Composer, DJ, engineer and producer Raz Mesinai was born in Jerusalem and raised in New York City. His compositions blend electronics, beats and dub effects with acoustic instruments in creating an esoteric musical tapestry filled with new sonorities a...

"Svart Records can be thought of as the Rise Above Records of Finland. Both labels covers similar territory. Somehow Svart signed the British band Messenger right from under the nose of Rise Above...

Anthony Pirog-guitar
Joe Lally-bass
Brendan Canty-drums

Second superb release from one of the brightest of bright stars in creative rock music, now playing somewhere near you!
Brendan and Joe, the rhythm section of Fugazi, are working together again in a band for the first time in 15 years, playing a more 'out' – but still ROCK - instrumental music and they had the very good sense to pick Anthony (a wonderful musician) as an equal third partner in the band. This is tremendous stuff..

"Mestis is the brain child of Animals As Leaders guitarist Javier Reyes. With a line up including percussion and trombone, intrigue sets in as to what sonic offerings this album provides. Polysemy is the follow up to their début EP Basal Ganglia. On a quest to make his own unique mark with his own distinct sound, Polysemy is the first full-length album which takes you on a personal 38 minute journey through Javier’s mind.

Opening with Gentle Giant this album kicks off with a distinct and......

"A short lived Italian band only releasing two albums. [Inferno] featuring great use of the Moog as well as other amazing keyboard work. The band puts together an album length suite that is one of the classics in the history of symphonic progressive...

Jim Anderson - bass
John Mabry - vocals
Greg Miller - drums
Malcolm Smith - guitar
Marc Spooner - keyboards

Old school style progressive rock, influenced most obviously by Gentle Giant and Genesis. Solidly in the style and nicely done.

“Metaphor's 4th release, The Pearl, is full of unexpected twists and turns, changing time signatures, interesting and thought-provoking lyrical excursions, and unusual arrangements. Superb musicianship and creative, quirky compositi

“Broadcast live on WBCN-FM radio, this performance captures Pat Metheny at a fascinating point in his career. His debut album, the classic Bright Size Life, had recently been released, but he'd already moved on, forming a quartet for the forthcoming Watercolors LP, issued in 1977.
Featuring material from both albums, it showcases the guitarist at his youthful best and is presented here with background notes and images.”

“The concert was recorded for radio in Tokyo in 1985, where the band asserts its worldwide success. It is one of the only jazz bands that were able to fill stadiums in the 80s! Of course, since the 1970s, the music of Metheny and Mays has evolved quite a bit, with synthesizers, influences from + to + Latin (Pedro Aznar with percussion). But it remains of a fairly exceptional level and has not aged poorly.
Titles like Are you going with me? remain decades after real masterpieces. This CD is properly...

"Ever curious, courageous and endlessly creative, virtuoso guitarist and musical mastermind Pat Metheny takes on John Zorn’s Masada songbook to create some of the most soulful and adventurous sounds yet heard in the Book of Angels series. Turn up the...

“This set captures great live performances of the Pat Metheny Group during their Brazilian-influenced era, one of my favorites.
The performances here are more up tempo and looser than the versions from The Road To You and capture more of the crowd.
If you're looking for the best fidelity, this recording is lacking (after all, this came from an FM broadcast) but nevertheless it is decent and the performances are definitely engaging. I found myself just sitting back and enjoying the music - both..

It doesn’t really sound LIKE This Heat at their most ‘rock trio’ fronted by John Lydon circa Metal Box, but it sounds like This Heat fronted by John Lydon…

“Strange Peace was recorded in Chicago, live off the floor to tape with Steve Albini. The result is a distinct artistic maturation into new and alarming territory, frantically pushing past where the band has gone before, while capturing the notorious intensity of their live show. The trio continued to assemble the album (including hom

Szilárd MEZEI viola; Bogdan RANKOVIÆ alto sax, bass clarinet; Branislav AKSIN trombone; Albert MÁRKOS violoncello; Kornél PÁPISTA tuba; Ervin MALINA double bass; István CSÍK drums.

"100 tû hossza (Length of 100 Needles), recorded in Germany...

"'I am doing what a woman can hardly ever do . . . ,' wrote British world traveler Isabella Bird in an 1872 letter from Hawaii. 'And I can fall, I can fall into anything.' San Francisco Bay Area composer, acoustic bassist, and bandleader, Lisa Mezzacappa used those lines -- and more from the writings of Bird and other women adventurers of the 19th and early 20th centuries -- to fashion lyrics for her ten-part 'panoramic song cycle for improvisers.' Sung by the extraordinary vocalist Fay Victor, those...

"Follow-up to the excellent "Visible" showcases Mezzanotte's superb keyboard work. This is really the Italian Return To Forever! Still present is the excellent work of Massimiliano Rosati who sounds like a cross between Al DiMeola & Allan Holdsworth...

Personel: Curt Newton (d), Nate McBride (b), Pandelis Karayorgis (org),

"In the winter of 2002 Nate McBride and I started a weekly jazz and improvised music series at the Abbey Lounge in Cambridge, Mass., which he named "mim" (for modern...

Very pretty and pretty unusual quiet music for accordion, violin & bowed contrabass. This is very organic and flowing; the closest comparison I can make is to some of Gavin Bryars' work, esp. his original version of The Sinking Of The Titantic. If you ...

Fine collection of solo piano works by some great 20th century composers (Charles Ives 'Study No. 20', Iannix Xenakis 'Herma', John Cage 'In A Landscape', Giacinto Scelsi 'Aitsi') with interspersed with improvisations by the pianist that fit right in. ...

Ken Matsutani – guitar
Inage Louis – bass
Hiroshi Hasegawa - electronics, field recordings
Rinji Fukuoka - drums, percussion, voice

“Instrumental psych from Japan. Ken Matsutani was manager of the legendary Captain Trip Records. Japanese guitarist and vocalist, best known as the leader of Marble Sheep, he has also participated in several other Japanese rock underground groups including AOR and Cement Women (1982), Onna (1985), White Heaven (1986). Rinji Fukuoka is a Tokyo-based...

Really excellent debut release by a quintet of young, mostly classically trained players on viola, cello, french horn, oboe and synthesizer. This manages to combine elements of contemporary classical and minimalism with electronic music in a very...

Phillip Johnston – soprano saxophone
Don Davis – alto saxophone
Mike Hashim – tenor saxophone
Dave Sewelson – baritone saxophone
Joel Forrester – piano
Dave Hofstra – bass
Richard Dworkin – drums
It takes an unusual band to make news out of the blues, and The Microscopic Septet deliver a gripping investigation of the form on Been Up So Long It Looks Like Down to Me: The Micros Play the Blues, which conti

Originally active from 1980-1992, the "Micros" started with a basic reeds-and-rhythm texture that was sonically similar to the sound of the Swing Era, but used influences from the entire continuum of jazz. The result was a brilliant blend of fresh...

Active for a dozen years, the Microscopic Septet were widely recognized as "New York's Most Famous Unknown Band." The group started with a basic reeds-and-rhythm texture (soprano, alto, tenor and baritone sax, piano, bass and drums) that was sonically...