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This adventurous, improvising jazz/rock group is related to Moraine (who also have a CD out on MoonJune) and consists of Dennis Rea & Thaddaeus Brophy on guitars, Bill Jones on trumpet, Ryan Berg on bass and Jay Jaskot on drums.

"Iron Kim Style..

Camae Ayewa - voice, synth
Keir Neuringer - saxophone, synth, percussion
Aquiles Navarro - trumpet, synth
Luke Stewart - double bass, bass guitar
Tcheser Holmes - drums, percussion

Second great release from this incredible band who are very thought-provoking and very groove-laden, while also being very OUT! They are all fantastic players, and, having seen them twice, I can also say that they are AMAZING live and Camae is a great spoken word artist. Recommended...

Camae Ayewa - voice
Keir Neuringer - saxophone, synth, percussion
Aquiles Navarro - trumpet, synth
Luke Stewart - double bass, bass guitar
Tcheser Holmes - drums, percussion

Third great release from this incredible band who are very thought-provoking and very groove-laden, while also being very OUT!
Musically, they continue their game between improvisation and structures. They are quite different from the rest of the new free jazz groups and groove-influenced groups...

Classic Irish traditional album that has been out of print and quite rare and sought after on CD for a long time.

"This classic 1976 album from former Planxty members Andy Irvine and Paul Brady was greeted with critical acclaim when released...


I.B. are a Swedish progressive mainstay, but with their two most recent albums they have been moving towards a thoroughly orchestrated work that combines elements of many styles of progressive, symphonic & avant rock. They use tuned percussion, guitars...

Excellent, instrumentally-oriented 1984 release by these perenially great Swedes. This was their first release. They have a very orchestrated sound that they get out of keyboards, guitar, bass, mallet percussion & drums. Maybe one of their most...

“Following the success of their collaboraton with Peter Hammill, Sweden’s Isildurs Bane return with a new album.
 This time, the band is joined by singer Jinian Wilde, 
best known for his work in The David Cross Band. 
The result is another shift in direcon while remaining true to the ethos that inspires and animates IB.

Mats Johansson, who joined IB in 1977 standing not only as its longest-serving member, but also its principal composer and keyboardist comments, ‘Our work with Jinian is similar to...

If I told you how much difficulty it was for us to get this release after ordering a huge number, and then we only received a tiny handful on release date you'd laugh. So I won't tell you. BUT THEY ARE FINALLY HERE NOW and Peter just sounds fantastic and has lost nothing in terms of his commanding power! Recommended.

“Extraordinary times call for extraordinary music. Sweden’s leading chamber rock ensemble, Isildurs Bane, and the legendary Van Der Graaf Generator vocalist and composer, Peter...

“TEMPORAL spans the groundbreaking band's entire discography with inclusions from MOSQUITO CONTROL to the band's final full-length album, WAVERING RADIANT. "It was fun and also very nostalgic collecting material for this release," commented Aaron Harris. "I hear our catalogue differently now that I'm not living with these songs day to day. This is a special collection of outtakes, demos, unreleased tracks and videos; some of which I think we even forgot about."

“While bands like Neurosis and...

"Islaja is Merja Kokkonen, a visual artist and musician from Helsinki, Finland. She's been releasing records on Finnish label Fonal since 2004. The first one, Meritie, introduced her lovely sense of musical wonder to the world and garnered excited...

Nice, unassuming, instrumental, psychedelic space-rock and beyond release by this two guitarists (+ loops/samples/ electronics/etc.) and bass and drums. "Isn't is the name of the band. The quartet was born when Pino Dieni and Luca Formentini met, both ...

This is the fourth excellent CD by this instrumental progressive rock trio made up of bassist Jim Anderson, guitarist Malcolm Smith, and keyboardist Marc Spooner. Featured on Isobar IV is Anglagard’s Mattias Olsson on drums and percussion, and also appearing are Evan Weiss, trumpet, Ben Bohorquez, saxophone, and Trevor Lloyd, violin.

