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"Playing together since 1996, Bull and Heïkalo’s new offering is a work of ripe and mature improvisation, often percussive, simultaneously introspective, questioning and scorching, without compromise and artifice. Concentrés et amalgames features six...

Duo acoustic/electric guitar non-idiomatic free improvisations with some nice preparations that give a different, percussive sound to the free-flow of ideas. [Ambiances Magnetiques]

Fun, extremely obscure psych/early prog British rarity, originally released on Nova.

"Amazing 1969 UK mod/psych/freakbeat rarity featuring soon to be members of T2 and The Flies. This is the first time it has been reissued officially on CD...

Hiram Bullock – guitar, vocals
Christopher Deli – vibraphone
Stefan Rademacher – bass
Billy Cobham – drums
+ WDR Big Band Köln

“WDR BIG BAND and Hendrix - what's that all about? Well, one may consider it simply outrageous to breathe the spirit of Hendrix into an orchestral ensemble. However, the world-renowned WDR BIG BAND takes on a subdued tone and gives just the right kind of tone to Hendrix classics like `Foxy Lady`, `Voodoo Child`, `Manic Depression`, and many other titles.

"This project was created from a series of improvisations, compositional sketches, and field recordings. With the help of Pro Tools, it has evolved into this present form. Nils Bultmann is a violist, improviser, and composer currently based in the...

"Bump's 2 (the unreleased second album) was recoded in 1971, just a year later after the debut album, also on Pioneer Records and also produced by Gary A. Rubin. Paul Lupien (organ), George Runyan (bass, vocals), Alan Goldman (guitar) and Jerome Charles..

Fun and good psychedelic singles from Turkey, this basically lives up to the hype. "First-ever CD reissue of some of the most amazing Turkish music ever recorded: wild, raw and with fuzz guitar all over. Bunalim ("depression" or "frustration")...

"Bureau B present a reissue of Michael Bundt's Electri City, originally released in 1980. Having played his way through the 1970s in various rock combos (Medusa, Nine Days' Wonder), Michael Bundt embarked on a solo career in the latter part of the decade, releasing three albums which saw him explore the vast potential of electronic music. Delightfully varied and typical of his willingness to experiment, his music orbits around krautrock, Berlin School electronica, space-futurism and synth pop...

Roman Bunka is well known for his work with Embryo and Aera and this was the first project under his own name.

‘”Dein Kopf Ist Ein Schlafendes Auto" (English: Your Head is a Sleeping Car) was one of the most interesting German formations of the exciting late 1970s. The album, which bears the title of the band's name, was recorded in 1980 and was released on record the same year. The band presented a unique mix of avant-garde rock, soul, jazz and oriental music. Hardly any other band offered...


"Long overdue reissue and first-time available on CD as a domestic pressing, Vashti Bunyan's lone 1970 solo release features contributions from British folk royalty, including members of Fairport Convention and preeminent producer Joe Boyd...

Not only was this 'one and done' Italian band's only recording, recorded in 1972 quite good, but it gained the additional allure/intrigue of not being released until it came out in the early 90s for the very first time!

"Finally available again..

“Berlin-based British composer, percussionist, and instrument maker Bex Burch was invited to spend a month in the US by International Anthem in Summer 2022. Burch immersed herself in the label’s creative community and listened to what it gave her, making field recordings and allowing There Is Only Love and Fear to emerge from the collaborations and environments she encountered.
Sessions for the album spanned multiple non-traditional recording spaces including a storefront in Bridgeport, Chicago and...

Fourteen exotic musical miniatures crafted by the brilliant accordionist from Tin Hat Trio, one of San Franciscos most acclaimed and popular bands. Accompanied by bassist Greg Cohen (Masada, Tom Waits, Lou Reed), drummer Kenny Wollesen (Bill Frisell, S...

Excellent album by 1/3rd of the original Tin Hat Trio which features great musicians and great compositions.

Robert Burger has worked with Laurie Anderson, Rufus Wainwright, Lucinda Williams, Iron & Wine, and was a founding member of chamber...

“Composer and multi-instrumentalist Rob Burger has traveled down many paths during his lengthy, productive career, from being a driving force behind the chamber jazz-folk group Tin Hat Trio to performing on albums by Iron & Wine, Tracy Chapman, Norah Jones, John Zorn, and countless others. As a solo artist, he's released an album as part of Tzadik Records' Radical Jewish Culture series, and another for the same label comprising a selection of his music for film scores.
The Grid (released by Western...

“While most of the rockabilly cats who recorded for Sun Records in its heyday seemed to believe in the idea that less is more, fronting bands that rarely had more than four pieces, Sonny Burgess had different ideas -- his group the Pacers was a full-bodied affair, featuring two guitars, bass, drum, piano and a trumpet, giving his best recordings a broad and full-bodied sound that sets his work apart from his peers.
Burgess also was willing to sway back and forth between his country and R&B....

Greg Burk (piano), Luther Gray (drums), Jonathan Robinson (bass).

