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“The magic and the voice of Edward Ka-spel (Legendary Pink Dots) meet the ambient and psychedelic prog of Italian duo Motion Kapture, formed by Stefano Rossello (Bahntier, Ketvector) and Filippo Corradin (Bahntier, Lingams & Yoni). Alien Subspace captures and transports us into electronic synth spaces where guitars and basses are dilated in order to catapult us into eclectic stories and visions that only the inspired and melodic voice of Edward Ka-spel knows how to create. The songs are enthralling and...

“Edward Ka-Spel is an English singer/songwriter and musician residing in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. He is best known for his work with the band The Legendary Pink Dots, which he co-founded. He is also known for his work on The Tear Garden with Skinny Puppy's cEvin Key. In 2017, he collaborated with Amanda Palmer on the album I Can Spin a Rainbow. In The Dots, he was initially known as D'Archangel, Prophet Q'Sepel and he used other pseudonyms as well. He has also released numerous solo albums (initially...

"First ever collaboration between Edward Ka-Spel (from The Legendary Pink Dots and Tear Garden) and Steven Stapleton (from Nurse With Wound). It's been years they both wanted to work together and Bisou Records made that happen when they offered them a side on this split LP. The other side is the first musical meeting of Colin "the master of drone" Potter and French sax player Quentin Rollet (The Red Krayola, Mendelson, Nurse With Wound, Prohibition, David Grubbs, Thierry Müller, Ilitch). That first take...

Sylvain Kassap: clarinets
Sophia Domancich: piano, Fender Rhodes
Christiane Bopp: trombone
Aymeric Avice: trumpet, flugelhorn
Hélène Labarrière: double bass
Fabien Duscombs: drums

“Evocation of revolution by a musician with many influences (free jazz, progressive rock, contemporary music...) and surrounded by experienced peers.
Between resignation and social struggles, from melancholy to a shining hope, the music moves forward, like an unstoppable wave. Brilliant solo

Sylvain Kassap: clarinet, clarinet bass
Benjamin Duboc: double bass, voice

“Kassap and Duboc take their listeners across a tightrope of carefully balanced, masterfully evolving free conversation.”

Tristan Kasten Krause - double bass
Jessica Pavone - viola

"New York City-based Pavone and Kasten Krause met by being placed together in the ensembles of other like-minded music experimentalists. It wasn't long before they realized their unique sonic preferences, aesthetics, and approaches to their instruments were similarly aligned and worth further investigation. Over the course of two seasons, they explored and experimented with sound worlds and structures, resulting in the four pieces tha

Achim Kaufmann, piano / Robert Landfermann, double bass / Christian Lillinger, drums.

"Don't let the picture fool you: these three German musicians may be quite young, but they are real masters at their respective instruments. Achim Kaufmann...

"Dan Kaufman, the mastermind of the popular and eclectic band Barbez tackles Radical Jewish Culture with a brilliant interpretation of the life and work of enigmatic Jewish poet Paul Celan. Born in Romania, Celan chose to write exclusively in German...

Ketil Vestrum Einarsen
alto & soprano flutes, tenor horn, treated flute, hulusi,electric piano, saxxy, spektrals, EWI synthesizer
Rhys Marsh
voices, electric guitar, acoustic piano, bass guitar, Fender Rhodes, Mellotron, drum.

Born in Japan in 1947, Ryo had a long and stellar career recording and releasing music. Ryo is one of the pioneers of the jazz fusion genre (editor’s note: and also with his early guitar synthesizer, which was bulky and cumbersome and VERY futuristic and cool, and which I saw him play in Elvin Jones’ Jazz Machine in NYC in June, 1975!).
In the US he worked with some of the greats of jazz, such as Elvin Jones, Chico Hamilton and Bobbi Humphrey, to name but a few. A forward-thinking and ever-evolving..

First time ever on CD outside of Japan.

“Ryo Kawasaki's groundbreaking Jazz Fusion album "Ring Toss" is set for an eagerly anticipated reissue on both CD and digital formats, bringing his seminal work to a new generation of listeners and longtime fans alike.
Originally recorded and produced in 1977 by Kawasaki and Hank O'Neal, this influential album features eight tracks and is being re-released by the renowned Chiaroscuro Records, showcasing Kawasaki's visionary talent and profound impact..

This Esoteric reissue has been newly re-mastered from the original master tapes, features a bonus track from the band’s first single, and a booklet that fully restores all original album artwork with a new essay. First and one of the best of the albums...

“An album 20 years in the making, the first solo work from former Yes member Tony Kaye.Marking the events and the journey that followed the world changing moments of 9/11, End Of Innocence is designed to be listened to in it's entirety. Featuring Dani Torchia who Kaye met in the wake of 9/11 who has written and performs on the album. Tony Kaye retired from Yes in 1996, and came out of retirement the week following the events of 9/11 and began to write this album, the power of it's music helped Tony to...

