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"Edgar Allan Poe is an Italian one-shot band from the 70's mostly in the symphonic or romantic progressive vein. The first track with almost spoken vocals and a somewhat mysterious mood, reminds me of another Italian one-shot band, Pholas Dactylus...

Dave Arbus (violin, flute, saxophone), Jim Roche (guitar), David Jack (vocals, bass), Jeff Allen (drums).

"East of Eden from Bristol in England played elaborate progressive rock with saxophone, violin, and flute. Their only hit, "Jig-a-jig", is..

"Four Pianos (1979-80): It is recognized today that these tutelary pieces for four pianos are among the most powerful in contemporary music, their impact is almost unparalleled. After the historical version recorded forty years ago, this one, featuring four of the greatest European performers, is now regaining its full power. High level recordings too. Red vinyl; includes color insert."

Jean-Bernard Borja-bass, guitar & vocals
Rober Boileau-keyboards
Gille Favreau-guitar
Jean Remillard-drums and percussion

This is a numbered edition of 500 copies reissue of this Quebeçois progressive rock band’s only release which was originally released in 1978 and which has never been reissued on CD OR vinyl!

“Originally released in 1978, French-language Quebeçois band Eden’s only album is a fine example of unusually synth-heavy symphonic prog rock featuring several...

“On their second album, Edena Gardens manifests itself as a permanent fixture in the El Paraiso catalog. Edena Gardens could have flickered and disappeared in true El Paraiso fashion with a single session album, but the trio emerges with both a new studio album as well as a live album. It's part of the band's DNA: it contains multitudes. There's always a variation or open path, shifting with ease from heady cosmic stoner folk-vibes, to the scorched earth of 12-minute centerpiece, "Veil". "Halcyon Days"...

Dens concludes a trilogy of albums, aptly spelling out the last third of the group's name. And true to form, the band turns inwards rather than outwards, drawing on deep shades of ambient, slowcore, and the ghost of Mark Hollis. While maintaining their psychedelic edge, the trio weaves the lines between genres in a way that's becoming a signature of its own. Never in a hurry, but always moving somewhere. Causa Sui drummer Jakob Skøtt and Martin Rude's bass and baritone guitar lay out a robust yet...

“Members of Papir and Causa Sui travel through new musical realms. Three musicians with their own compass: Martin Rude and Jakob Skøtt have shared a wide range of musical quests: from Causa Sui's "Bitches Brew of stoner rock" crossing the folk meditations of Sun River and arriving most recently as members of the pre-fusion electric dealings of the London Odense Ensemble.
Papir guitarist Nicklas Sørensen is not merely adding a new layer to an established duo, but his presence to the party have....

The first, very rare album by this well known Austrian sextet (vocals, piano/organ, guitar, flute/sax, bass & drums) was almost totally unknown until this reissue; most people think that their 1976 release "One Nighter" is their first. But this 1971 mega-rarity actually is.
It is "an independent mixture of psychedelic, progressive rock, classical music, electronics, jazz & blues with highly artistic demands."
This definitive reissue includes a history of the band and rare photos. At times...

Rainer Brüninghaus (keyboards)
Houschäng Nejadépour (guitar, sitar)
Herbert Kalveram (saxes)
Bill Brown (bass)
Detlev Landmann (drums)

Very excellent, early instrumental jazz rock band, somewhat influenced by the Mothers Of Invention, Soft Machine & their own "krautrockness". Featuring guitar, keyboards (Rainer Bruninghaus!), sax, bass & drums, they released just 2 albums in their lifetime. This superb quality, previously unreleased 1972 radio broadcast features tunes from thei

First-time reissue on vinyl.

Eiliff were a very excellent, early, mostly instrumental jazz rock band, somewhat influenced by the Mothers Of Invention, Soft Machine & their own "krautrockness".

Featuring guitar, keyboards (Rainer Bruninghaus, later to go on to play with Eberhard Weber's Colours!), sax, bass & drums, they released just 2 albums in their lifetime. This one, recorded in March and April, 1972, was the second of the two, which were both originally released on Phillips...

