“Following the publication, in just five years, of three records that have consecrated Ellesmere among the leading names in modern symphonic prog, the band led by multi-instrumentalist Roberto Vitelli knocks again on the door of progressive rock fans with a live double album recorded in 2019.
At the time "Wyrd", Ellesmere's third studio album, had not yet been released, and in fact "Livesmere" almost entirely gives live versions of the group’s first two discs, "Les Châteaux de la Loire" and...

Roberto Vitelli / bass, guitars, bass pedals
Fabio Bonuglia / keyboards
Mattias Olsson / drums
with:
Tony Pagliuca / keyboards
Tomas Bodin / keyboards
Fabio Liberatori / keyboards
David Jackson / saxophone
David Cross / violin
John Hackett / flute
Luciano Regoli / vocals
Giorgio Pizzala / vocals

An extremely good symphonic rock / progressive album with an impressive number of guests helping out. These guys really hit it out of the ballpark with

"Hot on the heels of their critically revered 2014, Krautrock-meets-Afrobeat longplayer 'Regions', Ellis Island Sound's Pete Astor and David Sheppard return with a brand new, seven-track mini-album. This time, however, the emphasis is less on throbbing, Neu!-beat-propelled blow-outs and more on intricate, highly melodic arrangements for guitars, keyboards and tuned percussion."

Brian Ellis: Fender Rhodes piano, Hammond L-122 organ, Wurlitzer electric Piano, Minimoog, Moog Subphatty
David Hurley: congas and percussion
Michael Hams: drums and percussion
Patrick Shiroishi: alto and soprano saxophones (of Corima and Upsilon Acrux)
Paul Marrone: drums, percussion, guitar
Trevor Mast: bass

Solo endeavor by the guitarist / vocalist / keyboardist in Astra! This is definitely different than Astra, and, like it implies below, is more an electric jazz/rock alb

John Ellis was the guitarist in Peter Hammill's band for a number of years. This is an album of electronic/soundscape-type works, made to accompany an exhibition of painting by German artist Moishe Moser. Some of the paintings appear in the booklet. [S...

Liberty Ellman - guitar
Steve Lehman - alto saxophone
Jonathan Finlayson - trumpet
Jose Davila - tuba
Stephan Crump - bass
Damion Reid - drums

“Last Desert is guitarist Liberty Ellman's follow up to his critically-acclaimed Radiate (Pi 2015), which the Wall Street Journal described as "bristling with energy and innovation" and Downbeat praised as "unique, indelible and fully human."
Named #1 Rising Star Guitarist in the 2016 Downbeat Critics Poll, Ellman is perh

"Liberty Ellman, one of New York’s most imaginative and unorthodox guitarist/composers follows up 1998’s Orthodoxy, which he released on his own Red Giant Records, with Tactiles. The Tactiles quartet is formed of Mark Shim on tenor, Stephan Crump on...

“Chronicles I is the first part of a retrospective of Eloy's band history, but it is no ordinary "best of" album. All the tracks were re-recorded in 1993 and cover Eloy's creative phase from 1977 to 1982.
"Chronicles I" is a brilliant album through and through. With barely any vocals at all, both, Frank Borneman on guitar and Michael Gerlach on synthesizer create atmosphere through sheer electronic mastery on each and every track. The reworking of the songs is symphonic rock with bite. The clarity...

“Destination is the 14th studio album by ELOY, according to the music press the "German flagship of art and progressive rock", from 1992. Musically, "Destination" continues the direction taken on the previous album "Ra": melodic rock of a mostly heavier kind, sometimes with retro-prog influences, sometimes with a light pinch of metal (e.g. "Prisoner in Mind" and "Silent Revolution").”

"Destination" is an album on which we processed and mixed many different inspirations and stylistic elements...

Remastered edition with 1 bonus track of the 4th album by this popular German rock band who mix heavy and cosmic stylings on their classic releases, of which this is definitely one. This is a big, full blown concept album about time travel, with all the grandiousity one would expect from a 1975 release!

"2017 album from the German prog rockers. The Vision, The Sword and the Pyre is a rock opera about Joan of Arc. Composed, directed and produced by Frank Bornemann, the work is dedicated to the life and acts of the late Middle Age French heroine Joan of Arc, canonised in 1920, and combines unique musical complexity with absolute and unbiased historical precision. Eloy aside, Frank Bornemann is an acclaimed supervisor and producer of well-known bands of different musical stripes (including Scorpions, Guano...

Amir ElSaffar: trumpet
Ole Mathisen: tenor saxophone
John Escreet: piano
Francois Moutin: bass
Dan Weiss: drums

Trumpeter Amir ElSaffar’s Alchemy continues his investigations of tonal systems of other cultures within a jazz...

