"Recorded in Supraphon's Prague studios in Dejvice in March 1970. jointly created by the bands Blue Effect [Modry Effekt] and Stivín's Jazz Q Praha.
The result of this process is forty minutes of music in which the influence of external environments, the immediate ability of each participant, and the predetermination in regard to traditions which shaped their musical development to-date, are expressed by new beauty which contains both logic as well as free, imaginative inspiration within."

Well...the story below is very interesting, and the music is definitely echo-plexy guitar stuff that is similar to "Inventions For Electric Guitar", but in fairness to Gottsching, so is A.R. & Machines, which started 3-4 years earlier!
So the claim of Manuel stealing all the ideas from M.A.L. seems a bit....unfair. There was experimentation in the air at that time.
Taking this as a record and without the story involved, it's completely a pretty fine, lost Krautrock / Kosmische type thing!...

“One of the key original French underground prog bands born out the 1960's. Maajun were the seminal roots of many other bands, not least their second incarnation as Mahjun.”

“Extract from my French Independent & Underground Obscurities article in Audion 56 (2010): Although on the trendy French pop label Vogue, Maajun were amongst the most underground of French underground bands.
Their debut outing was quite revolutionary: VIVRE LA MORT DU VIEUX MONDE (which means something like "Living the....

Mac Low's many faceted career covers music, poetry, painting, performance & multimedia. He worked with Fluxus in the 60's & chance operations in the 50's. ''Aphoristic bursts of music separated by silences played with...fleeting beauty.''-The New York ...

"Here it is, naked to the bone, free jazz in all its glory, loose, intense and furious, not in hanger but with “joie de vivre.” A sax-drums duo like this, in which one of the performers is Gunter “Baby” Sommer, a hallowed name in European improvised music

"Born in France and based in Paris, Pierre-Yves Macé is a composer of great imagination and passion. His first recording, “Faux-Jumeaux,” was released on Tzadik in 2002 and he has since released work on Sub Rosa and Orkhêstra to great acclaim. This...

''The 1st release outside Japan by one of the most original & underappreciated composers in contemporary music. Maceda has been creating remarkable compositions for large ensembles of the same instruments for 50 years.'' [Tzadik]

"An important discovery of the original 1974 recording of a Maceda masterpiece! Recorded as 20 channels broadcast simultaneously on all of Manila's radio stations to the population gathered in public spaces with hand-held transistor radios, Ugnayan was...

MICHEL DELVILLE guitar, Roland GR09, loops, stylophone, electronics, samples
TONY BIANCO drums, percussion
ANTOINE GUENET keyboards, synth, acoustic piano

It's always nice to see Jimi Hendrix, truly one of the greatest, if also the most tragically short-lived, artists of the rock era, be reconsidered in a way that explores new ground on the basis of what he originally did. Which this does and does really nicely! Highly recommended, especially if you come to it not expecting or wanting...

Laurent BLONDIAU: trumpet
Manuel HERMIA: saxophones
Michel DELVILLE: guitar, Roland GR09
Antoine GUENET: piano
Damien CAMPION: double bass
Tony BIANCO: drums

“MACHINE MASS started out in 2011 as an idiosyncratic MoonJune power duo made of longtime collaborators American drummer Tony BIANCO (Elton Dean, Paul Dunmall, Evan Parker) and Belgian guitarist Michel DELVILLE (The Wrong Object, Vegir). Hailed as a « feisty and rebel rousing exhibition that contains a surfeit of

Great album of recordings from the classic Palladium era of Latin music in America [“In 1948, the Palladium Ballroom gained in stature because of the Big Three acts: Tito Puente, Tito Rodríguez, and Machito. The Big Three grew in popularity on the strength of their bookings at the Palladium. These bands were turning out mambo hit after mambo hit...”-Wikipedia]

“Baritone vocalist, percussionist, bandleader Machito and his brother-in-law, the arranger Mario Bauzá were first to create a musical....

''Reprint of the first, historical, lp of this band from Marche (center Italy), a milestone in the roots music in Italy in the early 80s. Based on research of traditional songs of their area, the recording is particularly significant for the vocal arra...