"This is Burk's third release on the label in as many years and the one he calls "the most complete expression of my ideas with regards to composition and group conception to...

Greg Burk (piano, small percussion), Henry Cook (saxophones, flutes, washint), Michel Lambert (drums, percussion), Ron Seguin (bass, percussion).

"Zealously recommended.." — Glen Astarita, Jazz Review

"Greg Burk (not this writer but an..

Greg Burk (piano), Steve Swallow (electric bass), Bob Moses (drums).

"Featuring the renowned rhythm section team of electric bassist Steve Swallow and drummer/percussionist Bob Moses. The Rome-based pianist/composer's 482 Music debut...

Greg Burk (piano), Gerald Cleaver (drums), Jonathan Robinson (bass)

"On his 5th release for 482 Music, the Rome-based pianist travels forward into his past, reuniting with old friends Gerald Cleaver and Jonathan Robinson, and revisiting several..

Greg Burk (piano).

"Burk's fourth release in as many years further documents his trademark synergy of freedom and structure. The all-original program features reinterpretations of previously composed works, organically developed free improvisation

Promo copy. Greg Burk (piano).

"Burk's fourth release in as many years further documents his trademark synergy of freedom and structure. The all-original program features reinterpretations of previously composed works, organically developed...

Dec Burke - guitars, vocals
Scott Higham (Pendragon) - drums
Kristoffer Gildenlöw (Pain Of Salvation) - bass
Robin Z. (Dilemma) - piano
Guilherme Aguilar - bass, cello
Reinier Siemons (Dilemma) - bass
Robin Armstrong (Cosmograf) - keyboards, bass, backing vocals, mixing, mastering

“Life In Two Dimensions is an album of our times, written against the backdrop of the UK lockdown throughout 2020. It covers themes of loss, hope, excitement, and the modern world of endless

"Paspanga is the debut album from Burkina Electric, a group of musicians from Africa and Europe led by composer Lukas Ligeti, son of famed Hungarian composer. Their music draws from the tradition and rhythms of Burkina Faso while incorporating...

"BURMESE: UNCOMPROMISING. UNFRIENDLY. UNCOMMERCIAL.” - David Nesor, Film Director.

“COLONY COLLAPSE DISORDER was originally released in 2008 as a very hard-to-find 10” picture disc by Rock Is Hell Records, Austria. Few people were lucky enough...

Burn is a superb pianist, both as an interpreter of contemporary music & as an improviser. This is improvised music for piano & prepared & extended piano, & his unique attack upon the instrument's normal sound really makes this something to hear. [Victo]

Aaron Burnett-saxophone

“Aaron Burnett is “a standout new voice on the saxophone. In a very short time, the young musician has already lent his personal and unhindered approach to a breadth of bandleaders including Esperanza Spalding, Wynton Marsalis, Anti-Pop Consortium‘s HPRIZM, and Weasel Walter. He also toured with three time Grammy winner, Esperanza Spalding in her 2012 world tour with Radio Music Society.
Aaron has the also retained the true nature of jazz in his music and his playing..

Exciting and excitable music from the mid 50s, featuring Johnny’s incredible rawk yelping and some fine guitaring!

“A contemporary of Elvis Presley in the Memphis scene of the mid-'50s, Johnny Burnette played a similar brand of fiery, spare wildman rockabilly.
With his brother Dorsey (on bass) and guitarist Paul Burlison forming his Rock 'n' Roll Trio, he recorded a clutch of singles for Decca in 1956 and 1957 that achieved nothing more than regional success.
Featuring the...

BRI were one of the most important early Danish progressive bands. This was their third release, from 1971. You can hear heavy rock, jazz, proto-progressive & psychedelia all combined here in an interesting, early way. The leader, keyboardist and...

Daniel Rosenboom - Trumpet
Jake Vossler - Guitars
Richard Giddens - Bass
Aaron McLendon - Drums

"...unruly...raging...visceral...raw...pure...expressive...a multi-faceted epic... Is Burning Ghosts the ‘Rage Against The Machine’ of jazz?"—S. Victor Aaron

“BURNING GHOSTS explodes from the Los Angeles Underground with an expressionist metal-jazz opus that singes the fabric of a fraying American culture. An ambitious and scathing referendum, this eponymous debut comes at a..

"A politically motivated quartet at the forefront of the jazz-metal underground featuring four of the most acclaimed musicians in the LA experimental music scene. Playing scorching instrumentals that touch on heavy metal and jazz, the music is uncompromising and intense, filled with precise rhythmic complexity and textural power. Their first release on Tzadik is an incendiary blockbuster and is destined to become an instant classic!"
Richard Giddens: Double Bass
Aaron McLendon: Drums...

“Anthony Burr and Charles Curtis present a collection of curated compositions from Alvin Lucier and Morton Feldman. Two Lucier pieces, "August Moon" and "Trio For Clarinet, Cello & Tuba" are presented here for the first time.
Liner notes are excerpted from a lecture on Morton Feldman given by Alvin Lucier.
A selection from Alvin Lucier's liner notes: "For Feldman, dynamics serve an acoustical function. When he mitigates a piano attack he reduces that spike of noise that's at the onset of every..

