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The first of three great releases by this Detroit area ensemble. I went crazy finding a copy of this and now it's nicely reissued. Recommended.

"Griot Galaxy is a 'secret' jewel of Detroit's avant-garde jazz history - until now.
That is to say, they will always be a jewel of Detroit's avant-garde jazz history, their deeply passionate music a testament to experimentation, freedom, and blackness. But with the long-awaited reissue of their first album, the hard-to-find Kins, the secret is out...

Audiophile all-analog recording and pressing.
Kama Quartet are keyboards, guitar, sax and drums and they are joined here by percussionist Nippy Noya.
This is a jazz/rock take on the complete ‘A Love Supreme’ and it’s very good.

"The Kama Quartet is one of the most exciting ensembles in contemporary European Jazz..." - JO Hifi Stars

“Following three regular studio albums, the KA MA QUARTET (formerly known as Katharina Maschmeyer Quartet) released their first tribute album. It..

Krazily named new progressive / psychedelic Finnish band, who knocked it out of the ballpark on their third album Ruination and while this, their second, isn't in the same league, a lot of the same attributes that made Ruination great are here as well.
This is a more straight-forwardly shoe-gaze album, but it has more complexity than most of what I know from that genre and some great tunes and mesmerizing ideas. Conditionally highly recommended, but start with Ruination first!...

The Picture Disc edition comes now without bonus tracks but with an insert of 8 pages and is also limited to 1000 hand-numbered copies.
A legitimate reissue of this great spacey, psychedelic album from 1972. A duo perform, & the final result is lots of guitars, flute, electric piano and old synthesizers & percussion plus some additional instrumentation, & lots of creepy spoken recitation. This is a CLASSIC!

"Kalacakra's blend of mantras, blues, folk and stoned psychedelia gained Crawling To.

"The Pop-Liisa and Jazz-Liisa broadcast session series presents previously unreleased and forgotten gems from the biggest names of Finnish prog and jazz of the 1970's
Never bootlegged and known up until now only to a few faithful servants (and largely thought to have been lost for ever), these sessions offer a hitherto unrivalled look into the state of Finnish jazz and progressive rock between the years 1972-1977. Imagine if the sessions recorded by John Peel had only recently been discovered, and...

“Kalevala’s classic third album “Abraham’s Blue Refrain”, came out with the band’s revamped, more international name “Kalevala Orchestra”. The album was recorded in the spring of 1977 and produced by Tommi Liuhala together with the band, with lyrics by Jim Pembroke of Wigwam, who also plays the piano in the title track. The overall sweeping tone of this progressive and monumental record is dark and sombre with a spiritual weight to it. The songs themes and lyrics, sung in English which is rare for a...

"The new magic compendium of Ariel Kalma: a box with four-LPs, including different color inner sleeves, a large booklet with credits and beautiful unreleased photos, illuminating perfectly the depth of his traveling soul. Few, like Ariel, have really been able to dedicate their life to a tireless experimentation in music. In according to a subtle plot, between his experiences in the World and the restitution of them, he has always found multifaceted combinations of sounds. Kalma uses anything that can....

“The visionary French musician Ariel Kalma stays true, in this third compendium too, to his path of planetary asceticism. A new treasure chest of secrets reveals to us same spirituality of total experimentation, by balancing the universe and the inner soul. In "Taste The Fullness Of Life," Ariel builds his symphonic pillars toward the cosmos, eternal architectures that always smell of Indian fragrances. The music always communicates a state of full grace, spreading balms of bliss. An unprecedented...

Ariel Kalma is one of those legendary names that you already read about but seldom hear, unless you want to plunk down some serious coin for some super rare vinyl.
This 1980 release, which was the follow up to his great release Osmose, is something I had never heard before and it's totally, totally great; a cross between Urban Sax, Richard Pinhas, Terry Riley, Indian music and the Berlin school. This is the first time it has ever been reissued and it's a stunner. Highly recommended...

