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In the last five years or so, there has been a surprising re-appraisal and resurgence of the Americana-style guitar music as invented by great 60s players like Robbie Basho, John Fahey and others. There is a large number of players out there now...

In the last ten years or so, there has been a surprising re-appraisal and resurgence of the Americana-style guitar music as invented by great 60s players like Robbie Basho, John Fahey and others. There is a large number of players out there now...

"Glenn Jones is a unique voice working in the decades-long tradition of American primitivism. What sets him apart from the many devotees to this style is the combination of expressive playing and technical skill, most significantly his inventive use of...

"Glenn Jones, a 30+ year devotee of the so called 'American Primitive' school of acoustic steel string guitarists, has been playing guitar since the age of 14. The Wanting, Glenn Jones' first album for Thrill Jockey, was recorded in a fourth floor...

Most folks know Glenn Jones as guitarist extraordinaire for Cul de Sac, in which his idiosyncratic blend of surf, Middle Eastern, Americana and acid guitar innovations are a signature of the bands muchballyhooedsound, but few people are aware that long...

''British composer Jeremy Peyton Jone's vocal and theater music performed by his Ensemble Regular Music II. A music powerfully rhythmic, lyrical and dramatic. Voted in 1996 best cd in the category Modern Composition by The Wire Critics Choice poll.''...

Solo album by the leader of Cheer-Accident.
"On this solo CD from '97, he delivers a beautiful collection of songs that draw from the wells of the Robert Wyatt and Brian Wilson songbooks, drenched in late-night solo ambience. This stunning...

Steve Reich-ian solo album by the leader of Cheer-Accident.

"Five piano “quartets” (recorded on 4-track) with hypnotically intertwining phrases."

"Long prayed-for reissue of this classic 1970 UK folk stunner that's a missing link both in the Wizz Jones oeuvre and in the guitar-freedom music of the prime era. The Legendary Me was Wizz Jones' second studio album, originally released by the obscure...

"This classic 1973 set finds him playing a mixture of standards and modern classics, accompanied by the legendary Bert Jansch and Lazy Farmer -- all arranged in his inimitable style. This release is now available on CD for the first time ever...

For the first time ever, all three of Jonesy's albums (No Alternative, Keeping Up and Growing) are collected complete in one package. These albums were released in 1972/1973 and while the band is basically forgotten today, they had some really nice and...

First widely available and legit reissue of the material by this early 70s progressive rock band from the UK. Now basically forgotten, they definitely had some really nice and original aspects. "Jonesy are the last great secret of the early seventies...

This is the unreleased, fourth, 1974 Jonesy album, which includes a full story of the band by guitarist John Evan-Jones

"A legendary missing prog album, recently discovered on a dusty cassette and remastered in reasonable manner...

"This is the second full-length release by Jon Andreas Håtun aka Jono El Grande, a self-taught composer, musician, conductor and prankster who remains an outsider on the far margin of the Norwegian experimental music scene. When Frank Zappa asked Does...

"This is the third full-length release by Jon Andreas Håtun aka Jono El Grande, a self-taught composer, musician, conductor and prankster who remains an outsider on the far margin of the Norwegian experimental music scene. He released his debut...

"The Choko King by Jono El Grande features recordings from the period between 1995 and 2008, some of which pre-dates his first album by four years. This album offers an open door into Jono's surrealistic musical universe and is a rare gift to his...

This is the first-ever CD release of very good, somewhat odd and quirky album (weren't they all!) first released on Bauta in 1985. J. Lachen is/was also a member of Zut un feu Rouge and Ur Kaos. This includes the bonus track "Flaubears Dancing", a...

GREAT to see this, a minor lost classic from '89, reissued so nicely! Lars is a creative musician, formerly with the similarly forgotten Zut Un Feu Rouge, who has some ties to RIO styles & a (dark) sound that is all his own. This, his 2nd solo, is a un...

Great trio jazz from a great jazz trio: Kidd Jordan-sax, Harrison Bankhead-bass, cello, Warren Smith-drums, vibes, percussion.

"Kidd Jordan returns with his unique brand of fire-blues-free-jazz. When you hear his staccato phrases circling...

Sheila Jordan-vocals, Barry Galbraith-guitar, Steve Swallow-bass, Denzil Best-drums. [Blue Note]

We got a tremendous buy on small-ish quantities of the famous Blue Note label. These import versions (which include the full liner notes in English) a...



