"With groups like Sex Mob, Millennial Territory Orchestra and Diaspora Soul, Steven Bernstein is energizing the downtown scene with a passionate and indefatigable creativity. His brilliance continues with Diaspora Suite, the fourth installment in his...

"Jac Berrocal has not released an album for 20 years. The legendary French trumpeter is back with his special atmosphere and feeling and lots of guests, too. Jacques "Jac" Berrocal (born October 22, 1946, Saint-Jean d'Angély) is a French trumpeter...

“Jac Berrocal is a 1946-born musician, poet and film actor who came of age in the '70s Paris improv scene, where the boundaries between music, art and theatre were porous and begging to be breached. Inspired by bebop, chanson, free jazz, beat poetry, early rock 'n roll and myriad Eastern influences, and with an iconoclastic, anything-goes approach to instrumentation and technique that would later align him with post-punk sensibilities, Berrocal blazed an eccentric and unstoppable trail across the

Released in 1979 in a limited edition on his own d'Avantage label, Catalogue, with its overt theatricality is every bit as wild as the previous Paralleles. Not really jazz, not rock, having nothing to do with contemporary music either, Catalogue...

“This 3 disc anthology is excellent. A comprehensive chronological collection of Chuck Berry's hits, B sides and iconic recordings.
Berry is one of the most important musicians in the history of popular music. The hits are awesome, the recordings are rough and raw. You won't find a better collection of Chuck Berry's work.”

"The young guitarist Antoine Berthiaume, who released in 2002 an album of duets with Fred Frith and Derek Bailey titled Soshin, unveils his second effort for Ambiances Magntiques, Leaves and Snows, a project also featuring pianist Quentin...

“A gloriously mad, Kinks-influenced underground Edwardian progressive masterpiece. It’s as if Noel Coward, Hawkwind, The Incredible String Band, Neu, The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band and The Kinks were scrambled together in a disastrous Star Trek teleportation accident.
In 1970 the Berties took over a crumbling mansion in the wilds of Wales, made this LP, sent it to John Peel (whose letter of reply is reproduced on the sleeve), and never left. They remain in Wales to this day.
Bertie is a deranged...

This is a great set of music with a fascinating story. In brief, Harry Bertoia was a jeweler, sculptor and furniture designer (among other things) who, staring in the 50s, began to sculpt sculptures which produced sound, made of tall vertical rods.

In the late 70s, there were 11 privately released recordings made and released by Bertoia. Now for the first time anywhere, all 11 of them are reissued taken from their original master tapes.

This is a must for fans of experimental sounds....

“In 1970, Harry Bertoia had been developing his sonic sculptures for over ten years. He had only been composing/recording for two years and the four long pieces chosen for this CD find him starting to arrive at the sonic forms he had been searching for. Hints Of Things To Come is one of the most unique and melodic pieces discovered so far in the Bertoia tape archive. In this piece, you hear him slowly create and articulate a musical riff. Bertoia builds this phrase patiently until the composition reaches...

Quite, quite rare album of electronic and electro-acoustic music from this composer, written for theatrical performances and originally released in 1979.
The material here was recorded between 1972-1979 and there is a lot of interesting bonus material that was left off of the original album's release due concerns about sales in 'the market'.

"Besombes, the French musique concret composer and electro-acoustic musican, supported himself for a number of years in the ‘70s writing music for...

Fanny L’Héritier: Lyrics & music, vocals, pianet Hohner & analog keyboards
Guillaume Médioni: Guitars, bass, banjo, rythmic arrangements, recording, music production & mastering

Charming songs from two women who remind me of the artiest of electro-pop of the late 70s / early 80s but brought into today; this would have been completely at home on Rough Trade next to Young Marble Giants 40 years later...

“Passing through this extraordinary and tormented trip, you particularly come...

"A mainstay of the Radical Jewish series since their first release in 2000, Jaroslaw Bester is one of the most consistently creative and imaginative musicians in the New Jewish Renaissance. Here he approaches the classic compositions of Cracow-born...

First-ever reissue on CD from the master tapes of the second album by this improvisational/folk/world music, formed in 1970 by Peter Michael Hamel on keyboards, and also featuring guitar, oboe, guitar, percussion, electronics and bamboo flute. Definite...

