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“One of the architects of no wave with his band DNA, a pioneer of noise guitar, sublimely inventive producer, and slinkily seductive songwriter, Arto Lindsay has worn countless musical hats.
Invited to make a solo record for the Black Cross Solo Sessions, Lindsay boiled it down to essential ingredients, waxing a collection of bristling new songs and works for solo guitar; on six of a baker's dozen tracks, his angelic voice offsets the bracing dissonance of his acidic electric.
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“"I felt totally unrestrained making this album" says Lindstrøm about his 6th solo album On A Clear Day I Can See You Forever (a title inspired by the 1970’s musical On A Clear Day You Can See Forever starring Barbra Streisand). "I’ve listened to Robert Wyatt's solo albums and his Matching Mole’s debut album a lot lately. It so effortless, fearless and free. And not insisting. I was very inspired by this."
In the autumn of 2018, Lindstrøm composed a commissioned piece for Norway’s premiere...


Giorgio Brugnone-electric bass
Sergio Cacherano Staropoli-drums, percussion, voice
Michel Brieda-synthesizer, drum machine, autoharp, tapes

“Complex mostly instrumental compositions from this Italian band, led primarily by drummer Staropoli. Interesting rhythmic ideas in this virtual "soundtrack" that includes forays into electronics and many unusual compositional areas most associated with modern progressive or RIO genres - think Henry Cow crossed with Fat or Univers Zero and you might..

"Mysterious psych prog monster LP which gets better & better. Dreamy organ & soaring fuzz leads, at times like a cross between Marcus & Pink Floyd with folk elements & melodics all over the rhythmic grooves. Eastern-tinged lyrics & samurai charging...

Jon Lipscomb - guitar

"Jon Lipscomb's dissonant tones push the guitar to its limits, the power and energy of his improvisations is visceral."


A Liquid Landscape from The Netherlands is a bit of a departure for The Laser's Edge. Their slice of post-progressive music has a contemporary edge that finds them sitting alongside bands like Dredg, Anathema, and Porcupine Tree. The band has been a...

This limited-edition release is one song from "II" plus five songs (over 20') that are not available anywhere else. Stefan's review - from a email to me that wasn't meant as a review - is actually spot on, especially the comparisons to Jukka Tolonen. "...

“2020 came to a close with LIQUID TENSION EXPERIMENT announcing their return and new album. Today, the legendary supergroup comprised of Mike Portnoy (Transatlantic, Sons of Apollo), John Petrucci (Dream Theater), Jordan Rudess (Dream Theater), and Tony Levin (King Crimson, Peter Gabriel) are pleased to officially announce that the new album ‘LTE3’ will be released twenty-two years after the bands’ last studio album.”

“After over 20 years since the last time we recorded together, the four of us...

“Brand new reissue of the sophomore album from prog rock supergroup featuring bassist Tony Levin, guitarist John Petrucci, keyboardist Jordan Rudess and drummer Mike Portnoy!
This album, as well as it's predecessor, LTE 1, has become legendary among prog rock/jazz fusion enthusiasts, featuring groundbreaking improvisations, insanely technical playing and truly mesmerizing production!”

“The mind-blowing 1998 debut album from the instrumental project that takes 3 parts Dream Theater (guitarist John Petrucci, drummer Mike Portnoy, keyboardist Jordan Rudess), 1 part King Crimson (bassist Tony Levin) and combines them to perfection!
This album, as well as it's successor, LTE 2, has become legendary among prog rock/jazz fusion enthusiasts, featuring groundbreaking improvisations, insanely technical playing and truly mesmerizing production!”

Charlotte Greve: Saxophone, Composition
Manuel Schmiedel: Piano
Marc Muellbauer: Bass
Moritz Baumgärtner: Drums

“With Release, the highly acclaimed Lisbeth Quartett presents a greatly anticipated album on Intakt Records. After twelve years and five albums, Charlotte Greve, who has just been awarded the German Jazz Prize for “Artist of the Year”, has relied on her intuitive sensibilities to create the new music for Release. The result is an album marked by sensitive interplay – a...

Luís Lopes electric guitar
Robert Landfermann double bass
Christian Lillinger drums

"Usually, free improvisation and conceptualism don’t mix. To improvise is to be intuitive and spontaneous, living little space to intelllectualized constructions. In the case of the second album by the Luís Lopes Lisbon-Berlin Trio (Robert Landfermann and Christian Lillinger representing the German side) there’s a rare mix of the two approaches. “The Line” derives from the notion of time like a broken line...