Mariam Wallentin voice
Erika Angell voice
Fredrik Ljungkvist clarinet, bass clarinet, tenor saxophone
Anders Jormin double-bass
Jon Fält drums

"Bassist Anders Jormin steps out with one of his projects, with an ensemble formed.

The legendary Joseph Holbrooke trio is thought to be one of the first English free-jazz bands, forming in the early/mid 60s, and basically leaving no recorded traces before the three musicians involved all went on to well known careers. "Tzadik is prou...

Don't think I can't hear you saying, "Jesus Christ, he's fucking selling JOURNEY", because I can!

Listen, if you don't know this album, you really don't know what you are missing. This is the 1st album by Journey and it features Gregg Rolle...

Though the performance was beset with technical woes, as the members audibly mention at points between songs, there was still definite magic in the air. If the recording levels aren't as perfect as they could be, with Curtis himself sometimes a touch t...

"Joy Mega is a group comprised of the crème (aka butter) of the NYC avant-jazz underground, realizing a set of coruscating, transcendent, cosmic pop music penned by bassist and vocalist, Jason Ajemian. Jason is widely known for his work with kin within...

"„Minne” was the fourth and second to last LP by Joy Unlimited from Mannheim; it was recorded in 1974 and released in 1975. It is, as its forerunners “Schmetterlinge” and “Reflections”, a ballet work with progressive music, this time sung in Middle High..

"In 1973 singer Joy had already quit the group and Ken Traylor had joined instead. As Joy Unlimited consisted of highly talented and accepted musicians, they were offered an appointment for another ballet work, this time at the Mannheim Nationaltheater...

Their second album Schmetterlinge" (Butterfly) was an odd album for the Pilz label, originally released in 1971, a complex and ambitious conceptual rock ballet suite performed by a larger much more multi-instrumental ensemble. It ran a wide gamut of st...


"English acoustic guitarist C Joynes, a resident of Cambridge, has released a few self produced excellent CDRs, but here sees his first Bo' Weavil release. Joynes uses a heavy thumb-led finger-picking technique that harks back to traditional country-blue

Great, unusual, weirdcore, post-rock, folk-rock ensemble who might be a bit comparable to a more acoustic, more Americana-based Sleepytime Gorilla Museum. The instrumentation consists of guitar, bass, drums, violin, viola, piano, vocals, accordian...

"Dora Juarez is a brilliant young vocalist whose first CD on Tzadik with the trio Muna Zul was released to great acclaim in 2003. Here she steps out on her own to create a fascinating musical journey exploring her own Jewish identity. Tracing her...

As I think I've mentioned before, I started my career in music retail in a store that sold a lot of metal, which wasn't something I was really familiar with or - honestly - particularly crazy about. This album, however, knocked my socks off from the...

This is a new edition of this release of old archival material, which was actually the first release on the Long Hair label and has been unavilable for quite a long time now.

"The legendary SWF (German regional radio from Baden-Baden) radio...

"A Time Before This" is a lost classic of the Progressive era. Released on the short lived Youngblood label in 1970, the double album was the first vinyl outing for Science Fiction author Julian Jay Savarin, who assembled a group of musicians to record...

In the very early 1980s, when the RIO-axis of avant/progressive music was strong and I was enjoying and/or discovering such delights and classics as Ceux du Dehors, Aksak Maboul, ZNR's Traite de Mechanique, Art Zoyd's Generation Sans Futur, etc. etc...

In the very early 1980s, when the RIO-axis of avant/progressive music was strong and I was enjoying and/or discovering such delights and classics as Ceux du Dehors, Aksak Maboul, ZNR's Traite de Mechanique, Art Zoyd's Generation Sans Futur, etc. etc...

"Few players have forged the free jazz genre with the unmitigated intensity and purity of Paul Flaherty, the organizer of The Jumala Quintet. Among diehard aficionados, Flaherty’s albums are the stuff of legend: They are difficult to find, uncompromising

Mini-lp sleeve reissue of the second album by this Italian progressive band. "DNA (1972) revealed that their sound had matured surprisingly quickly, moving in a totally idiosyncratic direction. Actually, it's difficult to pigeonhole this music...it com...

Mini-lp sleeve reissue of the third and final album (in their original lifetime) by this Italian progressive band. "Without doubt, Vietato Ai Minori Di 18 Anni (1973) was Jumbo's masterpiece. With guests such as Franco Battiato and Lino Vaccina (from...