“So Long Sam (1945-2006) was a one-off performance by The Residents, held at Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive on June 4th 2010. It was a work-in-progress version of lead singer Randy Rose's one-man cabaret performance Sam's Enchanted Evening, which Rose performed solo between October 2011 and March 2012.
So Long Sam featured re-interpretations of popular hits from the mid-20th century, and told the story of Sam (personified by Rose) and his troubles with romance, his unhealthy sex...

"Brumalia was a month-long party the ancient Romans threw at the end of the year. It was a kind of New Years Eve that didn't stop at midnight. Instead, it stopped on December 25th. This went on until 600-700 c.e., it's hard to know exactly...

All instrumental, very cinematic work from the Residents. Nice, gamelan/just intonated sounds and all in all, a very nice one.

"An experimental instrumental solo album from Charles Bobuck, primary composer and arranger for The Residents....

“Studio demos recorded for the 40th Anniversary Tour Wonder of Weird including songs not performed in the show.
Early in 2020, the group was invited to perform their seminal album God in 3 Persons at the MOMA in New York. The Wonder of Weird tour was the second part of The Residents' Randy, Chuck and Bob Trilogy of live tours (following 2010's Talking Light tour), The Wonder of Weird focuses on the theme of sex, with its lead character Randy further detailing the story of his life, now ruined by a...

“Seven collaged suites of brand new Residents music, film dialogue and one or two familiar themes. 'Triple Trouble' the movie will be appearing at film festivals and art house cinemas near you throughout 2022.
"From priesthood to plumber: In the wake of his mother's death, an idealistic but emotionally isolated man replaces his belief in God with a faith in fungus..."
The Residents present 'Triple Trouble', the soundtrack to their forthcoming fifty-years-in-the-making feature film of the same...

"Though some of the Bible is abysmal and boring, much of it is entertaining and important reading. The Residents have tackled this book in all its complexity without the responsibility of the scholar. Though many months have gone into research...

"What was left of Grandpa is the new album by Residents composer Charles Bobuck with guest Nolan Cook on guitar. A wild mix of styles and melodies and spoken words make up this great new composition."

Cene Resnik tenor saxophone
Giorgio Pacorig piano
Marko Lasič drums
Rob Mazurek piccolo trumpet

“You can call it instant composition, free improvised music or creative jazz, but for the Slovenian tenor saxophonist Cene Resnik what really matters is what comes naturally. The communion with nature, and specifically with the naturality of sound, be it producing it (by himself and his companions) or perceiving it (the audience gathered in a venue to hear him), is key to understand..

“Retreat from Moscow originally hail from Cardiff, Wales, UK and gigged extensively from 1979-1981. Fast forward 40 years and the band of core members, Andrew Raymond, Greg Haver, Tony Lewis and John Harris reformed in 2019 to start recording old and new material for a new album, ‘The World As We Knew It’. The roots of their music is influenced by the progressive giants of the 70s but their sound nods more to the 80s new wave of progressive music with strong melody, big keyboards and choruses, and...

Whenever people talk about or think about Chick Corea and Return to Forever, they generally think of note-bending Moogs and the blazing guitars of either Bill Connors or Al Dimeola. Which isn't wrong, but before that happened, Chick's original idea...

Here is the second and third albums from this popular and influencial fusion quintet, featuring the best-known version of the band with Chick Corea, Al Dimeola, Stanley Clarke and Lenny White. The regular CD versions of these two albums leave an awful...

MARKUS REUTER - touch guitar, electronics
TIM MOTZER - guitars, bass, electronics
KENNY GROHOWSKI - drums

Three great players get together and just let it all GO!

Speaking in general terms, "shapeshifting" refers to an act of rapid physical transformation, from one form to another by supernatural means. Whether its origins can be traced to a genetically inherited superhuman ability, incidences of the spirit world manifesting into the physical, shamanism, black magic, or...

Markus Reuter (Touch Guitars® AU8, Soundscapes, Keyboards)
David Cross (Fender Rhodes, Electric Violin)
Fabio Trentini (Bass)
Asaf Sirkis (Drums, Percussion)
Mark Wingfield (Electric Guitar)
Robert Rich (Textures)

"This is insane music. I used a compositional system that basically disallowed the musicians to play intuitively. They had to follow rules which served to create really strange melodies and harmonies," Markus revealed. "In the back of my mind, I wanted to...

"If you're in the dark, complex ambience of progressive rock, but interested in the future of the genre, look no further than Markus Reuter's music. He's pushing the genre (and arguably, music in general) in amazing new directions, and this album is one of many that demonstrates that. It keeps the listener on their toes with a sort of unsettling ambience, the result of mixing complex rhythms and time signatures across multiple voices with mellow instrument tones. It's a great album if you want some...

"13 short pieces, which fall together as a sort of puzzle, sometimes odd and playful, sometimes rather intense. This international collaboration was conceived and recorded in one intense week at Robert Rich’s Soundscape studio in California. This is an...

“A reissue of Martin Rev's Cheyenne, originally released in 1991. The sphere of Martin Rev's influence and the relevance of his music may well be related to the fact that he was one of the first artists who succeeded in grasping the abstraction of electronic music, infusing it with a sense of immediacy built on raw energy.
Whilst the likes of La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, and Kraftwerk were busy digging in the electronic music garden, Martin Rev found inspiration in the...

"[Martin] Rev initially explored free jazz and similarly free forms of musical expression before discovering the magnetic attraction of electronic production and instrumentation, enabling him to create music in a wholly independent and autonomous environment. Using the most rudimentary equipment, he grafted the roots of rock n' roll into the process of combining effects and devices to generate electrified sounds, the likes of which had never been heard before. This music would map out the way forward not...

"Reverie is a project led by composer and guitarist Valerio Vado, who has previously appeared on albums by the Italian bands LETHE and THE WATCH. Valerio defines the Reverie sound as 'ethno-progressive', with ancient Mediterranean and European influences informing a modern sensibility. The instrumentation sets the project apart from the norm, with woodwinds, guitars, mandolin, cello, piano, percussions and electronics (keyboards, effects), while the lyrics sample from masters like Shakespeare, Pasolini...

Bill McHenry(ts) / Branford Marsalis (ts) / Chad Taylor (d) / Darius Jones (as) / Eric Revis (b).

“For bassist Eric Revis, differentiations between what is considered “mainstream” and “avant-garde” in jazz means next to nothing. With his new...

Kris Davis, piano / Eric Revis, double bass / Andrew Cyrille, drums.

"Can you tell when a straight-ahead jazz performance – live or recorded – is also an experimental one? No? We can: it happens when Eric Revis is involved, being this double...

"One of the most successful combinations of booty-shaking and brain-stimulating music to be released ths year!"-Splendid The first thing to know about the Revolutionary Snake Ensemble is that they are FUN. A lot of fun. Based upon and expanding greatly..

"Ben Reynolds is an English solo steel string guitarist and songwriter. In his solo instrumental works he draws upon the vast well of musical inspiration native to the British Isles as well as that found across the Atlantic and beyond. Ben's 2008...

Second album by this great DC-area 'brutal prog' guitar/bass/drums trio who, since their 1st album came out and caught me completely unaware and by surprise, I've seen perform 4 times and who always put on a excellent performance! Recommended!...