“Kayo Dot, the endlessly eclectic project, spearheaded by composer and producer Toby Driver, was formed in 2003 by the members of the legendary ethereal metal band, Maudlin of the Well, marking a giant-inspired evolutionary leap. Since then, Kayo Dot's muse has shown it's face through slow and massive cascades of guitars and violins, and soundscapes spanning from "Bitches Brew"-inspired tripped-out goth fusion to hyper-fast, angular and atonal suicidal black metal.
Kayo Dot's members and...

"...multi-instrumentalists Toby Driver and Mia Matsumiya lull you into a dream state with a small cavalcade of instrumentation, plying an almost noir sensibility at once moody and contemplative, bristling and demure. An unclassifiable masterpiece."

Kayo Dot used to be known as Maudlin of the Well, who were a avant-garde/classical leaning metal outfit. Wanting to move beyond that, they changed their name and direction and became Kayo Dot. This lists 10 musicians on guitars, cello, flute/clarinet/a...

"Kayo Dot warned that Coffins on Io, their new album, was going to be different. In the PR-cast baited hook that accompanied the original announcement, leader Toby Driver said as much: "Basically the vibe that we're going for here is inspired by 80s...

“The stark frailty of the human condition is the overall theme running through the veins of Kayo Dot's 10th regular studio album "Moss Grew on the Swords and Plowshares Alike". In the sprawling, churning musical multiverse of mainly multi-instrumentalist Toby Driver's creation that has never accepted nor cared for any artificial borders of genre and incorporated for example rock, metal, classical music, goth, indie, pop, and jazzy structures, this avant-garde album appears to tilt towards a more harsh...

"Kayo Dot has never made the same record twice. From chamber music to progressive black metal, from goth to jazz and avant-garde classical, Kayo Dot is undeniably experimental and utterly unclassifiable. Since it's inception in 2003, the band has released seven full-length albums, including their debut Choirs of the Eye (2003), the conceptual double-album Hubardo (2013) and most recently Coffins on Io (2014, The Flenser). On Plastic House on Base of Sky, Kayo Dot fully embraces Coffins on Io's electronic...

"A burning CD of improvisations by these two instrumental masters, who have been involved in some of the most exciting bands out of the Japanese underground scene of the past twenty years. Yoshida is in a particulary inspired mode, as Uchihashi outdoes...

NEARfest 2006 will get off to a rousing start with the fiery symphonic fusion Japanese quartet KBB. Led by the alternately subtle and searing electric violin work of Akihisa Tsuboy, contrasted with the outstanding Keith Emerson- and Dave Stewart-influe...


''Enigmatic'' noise-making musician/guitarist Haino is the man of the moment in certain circles. This is performed mostly on hand percussion & ''impassioned'' vocals. I dunno; I thought this was pretty much a big wank! [Tzadik]

Haino Keiji is a mysterious psychedelic minstrel who has been performing his peculiar blend of rock, medieval music and improvisation since the early 1970s. Incredibly prolific, he has headed dozens of bands and released hundreds of CDs on a variety of...

“Hypnotic guitar playing swirls throughout this superbly melancholic folk rock LP, privately issued in ‘76 alongside Crooked Oaks debut.
Brilliant songs that edge towards Roy Harper. Dave Keir provides the sleeve notes. the LP is characterised by stunning, exquisite finger picked guitar of the highest order, the compositions are deep, dark and magical, infused with a sense of sorrow.”

Aly Keïta: Balafon, Kalimba, Voice
Jan Galega Brönnimann: Contra Alto- and Bass Clarinet, Soprano Saxophone, Kass Kass, Thumb Piano
Lucas Niggli: Drums, Percussion

"Aly Keïta comes from a Malinke Griot family from the Ivory Coast and is a master of the balafon, the African xylophone.
The musician from Côte d'Ivoire settled in Europe years ago and has since played with a number of jazz giants from keyboarder Joe Zawinul to Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek.
Aly Keïta's music..

Aly Keita: Balafon
Jan Galega Bronnimann: Bass Clarinet, Contrabass Clarinet, Soprano Saxophone
Lucas Niggli: Drums

"Aly Keita is one of the grand masters of the balafon, the West African xylophone. The Ivorian musician fits the balafon in interaction with artists such as Joe Zawinul, Omar Sosa and Jan Garbarek. Together with the Swiss clarinetist Jan Galega Bronnimann and Swiss drummer Lucas Niggli Keita mixes the traditional African repertoire with Western jazz, Improvisation and...

Rodd Keith is known as one of the wildest and most creative of the send us your lyrics" composers, but Ecstacy to Frenzy shows us a hitherto unknown side of this twisted genius. Two versions of a recently unearthed extended studio composition featuring...

Rodd Keith was the musical auteur of MSR's send-us-your-lyrics record label (aspiring songwriters send in their poems [& their $] & get back their poems put to ''music''). America's most wretched lyrics transformed by a churn-'em-out sensibility. Total...

"Keletigui Traoré was already a respected professional flutist and saxophonist when he was invited to join the Syli Orchestre National in 1959. In the mid '60s he and several other members of the national orchestra formed a dance band called Orchestre...