“Nuits Blanches au Studio 116 is unreleased rarities from Ariel Kalma's personal archives recorded in the legendary GRM's Studio 116 during the '70s. Born and raised in Paris, Ariel Kalma started playing the recorder and saxophone as a youth. After successive studies of computer science, music, and art in Paris he performed in various concerts from middle-age music to free jazz duo. Ariel performed and recorded with several bands (J. Higelin, R. Pinhas, NYL, G. Scornic, Baden Powell...) After learning...

"Rare, cassette only recordings by the composer and performer best known for the legendary space music / trance-out album Osmose.

"Originally composed between 1981 and 1984 and initially appeared only on tape in two different editions, the...

"Born and raised in Paris, Ariel Kalma studied electronics, computer science, music and art in Paris, he performed with several bands, then toured the world and visited Europe, Japan, India, Eastern Canada, and parts of the USA. Apart from rhythm &...

"In August 2022, Australia-based, French born fourth-world music legend Ariel Kalma was invited to participate in BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction series of special collaborations. Kalma was quick to suggest working together with the International Anthem artists Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer. The Closest Thing to Silence is the result of their collaboration."

Nicely done vinyl releases. 300 pressed, all signed and numbered and all in color vinyl!

“Whilst all of our lives had been thrown into the darkness and the in word was “lockdown” the accomplished Antony Kaulgin (Karfagen, Sunchild, etc) was busy as usual creating new music, but now on his own, isolated like the rest of mankind, creating a music opus that without fear of overstatement redefines the genre progressive rock.
At just over 40 minutes the two suites dovetail beautifully on this...

We did a deep dig into the lost warehouse to come up with these; they are new and unplayed, but they’ve been sitting for over 30 years and there may be small corner dings, seam splits from travel, etc etc.
These are the original issues on Points East, which was ReR’s pre-CD vinyl label ‘dedicated solely to new music from Central Europe’.

“New work from this unusual song group, whose highly individual and musical style is developed further on this LP. Some will know them from our Quarterly

“The Norwegian Trio, Kanaan, known for their previous releases on El Paraiso, are back with their 2022 album. Recorded by the bass player Esk in Oslo, the album features 8 songs and a more heavy vibe, real stoner rock stuff at times but still their own unique twist to things.< Prelude starts things off with a short beautiful piece of music, reminding me a bit of the new Papir material but then you take off with Return to the Tundrasphere! Has the band ever been this heavy before? I don't think so. Cool gui

“With their 2018 debut album, Windborne, Oslo based trio Kanaan quickly established themselves as one of the most important groups in the youngest generation of psychedelic impro-rockers. As accomplished players -- all three educated in jazz -- they marry fiery energy with musical intricacy, and possess a rare ability to balance power and delicateness. They devote as much energy to exploring airiness and atmosphere as they do to intensity.
On this set, the trio join forces with Causa Sui guitar...

“Windborne is the debut album from young Norwegian power-trio Kanaan. With components from jazz, fusion and post-rock they have created six extended pieces of blazing free-form psychedelia.
While the band is rooted in the same spirit that gave birth to Mahavishnu Orchestra and Larry Coryell's The Eleventh House in the 1970s, there's a distinctive modern flavor to Kanaan. Their Scandinavian genealogy is apparent as well; their intricate song structures seems to be branching off the same stem as...

To be heard with ears half bent, or with one side facing what Maryanne Amacher calls 'the third ear'. The great reverence in which the Tanpura is held by Indian classical music, its transcendental but occulted place in the tradition alongside its normal function as a drone, made a strong impression on the composer such that it has taken decades to formulate even a simple Tanpura Study. The fundamentals, the Om, as well as the overtones, the music of the spheres -- all these have their valid rights, but...

Now out of print, very limited, lp only pressing by a modern, instrumental German prog-jazz/rock outfit. This is all really quite great and the keyboardist sure is channeling the Dave Stewart tone...

“Released on 180-GRAM BLACK VINYL (in an edition of 222 copies) is a selection of live recordings from a Munich-based instrumental collective showcasing a style that blends jazz rock with '60s and '70s influenced psychedelia and prog rock. The LP comes with a fully laminated thick glossy sleeve and a..

