“This is as previously mentioned folk rock adding progressive and psychedelic influences for very impressive results. Variety in the song structures, variety in the use of instruments (bouzouki, mandolin, recorders, ...). Captivating from start to finish, full of hooks and surprises.” -rateyourmusic

“Heavy Petting by Irish folk-psych group Dr. Strangely Strange returns for it's 55th anniversary in a newly expanded 2-CD edition that re-examines one of the era's most quietly distinctive folk...

“Martin Barre was the acclaimed guitarist of Jethro Tull for over four decades.
In 2012 he recorded several solo albums and began touring as a solo artist in Europe and the USA with his own band. Martin’s approach to live performances has seen him perform as an acoustic trio with Dan Crisp (vocals, guitar) and Alan Thomson (bass, guitar) and as an electric band with Terl Bryant also joining on drums, with both incarnations meeting with praise from both fans and critics.
This new album features...

“Grand Piano Gebrüder Stingl from 1916. The year is 2021. The piano is in the garden; the sun shines on it and rain falls on it. The piano cannot be tuned. Some keys work only partially, some not at all. It is Broken Piano.
The first pieces for Broken Piano were recorded on this piano in 2021 and became part of the Fluxus editions Stolen Symphony (2023) and Keep Together (2024). The pieces for this edition were written and provided by Terry Riley and Milan Knízák. "Broken Piano," which was...

This is the first recording album by Carl Stone and ASUNA (Asuna Arashi).
Spring 2024. Carl Stone and Asuna performed together for the first time at an international experimental music festival held in Kanazawa city, where Asuna lives.
Carl Stone is a pioneering composer of computer sampled music. and ASUNA known for its "100 Keyboards" performance, played in this duo with over 100 toy instruments, samplers, and synthesizers. Carl samples and processed the sound of Asuna's various toys in...

“Just 10 years on from their debut album, Stepmother returns with a fresh lineup and a brand-new album: Bring Me Flowers And Tell Me You Love Me. Stepmother's original core -- Lukas Simonis (Dull Schicksal, Bazip Zeehok, Coolhaven), Jeroen Visser (Tetras, Rhumbus B., Fendika & K-Sanchis) and Bill Gilonis (The Work, The Hat Shoes, Hail) -- has been expanded to include vocalist/multidisciplinarian Tisa World and drummer Philipp Ernsting (Albatre, Doktor Schnitt), thereby creating an Anglo-Dutch-Slovenian...

Pauline Oliveros : Roland V-Accordion
Issui Minegishi : Ichigenkin
Miya Masaoka : Japanese Koto

“Together, these masterful improvisors create a beautiful and fascinating world of instrumental communication. This trio of legendary artists establish a sonic zone so compelling that you'll never want to leave. This double CD preserves the original session edits chronologically in order to preserve the emotional flow of the recordings.
Disc one presents the first day of sessions and...

Bass/composition : SHOB [aka Geoffrey Neau]
Guitar : Jean Loup Siaut
Hammond : Robin Magord
Drums : Olivier Léani
Sax : François Marie Moreau
Trumpet : Pierre Jean Ley
Percussions : Jean Marc Pierna/Franck Leymerégie

Recorded live at la Ferme du Vigneron without an audience, but with the dynamic interplay that live with no overdubs will give you if you are good, this is supercharged, supergood jazz/rock....

“Mountain Call is a peak achievement in Miroslav Vitous's music, presenting the masterful bassist in varying ensemble configurations that prominently include the renowned French clarinetist Michel Portal and late American drummer Jack DeJohnette, among others.
Persuasively bringing together several tendencies and streams in Vitous's work, the album bears testimony to his multiple skills as dynamic improviser, jazz composer, arranger and creative sampling pioneer. The prodigiously gifted Czech...

