"Gongmaison was the first album to be recorded following Daevid Allen’s self-imposed exile to Australia between 1981 and 1988. It also saw the reunion between Daevid Allen and former Gong Sax player Didier Malherbe. The album was recorded during the night of the Summer Solstice in 1989. In addition to Daevid Allen and Didier Malherbe the album features performances from Shyamal Maitra, Graham Clark, Wandana, Conrad Henderson, Rob Calvert, Jenni Rodger and Harry Williamson who also produced the album. The...

“On the Future of Aviation, Jerry Goodman's first album after a ten-year hiatus, didn't sound much like the jazz-rock fusion he had played in the Flock and the Mahavishnu Orchestra earlier in his career. Instead, it was an album of new age electrified instrumental music that did not emphasize his violin playing particularly.
For his second album of the 1980s, Goodman may have been prevailed upon or may have decided himself to give his fans something more familiar. Ariel leaves little doubt that its...

Deep and pretty entrancing music with beautiful violin work on top of eerie background(s) created via various instruments, overdubbing and computer work.

“Catherine Graindorge is a Belgian violinist, violist and composer. Gorgeous and haunting, Graindorge uses strings, harmonium and electronic treatments to explore intimate corners and widescreen vistas.
Over the centuries Eldorado has become a word weighted down by so many meanings, layer upon layer of possibility and expectation. But it...

This was advertised as a John Greaves / Pip Pyle release, but like so many things VP, turned out to be only half true, but with a very happy ending nonetheless!

"It started out as a collaboration between John, and this guy Philippe-Marcel, after John said in an interview that he was looking for fellow musicians to work together. Anyway, they got together, and eventually Pip became involved too....
Still, it has, I think some of John and Pip's best stuff in years."-Aymeric Leroy

The first solo album by the guitarist of Radiohead.

“Greenwood pens a science fusion of string orchestras, guitar penury, and cold outer-planetary beats. At times listening to this I literally feel as if I’m caught up in the workings of some giant, malevolent machine; it is avant-garde right down to the zinc nightmares of the song titles.”-rym

“Certain tracks, especially those with strings, are utterly gorgeous. And the jazz elements are interesting. But several tracks are a bit "out...

Incredibly gorgeous, gatefold cover, high quality vinyl version of Guapo's latest!

"A maximal minimalist masterpiece." - Prog

"Beautifully crafted instrumental music of the highest standard." - Postcards From The Yellow Room

"Guapo take classic prog tropes and revivify them...brazenly and gloriously, it brandishes all the hallmarks of golden-era prog rock, but given a steroid boost and stripped of ego." - The Quietus

Bruce Haack, born on May 4, 1931, was one of the most musically and lyrically inventive children's songwriters of the '60s and '70s. Despite -- or perhaps because of -- his intended audience, his music was unusually expressive, combining homemade analog synths; classical, country, pop, and rock elements; and surreal, idealistic lyrics. Haack's innovations and desire to teach still sound fresh, making his music a favorite with fans of analog synths and esoteric recordings.
...Though he had little...

"On his new record John Hackett is joined by brother Steve Hackett, ex-Genesis guitarist Anthony Phillips and prog legend Nick Magnus to create an evocative musical landscape of powerful rock songs and rich melodies.

John Hackett is highly regarded for his distinctive flute sound in the world of progressive music and as an accomplished soloist. Solo flautist, guitarist, singer and composer, John is best known for his work with his brother Steve Hackett, the former Genesis guitarist, and the...

"This album is gorgeous. I picked it up expecting some crazy experimental thing because it's a Haco project, but what I ended up hearing was an achingly beautiful collaboration of slow, climaxing songs, inventive string technique, and head-bobbing goodness. This is a really, really good disc."-Eon Fontes May

"Charismatic singer, lyricist and performer Haco came to the fore in the early 80s with the group After Dinner, a sublime incarnation of surreal, direct, and offbeat Japanese/European pop...

A modern string quartet who recorded this album in 1998, they have some personnel ties to Julverne, as well as to the legendary Flemish folk groups Rum and Madou. This is mostly self-written (by Jeannot Gillis) modern material.

Once again, I had never heard of guitarist Fred Hamm until he sent us a copy of this album and I was fairly impressed. Working with a trio (keyboards and drums). Not jazz, not rock, not techno; fairly hard to pigeonhole, although I guess it is closest to jazz/rock, but only just...

"Passionate for the music styles of Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Led Zeppelin gave him the desire to begin to play the guitar at age 15. He carries out various musical projects in parallel; free jazz...

Nearly worth the price for the first CD alone! And there’s so much more!

1. JAZZ WORKSHOP, BOSTON, MA - 22ND MARCH 1973 WBCN-FM, MWANDISHI

2. PAUL'S MALL, JAZZ WORKSHOP, BOSTON, MA - 13TH NOVEMBER 1973 WBCN-FM, WITH THE HEADHUNTERS

3. OMAHA CIVIC AUDITORIUM MUSIC HALL, OMAHA, NE - 17TH NOVEMBER 1975 KJSO-FM, WITH THE HEADHUNTERS

4. IVANHOE THEATER, CHICAGO, IL - 16TH FEBRUARY 1977 WXRT-FM, WITH JACO PASTORIUS

5. BREAD & ROSES FESTIVAL, THE GREEK THEATER...

Hands were a previously unknown Texas band who existed from 1977-1980 and became known from a couple of archival releases of their recordings several decades later.

