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Rose, Jon - Shopping.Live@Victo ''Yes, we're still shopping - this is an unexpurgated copy of the Victoriaville concert (Radio recording) with group: Lauren Newton, Joelle Leandre, Otomo Yoshihide and Chris Cutler. In my opinion the wildest and most dizzying version on record. Unfolding chaos with luminous performances - viz, Lauren's hair-raising interpretations and vocal event, Joelle's oscar-winning bag lady performance, THE CAST for maintaining an atmosphere of knife-edge confusion. All human life and a whole lot of other stuff too... 21-RER JR4 $12.00
Absolute Zero - Crashing Icons CD "Based in Miami, this is a very interesting American band, ploughing its own furrow - whose accent is what they call 'prog' over there, but whose language is more complex by far. Pip Pyle adds a seasoned sophistication - in fact I think this is a great... RER M2R $12.00
U Totem - Strange Attractors CD U Totem were the avant-rock supergroup that combined personnel from Los Angeles' 5uu's and Motor Totemist Guild. They existed between 1998 - 2004 and released two albums, of which this is the second. Since his time in U Totem, drummer/composer Dave Ker... Rune 66 $15.00
NOW Orchestra + Marilyn Crispell - Pola A 13 piece band + guest Marilyn Crispell in a studio date from 11/04. Kate Hammett-Vaughan: voice, Coat Cooke: baritone & tenor saxophones, flute, Bruce Freedman: alto saxophone, Graham Ord: tenor & soprano saxophones flute, Saul Berson: alto saxophone... VICTO097 $15.00
Rothenberg/Sync with Strings, Ned - Inner Diaspora CD I don't get to actually see a lot of the Tzadik artists perform, but I've seen Ned Rothenberg and his great Sync group (Jerome Harris-acoustic bass guitar and Smir Chatterjee-tabla) play a pretty great show in March, 2006, so my interest in this band... TZ8114 $13.00
Locus Solus - 50th Birthday Celebration Volume 3 CD "Continuing Tzadik's series of live recordings from Zorn's 50th birthday month is this classic reunion of three downtown legends, Arto Lindsay (Ambitious Lovers), Anton Fier (Golden Palominos) and John Zorn (Naked City). There has never been a band qui... TZ5003 $13.00
Towner, Ralph - Solstice CD For over 35 years, Ralph Towner has been 'the man' on acoustic 6 and 12 string guitars, his music displaying a deep, deep beauty, but never becoming too sweet. This features an ECM all-star band: Ralph Towner-12 string and classical guitars, piano, Jan... 28-ECM1060 $17.00
Harmonia - Live 1974 This is simply an unbelievable find and has to qualify for archival release of the year! After two albums, guitarist Michael Rother left Neu! & joined forces with the electronic duo Cluster (Hans Joachim Roedelius & Didier Moebius) in the mid 1970s. They made two brilliant albums that combined Rother's melodic sense with the early, home-made electronic king-klang of Cluster, were generally ignored at the time. Eventually the musicians kinda gave up on the whole starvation thing and moved onto other.... 39-GRLN78.2 $16.00
Moondog - More Moondog / The Story of Moondog Moondog was a mostly self-taught blind composer who was a fixture on streetcorners in Manhatthan from the 1940's through the early 1970's, playing his compositions for whatever passersby would give him and also selling printed music. He befriended Charlie 28-OJC1781.2 $12.00
Bernstein, Steven - Solos: The Jazz Sessions DVD "Steven Bernstein is a trumpeter/slide trumpeter, bandleader, arranger, and composer who lives outside of musical convention.“I’m one of the few trumpet players who understands different styles of music inside and outside of jazz. In my date book... 21-MVD 5040 $17.00
Ostinato - Chasing The Form Excellent guitar, bass, drums post-rock power trio. Think Mono, Godspeed, Nought, etc. Virginia/DC based, but I've not seen them play (I'll have to look for them now that I've heard how good they are!). " The music shifts easily from melancholy uber... 31-EOM22 $14.00
Cobham, Billy/Culturemix - The Paris Concert DVD "This is clearly underlined in the live recording made in September 2002 at the Paris New Morning club. The New Morning - The Paris Concert DVD contains twelve great tracks, where all of the musicians involved show themselves to be fantastic soloists... 21-INAK6452 $17.00
