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“Gentle, incisive solo music for violin and electronics by one of the unsung giants of free improvisation.
Philipp Wachsmann emerged in the fertile mid '70s underground free music scene in London, playing with everyone from Simon Mayo to Barry Guy to Derek Bailey to Evan Parker, starting a band called Chamberpot, and making albums for the collective artist-run label he managed: Bead Records.
These LPs, 26 of them in total, were made in tiny batches and are now rare as hen's teeth. Writing...

This was the follow up disc to Forty Reasons, and is quite similar and similarly good, if not completely up to the heights reached on Forty Reasons. The core of the band is again Jim Cox-piano, organ and keyboards, Chad Wackerman- drums and Jimmy Johnson-bass, with Allan Holdsworth and Carl Verheyen sharing the guitarist duties and ex-Zappa trumpeter Walt Fowler added as well. We have a small number of copies of this out of print title available.

"This is the first-ever release of the extraordinary 1987 performance of Yoshi Wada's interactive sound installation The Appointed Cloud, recorded in the Great Hall of the New York Hall of Science. This majestic recording captures 60 minutes of sound...

"By 1989, Tom Waits was looking back on a decade that had proffered exceptional results. Having grown out from his 1970s barroom crooner and piano balladeer styles, Waits dared to be different at a time when many of his contemporaries were turning to the synthesiser and drum machine. Producing a quite extraordinary body of work during the '80s, including the trio of albums linked by theme, Swordfishtrombones (1983), Rain Dogs (1985) and Frank's Wild Years (1987). These LPs flew the face of musical...

I recently watched Down By Law, a great film by Jim Jarmusch, which stars Tom Waits and his buddy John Lurie from The Lounge Lizards. Waits' "Jockey Full Of Bourbon" is the music in the opening scene, and it reminded me to revisit this album. We were able to get some copies for a low price, so here it is...

"With its jarring rhythms and unusual instrumentation -- marimba, accordion, various percussion -- as well as its frequently surreal lyrics, Rain Dogs is very much a follow-up to...

“Still the most challenging music artist of the rock age to have gained notable mainstream success, Tom Waits continues to produce a formidable sound while still attracting huge numbers of fans. This triple CD box celebrates the longevity and quality of Tom's career to date and features three CDs each containing a different live performance, each broadcast across FM radio at the time.
Kicking off on Disc One with Waits' show at the famous Agora Ballroom in Cleveland, Ohio, on 25th October 1977...

“Alan Wakeman is a British saxophonist and clarinettist who has been active since the 1960s. He is associated with Mike Westbrook, Paul Lytton, Soft Machine, and Graham Collier."

"The list of dramatis personae tells its own story: the cream of British jazz of the period assembled to play a series of imaginatively conceived compositions by Wakeman that move between inside and outside playing, swaying majestically between the exposition of powerful, Mingus-like themes that dissolve into...

"The first live DVD release of Oliver Wakeman (with a CD of the same live recordings), the oldest son of Rick Wakeman (Yes), one of the best keyboard players in the history of progressive rock. "Coming To Town - Live in Katowice" DVD - an extraordinary...

A quintet of albums by the iconic prog keyboardist packaged together in a slimline slipcase. Includes the albums
The Six Wives Of Henry VIII
Journey To The Centre Of Earth
The Myths And Legends Of King Arthur And The Knights Of The Round Table
No Earthly Connection
White Rock

"This concert was originally recorded for broadcast on ITV and released here for the first time. The high quality recording has been remastered and are featured both on a DVD and audio CD alongside extended notes, new interviews, imagery and memorabilia. Keyboard wizard Rick Wakeman has enjoyed at least three careers - early-Seventies session man, the Caped Crusader of progressive giants Yes and solo star responsible for such epic albums as The Six Wives of Henry VIII, Journey To The Centre Of The Earth...

"Almost Live In Europe is a live album that has been re worked in the recording studio. Hence the title Almost Live In Europe. The band were recorded during the tour of Europe in Italy in 1995. The line up of the English Rock Ensemble is a strange one...

"Aspirant Sunrise is the first in a trilogy of albums recorded in 1991, the others being Aspirant Sunset and Aspirant Sunshadows. The style is very much New Age which was a popular style at the start of the nineties and the music was written with...

“Taking some time off from Yes, Wakeman recorded this album for Cirque Surreal, a travelling circus show that played in cities around the UK that year. Featuring his touring band, it is a mixture of instrumentals and songs featuring the vocals of Chrissie Hammond.”

