This new release is a great one from a band that already has a big pocket full of great ones!

"For over 25 years, Motorpsycho have constantly pushed at the limits of what’s possible within the rock format, becoming a prog band almost by default as their songs have got longer and more exploratory. Starting with 2008’s Little Lucid Moments, they’ve gone through a remarkable purple patch over the past decade, producing an album practically every year while also finding time to soundtrack a series..

The very very long lived band that is Motorpsycho have changed their spots many many times and this is not what most probably think of as a typical Motorpsycho release.
Having said that, the very first Motorpsycho album I ever heard was their orchestral pop release, Let Them Eat Cake and this has a lot of sonic similarities in terms of song craft, although it lacks some of the orchestral qualities. I like it!!

"Between 2017 and 2021, Norway's Motorpsycho released the sprawling "Gullvåg...

"Chicago's John Corbett and the Atavistic label have done a great service to free jazz fans in reissuing this sole album by Sweden's influential Mount Everest Trio as part of the Unheard Music Series. Waves From Albert Ayler gives good indication by...

Charlotte Cegarra (vocals)
Eelco Bosman (guitar)
Ron Goris (drums)
Sarah Anderson (violin)
Hilary Jeffery (trombone)
Jason Kohnen (bass)
Gideon Kiers (electronics)

“The new record of the experimental alter ego of THE KILIMANJARO DARKJAZZ ENSEMBLE. After they delivered the 60 minutes session “Anthropomorphic” in 2011 THE MOUNT FUJI DOOMJAZZ CORPORATION now is back with the 4th full length called EGOR.
This four track monster (again almost 70 minutes long) was reco

Mountain was a New York trio of hard rockers who formed during the first generation of proto-metal and featured a dense, blues-based sound performed by Leslie West (guitar & vocals), Felix Pappalardi (bass & vocals - who, although he was a musician first, had made his name as the producer of Cream) and Corky Laing (drums). This was their first album.

"Often billed as a junior-league version of Cream, Climbing!, Mountain's debut, had a lot of things going for it as well. Indeed, West was a...

Includes five complete albums:
Climbing!
Nantucket Sleighride
Flowers of Evil
Twin Peaks
Avalanche

"Long awaited second album from this German retro-prog trio and what arrived is a full blown monster. Recorded over a period of three years, Mouth is able to capture the sound of the 70s. The album opens and closes with 16+ minute tracks and what's in between is a ton of prog/kraut/heavy psych jam goodness. The closest comparison I can make would be to their American musical counterparts Eye. Plenty of analogue key sounds - trippy synth, roaring organ, Mellotron all intermixed with shimmering wah-wah...

Felipe Zenicola electric bass
Yedo Gibson saxophones
João Valinho drums

"MOVE has an urgency for movement. Where change is not only inevitable, it is burningly wished for. Willed into existence. From a sense of interconnectivity sprouts a direct, decisive and ready-made improvisation. Relentless as the rainforest, fertile as alluvium, blossoming ideas from doubt.
MOVE is the concept and music of bassist Felipe Zenícola (Chinese Cookie Poets, New Brazilian Funk), saxophonist Yedo...

Moving Parts were one of the great Boston ‘what ifs’ of the late 70s.

“In the late '70s, the Moving Parts created intensely challenging, offbeat music that few Bostonians heard. Members Roger Miller, Clint Conley and Erik Lindgren later became the core of both MISSION OF BURMA (Roger & Clint) and BIRDSONGS OF THE MESOZOIC (Roger & Erik).
This 15-track CD retrospective contains unreleased material all digitally remixed. Mandatory for anyone into early Pere Ubu, Wire or Devo.”

Four pieces of electronic madness by one of the certifiable outsiders of the New York downtown scene, who is now residing in San Francisco. A multi-instrumentalist and visionary composer in the world of intuitive and counter-intuitive music known for y...

