Personel: Alex Maguire (p), Alípio C. Neto (ts), Johannes Krieger (t), Ricardo Freitas (b), Rui Gonçalves (d)

"To begin with - and we always begin listening a record by reading its title and the names of the tracks -, a glance to the cover of...

“Witchwood is back after their fantastic 2016 album Handfull of Stars with Before the winter and what a heavy prog ride it is. It starts with Anthem for a Child, first tones are set with dark synth tones only to explode with a great Hammond, guitar and flute riff and it sets the tone for the entire album. It has all the elements of classic heavy prog sound and it will speak to all who love bands like Atomic Rooster, Wishbone ash, Lucifer friend to Black Widow but with their own stamp. This album for me...

"LA-based pianist/keyboardist David Witham has toured with George Benson for over 20 years as his music director. On Spinning the Circle, he shows his versatility with jazz, world beat and jamband influences, with just a hint of Weather Report...

If ONLY we had had this in 1976 when The Muffins were recording ‘Chronometers’...

“I bought this to listen to on a two and a half hour car ride with my three kids ages 8, 6 and 2. All three of them like the Wizard of Oz, but my two and half year old is obsessed with this movie and I was hoping this would keep her happy for at least part of the ride. This CD contains all the songs from the MGM movie and some instrumental scores as well. It also contains a couple of songs that must not have made...

CD + CD rom housed in a single digipack suited for one disc.

The greatly awaited fourth album from Wobbler! I can't say it is a 'return to form', because all their previous ones are really good, but this one seems more in keeping with the style that blew everyone away when they first appeared on the scene.
Just like Anglagard, they take a lot of influences from the golden period of progressive rock; Genesis, Yes, Gentle Giant, ELP and blend it all into something that is simply "Wobbler" and not just a bunch of proggy parts glued together.

Third from one of the best retro-symphonic rock bands today, Wobbler emerged with their first album in the early 00s and their sound instantly gained them an international following. This new one veers a bit closer to the classic Yes sound than their past works, but its still recognizably Wobbler.

For “Rites at Dawn” it was time for a change. Wanting to up their game both musically and sonically, the band took their sweet time to hone their new material and to record things as pristinely as they..

“San Francisco-based multimedia artist, composer, and improviser Jon Leidecker makes music under the pseudonym Wobbly. He currently records and tours with seminal experimental group Negativland, and with the Thurston Moore Ensemble. Over the course of a varied musical practice that began in the mid-1980s, Wobbly has collaborated with artists including Matmos, Dieter Moebius (Cluster), Tania Chen, Fred Frith, Tim Story, Thomas Dimuzio, David Toop, Zeena Parkins, and People Like Us. Leidecker has released...

I first came across Erling’s name as a member of the San Francisco guitar-based group, Name, which also featured Bob Adams & Henry Kaiser, a.o. Since then, he’s concentrated on ‘modern composition and large dramatic works’, about really unusual subjects (see below) and this is his latest.

“Erling Wold is a bon vivant and a composer of large dramatic works. His new chamber opera UKSUS is ''a feverish mashup of artistic and political history, commentary on vinegar and meatballs, and non sequiturs...

"No Answer : Lower Floors is the record of 2013 you need to be most worried about. No Answer : Lower Floors is further flesh to the shadowy silhouette cast by this Michigan art abstraction unit, perenially poised on the cusp of a precipice. Wolf Eyes...

The surprise meeting of minds between the old and new avant-gardes at Victo 2005. No animals were injured in the making of this album.

“These two discs reveal Christian Wolff as a composer fully exploring, in different ways, the continuum between music which is highly fragmented, embracing extended silences (composed or indeterminate), to that which is more progressive and seemingly driven, albeit taking in disarming and unconventional routes. As a body of repertoire, these works are remarkable for their freshness of musical thought and energy (John Cage considered Wolff to be the most "musical" of the experimental composers). Performer...

