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Ryan Miller: Guitar
Jon Scheid: Bass
Phil Cleary: Drums

"New Atlantis Records is incredibly pleased to announce Treffpunkt, the latest LP from polyrhythmic avant-punks U Sco. Consisting of members from several other notable, genre...

Konstantin Kräutler : drums
Edoardo Maggioni : keyboards
Marco Leo : guitar
Cesare Pizzetti : bass

Second album by this very good Italian quartet who produce a lighter side (but NOT lightweight) of some 70s ECM sound, with more intense moments as well, while never losing the melody. Super nice.

“Once again bridging contemporary jazz, eclectic fusion, and progressive sophistication, the Milanese quartet created Delta in two sessions in July, August, and November 2024...

“On its third album, the quartet confirms itself as an excellent jazz rock band.” – Classic Rock

This is the third release (first I ever heard of them) by a very excellent Italian / European based jazz rock group based around guitars, keyboards, bass and drums.
This isn’t a record that jumps out of the sleeve and beats you into submission by a lavish display of chops. Instead it presents some nice moods and slowly builds as it ebbs and flows.
“The UJIG project was born in 2014, during...

"In today's increasingly barren rock and roll landscape, Ulan Bator stand as beacons of explorative songwriting. Formed in Paris in 1993 by Amaury Cambuzat (vocals, guitar and keyboards) and Olivier Manchion (bass), the band's atmospheric approach to composition has consistently yielded guitar-driven, avant-rock at once hypnotic and untamed. And while their sound has developed in a variety of directions - often in relationship to changing line-ups and various collaborations, including with Faust and...

"Odyssey stands as Ulmer's signature masterpiece, the purest and most accessible showcase for his bold, genre-clashing guitar vision. With minimal accompaniment, Ulmer's guitar is always the meat of the ensemble, especially since his unique tuning (developed for this album) allows him to cover bass parts as well as guitar leads. It's not only Ulmer's finest album, but a certified classic of the modern jazz avant-garde. Now it finally gets the audiophile treatment it deserves, mastered at 45RPM from...

James Blood Ulmer: guitar
Mats Gustafsson: tenor & baritone saxophone
Ingebrigt Håker Flaten: electric & double bass
Paal Nilssen-Love: drums, percussion

This places Blood in front of a smokin', crazy band of youthful equals and makes for the best and most 'out' album he's made in years and years!

"Viking jazz band The Thing team up with one of the legendary men of jazz and blues. Guitarist and singer Ulmer combines (free) jazz, blues, funk, and rock -- always on the edge...

Timba Harris – violin
Dorothy Wave – voice, keyboards
Toby Driver ¬– bass
Joel C. Murray – drums

“ULTRAPHAUNA is a newborn band of art-rock veterans whose wide-eyed, wriggling form is born of the music of Timba Harris (violin, trumpet) and Dorothy Wave (vocals, synths).
Toby Driver (bass) and Joel Murray (drums) crushed their studio performances in New York and Liverpool respectively, helping bring to life their debut album, No No No No.
As you can imagine from the histor

Fun, zippy, and very obviously a Dur et Doux band!

“ULTRA ZOOK is an unusual rock trio, first of all there is no guitar but a keyboard, then they don't play like maniacs, and finally they don't pout when they play... it's with a sparkling and mischievous eye that they interpret their songs whose originality is equalled only by the philosophical depth of the text.
To make dance the zumba by using tunes of traditional music from Auvergne, to make advance the society with deep philosophical...

Vinyl version featuring four tracks from the 10 song CD.

Hard to imagine a more powerful or intriguing, improvising power trio than these 3: Charles Hayward on drums (This Heat and Massacre), Kawabata Makoto (Acid Mothers Temple) and Guy Segers...

"Heart, healing, and humanity have always been at the center of United Progressive Fraternity, with their goal of spreading connectedness and understanding across the world permeating everything they’ve done. Never before has their trademark synthesis of vibrantly sophisticated instrumentation and captivatingly meaningful songwriting felt as rewarding and resonant as on Planetary Overload, Part 2 – Hope, the spacious conclusion to the trilogy that began with 2014’s Fall in Love with the World and...

This reissues one of the rarer and stranger items in the Magma cannon. Recorded by the 1001 Degrees Centigrade band (Christian Vander, Klaus Blasquiz, Francois Cahen, Francis Moze, Teddy Lasry, Yochk'o Seffer + guests), this was initiated by Magma's...

Even though the hype for this record does NOT state this, this is the (partially) remixed and (fully) remastered version, worked on by Didier de Roos between 2015 and 2017.
It’s ‘partially’ remixed because the multi-track tapes recorded by Eric Faes are lost and only the stereo masters still exist.
But four tracks do exist in multi-track form and these four (Dense, La Corne Du Bois Des Pendus, Combat, La Musique d’Erich Zann) were able to receive the deluxe 'Steve Wilson but by an even better...

