Simone Quatrana piano
Andrea Grossi doublebass
Pedro Melo Alves drums and percussion

"HIIT is a piano trio of contemporary improvised music, with compositional frames that feed focused real-time composition. You hear aesthetics reminiscent of the improvised and composed music of the 20th and 21st century. You hear hot blooded energy which is not afraid of lyric melody, abstract contemplation, and structured formal matrixes.
Connecting the new Portugal and Italy music scenes, it is...

Newly reissued and selling for half of what it previously sold for!!

"Some gigs are simply meant to be out there - even if they take decades to actually make it into our hands. This is without doubt one of those concerts; recorded at the Philips Halle, Düsselsdorf on the 28th March 1979 during the Live Herald Tour.
Released following the AIM-nominated deluxe box set from Hillage, Searching for the Spark, this Düsselsdorf double CD showcases the Steve Hillage Band's prowess with excellent...

“Having made his name with Gong, Steve Hillage has been active for more than 40 years as a performer, composer and producer. He has just returned to live performance with a new incarnation of the Steve Hillage Band, revisiting classic material from the mid-1970s.
We feature his 1977 performance on Rockpalast,majoring on highlights from his first two solo albums, Fish Rising and L. The seven-piece band line-up also appeared on the acclaimed Live Herald set, and includes ex-Jethro Tull drummer Clive...

“Now and then, you get a bit suspicious about old recordings showing up, but not in this case. Great recording and great songs! Wow.”-Jorn Michelsen

“Live archive release from the Prog Rock icon. Steve Hillage, known for his exceptional work in Progressive Rock powerhouse Gong, Khan and pioneer of the Canterbury scene began his solo career in 1975. Venturing to other side of the world, Steve arrived in Los Angeles for the first time in January of 1977 to support ELO on their US tour. On January...

This is a well recorded soundboard of Steve towards the end of his solo career as a bandleader, performing in support of the Open album.

“Addressing the audience in French throughout, 'Paris Bataclan 11.12.79' documents a sparkling & joyous performance from one of the 20th Century's guitar greats & his band: Miquette Giraudy - synthesiser, vocals; Andy Anderson - drums; Paul Francis - bass, vocals; Dave Stewart - guitar.
The 100-minutes of music on 'Paris Bataclan 11.12.79' are presented...

Singer/songwriter whose latest appears here on Andy Partridge's Ape House label.

"The new album! Veda and a large gang of brilliant musician friends play ecstatic songs about life, death, and japanese bathhouses. Piano, two drummers, guitar...

Excellent, heavy Swedish spacerock/stoner-rock/psych trio. Simple, but very effective, trancey/psych music made with guitars, organ, bass and drums.
So many great Swedish bands and so little time to take enough drugs to enjoy them all!
"Alive At Roadburn is Gothenburg based Hills' third album with Rocket Recordings. Hot off the Swedish psychedelia revival of the past few years and after their hailed 2015 album Frid, Hills connect the dots to their country's rich and intoxicating past with a...

John Litton Baroï : vocals and harmonium
Mark Bogaerts : sitar, alto saxophone, guitar and compositions
Saskia Vanhoegaerden : flute, Celtic harp, vocals and compositions
Eric Moens : electric bass and synthesizer
Pierre Narcisse : tabla, drums and percussion

“In the early nineties I started practicing yoga and meditation. This had a big influence on the music I was playing. Not long after I started to play and study sitar and Indian classical music for many years with Pand

You know how they say ‘never judge a book by its cover’? This album is the epitime of that.
Hiding behind this goofy, friendly looking, yellow-hatted cover from 1981, which screams ‘lame fuzak’, this is some of the most 1975 Miles-style electric fusion (with the required mean-toned Yamaha organ and funky bass lines) you will ever hear.
I can just hear the executives at Sony Japan now: “Sure, Terumasa-san, we will put out your ugly music without any interference in the music. We even have a fine.

This 1975 session is acoustic but very open and groovin' in nature. The core band is Terumasa Hino-trumpet, Hideo Mayata-tenor and soprano sax, Fumio Itabashi-piano, Tsutomu Okada-bass and Motohiko Hino-drums with big guest spots for additional...

“Jazz critic Gary Giddins once described early bebop as music that was "giddy with its own virtuosity." A variety of different things came after that period of giddiness -- the introspection of cool jazz, the deep-thinking spirituality of modal post-bop and avant-garde jazz, the rock-influenced intensity of fusion -- but bebop and hard bop did, in fact, have more than their share of performances that thrived on both giddiness and virtuosity. Post-bop, even at its most optimistic and exuberant, is seldom....

