This was a vinyl only album by the very great Emeralds. Rich, drifting/shoegazer stoner-drone performed on two synthesizers and guitar by this trio. This is a limited edition of 1,000 copies with a 16 page full color booklet...

"A new live album offers up highlights from the 2010 world tour that Emerson, Lake and Palmer keyboardist Keith Emerson and singer/bassist Greg Lake mounted as a duo. Live from Manticore Hall features reworked renditions of several classic tunes by...

"On 3rd June 1971, the group performed an extraordinary show at Dusseldorf's Philipshalle, which was recorded for live radio and TV transmission. Concentrating largely on their debut (despite their sophomore album having already been released by this time) alongside a few choice rarities and some superb classical interpretations.
Available here on CD for the first time, this superb concert illustrates just how fully formed ELP were, even at this early stage in their illustrious career.”

Recorded on the tour for Brain Salad Surgery, this was originally released as a massive 3 lp set. Now it all fits on a 2 CD set. Stuff from all periods of their career. [Sanctuary]

Conductor: Izidor Leitinger / Trumpets: Benny Brown, Matthias Schriefl, Igor Matkovic_, Alexander Hartman and Susana Santos Silva / Saxophones: Uwe Steinmetz, Jaka Kopac, Philipp Gropper, Jure Pukl and Elmano Coelho Trombones: Lars Arens...

ANDY EMLER compositions, piano, direction
LAURENT BLONDIAU trompette
PHILIPPE SELLAM saxophone alto
GUILLAUME ORTI saxophone alto
LAURENT DEHORS saxophone tenor, clarinette basse
FRANÇOIS THUILLIER tuba
FRANÇOIS VERLY percussion, marimba, tablas
ERIC ECHAMPARD batterie
CLAUDE TCHAMITCHIAN contrebasse
NGUYÊN LÊ guitare

“No Rush is the ninth studio recording of the MegaOctet, this small big band of nine musicians in the form of an excep

This was the band's third and final release and was released only on cassette in an edition of 79 copies, amazingly enough. This is live recordings from 1980/81 and includes a long interview with band member Michel Meyer. Another great, thorough G.O.D....

“Danish saxophonist Signe Emmeluth, who now lives in Oslo after studying in Trondheim, Norway, has made a strong impact on the European free music scene in the last couple of years, not only due to her ferocious sound, but also through a stylistic openness...
This solo outing — a single piece recorded live for Ingebrit Håker Flaten’s Sonic Transmissions Festival — contains its fair share of fire-breathing, with tart boppish phrases ricocheting toward the horizon in upper register sallies, but it...

Third great release from 2011 by this exceedingly fine UK modern jazz quartet

“The departure of pianist Kit Downes and trumpeter Jay Phelps made Empirical a more chamber-jazzy outfit. It didn't soften saxophonist Nathaniel Facey's searing sound, though.
Pianist George Fogel augments the quartet on their most eclectic venture yet: a collection of pieces – drawing on contemporary-classical music, jazz and a kind of purified pop and hip-hop – that sometimes step on to the precarious tightrope of

Nathaniel Facey - alto saxophone (1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7)
Lewis Wright - vibraphone
Shaney Forbes - drums (1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7)
Tom Farmer - double bass (1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7)
Jason Rebello - piano (1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7)
Alex Hitchcock - tenor saxophone (1, 3, 4)

GREAT to hear these guys (with the same personnel for over 15 years!) again, and with some really tasty guests. Not completely out, not completely in, just really good, modern jazz with influences from everywhere, but a

"The Empty Cage Quartet consists of four musicians — saxophonist Jason Mears, trumpeter Kris Tiner, percussionist Paul Kikuchi and bassist Ivan Johnson — who have been praised consistently by critics as one of the most powerful and substantial new jazz gr

This is an album of constructed, somewhat electro-acoustic music, written by Francesco Zago of Yugen, and featuring work from other members of Yugen and other of his musical friends, but most noticeably and notably featuring entrancing vocals by the...

Second, final and best album by this folk/psych duo who used male and female vocals, acoustic guitars, pianos, organs, mellotron, bass, synths, percussion and more. "Being in Berlin at the time, they soon caught the attention of of the enthusiastic...

Second, final and best album by this folk/psych duo who used male and female vocals, acoustic guitars, pianos, organs, mellotron, bass, synths, percussion and more.