“When "Return to the Center of the Earth" first came out, it put Rick back in my mind and I wanted to catch up on some of his music. At that time, I saw on AllMusic that Rick had released hundreds of albums...

"G'ole is one of Rick's soundtrack albums, taken from the film of the same name which was a feature on the 1982 World Cup. The album features Rick alongside long time percussionist Tony Fernandez and Jackie McAuley (former guitarist of the legendary...

One of the earliest recordings of Rick available on the market and this actually even includes a bit pretty good liner notes and information for this type of live album. Recorded November 2, 1975 at the Winterland Theater, San Francisco, CA.

“A treasure trove of vintage concert recordings from the wizard of keyboards and prog rock's knight in analog armor, the gallant Rick Wakeman!
Focusing on the artist's mid-'70s work, this set showcases Wakeman at his most adventurous and mesmerizing performing tracks from the legendary albums The Myths And Legends Of King Arther And The Knights Of The Round Table, The Six Wives Of Henry VII, Journey To The Centre Of The Earth and others!
Packaged in a superb clamshell box with individual...

“Featuring vocals by Chrissie Hammond, Raymond Remedios and Ashley Holt, the music was composed and recorded by Rick especially for a 1990s relaunch of the 1925 Universal screen version of Phantom Of The Opera. The music on this recording has been re-edited, remixed and, in some cases, re-recorded in order to reflect the musical spectrum that encompassed the 90 minute epic.
Covering everything from operatic rock to tearful ballads, the recording is a film in itself...without the pictures.”

“Originally released in 1999 as a sequel to ‘Journey To The Centre of the Earth’, the album has been out of print and unavailable for many years.
‘Return to the Centre of the Earth’ has been re-issued and comes beautifully packaged as a digi pack CD, both complete with new, original artwork from legendary artist Roger Dean.”

"47 years after...Possibly some artists need to quit thinking to the market. Sometimes they should come back to their original soundscapes. So after decades of boring newage, Rick Wakeman finds himself back and gives us a great rock album, with a proper rock band and sticks to his symphonic roots. Some sounds, like the "ooh" sound dated, some passages remind to previous masterpieces (and this is good IMO).
...In brief, this is the best album that Rick Wakeman has released in about 40 years."...

Rick's first solo album and definitely one of his best. All instrumental classical-rock, recorded in 1973 while he was in Yes and most of the members of Yes help out on here.

“A never released before recording by French avant-garde electronic composer Igor Wakhevitch.
Wakhevitch composed a bunch of major experimental albums in the '70s, such as Logos (1970), Docteur Faust (1971), Hathor (1972), Les Fous D'or (1975), Nagual (1977), and Let's Start (1979). During this 10-year period, Wakhevitch was close to Jean-Michel Jarre, Pink Floyd, Soft Machine, and legendary choreographer Maurice Bejart having with him many conversations around dance and music, human body and soul...

“Searching In Grenoble: The 1978 Solo Piano Concert is a previously unissued recording of jazz icon Mal Waldron's mesmerizing performance at the "Five Days of Jazz" series in Grenoble, France on March 23, 1978.
Waldron was Billie Holiday's final accompanist, played with John Coltrane, Charles Mingus and Jackie McLean, and recorded dozens of solo albums before his passing in 2002.
The beautifully designed, deluxe 2-CD set includes photos, an extensive 24-page booklet, essays and interviews.”

Steve Lacy – soprano sax
Mal Waldron – piano
Reggie Workman – bass
Andrew Cyrille – drums

This looks great (I’m writing this without yet having a chance to hear it!); Lacy and Mal always brought out the best in each other and what a rhythm section!

“Never-before-released Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy 1995 concert in Belgium. Includes 28-page booklet with previously unpublished photos from the actual concert by Hugo Peeters.”

Another album of duos, this time George adds the tarogato to his arsennal. More standards and originals. [Slam]

A beautiful recording of these two playing duets on baritone sax & piano, including several standards and originals. It's amazing how underappreciated Mal Waldron is, even after all of these years, & what a diverse career he has had (Billie Holliday's ...

There are a lot of singer/songwriters taking their cues from the Joe Boyd Island releases of the 70s, which is a fine influence, but most of them sound like sort of limp versions of those guys.
Ryley Walker, from Chicago is different because while anyone who loves John Martyn's & Nick Drake's albums from their classic period will also love this, it doesn't sound a bit like them to my ears.
Additionally, he's working with a host of the great Chicago jazz guys here: cellists...

