Luís Lopes, electric guitar / Robert Landfermann, double bass / Christian Lillinger, drums.

"The encounter of a Lisbon-born and two Berliners documented by this CD isn’t, of course, the only focus of interest proposed by this music. There’s...

Luís Lopes electric guitar
Rodrigo Amado tenor saxophone
Aaron Gonzalez doublebass
Stefan Gonzalez drums

"It took some time (“Live in Madison”, the previous releaseof this Luso-American band, dates back from 2013), but here is the much expected fourth album by portuguese guitarist Luís Lopes’ Humanization 4tet. With tenor saxophonist Rodrigo Amado and the Gonzalez brothers Aaron and Stefan playing the double bass and the drum kit, respectively, the quartet goes further into th

Luís Lopes electric guitar
Rodrigo Pinheiro fender rhodes
Robert Landfermann double bass (with effects)
Christian Lillinger drums

"Luis Lopes’ Lisbon Berlin Quartet immediately references the residences of the contributing musicians, Lopes and Rodrigo Pinheiro from Lisbon, Robert Landfermann and Christian Lillinger from Berlin, but there’s more than this that feeds the specific urban relations of this music. To say each is a city with a past, is understatement. If Berlin will loom...

Brandon Lopez - bass
Steve Baczkowski - saxophones
Gerald Cleaver - percussion

“Brandon Lopez (contrabass), Steve Baczkowski (saxophones), and Gerald Cleaver (percussion) freely play propulsive grooves drawing as much from heavy metal aggression as free jazz freakouts. Baczkowski’s reeds with their acoustic distortions impart a crunch to the music and their snaking lines dance over the sinister and doomed romp of the rhythm section. Lopez and Cleaver are most often locked into a...

“Vilevilevilevilevilevilevilevile is the exquisite new solo work by virtuosic bassist/composer Brandon López. A record about perceptions. More pointedly: this new work is "less about -a thing- than it is about perceptions of things, questioning those perceptions, and possibly altering perceptions."
From New York Philharmonic's David Geffen Hall to the DIY basements of Brooklyn, López has worked extensively beside many luminaries of jazz, classical, poetry, and experimental music. As with all bass ...

CECILIA LOPEZ: Electronics and processing
INGRID LAUBROCK: Soprano and tenor saxophone

“MAROMAS is the debut recording of the duo of Ingrid Laubrock and Cecilia Lopez. Recorded in April 2022, the album is a collection of improvised pieces for tenor and soprano saxophone, processing and electronics. Maromas refers to the doing of tricksters, conjurers and acrobats. The music is dark, harsh but also playful in its pirouettes. The electronics process the saxophone as much as the saxophone...

Ramon Lopez – drums
Mark Feldman – violin

“One of the most prominent violin players, Mark Feldman, meets one of the most creative and innovative drummers, Ramon Lopez. The results of this magic encounter consists of seven tunes. Seven pearls of contemporary improvisation, where the synergy and energy, abstraction and melodic concept, lyricism and powerful expression unite forming a gigantic superposition.”-Maciej Lewenstein.

Jon Lord is the great Hammond player of the original Deep Purple (and current version as well). This 1976 album is considered by many - including Lord himself, I believe, to be his best (and most proggy) work...

I was pleased to see this reissued for the very first time and also to hear it for the very first time since its original issue on vinyl in 1983.

Rudiger Lorenz was a musician, a collector and also builder of analog synthesizers and also a...

"French-Japanese violist Frantz Loriot use to keep a little notebook with him, in which he writes all the musical ideas coming to his mind. One day, he noticed there was sufficient material to work with. He had a conversation with Swiss arranger and...

"Paul Bley has an heir at last, and his name is Russ Lossing. With strong classical training and the natural talent to improvise, this pianist is, like Bley, walking a hard road to achieve his purposes. As far as free jazz is concerned, he doesn’t play wh

•Whopping 32-page booklet has the full story of the band and info on the recordings
•Includes a multitude of unseen photos from his personal archive
•Carefully remastered from the original tapes (+ the occasional post-Lost Souls 45 single)
"Lost Souls indeed—this is one of the great lost groups of the 60's.”-Option Magazine

"The Lost Souls never released any records, yet the meager recorded evidence that survives indicates that they were one of the finest unknown American groups of..

