"The Incredible String Band's The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter, arguably their finest studio work, reached the top 5 on the UK album charts soon after its release in March 1968, and was nominated for a Grammy in the U.S. Robert Plant has said that Led Zeppelin found their own way by playing Hangman's and following the instructions. A departure from the band's previous albums, the set relied heavily on a more layered production, with imaginative use of the then-new multi-track recording techniques...

Freaks? check! Creative? check! Influencial? check! Utterly uncommercial, even in their most popular heyday? check! The one 60's band who is probably the single largest influence on the new folk or "new weird America" scene? check and double check!...

"Legendary UK psych outfit Infinity formed in 1969 from the ashes of “Chocolate Soup” psych faves the Flies and Cymbaline. The mission: to develop a heavy psychedelic/pop sound, and express it through complex original songs. Thanks to some funky Hammond o

"Inhabitants are an instrumental four-piece from Vancouver, featuring JP Carter on acoustic and amplified trumpet/effects, Dave Sikula on guitar/effects, Pete Schmitt on bass/effects and Skye Brooks on drums. Close dissection of their music may reveal...

Mikko Innanen sopranino, alto and baritone saxophone, oboe
Cedric Piromalli Hammond organ
Stefan Pasborg drums and percussion
+ Lori Freedman voice on Pratsch & Who Nation-State Isn’t

"An organ trio like no other, Finnish saxophonist Mikko Innanen, Danish drummer Stefan Pasborg and French Hammond hero Cédric Piromalli are back to twist traditions and confound conventions.
Following on from their gloriously impish Clean Feed debut, 2021’s This Is It, comes the uber-fusion feast.

A California group who I had not run into/heard of before, but who appear to have been a group since 2005. Their music is somewhere between jazz and rock, but not 'jazz/rock'. The personnel is
Melody Ferris: Vocals
Ivor Holloway: Tenor and Alto...

''Perhaps the most interesting electronic music since the classic period of Stockhausen and Xenakis. Tetsu Inoue is a composer and sound artist who has worked in a variety of musics -- ambient, sound installation, dance music, techno and is a frequent ...

Gianni Bertolone - vocals
Pierenzo Alessandria - electric guitars
Vito Aprile - bass & Taurus
Federico Silva - drums & percussions
Jack Bram - keyboards & synthesizers

“INSOMNIA was born in Turin in 2012 from the meeting of a group of musicians, some of whom return to the scene after more than 25 years.
All lovers of symphonic prog, these musicians begin to work on the project of an old-style concept album, using the classic sounds of the 70-80s (Hammond, Mellotron, clavin

Read all the below because it’s fascinating and true and tells you why this is very much of interest on its own, but also be aware that Tim Souster was the reason why Soft Machine were invited to play The Proms in 1970 and a recording of Intermodulation augmented by Mike Ratledge and performing ‘Keyboard Study No. 2’ from that Proms is featured on CD 2.

“Formed in Cambridge in 1969 by Tim Souster and Roger Smalley, Intermodulation started out as a four-piece group with the addition of Robin...

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"Indifferent is only the second studio release from Japanese symph-rockers Interpose+, but quite a bit of history lies behind this group: formed in the mid-1980s by guitarist Kenji Tanaka and drummer Katsu Sato, Interpose performed in a variety of...

“Destination Eternity” is a concept album about the journey of a soul to its final destination. Like the painting perfectly symbolizes the disaster at sea and the beautiful song written about it, “The Source” also symbolizes live and death and becoming a better soul along that journey.

“The origins of Into The Open can be traced to two specific musicians: Jan Willem Ketelaers and Sander Heerings, who got together to bring a story to life via a concept album. The story, in true prog style, is a....

Really good, fun and uniquely wacky rock band with a lot of normal as well as abnormal influences from Texas. The band is a quintet consisting of trumpet/vocals, keyboards/vocals, guitar/vocals, bass/vocals and drums. To give you an idea of their...

