“We’re truly honored to welcome US Black Ambient veterans Sutekh Hexen to the fold. Both defiant and meditative, their latest self-titled full-length and first studio album furthers the project’s inquiry into opposition, endurance, and paradox. Both hypnotic and cruel, these ten highly charged tracks transgress yet again any previously imposed boundaries while upholding their raw ethos at its root, and at times defying the listener's expectations altogether. Though tempestuous as ever, with this work...

"2018 album from legendary Can vocalist Damo Suzuki. This release finds Damo performing a fully improvised set in studio with German experimentalists Jelly Planet! Incredible sonic quality and authentically mind-blowing explorations of the outer edges of space rock!"

“As a traveler-without-age, Damo Suzuki has been touring all over space-time. Presenting the light of "instant composing" to new generations, he refers to his makeshift collaborators as sound-carriers. Exactly fifty years after the release of the profoundly iconic Ege Bamyasi (1972), you can hear his voice on yet another fantastic album, as in "derived from fantasy."
Manifested from the meeting with Spiritczualic Enhancement Center -- an eight-piece group of self-proclaimed disciples from the CAN...

“Collected Obscuritie” is a collection of tracks from various compilations and also gathers unique collaboration works with Northaunt, Allseits, Psychomanteum and Gydja. These were released between 2002 and 2012 and many have now been unavailable for a long time. Also included is an early alternate version of “September Dirge” from the “Elegies For The End” album.
Obscure and oppressive is the world of Svartsinn, explore this special selection of some of the finest Dark Ambient soundscapes released...

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“In 1979 Colin McKay and David Knowles met and started writing songs together. Soon after they put their first band together called 'Achilles'. Peter Dover joined as drummer, and Jonathon Roberts became their bass player and gained a new nickname - Wob. Achilles played all their own Prog-Rock songs, written by Colin (lead vocal and guitar) and David (keyboards), and they played one hundred and one gigs in two years.
In 2015 Colin moved back into the Liverpool area and began working with David again...

"Following the unprecedented critical and commercial success of Swans' double-album masterworks The Seer and To Be Kind -- the latter of which reached the Top 40 of both the U.S. and U.K. album charts -- Michael Gira announced that the existing iteration of the band would only produce one more album and tour. The Glowing Man, as with its predecessors, is a sprawling two-hour epic containing lengthy compositions that the band developed during their momentous tours (and documented their progress on limited...

The first CD of this anthology takes material from four of Dave's solo releases recorded for the Logo and Transatlantic labels between 1976-83, all remastered from the original stereo masters and also featuring extensive liner notes. The second disc is...

This is a reissue of a great, totally unknown electric jazz album from 1973 that was released on a tiny label in 1973 and disappeared without a trace.

The band is Sante Palumbo-electric piano & piano, Hugo Heredia-alto & tenor sax & flute, Sergio Farina-electric guitar, Marco Ratti-electric and double bass, Lino Liguori-drums.

My pal Ken turned me onto this album (he owns the original lp, which is how I know about it) and he totally nails it in his description below, but let me just say.

"Limited two CD 'media book' edition includes a 24 page booklet and bonus CD containing three bonus tracks including a remix of Steven Wilson 'Insurgentes'.

The fourth studio album from UK based, Mercury Prize nominated experimental art rockers Sweet Billy Pilgrim. Motorcade Amnesiacs follows on from their critically acclaimed album Crown and Treaty, which was awarded a coveted five stars by Mojo and featured as Album Of The Week in The Sunday Times and it's Mercury Music Prize-nominated...

A remastered 2-on-1 reissue for both of the two studio albums (from 1970 and 1972) by this US band of Jewish boys from Brooklyn who went to Europe, smoked a lot of dope and found bliss (or at least the German Harvest label, who took them under their wing till about 1973). It doesn't all work - some of the vocals and lyrics are fairly cringe-worthy, but when they click and the drugs and the jams come together, it definitely works stupendously well in a hippie/jam/psych way.

“One of the great pleasures of listening to music is discovering a new artist you love. It kindles a special "wow" reaction whenever you hear a new sound that touches you. It's the reaction that Steve Swell had when he first heard the music of Russian composer Galina Ustvolskaya. "I just thought, this is so off the charts. How can anybody be doing this?" Swell said. "It's just so out of the box, especially for the time she was composing." Born in St. Petersburg in 1919, Ustvolskaya studied with Dmitri...

