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Full length remastered version of the complete Voyage 34, which was originally released as a single in 1992. Now over an hour long, this has the 'complete bad trip' for your listening convenience. One of the band's early space rock/Floydian classics!...

“Past and Present is the third solo album by Kimmo Pörsti (The Samurai of Prog, Paidarion, Mist Season, Bernard and Pörsti). The Past is presented by 5 songs which were released on different occasions between 2004 – 2016), some of them now completely reworked. The Present comes alive by 6 new songs composed by Kimmo (with the help of Rafael Pacha) and one by Jari Riitala. As with Kimmo‘s previous album “Wayfarer”, music ranges from symphonic prog to groovy fusion instrumentals, not to forget some...

Paolo Porta : tenor sax
Alessandro Maiorino: bass
Alessandro Minetto: drums

"The Paolo Porta Trio has worked together for over 20 years and now, we are very pleased to present their music on their first CD for SLAM. When musici

"The only common factor of all the musical and sound experiences led by Michel Portal is the improvisation and his demand : putting himself constantly at risk , throwing himself away. Even his movie music, even his interpretations of classical music...

"The multi-instrumentalist from Bayonne, who had turned eighty just a few days before the interview, masters various clarinets and saxophones as well as the bandoneon, and is also recognized as a composer. His wit and wisdom, and the youthful energy and curiosity he brings to his astonishing improvisations are only some of the reasons Portal has enjoyed such a fruitful and enduring career. Having helped to kick start the Free Jazz movement, he went on to form New Phonic Art to encourage collective...

Le Porte Non Aperte (The Unopened Doors) are a young, retro-progressive rock band from Italy who are making their debut here with this very strong release.

The group is a quintet of Sandro Parrinello - vocals, Filippo Mattioli - organ...

Portella was a member of ZNR and had a nice, if sadly forgotten album on Recommended. With vocalist Brigette Balian, this is a 20' release of music. "Le Voayage d'Hiver, after Franz Schubert's Winterreise (texts by Wilhelm Muller). Premiere at the fest...

"Portico Quartet stake claims to territory occupied by Radiohead, Cinematic Orchestra and Efterklang.”-The Guardian

“Portico Quartet return with Memory Streams, their fifth studio album and one that continues the journey that first started with 2008's Mercury nominated debut Knee Deep in the North Sea. It's a creative path that has seen the band embrace new technology and explore ambient and electronic influences alongside minimalism, jazz and beyond. It is a process that has encouraged change...

Portico Quartet has always been an impossible band to pin down. Sending out echoes of jazz, electronica, ambient music and minimalism, the group have created their own singular sound. And while their new music mixes dense layers and textures with electronic and acoustic instruments the sound remains uniquely, recognizably their own. Untitled (AITAOA #2) was largely recorded at the same sessions as Art in the Age of Automation at Fish Factory Studios in London and Portico Quartet's own studio in East...

Maurizio Di Tollo - vocals, acoustic guitars, drums, additional keyboards, samples
Cristiano Roversi - keyboards, bass pedals, additional guitars & samples
Stefano Zeni - acoustic & electric violins
Marco Remondini - cello, saxophones
Elisa Minari - electric bass
Erik Montanari - acoustic & electric 6- & 12-string guitars
with:
Tiziano Bianchi - saxhorn
Faso - 6-string electric bass
Massimo Menotti - acoustic guitar

“Il Porto di Venere is a new band, mak

A progressive rock band with symphonic touches from Karlsruhe, Germany, featuring vocals, guitar, organ/electric piano/synths, bass & drums. This was recorded in 1975, & this this reissue includes 8 bonus tracks, including some funny covers of late...

"...a raucous 10-piece ensemble which nails its distinctive blend of Afro-Cuban rhythm and freewheeling improvisation."- The New York Times

"This group combined the Latin and avant-garde traditions in unheard ways, sinking its...

Positive Catastrophe is the brainchild of Taylor Ho Bynum (cornet) and Abraham Gomez-Delgado (percussion). Taylor is one of the most impressive of the latest crop of up and coming jazz musicians and Aib has long been expanding the boundaries of Latin...

