The Nudes are something of an avant supergroup, with Chris Cutler, Amy Denio, & Swiss guitarist Wadi Gysi. Energetic & fun punk/folk/jazz/art-rock songs; these will make fans of Chris' & Amy's work very happy.
"Your ticket to pop paradise. Maybe."...

Marek “Latarnik” Pędziwiatr - grand piano, Fender Rhodes & synths
Marcin “Cancer G” Rak - drums, percussion, beat machine
Paweł “Wuja HZG” Stachowiak - bass guitar, MOOG
Olaf “Książę Saxonii” Węgier - soprano, alto, tenor sax
Jakub Kurek - trumpet
Spisek Jednego - percussion, sound FX

Hip hop /funky jazz recastings of Sun Ra’s compositions, written by Sun Ra between 1957-1979 and re-created by EABS.
Its After The End Of The World – Don’t You KNOW That YET?

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“Jacob Long's third Earthen Sea outing for Kranky, Ghost Poems, further refines his fragile, fractured palette into fluttering arrythmias of dust, percussion, and yearning. Composed during the first wave of lockdowns in New York, the pieces took shape patiently from samples of piano, texture, and domestic sounds (sink splashing, room tone, clinking objects), filtered through live FX to imbue them with an intuitive, immaterial feel. Wisps of melody splinter, shimmer, and refract, like light on water...

Bill Bruford – drums, percussion
Iain Ballamy – saxophone
Django Bates – keyboards, horn, trumpet
Mick Hutton – double bass

“Having already spent twenty years on the cutting edge of modern rock percussion, Bill Bruford (ex-King Crimson, Yes, UK a.m.m.) formed Earthworks in 1986, as a deliberate return to his roots in jazz. Availing himself of the brightest young talent on the burgeoning U.K. jazz scene, namely keyboardist and tenor horn player Django Bates, and saxophonist Iain...

This is an English language release of the group's first album, Jatekok. It may have existed before this issue, but I certainly never saw it before this CD version which just arrived! This includes two bonus tracks, "Sirens" and "The Tones Of Truth"...

Matthew Shipp – piano
Allen Lowe - alto and tenor sax
Gerald Cleaver – drums
Kevin Ray – bass

Allen Lowe says: "To me, free improvisation is another form of narrative, just as linear in terms of the consciousness of moving from one place to another, as any kind of storytelling. Yes, anyone can do it, you might say (and this is an old argument in jazz circles) but not everyone can do it with purpose and form and like they really mean it. This group is the epitome of all that has...

A milestone in the birth of 'progressive/art' rock, East of Eden's debut album, 'Mercator Projected' has been cited by MOJO magazine as a ...masterpiece". Released on the legendary Deram label in 1969, the album established East of Eden as a major act,...

Max Eastley - arc (electro-acoustic monochord)
Fergus Kelly - invented instruments, found metals, electronics
Mark Wastell - tam tam, metal percussion, piano frame

Recorded in London, March 2017.

"The music presented here is enticing and exciting, staggering and interstellar. It's like somewhere in space, waves from the infinite, suspended in a vacuum, continuous and ephemeral. The three musicians manipulate the perception of time. The more the music slows, the more time passes..

"'The composer is therefore enjoined to accomplish the following: she must establish himself as a major instrumentalist, he must not wait upon a descending being, and she must become an interpreter, not only of her own music and career, but also the music of her contemporaries, and give a fresh new view of the known and unknown classics.' --Julius Eastman Just when you think you are grasping the breadth and quality of the music of Julius Eastman (1940?1990), a recording such as Julius Eastman....

"This three-disc set marks the first appearance on disc of the music of the African-American composer Julius Eastman (1940-1990), who died under unexplained circumstances and whose musical legacy was thought lost. This comprehensive and definitive document, which comprises almost all of Eastman's signature works, will undoubtedly be a revelation for those who have thus far been unable to hear his work.
In his book American Music in the Twentieth Century, composer/author Kyle Gann briefly sums up...

Silke Eberhard: Alto Saxophone, Bass Clarinet
Jan Roder: Bass
Kay Lübke: Drums

"Being the Up And Down", Silke Eberhard's new CD with her trio with Jan Roder on bass and Kay Lübke on drums was recorded both in the studio as well as at a live concert at the A-Trane in Berlin. This was the result of her winning the prestigious Berlin Jazz Prize, which affords the winner the honor of playing a concert and getting some recording days by Radio Berlin Brandenburg. Thus on this disc you hear a...

Robert F. Graettinger was one of the strangest, most adventurous and little known composers and arrangers of the mid 20th century.
He was visible as one of Stan Kenton's arrangers circa 1948-1953, when Kenton had to let him go because his music was so unpopular.
His complete recorded work for Stan Kenton (about an hour) was all reissued on a (now out of print) CD called "City Of Glass", which I would highly recommend.
Graettinger was a tall thin man, born in 1923 who was famous among the...

