Recorded live in 1966 with Gato Barbieri, Karl Berger, Aldo Romano, Bo Stief. I believe that this material has never been released before. Also included in this set is a new ESP DVD-audio sampler, featuring selections of almost every ESP artist. Over 12 hours of music!

"Don Cherry, more than any other artist in the jazz of his era, pioneered the music’s internationalist nature that has now come to be commonly accepted as an integral part of its character. The individuality of Cherry’s...

“An amazing document of the life experiment that was the Organic Music Society. This super quality audio, recorded by RAI (the Italian public broadcasting company) in 1976 for television, documents a quartet concert focused on vocals compositions and improvisations. Here, Don Cherry and his family-community's musical belief emerges in its simplicity, with the desire to merge the knowledge and stimuli gained during numerous travels across the World in a single sound experience. Don's pocket-trumpet is....

“In the late 1960s, the American trumpet player and free jazz pioneer Don Cherry (1936-1995) and the Swedish visual artist and designer Moki Cherry (1943-2009) began a collaboration that imagined an alternative space for creative music, most succinctly expressed in Moki's aphorism "the stage is home and home is a stage." By 1972, they had given name to a concept that united Don's music, Moki's art, and their family life in rural Tagårp, Sweden into one holistic entity: Organic Music Theatre. Captured...

“In 1968, Don Cherry had already established himself as one of the leading voices of the avant-garde. Having pioneered free jazz as a member of Ornette Coleman's classic quartet, and with a high-profile collaboration with John Coltrane under his belt, the globetrotting jazz trumpeter settled in Sweden with his partner Moki and her daughter Neneh. There, he assembled a group of Swedish musicians and led a series of weekly workshops at the ABF, or Workers' Educational Association, from February to April of...

Don Cherry: Trumpet
John Tchicai: Alto Saxophone, Voice
Irène Schweizer: Piano
Léon Francioli: Bass
Pierre Favre: Drums
"The music of this concert is adventurous, taking the liberty of breaking all the rules of style through playing without getting totally out of hand", writes Christian Rentsch in the liner notes. In short: This CD is a stroke of luck.
For decades, the live recording of the Musical Monsters from 30 August 1980 lay carefully packed away in the archives of the...

Piero Chianura : piano, keyboards,synths and structuring
Federico Zenoni : drums
Luca Formentini : landscape guitars
Stefano Castagna : monotron, e bass, and re-structuring

Dan Phillips – guitar
Hamid Drake – drums
Mars Williams - saxophones and percussion
Jeb Bishop – trombone
Krzysztof Pabian - double bass

"Dan Phillips leads a quintet with muscle and a big Chicago sound and memorable compositions."-The Wire.

"Chicago jazz is the complexity of the postmodern sound with a predisposition for rump shaking. The Quintet rarely lowers the flame from boiling."-All About Jazz.

"Fans of both traditional and more adventurous jazz will fi

Steve Swell trombone
Gebhard Ullmann tenor saxophone and bass clarinet
Fred Lonberg-Holm cello and electronics
Michael Zerang drums

"More than 10 years of partnership between American trombonist, composer Steve Swell and German tenor saxophonist, bass clarinetist and composer Gebhard Ullmann after their successful first collaboration, The Ullmann/Swell Quartet featuring bassist Hill Greene and drum legend Barry Altschul continues now with a new version of the quartet featuring...

"Few debut albums can boast as consistently solid an effort as the self-titled Chicago Transit Authority (1969). Even fewer can claim to have enough material to fill out a double-disc affair. Although this long- player was ultimately the septet's first national exposure, the group was far from the proverbial "overnight sensation." Under the guise of the Big Thing, the group soon to be known as CTA had been honing its eclectic blend of jazz, classical, and straight-ahead rock & roll in and around the...

Studying koto since the age of three, Mori Chieko is one of the worlds most versatile koto virtuosos. She has spent long periods in Italy, London and the United States, collaborated with Michael Galasso, and created music for dance, film and theater, i...

Chris Pitsiokos - alto saxophone
Susana Santos Silva - trumpet
Torbjörn Zetterberg - double bass

“Khimaira is a three headed monster. It has a lion head in front, a wild goat head on it’s back and a snake head at the end of it’s tail. It is the offspring of Echidna, the mother of all monsters. The group collaborates to produce eerie organic sounds, howling cries, whispered hums, disturbing wailing, shrieks that die off and reimerge with an intense fluidity. Yet there is an architecture

This is the 3rd album by the Bretagne, French band Children In Paradise. The sound is informed by the breathy vocals of their female vocalist and the dark, dramatic sounds & drones of the keyboards and guitars.
The lineup is
Gwalchmei-guitars
Dam Kat-vocals, guitar, keyboards
Stephane Roma-bass
Frederic Moreau-drums
with Loic Blejean-uilleann pipes & whistle

"Wonderfully dramatic, melodic Goth prog from Bretagne, France. The spooky yet sultry and ethereal vocals of

A CD that presents a number of intriguing compositions from a composer I wasn't aware of. Very lyrical, yet still ''new music'', with performances by Relache, Guy Klucevsek, The Soho Quartet, Kathleen Supove, & more! [Experimental Intermedia]

Chimpspanner (now that's a name) is a project by technical metal guitarist Paul Antonio Ortez. On record, he plays all the parts, which he does well, but since he plays live with a real band, it's a shame that they don't appear here - this is my...