Destroy All Monsters - Grow Live Monsters DVD (Mega Blowout Sale) "Grow Live Monsters is a selection from short home-made no-budget 8mm, super 8 and 16mm film fantasies made between 1971-1976. Most of the films revolved around a group of friends and the wall of noise they would create in basement cellars and in live... 21-MVD4568 $9.00
Egg - The Civil Surface CD Finally available again after much too many years and much demand from our customers. This was the third and final album by the trio of Dave Stewart-organ and piano, Mont Campbell-bass and vocals and Clive Brooks-drums. It was actually recorded a few... 23-Eclec 2003 $16.00
East Of Eden - Mercator Projected (expanded) CD A milestone in the birth of 'progressive/art' rock, East of Eden's debut album, 'Mercator Projected' has been cited by MOJO magazine as a ...masterpiece". Released on the legendary Deram label in 1969, the album established East of Eden as a major act,... 23-Eclec 2033 $16.00
Moha! - Norwegianism "Out of Norway's super-fertile improv scene, MoHa! are boldly leading the way with a sound that encompasses the best of rock, free jazz and electronic music. Despite the enormity and broad spectrum of sounds that constitute their unique style, it is... 05-RUNEGRAMMOFON2064 $17.00
Yamamoto, Eri - Redwoods ""Eri Yamamoto moved to NYC from Kyoto, Japan in 1995. Eri's growth as a jazz player and composer over the last 10 years is truly phenomenal. Having deeply impressed us last year, AUM Fidelity quickly recorded two albums with her in early 2008. The first 05-AUM049CD $14.00
Bruce Band, Jack - Live '75 - 2 x CDs Jack is best known for being the principle songwriter and bassist and voice behind Cream. He's got a wonderful voice and is a fine composer and he continues to make good work to this day. This documents the very short-lived band he had with dual keyboa... 15-POLYDOR065607 $24.00
Rosapaeda - Mater Heart Folk "After the remarkable success of Facce and In forma di Rossa Pugliese vocalist Antonella “Rosapaeda” Di Domenico is back with a new CD, Mater that’s sure to delight her growing legion of fans. On Mater what is most striking is her voice, a voice at... 08-FELMAY8124 $18.00
Ledda, Elena - Incanti "In the summer of 1993 Elena Ledda released one of her most accomplished albums, Incanti, on the French label Silex. Reissued ten years on, now a cornerstone of European folk music recording, it still sounds as fresh and inventive as ever... 08-FY8061 $18.00
Karaba - Live In Vienna vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) 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.. 15-AR 39 $40.00
Excepter - Familiar (Mega Blowout Sale) "New York City's long-reigning experimental electronics collective Excepter went through a period of great transition following their massive 2010 double album Presidence. Member Clare Amory died of cancer in 2011 and other members of the band relocated shortly afterwards. Familiar, the first work from the band after regrouping, finds the collective still incredibly strange, but moving their free-form electronics and Kraut/early-industrial-inspired sound closer to the realm of pop music. Opening track... 23-PTYT 072 $6.00
Various Artists - Latin Jazz: Afro-Cuban Jazz Pioneers (special) If you love/follow jazz of the 40s, you eventually end up here, if you didn't start here: with an appreciation and understanding of how the Hispanic (mostly Cuban, but others as well) residents of NYC mixed with the emerging boppers in the 40s and came... 02-066 477 2 $9.00
Schulze, Klaus / Solar Moon System - Ultimate Docking (expanded) 2 x CDs "New release of the remarkable Klaus Schulze & Solar Moon System album "Docking" (long sought after and once released in the strictly limited wooden 10CD boxset "Contemporary Works"), advanced with unpublished material from the original Klaus Schulze/Solar Moon System sessions. This 2CD album became an "Ultimate Docking" definitely. It was a surprise when Klaus Schulze called out of the blue some late night in year Y2K Solar Moon System. A few days later they met Klaus in his infamous recording... 21-MIG 01622 $23.00
Merzbow / Oren Ambarchi - Cat's Squirrel "Cat's Squirrel is a live recording of Masami Akita and Oren Ambarchi's performance in Sydney, Australia in May 2012. Although Akita and Ambarchi have known one another since 1993 and performed together as part of larger ensembles, this was their first performance as a duo. Together they create a massive wall of sound that moves from the cavernous to the blisteringly psychedelic, laying down shifting low-end structures over which pointillist details ricochet across the stereo field. Akita and Ambarchi's... 05-HH 4130740CD $26.00
