playing together since their childhood. They were 'discovered' at a very young age by Frank Zappa and are legendary in their native Sweden and beyond. Trends and Other Diseases is a reissue of their debut album, which was recorded from 1993 to 1995 and originally released only in Sweden. This has been remastered and includes a 15' bonus track.

"Trends is our debut CD, and was also the first one we released by ourselves on our own company!..

Keyboardist Mats Öberg and drummer Morgan Ågren have worked together for nearly 3/4s of their lives. Both were childhood prodigies who have grown into adults who are considered absolute masters of their instruments and they have continued...

If you ever wanted a sampler of what Mats/Morgan do, this is the right place.

"35 years of work converted down to 2.5 hours of music! These are our favorite tracks! (All remastered!)
When I was 14 years old I received a telephone call from a lady that was organizing a concert in a little village outside Umeå, Sweden. She asked me if I could join this blind pianist named Mats Öberg. She knew about me and believed that I might be the right one for Mats. Same musical taste maybe, and same age...

Swedish duo Mats/Morgan create their own sphere in the transcontinental music scene, a zone wherein progressive rock, jazz-rock fusion, experimental rock, electronica, and progressive pop overlap and intertwine...

Live was Mats/Morgan Band's fifth album, the first by the extraordinary expanded lineup of the group (Mats, Eric Carlsson and Robert Elovsson-keyboards, Jimmy Agren-guitar, Tommy Thordsson-bass and Morgan-drums) and the first that I heard by them...

Matta Gawa are a DC-based guitar/drums duo who I saw many times until Ed moved to Ohio, which either means that this is the final release from MG, or that they will just have to work as the distances allow. In any event, Sam's blend of hardcore roots and free-music influences on drums and Ed's explorations of the full sonorities available to the guitar + boxes makes for good listening.

"Tambora is the second full-length from the Washington DC-based 'free rock' drums+guitar duo Matta Gawa. Named...

Excellent and somewhat surprising album by this UK folkie, working with a jazz quartet and really showing off his vocal chops and lyrical prowess. Daring and successful!

"This is the debut release by UK-born/Netherlands-based singer/songwriter...

(Violinist) Matthews has played with David Toop & Charles Hayward. Here she is alone with her fiddle & a sampling system which grabs both instrumental & ambient detail, giving her a wide range of material to exploit in improvising situations. Lots of l...

Joanna Mattrey: viola, stroh violin

“Veiled is Joanna Mattrey’s first solo release. Joanna Mattrey is a violist active in both the new music and free improvisation communities who's playing often incorporates textural gestures, preparations, and electronic alterations. She is searching for moments of ceremony and ritual in a modern soundscape.
Mattrey has played with such luminaries as Marc Ribot and the Young Philadelphians, Mary Halvorson, John Zorn, Erik Friedlander, Nick Dunston and...

Rudresh Mahanthappa, alto saxophone / Mark Dresser, double bass / Gerry Hemingway, drums.

"Members of the much remembered classic quartet of Anthony Braxton and bandleaders in their own right, Mark Dresser and Gerry Hemingway are the first...

"Berangere was born on the remote French colonial island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean and moved to France at the age of sixteen. A resident of Paris since 2002, she has performed as a singer in rock and world music bands and also studied...

"Maxophone is another band from Italy who released one album and dissapeared from the scene. Maxophone played complex progressive rock, and just like Banco or Gentle Giant, their influences ranged further than symphonic/ classical inspired rock only...