"Available for the first time in CD format. Victim Of The Sky offers a more introspective side of the artist who refuses to accept conformity on any level. New facets of the Copernicus persona are revealed, and a more soulful, organic side emerges...

The great improvising cellist Tom Cora (1953-1998) packed a LOT of music into his 44 years on this planet. He appears on a ton of some of the greatest 'jazz and more' albums of the 80s and into the 90s, but he will always be remembered by me for his wonderful work with Curlew, who I worked with for 5-7 years with Tom.
In addition to Curlew, he worked in a number of other projects, the best known being Skeleton Crew, The Chadbournes, Nimal and The Ex with Tom Cora.
I recently tried to count up how.

Jon Corbett-trumpet & trombone, Steve Done-electric & acoustic guitars. "...like a charge of static electricity which snaps and crackles with electric energy."-Chris Meloch/Scene. [Slam]

Chick Corea: piano

“Chick Corea’s first unaccompanied album initiated the solo piano idiom at ECM, and proved to be extremely influential. Alongside music created in the moment, some powerful melodies are explored here, not least that of “Sometime Ago”, soon to be a theme song for the Return To Forever band. “I found it quite easy to select what I felt was the single best disc [of 1971]. Chick Corea’s Piano Improvisations Volume One is a true masterpiece of music and a very important album” ...

The lightly Latin-flavored, slighly jazz/rock leaning 1972 classic that probably bankrolled ECM for the next 5 years. Chick Corea-electric piano, Joe Farrell-flutes, soprano saxophone, Flora Purim-vocal, percussion, Stan Clarke-basses, Airto Moreira...

"You get the impression that these guys were on tour for a long time: the ensemble work sounds telepathic. A rich and diverse journey, 'Live in Europe' starts out light with 'The Loop' and ends dark with a sublime 'Mirovisions'. Adventurous listening...

Chick Corea, piano
Stefano Bollani, piano

"Chick Corea and Stefano Bollani in their first recorded collaboration, a document of a most spirited gig in Orvieto’s Teatro Mancinelli last December. Effervescent virtuosity abounds as the two...

“Cormorano were a band formed in Emilia, Italy in 1975. Like many Italian bands of this period, they never recorded during their original lifetimes, although they were a very active live act.
This is a new album for this historic Italian prog band with three founding members (Raffaello Regoli on vocals, Antonio Dondi on drums and Gabriele Giovanardi on sax) sanctions a return in its own significant way. The ensemble is completed by Francesco Boni (son of another original member, Carlo Alberto Boni)...

"The sophomore effort from the extraordinary drummer Sebastiaan Cornelissen featuring an all-star lineup - guitarists Alex Machacek, Mike Otram, Susan Weinert, Richard Hallebeek; keyboardists Gary Husband, Scott Kinsey, and Steve Hunt; and bassists...

"American composer Philip Corner likes Satie too well not to object to how he is played. From the time of his participation in the first performance of Satie's "Vexations" he realized that here was, lurking under the travesties of the 1st Gymnopédie...

Daniel Corral - Electronics

"On the surface of the single, 32-minute track, everything seems perfectly transparent, maybe even grid-like. Insistent, hopped-up Plinko polyrhythms braid together in a dense patchwork of minimalist activity, while oceanic noise waxes and wanes. Or it’s pop electronica, but more desperate, more worldly, shamelessly reverbed. Minimalist motivic transitions speed the texture through harmonic and registral shifts, while rhythm remains constant. Corral knows exactly what...

“Beto Correa plays piano and accordion on Grupo Mente Clara and Trio Macaíba and Dias Melhores is his first solo CD, in which he explores the connection between jazz and Brazilian instrumental music, going into compositions that mix modern music, traditional Brazilian rhythms and several sides of jazz. His quintet is formed by himself, Neymar Dias - viola caipira (Brazilian acoustic guitar) and guitar, Sidiel Vieira – acoustic bass, Rodrigo Ursaia - sax and flute and Cleber Almeida – drums, including...

“Salt Task opens with the revolutionary title track, a 20-minute-piece that erupts with dense contrapuntal cogitations simultaneously driven by the trio. After the opening section, the musicians usually interact two by two, exploring different sonic possibilities and moods until reaching the final section, where the trio strikes again. Depending on the setting, one may float serenely over idyllic landscapes, march at the sound of a military trumpet, startle with ominous low-pitched piano vibes, revolve...

