"Those musicians who strongly resist the usual stylistic stereotypes often create the most exciting music. This is certainly the case with Brian Ales. On his inspired CDs, Ales combines the tonal imagery of a soundtrack with the compositionally open nature of jazz and the rhythmic intensity of ethnic music. "

Can Live in Paris 1973 features a performance recorded at L'Olympia in Paris on May 12, 1973. There are a lot of fine, stretched out versions of tunes from Ege Bamyasi, the recording quality is extremely good for what this is (a 50 year old archival, non professional recording) and FINALLY, a show from this series with Damo!

“Zombi make their long awaited return with their new album, Direct Inject! Capturing the spirit of previous albums like Escape Velocity and Surface To Air, while expanding the band's sonic palette into territory, ranging from 80's synth rock ("Direct Inject") to saxophone-heavy slow jams ("Sessuale II"). Direct Inject is essential Zombi, and quite possibly their most diverse and engaging record yet. You can't help but get carried up in the slipstream of tracks like "Bodies in the Flotsam", the hard rock...

Alice Coltrane – harp, piano, percussion
Jimmy Garrison – bass
Cecil McBee – bass
Pharoah Sanders – sax
Archie Shepp – sax
Kumar Kramer – harmonium
Tulsi Reynolds – tambura
Ed Blackwell – drums
Clifford Jarvis – drums

“Alice Coltrane's "The Carnegie Hall Concert" is a previously unreleased recording of a historic 1971 concert. The original multi-track recording was commissioned by Impulse but wasn't released at the time.”

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“With King Crimson alumni Tony Levin on the Chapman Stick and drummer Pat Mastelotto, Markus Reuter brings is various Touch Guitars and soundscapes to a tour of Japan back in 2022 to mix original compositions with a salute to Robert Fripp in both sound and tune selection.
Vintage Crimson material from the golden days are delivered with 21st Century Schizoid fashion, as “Red” has Mastelotto delivering an avalanche of percussion around the fiery metallic strings, while “Lark’s Tongues In Aspic”

“Chronicles I is the first part of a retrospective of Eloy's band history, but it is no ordinary "best of" album. All the tracks were re-recorded in 1993 and cover Eloy's creative phase from 1977 to 1982.
"Chronicles I" is a brilliant album through and through. With barely any vocals at all, both, Frank Borneman on guitar and Michael Gerlach on synthesizer create atmosphere through sheer electronic mastery on each and every track. The reworking of the songs is symphonic rock with bite. The clarity...

First-time vinyl release for this 2000 album.

“The formation OREGON has surely been well-known to most jazz and classical music enthusiasts. During the past 50+ years of band history, OREGON has become a synonym for genre-crossing music of the finest. Emerging in 1970 from the legendary Paul Winter Consort, OREGON combined elements of jazz with those of symphonic classical music and what is known today under the makeshift term "world music". Despite their music defying classification OREGON has...