Always at the forefront of the New Jewish Renaissance, the San Francisco based ensemble Davka here performs Daniel Hoffman's brilliant and dramatic score to the silent film masterpiece The Golem. Condensed and sequenced into a satisfying suite for this...

“Requiem for Jazz is a 12-movement suite composed and arranged by Angel Bat Dawid, inspired in part by Edward O. Bland’s 1959 film “The Cry of Jazz". The suite includes sounds of live performance at the 2019 Hyde Park Jazz Festival; Angel conducted a Black multigenerational fifteen-piece instrumental ensemble, alongside a four-person choir, with dancers. The final movement of Requiem for Jazz features Marshall Allen and Noel Scott of the Sun Ra Arkestra.”

I've been watching this unusual acoustic piano, double bass and drums 'jazz trio' for a few years now and they have finally come up with their first 'real' release with this one.

And a fine one it is if you are into the trance-jazz school of...

“The figure of a Cosmic Turtle occurs in various mythologies and eras, from the ancient Hindu Akupara to Terry Pratchett’s Great A’Tuin. Hurtleturtled Out of Heaven borrows its title from James Joyce, and envisions the turtle spirit as a cosmic Finnegan, whose fall is a journey from interstellar space to the seas, swamps, and woodlands of earth. It’s turtles all the way down.
Hurtleturtled Out of Heaven is divided into two parts, or “Regions,” separated by a short “Inturtlude.” Region One looks to...

Christoph Gallio soprano, alto & c-melody saxophones
Silvan Jeger double bass, voice & sequenzer
Gerry Hemingway drums & percussion

“In 2023 DAY & TAXI celebrates its 35th anniversary. Bassist Silvan Jeger celebrates his 10th DAY & TAXI anniversary and drummer Gerry Hemingway has now also been with the band for 5 years. Reason enough to release a live production after 18 years (LIVE IN SHENZHEN, SHANGHAI AND TAIPEI). LIVE IN BADEN was recorded on 29 November 2021 and is, so to speak...

"Déficit Des Années Antérieures are one of the most important French avantgarde groups ever. "Les Ambulants", their second album, came out in 1984 on the band's own Illusion Production label. It is considered a milestone in DDAA's career, establishing their trademark sound and developing further after "Action and Japanese Demonstration". For this re-issue, the original album has been complemented with bonus material so that playing time is now around an hour. The original artwork has been reproduced to...

"We are proud to present the new album by legendary French avantgarde group DDAA. Active since 1979, they have developed their unique sound that has produced classic albums like "Ronsard", "Action and Japanese Demonstration" or more recently the collaboration "Cinq Faux Nids Six Fauz Nez" with jazz band Palo Alto. One of the longest surviving groups from the classical avantgarde. If you like Jacques Berrocal, Ghedalia Tazartes or HNAS (with whom the band have released a split 7"), you will love DDAA....

A limited edition, 24 bit remastered, gold disc, digi-pack version at a stupendous price. This hard to find album is by Italian cantautore (which basically means a singer/songwriter with an acoustic guitar). Other than this release, I don't know much a...

Fulco Ottervanger, piano / Lieven Van Pée, double bass / Simon Segers, drums.
"After the acclaimed partnership with Portuguese trumpeter Susana Santos Silva, put to record in “The Detour Fish” (2014), the Belgian trio De Beren Gieren is back to explore new territory. The main focus is still on the piano-double bass-drums format, but now, as the band announces, «adding an electronic sediment to our acoustic trio sound to create a multilayered, kaleidoscopic work of art». The music keeps flowing...

The latest (2012) from this fine French pianist/composer who has released albums that are both 'jazz' and 'jazz/rock' finds him squarely in the 'jazz' category with this one. He's leading a quartet of sax + rhythm and his usual tuneful playfulness is...

Mini-lp sleeve reissue of this 1973 album, about which Scented Gardens of the Mind said, "If one masterpiece should be singled out as the jewel of Italian rock, my vote would go to De De Lind's one and only album..."

"This album is an excellent mix of heavy guitar/flute based rock and more acoustic folky parts. Their sound differs from the classic Italian bands (Banco, PFM, Quella Vecchia Locanda, etc.). There are no references or musical structures that remind of classical music. De de Lind...

Cor de Groot was a composer and pianist most active in the middle years of the 20th century.
His sound / style is not dissimilar from the piano music of Ravel, Satie and to a somewhat lesser degree, Bartok, all of whom, it should be remembered, were nearly contemporaries.
This is a collection many pieces by de Groot as well as a few associates who work in a similar way; totally wonderful, limpid, piano works. Recommended.

