“A Certain Darkness Is Needed to See the Stars" (38:51 min.) is an energetic, minimal, polyrhythmic composition. It was played on a single prepared drum set (with aluminium foil), without any loops or overdubs. Time and form dissolve as loops and repetitions take hold. The piece expands and contracts. It changes texture while still maintaining a steady pulsating fluidity. The listener is forced to cede control and relax into it. You never know how long any given theme will stay the same, nor what will...

Mary Halvorson, guitar (1-8), synth (Pocket Piano) (1–3, 8)
Immanuel Wilkins, alto saxophone (1-2, 4-5)
Brian Settles, tenor saxophone (1-2, 5, 8)
Adam O’Farrill, trumpet (1-8)
Jacob Garchik, trombone (1-8)
Patricia Brennan, vibraphone (1-8)
Nick Dunston, bass (1-8)
Tomas Fujiwara, drums (1-8)

This is an incredible band realizing fabulous compositions. And now featuring the great Brian Settles too!
Highly recommended.

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“When legendary psych outfit The Lemon Drops split up, they landed in San Francisco — and in 1969 formed Watermelon with famed American musician and composer of ambient music, Raphael. The Watermelon sound is grooving and tight; mostly fiery and hard and heavy. Yet Watermelon were also capable of eerie, haunting and hypnotic moments, combining (as one writer proposed) “an ethereal sound of yesterday with an infinite hope for tomorrow.”
Or maybe you’d agree better with the person who exulted, “they...

“The spacey psychedelic sound of The Lemon Fog never sounded better with all their singles, previously unreleased outtakes, and complete version of ‘Summer,’ all from the original master tapes.
Hailing from Houston, Texas, The Lemon Fog blew many minds during 1967-68, quickly becoming a popular draw at the local Houston hot spot, The Living Eye. Their first single ‘Theme For The Living Eye’ (changed to ‘Lemon Fog’ upon release) was a psych-pop flower power masterpiece released in the winter of 1967...

“After Mirthrandir, Lift and Easter Island, we continue bringing you the cream of the crop from U.S. Prog Classics, with the reissue of ID’s 1977 album Where Are We Going. In this case, you can guess the music from the band’s name, a regression into the depths of the unconscious (Freud’s antecedent term for ID in the structure of the cunning invention called ‘psyche’) via an interminable sonic evocation. The highlights of the album are the 2 long parts of the homonymous track covering most of the 2...

NOTE: This is a vinyl-only release.

André Drage - Drums, congas, shakers, gong and sampling
Petter Haukaas - Vibraphone, djembe, darbuka, tambourine, shakers, congas and bongos
Anders Kregnes Hansen - Marimba and taiko drums
Christo Stangnes – Electric bass guitar
Audun Kjelldal - Mellotron and sampling
Håkon Nybø - Synthesizers
Wei Ting Zeng - Cello and effect processing
Sigrid Aftret - Soprano saxophone
Vegard Liverød - Tambourine, shakers and space echo