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Matthew Welch is a young composer who blends his Scottish roots and skills as a bagpipe virtuoso with folk music and Indonesian Gamelan. His first CD for Tzadik presents three pieces that should establish Welch as an important new voice in the contempo...


"Felix Werder was born in Berlin in 1922. Possessed of an omnivorous musical curiosity, over the course of his career, he has explored many of the issues of concern in contemporary music, from serialism and aleatoric techniques, through opera...


"Brand new reissue of an impossible-to-find early Canadian electronic four lp box by composer Phillip Werren. Only 100 copies were ever pressed of his early electronic work. It was recorded at Simon Fraser University (Vancouver), McGill University (Mon...

"Keith West is best remembered as the voice behind the legendary Grocer Jack single and 'Excerpt From A Teenage Opera' became a champion of both the pop charts and the '60s psychedelic lifestyle. Away from the pin-up-mags Keith also made a serious...


"Drummer Rich West and a band of "L.A. nomads" (Chris Heenan on bass clarinet and alto saxophone, Bruce Friedman on trumpet, Jeremy Drake on electric guitar, and Scot Ray on E-flat tuba) convene here for eight lively tracks.... The eight tracks (most of..

"Drummer/accordionist Rich West returns for a second pfMENTUM release, Heavenly Breakfast. This dangerous quintet includes Emily Beezhold's keyboards, Bruce Friedman on trumpet, Dan Krimm, electric bass, and reed renegade Lynn Johnston. West's...

A very nice avant jazz big-band album written in 1968-1969 and recorded in the fall of 1971, this features Mike Westbrook: piano, Nigel Carter, Kenny Wheeler, Harry Beckett, Henry Lowther and Dave Holdsworth-trumpets/flugelhorn, Malcolm Griffiths, Paul...

Music written for a television presentation, with music by Mike, although he only appears on this recording in a secondary role.

"Masterly"-The Independent

Originally released 20 years ago and then immmediately deleted, I've had this for years and am very happy to be able to offer it. Recorded live directly to digital stereo, this features a small orchestra performing alongside Mike's fantastic 'orchestra'..

A great album available for $10.00 (over 40%) off the usual price, while these copies last!

Originally released 20 years ago and then immediately deleted, I've had this for years and am very happy to be able to offer it. Recorded live directly...

This 1969 double album was the third release by Mike Westbrook and it was a quite radical anti-war release, featuring 26 amazing musicians. Always a rare release, this came out on CD once before in the early 1990s, but it's been unavailable for about...

Since the mid 1970s or so, this great English composer and big band jazz leader has been working with smaller groups and performing a mix between jazz and theatre (sometimes dubbed 'jazz cabaret')...

Since the mid 1970s or so, this great English composer and big band jazz leader has been working with smaller groups and performing a mix between jazz and street theatre (sometimes dubbed 'jazz cabaret'). This album is a natural outgrowth of his...

"This is the second solo album on Rune Grammofon by Stian Westerhus -- the most exciting guitarist on the Norwegian experimental music scene. His vinyl-only release Galore and this album shows a musician challenging and stretching the limits of his...

"This is the third solo album on Rune Grammofon by Norwegian experimental guitarist Stian Westerhus. With The Matriarch and the Wrong Kind of Flowers, Westerhus not only challenges and stretches the limits of his instrument but also comes up with an...

"LP version. This is the third solo album on Rune Grammofon by Norwegian experimental guitarist Stian Westerhus. With The Matriarch and the Wrong Kind of Flowers, Westerhus not only challenges and stretches the limits of his instrument but also comes...


"Canadian-born, English-bred trumpeter and fluegelhorn player Kenny Wheeler has been a mainstay of Germany's ECM Records since the mid-'70s. Aside from his own recordings as a leader, Wheeler has performed as part of the bands Azimuth and the Dave...

Kenny Wheeler-trumpet, John Abercrombie-guitar, John Parricelli-guitar, Anders Jormin-double bass. "Kenny Wheeler is notoriously self-effacing about his achievements. Doubtless, if asked about this session, he’d express modest observations about his ow...

A wonderful trio session with Kenny on his flugelhorn, with backing by long time partner John Taylor and Steve Swallow on bass.

"This is a beautiful album. The last Kenny Wheeler album I bought was "Touche," his duet with Paul Bley, and I was...

One of the hardest to find holly grails of Brit-jazz makes its very first appearance on CD in this excellently packaged and remastered set from BGO. Check out this personnel: Kenny Wheeler: flugelhorn; Derek Watkins: trumpet; Henry Shaw: trumpet; Henry...

