Elias Stemeseder: Composition, Producing, Lautenwerk, Synthesizer, Electronics, Una Corda
Christian Lillinger: Composition, Producing, Drums, Sampler, Synthesizer
Peter Evans: Piccolo trumpet
Russell Hall: Bass
DoYeon Kim: Gayageum
Brandon Seabrook: Banjo, Guitar

“Umbra is the new album by pianist, composer, and electronic musician Elias Stemeseder and drummer, composer, and producer Christian Lillinger. As a core duo, they are planning a long-term series of releases, each.

Bobo Stenson: piano
Anders Jormin: double bass
Jon Christensen: drums

“Characteristically broad in its stylistic range, this 1997 recording begins with a tune by Cuban singer-songwriter Silvio Rodríguez and ends with Duke Ellington’s “Melancholia”. In between are original contributions by Anders Jormin and Bobo Stenson and two pieces by Ornette Coleman, including the deeply-felt title track. “There is great freedom in Ornette’s melodies,” says Swedish pianist Stenson, a masterful player..

Michael Vidale : bass guitar
Paul Freeland / Ralph Cooper : drums
Ian Hildebrand : guitar
Oleg Ditrich : keyboards
Bernie Morgan : percussion, vocals

Once again, another offshoot of Snakes Alive. Note that Bernie is a lady who sings mostly wordless vocals in a lovely way, recalling aspects of Pascale Son and Amanda Parsons. In fact the entire release very much channels the Canterbury sound, reminding me of Cos and Gilgamesh. Excellent stuff.

“This circle of Australian.

“The fifth and final volume in the classic Switched On series which compiles non-album tracks and sought after deep cuts by the group Stereolab. This volume is unique in that it does not hone in one particular period but gathers together unavailable tracks across the band’s career, from early EP Low-Fi, to the brain-scrambling mid-90’s Nurse With Wound remixes to unreleased installation tracks for sculptor Charles Long, culminating in a live version of fan favourite “Cybele’s Reverie” captured at the...

“An anthology boxset that compiles all five volumes of the Stereolab Switched On series: 94 non-album tracks and sought after deep cuts by the groop.
Includes the original Switched On compilation LP released in 1992, 1995's Refried Ectoplasm [Switched On Volume 2], 1998’s Aluminum Tunes [Switched On Volume 3], 2021’s Electrically Possessed [Switched On Volume 4], and 2022’s Pulse Of The Early Brain [Switched On Volume 5].
All the tracks have been remastered from the original tapes in recent...

Holy moly!
Well, they have been promising that all of these Pilz/Ohr/Kosmiche Kuriere releases have been from Dieter Dirk’s master tapes, and I think that they have just proven it 100% true, by issuing, A FULL HALF-CENTURY LATER, the never released follow up to Gilles Zeitschiff! And with the surprising participation of Roberto Cacciapaglia!
Minds are blown!!

“"Timothy Leary!" -- That was "Sternenmädchen" Gille Lettmann's almost breathed closing words on the 1974 album Gilles Zeitschiff..

Clive Stevens - electric tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, alto flute, echoplex, wah wah pedal
Michael Thabo Carvin - drums
David Earl Johnson - congas, timbales, assorted percussion
Stu Woods - electric bass
John Abercrombie - electric guitar, acoustic guitar
Ralph Towner - electric piano, clavinet, 12 string acoustic guitar

Holy, moly, what a line up! First time CD release!

“A few months album the debut's release, Clive Stevens returned to the studio, but...

"Noted for his work as both a solo artist and as a member of Fierce and The Dead, “Lucid” sees Matt joined by a host of guest musicians including drummer Pat Mastelotto (King Crimson), Bass guitarists Lorenzo Feliciati (Naked Truth), Charlie Cawood (Knifeworld) and Kev Feazey, keyboard players Jem Godfrey (Frost) and Emmett Elvin (Chrome Hoof / Guapo), violinist Chrissie Caulfield (Helicopter Quartet / Crippled Black Phoenix), vibe player Jon Hart and Nicholas Wyatt Duke (Trojan Horse) on Spoken Word....

His first three albums (his most proggy) and his two most successful:
Bed Sitter Images
Zero She Flies
Love Chronicles
Year of the Cat
Time Passages

"This five-LP set on CD includes two of Al Stewart's absolute best works: Year of the Cat (1976) and; Time Passages (1979), with such classic songs as "Flying Sorcery," "Lord Grenville," "Sand in Your Shoes," "Almost Lucy," "Song on the Radio," and the two title tracks. The other three albums include some of his earlier.

Luke Stewart, bass, compositions
Brian Settles, tenor saxophone
Trae Crudup, drums (tracks 1-4)
Chad Taylor, drums (tracks 5-7)

“An omnipresent and galvanizing force on the music scene, Stewart is a leader or co-leader of such bands as Irreversible Entanglements, Exposure Quintet, Blacks’ Myths, Heart of the Ghost, and Remembrance Quintet. He is also among the most in-demand collaborators, having performed with the likes of David Murray, Nicole Mitchell, Moor Mother, Jaimie Branch

"With riveting performances by the modern prog-rock legends Stick Men – Tony Levin, Markus Reuter and Pat Mastelotto –, "Prog Noir" is ambitious, achieving and immediately essential. Cinematic themes, towering grooves and intricate arrangements are all on tap, and shower down in abundance. Proving conclusively that the whole is indeed greater than the sum of its parts, this herculean effort exceeds any perceived limitations of the trio format -- satisfying even the most devout and demanding of listeners...

