“Minimum Resistance is Jonas Munk's most abstract and minimalist album to date, ten ambient pieces based on guitars -- often processed into soft, slow billows of sound. There's a rare aesthetic clarity in these pieces, allowing each sonic component to breathe and resonate. Here Munk works with a restrained sonic palette and it's an album which demands patience from the listener. Yet, in its bold simplicity, it carries enough emotional weight to be deeply rewarding. It's an immersive album, an invitation...

“Jonas Munk and Nicklas Sørensen team up for a genre-defying record that explores American minimalism, psychedelia, and electronic music -- both vintage and contemporary. On a foundation of interlocking guitar and synthesizer patterns, the duo constructs lengthy pieces that are experimental yet welcoming in nature, precisely executed yet with room for soaring improvisation. Always Already Here pays homage to the masters of classical minimalism (Steve Reich, Terry Riley) and the pioneers of electronic...

"What would it sound like if Nick Cave started writing songs with Genesis after watching too many episodes of Dr Who?
How many songs about replacing your body parts with mechanical alternatives is too many?
Does the world need a steampunk/scifi inspired prog rock act?
Tom Slatter set out to answer none of these questions, but accidentally did."

"Nearly ten years in the making, this instrumental album from Tom Slatter consists of eight pieces of music originally written for very...

“Denis Murphy and Julia Clifford, brother and sister, are heirs to the fiddle tradition of Sliabh Luachra, the mountainous area on the Cork/Kerry border. The album features just the two siblings' brilliant fiddles with no other accompaniment, and upon listening to the record you will realise nothing else is needed. Their dance music is music of the local sets but is played as much for the ear as for the feet, producing a range of emotions over the length of the record. Their airs are overpowering in...

David Murray: Tenor Saxophone
Brad Jones: Bass
Hamid Drake: Drums

“David Murray is a giant of modern jazz. His saxophone fuses all the great things that black music has produced: Gospel sounds, free jazz, Afro-Caribbean, blues and soul as well as the beautiful standards of classic jazz. Murray's colorful tone, unsurpassed intonation, flair for swing, melancholy tones, and improvisational power and ingenuity make him one of the most important voices in music today. The newly formed Brave..

A great band: Sunny Murray-drums; Sabir Mateen-alto and tenor saxophones, alto clarinet; Dave Burrell-piano; Alan Silva-bass; Louis Belogenis-tenor saxophone. "Sunny Murray's talent is bigger than any category you could use to describe it. He's one of...

"Classic and important '66 release from the innovative drummer Sunny Murray in a quintet session, remastered and with bonus interview track between Murray and ESP label founder Bernard Stollman."...

"In the late 1980s two globetrotting Milanese composers joined forces to produce an acclaimed and prescient record made in equal parts from their own performances and ethnic field recordings, a little in the manner of Eno/Byrne's "My Life in the Bush...

This is the 1st new work by these Italian composers since their two ReR releases from 10 years ago. They've got a new partner too. ''...a stunning accomplishment...both exceptional & exceptionally strange.''-Cadence. [Victo]

Museo Rosenbach are one of the very top tier of the 'one and done' 'Rock Progressivo Italian' bands of the 70s, releasing a dark, sinister classic. Now, 40 years (!) after their first, classic release Zarathustra, they return with a new studio album...

Mushroom Giant are an Australian instrumental band, basically consisting of dual guitars, bass and drums, but one of the guitarists also often uses Hammond organ and Fender Rhodes piano.

Their sound is very cinematic and even think so too...

(Sweden)

"This 4-CD set, covering the years 1967–2007, comprises the best surviving recorded documents from four decades of performances, personally curated by its three core members—Alvin Curran, Frederic Rzewski, and Richard Teitelbaum. As such, it is an...

Frederic Rzewski-piano, voice
Richard Tietelbaum-keyboards, computer
Alvin Curran-keyboards, computer, shofar

Recorded on the 50th anniversary of M.E.V.’s founding!

