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Tomas Fujiwara – drums
Gerald Cleaver - drums
Mary Halvorson – guitar
Brandon Seabrook - guitar
Taylor Ho Bynum – cornet
Ralph Alessi - trumpet

This double trio is an utter delight; the double drumming is great and hearing Brandon and Mary go toe to toe is just as wonderful as hearing Taylor and Ralph do the same!

"Bandleader, composer, and drummer Tomas Fujiwara possesses a musical dexterity that could go unnoticed if not for its ripple effect. He has brought his.

“Having been recorded live the compositions are free flowing and continuous in sound throughout, with one piece blending into another either through the pieces being merged together through performance, and the possible use of sympathetic editing with Fujiwara’s drums often providing the link. Fujiwara’s drums generate a scattering of sound and the skittering rhythms create great interplay between the guitar and the trumpet. Brandon Seabrook is very deft at carefully using effects to colour the...

Yuko Fujiyama: Piano, Voice
Graham Haynes: Cornet, Electronics
Ikue Mori: Electronics

“With Quiet Passion, pianist Yuko Fujiyama finally releases another album as a leader after a long break from publishing. For this eagerly awaited addition to her sparse discography, Yuko invites the great innovators Graham Haynes on cornet and Ikue Mori on electronics. The album is a mix of piano solos, duets and extraordinarily imaginative densely woven miniatures. Quiet Passion suggests a dual...

Yuko Fujiyama-piano
Jennifer Choi-violin
Graham Haynes-cornet / flugelhorn
Susie Ibarra-percussion

"Born in Sapporo, Japan in 1954, Yuko Fujiyama started playing piano at the age of four. But it wasn’t until a summer morning in 1980 standing on a sidewalk in New York’s East Village that she found her calling; someone was playing a Cecil Taylor tape and she was transfixed by the piano sounds. That someone was Taylor’s drummer, Jerome Cooper, and that moment opened a door for her to...

Pretty fascinatingly hypnotic noisy electronics, sounding somewhere like early Suicide (without Alan Vega’s singing), Pascal Comelade’s early electronic experiments, ala Parallelo and Plaster Falling by John Bender. Conditionally highly recommended!

“Japanese experimentalist Hiiragi Fukuda supposedly picked up an aging monophonic Yamaha synthesizer, hooked it up to a cheap digital delay, turned on his hand-held cassette machine, and began improvising; a couple days later, the five-song album...

"An official reissue of Ryo Fukui's highly sought-after masterpiece Scenery, originally released in 1976. Unquestionably one of the most important Japanese jazz albums ever recorded, Scenery reveals Ryo Fukui as a miraculously brilliant self-taught pianist fusing modal, bop, and cool jazz influences for a very personal, dexterous, and game-changing take on classic standards made famous by Bing Crosby and John Coltrane among others.
From "It Could Happen To You" and its serene and calm intro which...

"With all the projects Peter Brötzmann is currently working on, Full Blast -- with the precise and dynamic Swiss rhythm section of Marino Pliakas and Michael Wertmüller -- is the most consistent and the longest-running. Their fifth album finds the band in a studio again, with time and the desire to try something new. Seven compositions in the distinctive, strong Full Blast nature get an exciting electronic treatment by Michael Wertmüller (with electronics by Gerd Rische, recorded months before his death...

Peter Brötzmann (tenor sax + tárogató), Ken Vandermark (baritone sax + clarinet), Thomas Heberer (trumpet), Marino Pliakas (e-bass), Dirk Rothbrust (percussion + timpani), Michael Wertmüller (drums + composition). Recorded live at the Donaueschinger...

Chris Biscoe-reeds, Brian Godding-guitar synth, Marcio Mattos-double bass, Tony Marsh-drums. A unique opportunity to hear the great & under-rated guitarist Brian Godding (who has played with everyone from Mike Westbrook, Julie Tippetts, Blossom Toes an...


