Excellent, dense work by this band. Be prepared to give this one multiple listenings before coming to any kind of judgement!

"This is the fourth album (2nd on Rune Grammofon) from Norway's experimental collective, Shining. The press dropped...

This is the definitely the first time that a Rune Grammofon-related band or a jazz-related band have compared themselves to KISS! (see below).

"Since Norway’s jazz-metal outfit, Shining, shocked the music world with their genre-defining and now.

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"Don Shinn got a fantastic sound from the L-100... He and Jimi Hendrix were controlling influences over the way I developed..."-Keith Emerson

“The first official reissue of Don Shinn's Temples With Prophets, originally released in 1969. Having made several classic 45 with The Soul Agents (whose singer was briefly Rod Stewart), Don Shinn taped his remarkable debut album in London's Lansdowne Studios in December 1967. Featuring his explosive organ (a clear influence on the young Keith Emerson) and..

Matthew Shipp: piano
Nicole Mitchell: flute, alto flute
Michael Bisio: double bass
Newman Taylor Baker: drums

“ALL THINGS ARE is the very first musical encounter between Nicole Mitchell and Matthew Shipp, two great musicians with already very rich backgrounds. It happened as quickly as simply; a shared desire, a date set for the recording session on a scorching afternoon, four musicians who are immediately so close that there will be only one shot for each piece. We expected a lot...

Matthew Shipp: piano
“Matthew Shipp takes an introspective turn on his latest solo piano album, continuing to discover new territory for his singular cosmic pianism. Codebreaker encrypts rich harmonies, cloud-like clusters, and the unlikely confluence of Bill Evans and Bud Powell.
Within the voluminous catalogue that pianist Matthew Shipp has created over the last three and a half decades, his solo piano work has charted a unique and compelling pathway for the evolution of the instrument’s....

Matthew Shipp - piano
Michael Bisio - bass
Newman Taylor Baker - drums

“This group evolves in leaps and bounds. You've never heard a jazz piano trio sound like this album -- not even this band on its previous album, the much-praised World Construct. That said, there is a through line from the first Matthew Shipp Trio album, 1990's Circular Temple to New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz.

Says Shipp, "Yes, we went there with that type of title this time. To anyone who thought the...

Matthew Shipp – piano
Michael Bisio – bass
Newman Taylor Baker – drums
“Matthew Shipp has established himself as the premier jazz pianist of his generation over the course of a three-decade career including many acclaimed albums under his own name plus his prominent tenure in the David S. Ware Quartet and a vast array of collaborations with the likes of Spring Heel Jack, Ivo Perelman, Sabir Mateen, Darius Jones, Joe Morris, Jemeel Moondoc, Mat Walerian, and many more. ESP-Disk' in its...

Matthew Shipp piano

"Symbol Systems occupies a special place in Matthew Shipp’s discography. Originally issued in 1995 on the No More Records label, it was at the time his sixth release as a leader or co-leader, but significantly his first solo album, and as such provided us with the purest view to date of his multifaceted, indivisible improvisational/compositional concepts."-Art Lange

“Visionary pianist Matthew Shipp refines his solo piano language to its purest essence on The Intrinsic Nature of Shipp.
“I believe a pianist's intrinsic nature comes out in the solo idiom,” asserts Matthew Shipp. If that is the case, then the solo work of an artist as singular and visionary as Shipp must be viewed as creation in its purest form. With his remarkable new album The Intrinsic Nature of Shipp, the acclaimed pianist offers his most stunningly distilled statement to date, a compelling...

Matthew Shipp – piano
Michael Bisio – bass
Newman Taylor Baker - drums

“Downbeat calls Matthew Shipp "an elder statesman on the free-jazz scene." Perhaps it is odd in a way to think of someone so energetic and prolific as "elder," or so outspoken as "statesman," yet Downbeat (Bill Milkowski) is right. Shipp turns 60 this December. When he speaks, people listen (the old E.F. Hutton commercials come to mind). With Andrew Hill, Mal Waldron, Cecil Taylor, Horace Tapscott, Randy Weston, and...

Matthew Shipp – piano
Michael Bisio – bass
Newman Taylor Baker - drums

“Matthew Shipp's new album is titled World Construct. It's a fitting title, for in his career of over three decades, he has constructed his own world of jazz. This press release could be entirely built from the raves of critics. "As Matthew Shipp's catalog expands, so does our understanding of the depth and breadth of his genius." "A gateway to higher improvisation that is practically without parallel. Matthew Shipp...