“In 2017 (and again in 2019) Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer traveled to the Aland Islands (the worlds largest archipelago host to some 6,500 islands) in the Baltic Sea (between Sweden and Finland).
A serene and strange place where the sun doesn't set in the summer. This album is a slow motion storybook comprised of field recordings, improvisations, string arrangements, electronic treatments, and synthesizer melodies recorded during and after their time on the islands.”

Chrome Hill Duo:
Asbjørn Lerheim electric baritone guitar, electronics
Roger Arntzen double bass, electronics

Dōjō
Michiyo Yagi electric 21-string koto, electronics
Tamaya Honda drums

"A Norwegian jazz-rock quartet steeped in Americana that has spawned six albums and countless live performances, Chrome Hill has been an integral part of the lives of Asbjørn Lerheim and Roger Arntzen for over two decades. In 2014 Lerheim and Arntzen found an opportunity to visit Tokyo and...

“This is a split release by Dylan DiLella and CHORD. Two tracks of solo guitar by DiLella and three guitar duos by CHORD. Over 40 minutes of not-normal electric guitar music.

Dylan DiLella is a Brooklyn based guitarist primarily known for his work in Pyrrhon. This recording is the follow-up to his solo guitar debut Flayed Oration which was self-released in 2016.
DiLella's frantic yet atmospheric approach to solo guitar might bring to mind a variety disparate influences, such as Fripp...

“Christina, singer with the band Magenta, releases her 3rd solo album ‘Bar Stool Prophet’. The album features guest appearances by Steve Hackett, Steve Balsamo, Peter Jones and fellow Magenta players Chris Fry, Dan Nelson and Jiffy Griffiths.
The songs were written by Christina along with Robert Reed (Magenta, Sanctuary and Cyan), who also produced and mixed the album. The new album follows on from her two previous releases ‘Broken Lives and Bleeding Hearts’ and ‘The Light’.”

"Christmas was formed in 1969 in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, out of the ashes of the cult underground psychedelic band Reign Ghost. In July 1970, Christmas released an independent self-titled debut that brought some media attention to the band and a contract with the Daffodil Records label. In December 1970, less than six months after the release of the debut, Christmas released their debut Daffodil Records album entitled Heritage.
Christmas was comprised of vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Bob...

This is the third release by this group from Lyon, France, part of the very vibrant and exciting French scene that is currently churning out amazing bands and records.
Chromb! are a little less noisy than some of the other bands in this scene (Ni, Poil) and a little more melodically oriented/song oriented, while definitely not being wimpy in any way.
Great melodies, great playing from all four musicians and surprisingly good vocals from a band with a slant towards the zaniness that only the...

Antoine Mermet : saxophone, synthétiseur, delay, voix, composition
Camille Durieux : synthétiseurs, voix
Léo Dumont : batterie, voix
Lucas Hercberg : basse, voix, composition

“CHROMB! has been making CHROMB! for ten years, five albums and many concerts. And CHROMB! is music. The band is driven by four heads, propelled by an overflowing imagination, electrically powered and impervious to classification.
Sometimes its mother is jazz, since CHROMB! looks like her in photo

Until they imploded (which didn't take very long, actually), San Francisco's Chrome were a cool and punky blend of crazy sounds, noise, psychedelic guitar excess and raw energy, coming across like a mix of The Stooges and Hawkwind.

"The complete ALIEN SOUNDTRACKS saga now available on one mind-bending disc of experimental dystopian sci-fi rock from the spaciest San Francisco-based proto-industrial legends Chrome! Originally released in 1977, the landmark ALIEN SOUNDTRACKS has been widely...

Asbjørn Lerheim baritone guitar
Atle Nymo tenor saxophone
Torstein Lofthus drums
Roger Arntzen double bass

"That’s not news now: Scandinavian jazz is in love with Americana, importing aspects of Country & Western and Appalachian folk, and even using its instruments, in projects gradually difficult to categorise. Each project still individually unique, and like their fellow countrymen Huntsville, who mixes banjo and pedal steel guitar with Indian tabla machine and shruti boxes...

"Are Chrome Hoof the best live band in the UK...?" – headline from The Quietus

"...has the subtlety of Can, the pomp of Pentagram and Sabbath, faithfully reproducing the looping musical themes of Magma and Goblin..." – Don’t Panic

"...a dizzying, many-limbed whirlwind of space-funk, soul, prog, jazz & titanic doom." –NME

"...a mind-blowing energetic mix of math-rock, prog, funk, disco, & psychedelia [with] some hints of jazz & metal.” – The 405