Curtis Fuller: trombone
Ray Moros-tenor sax
Bill Hardman: trumpet
George Cables: Fender Rhodes
Bill Washer: electric guitar
Stanley Clarke: bass, electric bass
Lenny White: drums

Thrilled to see this rather obscure and completely great 1973 electric jazz album get a reissue - and from Japan! - at a reasonable price; this has only been out once before on CD, a full two decades ago and has long been unavailable in any format!
Trombonist Curtis Fuller has a long, lon

Curtis Fuller : trombone
Bill Hardman : trumpet
Jimmy Heath : tenor
Earl Dunbar: guitar
Cedar Walton : electric piano
Mickey Bass : electric bass
Billy Higgins : drums

This 1972 release is the first electric release for Mainstream, and came out the year before the excellent follow up, 'Crankin'.
This has only been out on CD once before a full two decades ago and has long been unavailable in any format!
Honestly, for me it isn't nearly as good as Crankin', but


''Ellen Fullman was born in Memphis TN in 1957. Her career in music was launched at the age of one, when Elvis Presley kissed her hand.'' Fullman is well known for her installation works featuring her ''long string instrument'', a large number of music...

"In 1981 Ellen Fullman began developing the Long String Instrument, an installation of dozens of wires fifty feet or more in length, tuned in Just Intonation and 'bowed' with rosin coated fingers. Fullman has developed a unique notation system...

"Long one of Boston's musical gems, The Fully Celebrated (Orchestra) have always been Jim Hobbs: alto sax, Timo Shanko: bass, and Django Carranza: drums. A jazz band playing the rock clubs like the young punks they were, developing along the way into...

Jim Hobbs - Alto Saxophone
Taylor Ho Bynum - Cornet
Ian Ayers - Guitar
Luther Gray - Drums
Timo Shanko - Bass

“If you're feeling pressed by the demands of the Imaginary Empire's vicious circuitry, whether you're on the outside or a little too inside for your comfort, here's an opportunity to experience something real, satisfying, and original. Most of the world may be going all wrong, but The Fully Celebrated Orchestra are always 'Right On.'”-Brad Lingham

"The music of composer, violinist, and conductor David Fulmer is some of the most rigorous, demanding and imaginative work around. Greatly acclaimed in the classical world, Dave studied with Milton Babbitt, was a recipient of the Charles Ives Award...

1999 solo album by half of Dweller At The Threshold. Good electronic music release.

“A duo by Osamu Kitajima and Fumio Miyashita, formed at the end of 1971 when Osamu Kitajima returned from his trip to United Kingdom where he got influenced by the exploding psychedelic rock scene that was happening at the time.
After recording his debut under moniker of 'Justin Heathcliff', he got together with Fumio Miyashita of FAR EAST FAMILY BAND and FAR OUT. Together they worked on an amazing psychedelic / progressive rock album, with a folky, yet pastoral, mellow approach.” ...

“The spectral second and final installment of Funerary Call’s “The Mirror Reversed” tumbles deeper through the Setian tunnels, leading the way to the vast and mysterious Other Side. Continuing from where his initial movement left us, Harlow MacFarlane once again summons the tones and auras of his Qliphothic interpretation. It is a serpentine force extending from a churning black vortex lined with crystalline fetters. A dark and textured voyage through the shards of the shattered black surface that once...

I found out about this band because it includes violinist Martin Lauwers, also of Univers Zero! This is their first release and is strongly in the 'new music/new rock from Belgium' mold! ...

2005 remasters with great, informative, fat booklets and bonus tracks. Funkadelic, led by George Clinton, who is still active and still crazy like a fox, were the Black American, weird, psychedelic/funk outfit of the early 1970's, featuring acid-drenched guitar leads, soulful vocals, funky organ-work and drumming and much more. Their fourth album, this was originally a double album and it all fits here with two bonus tracks too!

"A double album and worth every minute of it, America Eats Its Young...

2005 remasters with great, informative, fat booklets and bonus tracks. Funkadelic, led by George Clinton, who is still active and still crazy like a fox, were the Black American, weird, psychedelic/funk outfit of the early 1970's, featuring acid-drench...

2005 remasters with great, informative, fat booklets and bonus tracks. Funkadelic, led by George Clinton, who is still active and still crazy like a fox, were the Black American, weird, psychedelic/funk outfit of the early 1970's, featuring acid-drench...

2005 remasters with great, informative, fat booklets and bonus tracks. Funkadelic, led by George Clinton, who is still active and still crazy like a fox, were the Black American, weird, psychedelic/funk outfit of the early 1970's, featuring acid-drenched guitar leads, soulful vocals, funky organ-work and drumming and much more. This is their 1st album, which is amazingly wild and freaky for a 1970 release; especially for a "Black band".
This one is especially interesting, because all of the...

