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"Limited vinyl LP repressing includes bonus 7” pressing of the rare Move EP.
1979 solo debut from The Homosexuals bassist Jim Welton (aka. L. Voag). A band by the name of The Rejects were formed in the bar of Goldsmith's College in South London in 1976. The name The Rejects was too deeply embedded in what was regarded as "the new conformity of punk," leading to the name change to The Homosexuals. The band then lived in a series of squats while making music and recording. Their angular guitars...

Lino Capra Vaccina - vibraphone, piano, glockenspiel, gongs, wind chimes, percussions, tablas, bowed instruments, cymbals
Michele Lombardelli - analog devices, oscillators, mixer
Luca Scarabelli - microphones, springs, metals, marbles

Bronze vinyl; edition of 500 hand-numbered copies.

“Perpetual Possibility is an album that bears witness to the collaboration between Lino Capra Vaccina, living legend of Italian minimalism and the avant-noise duo Untitled Noise with an interesting.

After recording The Quiet Zone/The Pleasure Dome, VDG added cellist Charles Dickie and hit the road for another year, playing a bunch of loud, wild concerts and generally getting rave reviews.
On January 15 & 16, 1978, the quintet (Charles, Peter, Graham, Guy, Nic) + special guest David Jackson played a concert at the Marquee Club, which was professionally recorded and later released as the double lp set, Vital. It's pretty loud, wild, sloppy and a good listen. One listen to this will tell you why...

“A new vinyl edition of this classic album originally released in October 1975. An exact reproduction of the original Charisma LP. Newly re-mastered from the original master tapes. Cut at Abbey Road Studios”

After a 3 year lay-off, Van der Graaf Generator came back with the original four members (Peter Hammill, Hugh Banton, David Jackson and Guy Evans) but with a change in sound. Godbluff was the first of the several albums that the mk. II band would release and is one of their absolute great ...

A new vinyl edition of this classic album originally released in December 1970. An exact reproduction of the original Charisma LP. Newly re-mastered from the original master tapes. Recorded at Trident Studios, London, 11th to 14th December 1969. Released in a gatefold cover. Accompanied by a poster. Cut at Abbey Road Studios"

Very good, second and early Peter Hammill and band release on their second under the VDGG name, even though the first was more of a solo Hammill album than truly a band...

“Laurence Vanay is the pseudonym for Jacqueline Thibault, wife of music producer and musician Laurent Thibault (ex-MAGMA). Her debut album is entitled 'Galaxies' released in 1974, a very rare item indeed and a Holy Grail for most collectors of 70's underground French progressive.”

I believe that this is all previously unreleased materials from the years 1974-1985. Not as amazing as Galaxies and Evening Colours, but still very, very good.

“This album is like a private and historical dive...

Laurence Vanay is the pseudonym for Jacqueline Thibault, wife of music producer and musician Laurent Thibault (Magma). Under that name, she released a small number of great albums in the 70s, but this is an archival release of all previously unheard recordings from the late 70s!

�My ship of stone, tonight I came as a passer-by. Yet I gave you everything, my joy, my love, my freedom. I feel like singing, dancing, laughing like in the old times.� �Jacqueline Thibault (from �Mon vaisseau de Pierre,'..

"The tracks on the album reflect my feelings at the time, a great happiness to live an interesting life (although stressful!) with the key, a happy story of love."-Jacqueline Thibault

"Following the international release of �Evening Colours� in 1976, Jacqueline Thibault (Laurence Vanay) continued to compose songs that she recorded on her multi-track Revox. But she had little time for her own music, working day and night at legendary international recording studio, the Ch�teau d�H�rouville...

“On their first stand-alone record as a duo, Ken Vandermark and Hamid Drake celebrate their 30+ year playing relationship with an electrifying live set of pieces, all featuring music composed by legendary free jazz musician Don Cherry. Restricting himself here to tenor saxophone, Vandermark has developed an almost telepathic understanding with Drake, whose masterful work on the drum kit has rarely been more focused and relaxed. The music was recorded in Corbett vs. Dempsey's main space on the closing day...

