“The outsized sounds emerging from the Excelsior Mill organ captured here constitute a unique chapter in the Sun Ra story, a dizzying phantasmagoria that offers a whole new view on what Ra could do. It might thrill you; it might unnerve you; it might strum your heartstrings; it might spook the living daylights out of you. Most likely you’ll experience all of the above before the jolting musical jeremiad is done.
When you’re Sun Ra, you don’t need synthesizers to evoke apocalyptic visions and...

Since there are so many posthumously released Ra discs, some of which are pretty stinky sonic quality, I thought I would mention that for a live 1972 show at the [in]famous Slug�s, this sounds quite good and the balances are good.

�Art Yard continues their voyage into the omniverse of unreleased Sun Ra tapes with I Roam The Cosmos, an unreleased, previously unheard 1972 live session recorded at Slug's Saloon in New York. Fronting a stellar 18-piece incarnation of the Arkestra, I Roam The Cosmos...

“Featuring what may be his only recordings on the Prophet keyboard, these once lost performances expand the omniverse of Ra across a stellar set of lengthy cuts! All recorded in a single day and finally making their terrestrial debut!
What happens when a Prophet meets a Prophet? The answer lies within these grooves.
Amongst the hundreds of recordings issued by Sun Ra and his Arkestra, under their various guises, the majority were recorded in concert or in makeshift studios such as their earl

“Fans of Sun Ra's Space Bop and genre-bending jazz were in for a shock with Strange Strings. Even in the eclectic and sometimes baffling Sun Ra catalog, Strange Strings is an outlier. It's primitive, it's sophisticated, but it's not a gradient of either. It's brutal, yet highly sensitive. Is it music, or just noise? Or noise as music? John Cage could not be reached for comment. Ra had accumulated an arsenal of exotic string instruments from curio shops and music stores. At his makeshift rehearsal/recording

“Universe in Blue is a rarity. This collection of undated live club performances was issued in small-run pressings with two different LP covers on Sun Ra's Saturn label around 1972, but has largely escaped further notice.
The performances originated in the early 1970s at the rowdy Lower East Side jazz mecca Slug's Saloon, located at 242 East 3rd Street. Starting in 1966 (or possibly as late as 1968), Sunny and his band performed at Slug's almost every Monday night for several years, and took the...

“Strut present the final instalment in their series of reissues of Sun Ra’s historic recordings in Egypt with The Sun Ra Arkestra meets Salah Ragab in Egypt plus the Cairo Jazz Band, originally released on Greek label Praxis in 1983.

"Brooklyn ensemble Sunwatchers return with the incendiary follow up to their 2016 eponymous debut, the appropriately titled "II". The quartet continues to defy adequate description, incorporating elements of free jazz, psychedelia, punk, Ethiopian and Thai music and funk into a dizzy, invigorating sound. "II" kicks off with the click of sticks and launches into "Nosebeers", a righteous burner that writhes and squawks with heady desert vibes and white hot saxophone, sounding not unlike something akin to...

“In the decade or so that hard-working New York quartet Sunwatchers have operated, the group has steadily & subtly refined their sound - a brain-blasting mixture of jazz, psychedelia, krautrock, punk, noise, & Saharan blues - into something that is avant-leaning enough to appeal to the discerning jazz & experimental music fan & weird & wooly enough to get the true heads' toes tapping. "Music Is Victory Over Time" is the band's 5th album, and fourth for Chicago-based Trouble In Mind Records, seeing the...

John Surman – baritone saxophone, soprano saxophone
Eddie Louiss – organ, piano
Daniel Humair – drums

Unknown and surprisingly excellent album featuring a lot of Surman and a lot of Hammond playing. “Recorded in Japan during a tour in 1970. A classy trio album with Louiss' superb Hammond organ played front and center and a glimmering of the Caribbean dancing in the shadows.”

“Surplus1980’s second full-length album expands their palette of angular post-punk with shades of avant-prog and art rock. Led by former Sleepytime Gorilla Museum’s Moe! Staiano, Surplus1980’s music lands in the vicinity of The Fall, The Ex and Pere Ubu to create their own blend of modern no-wave angst.
Combined with Staiano’s playful lyrics, Surplus 1980's music is a thick slab of out-jazz, with more than a dash of punk ferocity.

You there, with the pigeon on your head: Thank you!...

"2018 album from legendary Can vocalist Damo Suzuki. This release finds Damo performing a fully improvised set in studio with German experimentalists Jelly Planet! Incredible sonic quality and authentically mind-blowing explorations of the outer edges of space rock!"

Released in 2010 in a limited edition of only 300 copies, this title is completely sold out; these are among the very last copies for sale anywhere.

The music? It's really good Swedish psych with a heavy retro feel that recalls the best of the...

"So, listen closely, and savor the sounds: you are in the hands of a master soul traveler!"
Steve Swell (trombone), Jemeel Moondoc (alto saxophone), Dave Burrell (piano), William Parker (double bass), Gerald Cleaver (drums).

“Sylvian’s finest ambient album, “Wandermude is an album of futuristic ambient themes from German "sound artist" Stephan Mathieu and the multi-talented David Sylvian. Electronic musician Fennesz also contributes to one track. The pieces are haunting and somewhat formless in terms of melodic content (more tones than melodies). Sylvian does not sing on the album.
The cover photo of the gloves from a space suit gives the listener a hint of what he or she is in for; hearing Wandermude gives the feeling...

First-ever vinyl edition of Syndone's 2010 third album, and their come-back, as their first two albums were both issued in the early 1990s!

The group as featured here is
Nik Comoglio : piano, Hammond, Moog, keyboards
Federico Marchesano : electric bass & double bass
Francesco Pinetti : vibraphone, symphonic timpani
Paolo Rigotto : drums, percussion
Riccardo Ruggeri : vocals

"Italian band Syndone is the project and creative vehicle of composer and keyboardist Nik...

"Syrinx's path veered from the dominant modes of '70s subculture, their version of chamber pop hybridized with wild, whimsical electronic experimentation charting new territory in the under and overground.
Formed by composer John Mills-Cockell after the dissolution of Intersystems, Syrinx's two adventurous albums, Syrinx and Long Lost Relatives, endorsed the poetic potential of the avant-garde, subverting a turn of the '60s trend toward technological pageantry.
Tumblers From The Vault presents..