"Rodrigo Amado, the man who leads the band with a changing lineup - which he named Lisbon Improvisation Players, or LIP if you’re in a hurry - likes double meanings. First of all, the one created with the letters L, I and P, alluding to the presence of a

“I had asked Rodrigo to let me be present at the recordings, but unfortunately I arrived late. As I entered the studio I was immediately amazed by the sheer intensity of the music. The band had already taken off in a wild fury that streamed out of the stu



Second album by this UK spacerock band heavily influenced by Hawkwind's classic early/mid 70s albums. This thing out-Hawkwinds even the classics like Space Ritual and In Search of Space; I can't say that this is the most original album I've ever heard...

Suddenly there are a good number of really great spacerock bands out there and Litmus is absolutely one of the best of them. This is the second album by this UK spacerock band heavily influenced by Hawkwind's classic early/mid 70s albums. This thing...

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"Little Bang Theory, the Michigan trio featuring Frank Pahl, that performs and records only using toy musical instruments, captured an infectious, wide-eyed youthfulness with bright and cheery arrangements on its 2008 debut album Elementary....

This is from the band's peak era, touring for the about to be released 'The Last Record Album'. Truly one of the US's great rock 'n' roll bands of the 70s.

"It's not surprising that Little Feat are on such blistering form during this 1975 WCBN..

Includes five complete albums:
Little Feat
Sailin' Shoes
Dixie Chicken
Feats Don't Fail Me Now
The Last Record Album

“Few bands that formed in the early 1970s have managed to survive and continue touring to the present day. Little Feat is one of the few that have, in no small part due to their outstanding musicianship and the idiosyncratic songwriting of founding member, Lowell George, which has stood the test of time. This 1976 Winterland performance is one of the finest examples of Little Feat during the prime years of Lowell George, when the group had established a reputation as one of the most exciting and original...

"Little Free Rock hailed from Preston in Lancashire and were a psychedelic hard rock trio featuring Peter Illingworth (lead guitar and vocals), formerly with David John and the Mood who had recorded with Joe Meek, Paul Varley (drums), later a member of Arrows and Frank Newbold (bass and vocals). They began performing covers of bands such as The Who, The Creation (whose ‘Makin’ Time’ appeared on Little Free Rock’s album) and Tomorrow, but were soon performing mainly their own compositions...



“One of the biggest selling bluesmen of the sixties and early seventies, when He was Recording for Stax and Chess, Little Milton began his career in the fifties at the legendary Sun Records.
This 27-track Collection Includes all the surviving tracks he recorded whilst at Sun bar the odd alternate take. Four of his obscure alternate takes are featured at the end of the CD to complete the package. Also Included as bonuses are six titles on which he featured prominently as a guitarist. Three of These...


Yeah, I know what you all are thinking, but of the first wave of US rock and rollers, I would venture to say that Mr. Richard Penniman was the wildest and his music has held up remarkably well for being 55 years old since the earliest of these tracks...

"Lung -- the highly anticipated new album and composition from Brooklyn's genre-defying Little Women -- is an epic without precedent. Where their acclaimed 2010 suite Throat (AUM061) grabbed listeners by their necks from the first seconds, Lung arises...

"Brooklyn quartet Little Women create music whose aim is transcendence via brutally precise sonic assault and ascendant melodies, attacking written and improvised material with equal ferocity. The group's sound distilled from a broad range of influences that stretch from free jazz through math metal, punk rock, pop music, and harsh noise. Saxophonists Travis Laplante and Darius Jones breathe together as one multi-tongued exquisite beast reveling in higher harmonics, splitting overtones to create ghost...


"How's this for a group. Teddy Quintet leader and vibes, Booker Ervin on tenor, Booker Little on trumpet, Mal Waldron piano, Addison Farmer on bass and Ed Shaughnessy (who latter was really co-leader of Johnny Carson's Tonight Show band) on drums...

"Live from Gevelsberg (Sauerland) played art-rock with flute; without the nerve-wracking breaks often heard in this genre, but rather harmonious. In 1974, they released a 7" single and recorded an LP which, however, didn’t come out at that time. Only...

"First-ever anthology of the legendary late 60s counter-culture act. The Liverpool Scene were fronted by gifted artist and poet Adrian Henri. Also in the band were folk artist Mike Hart, accomplished singer-songwriter Andy Roberts award-winning jazz...

