Extensively remastered, this is the first legitimate reissue of what is perhaps THE top Canadian psychedelic rarity.

“Recorded in a time when creativity counted for more than commercial appeal, the album was recorded for the eclectic Sound Canada label. It sold poorly, but was rediscovered as part of the revival in interest in psychedelia; the only problem—copies of the original album are incredibly rare (and incredibly expensive!).
"Royal American…" seems to have one foot planted on either .

"By the time of their fifth record, the Red Rodney-Ira Sullivan Quintet also included pianist Garry Dial, bassist Jay Anderson and drummer Steve Bagby, and it was a perfect vehicle for the co-leaders. Rodney (heard here mostly on flugelhorn) was challenged by the advanced material (four of the six numbers are Dial originals), and underground legend Sullivan received more exposure than he had ever had in his career. On this LP, Sullivan (heard on soprano, alto flute and flugelhorn) inspired Rodney to some...

"11 unreleased compositions by Hans-Joachim Roedelius produced between 1990 and 2001. All of them are pearls of electronic deepness that show another side of the man that lives in the little Lower Austrian town Baden. His famous ultra-sweet piano melodies can be heard -- but they are not the center of the productions; instead, here is a more electronic side of his genius. With a minimalistic approach, he lets synth melodies fly high while some droney, melancholic atmospheres swell in the background…

A project focused on improvisation & electronic work. Improvisations are made with electroacoustic devices by the duo K.K. Roll & clarinet & X. Charles.

Released on Proper, a great UK label who do an amazing job in terms of packaging, presentation and especially in terms of sonics. This is important, basic repertoire material. A great place to hear some of the best of his very earliest stuff and at a amazing price.

"Sonny Rollins has remained one of the true jazz giants, ranking with Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, and John Coltrane as one of the all-time great tenor saxophonists. This Proper Introduction features 23 tracks ranging from his...

“Recorded for broadcast while touring their fifth record, Siren, this 1976 performance is a greatest-hits set in all but name, the group running through highlights of their career to date - 'The Thrill of It All', 'Street Life' and, yes, 'Virginia Plain' - alongside covers of 'A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall' (Bob Dylan) and the 60s R&B classic 'The "In" Crowd', as reimagined for a new era by frontman Bryan Ferry, who had recorded the songs on his first and second solo albums, respectively.
Roxy Music...

On the Winter Solstice of 2014 – the Northern Hemisphere’s longest night of the year – composer, bandleader & percussionist Adam Rudolph convened 11 of New York City’s finest and most adventurous guitarists in a New Jersey studio for a most auspicious event: the debut of Go: Organic Guitar Orchestra, his all-guitar orchestra. In attendance were guitarists Rez Abbasi, Nels Cline, Liberty Ellman, David Gilmore, Miles Okazaki, and Marvin Sewell, all...

"Todd Rundgren's Utopia Live At Hammersmith Odeon 75 captures the iconic progressive rock band performing their first UK concert. While the concert recording has long been a fan favorite, it has never been commercially available until now."

The lineup is Todd Rundgren, John Siegler, Roger Powell, Willie Wilcox.

" Shout! Factory's 2012 disc Live at Hammersmith Odeon '75 marks the first official release of this heavily bootlegged show from Todd Rundgren's 1975 appearance at the London venue.

This 1981 album delivered huge hits while still being a full-on progressive rock classic; YYZ is a tremendous instrumental work out and, anyway, even if you are sick of "Tom Sawyer", wasn't it cool to have a huge radio hit with such a blatant odd time ...

“In 1988, guitarist/composer Ray Russell climbed onto the Montreux Jazz Festival stage with a crack band comprised of rhythm team Mo Foster and Simon Phillips, trumpeter Stuart Brooks, and keyboardists Tommy Eyre and Tony Hymas. The success of their show convinced Russell to capture this unit for posterity, and bolstered by saxophonists Iain Ballamy and Tony Roberts, the group entered the studio. A Table Near the Band was the result, a set originally released in 1989 and now reissued by Angel....

“In 2018, the longtime partnership between the St-Petersburg based duo Sádon (familiar to us from their collaboration with Treha Sektori) & France's Romain Barbot alias Saåad (who has curated & managed the BLWBCK label and released Sádon's early material) finally turned into a musical collaboration as Saáadon. Entitled мреть (наутро ночь) (which can be translated as « Die (in the morning night ») is centered around the melancholic and introspective poetry of Donat Mavleev, evoking a secular dream, the...

“The juxtaposition of dualistic concepts like love and anger, joy and heartache, and the way these emotions are inextricably linked in our romantic psyches inform all of Cecile McLorin Salvant's virtuosic, urbanely produced fourth album, 2017's Dreams and Daggers. Recorded live at the Village Vanguard (yes, you can sometimes hear the enthusiastic audience) and in studio at New York's DiMenna Center, the double-disc set features Salvant on a thoughtfully curated selection of standards and several....