"Steve MacLean began playing drums and guitar at the age of seven and composing at twelve. Completing high school early, he met Roswell Rudd and began playing concerts with him in New York. He moved to the city and took a job in a busy recording studio...

"A remarkable set of pieces for mediated acoustic piano that operates in the shadowy territory between what is playable and what is programmable; between narrative simplicity and performative complexity; between hopeful intentionality and flawless execution. Unusually, Steve has put our ear right inside the piano, sans artificial reverberations and blurring tools and, over the course of the CD, various musical dialects are explored and extended - from the plausible, through the exquisite, to the...

"Careful compositions converse with focused improvisations under the precise direction of Steve MacLean who, on this CD, after various excursions that took him through experimental works for piano, interactive insect/guitar compositions and pure electronics, returns to a performing band and a journey through complex polyrhythmic compositions imaginatively intercut with careful, atmospheric inventions, for guitar, bass, keyboard, percussion and various objects. There is a quiet rigour, almost a formality...

"This CD of songs, grittily arranged and produced is noticeably more straight-ahead than ReR’s usual releases though it sits comfortably within the broad range of Steve’s tirelessly experimental output. This is a project with a long history: Steve...

“After “Sisyphus” (2012) and “Macroscream” (2016), the band consolidates its style by giving birth to the third album recorded and mixed in Rome between May and September 2023.
The lineup has undergone numerous changes which have contributed to giving a more direct and less symphonic sound compared to previous works.
The mini-suites that characterized the first 2 albums give way to more synthetic songs, while retaining those distinctive elements in which Macroscream have always immersed their...

"The Sound of Places is Earth Talk’s second record; a CD where they reveal the inspiration induced by the magic of various places they have visited through the years. They obviously absorbed the energy that emanated from those planetary terrains, as...

Ken Vandermark (reeds); Christof Kurzmann (electronics); Devin Hoff (bass); Tim Daisy (drums).

"The evolution of Ken Vandermark continues with his new quartet Made To Break, an electric/acoustic ensemble that bridges his musical strengths of...

Christof Kurzmann, electronics / Devin Hoff, bass / Ken Vandermark, reeds / Tim Daisy, drums.

"The released of “Provoke” is the result of a three day series of concerts, by a Ken Vandermark’s new project, during the commemoration, in Lisbon...

This dynamic NY guitar/bass/drums trio covers a range from Jim Hall ballads to Blood Ulmer funk harmolodics. Changing time signatures and arrangements that stop on a dime alternate with gorgeous renditions of classic Jewish melodies, making this an ext...

Madovsky is Franck Chionna on bass, samples and percussion with drums & percussion by Emmanuel Charmot. Franck is a Frenchman now living in Montreal and I was turned onto his work by Richard Pinhas, who heard his material when Richard was appearing in ...

“This release features almost 3 1/2 hours of video and audio from two special shows at the prestigious South Wales venue. The limited edition release will come with 2 DVDs and 2 full audio CDs presenting music from both concerts.”

“Our annual Acapela show has now become a much anticipated event by our fans and also by ourselves. The venue is a stunning converted Welsh Chapel which provides a unique atmosphere and as there is an amazing Yamaha grand piano on site it would be a crime not to use it...

“Music is magic in the way it brings people together. It introduces strangers who then go on to become friends and the impact music can have on people's lives is far-reaching.
This EP is dedicated to the memory of one of our friends 'Andy Goodall' who sadly passed away in 2020.
Andy was a gentle giant, a passionate music lover and supporter of live music.
His generosity has allowed Magenta to carry on making music.
We wondered how best to thank Andy and honour his memory and decided...

Orchestral arrangement by Robert Reed
Christina Booth - vocal
Chris Fry - classical guitar
Les Penning - story teller
featured soloists
Katie Axelsen - flute
Sam Baxster - oboe

"Magenta's brand new, and long awaited, 9th studio album sees a major change in direction from past works. A fully orchestrated affair with no drums or bass anywhere to be found, with Christina, like a fine wine, getting better with age and really gelling gloriously with the music. Chris Fry...