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I never heard the Groundhogs back in their early 70s heyday, so it was with great pleasure that I recently got to hear these remastered versions of their classics and I have to report back that I wish that I had heard them then! Led by guitarist/singer...


"This concert recording is something of a miracle. Nothing suggested that this album or even the performance it documents—produced in extremis, in the middle of a global pandemic, with ever-changing public health orders—would see the light of day. A few weeks prior to the event, no-one knew if the concert would happen, nor did I know what we would be performing!
Really. Almost half of the program was composed four weeks before the show. From the outset, I knew that the set list would include the epic..

"If “mission creep” refers to a long-haul fatigue cited with increasingly regularity in the present political moment, DAVID GRUBBS imagines “creep mission” to be a talismanic utterance in the effort to turn this ship around. Creep Mission is an album of instrumental compositions with Grubbs’s effortlessly recombinant electric guitar at its core, and its m.o. is to go both deep and wide. The album goes deep in the sense that the guitar becomes the relentless, meditative focus of these songs without words...

David Grubbs – guitar
Mats Gustafsson - flute, fluteophone, baritone saxophone, live electronicsr
Rob Mazurek - piccolo trumpet, wooden flute, electronics, percussion, voicer
“An übertrio drawn from distinct parts of the creative music spectrum, The Underflow was recorded during a sizzling two-night stand in May 2019. In a series of duets and trios, guitarist David Grubbs, saxophonist Mats Gustafsson, and trumpeter Rob Mazurek met headlong for the first time, converging not only their...

Long-time Waysiders will remember us having this on vinyl on the Soviet Melodiya label (the only label allowed within the USSR). Now you can get it on CD, only 35 years later!

"Bureau B presents a reissue of Sven Grünberg's Hingus, originally released in 1981. Sven Grünberg is a famous musician for film and theatre in Estonia - an old hand in the field of electronic ambient music. In 1974, whilst still a music student, he and Härmo Härm founded Mess, a progressive rock band. Grünberg was the...


No, the piano jazz trio format is far from being at an end, and here is one more example of that, one of the best to boot. German players Achim Kaufmann, Robert Landfermann and Christian Lillinger show us that the traditional combination of a grand...

"The Grupo Exprimental de Música is a Brazilian group that whose purpose is to work into their music the art of building instruments. They only use natural materials and recycled stuff, such as metals, plastics, woods, old bicycles, steel rods, etc...

"Originally released in 1972 and reissued through the years only in Japan and Korea, the only LP ever recorded by Gruppo 2001 is now available again in a new deluxe edition. A band coming from Sardinia, Gruppo 2001 featured keyboardist/singer Piero...

Claudio Barone: Lead Vocals, Bass, Mandolin, Bouzouki
Simone Galleni: Guitar, Bass, Bouzouki
Andrea Imparato: Sax, Flute
Valter Bono: Drums, Percussions
Thomas Cozzani: Synthesizers
Andrea Foce: Piano, Electric Piano, Flute

"Gruppo Autonomo Suonatori started in 1997 from an idea by Claudio Barone, who previosly playing in a Le Orme tribute band in the early 70s named Trio Popâ. G.A.S. was born with the help of 70s musicians along with other young musicians.
The band

"To say "trallalero" is to say Genova. Infact this extraordinary polyphonic vocal style has its roots in the regional capital of Liguria, before spreading on the one hand to the Maritime Alps, on the other to the hills around Piacenza. GRUPPO SPONTANEO...

"While time glides beneath Grydeland's fingers like a glacier dreaming of colder ages, Kaiser's guitar howls a song that cuts through bone and marrow. In the sun, the ice sparkles like a crystal palace, the danger of death disappears behind a fragile, plinking ringing sound that even begins to dance. Delicate on lace, not in clumsy boots. Followed by decelerated psychedelics in the jarring and flickering flow of iridescent freak waves, overwhelmed by the northern lights, whimpered darkly. Monotonous"...

"It is almost impossible to pigeonhole the legendary and unpredictable Gryphon, recently reformed nearly 40 years after a very successful spell throughout the 1970s, which included extensive touring in the States and Europe with Yes, Steeleye Span and Mahavishnu Orchestra. They even appeared on BBC Radios 1, 2, 3 and 4, all in the same week!
Gryphon stunned their faithful following four decades later in 2018 when they released their sixth studio album, ReInvention, to huge acclaim. Anyone who...

“This highly anticipated album is the band's first live release, the majority of which was recorded at their show at The Junction Cambridge on 28 November 2023. Combined, the two discs represent the entire concert in performance order.
Disc One kicks off the journey through the Gryphon catalogue taking the listener back to the familiarity of the band's eponymous first album (released in 1973). Fast forward to 2018 with a track from comeback album Reinvention, before bringing everything right up to...