Just what you want from “the E17 psych guru.” - MOJO

“Harking back to the liberating songcraft of The Beatles, but with a jagged edge.” - Classic Rock

“Still mixing pop, punk and psych to giddy effect.” - The Guardian

“Little Eden glows with vintage McCartney-esque couplets before rolling out a chiming signature riff on ‘As I Lay Down To Die’ and adopting Jimi-like phrasing on ‘And Away We Go’.
A psychedelically-hewn panoramic take on brutalism Britain punctuated with pure..

Aleksandar Gajic – violin
Bret Higgins – double bass
Milos Popovic – accordion
Eric Stein – mandolin
Martin van de Ven – clarinet
with
Bogdan Djukic – percussion
Max Senitt - percussion

“An eclectic Canadian roots/world fusion collective based out of Toronto, Beyond the Pale draw from a wide array of cultural influences and genres. Employing a spirited blend of klezmer, jazz, bluegrass, Balkan, Romanian, reggae, funk, and classical chamber music, the group was fou

"New music and groove does it work and does it exist? Musical crossover artist Ketan Bhatti thinks so. On 'Nodding Terms' he melds contemporary chamber music with current club music.
To this end, the composer, drummer and producer invited the German-Icelandic Ensemble Adapter into his studio and involved his studio neighbors Paul Frick and Jan Brauer from Brandt Brauer Frick in the production process. The musicians all studied classical instruments and know about pop, so acoustic traces become...

"Active since 1979, Maurizio Bianchi is an Italian pioneer of noise and industrial music. Untitled 1980 was originally released in 1980 on cassette in Japan. This release marks the first re-issue of this work and pairs it with a 2013 re-working of...

Bible Black are a Japanese progressive rock trio formed in 1984. They released one previous album in 2011 and now they have emerged with their second release.
Here they augment their power trio sound with the appearance on the album of KBB keyboardist Tomshimitsu Takahashi.
Comparable in a lot of ways to Bi Kyo Ran if Bi Kyo Ran were a little less Crimso fixated. Very good stuff.

Carlos Bica, double bass / Frank Möbus, electric guitar / Jim Black, drums and percussion.

"The fifth album by Carlos Bica’s Azul, the double bassist and composer’s trio with the colourful guitarist Frank Möbus and the drummer extraordinaire...

Carlos Bica double bass
Daniel Erdmann tenor saxophone
Dj Illvibe turntables

"Double bassist and composer Carlos Bica has carved out a jazz niche for himself with his inventive style of lyrical-indie-jazz. Among the several musical projects he leads, his trio AZUL has become his showcase as a bass player and composer. For more than twenty years Bica’s trio AZUL with Frank Möbus and Jim Black has fascinated its listeners. Living in Berlin, Portuguese Bica again and again creates a music...

Carlos Bica, double bass / Matthias Schriefl, trumpet, flugelhorn, melodica / João Paulo, piano, keyboards, accordion / Mário Delgado, electric guitar / João Lobo, drums, percussion.

"'Carlos Bica + Prima Matéria' confirms Bica as one of...

“Available as Limited 3CD+Blu-ray Digipak in Slipcase (the Blu-ray includes 5.1 Surround Sound & High Resolution Stereo Mixes).” In 2023, Big Big Train were rapturously received by audiences across the UK and Europe, concluding the tour with two triumphant appearances at London’s Cadogan Hall. ‘A Flare On The Lens’ features the band’s full show at Cadogan from the second of their two nights there last year and also includes seven songs which were played only on the first night.
As such, the...

"Sometimes you get to review an album where the words, and the praise, come easily – and this is one such album. I’ve been a BBT fan since “The Difference Machine” (TDM) drew me in around 2007/2008. To be honest, I bought the CD because musicians I liked from other bands guested on it, and I wasn’t disappointed. The members who made that album are mostly gone from the band, but such is the progression and evolution of a line up. Founder Greg Spawton remains and is also one of the main writers. TDM guest...

“With the band currently in the early stages of working on a new studio album for release in 2024, Ingenious Devices features new versions of a trilogy of revered Big Big Train epic tracks – East Coast Racer, Brooklands and Voyager – about how mankind has used its ingenuity to extend its reach by the development and deployment of technology.
The new versions of East Coast Racer, Brooklands and Voyager prominently feature an elite 17 piece string section recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London...