"An analogy if you will;
If BOC's first 3 studio albums were New York City.
Then this 6th studio effort is Los Angeles.
I think that also says something about this bands musical growth in between that time.
This album confused some fans and their expectations, but that doesn't mean it's a bad album...because it's not. This album is the accumulation of a very successful rock band branching out a little bit and flirting with radio friendly Rock and Roll."-Kevin Sweet

The band who basically invented the idea of 'thinking man's hard rock/heavy metal'. One of the great hard rock bands of all time and that's no lie! This is their mega-classic third album - generally regarded as their greatest - and includes 5 bonus tracks

The band who basically invented the idea of 'thinking man's hard rock/heavy metal'. One of the great hard rock bands of all time and that's no lie! This is their mega-classic second album and includes four bonus tracks!

"Borbetomagus and Hijokaidan sharing the stage. Noise music fans are getting goosebumps reading those words. Others, well... others should be scared, very scared! Two monster proponents of noise aesthetics, representing two continents whose cultures...

“Carla Bozulich, an art-punk heroine with almost three decades of exceptional, iconoclastic musical activity under her belt, presents the third record of her storied career to be issued in her own name. Boy is Carla's self-proclaimed pop record and is a refreshing and much-needed reminder of what pop can mean in the hands of a ferociously commanding singer/lyricist who has cut her teeth on genre-bending, genre blending, and DIY production for 25 years. Boy is unmistakably a pop-influenced album by way...

The great third album (out of 3 great ones and then a number of not so great ones) by this Swiss band who operated in Germany and are thought of as being a 'krautrock' band and who actually were in terms of the music and the spirit, if not actually of German nationality.
Everything flows just as nicely as it did in that patchouli-scented, blacklight-illuminated room in 1973. A classic of spacey, trippy, early 70s Krautrock soundz and a must own for any cosmic courier reading this...

This is the original, first release by this 'Canterbury supergroup + Kramer' band, put together by multi-instrumentalist & producer Kramer in the early 90s. Long out of print until this recent reissue!

"Separately, Daevid Allen, Hugh Hopper, Kramer and Pip Pyle as members of Gong, Soft Machine, Bongwater, Hatfield & The North and Shockabilly, are among the surviving members of 'art-rock'.
Together as Brainville, their mind-bending live performances spark a psychedelic noise unto the rock of..

Note, all copies have a dinged corner!

Alan Braufman ¬– alto, flute, pipe horn
Cooper-Moore – piano, dulcimer
Cecil McBee – bass
David Lee – drums
Ralph Williams – percussion

“This is the first-ever reissue of this 1975 free jazz album, originally released by India Navigation.
In late 1974, India Navigation label owner Bob Cummins set up microphones in a New York City building's storefront, documenting two short sets by the band with no alternate takes or

Quiet and ethereal folk + electronics + orchestral (presumably all electronic) by this new generation folkie. Quite intriguing and lovely.

“A touring and studio musician who has been a longtime member of Sharon Van Etten's band among her other indie folk-minded collaborations, Heather Woods Broderick stepped out on her own in 2009 with the acoustic album From the Ground. She went on to expand her sound with atmospheric electronics on 2015's Glider and continues to fortify textures on her third...

“Warehouse find of the last copies of this long unavailable 2000 release. Jumping Off The Page is a studio recording by the quartet of Rob Brown (alto sax, flute), Roy Campbell (trumpet), Chris Lightcap (bass), and Jackson Krall (drums).”

"Alto saxophonist and flutist Rob Brown is often featured in the context of other leaders' recordings as an inventive improviser who has enough of the early AACM in him to stretch time, space, and harmonic ideas, and enough of the late-'50s hard bop tradition...

I'm a huge Jack fan and I found this fascinating and wonderful, as it's from his early prime as a solo artist and just after his world-wide fame with Cream. And equally fascinating is the interview with Tony Palmer, the film maker about the making of the film. Lots of eye-opening discussion of the slums of Glascow, where Jack grew up.

"Born amid the slums of Glasgow, known as the Gorbals, his musical talent was quickly recognised and he attended the Royal Scottish Academy of Music where he...

“Lenny's master work in many ways, it must be noted that if you are new to Lenny Bruce this is his thesis work towards his PhD in Freestyle Social Commentary. By this show Mr. Bruce no longer does bits, he is all free form, and lays this show out like a brilliant jazz piece. In lieu of a Louis Armstrong or Kermit Ruffins delivernig tales of love, loss, trials and tribulations through beautifully combined notes from their trumpets, however, his music is the truth and his instrument is his style.
This...

“Probably the last coherent performance Lenny Bruce ever gave, before a very appreciative and forgiving audience, and he was really great. There's even a moment where he loses his train of thought, and he makes a funny bit out of that. A really brilliant performance, and, although some of "those" words appear here and there, you might be surprised at how little of that there was--it's certainly quite tame by today standards. He didn't need to curse to be funny. He was a brilliant social commentator and...