Excellent sounding reissue of these very early 70's folk rarities originally released on Transatlantic; at one time, when I was trying to snag more UK Transatlantic rarities, I remember searching for anything by Mr. Fox in vain. This has both of their two albums both complete and in full, and is sure to please folk/folk rock fans.
The eclectic instrumentation is notable, as the album veers from fairly straight folk to quite wild electric-freak-folk with fuzz cello & organ, especially on their second!

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Two pretty hot performances from two stages of Muddy’s career. The previously unreleased Boston show is good quality if a bit ‘oversaturated, sounding like a radio broadcast or soundboard, while the Newport show was his first live album and has him with truly a classic lineup of his band.

“Muddy Waters shows all new comers how to play the blues live in Boston back in 1976. Smoking hot renditions of all his best songs: Caledonia, Hoochie Coochie Man, Mannish Boy.
Muddy's back up band is...

Complex instrumentals from an exciting new band from Tokyo blending rock, jazz and flamenco. Combining the precision of This Heat and the improvisational edge of Massacre, these three young musicians have fashioned a clean new sound out of the classic ...

“Two words – simply amazing! This new recording from classic progressive rock and fusion masters The Muffins after a twenty year hiatus is a breathtaking example of just how much fire is left in the genre. [They] combine melodic jazz sensibilities with complex song structures and the searing nature of classic fusion, for a ride that was worth the wait. The Muffins have returned with a vengence.” – Sea Of Tranquility

It is an all-too-rare occurrence for a band, throughout its career, to...

Hey, I don't know about you, but a new album by The Muffins is always a great thing as far as I am concerned. They band has obviously had a distinctive sound since the mid/late 70s and that sound is still here, but they've also always been highly...

Tony Levin - drums
Keith Tippett - piano [woodblocks, pebble]
Paul Dunmall - tenor and soprano saxes, Eb clarinet, bagpipes
Paul Rogers - double bass

This is one of their most overtly 'jazz' releases, and it swings like mad!

"Mujician's music works because the group's four very forceful musical personalities don't get in each other's way. For all their differences, their strengths seem complimentary - Keith Tippett's massive, lumpish piano chords; Paul Dunmall's brutal...

"Working within the instrumental parameters of the standard post-bop combo - piano, bass, drums and saxophones - the band situates itself in a space midway between what could be called Brit-Improv and American energy music...their sound is, if anything...

Kjetil André Mulelid - piano
Bjørn Marius Hegge - double bass
Andreas Skår Winther - drums
"Following in the footsteps of In The Country and Espen Eriksen Trio, Kjetil Mulelid Trio is the third piano trio to appear on Rune Grammofon. Although they can be placed in the same musical landscape, it's also fair to say there are certain obvious differences. There's a solid dose of youthful playfulness and curiosity at work here, at the same time they show an assured maturity that belies their age..

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“Multi Story formed in the early 1980's. Following a session recorded for Tommy Vance's Radio One Rock Show in 1984, the band signed with Heavy Metal Records (the new FM label), and released their debut album "East West", recorded in Monmouth's famous Rockfield Studios, in 1985. The band supported Magnum on their "On A Storyteller's Night" tour of 20 dates throughout the UK, leading to headline gigs at the Marquee Club, and TV appearances. The band’s second album “Through Your Eyes" was released in 1987...

"Mumpbeak is a new instrumental progressive rock project featuring Roy Powell on keyboards, Pat Mastelotto on drums with Bill Laswell, Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz, Tony Levin and Lorenzo Feliciati on bass. Mumpbeak was produced and mixed by Bill Laswell.
English-born but Norwegian resident pianist/keyboard player/organist Roy Powell creates astonishing near-symphonic progressive rock-fuelled compositions in MUMPBEAK.
Using a heavily modified set of pedals and a Hohner Clavinet, he successfully

Featuring three beautiful young women singing creative new Latino music, Muna Zul is an exciting a cappella vocal trio from Mexico City. Seamlessly interweaving Mexican folk themes with pop, rock and world beat, their music is charming and infectious. ...