Sofia Salvo - baritone saxophone

"The first solo release of baritone saxophonist Sofia Salvo, “ROTAROTA” consists of a series of improvised pieces. They evoke emotional memories aspiring to set them free and mutate them into blaring music."

Samla was the original band of keyboardist/composer Lars Hollmer. They blended progressive with bits of folk elements & more. This is an earlier, more overtly "progressive rock" disc than what came later, with some great melodies & great playing...

Includes 4 albums:
The Lady and The Lion
The White Snake
The Spaghetti Epic 4
Anthem To The Phoenix Star
Also includes a 24 page booklet and five previously unreleased bonus tracks that equals over 40 minutes of new music.

“The Samurai Of Prog, featuring Italian composer Marco Grieco, announces their new concept album, The Time Machine.
This progressive rock release blends symphonic arrangements with Moog synthesizers, electric guitars, and orchestral instruments like flutes and violins.
The album offers an immersive journey through time, starting from the dawn of humanity and spanning to the present day. Each track explores significant historical moments and reflects on humanity’s choices. Highlights include...

“'The Man in the Iron Mask' is the exciting and ambitious new album from The Samurai of Prog. It is a concept album composed by Oliviero Lacagnina (of "Latte e Miele"), written in the "symphonic progressive rock" style - the musical genre he has been exploring and expanding since the 1970s.
This CD will certainly satisfy lovers of classical and symphonic progressive rock; new music weaving in quotations and callbacks to great composers of the past, interpreted by keyboards and powerful electric....

Angelica Sanchez piano
Michael Formanek double bass
Tyshawn Sorey drums

"You can often judge musicians by the company they keep. Float the Edge, the latest album from pianist-composer Angelica Sanchez, features her alongside two of the most sought-after rhythm-section musicians on the scene: veteran bassist Michael Formanek and rising- star Tyshawn Sorey, both acclaimed leader-composers in their own right. To be released via Clean Feed Records on March 25, 2017, Float the Edge sees this..

Angelica Sanchez - piano, compositions
Michaël Attias - alto saxophone
Ben Goldberg - contra alto clarinet
John Hébert - bass
Thomas Heberer - quarter-tone trumpet
Sam Ospovat - drums
Chris Speed - tenor saxophone, clarinet
Omar Tamez - guitar
Kenny Warren – cornet

“This recording is a culmination of six years of writing, re-writing, rehearsals, concerts, van trips with the band and the love and support of friends and family. All the compositions are.

Angelica Sanchez: Piano
Chad Taylor: Drums

“Two exceptional musicians – Angelica Sanchez and Chad Taylor – present their first duo album with A Monster is Just an Animal You Haven’t Met Yet. And it’s high time, given their long musical friendship, which has solidified over the years in various formations. It is therefore no exaggeration to describe pianist Angelica Sanchez and drummer Chad Taylor as two of the most important musical personalities in contemporary jazz.
Both are virtuoso...

Angelica Sanchez, piano / Wadada Leo Smith, trumpet.

"A duo is the most intimate of encounters in jazz – such a tête-à-tête demands rare communication, forcing each player to open up, unable to rely on group interplay. The duo of pianist...

Eric Bikales - keyboards, flute, recorder, vocals
Roger Bruner - guitar, vocals
Dennis Loewen - bass guitar, vocals
Norman Weinberg - drums, percussion, vocals

First-ever reissue of this extremely obscure 1971 progressive rock album by a one and done band from Kansas.

“Kansas based progressive rock group, with remnants of psych, somewhat typical of the US rock scene of 1971. They take the unusual course of covering Yes'"Time and a Word", plus an Edgar Winter Group compositio

"Previously unreleased album by German trio Sand, composed and recorded in 1973, '75, and '76. The once-croaking raven now flies silently over the ocean, higher and higher. Where are you rolling, sun-ball, and why don't you fall? The sandy Golem crumbled into dust. His brave struggle against the mighty forces of darkness soon dissolved in voiceless space. There is something magical and inexplicable in creation, and Sand absolutely manifest these mysterious phenomena. Storytellers, musicians, shamans....

Sten Sandell, piano, voice / Johan Berthling, doublebass / Paal Nilssen-Love, drums & percussion

Sten Sandell's playing may be connected to New Music and Improvised Music, and neither of these musical directions would be associated with what...

"The best improvisers are the ones that seem to invent and uninvent their instruments right in front of your eyes and ears. Swedish pianist Sten Sandell and Norwegian drummer Paal Nilssen-Love are two musical champions with a long experience of doing...

“For an underground band, in their lifetime, The Fugs made impressive inroads into the media. A group comprising (but certainly not confined to) Ed Sanders, Tuli Kupferberg and drummer Ken Weaver, The Fugs were as garish and impassioned as the ’60s themselves.
Formed by poet Kupferberg and scholar/underground publisher Sanders, the band’s origins were in the Greenwich Village of the mid ’60s. By February 1967, founder member Ed Sanders had been on the cover of Life magazine, their friend and...

“With Pharoah Sanders’ blessing, this limited edition 2 CD box set presents the definitive, remastered version of PHAROAH, his seminal record from 1977, along with two previously unreleased live performances of his masterpiece “Harvest Time."
PHAROAH will be released a year after the legendary tenor saxophonists’ untimely death [editor’s note: Why is everyone’s death ‘untimely’ in label hype, especially someone who was in their 80s?], and two years after the release of what was to become his final...

"Philip Sanderson first started releasing music as part of Storm Bugs in the late 1970s as captured on the A Safe Substitute CD (Klang gg378). He also set up his own Snatch Tapes cassette label releasing music by David Jackman and Alien Brains amongst others. Reviews in the Wire magazine of the instrumental tracks described them as being akin to "a boiling vat of electronic music that occasionally sounds like the work of a mad scientist", whilst the songs have a "flavour of what Kevin Ayers might cook up...

"Jean Pierre Alarcen (guitar), Henri Garella (organ, mellotron) and Michel Jullien (drums) had previously played together in Eden Rose, whose album was a showcase for magnificent interplay between organ and electric guitar. This style was the backbone for Sandrose too, but with dramatic female vocals added in the style of Earth & Fire or Circus 2000. Alarcen had now become a prolific composer, with a range from symphonic rock overtures to gripping songs. His guitarwork was augmented by Garella's...

"Now We Have Light is the third Sanguine Hum album, following on from the acclaimed albums Diving Bell and the Weight of the World. Now We Have Light is a double CD concept album. Unusually with this record, it is also something that the band have...

Joff Winks / vocals, electric & acoustic guitars, synths, fx
Matt Baber / pianos, organ, synths, guitar, fx
Brad Waissman / bass, Chapman stick, double bass
With:
Kimara Sajn / vocals (11)
Mark Kesel / trumpet (9,13)
Paul Mallyon / drums

“The follow-up and sequel to 2015’s acclaimed double CD 'Now We Have Light' (“a masterpiece”, in the words of All About Jazz magazine) continues the story of Don through a surreal lyrical and musical landscape.”...

A very good instrumental symphonic progressive rock band who feature flute, electric and acoustic guitars, keyboards, bass and drums. This was the 2nd release on AltrOck's Fading subsidiary, which aims to release more 'proggy progressive' than what...