“The recording you have in your hand documents the start of John McLaughlin’s journey towards his ideal acoustic guitar trio. For various reasons neither Larry Coryell or Christian Escoudé made it to the end of the journey, being replaced by Al Di Meola and Paco De Lucia, but both were more than capable of holding their own as this concert shows.
Escoude, a gypsy-jazz child progidy, came to international attention at the 1978 Nice Jazz Festival; Coryell, a legendary jazz-rock pioneer with virtuosic...

“In Harmony is the first previously unreleased recording of the late trumpet star, Roy Hargrove, since his passing in 2018. It was captured live on January 15, 2006, at Merkin Hall in NYC, and September 11, 2007, at Lafayette College in Easton, PA, with the late piano great Mulgrew Miller. In Harmony is an intimate snapshot of two masters performing without a net at the top of their games.”

“The sound is crisp, clean and immediate sounding--you feel like you're sitting up front/center as this...

Jan Hammer : piano, electric piano, synthesizers
Gene Perla : double bass, electric bass
Elvin Jones : drums

This is a great, somewhat overlooked 1975 date by this trio, which features good, original tunes by Gene and Jan and features Jan sounding like he’s channeling Alan Gowen being backed by Elvin. NOT a bad place to be!

“This 1975 date for the brilliant drummer, with Jan Hammer on keyboards and bassist Gene Perla, is a minor, if somewhat overlooked, classic from the tail-end.

“Obscure and outstanding free jazz album reissued for the first time since its original release in 1969. Old-style gatefold LP, with liner notes by Ed Hazell.
In the late 1960s, young jazz musician Bobby Naughton, a keyboardist and vibraphonist, faced significant challenges as he sought to record his first album. With major record labels and jazz clubs catering only to big names, Naughton and other creative musicians of his generation found themselves sidelined by the mainstream music industry....

Mirko DeMaio: Drums & Percussion
Michael Stolt: Bass, Moogbass & Vocal
Lalle Larsson: Keyboards
Hasse Fröberg: Guitars, Vocal & Percussion
Roine Stolt: Guitars, Vocals

“Celebrating 30 years as a live performing act !
Here you will find The Flower Kings recorded live in The Netherlands - October 2023.
The band captured at end of a lengthy European tour - playing their classic material and showing their strength as a melodic, tight and incredibly dynamic unit - ..

“Presented here is the brilliant Berlin performance by the 1969 Miles Davis Quintet with Wayne Shorter, Chick Corea, Dave Holland, and Jack DeJohnette. In his autobiography, Miles would state that this group, which toured Europe from October 26 to November 9, 1969, was "really a bad motherfucker."

".........Miles devotees call this quintet - with Chick Corea on keyboard, Wayne Shorter on sax, Jack DeJohnette on drums and British bassist Dave Holland - the "lost band" because it never made a...

“Exactly 50 years ago, SUPERSISTER toured the Netherlands and Europe in its last – and special line-up. The American saxophone /nadasvaram player Charlie Mariano had just recently left the band and surprisingly ex-Soft Machine member Elton Dean was found as his successor. This also completed the circle that started out in the early 1970s with the ‘common sounds’ Supersister had with the British Canterbury scene, Soft Machine being an influential member.
With primal band members Ron van Eck (bass)....

This show from December 27, 1973, is one of the original line-up’s very last.

“In the end the original line-up managed around 500 gigs before personal tensions and disputes over musical direction broke them apart.”

Vinyl-only release and a totally great slab of cosmic cosmos! Dr Space is the man behind Øresund Space Collective.

Dr Space - Analog Synthesizers, Mellotron Micro, Hammond XB-2, Modular Synth
Craig - Drums, Bass, Guitar, Sitar, Flute

"America, New Zealand, Portugal, and Greece are 4 countries “related” to the LP album “Enters Your Somas”… And, this is what I like to call “a cultural crossroad”, let me explain… An American guy, Scott Heller(everybody knows him as Dr. Space and...

“Mysterious Barcelona band Magick Brother & Mystic Sister return with their “Tarot Pt. 2”. completing this 2-part concept album, a kaleidoscope of 22 songs based on the Major Arcana of the Tarot, a cross-cultural dream language. With their signature imaginative compositions featuring space-age keys and spiraling synths, intricate guitar mosaics and bass lines, pounding drums, exotic percussion, flute, cosmic and sitar sounds that carve textures for atmospheric female vocals, MBMS fuses a kind of...

James is the man behind U Totem and Motor Totemist Guild and after a long hiatus away from music, he’s resumed his musical work! This is a orchestral work.

“Solar Maxima are the most active times in the sun’s 11-year cycles. Grigsby conceived and produced this project during the period of Solar Maximum for Solar Cycle 25, which we are still experiencing in 2024 at the time of this release.
Solar Maxima, the album, reflects moods and ideas associated with our Sun. Grigsby's music conjures..

“At the finale of the "Musikfest Berlin" 2022, the musicians of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and their BigBand performed "Epitaph" as a tribute to the 100th birthday of Charles Mingus. Under the energetic baton of Titus Engel, the musicians of the BigBand and the Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Jazzinstitut Berlin explore the realms of expression of dark threat, profound songfulness, conflict and ecstasy with irrepressible joy of playing and remarkable clarity. Star trumpeter Randy Brecker lets...

One album track and four otherwise unavailable tracks.

