Great to see Steve return with a new, non-soundtrack release and to see him adding some unusual guests with unusual instrumentations here!

“Beloved Exile is the new studio full-length by Steve Moore, his first non-soundtrack album in over five years, and his first for Temporary Residence Ltd. A prevalent figure of the modern synth era, Moore cofounded the influential synth- prog duo, Zombi, and has scored more than a dozen feature films and TV shows, including The Guest, Crunch Time, and Mayhem...

Very good, uptempo Steve synthi-magic. A hair under 25’ long.

“Kompakt announce the return of New York's synth wizard Steve Moore to the label -- pretty much exactly ten years after his much lauded first appearance Bayern Kurve on the Speicher series. Steve Moore is widely recognized as one half of Italo disco-tinged horror-prog project Zombi, his numerous thriller movie soundtrack works (The Guest, VFW, Mayhem, Bliss, The Mind's Eye) as well has his clubbier output on Ron Morelli's L.I.E.S....

Thurston Moore, electric guitar / Pedro Sousa, tenor and baritone saxophones, electronics / Gabriel Ferrandini, drums, percussion.

"It was an inevitability: free rock and free jazz would cross ways someday, just because the �free� factor is...

Jon Eberson – guitar
Brynjulf Blix – electric piano, synths, organ, keyboards
Pål Thorstensen – bass
Espen Rud – drums

Moose Loose were an excellent, instrumental jazz/rock rock band that only lasted a few years and produced two albums in 1974 and 1976.
This is an amazing archival discovery in excellent sound that – for me – blows their two (quite good) studio albums away. Eberson and Blix just tear it up. If you like 70s electric jazz, this is a must-own...

Denis Barbier – flutes
Pierre-Jean Gidon – tenor & soprano sax
Olivier Hutman – piano, electric piano
Jean-Marie Laumonnier – double bass, electric bass
Jean-Philippe Lobrot – drums
Mino Cinelu – percussion

This is the first time that this one-and-done French jazz rock rarity has ever been reissued in any form!
This is Euro-styled progressive electric jazz; perhaps a bit comparable to Missus Beastly.

“Originally released in 1976, Moravagine (including 3 membe

"One of the foremost Quebec prog bands of their day, Morse Code's discography has sold over 100,000 copies and earned them fans around the world.
EMI sent the band to England for their final progressive rock release, and the result has a larger imprint from British prog groups even if the singing is still in French. Much of the material seems direct while being among the most subtle and clever Simard ever composed, and side 2 may be the finest slab of music they ever did. Even as music was changing...

"One of the foremost Quebec prog bands of their day, Morse Code's discography has sold over 100,000 copies and earned them fans around the world.
After the success of the first album, EMI allowed the band carte blanche to do as they wished with the follow-up, and the result was a progressive concept album largely about birth and death, with the second side taken up by a 26-minute, 3-part suite.

"The band fuses together such a variety of genres that it is both old and fresh simultaneously."-Birmingham Review

"The Mothers Earth Experiment is a six-piece contemporary progressive outfit from the UK. With a wide range of influences, ranging from electronica, jazz, psychedelia to black metal and back, the band of childhood friends pride themselves on their eclectic inspirations, and weave detailed sonic tapestries and propel their message of social consciousness and environmental awareness...

"This music was written for a project Motorpsycho was invited to be a part of by Trøndelag Teater in 2015. It eventually ended up as the play Begynnelser ("Beginnings"); directed, designed and dramatized by the independent theatre group De Utvalgte based on a new text written by Norwegian author Carl Frode Tiller. It was produced and performed at Trøndelag Teater in Trondheim with a cast drawn mainly from their ensemble. Motorpsycho played live at every performance with a line-up that included "utility...

This is a lavish (to say the least - and HEAVY) document of Motorpsycho's performance with Stole Storlokken, the Kammerkoret Aurum choir, and Sheriffs of Nothingness at the 2014 Olavsfestdagene festival in the Nidaros Cathedral, Trondheim, Norway. It was captured and released on two 180-gram records, one CD, one DVD containing the full concert plus a 65-minute documentary, and a 24-page LP-size booklet containing the Norwegian lyrics and more, all as a one-time pressing of 2000 hand-numbered copies...

“One would think that after the Gullvåg Trilogy -- two double and a single album in a mere three years -- the ultra-productive trio Motorpsycho might be in need of a break of sorts... but on the other hand, riding a golden wave like never before in their 30+ year existence, why stop now? The bulk of the album was recorded in France back before the pandemic, but was added to, tweaked and finished in 2020. The initial idea was to collect big riffs on one album and do a pure hard rock record, but the....

“A reissue of Motorpsycho's Roadwork Vol. 2: The MotorSourceMassacre , originally released in 2000 and since long out of print. In 1995 Motorpsycho was invited by Trondheim freebag jazz combo The Source to share the stage at Kongsberg Jazz Festival. The band´s psychedelic/kraut/prog-leanings hadn´t taken them as far as jazz yet, not to mention the Ornette Coleman-style free jazz stuff The Source were playing, but they were game. This is the result: some 70 minutes of metal overkill, early '70s...

"The first-ever Motorpsycho anthology, released in conjunction with a 2015 retrospective exhibition at Rockheim, Norway's national museum of pop and rock music, in the band's hometown of Trondheim. For the first anthology since the band's formation in 1989, there are as many possible track selections as there are fans, and the band's selection for Supersonic Scientists: A Young Person's Guide to Motorpsycho will likely incite much discussion.