"Isobar IV carries on with the band’s unique style of instrumental progressive rock. Over an hour of quirky, interesting, and supremely gratifying progressive..

Koby Israelit is a young Israeli musician living in London who enjoys smashing genres together and grinding them into dust. Koby has absorbed an astounding array of musics, and blends them together here in dynamic and colorful musical world all his own...

"The fourth Tzadik release by this ever-creative Israeli musician features more powerful originals of mixup and mayhem. A student of jazz, classical, punk, heavy metal, gypsy, Balkan, reggae and more, Koby effortlessly blends it all into a unique and...

Another exhilarating CD of stop on a dime genre-smashing courtesy of Koby Israelite, who jumps from Death Metal and Jazz to Klezmer, Balkan and Gypsy music like a chameleon on acid. This is music of great imagination, filled with humor, virtuosic techn...

"Born in Tel Aviv, multi-instrumentalist Koby Israelite has been playing music since the age of nine. Conservatorytrained on piano and keyboards, he was drawn to punk and heavy metal as a teenager, switched to drums and then got turned on to Jazz, Worl...

“The RAW EP was originally sold alongside the It Bites FD Blu-ray. This is an EP of Francis’ unique take on some old It Bites classic songs. Previously only available alongside the ‘Live From The Black Country’ Blu-ray. This is a CD packaged in a shrink-wrapped card sleeve. 15 minutes of otherwise unavailable recordings. Very limited number available.”

Francis Dunnery – Guitars, vocals
Paul Brown – Bass
Chad Wackerman – Drums
Tony Turrell – Keyboards
Dave McCracken – Ambience, sounds

“Return to Natural is a work of quality that benefits from the musicianship of its players. As he showed during his initial run with It Bites, Dunnery is a fluent, acrobatic guitar soloist in the tradition of Allan Holdsworth and Steve Hackett, and his skills are on ample display throughout this release.
While his solo albums in recent year

Marco Cappelli electric guitar
Luca Lo Bianco bass guitar
Francesco Cusa drums
Marco is one of the great guitarists who I was able to meet and work with when we released Adam Rudolph's Go: Organic Guitar Orchestra and it's a pleasure to see he released the second of unique take on the meeting of avant music and surf sounds!

"Take one Italian guitarist active in the Downtown Improvisation and New Music scene – combine with youthful influences of movie music and Spaghetti Westerns..

Itiberê Zwarg is an award-winning Brazilian bassist and the longest-serving member of Hermeto Pascoal’s ground-breaking ensemble ‘O Grupo’. Since their first meeting in 1977, the two have been closely collaborating to create a unique musical language: a genre-defying polyharmonic, polyrhythmic music, now widely studied by musicians and musicologists alike, known as ‘Universal Music’.
This was recorded by Itiberé and his son and a 25 piece orchestra of Japanese players who studied with Itiberé and...

"Itiberê Zwarg Orquestra Família make universal music. This family has fallen from the sky. Their music is excellent, a treasure chest full of harmonic, rhythmic and melodic jewels. The name Itiberê Zwarg Orquestra Família exists because they are a family, united by music and the father they share in Itiberê. His children of sound play better than adults. This was exactly the time for a sound like this to appear. I, Hermeto Pascoal, do not mess around, music is my religion. That's why I say this....

This is the first release of the original 1961 recordings written for a a NYC production of Alfred Jarry's work. Ito's works, only recently being redisovered, are ALWAYS a very personal mixure ofpost-modernism/cross-culturalism. A large range of instru...

"Focusing on his remarkable relationship with the legendary cinematic poet Maya Deren, Tzadik’s third Teiji Ito release highlights his versatile and evocative music for films. Included are two major Deren scores and recently discovered music for a rare...

"The second in a series of releases by the legendary downtown pioneer Teiji Ito presents his postmodern masterpiece Tenno, blending Japanese, African, Carribean and Western musical instruments with sound effects, voice and electronics to create...