Music for viola da gamba by Whelden & C.F. Abel. ''I have chosen to write & perform music using up-to-the-minute compositional techniques on instruments commonly thought to be old fashioned.'' [New Albion]

This sets excerpts of the novel, All The Visions, to music & song. Somewhere between baroque, country ballad & bohemian stream of consciousness. [New Albion]

When Is Norwegian multi-instrumentalist Lars Pedersen. His music here is complex sound collages and dramatic narative (with words by Chris Cutler) mixed with music. This combines 40 minutes of new work with the 20' "Death In The Blue Lake". [ReR]

Proto-electronica classic of its kind. I know a lot of people think extremely highly of this one and I can't argue about what they accomplished sonically so early, but I'll still take United States of America or Silver Apples over this one personally...

A sextet using vocals, multi-keyboards (mellotron, Hammond organ, moogs, piano, etc.) guitar, flutes/recorder, violin, bass & drums, this is appealingly melodic symphonic with attractive folk overtones. Soaring female vocals, mondo-Crimsoid guitar lead...

"White Willow's fifth studio album, "Signal to Noise", will be released on August 22, 2006. The album was recorded at Jailhouse Studios in Denmark, and was mixed and produced by legendary producer Tommy Hansen. Cover art is by Killustrations, who also ...

Throughout the last 15 years, whether or not they were working more in a folky-oriented progressive rock or in a more straight-forward symphonic style, all of White Willow's releases have been of very high quality from beginning to end and this one...

"Enormously urgent remastered, repackaged repress/reissue for this much buzzed about record that tragically went out of print just as demand was erupting. Includes lyrics & a bonus track. Armed with little more than an acoustic guitar and her fragile...

"I was going to write about how this is an absolutely beautiful - and disturbing - record, but I think quoting from the liner notes of James Pritchett really does sum it up."

"Frances White invites us to take a walk through her Resonant...

Impulse! Is celebrating their 50th anniversary with several re-issues including a collection of “2-fers," two albums on one compact disc.

"This is another Verve/Impulse! 2-for-1 CD, but one combining two possibly more obscure albums than the...

Soundtracks & scores composed & performed using home-made and original instruments, designed by Peter Whitehead.

Bänz Oester, bass / Gerry Hemingway, drums / Michel Wintsch, piano.

"Less is More" brings this decade lengthed collective trio into its finest document to date shining with its uncanny ability to interact with extraordinary subtlety and...

Possibly the greatest live rock & roll album of all time, with a ton of bonus material, remastered and sounding great and definitely something that belongs in YOUR collection!

" Anyone who owned the vinyl copy of Live at Leeds will barely...


Yes, this is a bit of a stretch and definitely a bit of an indulgence for me personally, but this is one of the great psychedelic/pop albums of the 1960s, and this is the excellent remastered version with a zillion great bonus tracks and a great bookle...

Second album by this guitar, bass, drums instrumental fusion trio. As always in this type of band, it seems that all the attention will probably be paid to the guitarist (John Erickson), who is really good, but they are *all* really good players. Essen...

"Simon Wickham-Smith was born on the south coast of England in February 1968 and graduated from King’s College, London in 1990 with a degree in EnglishLiterature. Whilst at university, he met Richard Youngs and from that meeting developed a friendship..


Benoit was keyboardist for Magma from 1975 to 1978. Additionally, he released a few solo albums in the mid/late 70's, of which this was the first. A keyboard/Moog-dominated record that at times gets amazingly heavy and at other times very wonderfully...

The only solo album by the original keyboardist for Eloy (up through and including Dawn) and then the keyboardist for Jane. This is often described as combining his Pink Floyd-inspired roots with the sound of early 80's Tangerine Dream.

"This is an album of solos and duets. Drawing inspiration from his research on African rhythms, Rainer Wiens has written complex pieces that have been magnificently performed by seasoned musicians from the Montréal new music scene."

"Over the...

Born in L.A., Doug Wieselman has drifted back and forth from coast to coast most of his creative life, working with many of the country's greatest underground musicians. On the West Coast he has been co-leader of the San Francisco-based Kamikaze Ground...

Fourth & final studio album by the 'original' line up of Jukka Gustavson, Pekka Pohjola, Jim Penbroke & Ronnie Osterberg. Most of the tunes are by Gustavson & so reflect his sensibility; definitely not a bad thing!
"This newly re-mastered Esoteric re

3rd and last by the 'post-Pohjola' version of Wigwam. While they were more song oriented than some of their earlier prog classics, this is still a fine effort, with some stunning guitarwork by Recchardt. [Love]

Their 3rd album, & for my money, probably their best. Originally a double album, it all fits nicely on 1 CD. What was originally the 1st 2 sides of the album are especially wonderful, organ-driven, song-oriented progressive, like the best of Caravan...

Wonderful new Love release of rarities from 1969-77, including their non-lp singles and TONS of live material, starting in 1970! Wigwam combined song form with a progressive outlook, & remain a 70's favorite of many folks. I take back what I said last ...