The under-known pianist Burrell with very recognized saxist Murray. [Victo]

George Burt (guitar), Aileen Campbell (voice, popcorn machine, hairdryer), Lol Coxhill (soprano saxophone), George Lyle (double bass), Nicola MacDonald (voice, melodica), Raymond MacDonald (alto/soprano saxophone), Allan Pendreigh (drums), Christoph...

George Burt-guitar, Raymond MacDonald-alto/soprano saxes, George Lyle-double bass, Allan Pendreigh-drums with Nicola MacDonald-vocals/melodica and Lol Coxhill-soprano sax. "Here's another chapter in our adventures with Lol Coxhill. This was recorded in...

"Harmonic Colour Fields is a set of five computer pieces which explore static microtonal harmonic fields. This means that once a piece begins, harmonically, it's going to stay pretty much the same for it's entire duration. The pieces are descended from...

"There are any number of ways to hear Warren Burt's music for tuning forks; as many ways as there are listeners, probably. The most immediate one is simply to revel in its beauty and enjoy the music as sound. Or, to be more accurate, as clouds of sound...

A live gig in Glascow by the quartet of George Burt-guitar, Raymond MacDonald-saxes, George Lyle-bass and Allan Pendreigh-drums, with special guest Lol Coxhill along for the show on soprano sax. Somewhere further out than just free jazz, but not as far...

“As well as being the great vibes innovator of the era, Gary Burton has been a most astute talent scout. In 1973, The New Quartet introduced Abraham Laboriel: this was the first recording of the bassist who would shortly become one of the most in-demand session players across all genres.
“It must be emphasised that Laboriel sounds like a major artist in the making with his astonishing bass work,” wrote Melody Maker.
Guitarist Mick Goodrick also emerged as a player to watch with this album...

"Bushman's Revenge have been called the missing link between Albert Ayler and Black Sabbath and a Marshall amp version of John Coltrane's Interstellar Space (1974). With Jazz, Fritt Etter Hukommelsen, their eighth album, they go all the way back to their humble beginnings and for the first time do what can loosely be dubbed a "proper" jazz album, hence the album title which translates to "Jazz, From Memory" in English. The goal, according to guitarist Even Hermansen, is still to explore the link between...

"This is the third album by Norway's Bushman's Revenge (Even Helte Hermansen, Gard Nilssen, Rune Nergaard). Like great records from Elephant9, Scorch Trio, Supersilent, In The Country, Spunk, Fire! and others, Jitterbug was recorded in the old...

This normally sells for $18.00, but we've got a special on a limited number of copies for $5.00 off the regular price. Once those copies are gone, there will be other, identical copies still available and this will still rock and kick butt, but they...

Power trio music that does somehow manage to combine stoner rock and punk/jazz, harmolodics, etc.

"This is the second full-length release by Norway's Bushman's Revenge (Even Helte Hermansen, Gard Nilssen, Rune Nergaard). You Lost Me At Hello...

John Butcher - saxophones
Florian Stoffner - guitar
Chris Corsano - drums & half clarinet

"These three artists don’t need volume or soloing to get their message across. Their message is inscribed in elegant lower-case and rarely used aural fonts. You will find yourself leaning forward because not a note or whisper should be missed ..." - Brian Morton

“Last Dream of the Morning is insistently acoustic, distinctions between free jazz and improvised music fall away here. Kinships and antecedents extend from AMM to Sun Ra and they’re being consistently synthesized and extend into new terrains.
Bassist John Edwards and drummer Mark Sanders have become the defining ‘rhythm’ pairing of English free jazz, working together for decades in groups with Evan Parker, Veryan Weston and many others. If this is a first meeting of a trio with Butcher, past...

John Butcher: tenor and soprano saxophones
Thomas Lehn: electronic
Matthew Shipp: piano

“Matthew Shipp, John Butcher and Thomas Lehn appropriate the different aspects of music and sound and together manage to transform / combine / corrupt the elements at their disposal while keeping their individual identities and personalities intact. Their languages have the ability to set music in motion, to accelerate or decelerate, showing how these two factors can balance or unbalance each other...

"We can’t say that these two musicians are traveling parallel ways. John Butcher’s experiments with feedback, amplification, microtonality and multitracking are pretty far from the studies in rhythm and texture developed by Paal Nilssen-Love. The British

"For nearly a quarter century Vancouver BC's Coastal Jazz and Blues Society has presented many important premiere collaborations featuring the greatest jazz improvisers from around the world. On June 24th, 2007 an enthusiastic audience at the Western...

I saw these guys last nite perform this and the CDs arrived this morning! How timely! The Butchershop Quartet are a 2 guitar, bass, drums quartet (who have great shirts made up with embroidered namepatches that say "drums" "bass" "guitar 1" "guitar 2")...