"Swapping out his rhythm section, Andrew Stockdale proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that he's the mastermind of Wolfmother on Cosmic Egg, creating a second record that is essentially a replication of the first, equally enamored with all the thick, heavy rock of the '70s, specifically Sabbath and Zeppelin, tempered with a little bit of Jack White caterwaul. All the sounds remain the same, but the songs have changed: with the occasional exception, such as the Stripes-ian salute "White Feather," Stockdale....

"For their first Tzadik release Rasa Rasa members Kenny Wollesen, Dalius Naujo, Jonathon Haffner and Sean Francis Conway have arranged the ancient polyphonic vocal music of Lithuania using a variety of ensembles and the result is an entirely new...

“After many years and many electronic music albums, Norway's Erik Wøllo returns home, in a sense, on Cloud of Strings. Created on an assemblage of acoustic guitars, his 14th Projekt solo album sees Wøllo explore the instrument he first loved. It's an album of twelve melodic moods - an intimate collection showcasing a fresh perspective on Wøllo's artistic range and versatility.
With reflections of his two previous guitar-music albums - Guitar Nova (1998) and Blue Sky, Red Guitars (2004) - Wøllo...

“Following his acclaimed 2020 collaboration with American synthesist Michael Stearns, renowned Norwegian ambient / electronic artist Erik Wøllo returns with 2021's Recurrence. An intensely detailed fusion of elegant compositions and deep atmospherics, it's a gleaming sonic journey - a timeless dreamlike pilgrimage revisiting the sound and feel of past moments with an essence of eternal renewal.
Delicately evocative synthesizer atmospheres are skillfully balanced with pulsating rhythmic passages...

Stevie is one of the few artists to have had the ability be hugely popular, hugely influential and hugely critically lauded. This is one of his great ones from the 70s.

I know you don't know who Dustin is, but that's why I am writing this now. Dustin is the latest in a long and interesting line of guitarplayers using looping and devices to create a very full sound out of solo guitar performance, traceable from Robert...

"Theresa Wong is a cellist, composer, vocalist and improviser based in San Francisco. Her first CD release The Unlearning is a collection of miniature songs for violin, cello and two voices inspired by the Disasters of War etchings by Francisco Goya...

This is a really good and completely unclassifiable Americana-based orchestral big-band work, with obvious nods to Van Dyke Parks (see below) and far beyond. I hope that some people pick this one up based on its worth, as I think this will be a tough s...

Excellent new instrumental fusion release on F.E.S./Laser's Edge. On this live album, Woodenhead combine their usual quartet lineup of keyboards, guitar, bass and drums with a very special addition: The Trombones From Hell, a 3-piece trombone section w...

Rich Woodson is a self-taught composer and guitarist who grew up on hard rock and heavy metal in Nashville, TN and San Antonio and Austin, TX. His major musical influences are Tim Berne, Frank Zappa, Watchtower (the 1980's Austin metal band, who invented the technical metal subgenre) and composer Charles Wuorinen.
This debut CD, performed by a crack band, comprising Rich on guitar, Aaron Stewart-tenor sax, Peter Epstein-soprano sax, Mat Fieldes-acoustic bass and John Hollenbeck-drums, is a bold and...

Woof was Tim Hodgkinson's label. This release is a pretty big deal, if only for the inclusion of the really, really great "I Do, I Do...I Don’t, I Don’t" EP by Tim and Bill Gilonis, which has been unavailable for over 20 years, was a miserable grotty pressing to begin with, and was Tim's very first post-Cow recordings and the roots of The Work. Not to mention the inclusion of Houdini, one of The Work's greatest...uh...works!

"This CD comprises all four 7” releases by the British underground....

Nate Wooley, trumpet / Josh Sinton, bass clarinet / Matt Moran, vibraphone / Eivind Opsvik, double bass / Harris Eisenstadt, drums.

This is a real all-star session of young 'up 'n' comers', all of whom are leaders in their own right....