Marek Pospieszalski tenor saxophone
Elias Stemeseder piano
Max Mucha double bass
Max Andrzejewski drums

"Marek Pospieszalski presents the next album of his quartet. The music on "Dürer’s Mother" is inspired by the work ofs 19th and 20th century composers, from Schubert to Britten to Lachenmann. Pospieszalski's compositions, full of references to the works of masters, are immersed in contemporary times and go into unexplored areas of free improvisation. They are a starting point for an...

Marek Pospieszalski soprano, alto & tenor saxophone, clarinet & tape
Piotr Chęcki tenor & baritone saxophone
Tomasz Dąbrowski trumpet
Tomasz Sroczyński viola
Szymon Mika electric guitar & acoustic guitar
Grzegorz Tarwid piano
Max Mucha double bass
Qba Janicki drums & soundboard

"Marek Pospieszalski continues the project dedicated to the twentieth-century Polish school of composition, this time focusing on the works of women. Starting from the String Quartet No. 1 by...

Marek Pospieszalski soprano, alto & tenor saxophone, clarinet, alto clarinet, flute & tape
Piotr Chęcki tenor saxophone
Tomasz Dąbrowski trumpet
Tomasz Sroczyński viola
Szymon Mika electric guitar & acoustic guitar
Grzegorz Tarwid piano
Max Mucha double bass
Qba Janicki drums & soundboard

"Poland is a big cauldron in what concerns jazz and contemporary music. Conscious of this crossed particularity, saxophonist, composer and producer Marek Pospieszalski decided to...

Nice self-released album of electronic music that, while not obviously in the "Berlin-school" vein, would still probably appeal to folks who like that style of e-music.

John Potter-tenor, Milo Valent-violin, viola, John Surman-soprano saxophone, bass clarinet, tenor and bass recorders, Stephen Stubbs-baroque guitar, vihuela.

"With a revised line-up, John Potter’s Dowland Project expands its repertoire on its...

Nic Potter was the original bassist of Van der Graaf Generator and he has worked with Hammill a bit on and off since he left during the recording of H to HE, when he left because the music was creepy (or something like that). This is Potter's first...

“The first ever reissue of Steve Potts's Musique Pour Le Film d'Un Ami, originally released in 1975.
In 1975, Steve Potts left Steve Lacy for a time to compose Musique Pour Le Film d'Un Ami following the proposition from the film's director Joaquín Lledó. With guest musicians of quality and from vairied horizons, the saxophonist recorded a soundtrack ranging from modal jazz to free funk and from dirty grooves, to java wah-wah with disconcerting elegance. Rather than blaxploitation, Potts and his...

Rising from the ashes of...I dunno what. But it's nice to see this long-standing trio of 3 female talents of the Ambiances Magnetiques scene team up once more for their 3rd album. Joane Hétu-saxes and voice, Diane Labrosse-sampler, Danielle Palardy...

“A bizarre and strangely emotive new album of synthetic computer works entitled Piano Music 1-7. Via his own Diagonal Records imprint, his work on XL Recordings and, most recently, the opening of audio/film platform A Folder [afolder.studio], Powell has firm footing in the contemporary electronic landscape.
During a wry and obstinate musical life he has twisted myriad synthetic forms into shapes that explore and expand upon the districts of post-punk, techno, noise + computer music, and in the last...

Bud Powell – piano
Oscar Pettiford – bass
Kenny Clarke – drums
Coleman Hawkins - tenor saxophone

“Bud Powell's 1960 Essen, Grugahalle is an original master concert recording recorded at the Essen Jazzfestival”

All of the radio broadcasts by Bud from the Royal Roost in 1953. Quite good sound for what it is and manna for boppers!

"Bud Powell ranks as one of the most vital and influential pianists in jazz history. Captured here at his peak and recorded...


