"Crepuscular Hour is an epic, hypnotic one-hour piece for three choirs, three pairs of noise musicians, and church organ, to be performed in a cathedral or similar location with musicians surrounding the audience. The room fills with sound in an intense, but almost meditative hour, as the voices blend with the distortion, the noise sometimes takes over, and the organ eventually takes the music to a new level. The visual design of this concert is a play on the crepuscular rays -- rays of sunlight that...

This show from the Bataclan in Paris is quite famous as it was the 1st time that these 3 original members of the Velvet Underground were on stage together since Nico (and then Cale) left the Velvets.
Now I am not a huge Reed fan, but I love Cale...

This wonderful recording captures in sound and vision a very special concert staged at the Keswick Theatre in Glenside PA, USA on 27th October 2017. Renaissance perform an extensive set of classic material with the Renaissance Chamber Orchestra, an ensemble especially formed for a series of American concerts.
Annie Haslam comments: “Renaissance has touched so many hearts across land and sea, for what seems to be most of a lifetime now, in the performance of this exquisite and unique music. I cannot...

This has three full BBC "Sight & Sound" professionally filmed and recorded broadcasts from the band during their absolute heyday and all recordings sourced from the BBC's archives!! Great sound and a beautiful looking DVD too, with the DVD's audio being in stereo and also in 5.1!
"The extensive liner notes by Chris Welch includes new interviews with band members Annie Haslam, Jon Camp and Terence Sullivan, who all reminisce about their experiences and discuss the outstanding music they performed on...

The Resident's 1980 album "The Commercial Album" was, for me, their last great hurrah. The concept was to make 40 songs of exactly ONE MINUTE in length. This DVD takes the original album and presents it in Surround sound. If you are of a certain age...

“Presented from the point of view of Mister X, the quintessential unreliable narrator, God in 3 Persons relates the story of his involvement with a pair of conjoined twin faith healers. As the increasingly improbable story unfolds, ending with Mister X's destruction of the mysterious Holy Union, the audience never knows how much of the dubious tale is fact, fiction or the fading reminisces of an aging Lothario. Operatic in its vision and profound in its implications, God in 3 Persons examines the...

Available again and at a lower price, this is the only Residents DVD that anyone other than a hard-core fan need ever own (unless they suddenly turn around 25 years of decay and become great again). This collects most of (& ALL the best of) The Residen...

“WTF? Classical, jazz & choirs sound not suitable at first, but this album is a grower, the diversity of the musicians & singers perfectly serves the music of the Residents.”

“To celebrate their 50th Anniversary, The Residents undertook a secret, one-off performance in their hometown of San Francisco. Joined on stage by a hand-picked cast of guest artists, the group and their friends performed a dream setlist of classics from the band's back catalogue, including songs never performed live...

"The first official documentary sanctioned by The Residents. THEORY OF OBSCURITY tells the story of the iconic renegade cult band The Residents. From the group's formation in Shreveport to their success in the burgeoning San Francisco avant-garde music scene of the 60s and 70s, The Residents redefined what a rock band could be. With the advent of music videos in the 1980s, these masked musicians gained global fame as MTV darlings and serious art world figures...

"Features original music (and some 'familiar themes') by The Residents with Eric Drew Feldman; a soundtrack album of the same name, featuring seven suites of film music and dialogue. Triple Trouble' features footage from the group's rarely seen abandoned film project Vileness Fats (originally filmed between 1972 and 1976).

Dive deep into the psyche of Randall "Junior" Rose (Dustin York), son of a recently deceased rock star and a former priest who has lost faith in the church. Convinced that a...

"Not long after Hans-Joachim Roedelius (Cluster, Harmonia) and Stefan Schneider (To Rococo Rot, Kreidler, Mapstation) had released their first album Stunden, accompanied by a few live shows in 2011, Eric Satie and Brian Eno were quoted as the great...

"Tenor saxophone master Sonny Rollins has long been hailed as one of the most important artists in jazz history, and still, today, he is viewed as the greatest living jazz improviser. In 1986, filmmaker Robert Mugge produced SAXOPHONE COLOSSUS, a feature-length portrait of Rollins, named after one of his most celebrated albums. The project began in May of that year when Mugge and a small crew accompanied Sonny and Lucille Rollins to Tokyo, Japan where the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra premiered his...

“During the first half of the 1970s, a number of West German musicians escaped the traditional rock influences of British and American bands and created a new way of making rock music. This movement, which involved a whole family of psychedelic, electronic, jazz, folk & rock styles without mainstream radio influence, came to be known as Krautrock. The Krautrock bands that pioneered this movement created something never heard before: They took the intense, untamed essence of the old gods of rock and roll...

"Includes two-hour-long stereo and surround mixes of the concert, each with audio tracks in both English as well as German. For the English version the lines from the German-language live show were dubbed by the narrator and the actors. In both formats the following extras can be selected independently from the main movie: a fifteen-minute "Making of" of the concert movie, the recording of the encore of the Freising show "Unchain The Earth" as well as a hitherto unreleased video clip of the splendid...

"Tales From Outer Space", the tenth studio album by RPWL, the subtle art rockers from Freising, entered various charts, reached a remarkable 49th place in the German album charts and successfully put science fiction at the centre of seven great songs. This was followed by a fantastic tour in April 2019 from Glasgow via Warsaw to Basel, France and Germany with many full and sold out houses.
But most important for the band was the enthusiastic feedback from the fans, who unanimously spoke of the "best..

Released on Blu-ray with Dolby Atmos surround sound

“2023 was the year of the Artrockers from RPWL: 'Crime Scene', the eleventh studio album and the nineteenth overall, entered various charts after it's release: it even reached a remarkable 18th place in the German album charts! This was followed by a fantastic long European tour through eight countries with many sold-out venues. On the last studio longplayer 'Crime Scene', the Bavarian Artrock institution focused their attention on the morbid...

Let me tell you something; boy oh boy, does my 17 year old, Todd LOVING self wish this had been something I could have seen back then!
AWATS was Todd’s second solo album and the one where he began to find his footing and prove that he really was a studio wizard.
On the original, he played most of the instruments himself, which obviously ain’t a thing here, but the music stands strongly and uniquely even 40 years later. It’s a fine collection of songs and instrumentals that encompass everything...

"Deluxe CD/DVD edition comes in a special six-panel digipak. An incredible concert experience, a multi-media extravaganza starring classic rock icon and famed songwriter/producer Todd Rundgren!
Includes some of Todd's best known songs including "Hello It's Me" and "Bang On The Drum" plus fan favorites that haven't been performed live in decades. Recorded live at the Ridgefield Playhouse in Ridgefield CT on December 15, 2015."
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1 I Saw the Light
2 Love of the Common Man
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“A gorgeous multimedia box set of live performances from Todd Rundgren's renowned prog rock project Utopia. These very special concerts were planned as fundraising events to help cover medical expenses incurred by founding Utopia member, and beloved Rundgren partner, Moogy "Mark" Klingman. This set covers two full length concerts, plus a 12-page booklet featuring photos and liner notes documenting these spectacular shows.”
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1. Disc 1: CD Highline Ballroom - New York, NY - January 29...