Roberto Cacciapaglia made two amazingly great, space / minimal albums in the late 70s / early 80s.

This is his latest, released in 2014, which is still systems music, but it is more 'romantic' sounding and performed on solo piano ala some of Phillip Glass' piano works.

It's good. It isn't fabulous (at least not for this old minimalist), but we have a tiny number of copies at a relatively very low price for fans and completists.

“Studio demos by legends in Liverpool, Caliban play proto punk edged hard rock that conjurs elements of the Who, Stackwaddy, Third World War and Deep Purple, wild and aggressive singing and even an occasional hint of a Johnny Rottenesque sneer and Daltrey stutter.
Guitar dominated, Judas Priest once supported them, Caliban had a huge live following but never scored a recording deal. Hints of Glam mainlining Nihilism via monster riffs.”

This isn’t from Cab’s most famous period, which was 8-10 years earler, but Cab was justifiably proud of his band, which was always filled with great musicians, and he continued making great jive and swing as long as he had his regular big band (until the late 40s).

“The Jazztory label's two-volume history covering the more obscure side of Cab Calloway's Orchestra during the 1930s and early '40s concludes with Jiveformation Please, a 50-track collection spanning 1938 to 1941.
Collectors...

“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.

Cardboard Amanda is the work of Frank Camiola (along with two other musicians), who was one of the driving forces behind the band Frogg Cafe during their most interesting period. After leaving the band, he has been working on this album for a few years now and now it is here. It's a real weirdy; if this released was 30 years ago, all the hipsters would be talking about 'drug-coma induced tape fuckery' when this was re-discovered. For some reason he's using an alias here (sorry if I blew your cover, man!)...

“Fiddler, singer and songwriter Eliza Carthy, inheritor of the mightiest musical genes in all of England (her father is folk legend Martin Carthy, her mother the equally legendary singer Norma Waterson), has always exhibited a wonderfully healthy willingness to break out of the folk music ghetto without ever feeling the need to turn her back on it entirely, and this album sees her really coming into her own as an artist. Songs like the blues-rocking "Follow the Dollar" and the soulful, almost trip-hoppy...

“If the English folk revival of the 1960s had a single "father" and guiding spirit, then Martin Carthy was it. Carthy's influence transcends his abilities, formidable though those are -- apart from being one of the most talented acoustic guitarists, mandolinists, and general multi-instrumentalists working the folk clubs in the 1960s, he was also a powerful singer with no pretensions or affectations, and was an even more prodigious arranger and editor, with an excellent ear for traditional compositions....

“This deluxe 2-CD digibook package is the first comprehensive retrospective of the work of Alvin Cash, the prime generator of dance craze tracks in the Chicago soul scene of the 1960s, which became so popular nationally. The set includes his only LP release named after his biggest hit, 'Twine Time' alongside his singles for Mar-V-Lus, Toddlin' Town, Seventy-Seven and Sound Stage Seven. The set is filled with dance-based hits including 'The Twine', 'The Boo Ga Loo', 'The Bump', 'The Barracuda'...

The first of three Hughscore albums. This was the first collaboration between UK bassist/composer Hugh Hopper (Soft Machine, Gilgamesh, Isotope and so much more!) & Seattle band Caveman Shoestore (hence the name).
This is where I first heard (and heard of) keyboardist/vocalist Elaine DiFalco (now with Thinking Plague).

Eugene Chadbourne – 12 string banjo, banjo, vocals
Warren Smith – drums, tympani, marimba, percussion, vibes

“When Chadbourne lived in New York City in the 1970's he went to jazz shows at Warren Smith's Tribeca loft. One evening the older Smith gave the younger Chadbourne an instructional book by Louis Bellson called Odd Time Reading Text. 30+ years later and completely coincidentally, Eugene and Warren recorded this record together with the gift of that book hovering over the session. Hence..

“The great drummer Joe Chambers was a stalwart presence on many of the most progressive Blue Note albums of the mid-1960s. But it wasn't until 1998 that Chambers made his own Blue Note debut as a leader with his album Mirrors. Now the venerated drummer/percussionist/vibraphonist/composer returns with Samba de Maracatu, a trio album featuring pianist Brad Merritt and bassist Steve Haines on a sterling set of original compositions, standards, and pieces by Shorter, Hutcherson, and Horace Silver.” ...