"Wendy Eisenberg is an extraordinary guitarist dedicated to the completely unconstrained exploration of music, language and time. Her work has taken her from conservatory to DIY space to concert hall, from performing improvised music and punk-metal to writing the quietest of songs. On Its Shape is Your Touch, Eisenberg turns her gaze to the guitar in its most absolute, essential form. Having traversed musical genres as she has, the intricate improvisations she weaves on this record have as much to do...

“In a career full of bold, genre-blending statements, Wendy Eisenberg’s double album Viewfinder is their boldest yet. Viewfinder is about what happens when you reach clarity and it throws you off-balance, and what it means to love something without understanding why you love it.
Eisenberg leads a large band of NYC jazz musicians, including Booker Stardrum (drums) and Chris Williams (trumpet). Together, they push the boundaries of jazz into songcraft, songcraft into art song, and art song into jazz...

Limited edition of 250 hand-numbered copies. Small postcard insert album art replica and credits.

"Wendy Eisenberg and Shane Parish are two sides of the same wishbone. Both inventive, spiny guitarists with deep roots in all genres, both veterans of critically acclaimed experimental rock bands (Birthing Hips, Ahleuchatistas), both published in Arcana VIII: Musicians on Music, edited by John Zorn (2017). They only just met in March 2018, while Wendy was on tour in Asheville. Hours after meeting...

Originally released in 1971 in a self released edition of only 300 by the band, this has been an unknown rarity until this reissue. A keyboards/bass/drums trio, they combined the keyboard-driven sound of bands like The Nice with an obvious German slant...

"This release couples two of Reich's 'sextets' for the first time: the Sextet of 1984 and the Pulitzer Prize winning Double Sextet of 2007, which also makes its first appearance on LP.
A striking difference between the two pieces is that the rhythmic world of Sextet mostly consists of a single-meter grooving, while Double Sextet works in the angular, off-kilter shifting meters reminiscent of Reich's Tehillim (also of Stravinsky). Ekkozone impart a uniquely chamber music feel and color to these works..

"Debut album from "young veterans" of the Norwegian heavy and progressive scenes, fronted by singer, guitarist, writer and producer Ole Petter Andreassen. This is classic, heavy, guitar-driven and melodic progressive rock, the playing and production...

Sula Bassana - guitar, fx
Komet Lulu - bass, fx
Michael Orloff – drums

Comes on orange vinyl.
“'Live 2012 - I' and 'II' is a 2 part series of live recordings from the same weekend in summer 2012. Back then, only recorded for reference by the band, with improvised equipment. 'Live 2012 - I' got recorded live at the Zytanien Open Air on a Friday and has a more technoid vibe to it, while 'Live 2012 - II' got recorded the night after on the Rock Den See Festival, and has a more rock...

Sula Bassana - guitar, fx
Komet Lulu - bass, fx
Michael Orloff – drums

Comes on turquoise vinyl.
“'Live 2012 - I' and 'II' is a 2 part series of live recordings from the same weekend in summer 2012. Back then, only recorded for reference by the band, with improvised equipment. 'Live 2012 - I' got recorded live at the Zytanien Open Air on a Friday and has a more technoid vibe to it, while 'Live 2012 - II' got recorded the night after on the Rock Den See Festival, and has a more rock..

“Pressed in Germany, the album is released in a hand numbered edition of 300 copies on crystal clear/black marbled vinyl and is released on 180gr high quality vinyl.
Two years after their last album, Electric Orange present their next longplayer. On this album the band re-introduces their drummer Eric, known from the albums 'Abgelaufen' and 'Fleischwerk' some time ago. On 'Gap' Electric Orange show once again that they are an integral, pioneering part of the German neo-psychedelic and neo-krautrock...

A great document of the Prunes live in Sweden on 12/14/67 at the peak of their powers. Recorded live for Swedish Radio, who - considering the time period we are dealing with - really understood how to record loud, psychedelic bands! Excellent quality &...

