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![]() Gourdon, Yann / Maxime Petit / Jean-Luc Guionnet: Soli - Fanzine [3 CD + BOOK] (BeCoq -- France ) Price: $39.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A strange and bizarrely beautiful "fanzine" of three CDs, one each from hurdy gurdy drone artist Yann Gourdon, bass guitarist Maxime Petite, and Jean Luc Guionnet on organ, with illustration by artists Fredox, Celine Guichard, and 38Fillette; an odd and absorbing package. |
![]() Leigh, Geoff / Makoto Kawabata / Aogu Tanimoto: Live At Delsol Cafe (Acid Mothers Temple -- Japan ) Price: $12.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock Acid Mothers Temple guitarist Kawabata Makoto meets Henry Cow wind player, percussionist and sound artist Geoff Leigh, with Aogu Tanimoto on violin & synth, as they are captured live at Delsol Cafe, in Yahata, Japan, performing a spiritually psychedelic five-part improvisation merging acoustic and electronic instruments in unorthodox and fascinating ways. |
![]() Kawabata, Makoto / Geoff Leigh: Spatial Roots (Acid Mothers Temple -- Japan ) Price: $12.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock A live recording of the first encounter between Henry Cow/Radar Favourites/Ex-Wise Heads reed, wind and electronic artist Geoff Leigh and Acid Mother Temple guitarist and solo artist Kawabata Makoto, performing at Urbanguild, in Kyoto, Japan, in 2014 for a set of electronic, psychedelic improvisation of great detail using a vast arsenal of experimental approaches. |
![]() Cleric (John Zorn - Masada Book 3): The Book Beri'ah Vol 2 | Chokhma (Tzadik -- USA ) Price: $14.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock John Zorn's Masada Book Three, "The Book Beri'ah", continues in its second volume with this powerful and demanding album from the Philadelphia avant-metal band of Ludovic Beier on accordion & accordina, Timba Harris on violins, Matt Hollenberg on guitars & Oud, Dan Kennedy on bass, Larry Kwartowitz on drums, and Nick Shellenberger on keyboards & vocals. |
![]() Kalabalik (Raoul Bjorkenheim / Anders Nilsson / Gerald Cleaver): Kalabalik: Live At Downtown Music Gallery January 2, 2011 (DMG ARC -- USA ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock In 2010 Scandinavian guitarists Raoul Bjorkenheim and Anders Nilsson performed this incredible concert at DMG in NYC, accompanied by NY drummer Gerald Cleaver, a breathtaking album of intricate improvised interplay. |
![]() Killing Spree (Metzger / Daniel / Galichet): Boko Boko Tour (Ayler -- France ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A heavy album merging free improvisation, blues and rock forms from the French Killing Spree trio of Matthieu Metzger on alto saxophone & electronics, Sylvain Daniel on electric bass & effects, and Gregoire Galichet on drums, living up to the band name in dark malice captured live at Club Soto in Kyoto, Japan during their 2018 Japanese tour; vengeful. |
![]() King Champion Sounds / Surplus 1980 (Moe! Staiano): Split [7" VINYL] (Tractor Notown -- USA ) Price: $6.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A split 7": on one side Sleepytime Gorilla Museum percussionist/drummer/composer Moe! Staiano's West Coast rotating ensemble Surplus 1980 in a teaser for an upcoming release with G.W. Sok, Kyle Bruckmann, members of Fred Frith Trio and Total Shutdown; on the other side King Champion Sounds featuring G.W. Sok, formerly of the Dutch band the Ex. |
![]() Surplus 1980 Collectiv Ensembl With G.W. Sok : Forget All This (Music a la Coque -- Italy ) Price: $9.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Surplus 1980 Collectiv Ensembl takes the current members of drummer Moe! Staiano's Surplus 1980 along with associated musicians, including Kyle Bruckmann, John Shiurba, Vicky Grossi, Paul Costuros, &c, with vocals from Dutch vocalist G.W. Sok (The Ex), in an album of avant post-punk rock, sophisticated but determined and pointed music, an unusual hybrid of impressive styles. |
![]() Edelin, Michel Quintet w/ John Greaves: Echoes Of Henry Cow (RogueArt -- France ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock Including musicians involved with the Canterbury scene (Sophia Domancich), Magma (Simon Goubert) and Henry Cow's own John Greaves narrating, French flutist Michel Edelin's Quintet takes on the music of Rock in Opposition legendary band Henry Cow, ten inventive "echoes" of their music as it has transformed performers and listeners over time; exceptional. |
