"Atomic, the 2016 album by Scottish experimental rock legends Mogwai, is composed of reworked versions of the music recorded for the soundtrack to director Mark Cousins' acclaimed documentary Atomic: Living In Dread and Promise, which first aired on BBC Four last summer. Constructed entirely of archive film, Atomic is an impressionistic kaleidoscope of the horrors of our nuclear times - protest marches, Cold War sabre-rattling, Chernobyl and Fukishima - but also the sublime beauty of the atomic world...

"Meiningslaust Oppgulp (trans. "meaningless regurgitation") is a compilation of rare, limited and hard-to-find tracks from singles released between 2008 and 2011 by MoHa!. Out of Norway's super-fertile improv scene, MoHa! have boldly been leading the...

-{-hird full-length release from Norway's noise spastics MoHa!. The Wire has called them an "extremist hybrid between free improv, gutter electronics and darkwave scuzz," and they have elsewhere simply been proclaimed the future of Norwegian...

Three well known British players(Moholo-drums, Parker-saxes & Guy-bass) + African newcomers Pule Pheto-piano & Gibo Phetond bass. Variations of solos, duo, trios, quartet, & over 45 minutes by the full five piece band.

Alexander Hawkins-piano, John Edwards-bass, Louis Moholo-Moholo-drums, Jason Yarde-saxes.

"It’s the feeling that differentiates free jazz and its offshoots from every other species of contemporary western music: the sensation that the body and...

Marilyn Crispell, Piano / Louis Moholo-Moholo, Drums.

I was *at* this concert!
"Call it inspiration, magic or what you will. The music then takes on a larger aspect, one that is extremely vivid to the senses, but is fundamentally resistant...

This double CD presents two seperate sessions, both led by drummer Moholo. Spirits Rejoice is from 1978 and is an all-star Brit-jazz session (Evan Parker, Kenny Wheeler, Nick Evans, Radu Malfatti, Keith Tippett, Johnny Dyani and Harry Miller), while Br...

Stan Tracey is probably the living (grand)father of modern British jazz; starting in the more typical post-bop style and as the house pianist at Ronnie Scott's internationally known club in London, by the late 60's, he was also playing a more adventuro...

The Molecules, brainchild of PAK, RonRuins member Ron Anderson, formed in 1990 in Oakland, CA and created a sound of discordant spazz-jazz-improvisational-rock that would later be recreated by bands such as Hella, Lightning Bolt, Upsilon Acrux & many...

"Fernando Molinari is a fantastic bassist, hailing from Brazil. The music here is heavy, progressive, instrumental fare. It reads like really well done shred, with some fusiony touches. Lead track, Tropical Rain reminds me of Canadian stalwarts, Spaced Out, as well as having some Meshuggah heaviness in parts. Guitar duties on this tune are handled by Andre Nieri, most recently seen on the Virgil Donati tour cycle. Trouble Tones is a driving, funky number, with a jaw-dropping bass solo. Fernando whips out...

Sixth great release from one of the greatest, most electrifying ‘jazz/not jazz’ bands out there today! Highly recommended.

“With Smells Funny being their sixth album in seven years, the explosive and expansive Hedvig Mollestad Trio have gone from strength to strength, gathering respect from both rock and jazz camps, sharing big stages with the likes of John McLaughlin and Black Sabbath, and being equally comfortable in jazz and rock clubs. Smells Funny sees Mollestad truly coming into her own...

“Hedvig Mollestad says her new album, Maternity Beat, is her most ambitious work to date, and that's not a proclamation to be taken lightly. Mollestad, after all, has been one of Norway's most adventurous and hardest-working musicians since the Molde International Jazz Festival named her the "Young Jazz Talent of the Year" in 2009.
Recorded with the 12-piece Trondheim Jazz Orchestra (who have previously worked with legends like Chick Corea and Joshua Redman), Maternity Beat is a sprawling double...

A classic of modern Irish folk music.

"The three most influential groups in traditional Irish music – The Bothy Band, Planxty, and The Chieftains – have only one man in common. He is Matt Molloy and this is his landmark solo album which shows...

Nils Petter Molvaer was first discovered and championed by ECM. He plays trumpet and electronics, releasing a post-millenium kind of fusion. You can hear Bitches Brew in here for sure, but you can also hear Jon Hassell's "Fourth World" sound, and also...

Brandon Terzic, oud/Ravish Momin, percussion/Sam Bardfeld, violin.

"This is a new Tarana. The trio recorded here includes violinist Sam Bardfeld and oud player Brandon Terzic occupying Jason Kao Hwang's and Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz's seats on...

“In recent years, Southern California has proved to be fertile ground for heavy psych, prog, and free rock. The amount of excellent bands growing out of the San Diego soil is simply unparalleled. Among the youngest generation of these bands are the five-piece Monarch, a band rooted in psychedelia and experimental prog, with a view towards broader horizons. There's something refreshing about Monarch's take on psychedelic rock: they aren't afraid to weave Allman Brothers-esque dual guitar lines with...

Chris Lamont: Drums
Dino Verginella: Bass
Ken Baird: Piano, Keyboards, Vocals, Guitars on tracks 1 and 5, Recorder, Penny Whistle
Kelly Kereliuk: Guitar on "Twenty K"
Steve Cochrane: Guitars on "Moon to Follow"

Very good, predominately instrumental symphonic rock from a Canadian trio [with guitar / guest guitar on four of the five tracks] that is instrumentally evocative of Wind & Wuthering.
As they say, “effectively a “double album” of 74 minutes which fits onto one

Ben Monder - acoustic and electric guitar
Matt Brewer - acoustic - electric bass
Ted Poor - drums

“The idea of presenting a collection of arrangements of other composers' works had long been a goal for Monder, but one that until now had not been realized. In 2014, he was awarded a grant from The Shifting Foundation, and saw this as an opportunity to finally pursue this vision. For a few months he sequestered himself in an apartment in Saugerties, New York, and began the process of...

"This cd is a must have for every serious guitarist. Ben Monder takes electric guitar playing to heights that have never been reached before. His modern language and technique - both in composing and improvising -, although sometimes resemblant...

Everyone knows how much I think highly of guitarist Ben Monder and Bill McHenry is a fine, rising saxist who is on many recent albums I own. Together they make a great, heavily textural album.

"On the stunning duo release Bloom, guitarist...

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'.

This 1963 release was his first for Columbia and gained him a lot of attention and here it is with 4 extra songs and sounding absolutely great. Recommended!