“With a number of traditional Korean instruments being played you might expect some parochial World Music. And that's what you get to start with to lull you into a false sense of security. Then mayhem breaks out in a God Speed You Black Emperor sort of fashion, but with much heavier drums. A stunning noise that sounds very fresh, blending post rock sounds with a generous dose of traditional Korean instruments. Those two elements are combined seamlessly, constantly creating images of wild nature to the...

"One of the most important and influential figures on the post war blues scene, singer, guitarist and songwriter Elmore James was the unchallenged king of the electric slide guitar, updating the legacy of the country blues to post-war Chicago. His music, and particularly his guitar playing, has been a major source of inspiration for countless blues and rock musicians over the years. Eric Clapton, Duane Allman and Jimi Hendrix are just a few of the rock legends who have acknowledged his influence. This...

''Two young performers of the great Northern Indian Classical Music born one in USA, Steve James, sarod, the other in Italy, Federico Sanesi, tabla. Pupils of two Indian Master like Ravi Shakar and Shanka Chatterjee the two Westerns add to the respect ...

"Janel & Anthony - guitars and 'cello respectively - play a haunting and humbly virtuosic form of music wherein the elements of electronics, looping, and lo-fi timbres live both in intimacy and in majesty in the same house as acoustic...

“This O.U.R.S. (or 'ours', French for bear) has a unifying growl. O.U.R.S. has deep roots, and an airy joy. Fine. But what exactly is O.U.R.S.? A mispronunciation of a bygone communist realm, or a sophisticated spelling of a word used to refer to a quadruped with a sore head? Nothing of the sort. Far from it. O.U.R.S is a jazz quartet. A quartet of fine blades that cut through the current jazz scene in as many playgrounds as possible. Labelling each one, they embrace them all. O.U.R.S. It's probably prog...

“The fact that Bert Jansch continues to produce superb records more than 30 years into his career is proof not only of his talent, but of his longevity, and Toy Balloon follows up on the excellent When the Circus Comes to Town to show that his touch -- both as a writer and guitarist -- remains sure. "She Moves Through the Fair" is a traditional piece that's been tackled by almost everybody, but in his hands it becomes beautifully meditative and hypnotic, the perfect lead-in to the gentle love song...

This is the beginning of their very interesting and influential phase, after their fairly unremarkable earlier recordings.

"Influenced by Roxy Music, David Bowie and Brian Eno, Japan's stylish synth-pop sound made them one of the more intriguing and successful artists of their time. Featuring David Sylvian on vocals, bassist Mick Karn, guitarist Steven Jansen and drummer Richard Barbieri."

This was their final studio album and also their best, showing off their influences like Roxy Music, Eno and Bowie.

"Recorded within two weeks of Miles Davis's death, this CD is a direct emotional response to the trumpeter's passing from a long-established trio of his former sidemen: pianist Keith Jarrett, bassist Gary Peacock, and drummer Jack DeJohnette....

"Keith Jarrett's first solo acoustic piano recording remains one of his best. At this point in late 1971, Jarrett had just started improvising completely freely. That does not mean that his solos were necessarily atonal but simply that they were not...

Impulse! Is celebrating their 50th anniversary with several re-issues including a collection of “2-fers," two albums on one compact disc.

"Pianist Keith Jarrett's mid-'70s quintet was the strongest regular group that he ever led and all of...

Standards Live, from 1987, continued at the same high level of previous Standards, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 with pianist Keith Jarrett often recalling his early influence, Bill Evans. The well-integrated trio (Gary Peacock, bass; Jack DeJohnette, drums) plays...

Piero Bittolo Bon, alto saxophone, smartphone / Stefano Senni, double bass / Francesco Cusa, drums.

"If you're curious to know what's happening in the Transalpine scene besides the Italian Instabile Orchestra and its members personal projects...

"This is the first digital issue of Belgian songsmith Catherine Jauniaux’s classic recording from 1983. Her main co-conspirator is Tim Hodgkinson (Henry Cow, The Work), himself a mainstay in the world of modern, experimental music.
Together they perform a work which defies both categorization and genre labeling, offering up almost as many different styles of music as the instruments that played them. Besides capturing what could arguably be Catherine’s most unique and auspicious vocal work, this....

One of the greatest violin masters in India is undoubtably Lalgudi G. Jayamaran, and he is particularly appreciated for his ability to maintain a high level of concentration in his interpretations. Carnatic music is made of short ragas and the player c...

"German-born composer/trumpeter Michael Mantler and his then-wife Carla Bley were instrumental in developing within jazz the idea of self-sufficiency and independence from established record companies.
Their creation of the Jazz Composer's Orchestra, with recordings released on their own label, was the culmination of this endeavor, and the first recording was one of the masterpieces of creative music in the '60s. Mantler had come from the European avant-classical tradition and sought to provide an..

"Hipness is over. When in 1987 Roy Nathanson, Curtis Fowlkes, Marc Ribot, and E.J. Rodriguez decided to no longer function as John Lurie's backing band Lounge Lizards, they formed the Jazz Passengers. At this 1990 show they already had canned three studio albums, just enough to present a diversified touring programme. From Zappa-esque originals 'The Faker' and 'Peace In The Valley' to the soft and sweet rendering of Duke's 'Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me' and the warmhearted (at least before it....

Jazz Q were the top jazz/rock band from Czechoslovakia in the 70s and into the very early 80s. The group was originally formed at the very beginning of the 70s by the electric pianist/electric keyboardist Martin Kartochvil, who remained the leader until the band’s end. This is a high quality, never before released live recording.

"Titans of Czechoslovak fusion in concert. Unpublished material from 1980, recorded several months after the premiere of the "Hodokvas" album, is a perfect symbiosis...

With MJ Stevens.

Hilary is a young English trombonist who is making a name for himself on the UK jazz/improvisation circuit. He may currently be best known for his work with the Paul Dunmall Octet. "Solo outing for one of Europe's leading trombonists, a member of numer...

This is an authorized issue of a recording of the concert given on May 7, 1969 by Jefferson Airplane at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. This concert was popularly bootlegged several times and this is the first time it has been officially released. It is a very, very good audience tape for the time period and shows the band at home in front of their hometown crowd and enjoying themselves.
While there are repeats from Bless It's Pointed Little Head, this has more later period Jefferson Airplane...

One of the most essential and quintessential West Coast (meaning San Francisco) psych bands of the 60s, this is an excellent quality early/prime period release. The sound is quite excellent for what these are and the age that these are - a bit hissy...

"Jefferson Airplane were less focused in 1969 than they had been in the Summer of Love two years before. Recorded at the Fillmore East, these performances find the Airplane coming off their most recent album, Volunteers, released a month earlier, with the band a lot looser (drug use aside) and fractured. The factions in the group were presenting themselves during performances, and this set is no exception. Guitarist Jorma Kaukonen and bassist Jack Casady connected and jammed like they would have been....

While there were other albums released under the Jefferson Airplane name, this is really the final album by the classic band. The five bonus tracks are fantastic, recorded live in November, 1969 at the Filmore East!

"This is Jefferson Airplane at its peak, political and trippy, at the end of the Sixties. Before their legendary squabbles would, finally, make them implode, they managed one last great album, and here it is. Each of them seem to have hit their stride, Kantner's writing...