Nick Mazzarella alto saxophone
Tim Stine guitar
Matt Ulery bass
Quin Kirchner drums

“When considering the Chicago jazz scene today (and other associated genres), we have to name the precious contribution of guitarist and composer Tim Stine. Stine’s contributions are brilliantly demonstrated in his new album, “Knots”, acoustic music resulting from sensible combinations of precise written scores (“the ink”, Stine says) and interactively improvised content by the members of his.

“Philadelphia's favorite instrumental power trio return with their 8th full length offering, further expanding on a already rich 20 plus year history.”

"Bringing together elements of funk, metal, punk, jazz and blues with the same kind of cavalier oddball brilliance as Frank Zappa, Stinking Liz are a really unique band whose music possesses a truly bombastic groove and a freewheeling spirit of improvisation and fun."-The Sleeping Shaman

Fred Lonberg-Holm cello and guitar
Nick Macri double bass
Charles Rumback drums
"Stirrup, the Chicago based Collaborative trio, continues to explore the interstitial space on this, their third commercial release.
Cellist (and in “Cut” also a guitar player) Fred Lonberg-Holm is one of the top references of the Chicago creative music scene, covering genres going from jazz to rock, to pop, to free improvisation and to experimental music. Stirrup is his new band and reflects Lonberg-Holm’s.....

"Alan Stivell just keeps getting better. 'Back to Breizh' brings him back to his roots in Brittany. But it's a return informed by his recent collaborations with Khaled, Youssou N'dour and other world artists....

“Luca and Markus began playing together in 2005, when Markus formed an international ensemble to play at the Suoni delle Dolomiti festival. One year later they performed as a quintet in St. Maternus in Cologne, Germany, where they recorded a live album, which initiated the project called “Flowers of Now”. (Intuitive Music in Cologne, Horus Label, 2008).
Later on Markus played on two tracks of Luca’s Tacet (Extreme Records, 2008) and on the double album Songs/Signs of Luca’s project Flos with Stefano...

"Stone Breath's visionary creation of Eastern-influenced rural acid folk finally comes to CD. From fingerpicked acoustics; to clawhammer banjo excursions; to the 20-plus minute exaltation that is 'The Shepherdess of the Fiery Wheels,' Stone Breath...

"The second set that night was originally supposed to be Joelle Leandre performing duos with Marilyn Crispell, Mat Maneri and Roy Campbell, but turned out to be a superb quartet with Joelle directing. This was a first time performance by this unique...

“Following his critically acclaimed collections Electronic Music from the Seventies and Eighties and Electronic Music from the Eighties and Nineties, Carl Stone pairs Baroo with [this] album of recent works, including the final section of "Fujiken", his epic journey through southeast Asian field recordings and street cassette culture. On all six tracks, composed between 2013 and 2019, Stone’s pan-global playground of looping synths and Asian pop culture remains as fertile as ever, digitally shattered...

“Carl Stone continues his late career prolific renaissance with a new album of sculpted, tuneful MAX/MSP fantasias. Stone "plays" his source material the way Terry Riley's In C "plays" an ensemble - with a loose, freewheeling charm connected to the ancient human impulse to make sound, melody, and rhythm from anything.
Stone's unique technique simultaneously focuses and sprays sound like a symphony of uncapped fire hydrants. Is this techno, avant-garde, sound art? It's simply (or rather fantastically..

“Retro-futurist cinematic synth-fest from Supersilent keyboardist and composer, Ståle Storløkken. Just as radio drama is said to provide the best pictures, so some music can make for a perfect film soundtrack without the need for a film to exist at all. The Haze of Sleeplessness is a case in point: as the album starts to play, the listener's imagination kicks in and does the rest, supplying the necessary plot, character and setting until a full-scale narrative unspools behind one's eyes. A suite of seven...

Semi-legendary one-and-only album in this line-up by this Spanish progressive quartet of guitar, Hammond organ, bass, drums and vocals. The best parts are the instrumental sections (and the instrumental numbers), as they really rock and there's some great organ/guitar passages, which will definitely appeal to fans of 1971-era Deep Purple, etc.
This is a hand numbered, limited edition of this classic release.

Well. Was not expecting this! A completely new work by the Italian contribution to the original Rock In Opposition movement! Most of the original members are here: Tomasso Leddi, Carlo de Martini, Salvatore Garau, Umberto Fiori, with Giorgio Albani...

Stormy Six were the Italian members of the original R.I.O. movement. Their sound was quite informed by folk music & the political singer songwriter school, so their sound is quite different form what is thought of as R.I.O. This album was made after th...

Stormy Six were the Italian members of the original R.I.O. movement. Their sound was quite informed by folk music & the "political singer songwriter school", so their sound is quite different form what is thought of as RIO. This is a recording from the...