Power Of Zeus were a one and done band from Detroit that recorded for the Rare Earth label (Motown’s ‘rock’ imprint). The album is straight up progressive hard rock with psychedelic touches that are very redolent of 1970, when it came out. Great psych-influenced lead guitar, busy Jack-Bruce-ish bass and organ runs ala Mountain, Iron Butterfly, Deep Purple, Vanilla Fudge, Sir Lord Baltimore, early Sabbath, etc.
For what it is and what it is trying to do, it’s VERY good and can hold its own with any...

Eduardo Raon harp, electronics & idiofones / Joana Sá piano & idiofones / Luís José Martins classical guitar, electronics & idiophones

"The horizon line, a mountain's profile or a curve on a beach, set out the sand's sparkling fabric, and too of the ice, and the mirrored stars far away on the sea. Ancient lights, old rock sediments, unique and unpredictable ephemeral snow flakes cause that unstable and bright sparklin which is, after all, a sign of life in inanimate things...

"Gary Smith (stereo guitar), Joe Gallivan (moog synthesizer, electronic percussion), Pat Thomas (keyboard & electronics) Powerfield comprise of three highly individual performers and stalwarts of the electro-acoustic scene. Gary Smith has, over the ...

"Perhaps the most legendary of all Japanese rock musicians, Shinki Chen is Japan's most celebrated guitarist. Before going on to form Food Brain, Speed, Glue & Shinki et al, Shinki worked with vocalist Eiji Takamura, who took the stage name 'Chibo'...

"Perhaps the most legendary of all Japanese rock musicians, Shinki Chen is Japan's most celebrated guitarist. Before going on to form Food Brain, Speed, Glue & Shinki et al, Shinki worked with vocalist Eiji Takamura, who took the stage name 'Chibo'...

"Powerhouse Sound formed in the Summer of 2005, originally with Ken Vandermark on tenor sax, Ingebrigt Haker Flaten & Nate McBride on basses, Lasse Marhaug on electronics and on drums. Ken Vandermark composed tracks with the idea of building the music...

Cons: It’s a CDR.
Pros: It was only released as a CDR in 2010 and we have just a handful and, even though you (and me) never heard of this before:
“Block. Jones. Jones. Block. Together again? Just like old times? Perhaps. Perhaps not. The second release from multi-instrumentalist Chris Block - a founding member of avant-prog pioneers Cheer-Accident in collaboration with former conspirator Thymme Jones and a host of others including Scot Ashley (Dot Dot Dot), Dave Kerman (5uus, Thinking Plague).

"Prana Crafter's Beyond Beyond is Beyond debut is an electric woods walk. "Bodhi Cheetahs Choice" rambles, soars and flows through a heavy fog of psychedelia. The music of Prana Crafter is most easily tagged acid folk but such a reduction misses the electronic and avant influences, the boggy atmospheres and synthesized meditations. Like the forests that creator William Sol roams in rural Washington state, Prana Crafters music is both familiar and ever-changing. Without pledging devotion to any one, Sol...

"Symbiose is a split LP featuring two panoramic deep-field oozers that sustain interest, gently wandering the cosmos, through smoke rings and across star clusters, filling the space that stretches between Eastern and Western America and continuing the musical thread that connects modern American underground artists to the European birth of kosmic music. Like Popol Vuh and Ash Ra Tempel, "Symbiose" sinks its roots into the liminal landscape of the listeners neuro-hemispheres, creeping like black-light...

Tenor Saxophone – Frits Krogh
Piano – Tom Prehn
Bass – Poul Ehlers
Drums – Finn Slumstrup
Recorded in Copenhagen, October 13th, 1963

"Arguably the rarest LP of European free jazz, Axiom was recorded in 1963 for the Swedish label Sonet. Test pressings were released to the musicians, but they were not approved and the label never printed more than the two first copies. Prehn's music, which is exclusively known from a 1967 release that was reissued on the Unheard Music Series, is n

Tom Prehn, piano
Fritz Krogh, tenor sax
Poul Ehlers, bass
Finn Slumstrup, drums

A very early and very unique take on free music, obviously coming out of jazz, but also very obviously trying to leave idioms out of the mixture as much as possible.