"I have been fascinated by the sound and potential of gongs since I first heard Stockhausen's 'Mikrophonie '1' in the late 1960s. When I moved to Oakland in 1999 I discovered the work of Karen Stackpole, one of the few percussionists in the world specializing entirely in gongs, and attended several of her performances. I always tried to imagine how I could combine my own sonic vocabulary with her incredibly rich array, and we enthusiastically agreed to a musical meeting which somehow kept being...

“The Gaia ll Space Corps is an album of tunes that don't quite sound like heavy metal or hard rock, but clearly is reaching for some of the same qualities. It is post-psychedelic, pre-metal music, and is probably as close to making a true blue "classic hard rock" album Motorpsycho ever will come.
The Gaia ll Space Corps is a short, concise, catchy and exciting album, continuing where Motorpsycho's Stanley and The Comeback left off. The instrumentation is mostly guitars, guitars and some more...

“Long in the making and rich in imagination, Diary of a Teenage Prophet completes composer-producer Alex Wroten's Gatekeepers Trilogy with a darkly funny, genre-defying sci-fi epic that blurs the line between philosophy and pop.
The story follows Bonnie Brown, a teenage eco-rebel who's cryogenically frozen during a nuclear apocalypse and awakens thousands of years later to discover her teenage diary has become the basis for a world religion.
Featuring a staggering cast of collaborators...

“Yiorgos Fakanas presents his new album, a work that has just been released and marks yet another significant step in his journey as a composer and arranger.
On drums, the legendary Lenny White takes part—an iconic figure of the global jazz fusion scene, known from the historic group Return to Forever as well as from his collaborations with milestone artists of world music.
With Secrets, Fakanas delivers an album that balances between virtuosity, modern expression, and profound musical...

Robert Jan Stips - keyboards, vocals
Rinus Gerritsen - bass
Leon Klasse - drums

This is the current, live, trio line up of Supersister, recorded live at the Muziekgebouw Frits Philips, Eindhoven, Netherlands on May 7, 2022. And it sounds like Supersister (although RJ’s voice has darkened with age) and they perform many of their best known works, plus a couple of newer things!

“Exactly 25 years ago, Supersisters' famous first lineup recorded the legendary live album...

This is one that apparently came out in 2001, but that I never heard of or saw; that's right, until this reissue, I didn't know it existed! It's very atmospheric, compared to what one thinks of as 'usual Holdsworth fare', but also really good and different for him. Conditionally highly recommended!

Originally released in 2001, the album had a small print run, received little notice and no fanfare. Comprised predominantly of performances played on his beloved SynthAxe, Holdsworth delivers a set...

“Three renowned jazz musicians from three countries joined forces to create the Shadowlands trio. Their haunting and poetic repertoire includes old English and American folk songs (Death and the Lady, Roll on Buddy, Georgie), Molly Drake covers (Woods in May, The First Day), and creative chamber jazz.”

“You’re not likely to hear lyrics in Gaelic set to improvised music too often. Shadowlands is a follow-up to clarinetist-tenor saxophonist Robin Fincker’s Bedmakers project, which fiddled with...

“Tinariwen evolve once again on their brand new album, connecting with a younger generation of Tuareg musicians to produce a vibrant album of undulating grooves rooted in their nomadic community.
Fierce advocates for their people’s nomadic culture that exists in the desert borderlands between Mali and Algeria, Tinariwen’s bluesy, guitar-driven music has found global acclaim over the past two decades for its lively blend of Tamasheq-language politicism, syncopated rhythms and soaring melody.”

“The Alan Parsons Project’s million selling album The Turn Of A Friendly Card, is re-issued in a Abbey Road remaster, expanded CD with 4 bonus tracks and a fully illustrated 12 page booklet containing a sleevenote featuring quotes from Alan Parsons as well as full lyrics.
Their 5th studio album is a concept album approaching themes of the gambling industry and the fate of gamblers. The album was a worldwide hit, achieving platinum and gold status in numerous countries.
Like other Alan Parsons...

