This is by Vander's Alien Trio, which was a regular working group in the 1980s. Consisting of Michel Gaillier (formerly of Magma, and then a well-known jazz pianist in France) on piano, Alby Cullaz on double bass and Vander on drums, the group...

Lino Capra Vaccina - vibraphone, piano, glockenspiel, gongs, wind chimes, percussions, tablas, bowed instruments, cymbals
Michele Lombardelli - analog devices, oscillators, mixer
Luca Scarabelli - microphones, springs, metals, marbles

“Perpetual Possibility is an album that bears witness to the collaboration between Lino Capra Vaccina, living legend of Italian minimalism and the avant-noise duo Untitled Noise with an interesting album on the label Dark Companion. Perpetual Possibility...

Lino Capra Vaccina : Analog Synthesisers, Percussion, Vibraphone, Piano

“Once again Lino surprises us. Always a poet of silences and strictly acoustic sounds, now he offers an album where synthetic sounds are the protagonists.
On the other hand, since the time of the collaborations with Franco Battiato, the VCS3 has been in the poetics of Lino and Franco.
Thus, as often happens, even the new and the old are in sympathetic symbiosis. And this album is the definitive proof of this...

Newly remastered in 2005 and available in a digipack, this was a 1976 Movieplay release. "This was a Spanish-Dutch duo, who sang their own folk rock songs...Contracorriente (1973) are masterworks of folk-rock. The two girls are helped by Limon Express,...

Maria Valencia - alto sax, Bb clarinet, bass clarinet, toy piano, cymbal, percussion

"Compendio de Alofonías Abisales was imagined between the town of Sutatausa (Colombia) and the mountains of Banff (Canada). Intuitively, it was recorded in July 2022 during an artistic residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. Inspired by old naturalist manuals, the pieces that make up this recording are fleeting sound taxonomies that ambiguously reveal the movements of the wind, the play of the...

Budget price on cellist Tony Moore's interpretation of artist Josep Vallribea's art/scores. Now out of print on Matchless.

After recording The Quiet Zone/The Pleasure Dome, VDG added cellist Charles Dickie and hit the road for another year, playing a bunch of loud, wild concerts and generally getting rave reviews.
On January 15 & 16, 1978, the quintet (Charles, Peter, Graham, Guy, Nic) + special guest David Jackson played a concert at the Marquee Club, which was professionally recorded and later released as the double lp set, Vital. It's a pretty loud, wild, sloppy and a good listen. One listen to this will tell you why..

After a 3 year lay-off, Van der Graaf Generator came back with the original four members (Peter Hammill, Hugh Banton, David Jackson and Guy Evans) but with a change in sound. Godbluff was the first of the several albums that the mk. II band would relea...

“Three disc (two CDs + DVD-A) edition of the classic album from Van der Graaf Generator. Remastered from the original first-generation master tapes featuring a new stereo mix and 5.1 Surround sound mix by Stephen W Tayler and additional bonus tracks.”
Bonus tracks:
Killer
The Emperor In His War Room
[first versions]
Killer
Lost
[BBC 10/12/70]

“Limited 14 disc (13 CD + DVD) set including 96-page book. Contains all of the recordings by Van Der Graaf Generator issued between 2005 and 2016.
Including the albums Present, Real Time, Trisector, Live At The Paradiso, A Grounding In Numbers, Alt, Merlin Atmos and Do Not Disturb plus rare additional live recordings issued only in Japan.
Van der Graaf Generator were one of the most original and inspiring bands of the 1970s. When Peter Hamill, Hugh Banton, Guy Evans and David Jackson announced..

“Three disc (two CDs + DVD-A) edition of the classic album from Van der Graaf Generator. Remastered from the original first-generation master tapes featuring a new stereo mix and 5.1 Surround sound mix by Stephen W Tayler and additional bonus tracks.”
Bonus tracks:
Man Erg
Theme One
Vision
Darkness
[BBC 6/10/61]
Theme One
W
[new stereo and 5.1 mixes]

A professional recording of the entire first reunion concert by the original Van der Graaf Generator lineup of Hugh Banton, Guy Evans, Peter Hammill and David Jackson on May 6, 2005....