Due to the overwhelming positive response that these archival releases received, the main members of the band reformed and have put out several albums in the last 15 years or so, which are all quite good. This is the latest of them!

Because the members actually are from the heyday of progressive rock, you can hear classic...

“Even though she's not quite as overt about it as Madonna or David Bowie, PJ Harvey remains one of rock's expert chameleons. Her ever-changing sound keeps her music open to interpretation, and her seventh album, Uh Huh Her, is no different in that it departs from what came before it. Uh Huh Her -- a title that can be pronounced and interpreted as an affirmation, a gasp, a sigh, or a laugh -- is, as Harvey promised, darker and rawer than the manicured Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea....

OK! It’s not really 100% complete (see below), but there’s a wealth of great stuff and rarities here.

“The title of this boxed set is quite misleading, because Hawkins was a member of Fletcher Henderson's Orchestra for ten years from 1924, and recorded extensively with that outfit. At a conservative estimate, there are some 80 recordings which should have qualified for inclusion, yet not one appears (although his recordings with Fletcher's brother Horace do). Ignoring for a moment the disparity...

“Fleuves de l'Âme is the debut album of Paris-based Tunisan artist Houeida Hedfi. Originally a percussionist, Fleuves de l'Âme, is an elegant marriage of traditional folk music and contemporary sound design drawing references from Hedfi's drumming expertise and the textures of Tunisian music alongside a startlingly broad array of global genres. This desire for melody was not a purely artistic pursuit. It also represented a search for healing following Hedfi's experiences during the 2011 uprisings in...

“In the 1980s, Michael Hedges emerged as one of the most skilled and imaginative acoustic guitarists of the era, blending ambient music with elements of folk, classical, and rock.
This double CD combines an in studio mid-80s set at WCBN in Miami with material from a concert at St. Paul, Minnesota's Ordway Theater on February 1, 1986, broadcast on KTCZ.
Featuring highlights from his first three albums, it also includes his cover of Prince and Sheila E.'s "A Love Bizarre", along with an original..

This is some of the fabulous recordings that the Jimi Hendrix Experience made for the BBC as they were starting out and then as they were getting huge.
Excellent mono sound from the original masters and great, happy, performances by the entire band. Some of the material is very unexpected and never recorded anywhere else and there's a lot of the well known pieces as well.
If I had to choose only one posthumous collection of studio recordings by Jimi, this is the one. Utterly essential.

Wired on adrenalin and other stuff too, this is the Experience at an early peak, playing before the largest audience they had ever played for and determined to live up to the pre-show hype and break big in the US. They did. It's an amazing performance and the sound as remixed from the original multi-tracks is really state of the art live & loud 1967, with Mitch's fabulous drumming very audible.

"The Jimi Hendrix Experience's breakthrough appearance at the Monterey International Pop Festival on...

"After Electric Ladyland, this is probably the Hendrix CD that I enjoy the most (I am only missing a few scattered studio releases). While it doesn't hold together as an album, being a compilation, it contains a lot of really incredible songs. The production throughout is fantastic, punchy and clear. Many of these tunes were unfinished studio projects post-Electric Ladyland, and as such a lot of them are very dense and complicated productions. Plentiful guitar overdubs abound, and some of Jimi's most...

This is high quality live Swedish radio recordings from Goteborg (1975 - with John Greaves) and Stockholm (1977 - with Georgie Born). The sound is great here; Bob Drake worked from the original 8 track and stereo 2 track masters and you can finally hear Tim's follow-up masterpiece to "Living in the Heart of the Beast", entitled "Erk Gah". There's also some nice improvisations and other tunes and Fred's never otherwise released "The March", which is a really great one as well. Highly recommended...

“You love great music, especially jazz, but you've grown tired of so much of the same old, same old? Tired of "waiting for the solo" on most jazz since the late 1990s? Tired of the discordant crap being passed off as "sophisticated"? Wondering what happened to the great jazz musicians who can compose a song you can groove to, play like nobody's business, but serve the music rather than an ego?
] Took me about 5 years to get my Esbjorn Svensson Trio out of my CD player, then it took a couple years to...

“Jazz critic Gary Giddins once described early bebop as music that was "giddy with its own virtuosity." A variety of different things came after that period of giddiness -- the introspection of cool jazz, the deep-thinking spirituality of modal post-bop and avant-garde jazz, the rock-influenced intensity of fusion -- but bebop and hard bop did, in fact, have more than their share of performances that thrived on both giddiness and virtuosity. Post-bop, even at its most optimistic and exuberant, is seldom....

Robyn Hitchcock – guitars, vocals
Peter Buck – guitars
Scott McCaughey – bass
Bill Rieflin – drums

In the 80s and 90s, in DC, one of the great nights out you could see once every 10 months or so, was singer / songwriter / guitarist / bandleader Robyn Hitchcock with whatever group of musicians he was fronting at that time.
To this day, I’m always happy to hear whatever it is that Robyn is up to. Some of his output is more to my taste than others, but he’s always a fine songwriter

60s Brit-beat fans will hugely enjoy this BBC set which I found featured a little more of a raw edge on here than on the originals.
Pretty much excellent sound throughout.