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...

"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...

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

"Masterly"-The Independent

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...

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')...

"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...

"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...

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...

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]

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]

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...

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...

"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...

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

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...

"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...

"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...

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

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...