This is the third release I’ve heard from this great, young jazz/prog/psych band from Munich, Germany and all have been total winners and this continues their winning streak! The label calls this an ‘EP’, but it’s over 35’ long...
For fans of Canterbury/Krautrock stylings (say, Eiliff) with psych / ethnic touches (say, Embryo) and beyond. Recommended.

“Five young guys from Munich. Skilled and tight on their instruments and deeply rooted in the heritage of all kind of wild forms of jazz...

Some of you were lucky enough to hear Karaba’s vinyl-only release ‘Live in Vienna’, which was a powerful and excellent instrumental prog-jazz/rock album.
Well that one is their third release. This is the group’s second and it’s another really good one, combining Krautrock, jazz/rock and Canterbury stylings. And this one is on CD AND vinyl!

“So fucking good! At first, I thought they were some crazy prog band from '71 I slept on. Nope, just some kids from Munich doing this shit right! One...

"The only surviving 1969 studio demos of this important underground band. Keith Moon raved about them and they were known for their live reputation. Karakorum’s sonic inner space inevitably conjures up images of heavy cannabis and marijuana usage.
The band lock into darkly introverted grooves, with complex patterns, eastern influences, and left field lyricism and vocal, heavy guitar led tracks and the use of wah-wah. They were ultimately uncategorisable, poetic, and this album needs multiple plays...

Nicely done vinyl releases. 300 of each pressed, all signed and numbered and all in color vinyl!

“A real art rock feast here for lovers of Antony's Karfagen project, the core of CD one comes from the creative period during the Dragon and Bird sessions, they are musically as powerful, energising and divergent as anything you will have heard to date from him whilst still displaying the distinct Karfagen hallmarks....
With a mix of Jazz, Zappa, Tony Banks and Antony's own unique musical styles...

"Viewed from the American sub-underground (aka our headquarters), the Finnish scene always looks like a haven of freaks. Surely there are lots of dull rock, pop, and rap outfits from this chilly and heavily forested country, but they don't get exported, so we don't have to hear them. The Finnish bands we've known and loved are psych, prog, hardcore, free jazz, and post-form monsters of all shapes and sizes. A new name to add to the list of Deadly Finns (thanks, Eno) is Niko Karlsson. Well, not entirely...

Daniele Giovannoni – Drums, Keys, Programming
Alex Massari – Guitars
Alessandro Cefalì - Bass
Guest Musicians :
Sara Rinaldi - Vocals
Adam Holzman - Piano and Moog
Steve Unruh - Violin and Flute
Valerio Sgargi - Tenor and Choir
Emilio Merone - Piano
Francesca Zanetta - Solina

“ROOM 101 is the fifth studio album of KARMAMOI . The album is inspired by George Orwell's ‘1984’. It revisits some of the novel’s themes and concepts, adapting them to the p

"First ever collaboration between Edward Ka-Spel (from The Legendary Pink Dots and Tear Garden) and Steven Stapleton (from Nurse With Wound). It's been years they both wanted to work together and Bisou Records made that happen when they offered them a side on this split LP. The other side is the first musical meeting of Colin "the master of drone" Potter and French sax player Quentin Rollet (The Red Krayola, Mendelson, Nurse With Wound, Prohibition, David Grubbs, Thierry Müller, Ilitch). That first take...

Very good electronic music album, hovering somewhere between ambient and space music (but not in a 70s way).

"Timo Kaukolampi is a Helsinki-based experimental music artist and self-taught composer, producer and meta band leader. His goal and ethos is to destroy and re-create his musical output with every new project and release. In search of uncharted realms of music, he has given us projects such as K-X-P and Haunted Plasma. These days he is mostly focusing on his solo art and film music...

Makoto Kawabata - electric guitar
RG Rough – electronics

“A collaboration between Makoto Kawabata (leader of the legendary Japanese psychedelic band, Acid Mothers Temple) and the French/British multi-instrumentalist RG Rough. The pair create an unsettling sonic jungle in which Makoto's guitar drones multiply, intertwine, and collide with a wide variety of electronic and concrete sounds and percussion. On two occasions a soft, sleepy sounding voice comes out of nowhere and whispers a strange...

