This is not a new album, but it's an album I just recently was hipped to by Jussi Lehtisalo of Circle and Pharoah Overlord, and it's a excellent, unlikely release from a man best known as the lead actor in the Aki Kaurismäki film, The Man Without A Past.
This is mostly small, charming pieces with some resemblances to Penguin Cafe Orchestra. Well worth hearing!

"Have you met Markku Peltola? No?! Well, maybe you have but cannot remember. Peltola played the main character in Aki Kaurismäki's...

Pretty heavily left-field album of music mostly for brass and reeds, bass, drums and accordion, with medium wave radio broadcasts somehow filtered in on 3 of the five tracks. I don't know what to say and what do you say about a release as quietly and defiantly outside of today’s mainstream as this?; this sounds like my parent's Xavier Cugat album broadcast to Mars and back again. Meant completely in a good way.

"Just when you think it’s all over, along comes something completely unpredictable...

What we have here is a remarkably accurate homage to Canterbury stylings (and more specifically to Dave Stewart’s work in said stylings). If you liked the first Zopp album and you want to hear (gigantic) influences of Egg, Hatfield and Health, this is the place.

“French based multi-instrumentalist and composer Tom Penaguin presents his spectacular self-titled debut album. The album showcases some of the most impressive Canterbury Scene progressive rock sounds since the genre’s inception in the...

"Pendragon are back! Celebrating the 20th anniversary of one of the most successful albums in their career - an album that won them near-overwhelming acclaim and made them one of the highest-selling bands unsigned to a major label at that time - the band return to the Wyspianski Theatre to record a special show, consisting of all the classics from "The Masquerade Overture" as well as a number of fan-favourites from their other releases. A truly historic event documented especially for all the Pendragon...

“New Pendragon releases seem few and far between these days, but when they come along, they are always welcome. This mini - album carries on from where 'Love over Fear' finished off. That was one of their most successful CD's in many a year, and I expect North Star to receive similar rave reviews.
Just 4 tracks. The first title track in 3 parts and Fall Away complete a dreamy album full of those trademark Nick Barrett guitar licks that we have come to expect and appreciate. There's nothing hard...

“The follow up to The World album, 1994’s The Window Of Life secured Pendragon as one of the main progressive rock contenders.
Mixed by world renowned musician and conductor Gavin Greenaway [Gladiator, Spirit and dozens of other Hollywood films].
This amazing CD is packaged in a reworked booklet by the original illustrator, Simon Williams.
The release also includes a reworked live version of The Last Man On Earth.”

“Handfuls of Night is the highly anticipated follow-up to Penguin Cafe's much applauded 2017 album The Imperfect Sea 'inspired by the Antarctic, Arthur Jeffes' journey following in Scott's footsteps and our penguin friends that reside there.
Using gut-stringed violins, viola, cello, bass, percussion, upright and grand pianos, synthesiser, harmonium and more, Arthur Jeffes and his cohorts have crafted a vivid series of panoramic sonic landscapes, that are as rich in cerebral poignancy as they are in...

Penguin Cafe grew out of Simon Jeffes' Penguin Cafe Orchestra and is the band led by his son, Arthur Jeffes.
I can't really say that there are any surprises in their sound but if you loved the unique sound of the PCO, you'll enjoy PC as much / nearly as much and will be happy that the sound lives on!

"A penguin stands in the middle of a scorching desert, far away from its natural habitat. This mirrors composer Arthur Jeffes' journey and exploration into a new musical territory. Penguin Cafe...

Very odd and charming first album by the P.C.O., first released on Brian Eno's Obscure label in 1976. More electric than the acoustic-based systems music that the band would later be known for, this is still a minor classic!

The band's first live album, taken from a concert in London, July 9th, 1987, in excellent sound. A nine piece band gives the sound of a small orchestra. Tuneful and wonderful! [EG]

Les Penning-soprano, Renaissance soprano & tremble recorders, crumhorn, bowed psaltery, tenor gemshorn, low F whistle, vocal
Robert Reed-guitars, bass, keyboards, drums, melodica, mandolin, bodhran, banjo, vocal

“Rob Reed and Les Penning release a new EP featuring an instrumental cover of the well-known folk song The Floral Dance.
Written in 1911 by singer and composer Katie Moss, the song, which lyrically tells the story of the Cornish Helston Furry Dance. The song was made popular....

"With their 1986 release, In The Round, Pentangle went in a slightly harder direction with electric guitars and keyboards underlying a majority of the album. Still with plenty of their traditional material to satisfy the folkie crowd, this previously...

“Rare and lost recordings by one of the greatest garage/acid punk bands from Texas — with the added bonus of the By Fives garage killer 'I Saw You Walking.’ Although the Penthouse 5 started out as a Merseybeat garage band, in 1966 and early 1967, they changed to a melodic psychedelic and folk rock sound.
The band is best remembered for their 1966 garage killer 'Bad Girl', the Beatleesque 'You’re Gonna Make Me' and more Byrds like folk-rocking recordings such as 'In The Shadow' or 'Don’t Mess...