Now you can get all four initial Gryphon albums all together in one place! While they are all pretty different, they are also all pretty great in differing ways! Highly recommended if you don’t already have them! Note that the track "Dubbel Dutch" from "Midnight Mushrumps" is missing due to time limitations.

“One of the most original groups to emerge in the Progressive era, Gryphon came together at the instigation of Royal College of Music students Richard Harvey and Brian Gulland, initially as a..

“Taking the progressive experiments of Red Queen To Gryphon Three further, ReInvention is Gryphon's first new studio album for 41 years. CD in digipak. Crumhorn not included.”

Happily and shockingly darn great all-new album from the mighty (and mighty unique) Gryphon, who were last heard from on record over 40 years ago.
Featuring a mix of new and old personnel, this will not dissapoint fans, especially fans of their classic second release Midnight Mushrumps. Highly recommended!! ...

"This is an official release of a 2 disc deluxe edition of GTR, the self-titled 1986 album by Steve Hackett and Steve Howe's band GTR. GTR was formed in 1985 following guitarist Steve Howe's departure from ASIA. Teaming up with the equally legendary...

One of the greats of the original era of Spanish progressive rock, returns with a very strong and heartfelt effort. It’s a tribute to Chick Corea and features very flamenco’d-up versions of some of Return to Forever & Chick’s hottest tunes.
While there are a number of guest artists here, this album features the return of the three most important members of the original lineup [the saxist and the two guitarists]. A surprisingly great ‘return’ to form.

“It is an album where a selection of...

One of the greats of the original era of Spanish progressive rock, this is a previously unknown, very high quality archival discovery from their original and greatest period, featuring the original lineup!

Founded in 1978 by Andrés Olaegui and Luis Cobo, two veteran guitarists and long-time friends with a huge experience in the Flamenco folk and fusion scene, GUADALQUIVIR was one of the most prominent jazz-fusion bands to come out from Southern Spain. The band took its name from the largest...

First-time ever on CD and remastered from the masters in 2006 and supplied in a nice digi-pack! Gualberto was the guitarist for the legendary Spanish progressive/hard rock band Smash. After 3 previous, more or less rock oriented albums (although the pr...

Originally released as a double album in 1978, this includes a bunch of rare and previously unreleased material by the above bands. In addition to some cool singles by psych bands, this is most notable for including Gualberto's first (previously unrele...

This is a dramatic and dynamic release that I feel certain will impress a large number of people. Guapo is a British trio that plays an intense music that straddles the boundaries of progressive, noise, minimalism and avant-rock. Their sound has...

Prepare yourself for an experience that’s simultaneously otherworldly and assaultive. Guapo's sound is based around ideas like controlled chaos, atonal harmony, uplifting darkness, and beautiful destruction. Nothing about the band or their work...

Guapo take classic prog tropes and revivify them...brazenly and gloriously, it brandishes all the hallmarks of golden-era prog rock, but given a steroid boost and stripped of ego." – The Quietus...


Excellent debut release from this chamber/acoustic band, the sound and the ideas place this release somewhere between Oregon and Far Corner!

"A five piece acoustic quintet from Seattle, WA, Guardian Ear has an unusual combination of guitar...

Gudibrallan was the first record ever released on the Silence label. We discovered them at the very first Gardetfest, the small one with only about 500 people visiting. It was held without permission from the police and there was a lot of trouble becau...

"A brilliant band of lunatics out of Boston, Guerilla Toss is a five-piece ensemble that mixes noise, improvisation, complex composition and song forms with a punk rock aesthetic that verges on madness. Known for their intense live shows, they have...

Shaun is a native of Los Angeles, California and grew up in a musical household with his father John Guerin, a top session drummer (Joni Mitchell/Frank Zappa). Like his father, Shaun is anaccomplished drummer/percussionist but also is a powerful vocali...

Second and final release by the late Shawn Guerin. Another great Paul Whitehead cover helps to focus attention on this now gone talent. "Virtuoso composer/musician/vocalist Shaun Guerin's follow up to "By the Dark of Light" moves into a more complex an...

“The music of Italian cellist Francesco Guerri obliterates the line between contemporary classical music and free improvisation, sculpting spontaneous invention into startling, unpredictable compositions. On his striking third album, Su Mimmi non si spara!, Guerri presents a dozen innovative pieces that span a wide range of stylistic approaches and technical challenges, invigorated by the physicality of his virtuosic playing and the deep emotional bond he maintains with his instrument.Su Mimmi non si...

“Rescued, gathered, restored and executive produced by Randy Bachman.”

