Personel: Dennis González (t), Ellerry Eskelin (ts), Mark Helias (b), Mike Thompson (d)

"Dennis González is an extraordinary musician and composer that has developed his activity since the early 70’s. Unlike many musicians who establish...

Dennis González, C trumpet - Bb cornet / João Paulo, piano, accordion, electric piano.

"After the success of the first encounter between the Texan trumpeter and the Portuguese pianist, “Scapegrace”, here is the second volume of a partnership...

Clarinet Songs is a 75 minute suite for solo clarinet, divided into 16 ''songs''. Each is based on unique material, & most use circular breathing & alternate fingerings, producing non-tempered intervals with unusual, striking timbres. [Experimental In...

“On the Future of Aviation, Jerry Goodman's first album after a ten-year hiatus, didn't sound much like the jazz-rock fusion he had played in the Flock and the Mahavishnu Orchestra earlier in his career. Instead, it was an album of new age electrified instrumental music that did not emphasize his violin playing particularly.
For his second album of the 1980s, Goodman may have been prevailed upon or may have decided himself to give his fans something more familiar. Ariel leaves little doubt that its...

Modern pop from the vocalist of Doves, with a definite emphasis on experimentation within the form.

"Odludek, the solo debut from Doves' Jimi Goodwin, makes up for what it lacks in consistency of tone with a pioneering spirit that both mocks and celebrates the digital age. Genres be damned, Goodwin is at his heart a world-weary Brit-pop songsmith in the vein of Elbow's Guy Garvey, and there is some of that to be found here, but for the most part, Odludek's ten largely disparate tracks play like...

Sam Gopal took up the tabla in Malaysia at the age of 7, before coming to study music in Britain in 1962. Sam Gopal put together his first group, 'Sam Gopal's Dream' in 1966. They quickly became a feature of the psychedelic scene, playing at the 14 Hour Technicolour Dream at Alexandra Palace in 1967 and sharing stages with such giants as Pink Floyd, the Move and Jimi Hendrix. Indeed, Jimi jammed with them during a gig at the Speakeasy in January 1968.
However, whilst successful live, the band went

Wonderful, high-quality 1998 digi-pack with great notes and annotation, of Dexter's mid-40's, maximum be-bop sides, all presented in surprisingly high fidelity sound. "This single CD has most but not all of Dexter Gordon's Savoy recordings. While there...

This is a piece for 8 guitars and voice.
"[purgatorio] Popopera is a new dance work created by Emio Greco and Pieter Scholten, principal choreographers of the Amsterdam-based troupe Emio Greco/PC. When I met Emio and Pieter in New York in 2000, I...

Nice to see a compilation of some of the material by this group. Peter had a large-scale (13 or so) band in the late 70s which featured some major names of the not-quite emerged downtown scene (David Byrne, Arto Lindsay, Blue Gene Tyranny, David Van...

with "Blue" Gene Tyranny

Peter Van Huffel alto saxophone
Roland Fidezius electric bass, effects
Rudi Fischerlehner drums
"After the broad success of “Bite My Blues”, Canadian saxophonist Peter Van Huffel’s Berlin band Gorilla Mask is back with more music; not to cover the foot imprints of his previous work but going beyond a good number of steps. You can’t say anymore that this project consists of a mix of jazz with punk and metal – the kind of sonic assault heard on “Iron Lung” has an identity of its own...

"Annie is a composer of great imagination whose work brings together noise, traditional notation, and improvisation with wit and a charming sense of humor. For her fourth Tzadik CD she has put together another remarkable program of pieces inspired by...

''Annie Gosfields second amazing CD for Tzadik takes acoustic and electric music into dynamic new realms. Factory soundsimprovisationlush sonoritiesjunk percussiontwangy guitarsclassic minimalismdelicate harmonicsodd dronesrocksirensstring quartetsdriv...

This title is probably my favorite of their five releases! Great second album by this Swedish progressive instrumental quartet of keyboards, guitar, bass and drums. The keyboardist leans heavily on his Fender Rhodes, giving this a bit of a jazz-rock sound, but there's plenty of other keyboards too (Moogs, mellotron, Orchestron, Optigan, acoustic piano, pump organ). Somone once said that if Samla Mammas Manna started their life in the 00s, they might have sounded somewhat like this, and that's a pretty...

"Ayelet is a Swiss/Israeli singer based in New York. Born in Jerusalem, she studied at the New England Conservatory before settling in New York in 2002. Her music is a passionate blend of Jazz, Middle Eastern rhythms and improvisation, drawing inspirat...

PROMO. Gunda Gottschalk: violin, voice
Xu Fengxia: guzheng, voice

Recorded May 18, 2008.
"Impressive in its own way was the duo of violinist Gunda Gottschalk and guzheng virtuoso Xu Fengxia, in whose hands contrasting roots in...

More than 1/3rd off the original price, now that this has found a US distributor! If you didn't pick it up before, there's no excuse not to now!

Die Mulde is the most recent release by the legendary guitarist and synthesist, although it isn't...

This was originally released in 1981, & is a single piece of really trancey, hypnotic electronics with some nice, very subtle changes going on, & Manuel's (Ash Ra Tempel) guitarwork overlaid on it. I know that some folks find it too minimal, but for me, this is one of the great trance Berlin albums of all time. Personally recommended.

Jean-Philippe Goude's career is in two parts. In the 1970s, he was known primarily as a keyboardist and he was a member of Richard Pinhas' group and contributed to a few of his later period albums (Iceland, L'Ethique) and he was a member of Weidorje...

A member of the popular reggae band John Brown's Body, David Gould has been fascinated with the spiritual connections between Roots Reggae and Judaism for years. Adonai in Dub is his fascinating response. Traditional Hebrew prayers beautifully performe...

Cleber Almeida (drums, vocals)
Felipe Brisola (double bass)
Gustavo Bugni (piano)
Dô De Carvalho (saxes & flute)
Amanda Mara (vocals)
Fabio Gouvea (electric guitar, acoustic guitar, flute, vocals)

“Fabio Gouveia is the bass player of Curupira Trio and he has several solos CDs, but this the first with this line up and here he plays guitars and flute instead of bass.
He has the company of Cleber Almeida, Curupira's drummer and a set of saxes, acoustic bass, percussio

“We got turned on to French guitarist Grégory François and his band Gowy via our Mörglbl friends.
Cut from similar cloth but with their own identifiable sound, Gowy unleashes a torrent of Zappa influenced heavy jazz rock/fusion.
The band is a quintet so you get plenty of keyboards and a second percussionist playing marimba and hitting all kinds of stuff. François' insane guitar leads sound like he's channeling Frank so much it will leave you slack jawed. Occasionally the band goes in a...