"Being in Berlin at the time, they soon caught the attention of of the enthusiastic Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser who signed them up for his 'new German folk music label" Pilz. The album Saat was a truly progressive folk masterpiece, with the beautiful 'English' vocals of Dolly Homes and occasionally the contrastingly Teutonic voice of Maik...

“The End is near -- after two albums on the now defunct UK label Rare Noise, the powerful project of Sofia Jernberg (vocals), Kjetil Møster (clarinet and tenor saxophone), Mats Gustafsson (flutes, baritone saxophone and electronics), Anders Hana (baritone and bass guitar), and Børge Fjordheim (drums) releases their third album on Trost. They combine avant-rock, jazz, and a haunting beautiful voice to a seethe mix of emotions, noise, music -- a sonic landscape, dynamic, and captivating. This album is a...

"Here is one of the leading vocal improvisers in the world in a fantastic display of telepathic music- making at an extremely high level with one of the leading guitar experimentalists currently on the scene. The result is a beautiful and unique...

A very, very long time ago in a world that many people probably can not imagine, when I was in High School in 1973-74 or so, I had a pen-pal from BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN in Czechoslovakia and we used to swap records here and there. That was the only way I could hear music from a country that was so far away and so far off the grid. One of the records he sent me was the first album by Energit, who were a pretty excellent jazz-rock band in the vein of Weather Report and whose entire output plus more is...

"Exclusive 16 page booklet included! Includes extensive notes and background information about the concerts, the band, the instruments and illustrations by Robert Webb. Music remastered from the original recordings.
This live album, recorded in a concert in Japan in 2006, shows the band unearthed from nothing and has great versions of the studio tracks. The band is very cohesive and the sound has a good weight. The music played is beautiful symphonic prog, combining orchestral and chamber music...

"1. Born in the Fire Secular: The opening track discusses the law, where only the rich have access to justice. Though the choices we make often are built on trust and fair play, as soon as the law gets involved this can become a cold hearted maze of confusion and feelings of vengeance.
2. Someone Shall Rise Sacred: Throughout history, individuals have been inspired by an inner fire to take a moral stand against corrupt power and often suffered terribly for their convictions. Such people often seem...

"The Enid are a British progressive rock band formed in 1974 by ex-Barclay James Harvest keyboard player Robert John Godfrey. Something Wicked This Way Comes, the band’s fifth album (1983) was the first Enid album to feature vocals, and this live collection was captured during the period following its release. The band then consisted of Godfrey (keyboards), Steve Stewart (guitars, bass), Chris North (drums, percussion) and Glen Tollet (bass, keyboards, tuba). Claret Hall Farm was a camping weekend for...

“A document of a unique – if until now little-known – performance given by BRIAN ENO, HOLGER CZUKAY & J.PETER SCHWALM, in which they were accompanied by Raoul Walton and Jern Atai, members of Schwalm’s group, Slop Shop.
Billed as a “High-Altitude-Food-Performance with Incidental Music by Slop Shop and Brian Eno”, with Can co-founder Czukay’s appearance kept under wraps in advance, it was recorded on August 27, 1998 outside the Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland – the Art and...

A mid 70s classic - and I mean classic; if you don't already own it, you have no excuse now!

Eno's brilliant 3rd solo album, from 1975. Many great instrumental and vocal pieces, all of which are justifiably classics. For me, this is definitely his single greatest work. Players include Percy Jones-fretless bass, John Cale- viola, Robert Fripp-guitars, Phil Collins-drums and Eno himself, among others. This influenced everyone one of your favorite arty rock albums for the next 5 years at a minimum!..

Eno's first solo album, fresh outta Roxy, if not straight outta Compton, is seemingly simplistic, but deep on repeated listenings and quite brilliant for its 1973 time. With Robert Fripp (who contributes some scorching solos), Phil Manzanera and more.

2004 remastered edition. Eno's classic 2nd solo album, from 1974, recorded right after leaving Rox Music. This has a core band of Eno-electronics, snake guitar, keyboards, vocals, Phil Manzanera-guitars, Brian Turrington-bass, Freddie Smith-drums & Robert Wyatt-percussion & vocals. More great songs here.

A nice ambient soundtrack to footage of the Apollo missions now hugely expanded; Eno's ambient music is extremely well suited to the otherworldly images.

“Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks was written, produced and performed by Brian Eno together with his brother Roger and Daniel Lanois. The music was originally recorded in 1983 for a landmark feature-length documentary, For All Mankind, directed by American journalist, film director and screenwriter, Al Reinert.
In celebration of the 50th..