John O’Gallagher – alto saxophone
Ben Monder – guitar
Andrew Cyrille – drums
Billy Hart – drums

“Ancestral marks a profound metamorphosis for master saxophonist John O'Gallagher. He cast off his old skin, fundamentally altering his studies, homeland, and life, thereby charting a new future.
Recorded at Sound on Sound Studios in Montclair, New Jersey, in January, 2024, 'Ancestral' was influenced, in part, by O'Gallagher's PhD studies into the music of John Coltrane, and...

“The day belongs to the night. The four songs on side A came about in November 2022 for a winter solstice celebration at Oslo Badstuforening. Our take on this was that the solstice invites reflections on the relationship between night and day. Does the day spring out of the darkness of the preceding night or does the night follow and swallow the light of the day? Is it Saturday Night or Sunday Morning? Are we running from the past or catching up with the future? Moving from A to B, Lidskjalv has existed...

“Horrorful Heights marks a formidable new chapter in The Bevis Frond’s deep and storied catalogue, showcasing the enduring creativity of songwriter, guitarist and frontman Nick Saloman as he moves into yet another decade of recording. Long established as one of the most distinctive voices in British underground rock, Saloman continues to refine the band’s signature blend of melodic psychedelia, wiry guitar epics and sharp, emotionally attuned songwriting. Horrorful Heights offers one of the most...

John Etheridge - Electric Guitar
Theo Travis - Tenor and Soprano Saxes, Flutes, Duduk, Fender Rhodes Piano, Mellotron, Electronics
Fred Thelonius Baker - Fretless Bass
Asaf Sirkis - Drums, Percussion, Piano
with guests
Daevid Allen - Glissando Guitar (13)
Pete Whittaker - Organ (2,5), Fender Rhodes piano (2)
Nick Utteridge - Gong (5)

“It is really nice to see/hear such a well-aged band still playing.” - Harmut Ernst

‘Thirteen’ is the thirteenth studio

Tony Levin – Bass, Cello
Pete Levin - Piano, Organ
Erik Larence - Sax, Flute
Jeff Siegel - Drums

“Since graduating from the Eastman School of Music, Tony Levin has become bass and Chapman Stick voice for Peter Gabriel and King Crimson. he has played on notable recordings for John Lennon, Pink Floyd, Lou Reed, Alice Cooper, Carly Simon, and many others, as well as many jazz artists. He currently records and tours with Stick Men, King Crimson and Peter Gabriel.
After graduating.

DWIKI DHARMAWAN acoustic piano
NGUYÊN LÊ electric guitar, soundscapes
CARLES BENAVENT bass guitar
YARON STAVI upright bass
ASAF SIRKIS drums
with special guests:
SA'AT SYAH suling flute, vocals (1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8)
ADE RUDIANA kendang percussion (1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8)
DEWI GITA lead vocal (3)
TEUKU HARIANSYA & INDRA MAULANA KEUBITBIT Rapa’I Acehnese percussions (1)
NYOMAN WINDHA’s GAMELAN JASS JEGOG Balinese gamelan & percussions (4) ....

VASIL HADZIMANOV: piano, keyboards
DAVID BINNEY: alto sax
BRANKO TRIJIC: guitar
MIROSLAV TOVIRAC: bass guitar
BOJAN IVKOVIC: percussion, vocals
PEDJA MILUTINOVIC: drums

"In keeping with the label's time-honored tradition of shining a spotlight on newly-discovered artists whose immense musical talents challenge convention and defy categorization, MoonJune Records is pleased to offer the musical stylings of Serbian keyboardist, pianist and composer, Vasil Hadzimanov...

"The seven-piece Slivovitz reside in Napoli (Naples), and are devoted to a poly-stylistic mangling whose forebears include Frank Zappa and John Zorn. Much of their core material also arrives from the folkloric knees-ups of the Balkan regions. Despite any avowed influences, the ultimate Slivovitz sound has evolved into a beast which is very much tethered to their own pole. The band take their name from the Slavic plum brandy that's a popular quaff across Central and Eastern European regions. Slivovitz...