"Jean Pierre Alarcen (guitar), Henri Garella (organ, mellotron) and Michel Jullien (drums) had previously played together in Eden Rose, whose album was a showcase for magnificent interplay between organ and electric guitar. This style was the backbone for Sandrose too, but with dramatic female vocals added in the style of Earth & Fire or Circus 2000. Alarcen had now become a prolific composer, with a range from symphonic rock overtures to gripping songs. His guitarwork was augmented by Garella's...

"In the 1970's in Chile, recording anything was complicated. The state-owned IRT label was administered by the military. Domestic releases gave way to an invasion of foreign music. At most, a Chilean group like Santa y su Gente (Santa and his People)...

While Santana made some great albums before Caravanerai (heard "Abraxas" lately? You should! It's still great!), this was the album where he lost some of the personnel that made the early band great, as Neil Schon and Gregg Rolle went to Journey and a couple of the others went to drugs and then Carlos embraced his inner jazzbo and along with drummer Michael Shrieve, began his and the band's foray into the then-new waters of jazz/rock. Some just beautiful stuff here!

"Carlos Santana & Buddy Miles Live!...was recorded on New Year's Day, 1972 at the Sunshine '72 Festival inside Diamond Head volcano crater, Honolulu Hawaii. Carlos was coming off the massive commercial success highs of three critically acclaimed Santana albums, but was moving away from the Latin rock format he had pioneered and was taking more and more aggressive steps towards focusing his attentions and talents on fusion jazz. Carlos though was a huge fan of Jimi Hendrix, very evident in his pre-studio...

“From the darkling psychedelic folk of Anaconda, via the bathetic psychedelic anguish of Arcadium, Miguel Sergides finally arrived from London at the Antipodes in a mid seventies Disco Frenzy and recorded his ultimate masterpiece as The Savanna Silver Band.
Long a cult item for disco and funk collectors, this is the first reissue of a classic masterpiece, where Sergides aptitude for long complex progressive compositions morphs seamlessly into a gorgeous funk disco setting, the result, is pure gold...

"The first solo album by Jan Schelhaas, whose playing and writing has graced both Caravan and Camel over the years. Noted for his compositions Captured and Hymn to Her for Camel, Schelhaas at last records an album of his own music. Featuring guest appearances from Doug Boyle and Jimmy Hastings, Dark Ships follows in the tradition of the Canterbury sound, albeit with more ambient influences. Jan has delivered a well crafted album which is certain to appeal to fans of Caravan, Camel and followers of the...

“Ghosts Of Eden finds Jan Schelhaas, of Caravan and Camel fame, in a melancholy mood...with lyrics that suggest someone looking back over their life and, at the risk of morbidity, looking to make peace with their past.
Musically, Schelhaas’ keys take the front seat and the overall sound isn’t a far cry from Caravan tracks like Better By Far, just with notably less guitar...
The whole experience is elegiac, with slow unhurried tempos and Schelhaas’ very soft...vocals that typically sit low in the.

“On 1987's 'Musk At Dusk' Schmidt tickles us with his own vocal on the jazz infused 'Villa Wunderbar'.
The songs from this album certainly influenced the early 90s ambient sounds that were released by the likes of Ultramarine and Banco De Gaia, such is the influence of Schmidt's tireless sweat and toil.”

"Since 1998 and for six years, Schwalm worked continually with Eno, releasing numerous joint works, including the album Drawn From Life and the soundtrack to the film Fear X by Nicholas Winding Refn, all the while giving celebrated joint performances in Europe and Japan. Since 2006, Schwalm has been repeatedly invited by the Punktfestival in Kristiansand, where he performed as celebrated live-remixer. As one of the most respected exponents of this particular art form, he collaborated with several well....

"After their debut album brought very positive reviews from the critics, this is the second album from this up-and-coming German jazz group, led by bassist/composer Achim Seifert.
In 2010 The Achim Seifert Project won the "Future Sounds Award", a prestigious competition run by the Leverkusener Jazztage and in 2011 he performed on their main stage, which was recorded and broadcast by WDR.
The band has opened for jazz stars such as Randy Crawford and Christian McBride. Aside from his performing...

"A full blown sandstorm of hypnotic grooves, melding traditional Mauritanian instruments, like the ardine and tidinite, within an electrified psychedelic rock band" --The Quietus.

Noura Mint Seymali hails from a Moorish musical dynasty in Mauritania, and chose at an early age to embrace the art-form that is its lifeblood. Yet traditional pedigree has proven but a stepping-stone for Seymali's work, with which she simultaneously popularizes and reimagines Moorish music on the global stage, taking...

"A 41 minute composition, compelling in its reach, for a large version of Carbon with E#, Samm Bennett, Lesli Dalaba, David Fulton, Ken Heer, David Linton, Charles K Noyes, Bobby Previte, Jim Staley and including The Soldier String Quartet: David...

SPRING & NEAP (35:33)
Michigo Yagi, 17-string koto/Yumiko Tanaka, futozao shamisen; Yoshiko Fujio, hosozao shamisen/Zeena Parkins, troubador harp; Makoto Nomura, piano/Tamiki Sawa, violin/Mio Abe, violin; Hiromichi Sakamoto, cello/Masaaki Kikuchi...