Rebeka Rusjan Zajc piano
"With her extraordinary debut album, Prelude, young Slovenian pianist Rebeka Rusjan Zajc (now residing in Amsterdam), announces herself as a precocious new talent, already forging her own distinctive art language, navigating the bountiful margins between non-idiomatic improvisation, jazz and classical music.
Across this disc’s sole extended piece, ‘Illusion’, she marshals a dynamic carnival of boundless extemporisation, full of instinctive runs and dramatically tumbling.

Signe Emmeluth alto and tenor saxophones
Ingebrigt Håker Flaten double bass (Minimoog on 'Pseudoscience')
Andreas Wildhagen drums
Jonas Cambien piano and Ace Tone Top 5 organ (soprano saxophone on 'Pseudoscience')
guest: Guro Kvåle trombone on 'Once Low Now High' and 'Good Frenemy'

"Maca Conu is the dazzling new band led by Belgian-born, Oslo-residing pianist, composer and improviser Jonas Cambien, an outfit whose eponymous new release clamours like an exploding kunstkammer of...

André Roligheten tenor saxophone
Thomas Johansson trumpet
Oscar Grönberg piano
Jon Rune Strøm double bass | Tollef Østvang drums and percussion

Scandinavian powerhouse Friends & Neighbors make an auspicious return with Circles, their sixth full-length release, brimming – as you might expect from an outfit borrowing its moniker from a lesser-known Ornette Coleman classic – with dexterous, hard-edged improvisations, unapologetically taking influence from the fearless New Thing movement..

Sérgio Carolino tuba
Alexandre Frazão drums
Mário Delgado electric guitar

"Marking two decades of continuous, eclectic evolution, TGB – the Portuguese power trio boasting tuba ace Sérgio Carolino, guitarist Mário Delgado and drummer Alexandre Frazão – take another captivating whirligig around their enigmatic universe of collective musical influences, filtering an impeccable sonic palette via the prism of Room4, the ensemble’s fourth stunning full-length for the Clean Feed imprint....

"High-flying Norwegian trumpeter and composer Thomas Johansson, much-lauded for his spellbinding work with, among others, Friends & Neighbors and Gard Nilssen’s Supersonic Orchestra, brings together two of his other formidable ensembles – premier third-stream troupe Scheen Jazzorkester and avant-garde party-starters, Cortex – for a scintillating showcase of big-band bravura.
Recorded live in the winter of 2022 at Norway’s old Hamar Teater hall, the five dynamic cuts on Frameworks have their origins...

Rob Mazurek trumpet, piccolo trumpet, piano, prepared piano, sampler, magic yellow bucket, bells, shakers, flutes, voice, and various percussion

“Milan is the latest spellbinding stop-off on an intrepid solo voyage, with interdisciplinary abstractivist Rob Mazurek (Exploding Star Orchestra, Chicago Underground Duo, São Paulo Underground and Black Cube SP) dropping anchor in the regional capital of Lombardy to record the latest in his series of unaccompanied performances at radio stations...

“Sufi trance musicians and rituals -- from the depths of the Tunisian desert -- in conversation with post-industrial sonics. Ifriqiyya Electrique's François Cambuzat -- a guitarist and field recordist (Turkey, China, Central Asia) -- is a veteran of the Mediterranean punk and avant-rock scene, which has always been more politically charged than its counterparts to the north and (far) west. With bassist Gianna Greco, he is half of Putan Club (and one third when these two fierce and uncompromising players...

Martin Drover, Kenny Wheeler & Harry Becket (trumpets/flugelhorn)
Malcolm Griffiths, Ed Harvey & Danny Almark (trombones)
Mike Osborne (alto & clarinet)
Stan Sulzmann (alto & soprano, flute)
Alan Skidmore (tenor & flute)
John Surman (baritone & soprano)
John Warren (baritone & flute)
John Taylor (piano)
Harry Miller & Barre Philips (bass)
Alan Jackson & Stu Martin (drums)

This is the first and only time that this GREAT album from 1971 has been reissued...

Harry Beckett-trumpet/flugelhorn
John Surman-baritone and soprano sax
Mike Osborne-alto sax
Alan Skidmore-tenor and soprano sax
Frank Ricotti-vibes
John Taylor-piano/Wurlitzer electric piano
Chris Lawrence-bass
John Webb-drums

This is the first and only time that this GREAT album from 1970 has been reissued legitimately and also it was extremely well done.
"Vinyl audio remastered & cut from the original master tapes by Gearbox Records. Flip-back LP sleeves

The Who's quite amazing 1971 studio album was (and is) played too much on classic rock radio, but that doesn't make it any less of a tremendous feat. It's also their most progressive rock oriented disc, what with Pete's use of keyboards and Terry Riley influences. “Super Deluxe Edition contains 10-CDs all remastered from original tapes by long time Who engineer Jon Astley as well as a Blu-ray Audio disc with newly made Atmos & 5.1 surround mixes of the original album and 14 additional tracks by Steven...

“Acclaimed guitar duo Loren Connors and Alan Licht celebrate their 30-year collaboration with the release of their eighth album - At The Top Of The Stairs.
Across the decades, their improvisations turned increasingly abstract and atonal, while still maintaining complex, ethereal arrangements. The harmonious blend of Licht's meticulously crafted feedback and harmonic patterns with Connors' ghostly blue tones remains the core sound of this partnership.
At The Top Of The Stairs was recorded live...

