Alexander Hawkins: Piano
Tomeka Reid: Cello

"Shards and Constellations presents duets with two remarkable musicians Tomeka Reid and Alexander Hawkins. Both have become creative epicenters in the jazz and improvisation scene in recent years with their original, versatile and innovative art. Reid has recorded extensively with many legendary artists from the AACM such as Anthony Braxton and Roscoe Mitchell as well as the next generation of AACM artists including Nicole Mitchell, Dee Alexander..

“Searching for leadership in a singular sense on Geometry of Caves immediately becomes an exercise in needless futility. The foursome behind the fifty-minutes of freely improvised music is resolute in its acceptance of communal responsibility and creation. Vocalist Kyoko Kitamura sings and speaks in wordless flurries, matching and Taylor Ho Bynum’s brassy exhortations on cornet and either bass or piccolo trumpets. Cellist Tomeka Reid and guitarist Joe Morris worry and pluck their respective strings...

XAVI REIJA - drums
TONY LEVIN - bass guitar, upright bass, stick
MARKUS REUTER - touch guitar
DUSAN JEVTOVIC - guitar

A mostly heavy, jazz/rock/progressive release with some nice dual Stick work at times, by a team of excellent players. This is a smoking goodie; don't blink and miss it!

"The Sound Of The Earth is like a musical buffet, with something for everyone who has a taste for genre-crossing electric music. The Reija/Jevtovic pairing has a history to draw from, as..

If tying the original 30s and 40s recordings by the great Django to films where his music appeared makes people pick up on a fine album, then all power to everyone involved in this concept. Great music.

"No jazz musician can surely ever have expressed themselves more eloquently than Django. The nuances and breathtaking sophistications of his playing style have obvious cinematic potential and Woody Allen and Louis Malle are among the directors who have made use of his music in their films...

“Blaine L. Reininger needs no special introduction. He is an American post-punk, new-wave and alternative pop singer, songwriter, musician, multi-instrumentalist (particularly violin), writer and performer. He is known for being a member of the group Tuxedomoon since 1977 after co-founding it with Steven Brown and, latterly, for a notable music and theatre career, both as a soloist and contributor to other artists' recordings, including The Durutti Column, Snakefinger, Anna Domino, Savage Republic or...

“Blaine L. Reininger needs no special introduction. He is an American post-punk, new-wave and alternative pop singer, songwriter, musician, multi-instrumentalist (particularly violin), writer and performer.
He is known for being a member of the group Tuxedomoon since 1977 after co-founding it with Steven Brown and, latterly, for a notable music and theatre career, both as a soloist and contributor to other artists' recordings, including The Durutti Column, Snakefinger, Anna Domino, Savage Republic...

Bobby Read was the saxist of However for many years. After However ended, he ended up in the progressive/folk/new age band Trapezoid, where guitarist Paul Reisler is from. This duo album has a lot of elements of However in it, reminiscent of However's ...

"The British-Dutch band the Relatives have been around about 10 years, but are only known to a select few. The band, which was founded by the British bassist and vocalist Jack Monck (who was a member of Henry Cow, Syd Barrett's post Pink Floyd group and Delivery) and the Dutch keyboard player Willem Jan Droog started recording a CD which was never completed. Eventually there came a new creative impetus and their recent CD release has surprising and unexpected qualities. This CD is more or less dedicated...

The Brazilian band Relogios de Frederico (The Clocks of Frederico) has been in existence since 1998. A septet who are very complex and unique, this is their first album, released in 2000. Lots of vocals on top of really complex music; this is very...

Dave Rempis-sax
Matt Piet-piano
Tim Daisy

"This recording is a document of the third and fourth occasion of Dave Rempis, Tim Daisy, and yours truly convening to improvise together. (In Chicago at Elastic Arts and Hungry Brain, respectively.) Our first two meetings were captured and released on Cure for the Quotidian (Amalgam) and Hit the Ground Running (Aerophonic). Each time I play with Tim and Dave is a revelatory experience. A year ago, during the set at the Elastic Arts Foundation in.

Tim Daisy (drums), Anton Hatwich (bass), Dave Rempis (saxophone), Frank Rosaly (drums).

"A two-disc live set named after the Columbia, South Carolina venue where it was recorded in April 2006. Rempis first earned widespread notice as a member...

Dave Rempis (saxophones), Anton Hatwich (bass), Tim Daisy (drums), Frank Rosaly (drums)

"The name of Dave Rempis's latest group is fair warning: never before has the local saxophonist led a band that hit this hard. Bassist Anton Hatwich....

