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This double CD set compiles early BBC recordings from the band's earliest years from the time of their first two albums, and with the original lineup of Jon Anderson-vocals, Tony Kaye-organ, Peter Banks-guitar, Chris Squire-bass and Bill Bruford-drums.

This has songs from Yes and Time And A Word, and you can really hear the early influences on the band which may not be so obvious from their later, more famous releases, such as The Nice (Kaye's great organ playing), The Beatles or Buffalo...

2003 remastered edition with liner notes, unseen photos and bonus tracks. Rick Wakeman returns, so the line up once again is: Wakeman/Anderson/Howe/Squire/White on this 1977 album, which I sorta considered their last hurrah until recently. This include...

2003 remastered edition with liner notes, unseen photos and bonus tracks. Rick Wakeman's out and his replacement is the equally talented, but extremely different sounding Patrick Moraz, who only lasted for this one 1974 album. This is when I first saw them and it was quite a show; I still remember the big Roger Dean-designed things - whatever they were - on top of Allan White's drums flapping their wings during his big solo. One of the bonus tracks is a studio run-through of Gates Of Delirium!

2003 remastered edition with liner notes, unseen photos and bonus tracks. For their 3rd album, Yes truly became "Yes", with the arrival of Steve Howe. This lineup didn't last long, because they decided to dump organist Tony Kaye for 'keyboard wizard' R...

2003 remastered edition with liner notes, unseen photos and 4 bonus tracks. This is their second album, from 1970. Jon Anderson, Peter Banks, Tony Kaye, Chris Squire and Bill Bruford turn in good solid performances, and they begin their long association with Eddie Offord. Additionally there is some orchestal parts added.

Starting their life as a Yes cover band, Yesterdays is a Hungarian prog rock band.
While you can certainly hear their Yes influence(s) [for me, especially in the guitarist sound/tone], I didn’t think that they came across as a copycat band. YMMV. Listen and you can tell me.

“The new work appears as a music-biographical concept album, which addresses the world-famous story “Le Petit Prince” (“The Little Prince”) by French author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (to whom the album title is dedicated)..


"Yggdrasil from Munich named themselves after the world ash or yew tree of the Germanic tribes and played progressive rock of a calmer nature, with flute, violin, and English lyrics. They are hardly known, as their own LP, recorded in the Robert...

A beautiful album of Ethiopian piano music released on a modern classical label. Y'know, sometimes things DO just make sense!

"What if Chopin had vacationed in Addis Ababa? In this alluring piano music, poetic filigree meets spirited Ethiopian...

“My Strong Will is a new album of "Ethiopian Classical Music" by Girma Yifrashewa. Recorded with Bulgarian musicians and the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra in Sofia, Bulgaria, the album is a return to where Yifrashewa completed his own conservatory training in the late 1980s and early 1990s, across both sides of the fall of Communism.
Guided by Yifrashewa's piano, these chamber works bring the music of Ethiopia into a Western Classical format, uncovering meditative and emotional new vistas for both...

“Three years have passed since the experimental-indie debut "Blakc Mould", and Yobrepus has become a real band with real ambitions. Ambitions that this time around, led them to record with Emil Nikolaisen at Malabar studios, and hire the experienced Nick Terry to mix on vintage analogue gear.
Continuing the fungal theme from the previous release title, "Mycelium Days" sees Yobrepus venture into a more progressive territory than before. The album starts with a 22-minute long medley that pays homage...

The June Rise is guitarist/composer/multi-instrumentalist Mark Yodice. Mark was sent my way by Shawn Persinger (ex Boud Deun) who knew I would like this record, and he was right, of course!
This is an album of 10 small pieces mostly constructed...

Fifth album by this long-lived Swiss avant rock band. "Just before a - the world would end, b – the Musikwerkstatt Basle would be torn down the Yolks decided in February 1999 to go there once again to do some recording. It happened to become the last...

"Israel isn't exactly known as a hotbed for acoustic steel-string guitar music, but guitarist/instrumentalist and all-around sonic ambassador Yair Yona seems determined to change all of that. From his headquarters in Tel Aviv, where he also runs the...

