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 o...

"Live Rarities" is a selection of pieces picked for their unique „going beyond frontiers" quality, acknowledged retrospectively by the artists as a rare meeting with the „grain", the „it" of performance. Artistic daring and sensation have been favoured...

Camila Nebbia: tenor sax, spoken word, fx

“Una ofrenda a la ausencia (an offering to absence) explores in depth the rawness, harshness and roughness of sound embracing the intense and unfiltered expressions that emerges from absence.”

"Litto Nebbia is an Argentinian musician with a long a storied history. He was originally a member of Los Gatos, an early beat/pop group as well as a member of Huinca. He has been responsible for about a slew of releases and I understand he's still...

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 ...

Alon Nechushtan: keyboards
Roy Campbell: flute, trumpet
Daniel Carter: saxophones, clarinet
Sabir Mateen: saxophones, clarinet
William Parker: bass
Federico Ughi: drums
Live at Zebulon, Brooklyn NY, March 5, 2006

“Look at those players Alon Nechushtan brought together for this gig! The late, great Roy Campbell; reed masters Daniel Carter and Sabir Mateen; mayor of the NYC avant-jazz scene William Parker; versatile drummer Federico Ughi. Then listen: they all liv

“Australian minimalist-jazz trio The Necks' 20th studio album, Bleed, explores a sublime language of stillness. With a single, 42-minute composition, The Necks masterfully express the unspeakable beauty of decay and space in yet another totally distinct entry in a vast and stunning body of work.”

“Hypnotic, sensuous, dream-like, enveloping, funky, seductive, subtle, credible. The Australian trio of drummer Tony Buck, double bassist Lloyd Swanton and pianist Chris Abrahams have broken all the rules. They've transformed their (mostly) acoustic jazz piano trio into an outfit whose music sounds more like ambient electronic dance music, than any conventional notion of jazz. There are huge influences from R&B, Kraut Rock, The Doors, ethnic musics, Miles Davis and John Coltrane. With this persuasive...

"Now in their twenty-fourth year, the Necks' new release, Mindset, their sixteenth album features two starkly contrasting tracks: the pulsating, raw, 'Rum Jungle' and the slower building, rather hypnotic 'Daylights.' Polyrhythms imbue both pieces with powerful forward motion, embroiled with which ethereal piano patterns interweave with bass, drums, electronics, churning Hammonds and noise-guitars. Drummer and percussionist Tony Buck writes: Mindset shares some elements in common with our previous album...

"Their first studio CD for three years - named after an industrial suburb in Sydney - famous mainly for its correctional facility - Silverwater ranges further and wider than the Necks' former releases, exploring a more sectional structure that counterposes extremes and contrasts, and possesses a greater sense of forward motion than we are accustomed to with this most economical of bands - though it still retains the long, hypnotic single-track iterative form for which they have been praised. Layers and...

"Formed in Australia the late 1980s by Chris Abrahams, Tony Buck and Lloyd Swanton, the NECKS have been hailed by the New York Times as 'one of the greatest bands in the world.

"Entirely new and entirely now...They produce a post-jazz, post...

"A concert recording from Townsville, Thuringowa, Northern Queensland, Australia from February 15, 2007. For over two decades the Necks have been stepping onto stages with absolutely nothing in mind, waiting for the first sound to happen and then following it through – with glacial inevitability, and never any sudden shift of gear - or introduction of new material – for an hour or so. Never mechanical minimalism - since each moment is invested with an intense presence – this is more a dense liquefaction...

Final of three releases. Digi sleeves have a small bit of shelf / shipping wear.

This is the sixth studio album by Norway’s Needlepoint, who operate very much in the song arena of progressive rock. You can compare them to Caravan as another band who played progressive rock strongly centered on SONGS, but they don’t really sound like Caravan, just like Junipher Greene "Friendship" and Wigwam "Fairyport", two albums that (perhaps rightly) get compared to Caravan, don’t really sound like Caravan...
Like Sanguine Hum, another contemporary, SONG-centered progressive rock band, they...

