Samla was the original band of keyboardist/composer Lars Hollmer. They blended progressive with bits of folk elements & more. This is an earlier, more overtly "progressive rock" disc than what came later, with some great melodies & great playing...

This box includes 4 The Samurai Of Prog albums:
On We Sail
Archiviarum
Toki No Kaze
Beyond The Wardrobe
It also includes 5 new bonus tracks (about 35 minutes of new music).
It is packaged in a clamshell box with 4 gatefold digisleeves inside + 32 page booklet.

"The Samurai of Prog are having a prolific run. A few short months after 2020‘s "Beyond the Wardrobe" album, the core trio of Marco Bernard, Kimmo Pörsti, and Steve Unruh are joined - as is their way - by a cast of contributing artists and writers, this time crafting an album inspired by The Brothers Grimm fairy tales. ("The Lady and the Lion" is the first of two Grimm-themed albums set to be released in 2021.) The Samurai have become known in progressive rock circles for their symphonic prog creations...

"It's already the third time that I rate a new TSOP album with five stars. But especially this time there's no slightest hesitation, because, in a word, Toki No Kaze is their finest achievement this far. I got this thought even before I had finished my initial listening of the album, and now after several listenings I'm more and more convinced. I am sincerely happy to review this one, hoping also that further reviews will follow. A strong candidate for being THE best prog album of 2019. BTW, don't....

Angelica Sanchez piano, toy piano.

"Pianist Angelica Sanchez’s debut solo record, features a beguiling mix of her own meditative, introspective compositions and free improvisations as well as very personal versions of pieces by Ornette Coleman..

Angelica Sanchez, piano, Wurlitzer electric piano/Marc Ducret, electric guitar/Tony Malaby, tenor saxophone/Drew Gress, double bass/Tom Rainey, drums.

Very nice and very attractive album that sits somewhere between electric jazz (Wurlitzer) and..

What a great band. Everyone here is a monster, a master and a band-leader in their own right.

Angelica Sanchez, piano / Marc Ducret, guitar / Tony Malaby, tenor & soprano saxophone / Drew Gress, bass / Tom Rainey, drums.

"It’s no longer.

Angelica Sanchez - Piano (left channel)
Marilyn Crispell - Piano (right channel)

“Two pianos sounding in tandem can feel – given that the instrument belongs to the percussion family – like a kind of 176-key gamelan, an atmospheric orchestra ringing and resonating and radiating in unity. In that way, the music of How to Turn the Moon by pianists Angelica Sanchez and Marilyn Crispell vibrates with a special, luminous quality. In composing all the pieces for this album, Angelica was inspired...

David Sancious - Acoustic Piano, Organ, Synthesizer, Guitar, Vocals
Ernest Carter – Drums, Percussion
Gerry Carboy - Bass
with
Patti Scialfa - Vocals (Overture)
Gail Moran - Vocals (1st Movement)

This is the famous, 1976 album by David Sancious and his band Tone that fell into a no man’s land of business issues during a despute as he had left Columbia Records for whom it was originally recorded and was planned to be released on Arista, who had just signed him.
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A previously unreleased album by the Krautrock band famous for the one album they released in their lifetime, Golem.

"Previously unreleased album by German trio Sand, recorded 1973-1982. Live events in the quarry and an archaic sound formed the background music of the young atomic age. In the meantime, after endless trance garage sessions, Sand drifted from the mythical landscapes to Berlin and mingled with various oriental influences. Vultures were scudding along the urban canyons while burning..

"Previously unreleased album by German trio Sand, composed and recorded in 1973, '75, and '76. The once-croaking raven now flies silently over the ocean, higher and higher. Where are you rolling, sun-ball, and why don't you fall? The sandy Golem crumbled into dust. His brave struggle against the mighty forces of darkness soon dissolved in voiceless space. There is something magical and inexplicable in creation, and Sand absolutely manifest these mysterious phenomena. Storytellers, musicians, shamans....

"Serious and eccentric pieces for piano, other keyboards, throat singing and small drums, some Dollar Brand, some nonworld music. Unlike anything I can think of."-Chris Cutler. ”He´s a clear, melodic player with a left hand and rhythmic feel occasional...

Sten Sandell piano
Lisa Ullén piano

“This one is for all the piano lovers overthere. If you’re a fan of the Scandinavian scene, you already know that Sten Sandell is one of the main representatives of that rich cauldron of creative jazz in Europe. And if you’re attentive to what’s new and fresh and creative in the jazzosphere, you already heard about the Korean-born, but living in Stockholm, Lisa Ullén, also a pianist. Yes, this is a piano duo, playing “Double Music” as the title states...

"Sten Sandell and Mattias Stahl may bring to mind the historic piano and vibraphone duo of Sun Ra and Walt Dickerson (although Stahl adds marimba and glockenspiel). But what the two duos have in common is little more than the adoption of jazz idioms and i

Great price on a appealing trio set performed on violin (Ric Sanders, known for his long tenure in Fairport Convention as well as for his short but tasty tenure in Soft Machine), guitar (Vo Fletcher) and percussion (Michael Gregory). This has a wide...

"Philip Sanderson first started releasing music as part of Storm Bugs in the late 1970s as captured on the A Safe Substitute CD (Klang gg378). He also set up his own Snatch Tapes cassette label releasing music by David Jackman and Alien Brains amongst others. Reviews in the Wire magazine of the instrumental tracks described them as being akin to "a boiling vat of electronic music that occasionally sounds like the work of a mad scientist", whilst the songs have a "flavour of what Kevin Ayers might cook up...

"Jean Pierre Alarcen (guitar), Henri Garella (organ, mellotron) and Michel Jullien (drums) had previously played together in Eden Rose, whose album was a showcase for magnificent interplay between organ and electric guitar. This style was the backbone for Sandrose too, but with dramatic female vocals added in the style of Earth & Fire or Circus 2000. Alarcen had now become a prolific composer, with a range from symphonic rock overtures to gripping songs. His guitarwork was augmented by Garella's...

"Now We Have Light is the third Sanguine Hum album, following on from the acclaimed albums Diving Bell and the Weight of the World. Now We Have Light is a double CD concept album. Unusually with this record, it is also something that the band have...

Joff Winks / vocals, electric & acoustic guitars, synths, fx
Matt Baber / pianos, organ, synths, guitar, fx
Brad Waissman / bass, Chapman stick, double bass
With:
Kimara Sajn / vocals (11)
Mark Kesel / trumpet (9,13)
Paul Mallyon / drums

“The follow-up and sequel to 2015’s acclaimed double CD 'Now We Have Light' (“a masterpiece”, in the words of All About Jazz magazine) continues the story of Don through a surreal lyrical and musical landscape.”...

A very good instrumental symphonic progressive rock band who feature flute, electric and acoustic guitars, keyboards, bass and drums. This was the 2nd release on AltrOck's Fading subsidiary, which aims to release more 'proggy progressive' than what...

"In the 1970's in Chile, recording anything was complicated. The state-owned IRT label was administered by the military. Domestic releases gave way to an invasion of foreign music. At most, a Chilean group like Santa y su Gente (Santa and his People)...