“Recorded in 1975 at the Winterland Theatre, the Majestic Wakeman is captured at his best on this timeless radio broadcast. Taken from the early stages of Wakeman's solo career, this album captures him in his freshest period, at a time when his flamboyant playing style was most respected.
This recording features a great show with tracks from Six Wives, Journey and Myths. Sound quality is superb and The English Rock Ensemble and Rick are in fine form. Included are stunning versions of "Lancelot and...

“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...

Excellent sound and performance from Kevin’s summer jaunt with the Whole World (the tour included Robert Wyatt drumming for the absent Mick Fincher). Kind of essential...

“One of the leading lights of the Canterbury scene, Kevin Ayers shaped British psychedelia as part of The Soft Machine in the late 60s - a brief but fruitful period which alone would have secured his place in music history. As a solo artist, however, he developed the era's sounds further, edging into prog rock with his first two..

"Emile Jacotey is a clear step back from Ange's great third album Au-delà du délire. That's a fantastic symphonic prog album but Emile Jacotey doesn't reach the quality of it's predecessor. That still doesn't mean this is a bad album. Most of the songs are nice but in my opinion this album includes too much vocals. Musically the album is good but there is just simply too much mediocre singing.
Overall I think that Emile Jacotey is just about as good as Ange's first two albums. These are all pretty...

“It's been ten years since King Sunny Ade last released a studio album, so this is a welcome return for Nigeria's finest, backed up by a vigorous young band on a double-CD set that gives him plenty of time to stretch out. There might not be too many tracks, but that's because they all receive plenty of air, especially the half-hour-plus of "Baba Mo Tunde," which takes wing halfway through and soars like a Grateful Dead jam for the remaining 15 minutes.
The production is lovingly crisp, with the...

“2023 was the year of the Artrockers from RPWL: 'Crime Scene', the eleventh studio album and the nineteenth overall, entered various charts after it's release: it even reached a remarkable 18th place in the German album charts! This was followed by a fantastic long European tour through eight countries with many sold-out venues. On the last studio longplayer 'Crime Scene', the Bavarian Artrock institution focused their attention on the morbid, the perverse, the evil in the good, the abysses of the human..

Long out of print, we found exactly THREE copies in the lost warehouse!

Etron Fou were one of the premier French avant/progressive bands from 1974-1986, & a founding member of R.I.O.
This reissues the Etron's 1st album, from early 1977. This is certainly their most dada/out album, and I have a real soft spot for it in my heart, but I wouldn't recommend you start here unless your interest is more in general French craziness than in the superb musicality that came...

Almost a decade after their last album, Rattlemouth regroup and re-emerge with a splendid new album. Rattlemouth's roots go back over 25 years to the great art-rock-punk community in Richmond in general, and to the amazing & legendary Orthotonics in specific. After the Orthotonics disbanded and saxist/vocalist Danny Finney had played in other types of bands, he got an itching to do another creative art-rock project and Rattlemouth were born. Since then, Rattlemouth have advanced to become Richmond’s...

Long out of print, we found exactly NINE copies in the lost warehouse!

This was Albert’s fifth album. It includes an outtake from the Celiu sessions, released as a single at the time.
Not quite up to the work of his first four releases (that’s because nothing is), this was issued after a long layoff in 1990, and boy – oh – boy, was I thrilled to see it’s appearance at the time.
The title translates as ‘My Life With Them (but the Them is feminine, meaning I always took the....

“Vialka was a drum and guitar duo, art project, and non-profit association: 15 years (2002-2017), 1274 concerts, 55 countries, a seemingly permanent world tour. Merci!”

Recorded and 'sculpted' by Bob Drake, this is a really great release by an exuberant duo who fill a lot of musical space with just baritone guitar & voice and drums and voice. If I had to compare it something, it reminds me a bit of a highly talented punk-rock duo playing the songbook of the earlist works by Etron Fou. Marylise was...

Matthew Shipp - piano
Michael Bisio - bass
Newman Taylor Baker - drums

“This group evolves in leaps and bounds. You've never heard a jazz piano trio sound like this album -- not even this band on its previous album, the much-praised World Construct. That said, there is a through line from the first Matthew Shipp Trio album, 1990's Circular Temple to New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz.

Says Shipp, "Yes, we went there with that type of title this time. To anyone who thought the...

"Na Margon is a Bauta label release, written by Ronnie Ehrs with the intention "to capture the uttermost evil and the uttermost good put to music". Ehrs says, "I do not know if I did succeed, however I would like to think that certain parts of the musi...

Luciano was the guitarist and leader of LA 1919 for many years. Here he works on a project where most of the recordings here he constructed pieces out of guitar improvisations received through the mail, and then added musical materials (his own guitar, as well as other instruments like bass, drumloops, samples, etc.) and assembled it all together. Each guest guitarist gets one track.
Included are: Derek Bailey, Waedi Gysi, Nick Didkovsky, Elliott Sharp, Angelo Avogadri, Franco Fabbri, Eugene...

Long out of print, we found exactly TWO copies in the lost warehouse!

First album by this trio of Fred Frith-guitar, Miya Masaoka-koto and electronics & Larry Ochs-saxes. Recorded live July 2-3, 1998 in Chicago.