N.O.R.M.A. are a Bologna, Italy based experimental septet. They are joined on this record by Chris Cutler as well as guest Phil Minton. The musicians joyfully help themselves from the vast storage of music's history. They complement pieces by Satie wit...

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''From adventurous originals to surprising reinterpretations of traditional Jewish classics, Boston-based Naftule's Dream has created an instrumental music of passion and intensity. Fiery improvisation weaves in and out of complex arrangements in a sty...

''Two great masters of classical Indian music perform two well-known ragas: Darbari and Mishra-Kafi. Manil Nag, sitar, descendant of a very old family of musicians, belongs to the Bishnupur Garana. In the 50 years of his carrier he has collaborated wit...

This is going to be a big deal to many, many happy folks! I just played it and the sound and performance are both great! "After over 10 years, Tadik is finally releasing an exciting series of live recordings by one of the most unique and infamous band...

This really is a beautiful package and it includes one new piece, unavailable anywhere else, that I guess you just have to have, don't you?

"I have radically remastered this music with exacting and loving attention to every last detail....

"Four decades after Woodstock, these fabulous recording sessions see the light of day for the first time. This album contains 5 studio tracks from 1969, recorded at the popular 'Mu House' by the panhandle in San Francisco's Haight & Ashbury where the...

Bargain price on the 1st album by this Italian fusion quartet of tenor sax/electric sax/vocals, Fender Rhodes piano, bass & drums/percussion. There is a definite Italian slant to their take on fusion...

The rediscovery of the best in Neapolitan music by the highly talented artists Antonello Paliotti, Mauro Squillante and Leonardo Massa continues,after their widely acclaimed previous album Tarantella Storta. Serenata Luntana does more than confirm its ...

OK bargain hunters and the Canterbury curious - this is for you. This is the two National Health albums that the band somehow managed to record during their (too short) lifetime; music that directly challenged the popular and critical tastes of their...

Typically nice and thorough Esoteric job on this (although I must admit that I don't remember the name of the first track on the album being "Thermos Roads"); there's no bonus material, but there is excellent remastered sound, good notes and photos...

This marks the first time that this version of this classic Canterbury group (Alan Gowen, John Greaves, Phil Miller, Pip Pyle) has been documented on record. This edition of the band strove towards a more stretched-out, free-er approach. As Phil rememb...

A guitar duo by the fantastic Kido (Korekyojinn, Bondage Fruit and Salle Gaveau) and Daisuke Suzuki. This is warm, acoustic playing of originals and standards (by Charlie Haden, Keith Jarrett, Santana, Gershwin and Sting, among others); it's really...

Philip Gelb (shakuhachi), Shoko Hikage (koto), Tim Perkis (electronics), Chris Brown (piano).

"Thousand Oaks is the album of a group that is in complete possession of its art but still holds a few surprises for the future. Come for the...

"Meditation bells and gongs from Japan, India, China and Tibet, where these instruments are often used to stun the mind and capture awareness in meditation, create the matrix from which this music has developed. Arranged and orchestrated by chief...

Lelo was the keyboardist for Grupo Um, a very good Brasilian fusion band and he also has played with Hermeto Pascoal. This is his fifth album and features typically enticing Brazilian-style jazz-rock fusion mixed with Afro-Brazilian forms and rhythms. ...

''Heir of a Senegales griot family & lead vocalist of Orchestre National du Senegal, Dou Dou shows his double skill on voice & percussion. Refusing the techno-banality that swamps so much current World Music, Thiato Thiate wins over the listener throug...

NDIO was formed from the ashes of the Holland-based Hugh Hopper Band. Some time after the Hopper Band disbanded, saxophonist Frank van der Kooij, a key member from the start, asked Hopper to join a project under his leadership. Frank also invited two...

The first release outside of the USSR (back in the days when there was a USSR) by this great Estonian band, which was released by the great French label AYAA. Recorded in 1989, this has their energetic presence in good form. I wonder whatever happened...

"This album represents the beginning of the most creative phase of the threesome together with Jorge González and Néstor Astarita. Here they add music to the very unusual for their time lyrics culled from the poetry of Mirta Defilpo. A work of definite...

NeBelNeST are one of the most adventurous and energetic young bands to emerge on the international post-rock / avant-progressive scene in recent years. The young French band is noted for its dark symphonic rock music influenced by King Crimson, Pulsar...