“Duke Ellington is the fortuitous touchstone that Matthew Shipp to bring to his recent collaboration with Arkansas-based saxophonist Chad Fowler on Old Stories, their new album of duets.
For his part, Fowler brought to the sessions a longstanding fascination with Ellington sideman (and alto saxophone pioneer) Johnny Hodges, though, like Shipp, this is expressed obliquely through Fowler's work with avant garde luminaries like Alvin Fielder, Douglas Ewart and Parker.
To Shipp, the title of the...

Matthew Shipp – piano
Mark Helias – double bass

“M. Shipp and M. Helias, two outstanding artists, two great careers, the first time playing together!”

Steve Swell: trombone
Matthew Shipp: piano

“Although Matthew Shipp and Steve Swell have known each other for a very long time, this is the first time that these two masters jazz musicians, both from the New York scene, recorded together. A real success and, hopefully we are now going to see them regularly together.”

“This is the fourth release in the Relative Pitch solo series which features artists who deserve wider recognition for their solo work.
Tamio Shiraishi was, along with Keiji Haino, a founding member of the Japanese avant garde group Fushitsusha in the late 1970s. Since moving to New York, he has honed his unique approach to the alto saxophone in the NYC subways.
His microtonal exploration of the altissimo-range is on full display here. The seven tracks on Sora are from three studio sessions...

CD reissue from the master tapes of the only album by this heavy Swiss late 1960's heavy underground cult band, which was originally released in 1969. "A very heavy, world-class psychedelic album. This is one of the rarest album in the world and...

Despite being marketed and priced as an "EP" this is just shy of 40' long! A live in the studio release in very simple packaging of jams and improvs by this excellent Australian spacerock band comprised of guitars, keyboards, bass & drums. One short pi...

"This is the second full-length release by Shogun Kunitoki, an instrumental quartet based in Helsinki, Finland. With Vinonaamakasio, Shogun Kunitoki expand the boundaries of their self-created sonic universe with a wider array of sounds and rhythms...

"A blend of hard hitting riff rock á la early Led Zeppelin and James Gang, with a guitar attack reminiscent of bands like Leafhound or Edgar Broughton Band. Tight, muscular, lean and mean urban blues rock riffage and soaring, soulful vocals, punchy bass and solid drumming make for a memorable set of songs that you won't soon forget. Shotgun had a successful career in and around Dallas, TX between 1974 and 1977, playing the club circuit and recording at the cities best studios. Sadly, nothing ever came...

"This is the first CD by "The Shout", an 18-piece British choir, or 'vocal big band' as they call themselves, formed in 1998 by the composers Richard Chew and Orlando Gough (of "The Lost Jockey" fame). The singers come from the most varied of...

"SHOW-YEN is a Japanese band led by guitarist-composer Yasuhiro NISHIO, that has existed as an instrumental trio since 1998. Its other members are bassist Hiroaki FUJII and drummer Masanobu TONOMURA. Their eponymous concept-album (2003) is actually...

“New album by Shrine and his signature sound design this time based on the "Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind", a Japanese manga from the 80's by Hayao Miyazaki and the subsequent anime of the same name. "Nausicaä" is a story of Earth's future a thousand years after the collapse of industrial civilization, when most of the planet is covered by a toxic jungle filled with deadly spores that choke all human life. An ode to the relationship between humanity and nature, and a call of awareness to the...

"Song of Silver Geese is the latest release from groundbreaking, experimental vocalist, composer, multi-instrumentalist and dancer Jen Shyu, whose critically acclaimed Sounds and Cries of the World was praised by The Nation and The New York Times as one of the best releases of the 2015.
Named a 2016 Doris Duke Artist and voted Rising Star Female Vocalist in the 2017 Downbeat Critics Poll, NPR extols her music as 'intensely personal. Nothing sounds quite like it &[It] operates in some unpatrolled...

"Vocalist, composer, multi-instrumentalist Jen Shyu is best known for carving out new improvisational terrain for the voice through integrating traditional music discovered through rigorous research and fieldwork. Sounds and Cries of the World is a culmination of her travels through East Timor, Korea, Indonesia, and Taiwan, where she has spent months and years in each place immersing herself in the language and forgotten musics of various indigenous cultures. She has done this while continuing to be an...