“The trio’s hour-long improvisation was a beautiful unfolding of musical ideas that culminated in a fable told/spoken by Rzewski that summed up the beauty and terror of the last one hundred years of war and displacement, proving that creativity does not necessarily diminish with age. In a way, this was the most...

This Israeli progressive rock band has gathered a bit of a reputation for a bit of a unfortunate reason: despite being well regarded and well received by those who have seen them/heard their demos, they recorded this album in 2005 (with Udi Koomran...

Three GREAT albums (one never before heard or even known to have existed!) plus an amazing book that sets the scene for the Catalonian progressive scene just after Franco. Chris / ReR have really done a great job on this. Hugely recommended, even if you have two of the CDs already, because the unreleased disc and the booklet are both amazing!

“This box collects and restores two legendary and totally great mid-70s releases, met at the time with extravagant critical acclaim but few sales outside of..

You don't know anything about this (I can say that with real certainty, because I didn't either), but a lot of you will want this, if only because you bought and were slayed by the newer release by Muskox, "Invocation/Transformations".
Muskox are a Canadian instrumental quintet and this is their fourth release. It sez here, "5 Pieces is the first full-length release from Toronto's progressive acoustic jazz ensemble Muskox, who continue to develop the sound established on their previous three EPs....

Os Mutantes (The Mutants) were one of the first psychedelic bands to emerge from Brazil. Their first 3 albums are all considered important late 60's albums, but this, their first, is considered to be the most 'important', as it is one of the beginning ...

"Drummer/percussionist Moe! Staiano (Moe!kestra!, ex-Sleepytime Gorilla Museum) had always wanted to have a band of his own. Finding suitable candidates in the young talents of guitarist Ava Mendoza (Caroliner, Carla Bozulich's Evangelista), and bassist..

Corey Mwamba - vibraphone, glockenspiel, beak flute
Laura Cole - piano
Andy Champion - double bass
Johnny Hunter - drums, small percussion

“The idea for putting together this group, at the time I did, represents a slow movement. This is a group of people that I had wanted to put together for a while; some of the music was written almost fifteen years ago. But then, as it began, we accelerated; we played live four times, the final time coinciding with my last time.
Andy...

This is the second album by this psychedelic group consisting of the dueling electric guitars of Nicklas Barker of Anekdoten and Mathias Danielsson of Makajodama and Gösta Berlings Saga! They really do some seriously slaying axe work in a kinda post...

Maurizio Opalio-cosmic guitar, mini xylophone, meteor percussion and Roberto Opalio-astral guitar, piano, extraterrestrial electronics, harmonica, planetary percussion, voice.

“Each album or performance by My Cat Is An Alien is an invitation to leave on a cosmic journey, without resorting to the numerous clichés of the space music genre. Think instead of a synth-less Ash Ra Tempel coming across the quiet improvisation current. Think of stripped-down music made of looped droning guitars, caressed...

"The Brothers Opalio return with their second collaborative album for Atavistic, following up on 2009's "Through the magnifying glass of tomorrow" enhanced double-cd. This time MY CAT IS AN ALIEN have teamed up with Romana Ponzini (vocals/Japanese percussion, and Lee Ranaldo (guitars... OBVIOUSLY/bells/vocals) for a 2008 session, captured live at INTERZONA in Verona, Italy. Like the extant MCIAA tapestry of international collaborations, "all is lost" continues their spectacular latter-day exploration of...

"There must be something on the air, or in it, to explain the space rock blooming in central Texas. This Austin sextet expands on the arc-riff grandeur of local travelers Explosions in the Sky with John Cale-like viola and simple, rising melodies that tak

Sharon Van Etten (voice), Nick Butcher (electronics, turntable, guitar, keyboards), Mike Reed (drums, bass, baritone ukulele, editing), Jason Stein (bass clarinet).

"..the transformation of free improvisation into delicate meditations that veer..