"Get ready for the ride of your life through Irish folk-rock styles. The opening track of the group's debut album, with its pipes, button accordion, and percussion, could pass for any Chieftains record, but then the electricity kicks in on "Hall of Mirrors," and the rest is melodic rock, not so much folk-rock as folkish rock, recalling early Genesis. John Fean sounds like he's playing folk melodies even as he plays runs on his electric guitar on "The Clergy's Lamentation," and the group follows this with...

"Recorded at their triumphant comeback gig in the O2 arena in Dublin 2009, Live at the O2 has all the power and energy one might expect from the biggest band in Ireland throughout the 70's."

"Horslips return to the studio after decades of radio silence and bring an acoustic flavour to their inimitable repertoire of Irish rock and folk classics. Among the songs getting the reworked treatment are culturally important pieces like Trouble With A Capital T and The Man Who Built America."

"This classic album from the pioneers of Celtic Rock and Folk was remastered at Abbey Road and features original artwork and bonus material."

"At one point in the mid-'70s, Horslips seemed poised to become Ireland's answer to Steeleye Span. But they also had a shot at being the next Jethro Tull (only a better hard rock outfit), or maybe Genesis, or even Yes in their folkier moments. Those events never quite happened, but Horslips released half-a-dozen superb albums along the way, becoming Ireland's most acclaimed folk-rock and progressive band.
A concept album about an Irish emigrant who makes a success of himself in the US, this album is...

"This classic album from the pioneers of Celtic Rock and Folk was remastered at Abbey Road and features original artwork and bonus material."

Mastermind of Zony Mash, The President and veteran of countless projects with Bobby Previte and Bill Frisell, Wayne Horvitz has been making music since the mid-1970s. Delightfully varied and endlessly listenable, this compilation of soundtracks for tel...

Wayne Horvitz: Electronic Processing
Eyvind Kang: Viola

Koehne Quartet
Petra Ackerman: Viola
Melissa Coleman: Cello
Anne Harvey-Nagl: Violin
Joanna Lewis: Violin

"A new CD of classical compositions by the mastermind of Zony Mash, The President, Pigpen, the NY Composers Orchestra and countless other bands. Blending a profound knowledge of jazz and popular musics with a soaring lyricism and arranging/production skills that have graced CDs by Bill Frisell, Eddie..

"The unbelievably prolific Haruomi Hosono is one of the major architects of modern Japanese pop music. With his encyclopedic knowledge of music and boundless curiosity for new sounds, Hosono is the auteur of his own idiosyncratic musical world, putting his unmistakable stamp on hundreds of recordings as an artist, session player, songwriter and producer. Hosono's solo career would take many twists and turns from this point forward, with forays into exotica, electronic, ambient, and techno, culminating...

This is a pretty impressive staging of this major work, which is all there for you to see on the DVD part of this set! "The great dream of Fabio Zuffanti since he began writing the music on Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem "The rime of the mariner...

"The Rome based group Hot Tune was formed three years ago and initially performed as an acoustic band with a repertoire that went from jazz standards to pieces from the Balkan tradition, Arabic music and original compositions. Nine original pieces and...

François Houle clarinet
Marco von Orelli cornet/trumpet
Samuel Blaser trombone
Benoît Delbecq piano
Michael Bates bass
Harris Eisenstadt drums

“This album pays tribute to and celebrates the memory of Ken Pickering, my best friend, mentor, and supporter of my work from the moment we met back when I first moved to Vancouver in 1990. The compositions were not intended as a suite but as the pieces emerged it became evident to me that there was a hidden narrative binding th

“This new international chamber-jazz trio with classical and avant leanings features beautiful tunes and tasty improvisation. Canadian clarinetist François Houle, British pianist Alexander Hawkins, and NY-based Canadian drummer Harris Eisenstadt are highly regarded leaders and genuinely sympatico.
The program features original compositions by all three plus pieces by Steve Lacy, Andrew Hill and Charles Ives. The group first came together for the 2014 Vancouver jazz festival and played some wild...

This comic by bad-boy artist Matt includes a CD with music by Nash and him reading the story. "Canadian rocker Nash the Slash has a quandry: how can he do two concerts that are scheduled at the same time? The solution: a robot duplicate of himself!...

"Two CD set containing a pair of albums by the British prog rock guitarist best known for his work with Yes and Asia. Turbulence is his third studio album, released in 1991 through Relativity Records. It was Howe's first solo release since 1979, with his band including former Yes drummer Bill Bruford and former Ultravox keyboardist Billy Currie.
The Grand Scheme of Things was released in 1993. The album features seven vocal tracks and nine instrumental tracks using instruments including dobro, steel..

"The second release (1969) from the home studio of future BBC Radiophonic Workshop composer Peter Howell and his musical partner John Ferdinando, makers of legendary albums under the names Alice Through the Looking Glass, Ithaca, Agincourt, and Friends...

A reissue of the 1971 album by the lead singer of Affinity. What's probably the most interesting to readers here is that the band is: Chris Spedding-guitars, Karl Jenkins-electric and acoustic piano, oboe, Jeff Clyne-bass and bass guitar and John Marshall-drums. In other words, 2/3rds of Nucleus and in addition to this, 8 of the 11 songs are co-written by Karl Jenkins and Linda Hoyle! Includes notes from Linda about the making of the album.

“It probably isn't surprising to learn that Hoyle's solo...

"A new recording by the band that pioneered laptop ensembles over twenty years ago coupled with an historic overview of their recordings, unreleased tracks and video clips of the band in performance. Functioning in the West Coast tradition of composer as

You get his first six albums as a leader: Open Sesame, Goin' Up, Hub Cap, Ready For Freddie, The Artistry Of Freddie Hubbard, Hub-Tones, as well as two albums with his participation from the same period...

Late 1970 session - one of two really good ones he made for CTI - of 'electric jazz' from famed trumpeter Freddie, plus a great band: Herbie Hancock-electric piano (anytime you see the following calculation: Herbie+late 60s/early 70s+electric piano...

Freddie Hubbard – trumpet
Richard Davis – bass
Eddie Daniels – tenor sax
Roland Hanna – piano
Louis Hayes – drums

“From the first few seconds I knew that it was something special; the recorded sound quality was unbelievable for an LP, lush and rich, and perfectly balanced. And then I heard the performances and realized what a great session it really was. The performers, Sir Roland Hanna, Richard Davis, Louis Hayes, and Freddie, are all master improvisors who like to take chances

****4 STARS**** from All About Jazz
"Sprawling. Massive. Unapologetically ambitious. All over the musical map. But, somehow, not excessive...It's really a super-diverse stylistic smorgasbord of sounds, all delivered with the sort of heat and light that suffused the large ensemble music of Sun Ra and Charles Mingus."—Dave Wayne, All About Jazz

Ellen Weller - soprano saxophone, Bb clarinet, flute, piccolo
David Borgo - soprano and tenor saxophone, alto flute
Adnan Marquez - alto ..

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