“Heard in the context of director Brady Corbet's provocative, feature-length debut film, Scott Walker's original score for The Childhood of a Leader is so successful, it's inseparable from the images but adds brutality. (It was deliberately mixed five-percent above the Dolby standard to be intrusive.) The film's narrative is loosely based on a Jean-Paul Sartre short story of the same title published in 1939. Corbet's depiction is of a nine-year-old boy in 1918, forced to live in France while his dad...

Caleb Curtis - alto saxophone, trumpet
Kenny Paxton - tenor saxophone , clarinet
Adam Coté - double bass, mellotron
Shawn Baltazor - drums, percussion
Jason Moran - piano
Ben Rubin - mellotron, additional bass

“It’s almost trite to mention the indelible mark that saxophonist Charlie Parker left on the world of culture at large, and more specifically with the practitioners of jazz, the music that he redefined. In the years since his death, his music has been covered...

This is the current project from Val Opielski (co-leader of the the late, great Krakatoa) and pals. Totally charming indie-pop with some sounds here and there that will definitely remind you of Krakatoa - but that's not the main point with this. Judge...

"A leading figure in the Jewish music scene for over thirty years, Greg Wall is one of the pioneers in blending Jewish music with jazz. His newest recording with his powerful ensemble Later Prophets is a colorful and provocative mix of jazz and Jewish...

Saxophonist Greg Wall has been a leading figure in the Jewish Music scene since the late seventies. A veteran of countless bands, he is a founding member of the acclaimed Hasidic New Wave with Frank London, and was one of the first musicians to blend J...

How can a release called tape loops be anything less than greatness?

“Chris Walla's Tape Loops rests comfortably in the lofty air beside the best of Eno's ambient classics.”-Paul Borge

“For his first solo recording since departing from Death Cab for Cutie in 2014, producer/multi-instrumentalist Chris Walla created an album of calm, sparse ambient pieces appropriately titled Tape Loops. This might come as a surprise to fans of his former band, or groups that he's worked with such as Tegan..

This is the first-ever CD issue from the original analog master tapes! The first album by this German band, recorded in Fall & Winter 1971, & originally released on Pilz. One of the few purely symphonic rock-styled German albums of the early 70's.

“In 1971, under the direction of Jürgen Dollase, who also composed all the tracks, this album was recorded and finally released in 1972. It was recorded at Dierks Studios by Dieter Dierks himself. Dollase and drummer Harald Grosskopf were later also...

With this, their 3rd, they made the move onto the Cosmic Couriers label, and they are continue their symphonic rock with slight space-rock touches ways. With Jurgen Dollase-keyboards/vocals, Bill Barone-guitar, Jerry Berkers-bass/vocals and Harald Grosskopf-drums plus new member Jaoachim Reisler-violin, which adds a nice touch.

“Reissue of the third album by the German band Wallenstein, originally released in 1973. Recorded at the Dierks Studios by Dieter Dierks. In 2022 the original analog....

"Follow-up to the critically-lauded “The Zoo Is Far”, of which the Irish Times wrote, 'Explicitly moving away from jazz with this sextet despite the presence of musicians with jazz backgrounds, including himself, Wallumrød has reduced these elements to...

TINY DING TO DIGIPACK SPINE, otherwise new/sealed - LAST COPY Brian Walsh - clarinet, bass clarinet
Colin Burgess - bass
Trevor Anderies - drums

"Experimental at heart and jazz in behavior. Modern jazz, a bit post-bop and a bit avant-garde, floats right along nicely until interrupted by theatrical vocalizations and dissonant clashes of instruments. An album with a sense of humor, where the jokes are just as likely to inspire contemplation as they are smiles."—Dave Sumner,

Priska Walss: Trombone, Alphorn / Gabriela Friedli: Piano

"In the current jazz scene in Zurich, Switzerland, Priska Walss and Gabriela Friedli have made a name for themselves through numerous projects. For Intakt Records, Priska Walss has...


Hand numbered edition of 100, these are professionally duplicated CDRs.

“After the massive insanity of the 2017 "A Pound of Flesh" 4CD box set of solo works, the Weez is back with another monolithic display of electroacoustifc abstraction and sonic heaviness! Close to 4 hours of complex, detailed aural deconstruction utilizing a wide array of approaches and timbres to create alien landscapes.
The limited physical edition is strictly limited to a numbered edition of 100 copies, featuring 3...