This album starts the wrong way. For the first minute there's turntable scratchin' and you'll wonder why this is here. But after he gets that out of the way, this is an very good to excellent Brazilian fusion/progressive album. Corsetti is a guitarist,...

Thomas Johansson trumpet / Kristoffer Alberts saxophones / Ola Høyer double bass / Gard Nilssen drums.

"Cortex? No, this isn’t jazz of the cerebral kind – even considering that the approach in “Avant-Garde Party Music” is very much the intelectual one coming from the bebop / hard bop era (when the music seated its users, inviting them to listen and not prioritarily to dance) and approaching our times through the free jazz evolutive line. Avant-garde the music certainly is, but you can still party..

Thomas Johansson, cornet / Kristoffer Alberts, tenor and baritone saxophones / Ola Høyer, double bass / Gard Nilssen, drums.

I saw this wonderful band open up for Bushman's Revenge and they were a great, great outfit. Anything by them comes....

“Alessandro Cortini's acclaimed Forse series is available for the first time on CD including an exclusive disc of Forse performed live.
Composed using only an original Buchla Music Easel, an incredibly rare electronic music instrument designed by Don Buchla, the Forse series features long, romantic compositions full of voluminous, bombastic tones and dripping with thick timbre.”

“Recorded in 1972, guitarist Larry Coryell's Offering has often been overlooked because it was the album that was released just before the debut of his legendary fusion band the Eleventh House. It's too bad, too, since Coryell's playing here is so inspired and free of the intellectual trappings of some of his later work. The band on Offering is a crack jazz-rock outfit made up of drummer Harry Wilkinson, bassist Melvyn Bronson, soprano saxophonist Steve Marcus, and electric pianist Mike Mandel (also a...

“The Real Great Escape is Larry's eighth album as a leader. This was released in 1973 on the Vanguard label. Steve Marcus is featured on saxophone, Mervin Bronson on bass, Mike Mandel on keyboards, and Harry Wilkinson on drums. It peaked at number 35 on the Jazz Albums chart. Larry Coryell was an American jazz guitarist known as the "Godfather of Fusion". He was one of the pioneers of jazz-fusion with his group The Eleventh House. He recorded numerous albums on the Vanguard label all through the 1970s.”

Fred Frith : guitar, bass, voice
Carla Kihlstedt : violin, voice
Zeena Parkins : keyboards, voice
Shahzad Ismaily : bass
Matthias Bossi : drums, voice

After a dozen years, Fred’s all-star rock band returns for a third release!

Cosa Brava is an experimental rock and free improvisation group formed in March 2008 in Oakland, California, by multi-instrumentalist and composer Fred Frith.
All About Jazz described their music as somewhere between folk, Celtic, modern cha

Founded in Genoa in 2007, CDZ released their very well regarded, self-titled first album in 2011 and return with this, their second release.

A sextet featuring two keyboards on piano, mellotron and all manner of analog synthesizers, electric...

PROMO

“Heavy psych experimentalists The Cosmic Dead's eighth album -- Scottish Space Race -- was recorded in their Glasgow HQ with cosmic sound guru Luigi Pasquini, four sprawling chunks of music recorded live amongst a run of momentous late-night festival appearances in the summer of 2018.
Scottish Space Race is the first Cosmic Dead release to feature the drumming of Tommy Duffin (Headless Kross) and the lap-steel synthesizer yowls of Russell Andrew Gray (Girl Sweat) alongside long-time cosmicians Omar..

Cosmic Ground is the latest solo project by keyboardist / synthesist Dirk Jan Müller, who I have known for many years, from his work with the duo Octopus’s Garden and then the psychedelic / krautrock band Electric Orange.
All of his releases as Cosmic Ground are Berlin-school solo works and all are very good.

Cosmic Ground is the latest solo project by keyboardist / synthesist Dirk Jan Müller, who I have known for many years, from his work with the duo Octopus’s Garden and then the psychedelic / krautrock band Electric Orange.
All of his releases as Cosmic Ground are Berlin-school solo works and all are very good.