"German rock legends Rufus Zuphall feat. original band members Günter Krause (gt, voc, bandleader), Klaus Gülden (flute), Helmut Lieblang (bass, lyrics) are still on the live-circuit. In summer 2006 they performed at the famous Belgian rock underground...

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Carl Ruggles was an American composer and contemporary and friend of Charles Ives. His output was exceedingly small (it's less than 90') and exceedingly rigorous and high quality. Old folks with long memories will remember this great set, released on...

I wasn't quite sure what to make of this when I heard about it; was it going to be a solo drum release from Yoshida? Anyway, my concerns were allayed when it arrived and I got to hear it. It's a fully orchestrated, (I suppose with computers and...

''A blistering live performance...of over twenty stop-on-a-dime Ruins classics, Mandala 2000 captures the raw power and visceral energy of this dynamic band better than any studio recording ever could. Also included is twenty minutes of encores featuri...

"The members of Japan's Ruins have extensive experience and tireless commitment! A furious barrage of explosive and intricately composed drum(s) and bass, Ruins covers all stops between hardcore's hysteric intensity, metal's pummeling dynamics, and the...

Their first album. "Live recording and studio takes of Ruinzhatova, the groups of the most experimental and most extraordinary bands from east and west Japan, Ruins and Omoide-Hatoba. Full of novel ideas such as the simultaneous play of each band's pie...

Charles Rumback, drums/Jason Ajemian, bass/Joshua Sclar, tenor saxophone/Greg Ward, alto saxophone.

"A figure of the rich and varied Chicago music scene, Charles Rumback is impossible to overlook. Avant-jazz, post-rock and ambient electronica...

Andromeda is again a concept album. It tells the story of an ordinary man, Kadman Neso, and his identity in the harmonious coexistence of his micro-cosmos and the macro-cosmos around him. In Runaway Totem's own words: Andromeda wants to...

"Runaway Totem is proud to announce that the third and final movement of 4 Elements 5, Le Roi Du Monde will be published in March 2011. This album marks the end of the First Symphony NOUS. In order to complete the album, given its complexity and...

The fifth album by this Italian band who fuse spacerock with Zeuhl and also with Italian operatic vocals (think Banco) in an unusual way, to say the least. Some of the spacier parts really reminded me a lot of the musical parts used in Lord Of The Ring...

"As Todd Rundgren reveals in his surprisingly thorough liner notes, Sanctuary's 2005 release The Best of Todd Rundgren Live isn't a proper live album. Instead, it's a collection of highlights from shows Rundgren has performed throughout the years...

Why does it take the Europeans to do the obvious and instead of trying to sell you a CD AND a DVD of this show, you get them both together? I dunno, but I know that we have the CD AND the DVD of this show now together for significantly cheaper than...

"Todd Rundgren's Utopia Live At Hammersmith Odeon 75 captures the iconic progressive rock band performing their first UK concert. While the concert recording has long been a fan favorite, it has never been commercially available until now."...

This is Todd's first new album of new, self-penned material since 2004's "Liars" album - so that's nearly a decade without anything from this 'true star'!

And it's his best release in years! As befits a great Todd release, he performs all the...

Why does it take the Europeans to do the obvious ("...you want the obvious, you'll get the obvious...") and instead of trying to sell you a CD AND a DVD of this show, you get them both together? I dunno, but I know that we have the CD AND the DVD of....

This was a big, big favorite for me in High School. It wasn't the last with Utopia and it certainly wasn't the last from Todd, but it was the end of the line as far as Todd and Utopia's progressive rock period went. I saw them on the tour...

The one and only album, originally released on RCA Neon in 1972, by this group led by guitarist Ray Russell. Also featured are Harry Beckett-trumpett, Alan Rushton-drums, Gary Windo-sax and Alan Greed-vocals, keyboards, bass. Ray plays in his typical s...

This 1976 album has many of their early classics and is still considered a genre-defining album by many, including me. How do I know? I count the number of people who use 2112 as a password!

Emerging as one of many hard-rock bands, by the time of their third, 1975 album, the progressive rock elements that would later make them both famous and infamous were fully in place, especially on the 20', side-long anthem "The Fountain Of Lamneth"....

This 1981 album delivered huge hits while still being a full-on progressive rock classic; YYZ is a tremendous instrumental work out and, anyway, even if you are sick of "Tom Sawyer", wasn't it cool to have a huge radio hit with such a blatant odd time ...

An amazing price on an amazing album. If you don't know this record and/or the early work of George Russell, you are missing out on one of the greatest (and for my ears most adventurous and enjoyable) bandleaders of the mid 50s to the mid 60s....

LONG out of print, adventurous work from one of THE greatest living jazz composers. Features Jan Garbarek

George Russell is probably best known as an educator, but he's one of the great theorists AND composers of jazz, whose lively and great experimental work reaches back to Dizzy Gillespie and the bop era. One of the first composers to combine jazz and...

Like contemporaries Sonny Sharrock and Terje Rypdal, Russell makes it sound as if the guitar is not enough, as if he's reaching for something wilder, something that can't be contained within the 6 string cage-Jim O'Rourke...