“This is the first vinyl reissue of this legendary EP. "Toujours Plus à l'Est," as the title suggests, is heavily influenced by the traditional music of Eastern Europe, particularly Bulgaria. It also pays tribute to the iconic catchphrase of Professor Calculus (Tournesol), the character from the Belgian comic series Tintin. "Before The Heat," played live a few times, is an ambient composition by Andy Kirk, who is part of the EP's lineup alongside Daniel Denis, Guy Segers, Alan Ward, and Dirk Descheemaeker..

"Univers Zero's new album follows the lineage of Phosphorescent Dreams, the group’s last album. Lueur is the fruit of two years' work and reflection, the foundations of which were laid by Daniel Denis (keyboards, drums, percussion), then enriched by the contributions of Nicolas Dechêne (guitars), Kurt Budé (clarinet / bass clarinet) and Nicolas Denis (bass, percussion, vocals), all three present on Phosphorescent Dreams. With this reduced line-up, Lueur offers a dense journey, rooted in the balance...

Remixed in 2024 at ICP studios to ‘bring out the rock’.
“Uzed is the fourth album by Belgian band Univers Zero. It was released three years after Ceux du Dehors, due to a change in line-up and a new repertoire, although the EP Crawling Wind had been released in the meantime. The album marked a turning point for the band. Univers Zero explored new electric colors, giving it a more rock feel with the addition of new musicians such as Jean-Luc Plouvier, who introduced the synthesizer, guitarist...

John Dikeman saxophones / Jon Rune Str�m double bass / Tollef �stvang drums / Joe McPhee pocket trumpet, alto saxophone.

This vinyl version has an entire side of otherwise unreleased material!
"John Dikeman, Jon Rune Str�m and Tollef �stvang choose as the name of their trio the title of an Albert Ayler�s composition, �Universal Indians�, because of its double symbolism. The purpose was to inspire their playing in the free jazz patrimony of the likes of John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Cecil...

"Two years only after “Il paese del tramonto”, Unreal City return with a new work, “Frammenti notturni”. If the two previous albums (the debut album “La crudeltà di aprile” was released in 2013) contributed to spread the band’s name all around the international progressive scene, thanks to concerts played in Europe and overseas at the Canadian Terra Incognita festival, this third chapter is destined to consolidate their status as one of the of the most important names in the Italian prog-rock panorama...

Bill Frisell is undoubtedly one of the most influential musicians in today's jazz scene. His compositions are, however, little explored: either because of the lack of the necessary critical distance, either because their simple hidden look hides folds that are difficult to penetrate.
From a musical point of view, Unscientific Italians is not so much a tribute or an orchestral reworking of Frisell's repertoire, but rather a rewriting and idiosyncratic orchestration that borrows the compositional and...

This is a beautiful, numbered, limited edition of 899 copies of this classic, which is part of the Prog Rock Italia series - mastered from the original tapes on 180 gram vinyl in a beautiful gatefold sleeve.

A great, very rare & sorta underdiscovered, 1973 classical rock quartet's only album (vocals, Hammond Organ/piano/synths, bass/guitar & drums). From the opening 15 seconds, you'll know that this one delivers the goods & comes close to "out Tarkus-ing" ELP themselves...

Beautiful, exact replica of the great-looking, gatefold original of this album.

This was a one and done, great, very rare & sorta underdiscovered, 1973 classical rock quartet's only album (vocals, Hammond Organ/piano/synths, bass/guitar & drums). From the opening 15 seconds, you'll know that this one delivers the goods & comes close to "out Tarkus-ing" ELP themselves.

Everyone plays really well, the singer has a slight Greg Lake sound to his voice, & those classic analog sounds are a...

Physical copies of the hard to find third release by this bafflingly brilliant outfit.

"Sometimes albums are the collective energy of the people involved and how they interact with their surroundings. This would be that. On our third album, we were down to the original 3 members and it was back to basics.
By this time we had figured out that the only way we could excel as a 3 piece of 2 guitars & drums was to play tightly knit short songs that had little room to breath for all involved. I...

Finally reissued for the first time in over 2 decades, is the classic, fantastic third release by this quintessential French avant / art / performance band and spectacle. One of France's greatest contributions to avant-progressive music during the 70s-80s! While the sleeve isn't as great as the preceding two, this is the first one where the band's sound began to sound like what they still sound like to this day, with much greater instrumentation beyond just the massed saxes. I love all of this band's...

$10.00 off the regular price, while they last!

Finally reissued for the first time in over 2 decades (and issued for the very first time on vinyl), is the classic, fantastic fourth release by this quintessential French avant / art / performance band and spectacle. One of France's greatest contributions to avant-progressive music during the 70s-80s!
I love all of this band's output, but for me, this one, their fifth, is probably my single favorite of their works! Totally big, insane...

$10.00 off the regular price, while they last!

Finally reissued for the first time in over 2 decades (and for the very first time on vinyl), is the classic, fantastic first release by this quintessential French avant / art / performance band and spectacle. One of France's greatest contributions to avant-progressive music during the 70s-80s! And the sleeve is magnificent. Hugely recommended!