Schulze, Klaus - Cocooning “Re-release of the sought-after Klaus Schulze album „Cocooning", previously released as part of the strictly limited and long exhauseted 5CD Boxset „Contemporary Works II" (2002). First track "Easy Listening" is well-difined by the relaxed loops of Tom Dams and the filigree guitar play of Michael "Mickes" Luecker. The mysterious sounding "And She Is Kind And Gently" don't need any rhythm - a dialogue between Klaus and Tobias Becker, whose oboe and English horn is pleasing the ear on almost all Cocooning... 21-MIG01892 $20.00
Mulelid, Kjetil - What You Thought Was Home vinyl lp + CD (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) “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... 05-RLP 3208LP $35.00
King Crimson - The Night Watch 2 x CDs Great release of the most famous King Crimson bootleg (available as "Un Reve Sans Consequence Speciale" and also the source concert for some of the tracks that showed up on Starless and Bible Black! "This popular King Crimson archival release is available once again. Drawn from a single concert at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw in November 1973, The Night Watch is one of the most celebrated KC live recordings. A recording was originally broadcast by the BBC, as a result of which the concert was... 28-DGMI5016.2 $20.00
Lehman, Steve / Sebeyone - Xaybu: The Unseen CD “Xaybu: The Unseen is the sophomore release from Sélébéyone, the international avant-rap collective led by saxophonist and composer Steve Lehman, who has been hailed by The New York Times for his "sure-footed futurism" in the realms of modern jazz and contemporary classical music. Comprised of MCs HPrizm and Gaston Bandimic, saxophonists Lehman and Maciek Lasserre, and drummer Damion Reid, their eponymous 2016 debut was hailed as a game-changing synthesis of underground hip-hop, modern jazz and live... 28-PIRC95.2 $16.00
Curlew - North America (expanded / remastered) Few avant/electric jazz bands have maintained as high a quality of work over as long a career - over two decades thus far - as Curlew. Formed in 1979, North America reissues their obscure 2nd album, which was recorded in 1984-85 and originally released only in Germany. It features the band in transition from it's original line-up into the band that helped to define the "Knitting Factory Sound" in the mid/late 1980's, and who the New York Times, called, "the best of the unsigned, genre. Rune 167 $15.00
XTC - Black Sea CD + 5.1 / hi-res Blu-ray (expanded / remixed / remastered) This and English Settlement are the highest points for me, in a career filled with highlights. And now given the deluxe (and always revelatory Steven Wilson remix / hi-res & 5.1 mix! One of the smartest, best and most distinctive pop bands of their time. Highly recommended. Their fourth album. "Black Sea is the fifth in a series of expanded XTC album reissues, including 5.1 Surround mixes, 2017 stereo mixes and High-Resolution stereo mixes by Steven Wilson, along with a wealth of extra audio. 23-Ape BD104 $22.00
Traffic - Live On Air 1967 CD (Mega Blowout Sale) One of the greatest bands to emerge in the year of the summer of love, their “Mr Fantasy” album is my favorite psychedelic album. These BBC sessions have been out many times in many ways, but if you don’t have them, they present an alternative look at many of the tracks from Mr Fantasy & more! “Steve Winwood, Dave Mason, Chris Wood and Jim Capaldi formed Traffic in April 1967. Expectations ran high and were triumphantly met by Paper Sun, which became a smash hit upon release in May (and,,, 23-LCCD 5002 $7.00
Radigue, Eliane - Jouet Electronique / Elemental I vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) "Alga Marghen presents the new edition of Eliane Radigue's "Jouet Electronique" (1967) for feedback on magnetic tape and "Elemental I" (1968) for feedback of natural sounds on magnetic tape. This LP was first issued in 2010, and it's now presented for the first time with its own specific artwork and layout. Both works were recorded at Pierre Henry's Studio Apsome in Paris. Between 1967 and 1968, Radigue was Henry's assistant, mainly for the editing of L'Apocalypse de Jean (1969). Henry also put her in... 05-ALGA 029LP $29.00