"Guitarist/composer/conductor/vocalist Derek Keller was born in Philadelphia and now resides in La Jolla, California. A former student of Roger Reynolds, George Crumb and Brian Ferneyhough, his work is intense and remarkably colorful. Blending diverse...


Last chance to pick this up, as Fallout have gone bust. Last copies and available at a bargain price!

"East Coast singer-songwriter Peter Kelley made two superb albums, of which this is the first. An atmospheric blend of bluesy downer folk and...

Outstanding price on this collection from the albums pianist Wynton Kelly recorded for Vee-Jay between 1959-1961. Featured are Sam Jones, Paul Chambers (bass), Philly Jo Jones (drums), Lee Morgan (trumpet), Wayne Shorter (tenor sax).

Mike Keneally's first album in well over two years is also the recorded debut of the tight and powerful Mike Keneally Band: Mike on guitar, keyboards and lead vocals, Rick Musallam on guitar and vocals, Bryan Beller on bass and Nick D'Virgilio on drums...

"In mid-2005, Mike Keneally felt an irresistible calling to assemble his dream-lineup Mike Keneally Band and take to the road for the first time in years. So Mike, bassboy extraordinaire Bryan Beller, sublimely zen guitarist Rick Musallam and impossibl...

"Mike's classic '90s Immune releases are now safely home at Exowax Recordings, the label co-owned by Mike and his manager Scott Chatfield. "This album is the sound of someone who can't believe he's finally being allowed to make a real live solo album...

This is subtitled: studio recordings 1998-2006: being a collection of unreleased things, rarities and allsorts from the last several years or so.

"Mike describes Wine And Pickles as "the album I didn't know I was making over the last ten years.".


Sometimes it seems that actual human feeling, conveyed through passionate musicianship and songwriting, is all but absent in popular music nowadays. Mike Keneally is thrilled to prove otherwise with his eighth album, Dancing. Mike has invited Beer For ...

“Eyvind Kang and Jessika Kenney are two are musicians who have established themselves as powerful voices working at a unique intersection of contemporary composition, improvisation, and Asian traditional music forms. Either individually or as a pair, they have worked in contexts ranging from performances of traditional Persian and Javanese music to collaborations with Sunn O))), but their work together as a duo most clearly represents the central concerns of their diverse practices: a music of the inner....


Kenso have been making great progressive jazz/rock albums for 35 years. This fabulous 1985 release was the band's third album and their first that they didn't have to release themselves and which gained them a huge nod of attention in the progressive jazz/rock-starved world that was 1985!
This is a band with a catalog of excellent works, but this one is one of *the* ones to own if you don't have anything, so start here! Like most of their work from the 80s and 90s, it's been unavailable for a long...

Kenso have been making great progressive jazz/rock albums for 35 years. This 1992 release was the band's seventh album and their second live album and it's another killer, solid release of 50% jazz/rock and 50% symphonic rock.
Kenso are a band with a zillion live albums, but having seen them (lucky me!) I can kind of appreciate why they have done this, as they are absolutely monster's in a live setting. Like most of their work from the 80s and 90s, it's been unavailable for a long while...

Kenso have been making great progressive jazz/rock albums for 35 years. This 1989 release was the band's fifth album and it's another killer, solid release of 50% jazz/rock and 50% symphonic rock. Like most of their work from the 80s and 90s, it's been unavailable for a long while.
Now it's available again at a reasonable price, especially for a Japanese release, as a special blu-spec CD release!

Lucie V – Vocals
Chris Egan – Reeds, Woodwinds, Wind Synth
Danny Chang – Guitars
Rik Loveridge – Hammond Organ, Synths
Phil Warren – Bass
James Hall – Drums

“The follow up to last year’s The Last Harvest see’s this Canterbury scene inspired band gain a couple of new members (drummer James Hall and woodwind player Chris Egan). It was recorded over a 40 day period, where the band worked quickly and, according to the press release, discarded anything that didn’t fit. What you

"Recorded and released after a two-year stint in Europe, Until marks alto saxophonist Robin Kenyatta's American debut as a leader, after sideman tenures with Sonny Stitt, Bill Dixon, and Archie Shepp. For anyone (of the few) who followed the rather obscure reedman's career, this set -- originally released on the Atlantic jazz subsidiary Vortex and produced by Joel Dorn -- is indicative of the restless nature of Kenyatta's career on his own records: he was not only interested in, but attempted to play...

“An auspicious debut” --Prog Magazine (of band's first album)

“A wonderful combination of feel good tracks and narrative highs” --Distorted Sound

“Purely and simply an astounding piece of work on every level” --Maximum Volume

“British prog trio Kepler Ten have announced details of their forthcoming album ‘A New Kind of Sideways’, which serves as a comeback for the band, who released their highly acclaimed debut Delta-V in 2017.
A New Kind of Sideways is a semi-conceptual....


''One of our most important young American voices, Kernis writes music that draws on a crazy quilt of American cultural references. As the title implies, this is a compilation of the composer's lighter works.'' This is a CD+ release & includes an addit...