Truly excellent instrumental technical (and I mean *technical*) metal group from Columbia, South Carolina, of all places.
Using dual guitars, bass and drums, this is fast and hyper-complex stuff, straight out of the Blotted Science, Animals As Leaders school.
This stuff is brainy, fast and furious and 'Aural Kaleidoscopes' is a great description of what they do.
As my pal Ken, who turned me onto them in the first place, said: "This album is ludicrous and you need to own it. Highly recommend

Something like this comes along so rarely that it is worth remarking on. While the packaging apparently can't be bothered to list everyone's name (shame! shame!) and I have never heard of any of the main folks who are mentioned, this is an excellent li...

"IO Earth is a symphonic, progressive rock band and is truly genre defying. Dave Cureton and Adam Gough, the co-leaders, believe that this, their 3rd studio album, contains their best material to date.

They continue to discover more about their..

“Some will remember his two great small ensemble compositions from an earlier quarterly. This collection concentrates more on his (prize-winning) tape works and includes the great Hong Kong changeover cityscape 'In Between', extracts from works about Israeli whistleblower Mordecai Vanunu and Edwin Armstrong (inventor of FM modulation) as well as other radio works and three chamber pieces based on African rhythms. Enormous variety.”-Chris Cutler

“One of the strangest CDs ever to come your way...

“Previously available on the Inside Out label, 'Frequency', IQ's critically acclaimed 2009 album, has been unavailable for over a year and is currently going for stupid money on the likes of eBay and Discogs. Now back with GEP we are finally able to make Frequency available again. This new release features the all new and exclusive live version of the album's epic 'The Province' as an extra track, recorded in 2009 at de Boerderij, Zoetermeer, Holland.”

"IQ does not cease to impress with their....

"Filipino-American Jon Irabagon has topped both the Rising Star Alto Saxophone and the Rising Star Tenor Saxophone categories in Down Beat's critics polls and been named one of Time Out New York's 25 New York City Jazz Icons. A founding member of Mostly Other People Do The Killing, he is also an integral member of the Mary Halvorson Quintet, Dave Douglas Quintet, and Barry Altschul's 3Dom Factor. John Hegre is a musician, songwriter, sound engineer, and a pioneer of the Norwegian noise music scene. He...

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Christoph Irniger Tenor Saxophone, Bass Clarinet
Raffaele Bossard Bass
Ziv Ravitz Drums

"The pieces on this album celebrate melody without once degenerating into the trivial. They are tone poems which demonstrate that accessible...

Christoph Irniger: Tenor Saxophone
Raffaele Bossard: Bass
Ziv Ravitz: Drums
Loren Stillman: Alto Saxophone
Nils Wogram: Trombone

"After the acclaimed albums Gowanus Canal (2012) and Octopus (2015), Christoph Irniger and his trio with bassist Raffaele Bossard and drummer Ziv Ravitz present Open City: extended by the American alto saxophonist Loren Stillman and guest Nils Wogram on trombone. Familiar with the jazz tradition, the extended trio makes an up-to-date musical statemen

Christoph Irniger: Tenor Saxophone
Stefan Aeby: Piano
Dave Gisler: Guitar
Raffaele Bossard: Bass
Michael Stulz: Drums

“The quintet of Zurich tenor saxophonist Christoph Irniger presents its fifth album on Intakt Records on the occasion of the band’s 10th anniversary. Over the years, the band has created a distinct ensemble identity and has matured into one of the most exciting ensembles of young European jazz. As a well-rehearsed unit, the band on Ghost Cat fulfills all the...

Fanny Bouland: drums, vocals
Guillaume Carle: bass, vocals
Sabrina Duval: guitar, vocals
Valentin Fayaud: guitar, vocals

“French rock outfit Irnini Mons approach post-punk in an oblique and candid way. With the intent of contributing to the relevancy of modern guitar-based music, they put their four personas at work since 2021 to craft a mixed, diverse solution of indie, progressive, pop and grungy rock.
Formed with ex-members of the former punk band Decibelles (endorsed by.