“The name of Cor de Groot (1914-1993) adorned the cover of...

"Composer Mario Diaz de León is a talented young composer who has studied with Maryanne Amacher and George Lewis. His work focuses on acoustic/electronic hybrids that often fuse the two elements into unified meta-instruments. Often structured as walls...

Rullio De Piscopo-drums, percussion
Sante Palumbo-piano, Fender Rhodes, Moog
Peter Guidi-soprano sax
Giorgio Baiocco-tenor sax
Sergio Farina-guitars
Tony De Piscopo-percussion
Gigi Bappellotto-electric bass

Extremely, extremely unknown 1975 jazz/rock album from a well known Italian jazz drummer who only really made this one electric album with ties to SWAY, another great one-off Italian jazz/rock release; IT SURE IS A GOOD ONE!

"Italian drummer from Napoli,

Gianluca de Rossi-Hammond C3, Mellotron M400, Mini-Moog, Fender Rhodes MKIII 73, Hohner Clavinet D6, Elka Rhapsody 610
Carlo Bordini-drums, percussion

“After years of coexistence and correspondence of loving senses, the artistic marriage between Carlo Bordini and Gianluca De Rossi is finally consummated, to the delight of all progressive rock fans. Two artists who certainly do not need introduction, given their past in bands like Rustichelli and Bordini, Goblin, Cherry Five and Taproban...

Paul Shaft - guitar, bass, synths, ethnic percussion, voice
Paul Hague - percussion, electronics
Martin Archer - saxophones, melodica, recorders, wood flute, electronics

“...who else in Britain never mind in Sheffield, is prepared to go on stage with nigh on a hundred instruments, very few of which are electric, and try to break through the insulation surrounding most rock gig goers minds…..”-Pink Flag fanzine 1979.

“The origins of de tian go back to 1978 when, as a result...

“The music in "America" is full of deep percussion, loaded with reverb in places, full of brain ticklers and drenched in audio sunshine... and then in other places it is quieter and almost delicate. The vocals are often presented more as harmonic washes of sound, occasionally almost subliminal, and all the time contributing to a high atmosphere. This is heady stuff that bears repeated listening.
I am not sure I would go so far as to call Deacon's work a modern form of Art Rock, but it contains some...

" Into The Labyrinth (1993) is Dead Can Dance’s sixth album, one of their most successful releases, its title a reference to the Greek legend of Theseus going into the Labyrinth to slay the Minotaur. It came when Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard had embarked on more individual personal paths, now writing their songs independent of one another, and on separate continents. Engineered and produced by Brendan at his Quivvy Church studio in Ireland, the album is an audiophile benchmark and also noted for being...

“Don’t be fooled by the name; Dead Neanderthals are neither dead nor Neanderthal. What they are is a tight, energy driven cohort of musicians who know how to lay down a good vibe. Worship the Sun, sees Rene Aquarius on drums and Otto Kokke on sax get together for a lesson in genial, improvisational mayhem.
There are just two tracks, the first over 15 minutes and the second just a tad over 17. ‘Worship,’ the first track, is a percussive delight, interspersed with some screaming, devilish sax from...

PROMO

Poking around in the back of the warehouse while trying to consolidate stuff, we found these Japanese versions of this title.
It is identical to the standard version, except it has one 5 minute bonus track which is unavailable elsewhere, from the..

This Cuneiform title is LONG out of print, but we found a few and can offer them to you at the regular price, while they last! Don't blink and miss it!

!This was the last of four albums we released under Elton's name. It has been out of print for many, many years, but we found a small cache in France and here they are. This is it. You won't find these anywhere else and neither will we after these are gone!

Moorsong shows British jazz sax legend Dean entirely at home with an...

Elton Dean – alto sax, saxello
Keith Tippett – piano
Chris Lawrence – bass
Louis Moholo-Moholo – drums

“Ogun Records are excited to announce the reissue of They All Be On This Old Road, on CD for the very first time, by the Elton Dean Quartet, featuring Elton Dean, Keith Tippett, Chris Laurence and Louis Moholo-Moholo. This expanded edition of the original LP includes 40 minutes of newly discovered extra material from the 1976 live recording and is released as a loving tribute to...

This album, released under all of the musician's names, but instigated and led by Elton Dean, features all of Mujician as well as the legendary American trombonist - possibly the foremost trombonist in free-jazz, Roswell Rudd. "Dunmall, Levin, Rogers a...