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"Acid Mothers Temple and Important Records have decided to release the complete Magical Power From Mars in its entirety with the addition of the fourth and final track 'Aladdin Kane.' Magical Power From Mars comes housed with completely new front and...

"Myth Of The Love Electrique is the second Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. album released by Riot Season, following the relatively laid back Minstrel In The Galaxy in 2004. Musically sitting somewhere between their 1997 self-titled...

This is released in an edition of 1,000 copies. "Limited edition 2006 US Tour CD featuring recordings from 2004. 'Dark Stars in the Dazzling Sky' (aka Dark Star Blues) was recorded at Spaceland on June 6, 2004 -- a great show. And the other track is...

"Recuring Dream And Apocalypse Of Darkness is by far the heaviest Acid Mothers Temple record yet. So heavy, in fact, that Kawabata Makoto jokingly said 'the album is really heavy, maybe a bit like Sunn O))). hahahaha.'...

"Son Of A Bitches Brew is a true electric jazz record from the Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO. Rooted in the sound of Miles Davis' electric era this record melds jazz, funk and psych with AMT's synth swoops, space whispers and cosmic...

"Son Of A Bitches Brew is a true electric jazz record from the Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO. Rooted in the sound of Miles Davis' electric era this record melds jazz, funk and psych with AMT's synth swoops, space whispers and cosmic...

"The renowned Japanese cosmic freak-out heavyweights return with a brand new studio album, marking ten years since their mothership first descended on the UK. Now a steady four piece led by Kawabata Makoto (guitar) and including Tsuyama Atsushi....

"Reissue of 1999 CD released on the bands own Acid Mothers Temple label which has been out of print for several years. Acid Mothers Temple fuse krautrock, psychedelia, now sound, folk, pop, noise, soft vocals, soaring melting wails, dissolving tablas...

"The long-anticipated collaboration between Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. & Stearica. In November 2008 AMT and Stearica toured extensively around Europe. Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. is a legendary Japanese...

"Anyone who has ever witnessed Acid Mothers Temple live has more than likely heard them perform 'Pink Lady Lemonade.' It's a staple of their live sets and has been released in various forms over the years on of now out of print releases. It is offered...

"New 2nd album by the japanese AMT trio, an outfit led by Magic Aum GiGi alias Jerome Genin, Fractal owner for the fake secret. The Soul of a Mountain Wolf is a concept album, short and definitely ROCK dominated by wild fuzz psychedelic guitar."

"The first AMT&TCI studio recordings since the addition of Pikachu, drummer and vocalist with Osaka grenade-girl duo Afrirampo. The popular AMT standard "Pink Lady Lemonade" showcases a 21st century acid rock update on the 60s San Francisco...

And is it possible for a title of a record to be longer than the name of this Japanese freak-out, psychedelic band? Apparently!

Charming Japanese hype-sheet follows. Basically, this is a recent live CD release available only from Japan in excellent sound (unlike their previous live albums) and featuring a unique personnel for this performance. "Live recording made in Japan from...

"Released by Bam Balam Records, a french label from Bordeaux, Cometary Orbital Drive is nothing but a long suite based on a six-notes sequence. Behind the out-dated cover, you will find a booklet which explains that the riff has some magical power...

"Acid Mothers Temple revisit some of their older sounds for this new album, their first on Nod and Smile Records. "Cometary Orbital Drive to 2199" contains 3 new versions of the AMT live staple "Cometary Orbital Drive" all of which maintain the same...

"Acid Mothers Temple SWR (Makoto Kawabata, Atsushi Tsuyama, and Tatsuya Yoshida) made this one-time improvisational album with Kazutoki Umezu, who is known for his own band ‘the Doctor Umezu Band’ and for the inspiring play in ‘the RC Succession’...

"Live recording from AMT Festival volume 6 on December 8, 2007. This is a double CD set with a 6 panel cardboard jacket. Limited to 1000 copies. Recorded on digital 16 track multi-recording system. Features: Yamamoto Seiichi: guitar, voice (Boredoms...

First time on CD for this instrumental symphonic rock album, from 1978 by a band who only released this one album during their lifetime. Multi-keyboards, violin/guitar, bass and drums. Very French sounding and reminiscent especially of Wappasou, with...

Acqua Fragile only made 2 albums before they broke up when their singer Bernardo Lanzetti joined P.F.M. They never had too much success during their lifetime, but their albums have a nice sorta P.F.M-styled charm. This is their first album, & most...

Acqua Fragile only made 2 albums before they broke up when their singer Bernardo Lanzetti joined P.F.M. They never had too much success during their lifetime, but their albums have a nice sorta P.F.M-styled charm. This is their first album, & most...

New, superior, remastered Esoteric edition of this classic Italian band's first album. Acqua Fragile only made 2 albums before they broke up when their singer Bernardo Lanzetti joined P.F.M. They never had too much success during their lifetime, but...

New, superior, remastered Esoteric edition of this classic Italian band's second album. The second of two albums by this Italian group who gave vocalist Bernardo Lanzetti (who joined PFM during their most famous period) to the world. This was released...

''After 15,000 copies sold of their first album, here is their new one - again a journey to songs & dances in their original Italian Gypsy style. Quivering & ironic, a mix of Rom/Sinti musical roots and Southern Italian traditional dances. A hot Gypsy ...

A gypsy ensemble (guitar, accordion, violin, clarinet/bass clarinet, vocals) performing music from the gypsy provinces of Italy. ''Drom means way in the language of Rom. The road of A.D. goes from the dances of Balkan region, the wedding songs, the tun...

From Sardinia, an original project dedicated to female polyphonic singing. Songs of love and sacred songs, lullabies and popular dances, funeral laments and serenedes. A polyphonic quintet of fascinating female voices joined by a great expounder of Sar...