Roughly containing one song from every studio album...

“2019 marks 30 years since Motorpsycho's humble beginnings in Trondheim. Both visually and musically, The Crucible starts where The Tower (2017) ended, but it soon takes on its own hue, and it is clear that it cannot be called a "sequel" as such: this is very much a step further out than anywhere the band ventured on The Tower.
While it is broader lyrically speaking, it is even sharper focused musically and, if possible, even more idiosyncratic and insular than ever: unarguably a Motorpsycho album...

The very very long lived band that is Motorpsycho have changed their spots many many times and this is not what most probably think of as a typical Motorpsycho release.
Having said that, the very first Motorpsycho album I ever heard was their orchestral pop release, Let Them Eat Cake and this has a lot of sonic similarities in terms of song craft, although it lacks some of the orchestral qualities. I like it!!

"Between 2017 and 2021, Norway's Motorpsycho released the sprawling "Gullvåg...

"Includes insert with liner notes; Includes digital download code which includes previously unreleased bonus tracks; Housed in a silver-mirrored sleeve.
The first ever reissue of Mouvements, originally released in 1973. An impossible to find artifact from the Swiss underground avant-garde scene of Geneva, originally released as a private boxset limited to 150 copies in 1973, only sold at art galleries. A unique, instrumental mix of free-jazz, classical, psych-rock, folk, improv, kraut, funk...

"Monster Melodies presents a collaboration with Moving Gelatine Plates with Moving Gelatine Plates. 45 years after the start of Moving Gelatine Plates, Monster M�lodies and the legendary band release an album of ALL unreleased tracks recorded between 1970 and 1978. Comes as a translucent pink jelly colored vinyl. Comes in a sleeve which opens up, containing a flyer with a family tree illustration of the different components of the band, a post card of a vintage promotional poster plus a 7" record which is..

The first and best known release by this psychedelic quartet. Featuring the legendary Merrell Fankhauser (post-HMS Bounty) and Jeff Cotton (post-Beefheart's Magic Band). A definite classic of its kind.

“Their documentation of cosmic permeation and general aura of "unhingedness" has rarely been equalled within the recording medium, this stuff puts you right there on lip of the saucer.”

“Out of this world combination of jerky, Beefheartian quirks (courtesy of Jeff Cotton, of course) and...

Juan Ignacio Arbaiza: Tenor Sax
Camilo Bartelsman: Drums
Santiago Botero: Bass
Diego Herrera: Laptop and synths
Enrique “Kike” Mendoza: Guitar
María “Mange” Valencia: Clarinet in Bb, Bass Clarinet and Alto Sax

“Resiliente is a noisy album, infused with doses of free jazz, melodic fragments, blasts, drones and heavy saturated textures. Originally released in 2017 on Matik Matik discos, it is being released for the first time on vinyl in 2021 by Dur et Doux.....

“Who Do You Love The Most? is the young trio's third album in just over four years, and continues in the tradition of their two previous efforts; beautiful and evocative melodies, rich on harmonies, often rhythmically complex textures and a typically folk-like Scandinavian character with the occasional gospel feel. The album's ten songs are all Kjetil Mulelid originals, except for a gripping cover of Judee Sill's "The Archetypical Man".”

“Eight new beguiling Kjetil Mulelid compositions expertly balancing energetic, often rhythmically complex and harmonically rich music with beautiful and evocative melodies. It's not all about Mulelid though, bassist Bjørn Marius Hegge (31) and drummer Andreas Skår Winther (28) effortlessly conjure additional layers, tones, and textures, incorporating a sense of calm; an unhurried yet constantly unfolding sound world which can be said to be distinctively Scandinavian, most typically heard in Hegge's sole...

“Minimum Resistance is Jonas Munk's most abstract and minimalist album to date, ten ambient pieces based on guitars -- often processed into soft, slow billows of sound. There's a rare aesthetic clarity in these pieces, allowing each sonic component to breathe and resonate. Here Munk works with a restrained sonic palette and it's an album which demands patience from the listener. Yet, in its bold simplicity, it carries enough emotional weight to be deeply rewarding. It's an immersive album, an invitation...

“A reissue of Roberto Musci and Giovanni Venosta's A Noise, A Sound, originally released in 1992. The third episode of the alchemical association between Roberto Musci and Giovanni Venosta, reprinted for the first time. This work seems to be even more enigmatic than the previous ones. The "plunderphonics" style of the compositional process, significant to allowing a technical experimentalism of inexhaustible variety of materials used (compendium of sounds, harmonies, ethnic timbres) and the infinite...

“Since the 1990s, the San Francisco Bay Area psychedelic jazz-rock collective Mushroom has been compared to Can, Soft Machine, Miles Davis, Ginger Baker’s Air Force, Traffic. Now in 2024 with their 15th studio album, Messages from the Spliff Bunker,
the ultimate retro band gets more authentic:

+ regular weight black vinyl

+ no tip-on jacket

+ double vinyl LP for less than the cost of a single LP these days

A true 1970s-era experience!”

Side A/B recorded in mono in London on 4 July 1969.
Side C/D recorded in stereo in London on 18 June 1970.

“This recording predates the Music Improvisation Company's only other release, the eponymous ECM outing, indicates a clear intention to stake out territory for European free improvisation markedly different from that of the (American) free jazz it sprang from. The African-American heritage that led to jazz was melodious, vocal, field holler/church-inflected, and the Germans and the...