![]() Electric Bird Noise: Hearn-Roberts-Strong-Watts (Silber -- USA ) Price: $9.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Guitarist Electric Bird Noise, aka Brian Lea McKenzie, continues his string of slightly off-center rock albums, primarily instrumental work, this album including a muscular quartet with Jason Hearn on drums, Bradley Wayne Roberts on bass, Steve Strong on drums, plus an Alan Watts narration; 8 dramatic tracks using loops, effects, backward tracking and other aural trickery. |
![]() Hawkins, Chester: Natural Causes - Original Music For Pale Trees, A Film By Tim Ashby [VINYL] [Used Item] (Intangible Arts -- USA ) Price: $9.00 ![]() ![]() In Stock Washington, DC based electronic experimenter Chester Hawkins (Blue Sausage Infant) was commissioned by director Tim Ashby to compose this work for the soundtrack to his feature-length film "Pale Trees", Hawkin's music illustrating the film's gradient of psychological colors from darkness, rage, and vengeance through a mix of kosmische drone in a Tangerine Dream vein. |
![]() Mattin : Songbook #5 [VINYL] [Used Item] (Disembraining Machine -- Australia ) Price: $17.10 ![]() ![]() In Stock Mattin takes 5 spontaneous 5-minute songs from 5 musicians, and a 25 minute concert structured by 5 instructions based on those song titles, then records vocals for the 5 songs as a singing lecture, then superimposes all 3 to create the five 5-minutes songs on this album. |
![]() My Cat Is An Alien: Robert Opalio/Maurizio Opalio [VINYL] [Used Item] (Important Records -- USA ) Price: $21.60 ![]() ![]() In Stock A split LP with each side featuring a 20 minute solo track from both brotherly halves of the acclaimed space guitar improvising band My Cat Is An Alien. |
![]() Hayward, Charles : (Begin Anywhere) (Klanggalerie -- Austria ) Price: $17.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock This Heat and Camberwell Now drummer, songwriter, vocalist, experimenter and sociological observer Charles Hayward steps away from his drums for an intimate album of song, performing on piano with minimal accompaniment as he presents new songs and new versions of songs including pieces from Camberwell Now; powerfully fragile, insightful, fascinating. |
![]() Abraxas / John Zorn : The Book Beri'ah Vol 5: Gevurah (Tzadik -- USA ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock Blending a punk rock sensibility with Sephardic tribalism via a taste of North African Gnawa magic, Abraxas is one of the most primal and rocking ensembles in the Masada family, here taking on the 5th edition of Masada Book Three, "The Book Beri'ah", recording in Bill Laswell's studio for 9 joyfully exuberant and intensely executed interpretations of Zorn's compositions. |
![]() Elephant9 w/ Reine Fiske: Psychedelic Backfire II (Rune Grammofon -- Norway ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock The second of two "Psychedelic Backfire"s, The Norwegian Elephant 9 improvising rock trio of drummer Torstein Lofthus, bassist Nikolai Haengsle, and keyboardist Stale Storlokken are joined by Dungen guitarist Reine Fiske for an exciting live concert at Kampen Bistro, in Oslo in 2019, the interaction of Fiske and Storlokken a fine example that prog rock is still a vital form. |
![]() Elephant9: Psychedelic Backfire I (Rune Grammofon -- Norway ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock The first of two "Psychedelic Backfire" concerts at Oslo's Kampen Bistro, taken from a 4 night residency by the Norwegian Elephant 9 rock trio of drummer Torstein Lofthus, bassist Nikolai Haengsle, and keyboardist Stale Storlokken, expanding on tracks from their excellent studio catalog in strongly lyrical and technically superb instrumental and improvised rock forms. |
![]() Trigger (Greene / Hanes / Edgcomb): Pull (Shhpuma -- Portugal ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock John Zorn invited the trio of guitarist Will Greene, bassist Simon Hanes, and drummer Aaron Edgcomb, to found a new band and play his score books "Bagatelles" and "Apparitions" for his Tzadik label; the trio found common ground merging jazz, experimental and rock forms, forming Trigger and releaseing this album of wonderfully strange creative intent. |
![]() Cat in a Bag (Figueira / Fonseca / Clemente / Lucas): Cat in a Bag (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Price: $12.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock With 3 members of the sextet Slow is Possible--alto saxophonist Bruno Figueira, guitarist Joao Clemente and drummer Duarte Fonseca--plus bassist Joao Lucas (who has his own trio on Creative Sources), this cat is a genre-mashing band, blurring jazz and rock forms in a very Downtown NY way: open-minded, surprising, articulate, sophisticated, and passionate improv. |