This wonderful recording captures in sound and vision a very special concert staged at the Keswick Theatre in Glenside PA, USA on 27th October 2017. Renaissance perform an extensive set of classic material with the Renaissance Chamber Orchestra, an ensemble especially formed for a series of American concerts.
Annie Haslam comments: “Renaissance has touched so many hearts across land and sea, for what seems to be most of a lifetime now, in the performance of this exquisite and unique music. I cannot...

1974 recording of Renaissance, knocking on the doors of America circa Turn Of The Cards.
Recorded for radio broadcast in Denver, CO during their first US tour.
Can You Understand
Black
Things I Don't Understand
Cold Is Being
Running Hard
Ashes Are Burning

“FEATURING A PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED BBC IN CONCERT PERFORMANCE FROM 1978, A PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED PERFORMANCE FOR SWISS TV IN 1974 AND THE 1977 BBC SIGHT & SOUND IN CONCERT TV AND RADIO CONCERT.

Although Esoteric’s expanded Renaissance re-issues featured BBC recordings, this set comprises material previously omitted from these releases. ‘Can You Hear Me: Broadcasts 1974-1978’ includes the stereo radio version of the band’s 1977 BBC Sight & Sound In Concert performance (recently discovered in the...

Never before released from their late period peak, on tour performing works from their most recent (and last from their classic era), Novella, and more!!

“This live recording was captured at their creative peak in 1978 at the historic Capitol Theater in Passaic, New Jersey and is more than 2 hours long.”

• 1 Can You Hear Me
• 2 Carpet of the Sun
• 3 Things I Don't Understand
• 4 Northern Lights
• 5 Mother Russia
• 6 Day of the Dreamer
• 7 Midas Man ...

After releasing two (excellent but unsuccessful) albums in 1969 and 1970, Renaissance started to unravel with new members replacing the founding members, until, by the time of this, their 3rd release, no member remained from the original band who played on the first two albums! But surprisingly, this accident of chance led to the formation of one of the best loved progressive bands of the 1970's.
This first album by the 1970's version (i.e. the Annie Haslam version) of the band is definitely a....

“The Tuscany album saw a reunion of the band with Annie Haslam, Michael Dunford and Terence Sullivan coming together to record this album at Astra Studios in Kent. The sessions also featured an appearance by keyboard player John Tout on ‘Pearls of Wisdom’, ‘Dear Landseer’ and ‘Dolphins Prayer’, the latter two songs also featuring guest Roy Wood (who also appeared on ‘Life in Brazil’). The band was further augmented by keyboard player Mickey Simmonds.
Following the release of the album, in March 2001...

"So folks.... after the deluxe editions of "Struve & Sneff" and "Songs For Swinging Larvae" we bring you the holy grail for RATL enthusiasts. The first ever release of the 1978 recordings: the "Tap Dancing In Slush" EP and the "Behind Closed Curtains"...

“Renaldo and the Loaf is an English musical duo active since the late 1970s, consisting of a pathologist (David Janssen or Ted the Loaf) and an architect (Brian Poole or Renaldo Malpractice). By their own assertion, they achieved their unique sound in part by striving to get unnatural synthesizer-like sounds using only what instruments they had available (acoustic ones). To that end they routinely used muffled and de-tuned instruments, and, often to striking effect, tape loops and manipulation...

"'The Elbow is Taboo' was Renaldo & The Loaf's fourth album and was released by Ralph in America, Torso in The Netherlands and Some Bizzare in the UK in 1987. You can hear a great technological step forward immediately. Also, the list of analogue instruments played on this album seems endless.

Included is one of their most popular songs, "Hambu Hodo" which was also released as a 12" single, and a cover version of the song "Boule!" by French band Ptose. Sadly, it turned out to be their last album..

Nice, new, spacey / electronic album from Mexico, with all synthesizers and etc. performed by Alejandro.

"An imaginary soundtrack to a sci-fi movie. Not as cosmic as the Berlin school but definitely influenced by Tangerine Dream and Ashra. You...

“In 1967 the British guitarist and songwriter John Renbourn together with his friend Bert Jansch founded the British folk rock band Pentangle. Like Jansch, Renbourn was considered an outstanding representative of the British "Folk Baroque" and fingerpicking playing technique. Since 1968 Renbourn successfully recorded several albums with Pentangle for the well-known UK folk/folk rock label Transatlantic.
After the release of the album "Solomon's Seal" in 1973, the band members went separate ways...

Last time ever on this release from the wonderful, now gone, Reel Recordings label.

"Jazz in Britain during the 1960s has found many musical voices speaking uniquely beyond their American inspiration, but few spoke as eloquently as the Don Rendell Ian Carr Quintet. Formed in 1964 by modernists Don Rendell (saxes/flutes) and the late Ian Carr (trumpet/flugelhorn), their quintet was perfected by the tremendous rhythm section of composer Michael Garrick (piano), Dave Green (double bass) and Trevor ...