2005 remasters with great, informative, fat booklets and bonus tracks. Funkadelic, led by George Clinton, who is still active and still crazy like a fox, were the Black American, weird, psychedelic/funk outfit of the early 1970's, featuring acid-drench...

2005 remasters with great, informative, fat booklets and bonus tracks. Funkadelic, led by George Clinton, who is still active and still crazy like a fox, were the Black American, weird, psychedelic/funk outfit of the early 1970's, featuring acid-drench...

Nobuyasu Furuya, tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, flute/Hernani Faustino, double bass/Gabriel Ferrandini, drums and percussion.

"Born in Japan, but living and playing in Lisabon, Nobuyasu Furuya is agitating the waters of the jazz and improvised..

When these guys burst out of NJ in the mid 80's, good fusion music was basically forgotten and deader than a doornail. An all instrumental line-up of sax, guitar, bass and drums, this was an amazing release for the time period, proving to me that the g...

Very very good, instrumentally-leaning Spanish progressive/fusion band, who feature multi-keyboards, guitar, bass and drums. At times they get into an almost Egg-like complexity, although that's not their overall sound. Their name is pronounced...

Joel Futterman - piano
Chad Fowler - stritch
Steve Hirsh - drumset

“Joel Futterman, Chad Fowler and Steve Hirsh met up on the shore of Chesapeake Bay in January 2022. Each had recorded as a duo with the other, and they had talked for months about playing together. When they finally converged, the result was magical. Ebb & Flow is the result - a collection of music that arose in that moment between those people. Nothing pre-planned, noting discussed - just meet and hit and let the music

Joel Futterman - piano
Chad Fowler - stritch

“Legendary free improviser Joel Futterman had never met saxophonist Chad Fowler when they decided to create a record of improvised duos. In fact, they still had never met when they finished the recordings. This collection of spontaneously improvised music sounds like the carefully pre-composed work of a collaborative duo with years of experience playing as a unit. Listen closely and you still won't be able to hear that these recordings were made...

Joel Futterman – piano
Steve Hirsh – drumset

“This is the first collaboration between Joel Futterman and Steve Hirsh.
Futterman and Hirsh struck up a conversation during the pandemic and began exchanging music. Both were inspired by the results, and decided to create the music on these CDs.
All of the music was composed in the moment, with no discussion or preconceptions. Together, Futterman and Hirsh developed the phrases, connections and resolutions of the music, always...

“First new sounds from Futuropaco in five years. Futuropaco, a.k.a. Justin Pinkerton from Oakland, California creates colorful psychedelic music -- a pan-cultural cratedigger's delight that welcomes in a wide range of elements -- from Afro-beat and post rock to Italian library music and heavy psych. The title translates to "The Glass Fortress" and is a reference to the fragility of the superpowers of the world, such as the US: "As we witnessed in the height of the pandemic and it's after effects, it...

"Futuropaco's debut album is the shape of things to come: it's a wet, enigmatic cocktail of part 1970s Italian library music, part kraut-alicious, beat-galore, and part riff-driven heavy psych. Justin Pinkerton, from Oakland, California, is the one-man army behind the opaque merge of seemingly different forces: from mad fuzz guitar breakdowns à la Morricone at his most intense, to the syncopated drum learnings of Jaki Liebezeit, Justin weaves a blanket of sound that's simply loaded with deep vibes: From...

There is a cartoon robot bunny on the cover of this CD.

"The Psychedelic-Music.com website had this to say about McCully Workshop's 1969 debut album: 'Of all the albums we've heard from South Africa this one scores top! What a beautiful masterpiece. Pepper-influenced underground music with great songs...

Guitarist Michael Rother is a very important part of some of the most exciting and influential music to emerge from the exciting and influencial German Krautrock scene. He was a founding member of the hugely influential Neu!, played for a short while in Kraftwerk (between their first and second album) and joined forces with Cluster to form Harmonia. After Harmonia disbanded in 1976, he started a solo career and this 1982 release was his fourth.

"After issuing his classic third album, Katzenmusick..

"Kenny Wheeler (trumpet), Gerd Dudek (tenor saxophone), Paul Dunmall (soprano & tenor saxophones), Evan Parker (tenor saxophone), Philipp Wachsmann (violin, electronics), John Edwards (bass), Paul Rogers (bass), Tony Levin (drums), Tony Marsh (drums). The