Megumi Yonezawa - piano
Masa Kamaguchi - bass
Ken Kobayashi - drums

"Japanese musicians Megumi Yonezawa, Masa Kamaguchi, and Ken Kobayashi present Boundary. The pianist and drummer live in New York City and often collaborate; the bassist lives in Madrid but comes to New York City twice a year for a month each time. The producer heard them at Manhattan jazz bar Tomi Jazz and immediately booked a session to capture their magic before Masa Kamaguchi left town. Megumi Yonezawa, from Hokkaido.

Tatsuya Yoshida-drums, voice, synth, piano
Risa Takeda-piano, synth, effects

“Thirteen high-speed rock improvisations on drums, synth, piano & voice from the continuing collaboration of Magaibutsu label leader & drummer Tatsuya Yoshida and synthesist & pianist Risa Takeda, each track titled for Nordic mythology, the album title a reference to the World Tree, a giant ash supporting the universe; dramatic, amazing, unconventional instrumental music.”

Featuring Ruins drummer Yoshida Tatsuya going head to head with versatile jazz pianist Satoko Fujii, Erans is a meeting of masters. Twelve intense compositions showcasing the passion and virtuosity of these two Japanese visionaries. Absolutely breathta...

Four new compositions exploring free jazz, Cagean dialectics and noise improvisation...beginning and ending with two of the most intense recordings Otomo has ever done, the centerpieces of this remarkable CD join the Cagean aesthetics of randomness and...


Otomo Yoshihide: Guitar
Paal Nilssen-Love: Drums
Recorded at Copenhagen JazzHouse 4 May 2013
"The first duo release ever by these two masters of improvised music presents revelatory and astonishing music for electric guitar and drums. A.

''Japanese Free Jazz has a history that goes back to the 60's, & Otomo's latest project brings together some of the best free jazz players in Japan with noise musicians Sachiko M & Akita Masami (Merzbow). Features 3 bizarre covers of tunes by Eric Dolp...

"Otomo Yoshihide is one of the most versatile and creative musicians in Japan today. Known for his eclectic arrangements, noise drones and turntable magic, he is never so alive and filled with fire as when he plays his original instrument: the electric...

"The first release outside of Japan featuring two of Japan's quirkiest underground pop stars. From the high fragile sonorities of Togawa Jun to the velvet, sultry tones of Phew, Dreams runs the gamut from moody love songs, driving groove to screaming...

"In the seemingly impenetrable, fantastic murkiness of Japanese experimental psych pop, more often than not, Yoshimi has been a beacon." - FADER

"[Susie Ibarra is] a highly regarded and ubiquitous figure on New York's fertile downtown improvising scene." - Modern Drummer

"Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe is an enduring voice in the US underground, producing everything from math rock to ambient to vocals in sci-fi blockbuster Arrival." - The Guardian

"Flower of Sulphur is a transfixing...

First-time ever reissue of this late, small classic of the Berlin school of electronic music! The CD includes 30' of previously unreleased bonus tracks!

"Very nice album of Berlin School electronic music. Harald Grosskopf produced and...

"Udo Hanten and Albin Meskes, the Krefeld duo collectively known as You, played their way into the elite of the German electronic music scene with their first two albums Electric Day (1979) and Time Code (1983). Reissued by Bureau B in 2011, the pair...

First-time ever reissue of this early, small classic of the Berlin school of electronic music meets proto electronica! The CD includes 10' of previously unreleased bonus tracks!

"As synthesizers grew more popular from the mid-'70s onwards...

“A reissue of Young Scientist's debut album Results, Not Answers, originally released in 1979. When you think of the music to have emerged from Seattle, grunge and Sub Pop are probably the first things that come to mind. But Seattle was already home to a vibrant alternative music scene back in the 1970s. One of the most prominent synthesizer acts of the period was the trio Young Scientist. Influenced by the likes of Cluster, Harmonia, and Tangerine Dream, they released their music exclusively on...

"The live reputation of the mighty Young Tradition lives long in the memories of all who heard them during their brief career. Live recordings were thought not to exist until, 45 years later, an American fan remembered the reel-to-reel recording he'd...

"A collection of seasonal songs from some of the finest voices of the 1960’s English folk revival. The majestic, uplifting vocals of the Young Tradition - Heather Wood, Peter Bellamy and Royston Wood - are joined by Shirley and Dolly Collins. Legendary...

Very rare, electronic music, originally available only on cassette, from a very unlikely musician to be working in this vein. If you heard this with no further information, you would assume it's from the late 70s or early 80s and was released on Sky Records back then and was possibly even the work of one of the Cluster guys!....