"oh, yeah. this is the one we've all been waiting for. brand new studio material featuing a bizarre cast of characters in a series of unpredicably macabre improvisations. there's a futuristic chill to this disc. are you ready to look it in the ear!???...

"A monolithic hour-long structure for improvisers, performed by a 12 piece unit which bridges the nexus between modern composition and all-out-war free jazz.

Igneity was composed in response to Henry Kaiser asking me if I would assemble a big band, rather than a small group, for us to play a concert with in New York. I had previously included him in the large ensembles I had led when I lived in Oakland, California. However, I had not yet tackled the format in New York City.

There is...

I have always enjoyed and appreciated WW's 'truth in advertising' hype copy, but this is one of my favorites [so far]:

"Weasel Walter's "Skhiizm" is a one-man album of terrifying, shrill, chaotic, noisy, no wave, skronk rock played on guitars, drums and electronics with totally devolved white noise vocal grunts. It is the sound of mania, destruction and obsession. People who like "Revenge of The Flying Luttenbachers" will most likely be into this. There's no jazz on this one, folks....

"Taken together, these three vibrant musicians represent the best of a coming generation of new talent with the NY Times and the Village Voice calling them "dazzling and light years ahead of their peers". Mary Halvorson, Peter Evans and Weasel Walter, forge a frenetic, yet painterly style of modern improvisational music, imbued with the intense speed and density of information that modern civilization faces. The players distinct instrumental voices weave labyrinthine strands of counterpoint. The music is...

Ellen Andrea Wang - double bass, vocal
Rob Luft - guitar, vocal
Jon Fält - drums, percussion, vocal

Ellen is, of course, the driving force behind Pixel. This is very different than Pixel, but still very recognizably her sound, especially as she navigates her unique conception and blending of acoustic jazz and pop song.

“Born and raised in Norway, Bassist and singer Ellen Andrea Wang has been a powerful force in Jazz and beyond, distinguishing herself as a truly inventive artis

This is the 1st solo album by the wonderful and wonderfully talented bassist and singer/songwriter Ellen Andrea Wang, known to most of you as the leader of the Norwegian band Pixel.

This is really nothing like Pixel, but you can certainly...

Waniyetula are best known, if at all, for releasing an album in 1983 that has been compared to mid 70s symphonic greats like Yes, Grobschnitt, etc. at a time when there wasn't a lot of that coming out on the marketplace at all! These studio and live re...

First album by this Crypto band. This is their first album, recorded in late 1973 and presents a very simple, stripped-down approach, with many tracks consisting of only simple electric keyboards (Crumar organ, Wulitzer electric piano, Eminent synthesizer), violin & acoustic guitar/female vocals. Simple and kinda charming in a very primitive way, at times this is almost like a proto, progressive version of Young Marble Giants! Includes their rare, non-lp single form about one year later...

Alex Ward: electric guitar

“’Frames” is the debut solo guitar album from composer/improviser/performing musician Alex Ward. The path leading to the making of this album extended through many years, during which Ward’s approach to the guitar in general and solo playing in particular became solidified. Up until his mid-twenties, Ward was known primarily as a clarinettist and his involvement in improvised music was almost exclusively as a reeds player. During this period Ward was also playing...

ALEX WARD: clarinet (tracks 1, 2 & 4) and electric guitar (tracks 2, 3 & 4)
CHARLOTTE KEEFFE: trumpet and flugelhorn
OTTO WILLBERG: double bass
ANDREW LISLE: drums

“Item 4 is Alex Ward's latest ensemble to feature his compositions for improvisers. His previous work in this field with ensembles such as Predicate, Forebrace and the Alex Ward Quintet/Sextet has been described as "deft and utterly mesmeric" (Philip Clark, The Guardian review of Alex Ward Quintet "Glass Shelves And ...

This is an incredible, very composer-ly and orchestrated large ensemble jazz work. Highly recommended.

"Alto saxophonist and composer Greg Ward (Prefuse 73, Lupe Fiasco, Tortoise, William Parker, Andrew D'Angelo), combines forces with performing artist and choreographer Onye Ozuzu (Columbia College Chicago Dance Chair) to create Touch My Beloved's Thought. This cross disciplinary work of music and movement is a direct nod to Charles Mingus' Black Saint and the Sinner Lady seen through a modern...