"Iraqi-American trumpeter Amir ElSaffar put his New York career on hold six years ago to immerse himself in the music of his father’s ancestral past, the Iraqi Maqam. Already an accomplished jazz and classical trumpeter, having performed with esteemed art

Emmett is the keyboardist with three unique and great UK bands: Chrome Hoof, Guapo & Knifeworld (of course! you KNEW this!).
This is his fourth solo release under his name.
Emmett Elvin – Electric & Acoustic 6 & 12-string Guitars, Keyboards, Bass, Percussion, Recorders
with:
Alex Thomas – Drums
Sarah Anderson – Violin, Viola
Anna Tam – Cello
Beverley Crome – French, Tenor & Baritone Horns
Daniel Friend – Trumpet, Flugelhorn
Chloe Herington – Bassoon...

Emmett Elvin is best known for playing keyboards with Chrome Hoof, Guapo and Knifeworld.

“Emmett’s third album sees a change in approach, playing most of the instruments himself – alongside the drumming powerhouse that is Alex Thomas (Chrome Hoof, Squarepusher, Badly Drawn Boy) – and also sees a greater focus on vocals than on either 'Bloody Marvels' or 'Assault On The Tyranny Of Reason'.
As Emmett says: ‘Having of late been sorely beleaguered by testy whimbrels I decided the hour was ripe...

“Emanation's One Soul, One Body, One Spirit is an obscure Spanish Black Drone project with a mixture of experimental black ambience and drone industrial dirges that is heavily inspired by the field of spiritism and séances along with other, more esoteric leanings, crafting a ghostly soundscape that gradually evolves into a kind of blackened hypnotic noise metal.
Even from the start, this puts off an unmetallic vibe. The title track creeps out across the first few minutes in a hazy cloud of murky...

Hey! It’s well over 50 years later, Christian Burchard’s daughter has taken the band’s reigns, and you know what? Embryo has STILL never released a bad album! Easily recommended to their fans.

“The late Christian Burchard, who founded the Embryo ensemble in 1969, loved the slogan “Auf Auf,” German for “Up, Up,” or “Keep On Going.” Anyone with anything more than a passing interest in the German Krautock scene of the 1970s and 1980s knows that Burchard followed that intent all around the world...

"Embryo - they are these crazy creative musicians playing really weird stuff."-Miles Davis.

"Embryo - real krautrock based in Germany, connected worldwide."-John Peel.

"Embryo is not so much a musical style, but an attitude. It's about the serious study of traditional music. And it's the wish to bring the world together via music."-Nick McCarthy, Franz Ferdinand (with Embryo from 1999-2002)

"100 years of dada and a half-century of Embryo - Two good reasons for Embryo to celebrate

Embryo are famous for their excursions into world music and collaborations with musicans from all over the globe, but this, their very first album, originally released on the Ohr label in 1970, is a stone classic Krautrock album. And this is the first time it has been issued on CD from the original stereo master tapes!! Highly recommended!!

This is a real favorite of mine and has been out of print on CD for many years, so it is a great pleasure to see it available again!
After recording several albums in the early 1970's, from late 1971 to late 1972 Embryo recorded two albums of jammy rock/jazz fusion, which their then current label refused to release because they thought that the band's 'rock' output had more commercial potential.
So the band sold the rights to Brain, who put them out and where they were rightly greeted as....

Christian Burchard (voc, vib), Roman Bunka (voc, g), Butze Fischer (dr), Michael Wehmeyer (key), Uve Müllrich (b). Nearly all never-before released live recordings!

"From 1975 until 1978, Embryo played at the Vlotho ”Umsonst und draußen” festival every year. Their concert from July 1977 on the sports ground, figuring as festival site, in front of about 26,000 people was recorded professionally by Ulrich Wilkening, operating the soundboard.
The recording has been preserved till this day....

A GREAT idea and pretty sympathetic to each other's style, although I think this generally sounds a little closer to Embryo than NNCK. Includes a 24 page booklet. "New York mavericks No-Neck Blues Band and Munich-based Krautrock band Embryo explore the...

"Sharing social circles and spiritual ideologies with artists such as Iasos, Connie Demby and Deuter, whilst splitting label release schedules with Laraaji, Laurie Spiegel and Wendy Carlos, the unique Florida-raised soul mate duo known as Emerald Web released their privately pressed debut LP at an axis where post-prog rock met proto-new age and ambient electronic music. At the turn of the 1980s, Bob Stohl and Kat Epple embarked on a ten-year spiritual journey playing at planetariums and laser shows above...