"Dennis Young is best known as the percussionist of the New York band Liquid Liquid, which is known for their piece "Cavern" from 1983, which in turn became very well....

"Second album by Norwegian/American guitarist Jacob Young features the working band first heard on “Evening Falls”, a group established to reflect the compatible styles and ideas of three generations of Norwegian jazz players, the age range of the band...

Superior Viaduct are consistently one of the greatest reissue labels ever, but I still can’t believe that they were able to get this one out! Kudos!

“Originally released in 1974 on Shandar, Dream House 78'17" is the second full-length album by La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela.
What was side one was recorded at a private concert (on the date and time indicated by the title) and features Young and Zazeela's voices against a sine wave drone with Jon Hassell on trumpet and Garrett List on...

"La Monte Young is the daddy of us all." - Brian Eno

“La Monte Young was born in Bern, Idaho in 1935. He began his music studies in Los Angeles and later Berkeley, California before relocating to New York City in 1960, where he became a primary influence on Minimalism, the Fluxus movement and performance art through his legendary compositions of extended time durations and the development of just intonation and rational number based tuning systems. With wife and collaborator, artist Marian...

Larry Young : organ
Lee Morgan : trumpet
Herbert Mogan : tenor saxophone
Eddie Gladden : drums

Although recorded in early 1969, the music here was not released until 1980; this is probably Larry at his most furious other than his Lifetime work!

“Recorded in 1969, 'Mother Ship' would be Larry Young's last 'jazz' record, and his last recording for the Blue Note label. The CD re-issue cover of the album shows him in a traditionally dark jazz club wearing a black tie and coat..

"Yowie sounds like Einstein discovering the theory of relativity while hopped up on meth and psilocybin -- genius ideas of how everything connects spewed raw and uncontained, formulae and fact swirling in broken code, riding between rational thought and complete breakdown."-Riverfront Times

"Damning with Faint Praise" is the second full length release from Yowie. This album surpasses the girth and intensity of their debut, "Cryptooology," an album that few have learned to decipher (or pronounce)...

"Synchromysticism is a modern musical wonder of the world. I've never heard a band who was more prepared to record an album in my life. Their compositions are breathtaking - the most complex arrangements I've ever heard a band perform. Every note planned and executed to near perfection, in one take, no overdubs - it's a fucking golden unicorn."-Patrick H. Win, MD

"Yowie is one of those names that evoke wonderment, amazement, bewilderment. It all began with their 2004 debut, Cryptooology, which...;

Saw these young'uns open for Ahleuchatistas a few weeks ago and they put on a fun, diverse performance that wasn't jazz at all - but touched on jazz as well as anything else they could think of.

"Calling the three members of Yuganaut 'multi...

"Drawing from the traditions of Sun Ra, the Art Ensemble of Chicago as well as Miles Davis in his '60s and '70s electric period, multi-instrumentalists Steve Rush (fender rhodes, moog, bells, recorder, slide whistle, euphonium, maraca, ocarina...

On their fifth release, the Italian masters of 'rehearsal intensive' music surprise even their most ardent fans by taking their elaborate compositional works even further!
"Francesco Zago's avant baby puts together another amazing collection of experimental/exploratory songs-- their first studio album since 2010's wonderful masterpiece, Iridule. Percussionists and a percussion-mindset seem to rule the day with YUGEN work, and Death by Water is no exception. The ubiquitous JACOPO COSTA (NOT A GOOD....

Third album by this Italian 'difficult music' ensemble, who derive great pleasure in presenting for your ears what Frank Zappa referred to as "The Black Page" (i.e. musical scores so filled with notes that it appears as a sea of black ink)!...

The first album by this Italian/international avant-progressive supergroup, which has been eagerly anticipated. Their stated influences should tell you all you need to know: Satie, Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Cage, Reich, Zappa, Henry Cow, Gentle Giant...

Excellent, studio-quality, live album, recorded at the 2011 RIO festival. While this features music mostly drawn from their 1st (Labirinto d'Acqua) and 3rd (Iridule) albums, this is well worth owning because those albums were studio creations and were...

Katsui Yuji plays violin, keyboards and percussion (but mostly concentrates on very atmospheric synths and violin) and Mr. Bondage Fruit, Kido Natsuki plays acoustic guitar. While not ambient, it's surprisingly low-key.