Splitting the difference between passion and song, PEOPLE play multi-dimensional utopian pop music in which opposing musical forces integrate to form a new sustainable recipe for sound and social implication. The audacious nature of ...

“Seven years of effervescent activity: few free jazz groups can be proud of such longevity, especially with a line-up as stable as that of Perception. Yes, there would be several guest musicians, including Kent Carter and Jean-Charles Capon, on the second album... Yes the "existential problems" of Siegfried Kessler would necessitate him being temporarily replaced by Manuel Villaroel... But for the most part, it was the core quartet of the first album which would tour Europe, through concerts from Belgium...

“2019 release, the sequel album to the critically acclaimed Instrumental progressive rock album Out to Sea by Fernando Perdomo, guitarist and bassist of The Dave Kerzner Band. The album was recorded to meet the growing demand from fans for Fernando Perdomo's music and in response to the tremendous reaction the first Out to Sea album received. Guests on the record include Joe Deninzon, Joe Cass, Mark Murdock, Jamison Smeltz, Eddie Zyne, Eric Matthews, Tom Bones Malone and The Out To Sea Band. Acclaimed...

"Out To Sea" is the debut instrumental progressive rock album by Fernando Perdomo, guitarist and bassist of The Dave Kerzner Band. The album draws inspiration from classic 70s Art Rock albums by the likes of Steve Hackett, Peter Banks, Steve Howe, and Jan Akkerman.
All instruments on the record, save one drum track, were played by Fernando Perdomo including Guitars, Keyboards, Bass, and Drums. Acclaimed artist Paul Whitehead painted the cover image."

“It's a very well-done "tip-of-the-hat"..

New Picnic Time
The Art Of Walking
Song Of The Bailing Man
Architectural Salvage

“Architecture Of Language 1979-1982’ is a four disc CD bookback set with excerpts from the Pere Ubu scrapbook 75-82, written by David Thomas, including historical photos. It features the ground-breaking ‘New Picnic Time’ described by one critic as the “scariest album ever recorded”. Plus ‘The Art Of Walking’ featuring Mayo Thomson of Red Crayola, ‘Song Of The Bailing Man’ and a further CD of glorious...

The Modern Dance
Dub Housing
The Hearpen Singles
Live at Max’s Kansas City 1977

“The Modern Dance is one of the first and greatest art-rock records.”-The Guardian

“‘Elistism For The People 1975-1978’ is a four-disc ‘bookback’ set featuring excerpts from the Pere Ubu scrapbook 75-82, written by David Thomas, including historical photos.
The set collects the bracing and brilliant Pere Ubu in their earliest incarnation, with the devasting one-two knockout blow of 1978 stu

“Pere Ubu's appearance in San Francisco at the Fox Warfield Theater in 1980, recalls their early poise in punk rock, but with abstract definition. The ambitious new wave touring project Urgh! co-ordinated by Miles Copeland would capture the likes of Pere Ubu in this period, but the significance of this early show promises so much more than any package tour could promise.
Drawing on their new album The Art Of Walking while recalling shots of Dub Housing and The Modern Dance, David Thomas is joined by...

"Released by Hearthan, and exclusively marketed in North America by Smog Veil, Long Live Père Ubu! is the album of songs that was the genesis of the entire mess. It is a great leap forward in our pursuit of hyper-naturalistic recording techniques...

Fifth and final studio Ubu album until the band returned a number of years later with The Tenement Year. I saw them on this tour and they were fantastic, so even though the popular wisdom is that they weren't firing on all cylinders by this time, I like this!

"Pere Ubu unveil their new album, The Long Goodbye, nearly two years after their previous record for Cherry Red, 20 Years In A Montana Missile Silo.
Named after Raymond Chandler's novel, The Long Goodbye is the end of a road. Front man David Thomas has long talked of their journey to Satisfied City: 'This wraps up every song and story that Pere Ubu has been telling in different ways for the past forty plus years.' This Pere Ubu album sounds like no other. It boasts a large expanse of synths due to...

David Thomas – vocals, trombone, melodeon, spike
Jim Jones – guitar, backing vocals
Allen Ravenstine – EML synthesizer, sax, backing vocals
Tony Maimone – bass, backing vocals
Chris Cutler – drums, percussion, noises
Scott Krauss – drums

This is a 2018 reissue of the sixth Pete Ubu album; the 1st after a six year layoff, and, imo, finds the reunited band of mostly originals, with a few 'new kids who do a great job' (I'm talking about YOU, Chris Cutler and Jim Jones!) in...

"Pere Ubu have really come out fighting with Why I Hate Women, racing towards all horizons at full tilt, pushing the experimental envelope further than ever, but also tightening up their trademark avant-punk attack. If St Arkansas saw them rooting around furtively in rock's darkest, dankest corners, on Why I Hate Women Ubu seem to illuminate these secret spaces with firework displays and thousand-watt searchlights. The rhythm section (Ubu's longest serving) of bassist Michele Temple and drummer Steve....