“Robert Schroeder was one of Klaus Schulze's first disciples to record on the master's own Innovative Communications label, and Harmonic Ascendant remains one of the two or three best albums I.C. ever released.
Not content however to be merely a copyist, Schroeder forged his own identity as a composer of romantic, richly-textured electronic music that owed as much to Chopin as it did to Schulze. The architectonic structure of the individual movements that make up the title track is immaculately...

New series of quality reissues from on Universal, who own the Brain catalog.
Klaus's seventh album was an album of music for a porno movie from 1977. This is more music created for the soundtrack and is yet another great CD from the great man of spacey electronics. This is a classic 70's space work & is a pretty necessary title in any collection. Written as a soundtrack for a porn film, this is 4 long tracks that ooze those classic Berlin space sounds and feature Harald Grosskopf on drums, which is alw

J. Peter Schwalm : synths / voice / live treatments / electronic percussion / & programming
Stephan Thelen : guitars / keyboards / granular synth & programming.
Eivind Aarset : guitars / e-bow / effects
Tim Harries : bass guitar
Manuel Pasquinelli : drums / percussion
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Nell Catchpole : voice samples on Sedna

“The demotion of Pluto remains a topic of controversy more than a decade and a half later, but the now dwarf planet is hardly alone way out on the fringes o

"Classic double live album from this free-spirited international trio, this time expanded with American sax player Mars Williams. Recorded live at Oslo's Caf� Mono and at the Nattjazz festival in Bergen, both in May 2011, this fully shows why new...

In 1978, in the great UK Punk explosion, there emerged a very interesting art/punk trio who combined skittery guitar and sort of Beefheartian tightness/looseness in the rhythm section. They released three EPs and then did a ‘not bad pop single, imo’ with Robert Wyatt playing piano and then totally changed direction and ran as quickly as they could into pretty vapid pop music.
But this is their great early materials, all available on vinyl for the first time in 20 years.

“Emerging from the...

"Sea Son was originally released in 1974 on CBS and is now considered by many to be the pinnacle of the band's catalog. The fiery interplay between alto/soprano sax player Karsten Vogel, guitarist Claus Bohling and keyboardist Kenneth Knudsen parallel the work of their contemporaries Return to Forever and Mahavishnu Orchestra. With a new rhythm section of bassist Jess Staehr (Burnin Red Ivanhoe) and drummer Ole Streenberg (Coronarias Dans) the band found equal footing in the world of rock and jazz. The...

Secret Oyster were a five piece Danish fusion/progressive supergroup of the 1970s, whose members came from the ranks of Burnin' Red Ivanhoe, Hurdy Gurdy and Coronarias Dans. This album, recorded in the fall of 1975, was the band's fourth and final album; the pressures of having recorded four albums in just over two years, touring constantly and being disappointed when the US branch Columbia broke their promise to the band to give them the same 'priority' treatment they had given to Weather Report...

"Semiramis is one the many "one-shot" bands of 70's Italy. Their only album is one of my favourite albums of 70's Italian art rock. There are fantastic, heavy progressive passages (especially in the middle of the album) with heavy, intense guitar riffs...

"Souffle Continu Records presents the first official vinyl reissue of Essais, the sole album by Semool, originally released in 1971. This LP is the third in Souffle Continu's series of ten reissues from the catalog of the cult French label Futura Records,

This is a beautiful, numbered, limited edition of 889 copies of this classic, which is part of the Prog Rock Italia series - mastered from the original tapes on 180 gram vinyl in a beautiful gatefold sleeve.

Sensations Fix were for too long a great, under-recognized Italian electronic/spacemusic/rock/progressive band who, unlike so many other 70s greats remained undiscovered until relatively recently because most of their material was never reissued!

“While releasing only three singles in the early 1970's, Seompi's mystique has continued to grow through the ensuing decades.
Seompi will be taking you on a trip back to 1971, when Texas was a stomping ground for epochal rock music. Having released only a handful of singles during their short time together this collection features the rare first single "We Have Waited" and previously unreleased takes from the band’s later recording sessions.
Navigating the waters between proto-doom, heavy...

“We’ve waited long for life signs from Seven Impale, meanwhile the members have been busy with life. Vocalist/guitarist Stian graduated from the Grieg Academy as an opera singer and launched an international career. Keyboardist Håkon joined Enslaved. Some got kids, and some finished their education. Life happened. Though, truth being told, the guys have kept the band, if not warm, at least lukewarm. And now, the long-awaited third album from Seven Impale is finally here, seven years after “Contrapasso”...

"Our second album is darker, heavier, knottier, yet more fragile and vulnerable. It has taken five years, countless studio hours, but zero compromises. Hours of music have been distilled to 45 intense minutes, each one of which a deliberate and necessary part, and not a calorie was spent catering to anyone's preferences but our own. Some might call it a change of direction, but then Shamblemaths never had a direction to begin with. The album is like a picture with many shades, but all from a common, dark...

