"In 1981, Joe McPhee culled together one of his greatest bands to record Topology, his classic outing for Hat Hut. Feturing an expanded version of Po Music, his ensemble with saxophonist André Jaume, guitarist Raymond Boni, and bassist François Mechali, the group included pianist Irene Schweizer, percussionist Pierre Favre, baritone saxophonist Daniel Bourquin, cellist Michael Overhage, and trombonist Radu Malfatti. One of the tracks left on the cutting room floor was a spectacular take on Ornette...

Joe McPhee on tenor and soprano saxophone
Recorded live by Claude Robert October 11, 1977 at Salle Ste Croix des Pelletiers in Rouen, France.

"Variations on a Blue Line/'Round Midnight was recorded in October, 1977, during a highly significant period in Poughkeespie, NY, multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee's work, as he was pioneering the transatlantic, collaborative spirit that has helped to define the last three decades of his career. Blue Line comes from a concert in Rouen, France, when McPhee...

“Two masters of wind instruments blowing in from the Windy City. In 2003, as part of the seventh annual Empty Bottle Festival of Jazz & Improvised Music, Joe McPhee and Evan Parker squared off for a round of intimate dialogues. The resulting recording is just the second time they had played as a duet, the previous also being in Chicago, at a studio in 1998, where the limited their instrumentarium to tenor saxophones, resulting in the Okka Disc classic Chicago Tenor Duets (2002).
In this case, they...

“It's easy to be cynical these days, maybe difficult to imagine that music can change the world, but not for Joe McPhee and Hamid Drake. With Keep Going, they will make the planet a better place for humanity, a place to be humane, to preserve humankind. At 78-years-old, Poughkeepsie multi-instrumentalist McPhee is a national treasure, and he's making more music than ever before, pushing himself to tour incessantly, issuing astonishing new records at a fierce rate. But this release, with legendary Chicago...

Joe McPhee - alto sax
John Butcher - tenor sax

“At The Hill Of James Magee presents the duos complete performance at the extraordinary monument "The Hill" in the Chihuahuan Desert in the middle of nowhere in Texas. John Butcher and Joe McPhee had never shared a stage before which ended up being an attentive collaboration, starting with a long duo, alternating solo performances, and closing the atmospheric set with another duo.”

“Some recordings, the world is just not ready for them when they're made. In 2008, Swedish born, Austrian resident saxophonist Mats Gustafsson and Poughkeepsie, New York multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee made a suite of studio recordings, Brace For Impact that they loved so much they immediately culled, mixed, and mastered them. A decade later, when the original label for which they were planned had not yet issued them, Gustafsson and McPhee offered them to Corbett Vs. Dempsey, and when the label couldn't...

Joe McPhee soprano and alto saxophones, pocket trumpet / Ingebrigt Håker Flaten double bass.

"This is music about, and coming from, Brooklyn, known for its large community of musicians. Particularly, about a period of local history which...

1993 truly ‘solo’ album by the late, great, ex-Groundhogs leader.

“It is unpardonable that Tony McPhee is rarely mentioned as one of the world's greatest guitarists. He masters electric, acoustic and slide guitars. Tony and the Groundhogs have made dozens of stellar albums for thirty-five years. Foolish Pride is a great CD for people who have never heard McPhee's stunning riffs. He has always been a great lyricist and his ardent vocals augment his guitar virtuosity. Evey song on "Foolish Pride"...

Noted Scottish singer/improviser Maggie Nicols started the group in 1993. She brought together female singers from the different ethnic communities of Marseille. Scored mostly for duos, with some solos & larger groupings. [Stupeur & Trompette!]

Third, final, and probably the best album by this early Swedish psychedelic/progressive hard rock album, who formed in 1967. They toured the USA in 1970, becoming the first Swedish band to tour the USA and their records were released here and a great...

"The long awaited release of Medeski Martin and Wood performing Masada material is finally available and it is one of their tightest and most imaginative CDs ever! Playing to packed houses from Budokan to Bonaroo and back again, MMW is one of the most...

"The 15-piece orchestra ROOT DOWN brings together impressions and experiences of African music – more precisely, the melancholy music of homesick South African musicians in exile and the revolutionary protest music of self-conscious rebels....

In 1986, while Bruno Meillier was playing with the cream of the nascent New York Downtown scene (Ikue Mori, Tom Cora), after a stint with legendary French RIO avant progsters Etron Fou Leloublan), several miles upstate Dan Warburton was studying for Ph...

"Francisco Meirino is a sound artist based in Switzerland. His music explores the tension between programmable material and the potential for its failure. His interest lies primarily in what is not supposed to be recorded: the end of life of electronic devices, electrostatic noise, magnetic fields and the unconventional use of music hardware and sound systems and how to exploit these sonic failures in radically different ways in his sound pieces. His music combines intricate textures, sonic precision...

Myra Melford: piano and melodica
Mary Halvorson: guitar
Susie Ibarra: drums and percussion
Ingrid Laubrock: tenor and soprano saxophones
Tomeka Reid: cello

“Myra Melford has brought together in this unique quintet five outstanding female musicans. This first album is inspired by Cy Twombly; hopefully it won't be the last one.”

“In the world of improvised music, so-called supergroups sometimes feel almost quotidien. After all, there are so many remarkable artists in the

A progressive rock concept work by a new band from Menorca, which is a small island in the Meditteranean and part of Baleares Islands.
The band are influenced by 70s progressive rock bands and the Pink Floyd influence is the most noticeable, but I also hear bits of Camel and more.
The DVD included is a movie for which the CD is the soundtrack. Not sure I know what is going on with all of this, but it’s an ambitious debut and you can see an excerpt of the film and hear some of the music here...

Melissa were a band from Australia and Midnight Trampoline from 1971 was their only studio album. It's a pretty rare collector's item nowadays. This reissue includes a fascinating 16 page booklet and 3 bonus tracks (one track unreleased from the sessions and one pre-album single from a year earlier!)

“The style of the material is pretty diverse because the album includes elements from psych rock, early prog rock, folk and hard rock. Like some users have already mentioned the singer reminds Van...

If you like the sound of Charlemagne Palestine's piano works, Melnyk's album is not dissimilar, although perhaps a bit more 'romantic'. Really nice stuff. I had never even heard of him or this album until now...

"Single CD featuring recordings of Tuvan folk music and throat-singing from 1969 with liner notes by noted world music scholar Dr. Pekka Gronow of the University of Helsinki. With the advent of the folk music revival in the 1960s, a new interest in...

Sebastiano Meloni-piano, Adriano Orru-double bass and Tony Oxley-drums.

''Melt Banana is the defining band of New Japanese Hardcore...their songs combine compositional complexity and improvisational noise with the power of a locomotive going full blast through a brick wall. Recorded during their tour of the States in 1998,...

Sandro Amadei - keyboards
Stefano Amadei - guitars, Irish bouzouki
Alessandro Bosca - bass
Simone Caffè - guitars
Francesco Fiorito - drums
Emanuela Vedana - vocals
with
Stefano Cabrera - cello (5, 6)
Fabrizio Salvini - percussion (3, 6); flute (6)
Hanako Tsushima - violin (10)

“Melting Clock is a musical project born in the Faculty of Physics, University of Genoa, in 2001. At the time the group’s aim, which brought together experienced musicians and beg