Thorsten Dulsrud : drums
Frode Holm : piano, electric piano, synthesizer
Harald Salater : bass
Sven Undseth : saxes, flute, alto clarinet, guitar

A lost minor classic of the mid 70s jazz/rock era, originally released on Compendium (Hopper Tunity Box! Henry Cow Concerts!) and now reissued (FINALLY) reissued on vinyl legitimately for the very first time, “Transferred and restored from the original master tape”. This one is fondly remembered by a lot of folks. Comparisons to Soft Machin

"Limited 180 gram vinyl reissue of the soundtrack for Henry Chapier's film Sex Power, starring Jane Birkin. Originally released in 1970 by Philips, this electronic/prog classic is essentially Vangelis' first full-length solo effort, as around this...

VG+ condition/cover has tiny cut out hole. Cover shows some signs of wear from sitting in a bin for many years, while the disc itself is very clean and shiny.

HOT, classic 1979 live show with Jasper (electric keyboards), Bob Malach (saxes)...

"Belgium-based composer Christina Vantzou’s fourth full-length for Kranky ventures further into the uniquely elusive and evocative mode of ambient classical minimalism which has become her signature: a fragile synthesis of contemplative drift, heady silences, and muted dissonance. In regards to the new album she speaks of focusing particular attention on the effects of the recordings on the body, and of “directing sound perception into an inner space.”
No. 4 took shape across roughly two years...

This band's 1st release came out on Beyond Is Beyond Is Beyond, but this one is a Swedish-only release!

"This is spiritual space rock with a pagan, ritualistic feel to it!"-Daniel Ekeroth, author of Swedish Death Metal

"The sounds seemingly made of space travelling Bedouins teaming up with a tribe of deep wood dunces come together on this bewitchingly ingratiating album from Swedish favourites Vart Solsystem (also known as Our Solar System in other clusters of the galaxy)....

Really, all you need to see to know you want this is the front cover, color 'snapshot' from the late 70s of 4 bearded guys facing each other with their mounds of analog gear and a certain segment of our vinyl-buying public will want this for sure....

Keyboardist Luis Vecchio has 4 albums listed in Discogs, of which this is the final (it’s from 1978).
At its best (maybe half of the record?) it comes across very much like an instrumental Area circa 1978! That’s really a pretty fucking great place to be, at least if you are me!
Again, it isn’t ALL that good, but what’s good is REALLY good...

“Cosmic jazz from the Canary Islands. After a few years in London, where he worked with Archie Shepp and recorded a sought-after album for the...

"Giovanni Venosta's 1984 debut album, released when the artist was only 23, is a committed, subversive parody of minimalism, and a truly original work. This is its first reissue. Recorded in Venosta's living room with a four-track Tascam, this album reveals the young pianist's profound need for expression, born out of his relationship with the sound of Terry Riley, Michael Nyman, Brian Eno, Steve Reich, Penguin Café Orchestra, and Dollar Brand. The contribution of Roberto Musci results in more esoteric...

Never before on vinyl!
Tom Verlaine’s great, 1992, instrumental guitar album; as my friend said to me while playing this and us riding through the Mojave desert, “This music really is the perfect soundtrack for riding in the desert!”

"Following their much-acclaimed surprise, self-titled debut album Vermont from 2014, Motor City Drum Ensemble's Danilo Plessow and Innervisions's Marcus Worgull reunite for more synth daydreaming on the suitably titled II. The new outing continues where the first full-length left off, strolling further down the luminous and undulating path that the duo turned into, influenced in equal measures by kosmische, krautrock, minimal wave and synth soundtracks. This latest batch of instrumental cuts opens with...

“Verto (aka Vertø) was chiefly the project of Toulouse (France) based guitarist Jean-Pierre Grasset circa 1974 to '79. Verto involved members of Potemkine in the early days, playing a hybrid of rock fusions close the Zeuhl style. Often Verto would be Monsieur Grasset alone, doing live multi-track work on his guitar with delay/foldback in the vein of Manuel Göttsching or Steve Hillage. Other members included Benoît Widemann (from Magma) and Jean-Pierre Fouquey (from Forgas and later in Magma).”

