Stephan Micus-voice, steeldrums, sinding, shakuhachi, suling, nay, tin whistles, percussion.

"This extraordinary multi-instrumentalist is actually one of the few to have grasped in its essence what was the song of the world. With him there exist.

This is the fourth album by this Japanese quartet of vocals/violin/guitar, keyboards, bass/synths and drums whose history goes all the way back into the mid 1980's. An excellent quality live recording of symphonic progressive, done Japanese style. "Mid...

"Somewhere among the sonic synchronicity that binds together the forty-two minutes of Midday Veil’s animated and eloquent new album “This Wilderness,” attentive listeners will be struck by the realization that the human organism embodied by the listener is an integral part of an interconnected ecosystem.

It’s a realization about self, size and scope, and like the album itself, it’s massive. Midday Veil have long found themselves comfortable creating colossal concerns, as recorded on the band’s...

"Formerly known as The Rainbow Band, this legendary Danish band blended elements of rock, prog, jazz, and psychedelia to powerful effect, with especially impressive guitar work by Peer Frost Johansson. Walking Circles is their second LP, which marked...

Second, excellent and best-yet release by a three acoustic guitar ensemble who are reminsicent in many ways of the California Guitar Trio, but they've got their own sound. On some tracks they are joined by an electric bass, which fattens up the sound as..

"This hour-long CD is one of the best bodies of British psychedelia ever released. It contains the complete Mighty Baby album from Head Records, expanded to 13 tracks with the addition of five tracks cut by the Action during its 1967 transition period. The opening number, "Egyptian Tomb," sets the tone for the entire album -- in terms of content, structure, and beat, it sounds like the early Allman Brothers, or maybe the Grateful Dead in one of their harder-rocking moments, jamming with Crosby, Stills...

Nice compilation from the king of calypso!
"Strut presents a brand new retrospective of one of the Caribbean's most towering musical figures, Mighty Sparrow, covering 1962 to 1974. During a career of over 40 years, Sparrow has been an unmatchable...

"A new record by the «best kept secret of Portuguese creative music», as one British critic once wrote about trumpeter extraordinaire Sei Miguel. Specifically, a collection of “stories untold” with different line-ups, from a duo with Fala Mariam to a sextet with Mariam, Nuno Torres, Rodrigo Amado, José Bruno Parrinha and Paulo Curado, including the participation of other musicians like Carlos Santos, Hernâni Faustino, Luís Desirat and Moz Carrapa. This is how jazz sounds when inspired by John Cage...

André Gonçalves (org) / César Burago (perc) / Ernesto Rodrigues (vla) / Fala Mariam (tb) / Kimi Djabaté (v) / Luís Desirat (d) / Margarida Garcia (Twin) / Monsieur Trinité (Bandoneon) / Nuno Torres (as) / Pedro Gomes (g) / Pedro Lourenço (b) / Rafael...

Sei Miguel trumpet
Fala Mariam alto trombone
Bruno Silva electric guitar
Pedro Castello Lopes triangle on 2, clave on 3, pandeiro on 4, kalengo on 8

"For me, the main technical challenge in jazz, a music genre that became autonomous gradually in the twentieth century, was to combine and match a greater musical demand with a fair deal of humility as regards orchestral means. The trios or quartets I have been showcasing my work on the road, for many years now, provide the most refined...

“The folk music of Georgia is one of the earliest and richest polyphonic traditions in the world, despite being little known to the rest of the modern world. Combining a sense of national pride, musical invention and exploratory spirit, pianist/composer & arranger Giorgi Mikadze has created a striking new hybrid of traditional Georgian folk music and progressive microtonal jazz on his breathtaking debut album, Georgian Microjamz.
Georgian Microjamz discovers unexpected common ground between the...

"Japanese bluesman Kan Mikami is nothing less than an unalloyed force of nature; a skin-shredding blast of frozen wind from the poor, rural north of Japan that he calls home. In the late 1960s, like thousands of other Japanese young people Mikami made his way to Tokyo in search of a life different from that of his parents. Since then he has forcefully carved out a space for himself in the culture as a modernist poet, a raging folk singer, an author, an actor, an engaging TV personality, and one of...

Piero is an Italian composer who has done a lot of work in the field of film & TV scores. . Lovely, yet also rich musically. This culls the best of his many works for installations & films and shuffles them into a flowing, cohesive album.

I remember reading about these releases when they were coming out in the early 80's, but I've never heard any until now. I can happily report that it is just as out and strange as one would be hoping, given the principals involved! ...

