"In retrospect, we might suspect that Asmus Tietchens was deliberately leading us up the garden path with the discordant pseudo-pop of his early musical productions. Four albums between 1981-1983 and a handful of individual pieces comprise the...

"Asmus Tietchens is a sound artist and composer from Hamburg, Germany. He got interested in Musique Concrete by listening to a German radio programme when he was 10 years old. In 1965, at the age of 18, Asmus started experimenting with tape loops and turned them into musical collages. Soon, the use of synthesizers was added. In 1980 his debut album Nachtstücke was released, produced by Peter Baumann of Tangerine Dream. This was soon followed by a series of albums of electronic pop music for the Sky label...

“Asmus Tietchens is a sound artist and composer from Hamburg, Germany. He got interested in Musique Concrete by listening to a German radio programme when he was 10 years old. In 1965, at the age of 18, Asmus started experimenting with tape loops and turned them into musical collages. Soon, the use of synthesizers was added. In 1980 his debut album Nachtstücke was released, produced by Peter Baumann of Tangerine Dream. This was soon followed by a series of albums of electronic pop music for the Sky...

“Asmus Tietchens is a sound artist and composer from Hamburg, Germany. He got interested in Musique Concrete by listening to a German radio programme when he was 10 years old. In 1965, at the age of 18, Asmus started experimenting with tape loops and turned them into musical collages. Soon, the use of synthesizers was added. In 1980 his debut album Nachtstücke was released, produced by Peter Baumann of Tangerine Dream. This was soon followed by a series of albums of electronic pop music for the Sky...

Asmus Tietchens: "Miki and I quickly developed some ideas towards our eventual collaboration. We agreed upon an ongoing mutual exchange of material. We have both been very familiar with each other's music for a long time and we found our individual approach towards sound design to be uniquely compatible. We do not use our electronic tools in order to merely achieve the maximum of technical possibilities, but to illustrate aesthetic necessities. This entails a deliberate reduction and refined perception...

Mike Forbes, saxophones; Andrew Scott Young, basses; Ben Billington, drums.
"Chicago power-jazz trio Tiger Hatchery proudly comes out of the ESP-Disk' free jazz tradition, as saxophonist Mike Forbes's playing makes clear, but there's an added noise..

“Ten years on and a string of albums later, Pete Jones has established himself as part of the prog scene and Cocoon is regarded by many as a classic.”

“Come November, it will be 10 years since the Tiger Moth Tales debut album Cocoon came out. It has been an incredible time for me, with so many amazing experiences and opportunities. When I started making Cocoon back in 2013, I never imagined it would have turned out like this and it only seemed right that I wrote a new song to express my gratitude..

Pete Jones: vocals, keyboards, guitars
Mick Wilson: bass, backing vocals
Andy Wilson: guitars
Paul Comerie: drums

“This was recorded as part of the ‘Prog for Peart’ festival in July 2022 and captures the Tiger Moth Tales band sound and including several tracks from the recent albums for the first time on a live album.”

"It's not often that you get to make a recording of a professional quality at a festival, where you can go in and mix all the separate tracks properly. So whe

"Although for Pete Jones 2018 was largely dominated by his participation as a singer, keyboardist and saxophonist on the tour of progressive rock legend Camel, he still found the time and space to work on new songs for Tiger Moth Tales. This results in the album Storyteller Part Two, in which Jones returns to composing music based on stories from some of his favorite youth authors, this time including Hans Christian Andersen and A.A. Milne.
Storyteller Part Two has become a diverse album that shows...

“The companion disc to the 2020 album "The Whispering of The World" includes reworked and expanded editions of tracks originally from that release. It contains complete re-workings of two tracks from the Whispering album and a brand new track written during the Whispering sessions.
The star of this disc is the 15 minute ‘Whispering Suite’, a rather atmospheric and mysterious new version of ‘The Whispering of The World’. It also features live versions of other Whispering tracks recorded as a recent...

This is modern classical, ambient, electroacoustic music from the former leader of Slow Six. It was recorded live without overdubs, backing tracks, looping, etc.

“Haunting and poignant. Like a friendly hand in a dark room - not trying to dispel the darkness, but willing to walk through it with you.”