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“A vinyl reissue of the self-titled LP by a progressive outfit from Mexico, originally issued in 1980 by the small underground label Momia.
Blending analogue electronic elements with piano, vibes, flute, mellotron and a dose of ancient mystique, the music has a very natural and spiritual feel.
The creative force of Via Lactea was musician Carlos Alvarado, and there are guest appearances from Jorge Reyes and Arturo Meza. This beautiful & quite rare album, with remastered sound and a bonus track..

"Dafne Vicente-Sandoval's "Minos Circuit" is the resonance of a double exploration, that of an instrument, the bassoon -- an instrument dear to Dafne Vicente-Sandoval -- and that of a listening, of a gaze, almost. The first exploration deconstructs the instrument, tearing it apart, reducing it to an archipelago of sound bodies stimulated by an electro-acoustic device that generates feedback and infiltrates each part of the bassoon, in order to carry out a methodical, systematic examination. The second...

Fay Victor – vocals
Michaël Attias - alto & baritone sax
Anthony Coleman - piano
Ratzo Harris – bass
Tom Rainey - drums

“Acclaimed vocalist-lyricist-arranger Fay Victor & her Herbie Nichols SUNG Quintet celebrate & thoroughly reconsider the rich legacy of jazz composer Herbie Nichols with Life Is Funny That Way, and bring it singing boldly into this century.
Following on Billie Holiday, who famously wrote "Lady Sings The Blues" to Nichols' "Serenade," Victor developed th

“On their third album, the Danish duo Videodrones explore their kosmische take on synth wave further. Videodrones' first two albums tapped into short arabesque-like pieces, playing out like cues in a film.
Atavistic Future sees them broadening out, with the two main tracks on the album clocking in at eight and almost 12 minutes respectively. And it's not only in the track lengths that Videodrones are reaching beyond: There is a wider range of influences and nods -- from the Phillip Glass...

Over 15 years later, their debut is released on vinyl for the first time!

Really nice debut release by this four piece classic-styled progressive outfit from Finland. There's an excellent female vocalist, as well as guitars/flute, a keyboardist who also doubles on drums (or a drummer who also doubles on keyboards) and bass. So, a very full sound from just these four.
Six songs that vary in length between 6-9 minutes, which means that there is room for everyone to breathe. The general sound...

Risto Pahlama - Lead Vocals, Keyboards, Mellotron
Hannu Hiltula - Flute, Keyboards, Backing Vocals
Aapo Honkanen - Bass
Mikko Uusi-Oukari - Guitars, Mellotron
Mikko Väärälä - Drums, Vocals, Keyboards, Chimes
with:
Kimmo Lähteenmäki - Keyboards, Wind

15 years after their second album, this fine, Finnish symphonic / progressive rock band return with their third album; I’d say it was long-awaited, except that after so long, I doubt that anyone was expecting t

Beautiful gatefold reissue of the second and final release by Virus, originally released by Pilz in 1972.

"For their second album, Virus changed radically, in both band members and music direction. Gone are the psychedelic workouts found on...

A reissue from the master tapes (and with two bonus tracks thrown in as well) of an extremely rare underground German lp from 1971 that included Eddy Marron (going under the classic nom-de-plume of 'Ed Ugly-Ugly'), who later was in Dzyan. Marron plays...

"An expanded reissue of Voigt/465's 1979 album Slights Spoken, titled Slights Still Unspoken (1978-1979). Formed in Sydney in 1976, Voigt/465 was a truly unique band from the exciting days of the Australian post-punk scene.
Heavily influenced by such luminaries as the Velvets, Stooges, Syd Barrett, Pere Ubu, Can, Faust, Henry Cow, Slapp Happy, and Eno's Roxy Music, they created an abrasive sound in which krautrock, DIY, avant-garage, post-punk, psych, art-rock, and free improv-noise combined to...

�A reissue of Adelbert Von Deyen's third album Atmosphere, originally released in 1980. Album number three from electronic musician Adelbert Von Deyen marks the end of his ambient phase. Whilst Atmosphere largely swathes listeners in familiarly vast expanses of sound, the driving analog drums of the opening track (Von Deyen's most successful, as it turned out) signal a shift towards electro-kraut terrain. Atmosphere showcases Adelbert Von Deyen at the peak of his powers. The opening track, "Timemachine"...

