One of the most typical Indian string instruments (especially in the south) the veena has always had a special place in Indian music. Hailing from an artistic family, Gaaythri has gone from child prodigy to emerge as one of the greatest veena players,...

A lot of the Agrentinian progressive rarities - at least the smallish number that I have heard - are really progressive hard rock albums, and this one is no different. Gabis is a hot guitarist playing pyscho-hard rock and etc. with lots of acid leads a...

Gai Saber makes a peculiar musical and cultural operation that finds its departure point in the Occitan dances and the troubadours' words and combines these elements with today's influences like hip-hop, dub, drum 'n' bass, jungle. The result is an int...

"The Galileo Brothers are a mysterious assembly which has existed for 25 years - with an anonymous group of British musicians at the core of the project. 'The Dancing Lawn' is a collective composition in 13 parts by the British core group, with the...

Featuring Jean-Paul Bourelly

Richard Galliano is a really *masterful* accordion player. This solo album is all works by Astor Piazolla and Galliano really runs them down here. This can't help but be adored by fans of the ol' squeeze box. These are perfect Japanese copies...

The first album by this rarity of early psych/progressive/jazz-rock/horn-rock/etc. who released two albums on the Nova series and whose albums are very rare and impossible to find until this reissue. Supervised by Mark Powell, you get great sound, good...

"Known for his partnerships with Ray Anderson and Peter Evans, Colombian expatriate Ricardo Gallo is becoming a noteworthy voice as a pianist and composer in American creative jazz. After obtaining critical acclaim with his Bogotá bands...

This album is at once a reconfirmation of the young Genoese melodeon players amazing talent and a further demonstration of his capacity for invention enabling him to go much further than simply retread traditional standards from back home. An absolu...

"Court Music Treasures presents five more gendings performed inside the kraton by the excellent musicians of the STSI Conservatory (Institute of the Arts) of Surakarta, in collaboration with musicians from the court itself. The compositions are remarkable

"Dunya's multiethnic catalogue would not be complete without a section dedicated to Javanese music: Now thanks to the release of this record that gap has been filled. Classical Gendings is the first in a series of CDs which feature the finest...

In this fourth instalment of the series, our journey in search of the myriad facets of Central Javanese gamelan music focuses on the close ties that exist between that music and the religion of the area. This CD in fact completes and extends the select...

This focuses on the style of the ancient capital of Java, Yogyakarta, and is based on a recent recording of a performance by musicians of Radio Republik Indonesia in the radio studios. Once again, the circularity of gamelan music, with its unique timbr...

Edge of Tradition is the seventh CD in our series dedicated to the gamelan culture of Central Java and the musicianship of the players - all from the Surakarta conservatory - is again impeccable. The CD offers the listener a fresh and surprising encoun...

"Hailed by fans and critics as a symphonic gem, the project of keyboard player and vocalist Angelo Santo Lombardi has taken the world of Italian prog by storm, adding influences of Italian prog giants as Banco, PFM and Orme with the keyboard wizardry...

Slava Ganelin - piano, synthesizer, Victor Fonarov - double bass Mika Markovitch - drums. "This release is first in the series of unpublished records from Slava Ganelin, one of the key figures in the israeli Modern Creative and Free/Avant-Garde Jazz...

Absolutely one of my favorite of the original 'punk era' bands, the Gang Of Four released two great albums and a couple of singles before completely killing themselves trying to break themselves in the USA. The GoF mixed tight, herky-jerky rhythms with...

"The three compositions on Lost Style are indicative of the extraordinary compositional voice of Ge Gan-ru, China's first avant-garde composer. Born in 1954, Ge's life journey follows the now familiar path trodden by the generation of Chinese artists...

"Garamond was born from the intention of freeing itself and the whole world from the genres which often influence juvenile (but not only) musical panorama, trying to propound something more peculiar, based on elation of creativity and curiosity...

Singer/composer Anja is the daughter of Jan. This is her debut album and presents a very modern, stripped down feel that is actually much more lush than a quick listen would have you think (many tracks feature a string quartet, piano, percussion, cello...

"This one is very eagerly-awaited: it has been six years since Jan Garbarek’s last album as a leader (“In Praise of Dreams”). And, moreover, this double-album – recorded in Dresden’s Alter Schlachthof in October 2007 – is also the first-ever live set...

"Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek cut his teeth emulating John Coltrane and blowing gales through the muscular compositions of George Russell and open improvisations of Keith Jarrett. But since the mid 1980s, the saxophonist has been making an...

One of the most immediately identifiable voices on saxophone and one of the originators of the 'Nordic jazz' sound. This features an ECM all-star band: Jan Garbarek-saxes, Bill Connors-guitars, John Taylor-organ and piano and Jack DeJohnette-drums...

"This 1992 recording by the Garbarek Group has their customary blend of Norwegian folk themes and original compositions, with the leader's big-toned soprano and tenor saxophones at the heart of a music that combines cool lyricism and intense, if...

This collection of new classical Latin American work by the Cuban born, Miami based composer is a series of pieces that invoke an abstract expressionist sensibility set against a time free present. Repetition and slow evolution of materials result in a...