"Urban Sax's debut LP was issued in 1977 on Cézanne / Cobra. It is the soundtrack of Urban...

Finally reissued for the first time in over 2 decades (and for the very first time on vinyl), is the classic, fantastic second release by this quintessential French avant / art / performance band and spectacle. One of France's greatest contributions to avant-progressive music during the 70s-80s! And the sleeve is magnificent. Hugely recommended!

"Urban Sax's music is constructed over the concept of "'continuous sound'", around which build and develop poly-rhythmic loops, modulated and nested in...

Well, they certainly are wearing their influences on their sleeve and also on their album cover.
Having said all that, this is a pretty good Hammond organ led progressive rock release that doesn’t actually mimic ELP or Tarkus.
This is a numbered, limited edition of 500 copies of a record originally self released in 2006 and includes a CD of the entire album + bonus extras. There is no CD-only version.

“A Barcelona-based Catalan group with a really weird name, founded in late 2004 by...

Jean-Paul Estiévenart - trumpet
Ben Van Gelder - alto sax
Bert Cools - guitar & electronics
Jozef Dumoulin - Fender Rhodes & electronics
Bram De Looze - piano
Reinier Baas - guitar
Antoine Pierre - drums
Félix Zurstrassen - electric bass
Frédéric Malempré - percussion

This is written in inspiration by and using the instrumentation and style of “Bitches Brew” and man, often it really does run that voodoo DOWN!

“Suspended is Urbex's third...

Bernard Weber (bass, guitar, sitar)
Anne Gouraud (double bass, vocals)
Xavier Baulleret (guitar)
F. Robert Lloyd (guitar)
Jac Berrocal (trumpet, vocals)
Emiko Ota (percussion, harmonium)
Ménaka de Mahodaya (tambura, dancer)
Frédéric Acquaviva (clarinet, saxophone)

“Another evolution of Urban Sax concept, composed and directed by the visionary composer Gilbert Artman, conceived as a double quintet of talented multi-instrumentalists (featuring Jac Berrocal, Bernard

Another great band I discovered thanks to getting to see them play, at a show where I just went 'because', not knowing anything about them and where they completely surprised me and utterly slayed!
Us, Today are a young trio from Cincinnati, OH, who play a sort of modern progressive rock with a lot of modern / hipster touches.
The unique lineup is
Kristin Agee-vibes + synths
Joel Griggs-guitar + synths
Jeff Mellott-drums
The sound is interesting, fun, rockin' and unique....

“Call it synchronicity, call it happenstance, call it no more than three friends getting together to give their speakers a workout. Yet The Utopia Strong’s formidable conflagration of psychedelic radiance and beatific harmony has evolved way beyond all or any expectations since the band’s inception.. ‘International Treasure’ chronicles the collaborative collision of Steve Davis, Kavus Torabi and Mike York heading into unchartered psychic territory, seemingly with nothing but their instincts as...

“The combined forces of Steve Davis, Kavus Torabi (Gong/ Cardiacs/ Knifeworld/ Guapo) and Michael J. York (Coil/Teleplasmiste/Guapo) have arrived at no less than a modular driven kosmische colossus of transcendent power enough to drive all talk of green baize firmly into the blue yonder.
With Davis’ modular geometry and ambient structures weaving with Torabi’s keen and skewed sense of melody and York’s various gifts for pipes, drones and fevered abstract – the result is a beguiling tapestry as likely..

“In 1975, Jannick Top left Magma (before returning in 1976 for the VanderTop period and the album Üdü Wüdü), and had just composed De Futura, a piece performed live for the first time at the Nancy Jazz Festival on 17 October, with a collective of 18 musicians, including Christian Vander, under the name UTOPIC SPORADIC ORCHESTRA.
The version of ‘De Futura’ released here, for the first time on vinyl, is the rehearsal from 16 October 1975.
The record also includes the two studio tracks released...

"UUUU is a new outfit featuring Edvard Graham Lewis, Thighpaulsandra, Matthew Simms, and Valentina Magaletti. Individually these humans have implanted feathers in caps such as Coil, Dome, Wire, Tomaga, etc. Collectively they form UUUU, a powerhouse construction of fierce and free sonic exploration, as liberating as it is frightening, resulting in a richly rewarding sound. The artists united present a project of exquisite curiosity and confident chaos where the individual thumbprints mesh into a...

"UUUU is a new outfit featuring Edvard Graham Lewis, Thighpaulsandra, Matthew Simms, and Valentina Magaletti. Individually these humans have implanted feathers in caps such as Coil, Dome, Wire, Tomaga, etc. Collectively they form UUUU, a powerhouse construction of fierce and free sonic exploration, as liberating as it is frightening, resulting in a richly rewarding sound. The artists united present a project of exquisite curiosity and confident chaos where the individual thumbprints mesh into a...