One of the great, contemporary band leaders who keeps building up a hugely impressive body of work(s). And look at the band!
Allison Miller - drums, percussion, vibraphone
Jenny Scheinman - violin
Jason Palmer - trumpet
Ben Goldberg - clarinet, contra-alto clarinet
Carmen Staaf - piano, rhodes, accordion
Todd Sickafoose - upright bass

"Drummer Allison Miller brings together a rustic Americana sound with her inventive modern jazz harmonies on her ambitious 2023 LP

Allison Miller – drums
Carmen Staaf – piano

“As relationships evolve, a special language can develop between partners. This language can foster new ways of approaching syntax and messages that have been often repeated. The duo of drummer Allison Miller and pianist Carmen Staaf found their voices together with repeated, enthusiastic involvement in a variety of musical settings.
The onset of the Covid-19 pandemic made it necessary for social distancing necessary in all aspects of life...

Bassist Harry Miller was born in South Africa, but he was the Brit-jazz bassist throughout the 1970s, playing with John Surman, Centipede, Mike Westbrook, Keith Tippett, Mike Osborne, King Crimson, Julie Tippetts, Alan Skidmore and Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath, among many others, as well as co-founding the legendary Ogun label, which did so much to document the Brit-jazz scene in the 1970s.
Harry's group, Isipingo, which he led for a number of years, could be compared to a smaller-scale...

This restocked item, originally released in 2011, is Phil Miller's final album. It was only available from Phil and is now not available at all in physical form, except from us....
The eighth release by In Cahoots - as far as I can tell, the last electric jazz/jazz-rock bands standing with any ties to the 'Canterbury scene' - is the 11th solo / bandleader release by the hugely underappreciated guitarist/composer Phil Miller. Phil's back career now stretches over 40 years and as one of the first...

"The British have a long history of putting the conventions of jazz-rock fusion to better use than their American counterparts do, and guitarist/composer Phil Miller is a case in point. Leading a sextet he calls In Cahoots, Miller offers a solid set of muscular, no-nonsense modern jazz that delivers plenty of intellectual interest without ever descending into navel-gazing solo wankery and without ever sacrificing its powerful groove. True, much of this stuff is most definitely music for musicians...

All music performed by:
Roger C. Miller on Custom Stratocaster 6-string;
three Rogue lap-steels [on legs] - two prepared, one tuned unison E;
multiple foot-pedals/sound-altering devices;
Boomerang III Looper

Roger Miller is best known for being the guitarist in Mission of Burma, where he expanded the vocabulary of rock guitar playing by incorporating elements of free jazz and 20th Century classical music. His...

Counting on Angels is a unique CD unleashing a new music form which straddles Russian classical music and contemporary improvised music. The album represents an accumulated experience derived from a decade of musical activity in Russia where drummer Ke...

"Nick is co-leader of the avant-garde punk-jazz trio Many Arms and with trombonist Dan Blacksberg co-leads the new music duo Archer Spade, who have recently performed works by Roscoe Mitchell and Dave Soldier. Nick is also a member of progressive...

Nick Millevoi - guitar
Johnny DeBlase - electric bass
Kevin Shea - drums
with
Jamie Saft - organ
Ashley Tini - vibes on 3, 5, shakers on 4

Great, sorta kozmigroov / out-Western soundtrack vibe from this great band, now back with their second release! Everyone here is a great player and it's nice to see Nick, a great guitarist, getting a little bit of attention in the wider world.

"Guitarist Nick Millevoi's (Chris Forsyth and the Solar Motel Band, John Zorn...

Matt Calvert - electronics, synths, bass guitar (6), guitar (12), dulcitone (7, 11)
Ståle Storløkken - synths, Hammond Organ (except 1, 11)
Matthew Bourne - Memorymoog (except 1, 8, 11)
Sam Wilson - percussion (except 2, 3, 5, 11)
Dave Smith - drum kit (except 7, 11, 12), sabar (1, 4, 5, 6, 10)
Mamadou Sarr - sabar, djembe (2, 3, 7)
Kadialy Kouyate - kora (1, 7)

NOT certain if ‘Dave Smith’ is Guapo’s Dave Smith, but I suspect it is.

“Million Seller is

“Experimental techno from Milusic on his Dance Mystique, which combines a taste of the occult with contemporary beats. Roberto Milusic Migliussi plays everything on the record, including analogue synths, drum machine, guitar, and samples, with a small assist from Aria Amorosa on ‘Swirling In The Melt’. While he’s probably not an occultist of the same deep tint as Simon Balestrazzi, Milusic does manage some convincing uncanny atmospheres on titles such as ‘Initial Circle of Affirmation’ and ‘Weird...