Reichel, Achim - AR5: Autovision (Mega Blowout Sale) Despite their being quite popular at the time, and despite Achim's long history in music, being a big name in the "Beat-era" with The Rattles and then later being a early pioneer of the Krautrock sound, most of his great albums from the 70s have not.... 18-Germanofon 941079-MBS $7.00
Angeli, Paolo / Takumi Fukushima - Itsunomanika Takumi Fukushima – violin, voice Paolo Angeli – prepared Sardinian guitar, voice Excellent album of duos; some a bit wild, others, very intimate and - dare I say - beautiful? Remember, Monk wrote a song called "Ugly Beauty"... After the demise of Volapük, I was wondering when I would hear Takumi again and I am happy to hear her here with Paolo who makes an excellent musical partner for her. "This is Paulo Angeli’s fifth release, this time with ex-After Dinner, ex Volupuk violinist and.... ReRPA5 $15.00
Cutler, Chris / Lutz Glandien - Domestic Stories CD (Mega Blowout Sale) “Single work song cycle written by Cutler (words) and Glandien (music), with performances by Fred Frith, Dagmar Krause and Alfred Harth. Full book of texts and pictures. Following on from Art Bears and News From Babel. Cover by Peter Blegvad.” “Alternately harrowing and slyly humorous, this collaboration between Chris Cutler and Lutz Glandien plays more like an Art Bears reunion featuring, Fred Frith on guitar and the irrepressible Dagmar Krause on vocals. What Glandien brings to these... RER LSM $7.00
Garland, David - My Vortex Camera CD (Mega Blowout Sale) "In New York City, where I live, musicians from very different backgrounds and from all over the world can encounter one another in their search for kin from their muse’s home town. It might be that their only point of connection, and only common langu... NMLRERE 96 $7.00
Fjodor - St. Anthony's Fire vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) You haven't heard this and I have, so you'll have to trust me on this, but this vinyl-only release is a killer. Fjodor are from Croatia and are an instrumental quartet consisting of Ivan Beuc-guitar Mirko Golubic-bass & baritone guitar. 19-Eye 9 $26.00
Greaves, John / Peter Blegvad - Kew.Rhone CD Easily available again for the first time in many, many years. John Greaves was the bassist for Henry Cow during their prime. He later went onto an interesting solo career featuring more "song oriented" material, and also some fine writing... 21-ReR QR1 $15.00
Hillage, Steve - Dusseldorf 2 x CDs Newly reissued and selling for half of what it previously sold for!! "Some gigs are simply meant to be out there - even if they take decades to actually make it into our hands. This is without doubt one of those concerts; recorded at the Philips Halle, Düsselsdorf on the 28th March 1979 during the Live Herald Tour. Released following the AIM-nominated deluxe box set from Hillage, Searching for the Spark, this Düsselsdorf double CD showcases the Steve Hillage Band's prowess with excellent... 28-MAFI1714624.2 $17.00
Old and New Dreams - Tribute To Blackwell vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) Dewey Redman - tenor sax, musette Don Cherry - pocket trumpet Charlie Haden double bass Ed Blackwell - drums A total classic from 1990, available again. “Old and New Dreams was a legendary quartet and possibly one the most important line-up in the post-Ornette Coleman continuum! Recorded live in Atlanta in 1987 and first released in 1990, their second Black Saint release stands as the group final statement. A high-quality recording capturing an outstanding performance as... 05-BS 120113LP $29.00
Lussier, René / Robbie Kuster / Erick d’Orion / Martin Tetrault - Printemps 2021 CD Rene Lussier – guitar, daxophone Erick d’Orion – computer, electronics Robbie Kuster – drums Martin Tétrault – turntable, electronics “Lussier, Orion, Kuster and Tétreault created an hour of thunderous atmospheres, heterogeneous collages and heavy sound masses. The liberated, energetic and unpretentious improvised music like that, we would take it even more often.” “The performance of the quartet was the high point of the Festival.” – All About Jazz Victo 134 $15.00