This is the fifth album by Norway’s Needlepoint, who operate very much in the song arena of progressive rock. You can compare them to Caravan as another band who played progressive rock strongly centered on SONGS, but they don’t really sound like Caravan, just like Junipher Greene "Friendship" and Wigwam "Fairyport", two albums that (perhaps rightly) get compared to Caravan, don’t really sound like Caravan...
Like Sanguine Hum, another contemporary, SONG-centered progressive rock band, they are...

"Negativland’s newest album is the summation of years of on-air research and development of the Chopping Channel: A place on the dial where music—and lots more!—was swallowed, digested, exhumed, consumed, and presented for sale at prices that didn’t last long. Broadcasting live from Negativland’s legendary Over The Edge radio program, this album brings you cultural appropriation at its most typical, with jokes that aren’t that funny because they aren’t really jokes. Atop a relentlessly atomized mix of...

Collector's item. This CD is still in the original blister pack and has never been opened or played. A quick bit of background for those not in the know: In August of 1991, SST Records released an overpriced single by Negativland called U2, featurin...

“2CD, fold out eco-wallet. Nearly an hour of unreleased music on disc two. Contains a 24 page booklet with Nehls’ story told in great detail, with never before published photos.”

"A rock concept album, as progressive as it is psychedelic, recorded by a 17-year-old Tom Nehls and his high school friends in Minneapolis over a three-month period in late 1972.
Nehls original notes describe his influences: The Beatles, Zappa, Tolkien. But that amalgamation cannot prepare you for the depths that...

Definitely not ‘professional’ recordings, but seems like soundboard tapes and much better sound than I was expecting, honestly, so this can be conditionally recommended!

“Spectacular five CD box set of vintage unreleased live recordings capturing one of the best live prog rock bands ever, Nektar, in their prime and at the height of their powers!
Three incredible concerts spread across five discs, this box set not only features the band's best loved songs from Remember The Future to King Of...

Reissue with 4 bonus tracks of one of the later albums by this UK-by-way-of-Germany band. The bonus tracks include an alternate mix of On The Run and, more interestingly, a demo of Away From Asgard, a live version of Midnight Lite and a alternate versi...

The seventh release by this English group who spent their most popular and productive years in Germany, and are usually thought of as a German band.
Recycled was the band's final studio release while still based in Germany and was a very high-budget release, befitting a band who were as popular as they were at this time (1975). This album also featured the addition of guest synthesist Larry Fast, who contributed excellently throughout. This was their final great studio album, and it was befittingly...

“Signing to the Bacillus label in 1971, Nektar achieved German success with the albums ‘Journey To The Centre Of The Eye’ and ‘A Tab In The Ocean’, and also gained a cult following in Britain and the USA where their albums were originally only available as imports.
It was with their 1973 double album ‘Sounds Like This’, that Nektar saw their first album release in the UK (on the United Artists label). Later hailed by Elton John as “an extraordinary album”, the record was recorded live in the studio...

I just saw Nektar last month and they put on a great, energetic show. For me, the new material which they performed at the concert and which is what this CD consists of, fit in perfectly with the older classics, which means that this can safely be recommended to any fan!

“The release of the stunning new studio album by the legendary band Nektar.
Throughout the 1970s Nektar released a series of acclaimed albums, scoring chart success in Germany (where the British band was based) and later in..

“We welcome Berlin based Italian Vince Gagliardi and his audiovisual project The Nent, who’s dream-like aesthetic is rooted in a passion for broken ambient textures, eerie field recordings and poignant percussive elements. His debut album “Vulner“ (mastered at Dadub Studio) offers 3 long progressions with explosive culminations. Mostly composed with field recordings and samples collected over the last sixteen years, all with a deep personal meaning. All tracks are interconnected and draw a path from...

Anders Hallberg (vocals)
Magnus Könberg (drums)
Johan Luyckx (electric guitar)
Markus Mannberg (bass guitar)
Ana Marega (vocals, theremin)
Tobias Petterson (electric guitar)

Very amusingly named Swedish psych band featuring personnel from Agus and Yuri Gargarin!

"Imagine Charles Manson and Anton LaVey teaming up with a band of fake Hare Krishna cult members speeding towards Kathmandu in a run down VW bus along the dusty Hippie Trail in 1966. That may give you the