�A reissue of Adelbert Von Deyen's third album Atmosphere, originally released in 1980. Album number three from electronic musician Adelbert Von Deyen marks the end of his ambient phase. Whilst Atmosphere largely swathes listeners in familiarly vast expanses of sound, the driving analog drums of the opening track (Von Deyen's most successful, as it turned out) signal a shift towards electro-kraut terrain. Atmosphere showcases Adelbert Von Deyen at the peak of his powers. The opening track, "Timemachine"...

�Electronic musician Adelbert Von Deyen's debut and sophomore album were released just a year apart from each other. Sternzeit was followed by Nordborg, which featured only one track on each side. Again, Von Deyen took his time crafting a meditative maelstrom of ambient sounds. Von Deyen's debut album Sternzeit had caused quite a stir in 1978 in his home town of L�beck, where the unconventional young artist found himself inundated with fan mail and booked for autograph sessions. His contract with Sky...

A minor classic of its kind, this release celebrates and recalls the last, heady days of analog synthesis spacemusic.

"A reissue of Adelbert Von Deyen's debut album Sternzeit, originally released on the Sky label in 1978.
Adelbert Von Deyen is a protagonist of the so-called Berlin School (Berliner Schule) of electronic music. On his debut album, he takes his time to develop sound structures, often drifting, floating blissfully into tonal interference. The listener also requires time and...

“In 1966, pianist Alexander von Schlippenbach assembled his first large ensemble to play his compositions “Globe Unity” and “Sun.” This 14-piece band, which brought together some of the leading figures in European improvised music, would eventually expand – incorporating not only Europeans but also American and Asian musicians – and assume its rightful name: Globe Unity Orchestra.
In this, its nascent outing, beautifully recorded at Ariola Studio in Cologne, Schlippenbach’s band was already

“Faithfully remastered from the original mastertapes.”
This is a rather important and also rather unexpected release! Vortex are an under-known and underappreciated band who combined jazz rock with zeuhl and avant-progressive tendencies and recorded two rather rare albums in their lifetime (Vortex and Les Cycles De Thanatos). The first album featured Fender piano, saxes, flute, bass and drums, while the second album eliminated the flute, added more reeds, as well as oboe, English horn, mallet...

“Faithfully remastered from the original mastertape. High quality gatefold cover. 4 page insert with rare photos and liner notes.”

This is a rather important and also rather unexpected reissue! Vortex are an under-known and underappreciated band who combined jazz rock with zeuhl and avant-progressive tendencies and recorded two rather rare albums in their lifetime (Vortex and Les Cycles De Thanatos). This, their final album featured Fender piano, two reed players, bass, drums, oboe, English horn..

“Faithfully remastered from the original mastertape. High quality gatefold cover. 4 page insert with rare photos and liner notes.”

This is a rather important and also rather unexpected reissue! Vortex are an under-known and underappreciated band who combined jazz rock with zeuhl and avant-progressive tendencies and recorded two rather rare albums in their lifetime (Vortex and Les Cycles De Thanatos). This, their first album featured Fender piano, saxes, flute, bass and drums.

“Vortex...

This includes the original lp jacket (the one that got them in trouble with them on the cover of a faked "Allo Police" (Quebec's tatty scandal rag, ala National Enquirer, but a lot worse).

"Keyboardist/composer Jacques Perron, drummer Pierre Ringuet, guitarist Serges Vallieres and bassist Andre Parenteau met while accompanying Robert Charlebois, Louise Forestier and Yvon Deschamps. In 1970, they formed VOS VOISINS in collaboration with lyricist Marcel Sabourin.
In 1971, the group released....

Jake Vossler - Electric Guitar
Aaron McLendon - Drums

“Screaming harpies, preying mantises, and a needle drilling through the Earth's core? Sounds like metal to me! But what makes Jake Vossler and Aaron McLendon's guitar-drums duo opus Versus an incredible standout in the genre and beyond isn't its speed, brutality, or heaviness. It's the uncanny ESP on display, the immediacy of communication in improvisation, shared sense of imagination, and virtuosity not as instrumentalists, but as mind...