Elliott Sharp: guitars
Scott Fields: guitars

“Where previous outings found the duo wrangling complex timbres and tonalities from acoustic instruments, Akra Kampoj is a marked departure. Here, the guitarists coax a mystifying range of dynamic, angular tones and textures from largely unprocessed electric guitars.
These massively influential, pioneering avant-guitar virtuosos ably blur the lines between free improvisation and new music composition. Sharp and Fields conjure sympathetically

Avery Sharpe has been McCoy Tyner's bassist for years and years and here he leads a trio with Onaje Allan Gumbs on piano and Winard Harper on drums.
This is an extremely nice, creative, straight-ahead and progressive acoustic jazz album.

“Norway's Shining have created a genre all their own starting with what they call BlackJazz. The International Blackjazz Society shows the critically acclaimed band at their absolute peak.
Very creative, maybe too much so for some listeners. The combination of rock and metal and jazz is delicious though to my ears.”

"Don Shinn got a fantastic sound from the L-100... He and Jimi Hendrix were controlling influences over the way I developed..."-Keith Emerson

“The first official reissue of Don Shinn's Temples With Prophets, originally released in 1969. Having made several classic 45 with The Soul Agents (whose singer was briefly Rod Stewart), Don Shinn taped his remarkable debut album in London's Lansdowne Studios in December 1967. Featuring his explosive organ (a clear influence on the young Keith Emerson) and..

“New album by Shrine and his signature sound design this time based on the "Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind", a Japanese manga from the 80's by Hayao Miyazaki and the subsequent anime of the same name. "Nausicaä" is a story of Earth's future a thousand years after the collapse of industrial civilization, when most of the planet is covered by a toxic jungle filled with deadly spores that choke all human life. An ode to the relationship between humanity and nature, and a call of awareness to the...

“Not to be confused with the Spandex-clad bass player from Kiss or the late British actress, Tupelo-born Gene Simmons was responsible for some of the best Rockabilly cuts never to emerge on the Sun label! A gifted tunesmith, Simmons' self-penned gems such as 'Juicy Fruit' and 'Crazy Woman' languished unissued for years, whilst his only Sun release, 'Drinkin' Wine' b/w 'I Done Told You', was held back by label boss Sam Phillips for eighteen months, by which point the Rockabilly craze had peaked, nixing...

“Digitally remastered release containing a pair of albums from the Jazz diva on one CD: Live At Berkeley (1970) and Gifted & Black (1971). Both albums were originally released on her then husband/producer/mentor's Stroud label in the early '70s, at a time when she was at the peak of her considerable powers. Recorded in studios in California, Gifted & Black comprises eight songs, four of which are hard-to-come-by original recordings. The other four are fascinating re-workings of songs Simone had recorded..

Andre Siqueira is an acoustic guitarist from Brazil and this is his first album. Some tracks are acoustic guitar/keyboard duos, someone similar to Ralph Towner with a Brazilian lilt (he plays an assortment of classical, Brazilian and Portugese 6, 8, 10 and 14 string guitars) and other tracks bring in other instrumentalists on flute, accordion, piano, bass, percussion and vibraphone. He plays an assorted types of classical, electric, brazilian and portuguese guitars, with 6, 8, 10 and 14 strings. If...

"Stellar electric instrumental folk rock. Skenet are four young musicians who grew up in rural Sweden and started playing the fiddle when they were kids. They stand for the renewal of the genre and take it in new and truly exciting directions with electric guitars and Mellotrons, among other instrumentation. Members Lena and Staffan, who both are also legitimate riksspelmän (National Folk Musicians of Sweden), have previously worked with bands like Dungen. Now they present their own musical vision. If...

2005 remastered reissue of this classic album recorded by Peter Blegvad, Dagmar Krause and Anthony Moore in 1973. Produced by Uwe Nettelbeck (Faust's producer), engineered by Kurt Grauner (Faust’s engineer) and backed by Faust themselves at their legendary studio in Wumme, Germany.
Amazingly, this incredible album – maybe their best – was turned down by Virgin who made them re-do the album in a much less interesting way (and without Faust) in the early 70s and it lay unreleased until the mid 80's...

In May, 2000, hot on the heels of their excellent (if a bit over-produced) reunion album Ça Va, Slapp Happy embarked on their first ever tour of Japan. The original trio of Dagmar Krause (vocals), Peter Blegvad (guitar, vocals) and Anthony Moore (piano, keyboards) perform a wonderful selection of tunes from their earliest times to the then present, but with the most notable fact being the startling recasting of a large number of tunes from Ça Va in a very acoustic format where they work wonderfully well...