Rob Brown alto saxophone
Steve Swell trombone, aerophone
Jason Kao Hwang violin, viola, electronics
Robert Boston piano, organ
Tomas Ulrich cello
Jim Pugliese drums, percussion

“What we have here is new music. Free music. Ellington and Armstrong were right in not wanting to call it anything else but Music. Why put it in a sub-category? This belongs with the best of any new music, period. And this new music is created (with the assistance of Swell’s scores and directio

Steve Swell: trombone
Jemeel Moondoc: alto saxophone
William Parker: double bass
Hamid Drake: drums

“As welcome as it is to have this treasure trove of previously unheard music from this masterful quartet, Fire From the Road also serves as a powerful tribute to the band’s late saxophonist, Jemeel Moondoc, who passed away in August 2021 from complications of sickle cell anemia.
The three-disc set compiles three hours of music captured in 2004 and 2005 at concerts in Houston and...

Steve Swell: trombone
Jemeel Moondoc: alto saxophone
Dave Burrell: piano
William Parker: double bass
Gerald Cleaver: drums
special guest
Leena Conquest: vocal

“Second album of these five incredible musicians; with two Swell’s poems magnificently sung by guest Leena Conquest.”

"Following the recording session on September 4th 2005 which produced the Konnex Records release Brooklyn Moments", Blaise, Ray and I decided to keep the trio as a regular-working unit. Mostly due to the distance between NYC (Blaise & Ray) and...

“Psych-pop or prog-pop? Probably both. A wealth of musical ideas, with rhythms, harmonics and themes appearing, disappearing and re-appearing, built upon, de-constructed, in much the same way as say a Mingus, Morgan or Monk jazz number. I find it moving my feet as much as it moves my mind, and I'm sure Prince would have approved.
There are echoes of post-Syd Pink Floyd (and sounds more optimistic than post-OK Computer Radiohead), but is completely of itself and its time, incorporating modern pop...

2014 reissue on Robert Fripp's very own DGM label. This is the final excellent collaboration between David, the former front man for Japan (guitar, keyboards, tapes, vocals) and Robert, King Crimson's guitarist. After recording their sole studio...

“Sylvian’s finest ambient album, “Wandermude is an album of futuristic ambient themes from German "sound artist" Stephan Mathieu and the multi-talented David Sylvian. Electronic musician Fennesz also contributes to one track. The pieces are haunting and somewhat formless in terms of melodic content (more tones than melodies). Sylvian does not sing on the album.
The cover photo of the gloves from a space suit gives the listener a hint of what he or she is in for; hearing Wandermude gives the feeling...

Kazuto Shimizu-keyboards
Yoshida Tatsuya-drums
Nasyuno Mitsuru-bass

“The Japanese improvising rock trio of Kazuto Shimizu on keyboards, Nasyuno Mitsuru on bass, and Yoshida Tatsuya on drums performing live at Club Goodman in Akihabara, Japan on February 15, 2016 for technically superb, fast paced, turn-on-a-dime, joyful prog-oriented playing.”

The talented singer from After Dinner, an environmental composer now living in New York, a legendary pioneer of laptop electronics and a multi-instrumentalist from Kansai come together to create a beautiful CD of experimental pop songs. Working togethe...

Nik Comoglio: composition, orchestration, hammond, juno dist. moog, mellotron, keyboards
Riccardo Ruggeri: composition, vocals, lyrics
Marta Caldara: vibraphone, marimba, keyboards
Gigi Rivetti: acoustic Piano, electric piano. clavinet, hammond, moog, accordion
Simone Rubinato: Bass, fretless bass, electric baritone guitar
Ciro Iavarone: drums, percussion
Guest:
Rebecca Onyeji e Charlie Poma: backing Vocals

"Sit down, make yourself comfortable. This is the story o

“Syndone's "Kama Sutra" is not only a masterpiece of progressive rock, but a masterpiece of music in general that addresses a very taboo yet incredibly important topic that is rarely so openly discussed in any form of popular music, let alone progressive rock: sex. Sex is an incredibly natural, important, and beautiful part of life, and yet it has become such a sensitive thing to talk about in our society. Syndone completely discards our usual reservations and dives right into the topic, using the...