"While New Myth/Old Science deliberately avoids any obvious Ra intergalactic tones, it’s joyful enough to make a visitor from Saturn smile." – DownBeat

Co-led by Mike Reed and Jason Adasiewicz, two of the fastest...

"This short lived German acid-psych Sextet had one private limited edition release in 1997, called Chambers (vinyl only). Until today it became a rare, high-rated collectible among psychedelic underground fans. While numerous bands in the '90s & 2000s...

SPAM is the newest offering of Lizard, one of the top bands on Polish art-rock scene. The album enchants with original sound and composition. The music is surreal, modern and very jazzy. Lizard has performed with Emerson, Lake & Palmer and Porcupine...

“Saxophonist and composer Charles Lloyd celebrated his 80th birthday in 2018. His wife and manager Dorothy Darr decided to commemorate it with a series of shows that would, in and of themselves, be remarkable celebrations. 8: Kindred Spirits Live at the Libero was cut at the 150-year-old Libero Theater in Santa Barbara on March 15 (his actual birthday). Lloyd was in the company of a stellar band that included longtime drummer Eric Harland, and more recent companions pianist Gerald Clayton, bassist Reuben...

Charles Lloyd tenor saxophone, flute, tarogato
Maria Farantouri voice
Jason Moran piano
Reuben Rogers double-bass
Eric Harland drums
Socratis Sinopoulos lyra
Takis Farazis piano

"Stunning performance from June, 2010

"The quartet heard on Jumping the Creek … sets a high mark in his career. … The pianist Geri Allen here turns in some of her most committed, nuanced playing in years, covering ground from modal to ballads to free, though often in combination with only...

"Sometimes the trust in knowing can yield more than the excitement of uncharted territory. Charles Lloyd ratchets down the energy from Rabo De Nube (ECM, 2008), one of the most exciting, free-wheeling albums and new groups of the saxophonist's...

"On this decidedly low-key set, Charles Lloyd, on tenor throughout, seems suspended between surrender and desire, with lush, melancholy outcomes. Billy Hart has, by this time (The Call came in 1993), joined Lloyd's '90s quartet, and the results are...

"The Water is Wide" is the first of two Charles Lloyd albums culled from an exceptionally productive session in Los Angeles. By turns tender, joyful, reflective, it brings together authoritative players who span the generations; each is a unique...

“Recorded live on April 21 and 22, 1987 at CBGB's in New York, this is much more than a live best-of album by the "other" star to emerge from Television. Richard Lloyd has always stood -- undeservedly -- in the shadow of Tom Verlaine, sort of a Gene Clark to Verlaine's Roger McGuinn, and for reasons difficult to fathom, his solo career has never taken off.
Lloyd's and David Leonard's guitar playing is in absolutely top form here, and his voice makes a fine instrument, at least on-stage, whether he's..

“Radiant Monkey rules:
No effects on any of the guitars: no fuzz boxes, no choruses, no nothing - just Stratocasters straight into amplifiers. No more than three guitar parts on any song: one main rhythm guitar, one secondary part, and one lead. The record is under 45 minutes long, containing 11 songs, most of which are short. This is in line with records done in the late 60s.”

“As a guitarist, Richard Lloyd is every bit as gifted as Tom Verlaine, his former partner in the band Television...

“The Lo Yo Yo was founded by Family Fodder frontman John Pearce, aka Alig, in 1984. They were active for 2 years and released one cassette, one split cassette with Look De Bouk, one full-length LP and appeared on the Local International 15-26 compilation cassette on Recommended.
The band's name comes from a Captain Beefheart song titled Low Yo Yo Stuff on the 1972 Clear Spot LP. The Lo Yo Yo's line-up was very varied and included, along 10 or so other musicians, various Family Fodder members like...

“Hard to find — and hard to define — rock from Milwaukee: is it space rock? punk? hard rock? noise? quasi-Devo? a little bit Pavement? all these things in turn and at once?
The first track ('White Flight Suburban Nightmare’) sounds like Sonic Youth; the second (‘Burning Feet’) is punky and weird; the third (‘Is It So’) is in a dissonant guitar rock space; the fourth ('Tell Me About Your Perfect Smelling Dreams’) is peppier and snotty and then spins off into jam-land; the fifth (‘Prowl’) rocks out....