You’ve heard harmonica played like this and you’ve heard synth music like this, but you have definitely never heard them together, especially in 1980...in Alaska!

“Originally released as a privately funded 1000 copy vinyl run in 1980 this rare album by Alaskan electric harmonica player Gary Sloan and his interchangeable synth trio known as Clone is a record that pushes the concept of American outsider music to its furthest geographical limits.
With few physical copies travelling beyond their..

Note that this has a tiny (and I mean TINY) cut-out notch. It's there but it's barely there. Still, it has to be mentioned!

"Lonnie Liston Smith had somehow escaped my attention over the years. I just recently discovered his music. And I’m glad I did. What an amazingly talented musician. If you think you’d like to hear some spacey jazz-like funk with a little soul thrown in to mellow the mix then you’d probably like Lonnie Liston Smith. He’s released many albums over the years but I’m....

“Ray Smith was really one of the best rockabilly performers of his day and there are some killer tunes on this CD. Not as well known as other Sun recording artists but Ray had a real rocking voice and these sides jump!!! Ray Smith deserves to be better known. No rockabilly collection is complete without his work.”

Oft-bootlegged, very high quality soundboard recording of the trio version of Soft Machine from 3/29/69 (Hopper, Ratledge, Wyatt) recorded in Holland.
Recorded just after the band had finished recording "Volume Two", this is an exciting document of that band performing that material, but really pushing the needles into the red as they do so (the band was famously LOUD at that point in their life) as they rip and ROAR through the material in a way hugely different from the very polite "Volume II"....

These are the famous (& rather famously disowned by all participants) Giorgio Gomelski deomos from April, 1967, which represent the only recordings by the original quartet formation of the band other than their single: Daevid Allen-guitar, Kevin Ayers-bass/vocals, Mike Ratledge-piano/organ and Robert Wyatt-drums/vocals.
While it is fair enough to say that these recordings are (a) historic, (b) are a must for big fans, (c) allow you to hear some of their later-to-be classic works in their ebryonic...

"This release in the Heroes of the Blues series is the only true cross-licensed best-of package for Son House A complete career retrospective, covering all periods of his career and various record labels • Transcribed directly from Paramount 78's and completely restored and re-mastered. Original cover art by R. Crumb.
Son House's place, not only in the history of Delta blues, but in the overall history of the music, is a very high one indeed. He was a major innovator of the Delta style, along with..

“The Peyote Dance, by Soundwalk Collective with Patti Smith, is the first in a triptych of albums, collectively titled The Perfect Vision, to be released over the next year. Each take their inspiration from the writings of three emblematic French poets: Antonin Artaud, Arthur Rimbaud and René Daumal, and their necessity to travel to different lands to acquire a new vision and perspective on themselves and their artwork. Recorded in the Sierra Tarahumara of Mexico, The Peyote Dance, retraces Artaud's...

Special Venture is led by Danish guitarist and composer John Sund and also features Jon Meinild-vibes, keyboards and samples, Yadam Gonzalez-bass, Ayi Solomon-percussion and Morten Illsøe-drums. John's a pretty brilliant player, and this album is a...

This is apparently an authorized live release of a modestly decent sounding show (for something from 1967) released here for the 1st time.

"The Ash Grove was a legendary venue for folk and early Los Angeles rock, and really the birthplace of Spirit. We brought in a younger, less inhibited crowd, a mixture of hippies and jazz freaks. Spirit, at its inception, was more of an improvisational jazz/blues group than anything else. Our first shows had very few structured songs, lots of free-form going...

A great performance. Last time ever on this wonderful release from the wonderful, now gone, Reel Recordings label.

Latest archival treasure from Reel Recordings was a short-lived, little known (but based on this release 37 years later, quite...

This is an amazing release of Indian classical music at an even more amazing price, by a music who was known throughout his life as a genuine master of his instrument and of music in general. Additionally, he was known even to music fans who don't follow Indian music because of his extraordinary playing with John McLaughlin and Remember Shakti. Recommended to anyone reading this!

"Among all the musicians from Southern India, U. Srinivas occupies a particularly significant position. This maestro...

Throughout their existence, and even today, 'the Dan' stood for solid, hard craft in both songwriting and performance. Could a band that was so clever and classy and smart and witty and cynical ever be this huge in the modern age? Doubtful, says I...

Throughout their existence, and even today, 'the Dan' stood for solid, hard craft in both songwriting and performance. Could a band that was so clever and classy and smart and witty and cynical ever be this huge in the modern age? Doubtful, says I....

Throughout their existence, and even today, 'the Dan' stood for solid, hard craft in both songwriting and performance. Could a band that was so clever and classy and smart and witty and cynical ever be this huge in the modern age? Doubtful, says I...