"In the CD era, the catalog of the pre-"Wheatfield Soul" Guess Who has been very hard to come by. This two-CD collection of rare and unreleased 1967-1968 recordings fills that gap well. A few of these songs appeared on non-LP Canadian and/or U.K. singles, like the devastating garage punkers 'It's My Pride’ and 'If You Don't Want Me'; the sappy 1967 ballad 'His Girl,' heard here in two versions, which was actually a minor...

''Simone Guiducci, guitarist, and his acoustic ensemble, Gramelot Ensemble, in a series of original compositions inspired by the Italian traditional folk music and developed along the contemporary jazz style. A music with sweet melodies, Cantador means...

"Acoustic guitarist Simon Guiducci (an important name in Italian jazz, as his numerous collaborations with renowned artists such as Gianluigi Trovesi, Gianni Coscia, Enrico Rava, Paolo Fresu, Ralph Alessi, Erik Friedlander, Chris Speed and Don Byron...

“Tears came to my eyes when I started reading Normand Guilbeault’s transcriptions of tunes like What Love and The Black Saint & The Sinner Lady. I guess a pilgrim reaching Mecca for the first time must be experiencing similar feelings, or an art lover...

On the eve of the 114th anniversary of the hanging of the Franco-Manitoban Mtis leader, Louis Riel, bassist Guilbeaults work...sheds new light on one of the little known & most controversial eipisodes in Canadian history... [Ambiances Magnetiques]

“Samurai of Prog's Bernard and Pörsti this time join forces with Alessandro di Benedetti and Rafael Pacha and a sub plot of many talented musicians to bring us this splendid follow-up to their 2020 debut release. As standard nothing is spared either musically or artistically in the making of the Seacrestoy project. 10/10 once again!”

Luís Lopes electric guitar
Valentin Ceccaldi cello
Andreas Wildhagen drums

"From drone to riff and from riff to desintegration and back again to some sort of form – those forms and others, in a perpetual transmutation. The new project by Portuguese guitarist Luís Lopes (Humanization 4tet, Lisbon-Berlin Trio, Garden, Lisbon Freedom Unit, Big Bold Back Bone, duos with Jean-Luc Guionnet and Julien Desprez, and more) associates him one more time with musicians from other countries, namely..



Ultra-rare lost psychedelic Kraut-folk from 1979. First time on CD and LP. Taken from the original master tapes. "Gulaab" means "rose" in the Nepalese language. Gulaab is a German virtuoso on the acoustic guitar who served three years as an after...

Friedrich Gulda was an Austrian pianist well known for his performances of modern classical works. He additionally was very interested in jazz and made a number of unique jazz-inspired works. This live 1971 recording includes Friedrich and second piani...

"Two legends met to perform at the Philharmonie, Cologne on May 20th and 21st 1988 for a release in the WDR The Cologne Broadcasts series.
Both musicians knew each other longtime from way back during World War II; as teenagers, Friedrich Gulda and his friend Joe Zawinul would go out and perform forbidden musics, like jazz, in violation of the Nazi government's prohibition on the playing of such music. Includes a composition by Johannes Brahms.
Music For Two Pianos includes musician and composer...


Gebhard Ullmann - tenor saxophone, bass clarinet
Gerhard Gschlössl - trombone, sousaphone
Johannes Fink - double bass, cello
Jan Leipnitz - drums, objects
Michael Haves - live sound processing

“Gerhard Gschlössl, Gebhard Ullmann, Jan Leipnitz, and Johannes Fink improvise as composers would do. From scratch they create a holistic sound sculpture -- each time unique and unpredictable -- always with a formal approach.
Michael Haves was invited to create with them using analog

Ulrich Gumpert: piano / Günter Baby Sommer: drums, percussion.

"Ulrich Gumpert and Günter Baby Sommer with their second duo-release on Intakt Records: "La Paloma" strikes a wide arco: blues, boogie-woogie, hard bop, arrangements of German folk...

Jürg Wickihalder: saxophones
Ulrich Gumpert: piano
Jan Roder: bass
Michael Griener: drums

"Welcome to Ulrich Gumpert's world; a world of hidden beauties, small treasures and bizarre inventions. What makes this world go round and holds it together is a rhythmical drive, interrupted every now and again by short pausing, briefly melting into tonal or noise-like sound, then rolling on as if it was never to stop...

In 2005 Gumpert formed a quartet with Berlin based Ben...

Ulrich Gumpert Piano, Composition
Ben Abarbanel-Wolff Tenor Saxophon
Jan Roder Bass
Michael Griener Drums

"Berlin pianist Ulrich Gumpert, a member of the band Zentralquartett, has put together a band with younger musicians from th

Ulrich Gumpert piano / Günter Baby Sommer drums, percussion

" Thundering keys, thundering cymbals, skins! Gumpert and Sommer have already been four decades harnessed together as a team, celebrating music, vibrating alongside life. The “Gumpert..