“I so love this band and this era around the 2000-2003 period. The track Snafu is IMHO one of their best ever with a large hint of 60's West Coast and a killer tune. How was this not the A side or even on an album?” – WJ Butson

"Many aspects of Papir’s music seem to have much in common with the sea - be it a wilful association by the Copenhagen-based trio or not. Their output moves in waves, sometimes fierce and blustery, sometimes gentle and calming, but always performed with unforced, organic talent.
Over the course of their 7 full-length albums, the band sways between psychedelic guitar meltdowns and long atmospheric passages with grace and ease. 7, with its blurred aquatic cover artwork is of course no exception to...

Fifth album from this Danish psychedelic / Kraut-rock inspired power trio. There's points where this sounds more like Neu! (a slightly kinder, gentler Neu!, but Neu nonetheless) than anything else I've ever heard!

"As summer gently passes, Papir make sure we get to embark on at least one more major psychedelic trip before the season ends. Whether your favorite getaway includes driving around the country admiring various landscapes, going somewhere in the woods with a lake and meadow nearby...

“By technicality, this is not a Motorpsycho album but rather The International Tussler Society album, but make no mistake, this album is 100% the same Motorpsycho that created Timothy’s Monster or Phanerothyme.
This album came about as a sequel to their original soundtrack for the 1994 film of The Tussler. Unlike their first strokes in the whole country genre, this album would turn out a lot more baked in the oven prior, and thus after 10 years later, the band managed to not only refine their old...

“While The Crucible took the band a step further out than The Tower, the new one explores new frontiers, especially with the dark, brooding landscape of the 42-minute epic centerpiece that is "N.O.X.", possibly the most ambitious piece of music they have recorded. Eight shorter tracks, clocking in between two and ten minutes, make up the rest of the album and bring some balance to the proceedings. Lyrically, The All Is One takes up the threads from the previous albums. While there is no thematic red line...

"In October of 2012, Motorpsycho entered Brygga Studio in Trondheim for the first time in many, many moons -- this being the studio where they recorded a few of their first albums some 20 years ago -- the vibes were good, and the music happened like it was supposed to. As this was the first time in quite a while that the band recorded stand-alone songs -- as opposed to pieces connected by a concept or a narrative -- it felt quite odd working in this way again, but it was also a refreshing approach that...

I first heard Motorpsycho when shopping at the great Stockholm record store Mellotronen and an amazing album was playing over the system by them, which I promptly bought. The great thing about them is that they change their sound constantly, which makes every album a surprise and usually a really pleasurable one.

"It´s a great pleasure for us to release this album from our favourite Norwegian rock band. Since their debut album ”Lobotomizer” from 1991 they have delivered a number of great albums...

“The 14th album by Norwegian psych-rockers Motorpsycho finds the band adding electronics, strings, and horns to its power trio sound, stepping away from the heavy acid rock of earlier albums for a more varied and lighter sound. The first four songs alone leap from Neu!-style drone rock (the brilliant "Uberwagner, or a Billion Bubbles in My Mind") to folky acoustics ("Circles") to pile-driving garage rock (the soaring "Neverland," easily the catchiest song they've ever recorded) to jazzy improvisations...

Motorpsycho are a very interesting, sometimes utterly fantastic Norwegian band who started as a death-metal outfit and very rapidly turned into something rather more uncategorizable. This 2010 release is their latest and combines heaviness with strong progressive rock elements (there's oodles of mellotron on this). They don't sound like anyone else and this is a strong, adventurous, song-based release.

"It´s quite extraordinary for a band twenty years into their career to deliver a string of...

The band’s 25th studio album (!) and it finds them back to their original trio lineup. I thought that this was pretty great!

“Considering the tight run of albums since the first part of the “Gullvåg Trilogy” in 2017 – three double and a single album in less than four years – the 16 months wait for Ancient Astronauts must feel like an eternity for the fans. And once again we are amazed at the creative forces and consistently high quality at work here.
Much of the music here somehow continue in

“Disc 1 contains all hits from the classic years (1972-83) and the unreleased track 'Natural Wonder' from the original line-up.
Disc 2 has Graham Gouldman performing versions of some of the many hits he wrote for other artists, 5 tracks from the 2006 collaboration between Graham and Kevin Godley and finally 7 unreleased live tracks from 10cc in 2010.”

“Natural Wonder is a recording for a tv cosmetics commercial but it has the distinct echoey piano sound you hear on Sheet Music. The album is..

“A sweeping introduction to an artist deep into their practice, Kendra Amalie's Intuition is a star map to a new and developing sound space. An exploratory and (sometimes) shredding finger-style 12-string guitarist (both acoustic and electric), band leader, synthesist, new media creator, and experimental producer, the Wisconsin-based musician is also a songwriter occupying an ethereal zone between galaxy-brain cosmic transmissions and deep, personal expression.
There's a concept and narrative arc...

“Ambitious, grand and by any measure, beautiful; it’s tempting to simply and sincerely soak in the atmosphere of “Titan’s Island,” the second full-length album from Ancient Ocean, the long running ambient project of NYC-via-Kentucky resident J.R. Bohannon. The album unearths the intense process mending the worlds of modern classical, expansive sound art, minimalism, and the usual micro-guitar and synth exploration we’ve come to expect from Bohannon.
The four songs that make up the album may be.....