“Warren 'Sonny' Sharrock died of a heart attack at the age of 53 in 1994. At the time of his death, many writers noted that he had recently landed a contract with a major label (RCA) and was perhaps 'destined for big things.' In my opinion, these writers missed the point. Although Mr. Sharrock may not have been successful financially (as though that might be a primary motivating goal for any true artist), he was uncommonly successful aesthetically. Certainly, there are a few dubious moments to be found...

Archie Shepp – tenor sax
Dave Burrell – piano
Donald Garrett – bass
Zusaan Fasteau Garrett – percussion, flute, vocals
Muhammad Ali – drums

“This is Archie Shepp caught live at two important European festivals in 1973. Shepp delivers a full program of hot renditions of mostly standards by the likes of Ellington, Monk, and Davis, plus a couple of pieces written by his regular partners of the time, Cal Massey and Grachan Moncur.”

“The first official worldwide reissue of Satsuki Shibano's Wave Notation 3: Erik Satie 1984, the final album from the sound-defining Wave Notation environmental music series curated by Satoshi Ashikawa.
Originally released in 1984 on the Sound Process label, Wave Notation 3 followed Ashikawa's own Still Way (1982) and Hiroshi Yoshimura's Music For Nine Postcards (1982). The highly sought-after album is sourced from the original master tape.
Wave Notation 3 is a splendid tribute to seminal...

"Originally released in 1982, Kakashi is another high water mark in the 80s Japanese underground. This album, which has gathered cult status in recent years, is the project of musical visionary Yasuaki Shimizu, and considered to be a highlight of his solo career. Shimizu was the bandleader of Mariah, who also saw their album Utakata No Hibi reissued by Palto Flats in 2015. Kakashi offers a similar blend of saxophone experimentations, jazz fusion and ambient dub excursions."

“It has become clear that Matthew Shipp is the most interesting and important jazz pianist of his generation, the most continually evolving and pushing forward. Now that he's in his sixties and something of an elder statesman of the art form, he's overdue for a retrospective look at his catalog, and to help make that happen, ESP-Disk' will be reissuing some of his great early work that's gone out of print.
The 1990 trio recording Circular Temple (originally self-released on Quinton, then reissued...

Matthew Shipp: piano

THE REWARD will be released early December 2020, at the occasion of Matthew Shipp 60th birthday.
This double LP is the first vinyl Matthew Shipp recorded since his very first recording, "Sonic Exploration", a duo with Rob Brown, released on 1988! 500 copies limited edition.

So here is the picture disc edition, without bonus tracks, but with an LP-sized insert of eight pages. The cover artwork designed by H.R. Giger was taken over unchanged. The picture disc is limited to 1000 numbered copies.
Reissue from the master tapes of the only album by this heavy Swiss late 1960's heavy underground cult band, which was originally released in 1969.
A very heavy, world-class psychedelic album. This is one of the rarest albums in the world and includes the H.R. Giger original...

An excellent stoner/hard rock Swedish band. You'll hear influences/sounds of Captain Beyond, early Deep Purple, early Led Zep, mixed with more proggy touches: flute, sitar, organ and even a mellotron bit or two. They do the progressive hard rock mixed with a stoner vibe thing better than nearly anyone right about now.

"Siena Root - Swedish root rock experience! Siena Root came to life in Stockholm and is today considered one of the pioneering Swedish bands in root rock music. They persistently...

"Sykli (Cycle in English), the third album from young Finnish team Siinai, is a brilliant example of what happens when a band go in search of not so much the lost chord as the perfect frequency. All five tracks are quite different from one another, yet each achieves a state of mesmeric immersion that’s comparable to the best ambient or minimal electronica. They never induce mere passivity in the listener – rather, they create a sense of active surrender. Temppeli starts with a celestial synth loop...

Typically thorough and well done Garden of Delights release of an exceedingly obscure and rare stoner folk album from 1970, with a history of the band, rare photos and documentation and more. Devastatingly loose and vibed up, the two Siloah albums are amongst the most cracked of all early 70s German output! First-ever vinyl reissue!

"This is drug influenced psych-Kraut of the highest level. Private press debut from 1970 from mostly acoustic trippy hippie ethnic LSD-dropping folks from a Munich...

�Beacon is the fourth album for the Silver Apples, the "come back album", produced by Steve Albini and originally released in 1997 on CD only. Eight of the tracks were new songs that former exile and Silver Apples leader Simeon had composed with recent additions Xian Hawkins and Michael Lerner. The remaining three tunes are remakes from the Silver Apples's past. A reworking of "I Have Known Love" opens the record. "You and I" is given an appropriate chaotic reading; a wall of cacophonous keyboards forms...

“First-ever reissue of rare, 1991, cassette-only underground neo-psychedelic punk steeped in Pebbles-era rock, from this Milwaukee band which featured Dan Mullin (Plasticland) on guitar and the talents — songwriting and otherwise — of iconic underground maven Tess (James Tessier).
‘I Want Speed’ shows The SilverBeats’ affinity to West Coast psychedelia. And it’s no coincidence that they cover the Human Expression’s ‘Calm Me Down,’ rich with harmony vocal, and The Pretty Things’ ‘Midnight to Six...