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First-time ever on CD for this early Quebeçois progressive rock album. This includes both covers (the one that got them in trouble with them on the cover of a faked "Allo Police" (Quebec's tatty scandal rag, ala National Enquirer) and the replacement...

Fie Schouten - bass clarinet, clarinet in A, basset horn
Vincent Courtois - violoncello
Guus Janssen - piano, organ, harmonium, harpsichord
Giuseppe Doronzo - baritone saxophone (tracks 6-8, 10)

“This music is improvised and inspired by Judith Schalansky’s book "Atlas of Remote Islands: 50 islands I never set foot in and never will." The music is an echo of her writing, of inspiration by islands, entities with different and changing characteristics.”

"A South African composer of Greek birth, Voudouris is interested in the "research of cognitive psycho-acoustic behavioral patterns in humans and the behavior of sound in relationship to continued environmental changes". Don't let the composer's...

"Pogus is very pleased to release its second recording by composer Dimitri Voudouris, a South African composer of Greek birth....

If you like Zombi and John Carpenter and Goblin, you’ll like Voyag3r! This, their third release includes a great, over the top (of course), very personalized version of “Red” by King Crimson

“Voyag3r (pronounced Voyager 3) return with their 3rd studio album, War Mask. War Mask was self-produced and recorded at the Tempermill studios in Ferndale, MI, using their Harrison 3232 custom console and MCI 2” 24-track tape machine. As with the previous V3 albums, the artwork was done by Slasher Dave...

Nice record by an instrumental trio of Lukas Simonis-guitar, Bob Drake-bass, Chris Cutler-drums, playing music very much in the vein of The Ventures and of twangy guitar / instrumental music of the sixties. The main goal was to:" return to the old work method, rarer today, where the band sits around with instruments, plays the pieces in real time, and works out the arrangements together, and then records them while they are still fresh." The ‘twangy guitar / instrumental rock sound’ definitely brings...

"After a break of six years, Chris Cutler, Bob Drake and Lukas Simonis, now with added ingredient Pierre Omer, present the second volume of recordings by the elusive VRIL - a band who revive and update both the great institution of the guitar...

"After a break of six years, Chris Cutler, Bob Drake and Lukas Simonis, now with added ingredient Pierre Omer, present the second volume of recordings by the elusive VRIL - a band who revive and update both the great institution of the guitar instrumental and the now sadly neglected practice of collective arrangement, intense rehearsal and live studio performance. Appropriate to the half century that has passed since the birth of the form, these hits dodge about, get bored easily and blend both...

C.W. Vrtacek – sampler, tape, toys, synthesizer, acoustic and electric guitars, piano, etc

“It may be preferable to meditate in a quiet room, but we seldom find ourselves in quiet rooms...so, always the same question: how to find silence in the midst of chaos?" - C.W. Vrtacek

This puts Chuck's 3rd & 4th solo lps onto one CD; “Learning To Be Silent” & “When Heaven Comes To Town”.
Very different from his band Forever Einstein, the music here is quiet, sober, introspective, sometimes...

Fabrizio Cassol is the saxist of Aka Moon and for this stage performance, he has written a score for Aka plus a bunch of guests on instruments like sackbuts, cornets, recorders, violin, flute, double bass and female vocals. "When the choreographer...

“As a follow-up to 2017's acclaimed Ballet: The Music of Michael Gibbs, Seattle-based trumpeter Cuong Vu joins forces once again with guitar great Bill Frisell, bassist Luke Bergman and drummer Ted Poor on the boundary-pushing quartet outing for RareNoise Records, Change in the Air. With all the members of the quartet contributing compositions, this one finds the four participants on equal footing on ten adventurous originals. From Poor's dreamy, noirish opener "All That's Left of Me Is You" and his...

The second solo album by the leader, guitarist, clarinetist and main composer of L'Ensemble Raye. Cedric performs on lots of ukulele, guitars, banjo, cuatro and other oddball, terminally unhip but great stringed instruments, clarinet, ocarina...

"Although Machine was completed in 1971 it was not released until 1973, shortly after the release of Journey Into Space. Machine is therefore the first major composition by Trevor Wishart. It was composed at York University and was originally issued on...