“‘Echo Rain’ is side project of UK progressive rock musician Lee Abraham, known for both his critically acclaimed solo album and as guitarist with UK prog veterans, Galahad.
Echo Rain focuses on shorter guitar instrumental rock songs. 'Western Skies' combines powerful rock riffs and soaring leads but with melodic chord structures and choruses.”

"Jason Eckardt began as a heavy metal guitarist and turned to contemporary music after hearing Webern. His music is highly complex andr etains the energy and intensity of his heavy metal roots. Challenging and highly virtuosic, his compositional...

Carla Diratz (Vocals)
Cathryn Robson (Vocals)
Roland Binet (Flute, Piccolo)
Martin Archer (Sax Sopranino & Alto)
Joe Higham (Sax Soprano & Tenor, Electronics)
Dave Newhouse (Sax Alto & Tenor, Bass Clarinet)
Jean-Pierre Soarez (Trumpet)
Ariane Plumerel (Violin)
Sigrid Vandenbogaerden (Cello)
Michel Delville (Guitar)
Eric Lemaître (Guitar)
Ángel Ontalva (Guitar)
Andy Kirk (Guitar, Keyboards)
Catherine Smet (Piano, Keyboa

Hawkwind + stoner + Black Sabbath + hoarse vocalizing = Ecstatic Vision!

“Philadelphia heavy psych quartet Ecstatic Vision (regarded as the second coming of vintage Hawkwind) return with For the Masses.
After bursting onto the scene with their 2015 tribal-psychedelic LP, Sonic Praise, touring the USA with Yob and Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats, crushing Roadburn, then quickly releasing a for-heads-only, noisy, psychedelic-garage record to weed out the weak (Raw Rock Fury, 2017), Ecstatic Vision..

Ya GOTTA like flutes!
Michel Edelin (flutes), Sylvaine Hélary (flutes), Ludivine Issambourg (flutes), Peter Giron (double Bass), John Betsch (drums), special guest Nicole Mitchell (flutes).

Nataniel Edelman piano
Michael Formanek bass
Michaël Attias alto saxophone

"Like Eva Figes’ enchanting 1983 novella, Light, the latest full-length release from extraordinary Argentinian pianist Nataniel Edelman harnesses 24 hours in the life of an artist and atomises it in a marvellously virtuosic breakdown of allusive tones and mottled moods.
Figes’ literary portrait of Claude Monet comes alive in her redolent descriptions of the great painter’s Giverny garden sanctum. Un Ruido de.

“On their second album, Edena Gardens manifests itself as a permanent fixture in the El Paraiso catalog. Edena Gardens could have flickered and disappeared in true El Paraiso fashion with a single session album, but the trio emerges with both a new studio album as well as a live album. It's part of the band's DNA: it contains multitudes. There's always a variation or open path, shifting with ease from heady cosmic stoner folk-vibes, to the scorched earth of 12-minute centerpiece, "Veil". "Halcyon Days"...

“Members of Papir and Causa Sui travel through new musical realms. Three musicians with their own compass: Martin Rude and Jakob Skøtt have shared a wide range of musical quests: from Causa Sui's "Bitches Brew of stoner rock" crossing the folk meditations of Sun River and arriving most recently as members of the pre-fusion electric dealings of the London Odense Ensemble.
Papir guitarist Nicklas Sørensen is not merely adding a new layer to an established duo, but his presence to the party have....

Zé Eduardo, double bass/Jesus Santandreu, tenor saxophone/Bruno Pedroso, drums.

"Telling that Zé Eduardo is one of the top jazz musicians in Portugal isn't enough to report the importance of this bassist, composer, arranger and band leader...

Jack Walrath, trumpet/Jesus Santandreu, saxes/Marc Miralta, drums/Zé Eduardo, bass.

"Back in the day, American jazz musicians toured Europe as “a single,” hooking up with local rhythm sections. In the years immediately following World War II...

The first, very rare album by this well known Austrian sextet (vocals, piano/organ, guitar, flute/sax, bass & drums) was almost totally unknown until this reissue; most people think that their 1976 release "One Nighter" is their first. But this 1971...

"Eela Craig from Linz are known for their symphonic art rock with lots of organ and Mellotron. An original copy of their first album from 1971 is today a collectors’ item that’s hardly affordable.
After releasing three more CDs and throwing out Hubert Bognermayr, they set up a sinfully expensive sound studio in a former farm, which also became their home. The recordings for ”Virgin oiland” were thus made unhurriedly in a relaxed environment during two months of intensive work. The Schlote concert...