TEE - Trans-Europe Expression CD Kenji Imai - Flute Ryuji Yonekura - Keyboards Takayuki Asada - Drums Yukio Iigahama - Bass Katsumi Yoneda - Guitar “Three years later TEE would release their sophomore album ''Trans Europe expression'', which is nothing less than devastating, high-gear instrumental Prog with technical brilliance and an endless set of interactions and shift changes, making it sometimes a bit of a music babbling. Now, we are talking about a Japanese band, this means automatically that.. FGBG 4892 $16.00
Accordo dei Contrari - UR– CD “...filled with the type of blazing solos, odd-metered time signatures, precisely executed unison bridges, hypnotic riffing, and dramatic chordal hooks that fans of high-energy fusion-tinged electric prog shouldn't miss.” – AllMusic Leading up to its fifth studio album, Accordo dei Contrari had one simple yet ambitious goal: to make music that was “original, challenging, and beautiful at the same time”. By that measure, *UR–* is a resonant success [and an... Rune 489 $15.00
Redfearn, Alec K. / The Eyesores - The Opposite vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) Mega Blowout Sale) A very high quality pressing presented in a beautiful, mesmeric gatefold jacket in a very limited edition. Alec K. Redfearn – electrified accordion, vocal, Realistic MG-1, loops, ceremonial bell, combo organ Ann Schattle – French horn Christopher Sadlers – contrabass, loops, vocals Matt McLaren – drums, percussion Eleven chimes usher listeners into the world of The Opposite, the 8th album by the hypnotically eclectic... Rune 444-v-mbs $7.00
Gandalf’s Fist - Road To Darkness CD (special edition) “Seven years ago we released, what we consider to be, the first real Gandalf's Fist album: Road to Darkness. The album was recorded over the course of a weekend by Dean and Luke and propelled us into micro-stardom! Even though the album has had several, short-run releases over the years, it has never benefited from a high quality packaging or glass-pressed master... until now! But that's not all! We're taking this 7-year anniversary as the prime opportunity to release: Road to Darkness... 23-NKP 003 $15.00
Cardiacs - Some Fairytales From The Rotten Shed DVD "In the wrong hands, a tool can serve as a WEAPON!"-Kavus Torabi High quality video footage from 'rehearsals' from 2005! This is just a riot from beginning to end. Tim claims he can't remember all the words, but it's just an excuse so he can sing 'fuckity fuck fuck' a lot and give Kavi 'the eye'; he doesn't give a toss anymore. A fucking dog barks. And barks. And fucking barks....It's hot in the shed (for Jim, but not apparently for Kavus, who wears white fur), there is much.... ALPH DVD 002 $21.00
Truth & Janey - No Rest For The Wicked! vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) There are a lot of 70s,U.S., private label, hard rock and metal releases, but this is really a minor lost classic. Recommended for fans of the genre. “•Considered by many to be perhaps the best independent U.S. heavy rock release of the 1970’s! •Includes insert with history of the group, lyrics and rare band photos •High quality vinyl reissue of this hard rock monster from 1976 by legendary underground power trio led by guitarist BillyLee Janey A total heavy sonic assault!... 18-ROCK/LION030-V-1 $27.00
Bastian, Greco – W. A. L. H. F. More F. CD “Once upon a time there was “With a Little Hell From My Friends”… but that was sooo 2022. Now it’s time for MORE. Yes! “w. a. l. h. f. MORE f.” is here!!! Without any doubt, this album is expected to be one of the very best releases of the year and already ranks high at Prog Archives, República Progresiva and other Prog Rock pages around the world. w.a.l.h.f. MORE f. is an adventurous album full or rhythmic surprises, well-crafted compositions and top-notch performances by familiar names in the... Azafran AP 2451 $15.00
AMM - AMMusic 1966 CD Cornelius Cardew: Piano, Cello, Transistor Radio Lou Gare: Tenor Saxophone, Violin Eddie Prevost: Percussion Keith Rowe: Electric Guitar, Transistor Radio Lawrence Sheaff: Cello, Accordion, Clarinet, Transistor Radio Originally recorded and released in 1966, this has long been considered one of the early high-watermarks of contemporary improvised music/sound. AMM were one of the first completely non-idiomatic free improvising ensembles, and this was their very first releas 21-RER AMM $15.00