“After a solid run of five studio albums and two double live albums, Psychedelic Backfire I and II, (both 2019), Elephant9 had taken their groovy mix of high energy rock and power jazz as far as they could. In this respect their previous album Arrival of The New Elders (2021) came as a welcome and most timely addition to their recorded output. More varied, mature and reflective, they were as groovy as ever, but more structured and less jam oriented.
Mythical River is molded much in the same way and...

I know that this is the team-up that *I* was hoping for. It’s genuinely great and Terje AND the band are in killing form!

“In 2019, Elephant9 released two double live albums, Psychedelic Backfire I and II, the latter with guest guitarist Reine Fiske, whose favorite guitarist happened to be Terje Rypdal. With both albums out of print, Catching Fire is a most welcome addition to their discography.
Recorded at a remarkable concert from 2017 in Oslo, Rypdal would turn 70 later in the year...

“Amazing unique album by Elias hulk, a British quintet from Bournemouth, UK. Beautiful cover art, and great proto-hard-blues psych 70's rock.”-rym

“A classic in the collecting circuit since ages, the sole release by UK group Elias Hulk was out in 1970 on the Youngblood label. Raw hard-rock, adding some Eastern and blues-rock elements as well. Original artwork; insert with photos and extensive liners by Andy Morten.”

Very nice, pastoral Italian progressive rock with elements of The Geese and The Ghost (as it says below) but also Italian releases like Celeste! John Hackett is a featured player here! Comes in a lovely, gatefold sleeve!

"Ellesmere is the brainchild of Roberto Vitelli, bass & guitar player from Italian prog band Taproban. As opposite to the bombastic sound of the band, with Ellesmere Vitelli focuses on an acoustic and yet symphonic approach, delivering a stunning 40 minutes suite much in the...

The fourth release by Roberto Vitelli’s Ellesmere project and another good one.

“Stranger Skies” is the fourth recording chapter of the Ellesmere project by multi-instrumentalist Roberto Vitelli, musically and visually strongly linked to the previous “Wyrd” of 2021: from an iconographic point of view, in fact, the partnership with the famous illustrator Rodney Matthews, author of a wonderful cover painting that depicts two opposing worlds, a 'cold' one - linked to the first 4 songs of the album...

“4 international bands (Kungens Män, Electric Moon, ElonMusk, Kanaan) contributing an exclusively recorded instrumental track of 1 LP side each, about how to watch the ISS crossing their skies from time to time... Long and psychedelic tracks pulsating through space and try to follow the way of the space station around our globe and even beyond, to contribute you the opportunity to travel through your inner cosmosis while listening, only interrupted by the needle lifting, which could be just be some stops...

“Destination is the 14th studio album by ELOY, according to the music press the "German flagship of art and progressive rock", from 1992. Musically, "Destination" continues the direction taken on the previous album "Ra": melodic rock of a mostly heavier kind, sometimes with retro-prog influences, sometimes with a light pinch of metal (e.g. "Prisoner in Mind" and "Silent Revolution").”

"Destination" is an album on which we processed and mixed many different inspirations and stylistic elements...

"2017 album from the German prog rockers. The Vision, The Sword and the Pyre is a rock opera about Joan of Arc. Composed, directed and produced by Frank Bornemann, the work is dedicated to the life and acts of the late Middle Age French heroine Joan of Arc, canonised in 1920, and combines unique musical complexity with absolute and unbiased historical precision. Eloy aside, Frank Bornemann is an acclaimed supervisor and producer of well-known bands of different musical stripes (including Scorpions, Guano...

"It's finished! Frank Bornemann, the grand seigneur of German art and progressive rock and mastermind behind Eloy, has completed his opus magnum on the story of Joan of Arc just two years after the appearance of the first part. Impressive, and at the same time touching, this work leads us through the fascinating story of this legendary figure of the Middle Ages. In relation to it's complex thematic form and historical accuracy, the author has received support from the Centre Jeanne d'Arc in Orléans...

Cristian Burchard-drums, percussion, marimba, vibes, vocals
Sigi Schwab-guitar, veena, tarang
Dave King-bass, flute, altomarimba, vocals
Edgar Hofmann-sax, violin.