“Danish pianist Tom Prehn was one of the first Europeans to deeply explore free music. With his quartet featuring Fritz Krogh on tenor saxophone, Poul Ehlers on bass, and Finn Slumstrup on drums, Prehn recorded Axiom in October, 196

"A Ghost is the fourth title of the series "The Sound of Time", afantastic unreleased live collection of the first five historical PFM discs. The CD gives new life to the original atmospheres that characterized the musical themes of the international....

Bernardo Lanzetti (vocals)
Flavio Premoli (keyboards and vocals)
Franco Mussida (guitar and vocals)
Franz Di Cioccio (drums, percussion and vocals)
Mauro Pagani (woodwinds and violin)
Patrick Djivas (bass)

Previously unreleased, professional recording of P.F.M. live in the UK to promote Chocolate Kings, recorded May 1, 1976, and lost in the vaults of Manticore Records until now! This includes the entire concert!

Disc: 1
1. Paper Charms
2. Four Holes

The latest from PFM is a very good progressive rock album that, just like the old days, is available in both Italian *and* English language versions, and, also just like the old days, I think the Italian version is superior, but UNlike the old days, you get both versions for one price here!
Long long time members Franz Di Cioccio, Jan Patrick Djivas and Lucio Fabri are here, along with newer members guitarist Marco Sfogli and keyboardist Alessandro Scaglione!
PFM set the bar so high with their...

“The making of “I Dreamed of Electric Sheep” was heavily influenced by the situation everyone had to face lately. “We were forced to work under very peculiar circumstances, often interrupting our studio activity because of the lockdown”, says Franz Di Cioccio (lead vocals, drums). The whole process took one year spent mostly working at home, sharing ideas and meeting at Patrick Djivas’ (bass, keyboards) home studio, before the band was able to record the album at White Studios in Milan, Italy....

This was PFM's sixth album and was recorded in London and L.A. in 1977. It was the last of their albums to be released in the USA, and perhaps as a last ditch effort to try and appeal to the US market it has a very different flavor than most of their a...

This is taken from the huge Prog Exhibition set. If you want to have just this show, which features classics from PFM and classics from the Jethro Tull catalog, this is the place!

"The discography of PFM has added a new jewel: Live in Rome...

"I am honoured to write the first review about Premiata Forneria Marconi's latest album "PFM in classic: Da Mozart A Celebration" which is a very different one. Partially it feels like pure classical music and that is of course totally lovely...

The first PFM album released in the USA, this is a remixed version of their greatest work, Per Un Amico, with English lyrics by Peter Sinfield. While nothing can touch Per Un Amico, many folks want this because it was the first way they heard PFM...


"The new live album by PFM – Premiata Forneria Marconi “THE EVENT – Live in Lugano” (Aereostella) is out with the participation of two special guests: Matteo Mancuso, undisputed guitar star and Luca Zabbini, leader of the Barock Project, at the Hammond organ, keyboards and vocals. An hour and a half of music that retraces the career of the most famous Italian prog band in the world, from the Story of a minute, their debut album in 1972, to I dreamed of electric sheep, the last unreleased album released...

This is the fifth and last album in this nice series that documented PFM's residency in Tokyo, where they performed five of their classic albums live.

The World Became The World was essentially the English language version of L'Isola Di Niente...

One of my very favorite 70s symphonic rock bands is PFM; the string of their first six or so releases are really unique and quite stirring. And the first three are truly an apex of that sound.

Per Un Amico was their second album, and is one of..

One of my very favorite 70s symphonic rock bands is PFM; the string of their first six or so releases are really unique and quite stirring. And the first three are truly an apex of that sound.

Storia Di Un Minuto was their first album, and....

One of my very favorite 70s symphonic rock bands is PFM; the string of their first six or so releases are really unique and quite stirring. And the first three are truly an apex of that sound.

L'Isola Di Niente was their third album, and was...