Unfortunately I missed these guys when I went to Les Tritonales fest, but Ad Vitam is a mellow zeuhl band that features ex-Xaal guitarist Jad Ayache now playing piano and singing, as well as an additional male singer and two female singers (including...

"American jazz musician George Adams was a multi-instrumentalist - tenor saxophone, flute, bass clarinet - who is best known his work with jazz legends Charles Mingus, Gil Evan and Roy Haynes. This collection from Black Saint/Soul Note is a fitting...

This is an entrancing release scored for synthesizers & brass. The synths are given a uniquely earthy sound, & it reminded me of Roberto Cacciapaglia's great Sonanze release. Recommended.

"Four Thousand Holes is a sometimes lush, sometimes fragile, rhythmically complex and technically demanding work for piano and mallet percussion (performed by the extraordinary pianist Stephen Drury and percussionist Scott Deal) and ghostly electronic...

"Ecstatic, powerful music for piano(s) and percussion featuring noted new -music performers pianist Stephen Drury and percussionist Scott Deal. It combines architectural and multi-tempo/polyrhythmic processes with the composer's passion for lush...

"The Place We Began" contains four mysteriously evocative electro-acoustic works that the composer built from short recorded moments -- audio fragments -- of his early music (circa the early 1970s). This is not a trip down memory lane: In the place we...

Fine album of 3 modern works by 3 great composers. The version of Hamonielehre here is a favorite version of possibly my favorite piece by Adams! The pieces here are: Harmonielehre by John Adams, performed by City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sir...

Steve Adams, sopranino, alto, tenor and baritone saxophone, bass flute / Ken Filiano, bass / Scott Amendola, drums.

A very strong trio outing. Everyone plays very well, but I found Ken Filiano's bass playing here to be especially muscular and...

Jason Adasiewicz (vibraphone), Josh Berman (cornet), Jason Roebke (bass), Frank Rosaly (drums), Aram Shelton (alto saxophone).

The first album by this great, swinging, contemporary jazz group.

"Vibraphonist Jason Adasiewicz has been...

Led by vibraphonist and composer Jason Adasiewicz [a-dah-shev-its], Varmint is Rolldown's second release. A prolific member of Chicago's jazz and improvised music scene, Jason is quickly gaining widespread recognition through his extensive work as a...

Starting to play bass at the age of 18, Richard met and played with several progressive rock and Jazz rock musicians during many years in the Montreal (Canada) area. He participated to hundreads of studio recording sessions, had some articles written a...

A remarkable young composer out of the Lou Harrison mold and a virtuoso on the khaen mouth organ, Christopher Adler splits his time between California and Thailand where he collaborates with many of the country's greatest classical musicians. For his f...

"Betimes Black Cloudmasses is the highly-anticipated second album from Vincent De Roguin (Shora), Stephen O'Malley (SUNN0))), KTL), and Daniel O'Sullivan (Guapo). Like their genre and audience-confounding debut Deep In Ocean Sunk the Lamp of Light...

"Deep In Ocean Sunk The Lamp Of Light is the debut release from the trio of Stephen O'Malley (Sunn0))))), Daniel O'Sullivan (Guapo), and Vincent de Roguin (Shora). Taking its title from The Iliad, the music is deep, cosmic, and equally epic, completely...

Originally released in 1970 on Vertigo. The sole album by much appreciated English band featuring the vocal skills of Linda Hoyle. A mixture of blues rock and jazz, compared to Julie Driscoll and Trinity. Includes eight bonus tracks."...

Reggae and beyond producer Adrian Sherwood, a white Englishman, is one of the most interesting music producers to emerge in the 1980's and beyond. He has done a lot of work, some of it quite 'normal' reggae, but the A.H.C. is a long running band/project..

"2010 marks the 30th anniversary of Adrian Sherwood's mighty On-U Sound imprint, and the next 12 months will see the label's busiest schedule of new releases in more than half a decade. Leading from the front comes Vision Of A Psychedelic Africa, the...

Another exciting unit out of the infamous Osaka underground rock scene. Close friends with the Boredoms and Acid Mothers Temple, Afrirampo is a bizarre duo of two twenty year old girls who sing and play guitar and drums like no one else. Scantily clad ...

Available again for the first time in many years. This is a collection of the best of the 3 rare Japanese-only vinyl releases plus 30' of live material by this Japanese new music rock band, who predated the current huge interest in all things "Japan". ...

"Official reissue of rare 1972 Swiss underground heavy rock album featuring liner notes, photos and five bonus tracks! After Shave were a heavy trio formed in the late 60s and influenced by Cream, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin and the usual suspects. They...

Luís Lopes, electric guitar / Sei Miguel, (muted) pocket trumpet / Joe Giardullo, soprano and tenor saxophones / Benjamin Duboc, double bass / Harvey Sorgen drums.

"Considering the work done by each one of the musicians forming the band...

"An evolving local group with a cacophonous yet catchy approach..." – The New Yorker

“Afuche’s palpable onstage energy is key to the unique corner the band has carved for itself in the ever-saturated Brooklyn music scene.” - Jezebel....

"An evolving local group with a cacophonous yet catchy approach..." – The New Yorker

“Afuche’s palpable onstage energy is key to the unique corner the band has carved for itself in the ever-saturated Brooklyn music scene.” - Jezebel....

This is a Swedish concept album influenced by Frank Zappa (and probably a fair amount of dope!) assembled by Magnus Andersson (vocals, piano, mellotron, synths), Morgan Agren (drums), Mats Oberg (co-lead vocals), Peter Adolfsson & Mikke Ronnkvist (guit...