![]() Killick: Stay-At-Home Monk [VINYL] (H(i)nds(i)ght -- USA ) Price: $19.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Varying the instrument and proportions of acoustic or electric presentation straddling the foreground/background dynamic for each track, Appalachian Trance Metal guitarist Killick presents his first vinyl LP to extend his vast CD discography; a worthy and curious album of solo guitar, acoustic and electroacoustic work that belongs in any guitar enthusiast's collection. |
![]() Blue Sausage Infant: Flight of the Solstice Queens (Zeromoon -- USA ) Price: $12.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Chester Hawkins' long-running BSI project now based in DC, layering groove based (kraut)rock with unearthly sound sources, plundered samples, and all form of unmentionable sound. |
![]() Tippett, Keith: The Unlonely Raindancer (Discus -- UK ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock Mujician pianist Keith Tippetts embarked on his first solo tour in 1979, capturing these concert recordings that were originally released in 1980 on vinyl on the Universe Label; long out of print, Discus has revived these extraordinary recordings, showing the incredible technical abilities, endurance, and quick-witted creative powers of this legendary improviser. |
![]() Eclectic Maybe Band: Reflections In A Moebius Ring Mirror (Discus -- UK ) Price: $14.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock The second album of this Guy Segers (Univers Zero) project in an eclectic ensemble of improvisers, rock musicians and experimenters, a genre-defying project of primarily instrumental work with interventions of song, merging acoustic & electric instruments with electronics, live improvisation with studio manipulation, to find new forms of mesmerizing music. |
![]() Pinhas, Richard / Tatsuya Yoshida: Ascension (Magaibutsu Limited -- Japan ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock The collaboration between Magaibutsu label leader, Yoshida Tatsuya (Ruins, Korekyojinn, Koenji, The World Heritage, &c) on drums, keyboards & voice, and Heldon mastermind Richard Pinhas on guitar & effects, continues with this CD of live material from their 2014 Japanese tour, extending the 2015 "Live in Japan" album, including the 8-part "Ascension". |
![]() Mute Socialite: More Popular Than Presidents and Generals (Dephine Knormal Musik -- USA ) Price: $12.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Dynamic and hyperkinetic songs from this West Coast band with Moe! Staiano (Sleepytime Gorilla Museum), rugged and impressive instrumental rock including a cover of Massacre's "Killing Time". |
![]() Surplus 1980: Pigeon Obstacle Course [VINYL + 7''] (Surplus Industries -- Czech Republic ) Price: $19.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Created out of Sleepytime Gorilla Museum and drummer/percussionist Moe Staiano's Mute Socialite, this 7-piece improvising rock band turns rock on it's side in mostly instrumental, energetically complex and twisted rock pieces with acerbic social narrative, the band employing three drummers, bass & two guitars, piano and trumpet from Darren Johnston. |
![]() BBC Trio (Gorka Benitez / Guillermo Celano / Marcos Baggiani): Donde Esta Nuestro Hogar? (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock The Barcelona trio of Gorka Benitez on tenor saxophone & flute, Guillermo Celano on electric guitar, and Marcos Baggiani on drums, play a lyrical and bluesy brand of instrumental rock music which they describe as an eclectic approach to rock emphasizing pure energy and fun, in nine upbeat and groove-oriented tunes of tight and enthusiastic playing. |
![]() Haino, Keiji / Sumac: Even for just the briefest moment Keep charging this "expiation" [VINYL 2 LPs] (Trost Records -- Austria ) Price: $32.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock The second collaboration between the American avant-metal rock trio Sumac of guitarist Aaron Turner, drummer Nick Yacyshyn and bassist Brian Cook and Japanese legendary guitarist and vocalist Keiji Haino finds the quartet settling down from their first blast of an album, here slowly building their heavy feedback-drenched, ponderous and epic music. |
![]() Burning Ghosts (Giddens / McLendon / Rosenboom / Vossler): Reclamation (Tzadik -- USA ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock Burning Ghost is the West Coast rock influenced improvising quartet of Daniel Rosenboom on trumpet, guitarist Jake Vossler, Richard Giddens on double bass, and Aaron McLendon on drums, in a fiery album of heavy playing that borrows from jazz and metal rock forms, with ominious political overtones in their titles while showing articulate and impressive playing skill. |