Father, Son and Holy Ghosts was the third Embryo album, originally released in 1972. On it you can hear them between their early Krautrock phase & their soon to be jazz/rock phase. Comes with a gigantic lp-sized booklet with many photos and reproductions of concert posters.
A great one.

“Father, son.

Embryo are famous for their excursions into world music and collaborations with musicans from all over the globe, but this, their very first album, originally released on the Ohr label in 1970, is a stone classic Krautrock album. And this is the first time it has been reissued on vinyl from the original stereo master tapes!! Highly recommended!!

This was the very first (and one of the best and also the least ‘new-agey’) release by this duo who at this time were working in a more 'kosmiche' vein but with its own personality.

"Nice mix of sequencer based electronic music, fluttering flute, airy female voice and acoustic/electric guitar. Excellent atmospheres and even a few heavy rocked out moments towards the end that are well placed to add some much needed spice. A quite varied album, that needs a few listens to appreciate."-rateyourmusic.

“A reissue of Emerald Web's Sound Trek, originally released in 1980. Pioneering space music duo Emerald Web, comprised of Bob Stohl and soulmate Kat Epple, made some of the most ethereal, divine, and healing sounds between 1979 and 1990.
Crafting their debut album in a haunted mansion in northwest Connecticut, their second disc was created in a small log cabin. A subsequent move to the San Francisco Bay Area brought an extended stay at an Indonesian martial arts ashram, which led to the Valley of...

“A rarefied blend of vintage synthesizers and acoustic instruments, the Valley Of The Birds album by Emerald Web was created in 1981 by two pioneers in electronic music, space music, and audio technology, Bob Stohl and Kat Epple.
Originally recorded and composed in their 4-track, reel-to-reel home studio, they created their signature thickly-layered timbres by serving as recording engineers, and simultaneously playing an array of monophonic synthesizers, flutes, other acoustic instruments, and...

"The previously cassette-only album Whispered Visions (1980) by Emerald Web, finally committed to vinyl 30 years since its original release. These tracks are taken from the second ever (and rarest) release by this early synthesizer duo consisting of...

This was the third 'official' release by the great, modern space/cosmic-sound group Emeralds. Like Cluster, Fripp and Eno and Richard Pinhas (among others) before them, they are the ultimate in dream-state/trance music. Highly recommended

“In the late 2000s a sprawling catalog of what is now genre-defining music was emanating from an unlikely place. Cleveland, Ohio has a broad reputation for many things, but in the aughts, psyche-expanding Kosmische wasn't necessarily Cleveland's calling card...

This was the third 'official' release by the great, modern space/cosmic-sound group Emeralds. Like Cluster, Fripp and Eno and Richard Pinhas (among others) before them, they are the ultimate in dream-state/trance music. Highly recommended

“In the late 2000s a sprawling catalog of what is now genre-defining music was emanating from an unlikely place. Cleveland, Ohio has a broad reputation for many things, but in the aughts, psyche-expanding Kosmische wasn't necessarily Cleveland's calling card...

"Editions Mego is chuffed to release these vintage synth-guitar improvisation jams recorded straight to tape, 2007-2008. Previously released as a CD by No Fun, this is now the definitive vinyl edition of this material, and serves as archival insight...

“Newly cut from the 24 bit/96khz master files. 2012 remaster of the original 1970 LP. Original sleeve & artwork. Foreword on the LP audio by Greg Lake.”

The very first album by ELP, from 1970, and a charming period piece of classical rock. Keith is mostly playing piano and organ here, with just a little bit of synths. A no brainer.

"Originally released in 1970, the debut album from the newly formed supergroup combined musicianship and showmanship in a glowing ball of energy. The keyboard..