"Formed back in 1972, KAYAK is the most legendary Dutch progressive rock act and now presents its highly anticipated 17th studio album! “Seventeen” contains 60 minutes of epic & melodic rock that finds a perfect balance between diverse long tracks such as ‘La Peregrina’, ‘Cracks’ or ‘Walk Through Fire’ and straighter anthems like ‘All That I Want’, ‘Somebody’ or the hard rocking ‘Feathers And Tar’! A brilliant union of 70’s classic rock, progressive arrangements and straight-forward, catchy rock with...

“The stark frailty of the human condition is the overall theme running through the veins of Kayo Dot's 10th regular studio album "Moss Grew on the Swords and Plowshares Alike". In the sprawling, churning musical multiverse of mainly multi-instrumentalist Toby Driver's creation that has never accepted nor cared for any artificial borders of genre and incorporated for example rock, metal, classical music, goth, indie, pop, and jazzy structures, this avant-garde album appears to tilt towards a more harsh...

This is the 3rd new album by this classic and great Swedish psychedelic/progressive/folkrock band since their reformation in 2001s. Like the previous two, it retains their classic sound as well as retaining their leader and monster guitarist Kenny...

"A reissue of Kedama's Live At Sunrise Studios, originally released in 1976. Swiss heavy-prog/kraut monster, originally released as a private, hand-made edition of 200 copies. Long instrumental/experimental tracks fueled by mellotron, Hammond, MiniMoog, ripping distorted guitar, and heavy drums. Kedama came from St. Gallen in the north-eastern corner of Switzerland, near the Bodensee -- only a few kilometers from Germany and Austria. Their name was inspired by Ketama, Morocco, famous for its cannabis...

This Swiss instrumental trio put out only one album in their lifetime, “Live At Sunrise Studios”.
Using guitar, keyboards (Hammond organ/Moog/Mellotron) & drums, the band had a progressive sound that was a little bit reminiscent of early Yes mixed with certain more psychedelic/krautrock type elements.
This has the entire “Live At Sunrise Studios” album + two additional albums worth of material, much of it unheard!

"Three thick LPs of hot jellied kraut-prog heavies coming at you from...

“Kënnlisch, one of the rarest haunting psychedelic acid folk LPs from France, was the work of brothers Philippe and Jean-François Macherey.
Originally released in 1976 on the mega collectable label Le Kiosque d'Orphée, it contains some of the most beautiful sounds to come out of the 1970s alternative music scene.
An instrumental album, it opens with a burst of sunshine vibes and takes them into the experimental scene of French alternative folk avantgarde with a strong Cosmische influence. Beauty.

“One of the best albums to buy these days in terms of Abstract Jazz.”-a buyer’s comment

"Ever growing interest motivated by originality and class Keszler’s latest solo venture offers up a latticework of melodic percussion, drum set, and electro-acoustic instrumentation, built upon fragments of American abstraction, ancient scales, industrial percussion, and jazz-age film noir to achieve its feeling of imperial decay. Keszler’s instrumental performances are framed by panoramic recordings of.....

To anyone who has heard the music of Kikagaku Moyo, it should come as no surprise that the band's origins lie in hours upon hours of late-night jamming, illuminated by nothing more than the geometric patterns playing behind the band's eyelids, resulting in a natural, free-floating sound, as of-the-earth as it is intergalactic. It may be surprising that the band sharpened their improvisational skills by busking on the streets of their native Tokyo. It may be surprising that the band's overall sound may...

"'House In The Tall Grass' introduces us to a more refined Kikagaku Moyo sound, featuring soft vocals, warm sitar and a masterful balance between loud and soft, and chaos and order."

Kikagaku Moyo's debut album exerts an elemental power. Enlivening their sound with sitars, percussive drums, theremins, wind instruments and ethereal vocals, the band manages to sound powerfully spacious and lazily serene all at once. Their songs can be light as air, or heavy as earth. Many evolve out of intense experiences of engagement with the natural world. The album's first track, "Can You Imagine Nothing?" was written over a night spent jamming on a suspended footbridge in remote mountains. As the...

Their last release!