“Three disc (two CDs + DVD-A) edition of the classic album from Van der Graaf Generator. Remastered from the original first-generation master tapes featuring a new stereo mix and 5.1 Surround sound mix by Stephen W Tayler and additional bonus tracks.”
Bonus tracks:
Gog
[Wales, 5/10/75]
Still Life
La Rossa
[BBC 4/1/1976]
Still Life
Childlike Faith In Childhood’s End
[Paris, France, 1976]

Very good, second and early Peter Hammill and band release on their second under the VDGG name, even though the first was more of a solo Hammill album than truly a band disc. With this one, the band is in place (Nic Potter, David Jackson, Hugh Banton a...

“Turner's supportive playing is well matched with Van Hove's probing and voluminous drive, and is perfectly in tune during the introspective moments. Both of which occur amply during the 26 minute opener 'Life Dealers'.
The duo's repartee is in fine order from the get-go. For example, about ten minutes in, moments of light pianistic whimsy meets Turner's crisp percussion and the two instruments begin pushing each other to extremes. 'Shopped', the second track, is a concise seven minutes and begins...

Peter Van Huffel baritone saxophone, electronics
Lina Allemano trumpet
Antonis Anissegos piano, electronics
Joe Hertenstein drums

"Borne of jazz tradition, yet audaciously and extravagantly dismissive of its more fatigued conventions, comes the devilish Meandering Demons, the fantastic debut full-length from Peter Van Huffel’s CALLISTO.
Largely eschewing the full-throttle punch and pile-driving groove of his longstanding Gorilla Mask unit, this new bass-less quartet finds Canadian...

Sophie Tassignon, voice/Peter Van Huffel, alto and soprano saxophones/Samuel Blaser, trombone/Michael Bates, bass.

"You may not be familiar with van Huffel's and Tassignon's names, but don't direct your attention to something else so quickly...

"Brand new full length comprised of six compositions from acclaimed lutenist and James Blackshaw Brethren Of The Free Spirit bandmate Jozef Van Wissem. It Is All That Is Made consists of six trance-inducing circular pieces composed for 10 course...

Before C.V. jump-started Magma back into life, one of his main activities during the late 1980s and early 1990s was his trio with Philippe Dardell-double bass and Emmanuel Borghi-piano. When I saw them in the 90s, I thought it would be the only time...

"Stella speaks of dreams, children, love, innocence, light... After many years sharing the spotlight with Christian Vander, she steps up and takes center stage. From the very beginning of her performance, she manages to create a double climate...

This 2000 release catches this fabulous, hard working, hard swinging, jazz / free jazz band at an early peak with their great, original frontline of Ken Vandermark, Dave Rempis and Jeb Bishop. A highlight of American jazz during their time!
"Free jazz and more from the massive and always compelling combo, thrusting freedom into the 21st century. Top notch playing that gives to nods to Mingus and Ayler."

“With his riveting performance in the inaugural Sequesterfest online festival in April 2020, Ken Vandermark inspired the Black Cross Solo Sessions. Already in the early days of lockdown, making good on the promise -- or threat -- of protracted off-road time, Vandermark had dedicated himself to the creation of a new book of works for solo reed instruments, which he debuted that day. The result of this watershed moment for the Chicago-based improvisor and composer was a body of works that reassert his...

Ken Vandermark, reeds
Michael Snow, piano

"Although he is best known as a groundbreaking experimental filmmaker, one of the architects of structural cinema, and visual artist, Michael Snow has been active as a musician since the 1950s. In Greenwich Village of the 1960s, his loft was the site of concerts by Cecil Taylor and other paragons of free jazz, and Snow’s film New York Eye and Ear featured a soundtrack by Albert Ayler’s group and starred its members.
A brilliant keyboardist and..

This 1975, small label release, is the first and much less known album by Norwegian jazz/rock ensemble Vanessa, who the next year released the much better known ‘Black & White’. First time ever on CD!

“Vanessa was a Norwegian rock band and jazz group, formed in 1973. The band made their recording debut in 1975 with the album City Lips. The band was working on its third record when the group disbanded in 1978. City Lips was their first album and consisted of Svend Undseth, Frank Aleksandersen...