"Now hailed as one of the downtown scene’s founding fathers, Teiji Ito blended world music, avant-garde classical and improvisation as early as 1952. This fourth volume of music out of the Ito archives features the original recordings of two of his...

"The fifth CD in Tzadik’s initiative to make available the music of Teiji Ito presents his undisputed masterpiece Watermill. Created in 1971 for the controversial ballet by Jerome Robbins and named for the town on Long Island where Robbins had a...

While the Basque country is politically part of Spain, Itoiz gives plenty of reason to count it as a separate entity. There is an influence in this music that is definitely indigenous to this small area in Northern Spain, which makes Itoiz all the more...

"This beautiful new release by IKP is a wonderful triangulation of sounds, cultures and seasoned musical wizards. The production on this record is impeccable, melding into a wondrous new sound that only these three musicians could make. It's the perfect film score, and who cares about the film!" –Friendly Rich, host Industry Tactics podcast

IKP is Itoken (Kenji Ito, Harpy, etc.) Klimperei (Christophe Petchanatz, etc.) and Frank Pahl (Little Bang Theory, Scavenger Quartet, etc). Kenji..

George Castanza would be proud.

"This I is the fourth recording from itsnotyouitsme, the duo of the two prolific and highly regarded New York musicians guitarist Grey Mcmurray and violinist/composer Caleb Burhans. In the midst of successful solo careers, Burhans and Mcmurray began...

SRDJAN IVANOVIC (Bosnia & Herzegovina, France) - drums, keyboards, compositions, arrangements
ANDREAS POLYZOGOPOULOS (Greece) - trumpet
FEDERICO CASAGRANDE (Italy) - guitar
MIHAIL IVANOV (Bulgaria- upright bass
special guest: MAGIC MALIK (France) - flute

“Never has a five-member quartet sounded better! ... or bigger ... or more profoundly, organically, articulate. Joined by special guest, maestro flutist, Magic Malik, Srdjan Ivanovic's renowned Blazin' Quartet -- featuring

"The cohesive group's ethos is at once reflective and kinetic...this is exciting and eminently listenable stuff, intuitive in bearing and dynamic in execution. An essential for adventurous listeners, [it] could also serve as an ideal introduction to Iyer'

"With this project, Iyer and Ladd have inspired each other to reach far beyond what either has done previously. Taken together, their influences cover the entire spectrum of modern music, and it shows. The mesmerizing sonic miniatures range from the omino

"Pi Recordings is proud to re-issue Grammy Award-nominated pianist Vijay Iyer’s Panoptic Modes. Originally released on the Red Giant label in 2001, this was his third CD as a leader and the one that first launched him to prominence, with rave reviews...

"Holding It Down: The Veterans’ Dreams Project is the result of a three-year collaboration between Grammy® nominee Vijay Iyer and poet/librettist Mike Ladd, with veterans of color from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is also the culmination of a...

"Vijay Iyer and Mike Ladd join forces once again for Still Life with Commentator, something of a follow-up to In What Language? Both these projects are decidedly different than Iyer's albums as sole leader, in that Ladd's poetry is up front and the...

Crush of Night, serves as Part 2 of a 3-part series of thematic albums that began with The Darkened Room (TDR) in 2009. Featuring a guest appearance by Gary Green of Gentle Giant on Words and Miracles (Electric guitar, Guitar solos and backing vocals) and The Crush of Night (guitar solo), IZZ brings their characteristic sense of melody to the fore on this album, while at the same time fusing high reaching emotion with the driving impact that IZZ fans have come to identify with the band.
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"As the successor to I Move, My River Flows continues to raise the musical bar. From the explosive opening title track to the 21-minute closer, “Deafening Silence”, My River Flows is an emotionally charged listening experience. “We’re very proud of My River Flows and very excited to share our new music,” said keyboardist/vocalist/producer Tom Galgano. “We’ve put a lot of ourselves into this album and I think that really shines through.'”

"Izz really comes to maturity with this CD. Capturing a....