This is a document of two modestly well recorded shows by Cluster in a very early and later early prime: 1972 and 1977. Don't start here, but essential and quite worthwhile for fans.

The two authorized recordings presented on Konzerte 1972/1977 vividly conjure up the atmosphere, perhaps even the magic, of a Cluster performance back in the day. One took place in 1977 during a science fiction festival in Metz (France). The other dates back to an earlier show in Hamburg's Fabrik venue. Cluster...

In 1994, a few years before the resurgence of interest in all things Krautrock and kling-klang, this album was released in the USA on a tiny label. It marked the beginning of Moebius and Roedelius working together again after a number of years off...

Originally released in 1976 and their last as a duo before recording their two famous albums with Brian Eno, this has been relatively difficult to find for some time until now.

"The fourth full-length album by legendary German electronic music duo Cluster, originally released on Sky Records in 1976. Sowiesoso follows on from their most highly-acclaimed album, Zuckerzeit (1974). Michael Rother's influence was clearly audible on the latter, Cluster already having recorded two albums with him under..

Nice to have this classic spacey/ambient album generally available again. This was the first collaboration, recorded when Eno's star was at its zenith, between him and the great German electronic duo. I remember my first record store job, around 1978...

"Born in London, raised in the UK and currently composer-in-residence at the Chicago Symphony, Anna Clyne is a composer of acoustic and electro-acoustic music that blends ambient soundscapes with sonic gestures that morph and collide in ever changing...

"Big Band jazz with a Mediterranean flavour guided by the famous tuba and serpent player Michel Godard. So, as it is in the delivery of the best jazz, so many languages are happily living in the same place. There is a Mediterranean background in these grooves; the restlessness of the blues, bop citations, echoes of a marching band, and disguised tangos. Full orchestral moments that with great wisdom drains into a duo or trio; improvised and free form jazz moments, alternating with ballad and dixieland...

"Born in Wisconsin and a resident of Germany since 1969, Gloria Coates has been composing for over fifty years. Her work is complex, filled with canons, palindromes, polyrhythms, dissonances, glissandi and is distinguished by a wide expressive and...

Billy's excellent second solo album, recorded in 1974, while Billy was one of the gods of fusion just after the dissolution of the original Mahavishnu Orchestra Includes George Duke, the Brecker Brothers, Garnett Brown, John Abercrombie and others.
Jesus, Billy was just so amazing back then. Compositionally, this isn't up there with those three Mahavishnu albums, but it's still a good, fun, strong fusion treat.

This is from 1989. "The music here is honest and intense, a severe departure from the fluff being recorded for the GRP label. Rita Marcotulli is a remarkable pianist who not only contributes dazzling solos, but also adds tonal colors throughout. Peter ...

Billy's classic first solo album, recorded May 14th-16th 1973, while Billy was one of the gods of fusion while still in the Mahavishnu Orchestra.
For all but two songs, the personnel is: Billy Cobham-drums, Tommy Bolin-guitar, Jan Hammer-electric and acoustic piano, Moog and Lee Sklar-bass.
The other two songs remove Tommy and add Joe Farrell, Jimmy Owens, John Tropea, Ron Carter and Ray Barretto.
Jesus, Billy was just so amazing back then. Compositionally, this isn't up there with those..

Well, on "Off Color", Billy presented 3 Norwegian jazz musicians who are quite unknown and played with them. Here he presents a sextet of Danes performing jazz and he doesn't perform with them! He just 'presents' them. Is Billy such a big name he can...

“Vol. 2: Baca Sewa is the third album by composer and multi-instrumentalist Cochemea Gastelum. A direct sequel to 2019's All My Relations, it further explores his Sonoran Yaqui/Yoeme ancestry by melding indigenous and folk melodies, spiritual and soul-jazz with a ceremonial approach and near-psychedelic production. He enlisted seven percussionists who play an array of bongos, bass drums, congas, kalimbas, repinique, bombos, surdos, and shekere, as well as a vocal chorus accompanying his flute and...

"In 1985, when the whole world was seized by fear of AIDS, THEM premiered in New York. THEM was not literally about AIDS, but at the time it was impossible to see it separately from it. Created by director/choreographer Ishmael Houston-Jones, Dennis...

One of the better progrock albums from the 1980s - and one that has been unavailable for some time - is now available again in a greatly expanded form. This was their first album and their best. The leader is keyboardist Erik De Vroomen, who gives the...

"This LP, originally released on Lee Lambert in 1978, features Coe in a rounded selection of classics. First ever worldwide release! Features John Horler-piano, Ron Rubin-bass, Trevor Tompkins-drums & percussionist Frank Ricotti".

"The composer/saxophonist Gabriele Coen is a household name on the Italian jazz scene. He is the founder of the noted ensemble Klezroym and has recorded two masterful CDs of Jewish music for Italian labels. For his first Tzadik release he broadens both...

"In part two of his “Big Rain” trilogy, trumpeter Avishai Cohen presents an intensely intimate recording featuring an unusual Piano (Yonatan Avishai) Percussion (Daniel Freedman) and Trumpet trio. The music, described by Cohen as “an instrumental...

''The hero of last year's Self Indulgent Music collection is back by popular demand, accompanied by his quirky band of kooks and renegades: Museum of Dannys is a compendium of Cohen's best work from the '70s, '80s, and '90s, and features his now-legend...

“The Future is the ninth studio album by the Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, released in 1992. Almost an hour in length, it was Cohen's longest album up to that date. Both the fall of the Berlin Wall and the 1992 Los Angeles riots took place while Cohen was writing and recording the album, which expressed his sense of the world's turbulence.”

"This is the release of the complete soundtrack of cult French animated TV series Les Shadoks (1968-1974) by Robert Cohen-Solal, available for the first time ever in its entirety. It's the right in time to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Jacques Rouxel and René Borg's legendary television cartoon.
Electro-acoustic pioneer and eminent member of the illustrious GRM (Groupe de recherches musicales, the French equivalent of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop), Robert Cohen-Solal has explored music and...

Really nice, advanced sounding 'AACM African American heritage meets psychedelia' ensemble, who released a few very hard to find albums of which this is the second to be reissued that I am aware of. This was recorded live on Feburary 25, 1968...

"Late in 2011 Hans-Joachim Roedelius and I agreed to embark upon an album project together... I assembled my first Eurorack modular synth... a basic single voice system with rudimentary sequencing. I had no experience whatsoever working in this way...

''From traditional Sephardic melodies to Latin-influenced originals by way of Theonious Monk and Jelly Roll Morton, to an Irving Fields arrangement from the classic 50s Borscht Belt mambo/cha-cha album Bagels & Bongos, Anthony Coleman takes an innovati...