"A key advantage of playing complex instrumental music in a trio or quartet is the luxury of having one player free to keep the ball of melody in play while granting the other instrumentalists the freedom to harmonize, play counterpoint or just cut...

"Midline priced reissue of this classic: Pleiades is a percussion piece performed by Les Percussions de Strasbourg (vibraphones, marimbas, xylophones, etc.); richly defined, timeless music that will sound good for the rest of your life."...

The composers & pieces are "Night Prayers" (for string quartet and magnetic tape) by Giya Kancheli, "Chang Music III (for string trio) by Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky and "Mugam Sajahi (for string quartet and percussion) by Franghiz Ali-Zadeh. "Featuring a nu...

"Xhol’s sound was a mix of jazz-rock and psychedelia. The band from Wiesbaden and former Xhol Caravan stood out for their pretty lengthy improvisations holding barely any vocals. The band became quite well-known with their two LPs released on Ohr...

Hansi Fischer - soprano sax, alto sax, flute
Klaus Briest - bass
Eberhard Emmel - tenor sax, soprano sax
Markus Kieslich -keyboards
Erik Klingenberg - vocals
Leo Fischer - guitar (1,2,3,8)
Darwin Berger – drums
Babak Massali – percussion (9)

“Xhol Caravan were founded in Wiesbaden in 1969 and are known for their fusion of jazz-rock and psychedelia. With their LP “Electrip”, released in 1969, they presented a masterpiece of krautrock.
Now the band is perfo

I had never heard of these guys, but a bunch of customers kept saying "Can you get the XL releases? I hear that they are an amazing Finnish fusion/progressive band" So, we tracked them down and stocked them and I got to hear them, and they are indeed a...

This single disc compilation distills a good selection from X-Legged Sally's five albums.
Led by composer/reed player Peter Vermeersch, X-Legged Sally was a part of the fairly amazing Belgium avant-progressive scene all through the 90s. A large band (usually about a dozen players), it was Verloesem's first ensemble to really gain attention and it also can be looked at as the precursor to his currently large band, the also amazing Flat Earth Society.
All of X-Legged Sally's albums have been...

Led by composer/reed player Peter Vermeersch, X-Legged Sally was a part of the fairly amazing Belgium avant-progressive scene all through the 90s. A large band (usually about a dozen players), it was Verloesem's first ensemble to really gain attention....

“Reissued for the first time in decades as a standalone title for it's 47th (and a bit) anniversary, XTC's very first release, the 3D EP. The speed of musical change underneath the mainstream was as fast as a shouted "1, 2, 3, 4" on any number of monochrome identi-punk singles in equally drab sleeves, and it was into this febrile mix that XTC released it's first 12" EP - 3D, at the end of September '77 (a 7" version was withdrawn) and for all that it shared the freneticism of it's punkier brethren, it...

2013 reissue on Andy Partridge's very own Ape House label. This and Black Sea are the highest points for me, in a career filled with highlights. One of the smartest, best and most distinctive pop bands of their time. Highly recommended. Their fourth...

2013 reissue on Andy Partridge's very own Ape House label. One of the smartest, best and most distinctive pop bands of their time. Highly recommended. Their third album and their first by the 'classic' lineup of Moulding/Gregory/Partridge.

Back in stock at a lower price and also 'fixed' (the DVD-A had errors, but this problem is now corrected)

Note - this isn't just a 'remaster'. Steven Wilson has gone back to the original multi-tracks and remixed them. If you want it just as you...

2013 reissue on Andy Partridge's very own Ape House label. One of the smartest, best and most distinctive pop bands of their time. Their second album, with a classic Hipgnosis sleeve.

Note - this isn't just a 'remaster'. Steven Wilson has gone back to the original multi-tracks and remixed them. If you want it just as you have always heard it, you won't like this, but if you want to hear parts that were very low level to the point...

2013 reissue on Andy Partridge's very own Ape House label. One of the smartest, best and most distinctive pop bands of their time. Highly recommended. Their ninth album.

Deluxe CD + all region Blu-Ray edition. Skylarking is the second of XTC's albums to be mixed in Dolby Atmos by Steven Wilson, following last year's highly acclaimed mix for The Big Express. For many music fans, this is the XTC classic album, the one there is always most demand for. The album has been mixed for Dolby Atmos Immersive Audio from the original multi-track studio master tapes by Steven Wilson & is fully approved by XTC.
CD: features the 2016 album mix & bonus album track mixes....

New 2023 mix by Steven Wilson in Stereo, 5.1 surround AND for the 1st time for XTC, in Dolby Atmos Spatial Audio.
CD features the complete album newly mixed plus 3 additional tracks.
Blu-Ray includes:-
• Newly mixed material as per CD in Hi-Res Stereo, 5.1 Surround & Dolby Atmos
• 2023 stereo out-takes & instrumental mixes in Hi-Res stereo
• The original album + additional tracks in Hi-Res stereo
• The complete album & more in demo form

“The Big Expre

2013 reissue on Andy Partridge's very own Ape House label. One of the smartest, best and most distinctive pop bands of their time. Their first album.