Tim Buckley was an extremely talented folkie guitarist and singer who started to stretch his music way beyond the boundaries of folk, culminating in his masterpieces Lorca and Starsailor in 1970. This is the first-ever collection of his television appearances, and it's really a pretty stunning document if you were ever a fan. A full hour and 45 minutes long, this pretty much gives you everything that was in the vaults some in amazingly pristine, first-generation quality, a booklet of unpublished photos...

"David Buddin’s “Canticles” CD is an electronic music realization of the instrumental parts for a six movement chamber work featuring soprano voice. The music is vigorous, dissonant, rhythmically complex and exhilarating. Influenced heavily by the thrust of the Western classical music tradition, Buddin is a modern musical maverick in the lineage of radical, iconoclastic American composers like Charles Ives, Carl Ruggles, Elliott Carter, Ralph Shapey and Milton Babbitt. The timbral character of this...

“Composer and multi-instrumentalist Rob Burger has traveled down many paths during his lengthy, productive career, from being a driving force behind the chamber jazz-folk group Tin Hat Trio to performing on albums by Iron & Wine, Tracy Chapman, Norah Jones, John Zorn, and countless others. As a solo artist, he's released an album as part of Tzadik Records' Radical Jewish Culture series, and another for the same label comprising a selection of his music for film scores.
The Grid (released by Western...

“Trumpeter Donald Byrd and baritonist Pepper Adams always made for a potent team. With guitarist Kenny Burrell, pianist Tommy Flanagan, bassist Paul Chambers and drummer Louis Hayes (using the pseudonym of "Hey Lewis") completing the sextet, this was a particularly strong group.
For this Bethlehem LP, Byrd and Adams play two of Pepper's originals, Errol Garner's rarely performed "Trio," Thad Jones' "Bitty Ditty" and a lengthy and memorable rendition of "Stardust." Well worth searching for.”-AllMusic

“New Caedmon album featuring seven new songs and six previously unreleased tracks from the '70s.
For their 40th anniversary, legendary psych-folk band Caedmon wrote seven new songs and found unreleased archive material from the '70s to make the album here, titled Rare. Highlights of the new tracks are the eight-minute prog-folk rock epic "Dream Of The Rood", the folk-funk of "Go" the folk-rock of "Runaway", and more. The previously unreleased songs are from 1975-1978 and features the studio version

“A historic archival discovery, this is a live recording made at the last ever gig played at the old Cavern Club in Liverpool made legendary by The Beatles; the very next day the wrecking crews moved in and demolished the club!
Caliban rip through a set of confrontational punky hard rock in front of a partly bewildered audience, heavy riffs abound in a Deep Purple meets Third World War frenzy.”

The Camberwell Now were led by Charles Hayward, the drumming/vocalist mastermind behind This Heat, and was the band that he formed immediately after This Heat broke up.
They were released an album and 2 EPs in their lifetime, and this includes all of them in complete, chronological form, plus a track from a sampler.
Their sound was very informed by the This Heat esthetic, with more creative usages of drones than before and some incredible basswork.
While they didn't always quite...

“Camel are an English progressive rock band who rose to prominence during the mid-70s. Their breakthrough album released in 1975 was an instrumental, orchestrated concept album The Snow Goose, inspired by the Paul Gallico short story of the same name. The follow up album was the last to feature the original line-up, and after various changes the band recorded a more commercial album I Can See Your House From Here in 1979.
The resulting tour was the first outing for the new line-up of founder members..

“Warehouse find of the last copies of this long unavailable 1998 release. The Pyramid Trio, led by Roy Campbell, has been on the New York scene since 1984. Ancestral Homeland is their first domestic release and it features the original line-up of Campbell (trumpet, flute, and percussion), William Parker (bass, percussion) and Zen Matsuura (drums). The music of this group is based on the music of the world, both composed and improvised. By encompassing African, Native American and jazz structures, the...

Can live during the time that they were recording Tago Mago in excellent form and with very good & balanced sound (a bit ‘flat’, but it’s a TV broadcast from 1970 for goodness sake!).

“Can, live from Soest, Rockpalast, Germany in November 1970 This remarkable set is the earliest full concert recording of the mighty Can.
Performed in November 1970 for broadcast on the WDR TV show Karussell fur die Jugend (Youth Carousel) in Soest, 80 miles north of their base in Cologne, it features...

This is a messy hodgepodge of various French and US broadcasts from the early days to the end.
No documentation included, so guess away!

Licensed from VARA radio in The Netherlands, this is the famous, fantastic, oft-bootlegged performance of the band at The Paradio in Amsterdam, The Netherlands on November 1st, 1980 that was broadcast on the radio. Featuring a very spirited-sounding Don, this is an excellent sounding document of the final European tour by The Magic Band. Highly recommended.