Remy Chaudagne-bass, compositions
Andy Shppard-soprano & tenor sax
Peter Erskine-drums

"On this album everything is tight and clear. The dialogue between the three musicians is sometimes held back, sometimes heavy but always aims for a colour which is indescribable and fresh. Erskine and Sheppard get the opportunity to come out of their higher profile bands (Weather Resport, Carla Bley, Gil Evans), to relive the warm club formula of a brand new trio. Top of the range - the best musicians...

"Few debut albums can boast as consistently solid an effort as the self-titled Chicago Transit Authority (1969). Even fewer can claim to have enough material to fill out a double-disc affair. Although this long- player was ultimately the septet's first national exposure, the group was far from the proverbial "overnight sensation." Under the guise of the Big Thing, the group soon to be known as CTA had been honing its eclectic blend of jazz, classical, and straight-ahead rock & roll in and around the...

“Sound collage collaboration between Julian House (The Focus Group) from the Ghost Box label and former members of the indie band, Broadcast. Channeling of early collage work from The Hafler Trio with a distinctly formalist aesthetic dripping with ‘70s nostalgia as with all things Ghost Box.”-Karen Elliot

“Children of Alice have been quietly producing amorphous and intoxicating soundscapes as part of the Folklore Tapes collective for a number of years now, beginning in 2013 with Harbinger of...

"Are Chrome Hoof the best live band in the UK...?" – headline from The Quietus

"...has the subtlety of Can, the pomp of Pentagram and Sabbath, faithfully reproducing the looping musical themes of Magma and Goblin..." – Don’t Panic

"...a dizzying, many-limbed whirlwind of space-funk, soul, prog, jazz & titanic doom." –NME

"...a mind-blowing energetic mix of math-rock, prog, funk, disco, & psychedelia [with] some hints of jazz & metal.” – The 405

The Claudia Quintet is proof positive that the pessimists were wrong: jazz is not dead, despite being embalmed by major labels and confined by some musicians to dead ends. In the works of this sensational NY-based, 'jazz and beyond' ensemble, jazz has broken through its rigid shell and been reborn in shimmering and beautifully alluring new form. It lives and breathes in music that melds influences from classical minimalism, new music composition, and progressive and post-rock with an astonishingly fresh...

"Throughout the decade of the 2000s, the Claudia Quintet recorded, toured, and became one of the top five progressive jazz units in the U.S. and the world. For 2010 they continue with Royal Toast, implying elegance and a golden brown, perfectly prepared, even buttery music. ...Versace's role is that of shading or propping up these melodies, and one should listen closely to his contributions here. It's another extraordinary musical experience from the Claudia Quintet, who deserve all the high marks they...

“Vol. 2: Baca Sewa is the third album by composer and multi-instrumentalist Cochemea Gastelum. A direct sequel to 2019's All My Relations, it further explores his Sonoran Yaqui/Yoeme ancestry by melding indigenous and folk melodies, spiritual and soul-jazz with a ceremonial approach and near-psychedelic production. He enlisted seven percussionists who play an array of bongos, bass drums, congas, kalimbas, repinique, bombos, surdos, and shekere, as well as a vocal chorus accompanying his flute and...

“Two years before their Billboard chart topping Virgin Beauty album, Ornette Coleman and Prime Time, his mutant funk-fusion outfit, here perform an extensive set including Song X, Dancing In Your Head, Turnaround, In All Languages and Kathelin Gray.
This 2CD set was recorded at Live Under The Sky, Yomuri-Land Theatre East, Tokyo, Japan on July 27th 1986.”

I love Ornette and own a ton of Ornette, but his trio with David Izenzon and Charles Moffett is one of my very favorite of his bands. They emerged in 1962, made a live album for ESP, disappeared for 2 years while Ornette tried to get bookings that represented monetarily what he felt his music was worth (good luck with that, OC!), and then had their biggest spate of activity in 1965 & 1966, with European tours and with a few live recordings coming out on Freedom and Blue Note. This is the best sounding...

Colour Haze are a great, mostly instrumental, German guitar/bass/drums psychedelic trio. This is a reissue of the group's long out of print first album, originally released in 2001. The sound here is rawer and more guitar-y psychedelic than later, but...