"In many ways Kumoyo Island represents the culmination of a journey for Kikagaku Moyo. While their decade-long career can be summarized as a series of kaleidoscopic explorations through lands and dimensions far and near, there's a strong intention in each of their works to take the listener to a particular place, however real or abstract they may be. In that sense, the title and cover art for the band's fifth and final album draws you into a magical mass of land surrounded by...

Man, does everything about THIS one look great. The cover print job looks fantastic and these are incredibly heavy-weight 200 gm pressings!
The first lp features the all new 2019 stereo mix by Steven Wilson and approved by Robert Fripp.
The second lp all new, unheard alternate takes and recordings with five pieces mixed by Steven Wilson and two pieces mixed by David Singleton.
The cover artwork is derived from the original paintings.

"An uncanny masterpiece."-Pete Townshend
This sophisticated and somewhat paranoid album exploded upon the psyche of the forward-looking 1969 listener in a way that can't be understood in today's jaded, 'everything flows from the cloud for free' listener can not appreciate. It still sounds really good nearly 50 years later.

This was the band's second studio album and, unlike anything else they ever did, is kind of a lesser carbon copy of their extraordinary first album (but minus Ian MacDonald). It's good. But better stuff happened before and even better stuff was in their future.

The group's fourth studio album, now in a Steve Wilson full remix, and the end of 'mach 1' King Crimson, as it's the last with Mel Collins, who had served the Crimson King so well on #s 2-4, the last with the help of his Brit-jazz buddies like Keith Tippett, Harry Miller, etc., and the last with lyricist Peter Sinfield.

Yes, the previous four studio albums were anywhere from very good to amazing, but this album - studio album #5 - signaled a new beginning and the emergence of a band that was one of the great, far-reaching groups whose influence is still being felt to this day and which introduced the insane double-drumming line-up of Bill Bruford and Jamie Muir (which only lasted long enough to record this album).

50th anniversary edition of King Crimson's classic 1973 album. 2LP set pressed on 200-gram audio...

Yes, the previous four studio albums were anywhere from very good to amazing, but this album - studio album #5 - signaled a new beginning and the emergence of a band that was one of the great, far-reaching groups whose influence is still being felt to this day and which introduced the insane double-drumming line-up of Bill Bruford and Jamie Muir (which only lasted long enough to record this album).

Their underrated third album and my 2nd favorite acid album back in the day (along with Soft Machine's Third [FACELIFT, dude] and We're Only In It For The Money; I guess I was into scaring myself!).

"The black abyss where jazz and rock meet", it was called by some UK weekly music rag. Yeah, baby. Bring It On!

An album that really doesn't sound like any other album in the K.C. (or any other group's) cannon. Robert has famously always hated it. Well, you can be a smart guy and still not...

“King Crimson’s final US concert in Washington, DC (Sept 2021) and 4 additional tracks from Albany, New York (August 2021), all available on vinyl for the first time.
Named after the tour from which the performances were taken, “Music Is Our Friend” is an official bootleg featuring all of King Crimson’s final performance in North America at Washington in September, 2021.
It is now being made available as a limited edition 3LP set, re-sequenced from the CD running order to maintain the complete..

“Double 200gm vinyl LP pressing housed in gatefold jacket. To celebrate the 50th anniversary 2LP edition are being released this Autumn. Taking the music to new levels of clarity & power. 'Red' was one of the earliest mixes undertaken by Steven Wilson in 2009 & King Crimson was the first of a number of classic bands & artists to be mixed by Steven so it's entirely appropriate that he return, some 15 years later, to take the album into the Dolby Atmos era.
Whilst mixing the album for Dolby Atmos...

Robert Fripp: Guitar
Adrian Belew: Guitar, Lead Vocal
Tony Levin: Stick, Bass Guitar and Support Vocal
Bill Bruford: Drums and Percussion

“There’s a palpable sense of energy and enthusiasm from the audience captured on the tapes at this concert as King Crimson (sharing a European tour with then label band mates Roxy Music) take to the stage in Fréjus, France, in late Summer, 1982. With two albums’ worth of material to draw upon (Discipline, Oct 1981 & Beat, June 1982) &...