Nathaniel Facey - alto saxophone (1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7)
Lewis Wright - vibraphone
Shaney Forbes - drums (1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7)
Tom Farmer - double bass (1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7)
Jason Rebello - piano (1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7)
Alex Hitchcock - tenor saxophone (1, 3, 4)

GREAT to hear these guys (with the same personnel for over 15 years!) again, and with some really tasty guests. Not completely out, not completely in, just really good, modern jazz with influences from everywhere, but a

Somehow I missed this upon its initial release in 2018, but now that I am working with ALL the Miller brothers – Ben, Laurence and Roger – I realized that this was something that I needed to check out and stock.

"Finally, what the world has been eagerly anticipating for the last four decades -- an LP by EMPOOL! Empool was a whacked-out, Detroit-based prog-noise combo (usually a trio or quartet), that would eventually merge into the rock-band-era Destroy All Monsters. Guitarist Laurence Miller...

Excellent second album, which is only available on vinyl, from this spacey, e-musik quartet from Finland, who combine the classic kosmiche sounds of Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze with the rougher textures of early Cluster (circa II). An excellent...

“A document of a unique – if until now little-known – performance given by BRIAN ENO, HOLGER CZUKAY & J.PETER SCHWALM, in which they were accompanied by Raoul Walton and Jern Atai, members of Schwalm’s group, Slop Shop.
Billed as a “High-Altitude-Food-Performance with Incidental Music by Slop Shop and Brian Eno”, with Can co-founder Czukay’s appearance kept under wraps in advance, it was recorded on August 27, 1998 outside the Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland – the Art and...

Hmmmm...Eno, Moebius & Roedelius...that would make this.... The second of two releases by Cluster and Eno, released in 1978, this follows onward from their classic first album. "It consists of repeated patterns and sustained guitar in the ambient styl...

Limited to 1000 hand-numbered copies and includes a 20-page booklet. Gatefold cover as was the original. First time vinyl reissue, made from the master tapes.

“Sophisticated Rock with polyphonic vocals, multi-layered structure and frequent rhythm and tempo changes, like Gentle Giant. All self-written songs.
The LP by the Wiesbaden band was recorded in Fred Kersten's studio in April 1976 and was released on the Kerston label in 1977, in an edition of 1000 copies.

Rolf Lonz-vocals, guitar, flute
Michael Kurz-keyboards, vocals
Wolfgang Wünsche-bass, vocals
Reiner Neeb-drums, vocals

“Epidermis were founded in Idstein, Hesse, in 1971, but they soon moved to the regional capital, Wiesbaden. They played some complex sophisticated rock music, with frequent changes of rhythm and pace, and polyphonic vocal harmonies. They were often compared to Gentle Giant, Yes, and the Canterbury scene.
Their first LP, recorded in Fred Kersten’s studi

“Very good first album by the german band Epitaph. This album alternate prog-ish hard rock tunes with good dual lead guitars solos, with slower moments and use of mellotron. The lead vocals by the englishman Cliff Jackson are clean and a bit dreamy. A quite varied album with elements of Wishbone Ash, T2, Nektar, Eloy with a touch of King Crimson.”-rym

“This second Epitaph album follows in the same footsteps as their debut. Stop, Look and Listen is a very guitar driven progressive rock record with some elements from hard rock and blues rock as well. This one is even less krautrock oriented than it's predecessor. Their S/T first LP has some krautrock elements but this second album is just a prog rock record.
Good progressive hard rock, similar to Wishbone Ash's Argus.”-rym

“Epizootic's sole album is very rare one and in good shape a very expensive album if you are looking for an original one. Longhair is proud to present the first official re-release of this album, first issued in 1976 by Epizootic as a private pressing.
Their music could be described as raw hard rock with psychedelic flavours, dominated by organ and guitar. Breaks and tempo changes within the titles are responsible for a diversified album. In his book 'Scented Garden Of The Mind' Dag Erik Asbjornsen...

“Epsilon's music improved considerably on their second offering Move On (1972). It consists of clear prog-rock elements like inspired organ passages, classical music parts, some more complicated soloing or beautiful acoustic guitars fragments.
When the album came out, they could be seen as a German parallel to Traffic, with their soulish vocals, instrumentation of organ, guitars and flute and their slightly jazzy mood -- just listen to the tracks "Feelings" and "Move On."
At the time of Move...