"This music is first and foremost about what can be done together, live in a room, to both transcend and reclaim ourselves from the noise of public living. I'm waging a sort of secular...

This is a 3 drummer band with other things added in. Doesn't sound so exciting, right?
But I saw them last week and they were totally bad ass.
They did this and this is also on the album, along with some other fine works. Recommended!

Latest from this long-lived Detroit band who have delivered a solid, modern progressive rock double release, filled with some great guest performances.

"After an eight year absence, T I L E S returns with a vengeance by delivering the mesmerizing 2-CD magnum opus “Pretending to Run.” Clocking in at over 96-minutes, “Pretending to Run” is an ambitious and richly crafted song cycle spinning the tale of a man blindsided and disillusioned by betrayal.

Once again, T I L E S teamed up with...

"Tilomo is a guitar/laptop solo project from Philadelphia electronica artist Tim Motzer. Motzer is a guitarist, composer and producer that is comfortable working in multiple genres, ranging from downtempo to hip-hop to experimental abstronica...

Third album, from 2003. Like all their albums, this is basically quite different from their others, although, again, you can hear elements of their current sound here. This is four lengthy songs, including a 11' and 15' epic and is probably their most...

Second album, from 2002. Like all their albums, this is basically quite different from their others. This one begins to have what I think of as "the Time of Orchids sound, but it also features a much more poppy, new wave sound for some of the record...

This was written by me a long time ago, long before we worked together on their unbelievably great final album, Namesake Caution. But you can still see my enthusiasm, which would only get greater!

This is the fourth album by this NYC-based band. I heard their previous album and it was very good, but of lesser interest to the readers of this catalog, whereas this one hits closer to the spot, I think.

"Time of Orchids blurs the line between metal, classical and industrial with stunning...

This is a good, all instrumental, heavy progressive rock/fusion album from Finland that is the creation of Juhani Nisula, who plays all guitars, keyboards and bass, who is helped by the (real) drumming of Esko Takamaki. The keyboards are tasteful and...

"Some people have commented that Tinariwen have always been a country band, albeit a North African take on that most North American of genres. That idea is magnified on new album Amatssou, which finds the Tuareg band’s trademark snaking guitar lines and hypnotic rhythms blending seamlessly with pedal steel, piano and strings from guest musicians including Daniel Lanois, the embellished arrangements lending the songs an epic, universal application."

“The greatest, most important cache of unreleased vintage British psychedelia to have surfaced for decades, ‘Beeside: The Complete Recordings’ gathers together everything ever recorded by the iconic Tintern Abbey. A legendary name from the British psychedelic scene, Tintern Abbey’s enduring reputation rests on one of the definitive forty-fives to emerge from the genre, the November 1967 coupling of ‘Beeside’ backed with ‘Vacuum Cleaner’ which originally appeared on Deram.
Since its release, just a...

Keith Tippett: piano
Claudio Gabbiani: acoustic & electric guitars
Roberto Musci: sampler, percussion, theremin, Vx7 (didgeridoo, bass clarinet), electronics
Recorded live at Palazzina Liberty, Milan, Italy October 21, 2000.

“Music for Labyrinths is an open live project for a soundtracks of labyrinths around the world and inside us. A labyrinth is an ancient symbol that relates to wholeness: it combines the imagery of the circle and the spiral into a meandering but purposeful path...

Second of the two rare, early, (1971) releases by the Keith Tippett Group, that first brought Keith & his great band (Elton Dean, Nick Evans, Mark Charig) to the attention of the public. By this time, Elton was playing in the Softs and Nick and Mark...

Limited initial pressing of 999 individually hand-numbered copies!

Recorded live in Piacenza, Italy, this is a 47' improvisation on a Steinway Grand piano by one of the most individualistic and recognizable pianists working today.

Fulvio Sigurta (trumpet/flugel)
Sam Mayne (alto and soprano saxes/clarinet/flute)
James Gardiner-Bateman (alto sax/flute)
Kieran Mcleod (trombone)
Rob Harvey (trombone)
Tom McCredie (bass)
Peter Fairclough (drums/percussion)
Keith Tippett (piano/composer)
with
Julie Tippetts (voice, lyrics)

This is completely great and completely recommended to Brit-jazz fans and jazz fans of all stripes, really.

"Tippett's inspired take on the jazz traditio