"If your only interest in Lothar And The Hand People lies in the outré use of Theremin and early Moog synthesisers on their two LPs, you may move on. This is an early days document – a live recording in which they have a quite competent and listenable rip through several of the garage-band classics of the day, sounding quite like all the Chocolate Watch Bands and Shadows of Knightses who took their cues more from the Stones than from The Beatles. The Theremin would come later. But this is much more than...

"After a four year break after their last album, L’oste del diau, the LOU DALFIN is back on the international scenes. The release of the new I Virasolelhs (the sunflowers) is also an opportunity to celebrate the twenty-five year long career of a band..

Mazen Kerbaj - Trumpet/Electronics
Sharif Sehnaoui - Guitar
Raed Yassin - Double Bass
Anthea Caddy - Cello
Christine Kazaryan - Harp
Khaled Yassine - Percussions/Gamelan
Maurice Louca - Guitar
guest appearances by
Ayman Asfour - Violin on “Bidayat (Holocene)”
Devin Brahja - Alto Sax on “El-Gullashah (Foul Tongue)”

“Maurice Louca, one of the most gifted musicians and composers on Egypt's thriving underground music scene, announces his new album

"The Loudest Whisper originated in rural Fermoy, Co. Cork in the early '60s. This psychedelic folk classic was recorded in 1974, and has gone on to become one of the rarest records ever issued in Ireland. The Children of Lir was a musical score, based...

A great guitarist, following a singular path...this one is somewhere between guitar heroics and laptop electronics...

“Following a series of highly acclaimed solo guitar albums, Nighttime Birds and Morning Stars is Sarah Louise’s most fearless work to date. Louise broadens beyond folk forms, turning streams of raw electric guitar into entire oceans of aural texture. Her rich playing is warped beyond recognition through inventive synthesizing and digital manipulations. The innovative songs mine...

Joe Lovano - sax
Dave Douglas - trumpet
Lawrence Fields - piano
Linda May Han Oh - bass
Joey Barron - drums

"Scandal marks the first time that trumpeter Dave Douglas and saxophonist Joe Lovano have recorded a full studio album of material together, revealing a passionately adventurous band for whom no territory is off-limits. The super group heads off into swinging, heartfelt and sophisticated new territory inspired by saxophonist giant Wayne Shorter. Two of Shorter's pieces...

Classic 1967, dark psychedelic/folk-rock classic from this Los Angeles band. This was their third album, and the last before the original band imploded in a nasty haze of drug troubles and paranoia, and is generally acknowledged to be their crowning ac...

Jason Köhnen (Mansur / The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble / The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation) returns to his experimentations within the realms of Darkjazz.
The Lovecraft Sextet is his new creative outlet regarding further explorations into cinematic jazz orientated compositions.
'In Memoriam' is a debut inspired by death, release and rebirth. Jason Köhnen has chosen to incorporate funereal aspects of classical, operatic and Gregorian music for this debut release.
The music is also...

"This is the fourth full-length release from The Low Frequency In Stereo. Founded in 2001 in Haugesund on the west coast of Norway, they have been called the band with one foot in Pompeii and one in space. With their first three albums released from...

“Saxophonist/guitarist/composer/music historian/ provocateur Allen Lowe spans the history of jazz in his music in a way that few besides Jaki Byard, Beaver Harris, Steven Bernstein, and Air have ever done, intertwining blues, early jazz, bebop, and the avant-garde.
A prolific composer who was incorporating American roots music into his jazz decades before it was hip, he has led project bands featuring a broad array of jazz greats ranging from Doc Cheatham, Randy Sandke, Joe Albany, Don Byron, Ken....

"In the Dark is a commemoration (sic) of the worst time of my life -- a period during which, having been operated on to remove a cancerous tumor in my sinus, I slept for only brief periods of time. Sometimes I made it as long as two hours continuously, but most often I dozed off for 20 minutes, 30 minutes, maybe an hour -- encamped as I was on my couch, trying not to wake my wife as I wandered in the dark contemplating the long night ahead. Sometimes I turned the television set on and slept fitfully to...