"Meretrio is a Brazilian power trio of guitar, bass and drums from Brasil. They decided to use the form of the power trio to explore jazz with influences of samba and bossa nova, among other influences. On this one, they collaborate with a brass group...

Alessandro Memmi - Vocals, Guitar
Andrea Tarquilio - Vocals
Andrea Siano - Piano, Synth, Hammond
Andrea Maddaloni - Bass
Alessandro Cellamare – Drums

"PROMETHEO was born in 2008 in Bari, Apulia, Italy. The progressive rock band is inspired by concept albums, odd times, mythology and vintage vibes from '70s and '80s. The love for Italian progressive wave, in particular PFM, BANCO DEL MUTUO SOCCORSO, AREA and for international strongholds of the genre such as JETHRO TULL, KING

Prosper were a dual guitar, Fender Rhodes/mellotron/mini-Moog, bass and drums progressive band. The keyboards give it a jazzier/fusion touch.

“With a history going back to various 1960's blues and early-1970's prog bands, Prosper were part of a family of bands that included Wallenstein, Tobogan, Aera and Contact Trio.
After splitting up once, they reformed in 1975. Guitarist Evert Brettschneider played with both Contact Trio and Prosper at this time, doing the technical noodly jazz with one...

"Protofonia is an instrumental musical trio, a laboratory, a safe place where labels can be peeled away: a blank canvas and three brushes, infinite colors. Protofonia will agree with everything related to experimentalism and improvisation...

“Well, it’s taken a while, but alongside autumn’s arrival comes Communion, the sophomore album from Austin, Texas-based Xander Rapstine and his band of merry musicians collectively known as Proud Peasant. Their 2014 debut Flight has been a mainstay on my stereo system since its release (occasionally joined over the last couple of years by the odds ‘n sods compilation Peasantsongs), but now that the proper follow-up is finally upon us, it’s time to hear what this lot has come up with for the second...

"A Fraying Space (is) a new compilation drawn not just from Pip's two Polydor LPs, but also from a private press LP that preceded them, with a few additional bits and pieces. The LP has 14 tracks, the CD version adds three more (all of which sound to...

Carl Frederik Prytz was a Norwegian writer and radio personality and here he is reading some of his works. In Norwegian. Why is this here? Because all of the music is by Terje Rypdal and there are even some instrumental passages of some length!

“Carl Frederik Prytz was a Norwegian writer and translator. He made his debut in 1945 with the poetry collection Da senker jeg mine väpen. Since then he has also written novels, radio plays and essays. For a period in the 1970s, he was employed by NRK...

Bodo Feldman-bass
Matthias Frey-keyboards
Robert Jahn-drums
Wilfried Kunkler-tenor sax, percussion
Volkmar Zimmerman-guitar
A reissue of this 1977 German fusion band who only lasted long enough to give this one album to the world!
This is one of many German bands who were doing the Euro fusion thing and this can be compared very much to 1975-era Passport or later Nucleus, etc., etc., which tells you straightaway whether or not you want this one!

Terrific one & done release from a Canadian folk / psych outfit who were mentored by Paul Horn (yes, THAT Paul Horn who managed to have this album released only in Canada by Columbia in 1974. This is the real thing and comes highly recommended!...

"Public Speaking is the solo moniker of Brooklyn experimental musician Jason Anthony Harris. Utilizing found objects, radio, tape recorder, synthesizer and effect pedals, he constructs percussive, textural music for his deep, soulful vocals to croon...

There's a local Pacifica station in DC and they have 6 hours of classic salsa, mambo and Latin music/Latin jazz every Sunday night which I stumbled across by accident and which I listen to pretty religiously now. Lots of great, great stuff which opened...

Dudu Pukwana - alto saxophone, whistle
Misha Mengelberg – piano
Han Bennink - drums, clarinet, viola, trombone

“A reissue of Dudu Pukwana, Han Bennink and Misha Mengelberg's Yi Yole, originally released in 1979. Recorded at the ICP Jubileum, a festival in Uithoorn, Holland, in 1978, Yi Yole brings together the core of the Instant Composers Pool -- pianist Misha Mengelberg and drummer Han Bennink -- with legendary South African alto saxophonist Dudu Pukwana.
Longtime member of the.

Peter Evans - trumpets
Tim Dahl - electric bass & microphone
Mike Pride - drumset, glockenspiel & auxiliary percussion

“Pulverize the Sound was formed in the intensely collaborative, hybridized, prolific and promiscuous scene of NYC experimental music. Its members have clocked in time with musicians and bands from a huge variety of scenes, always ending up in a place peripheral to any definable genre.
Collectively, the members of Pulverize the Sound have worked with Lydia Lunch..

"Half Nelson Courtship is the third album and the first on Rune Grammofon from this Trondheim-based trio who musically started out as the younger cousins of Supersilent. This is not the situation today, and this album shows a group with a stronger

Kaja Draksler: Piano
Petter Eldh: Bass
Christian Lillinger: Drums, Percussion

‘“A supergroup” is what the German music magazine Jazzthetik calls Punkt.Vrt.Plastik. Kaja Draksler, Petter Eldh and Christian Lillinger make up this trio – “Two musicians and one musician who are among the most exciting and active that the European avant-garde has to offer.” and Die Zeit writes: “They reinterpret an entire genre at once: the good old piano trio.” The trio convinces with a highly individual..

Even for a guy as full of musical surprises and barrier breaking as drummer/composer Tatsuya Yoshida, this was very unexpected.

He calls it, "Arabian Progressive pop Improvisation", and it is that. Featuring Yann Pittard (oud, baritone guitar...

"... from trippy phases with echo guitars and Mellotron onto headfirst plunges into space-rock overdrive territory. In all, an excellent album of spacey krautrock"-Alan Freeman

33 minutes of pure, unadulterated, psychedelic krautrock courtesy of Pyramid, an obscure studio project produced by Toby Robinson, aka The Mad Twiddler.
These sessions were recorded circa 1975-76 in Cologne for the underground Pyramid label, which was operated by Toby and his friend Robin Page (the Fluxus artist)...

Contains:
Lalibela (1973)
King Of Kings (1974)
Birth / Speed / Merging (1976)
And the previously unreleased Live At KQUED (1975)

“The Pyramids were an early '70s Ohio band that had a novel, exciting take on the fusion concept--they combined aspects of spiritually inspired R&B/soul, free jazz, and funk with a liberal sprinkling of cosmic awareness. Their approach emphasized improvised percussion and woodwinds but with a focused, solid center.
On them, the Pyramids...

“Electronic music maestro Steve Roach & Australia's theAdelaidean align ambient atmospherics on a 2CD of translucent textures & etheric dronescapes.
The ten tracks are serene and meditative, an immersive crossing of spatial and sonic universes. This collaboration merges Baja Arizona-based Roach's decades of mastery sculpting immersive soundworlds with Australia-based theAdelaidean's delicate, meticulous sound design, taking the listener through a stately unfurling of translucent textures and etheric...