Erik Mongrain is a tapping guitarist who has gotten a lot of attention for his very good, Michael Hedges-influenced sound. He's had huge amounts of views on YouTube which you can see here...

"An unprecedented collection of recordings charting the earliest years of one of the world’s most innovative and exciting renaissance women—composer, singer, performer, film director, visual artist and auteur Meredith Monk. Hand selected by Meredith...

Includes five complete Riverside albums:
Plays Duke Ellington (1955)
The Unique (1956)
Brilliant Corners (1957)
At the Blackhawk (1960)
In Italy (1963)

The good: This presents Monk and his post Coltrane quartet of Charlie Rouse, Ahmed Abdul-Malik and Roy Haynes in a performance from the Five Spot in 1958, several years before he was so well documented. Additionally, you get to hear Baroness Nica's voice introducing him.

The bad: These recordings were made with a portable reel-to-reel tape recorder, utilizing a single microphone. There is background noise and table chatter. It's all audible, but hardly 'hi-fi'.

Thelonious Monk-piano
Ray Copeland-trumpet
Clark Terry-trumpet
Jimmy Cleveland-trombone
Phil Woods-alto sax
Charlie Rouse-tenor sax
Johnny Griffin-tenor sax
Larry Gales-bass
Ben Riley-drums

This excellent recording of a show from 11/3/67 has been released a zillion ways, but it’s a very rare chance to hear Monk with a larger group in front of an audience.

“Pianist/composer Thelonious Monk led a quartet throughout the 1960s but on a European tour in

Includes five complete albums, most with bonus tracks!
Straight No Chaser
Underground
Criss Cross
Monk's Dream
Solo Monk

"Alternate takes on a Monk solo LP are a revelation, and this reissue of his 1965 Columbia solo LP is packed with seven of them, plus an additional bonus track!"

"The mystery and haunting angular beauty of Thelonious Monk's unadorned keyboard sides are the focus of Solo Monk. As if holding the history of jazz in his hands, Monk's solo recordings and performances from every phase of his career remain pure."-All Music Guide

This is the seventh album from this spacerock band from Switzerland working a heavy, modern version of the style, which includes plenty of stoner rock influence and also a lot of 1970-era Pink Floyd.

“Instrumental rockers MONKEY3 have buckled up for their next interstellar journey: nestled somewhere in between space rock, psych, stoner and progressive, this four piece is infamous for its onstage intensity that has crowned prestigious festivals such as Roadburn, Hellfest and Desertfest...

The Monks were a crazy, pre-punk reductionist rock band made up of five US soldiers stationed in Germany, who stayed in Germany after their discharge from the service and who recorded this one classic of primal rock music that was released in 1966. Think of Faust's "It's a Rainy Day, Sunshine Girl", but even more stripped down and you get an idea of what the Monks did. A real favorite here of mine and of the kids who work here. Some of you will really love this and some of you will not. Includes bonus...

Jan Garbarek – saxophone
Terje Rypdal – guitar
Svein Christensen – drums
+ other unknown musicians

This is the soundtrack for a Norwegian exploitation anti-drug film called ‘Heaven and Hell’ from 1969. This first time ever CD-release is produced based on original master tapes preserved and digitalized at Nasjonalbiblioteket.
This sounds exactly like what you would imagine a 1969 explotation film by these folks to sound like, with some of it going pretty out for 1969! Groovy, man

Nice collection of all of this great Japanese instrumental post-rock quartet (dual guitar, bass and drums) sampler, single and non-album tracks.

"Collecting all of Mono's rare and out-of-print non-album tracks, Gone perfectly...

"Just in time for their 10-year anniversary, Mono return with their fifth studio album, the absolutely massive Hymn To The Immortal..

‘"What are we doing here?" The year 2020 turned what was once quintessential late-night stoner existentialism into a daily mantra for nearly everyone on this planet. What are we doing with our limited time in this life? What is our purpose? What should we be doing?
For the past 25 years, Mono have explored themes such as the relationship between darkness and light; hope in the face of disaster; and the duality of birth and death. On their 12th full-length album, OATH, they ponder the time that makes..

“MONO began in Japan at the end of the 20th Century as a young band equally inspired by the pioneers of moody experimental rock (My Bloody Valentine, Mogwai) and iconic Classical composers (Beethoven, Morricone) who came before them. They have evolved into one of the most inspiring and influential experimental rock bands in their own right. It is only fitting that their evolution has come at the glacial, methodical pace that their patient music demands. MONO is a band who puts serious value in nuance...

Another pretty great one from this Japanese quartet of dual guitars, bass and drums. There is some additional instrumentation (a string quartet!), but this is mostly the long, droning-yet-consistantly interesting work that we've come to expect from...

Zappi W Diermaier - drums, keyboards, psalter, voice
Elke Drapatz - drumeffekts
Amaury Cambuzat - guitar
Uwe Bastiansen - guitar
Dirk Desselhaus - guitar, bass guitar

“An amazing release, if you like both Faust Nord and Faust Sud.”

Monobeat Original is the new project by Werner "Zappi" Diermaier, drummer and founding member of the legendary Krautrock band FAUST.
An odyssey of dark-tribal-ritualistic-krautrock with a cinematic bent. From the atavic to the post

“Monstereo serves catchy melodies and energetic rock songs rooted in 70s rock and psychedelia, the four-piece has served jam packed space rock for over a decade!
With this album Monstereo demonstrates their richest and broadest sound yet, with more keyboards, synths, and a variety of guitars, offering, teeth-grinding riffs, big choruses and rock-solid grooves!
The tracks on "In the Hollow of a Wave" represents the best of two worlds. Catchy melodies, heavy riffs and a big sound, combined with...

"...an outstanding CD..."-Eugene Chadbourne
"When the French-Corsican guitarist Jean Marc Montera came to Cologne in April 1998 to perform at the "Jack Pohl presents..." festival, we got the idea to record his impressive solo performance. Because he.

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"Maria Monti's 1974 LP Il Bestario is a rare item even in its native country. Monti is an Italian singer and actress with a noteworthy career, performing as a cabaret singer in the '60s, an ambitious avant-garde folk artist in the '70s, and starring in films by directors such Sergio Leone (Fistful of Dynamite) and Bernardo Bertolucci (1900) all the while. In addition to lyrics by the infamous poet Aldo Braibanti, Il Bestiario features arrangements and synthesizer from legendary avant-garde composer Alvin...

Montreal Sound Matter-Montreal Matieres Sonore $13.00 "Montréal matières sonore brings together eight Canadian and international sound artists. The project began with a workshop on environmental sound collecting by Francisco López and led to the...

Five classic albums by the Moodies, at just a hair over $5.00 each!
One The Threshold Of A Dream
To Our Children's Children's Children
Question Of Balance
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
Seventh Sojourn

“The best-realized of their classic albums, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour was also the last of the group's albums for almost a decade to be done under reasonably happy and satisfying circumstances -- for the last time with this lineup, they went into the studio with a reasonably full song bag and a lot of ambition and brought both as far as time would allow, across close to four months (interrupted by a tour of the United States right in the middle). Virtually everywhere you listen on this record, the...

Moon Duo are actually a new psychedelic / stoner / motorik-beat trio and they are led by the singer and guitar player of another fine modern psychedelic band, Wooden Ships.
If you are a fan of the things released by the Beyond Beyond Is Beyond label, this would fit RIGHT in and you will love this one.

"Meaning all things magick and supernatural, the root of the word occult is that which is hidden, concealed, beyond the limits of our minds. If this is occult, then the Occult Architecture...