Shelley is one of the best known downtown NYC vocal improvisers. This is a musical suite about growing up in Brooklyn in the 50's & 60's. [Tzadik]

Vocal acrobat, improviser, raconteur, chanteuse and so much more, Brooklyn born Shelley Hirsch has been a central figure in the downtown scene since the mid 70s, collaborating with just about every important figure in new music. This special collection...

“I have all of Hitchcock's albums and on this one he gets the balance just right. Moss Elixir is brimming with the clever and often kooky imagery and wordplay we have come to love and expect from Robyn and the beautiful music he seems to have within him in inexhaustible supply. The perfect paring of jangly tunefulness and idiosyncratic lyricism on this record make it a heady treat for sure. If you were curious but befuddled as to where to begin with this prolific savant, Moss Elixir makes for a good...

Very good, modern big band album. In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida works much better than you would think!

"A composer who writes a 16-minute big-band piece based on "In-a-Gadda-da-Vida" isn't going for subtlety — but then, he probably wouldn't appear nude...

Hoahio's second CD is even more quirky and varied than the first. Joining koto virtuoso Yagi Michiyo and Kansai vocalist Haco (After Dinner) this time is Era Mari, a remarkable young percussionist from Kyoto. Her brilliant vibes and marimba playing giv...

Bram De Looze piano / Lester St.Louis cello / Dre Hocevar drums Sam Pluta electronics, signal processing on "Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA)".

"Jazz is indeed a universal language. The leader of this trio, drummer and composer Dre Hocevar...

Elias Stemeseder piano / Charmaine Lee voice / Dré Hoc_evar drums, composition / Bernardo Barros electronics / Weston Olencki brass / Michael Foster reeds.

"There is a particular, stately calmness about this album as if it’s out-worldly sonics have been chiseled off some strange marble. From the abrasive brass opener onward, up to that final anguished scream, a sense of meticulously sculpted logic envelops it's razor-sharp, elegantly reserved pieces. Wholly born of spontaneous improvisation...

This is five pieces by Tim in strictly 'modern composer' mode, with all the pieces composed between 2000-2010.

"I am a composer and also an improviser specialising in clarinets and lap steel guitar. After studying anthropology I taught myself...

“Hoelderlin were one of the leading representatives of "Krautrock", this independent rock music, primarily of West German bands, at the end of the '60s, beginning of the '70s. Hoelderlin began their career in 1972 with the release of their album "Hölderlins Traum" on the Pilz label of the journalist and "Krautrock" pioneer Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser. The Wuppertal musicians mixed folk with progressive rock and psychedelic elements and used classical instruments such as viola, cello and flute. The group's...

“Voices From the Empty Moor seeks to honor the mystery and beauty of Anne Briggs’ music while maintaining its own unique perspective, foregrounding powerful emotion and, hopefully, magical transformation.
Bassist, composer and arranger devin hoff has been intensively studying the music of Anne Briggs for over a decade. Briggs was a leading light of the 1960’s English folk scene, a gifted songwriter and improvisor, as well as an amateur musicologist who revived traditional English, Scottish, and Irish..

Circles in Time features contributions from an array of Prog luminaries;
Mark Atkinson, Peter Jones, Sally Minnear, Jean Pageau and That Joe Payne - vocals
Nick D’Virgilio, Henry Rogers - drums
Robin Armstrong – bass
Vikram Shankar - keyboards
Zaid Crowe, Oliver Day, Eric Potapenko – guitar
Frank Van Essen - violin

Holden says, “This album came together over the last 8 months. Because of the lockdown situation I found myself with unexpected free time

“2018’s Capture Light was English musician/ songwriter, John Holden’s debut release and, two years later, it has been great to listen to the follow up, ‘Rise and Fall’, a combination of John’s music with lyrics by his wife Elizabeth and himself. In a similar manner to, say, Big Big Train, each track is based on a historic event and the accompanying booklet not only has an individual image for each track, but the “background story/ myth”, is the listener can immerse themselves in the narrative and the...

The sixth in this excellent series of CD/DVD live Holdsworth packages.

“Live in 2014 at the Jarasum International Jazz Festival in South Korea, accompanied by Jimmy Haslip on bass and Gary Husband on drums.
Beautifully filmed and recorded in HD quality.
Includes a bonus DVD feature of an interview with Jimmy Haslip.”