![]() Ceramic Dog (Ribot / Ches Smith / Shahzad Ismaily): Y R U Still Here? (Northern Spy -- USA ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock In the Downtown NY tradition of blurring rock and improvisation, the trio of Marc Ribot on guitar and voice, Shahzad Ismaily on bass, Moog, percussion and voice, and Ches Smith on drums, percussion and electronics, answer their own question 'why are you still here' through 11 genre-crossing songs of turmoil and inquisitiveness, perfect for the polarities of the time. |
![]() Connors, Loren & Suzanne Langille: I Wish I DidnÕt Dream (Northern Spy -- USA ) Price: $12.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock The first duo in 14 years between guitarist Loren Connors and vocalist Suzanne Langille inspired by and using slides of MP Landis' WD series of paintings, which he created live during music performances. |
![]() Frith, Fred / Hardy Fox: A Day Hanging Dead Between Heaven And Earth (Klanggalerie -- Austria ) Price: $17.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Fred Frith's solo career started on the West Coast Ralph Records label, home of The Residents; Frith met Residents front man Hardy Fox in passing in 1991, making recordings on a Pacific beach using Fox's Walkman, which they brought to a multi-track studio to record the basis for an ultimately unreleased album, now revived decades later as Fox rediscovered this fascinating material. |
![]() Hammill, Peter: From The Trees (Fie! Records -- UK ) Price: $14.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock Peter Hammill continues his immense solo career, intricately linked to his work with Van Der Graaf Generator, but more focused in intelligent lyrics, profound vocal layering, and fluid song structures, a unique voice who for more than 35 studio albums has developed an approach to songwriting and intellectual observation of subtle sophistication and detail. |
![]() Mako Sica / Hamid Drake: Ronda [VINYL 2 LPs] (Feeding Tube Records -- USA ) Price: $29.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock The long-running Chicago free-rock trio Mako Sica currently comprised of Przemyslaw Drazek (trumpet & guitar), Brent Fuscaldo (guitar) and Chaetan Newell (drums & piano) are joined by free improvising legend Hamid Drake on drum kit, tablas and frame drum for a beautiful and rich album of genre merging, spiritually warm, primarily instrumental music, inclusive and persuasive. |
![]() Mikami, Kan / John Edwards / Alex Nielson: Live at Cafe Oto (Otoroku -- UK ) Price: $16.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock More typically a solo performer, Japanese bluesman Kan Mikami has created a distinctive path for his voice, guitar and poetic lyrics; here he is propelled in an improvisational setting with two powerful UK players--John Edwards on bass and Alex Neilson on drums--captured live at London's Cafe Oto for a growling concert of finesse and brusque attitude. |
![]() Shardik (Shellenberger / Buckley / Hollenberg): Shardik (Tzadik -- USA ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock Born from rock bands like Cleric and Simulacrum, this NY instrumental, improvising rock trio blends avant-garde classical, free jazz, dissonant math metal, ambient and world music into a powerful new mix, with Nick Shellenberger on bass and synth, Matt Buckley on drums & percussion, and Matt Hollenberg on guitar; intricate, edgy, demanding and driven music. |
![]() Various Artists: Money Will Ruin Everything, The Second Edition 2CD/BOOK (Rune Grammofon -- Norway ) Price: $59.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock The overdue 2003 release of Rune Grammofon's 10 year anniversary book and 2 CD set, revised and superior to the 1st edition with new art, more tracks, more pages, &c. |
![]() Zorn, John: Valentine's Day (Tzadik -- USA ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock John Zorn brings together Downtown New Yorkers, Marc Ribot on guitar, Trevor Dunn on bass and Tyshawn Sorey on drums, for 12 instrumental miniatures combining atonal lyricism with rock intensity; scronky, demanding and exciting hybrids of improv and rock. |
![]() Zs: Grain [VINYL] (Northern Spy -- USA ) Price: $17.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock Tenor saxophonist Sam Hillmer (The Diamond Terrifier) takes NYC's Zs into a new direction as a trio with guitarist Patrick Higgins and percussionist Greg Fox, presenting the two part "Grain", a massive work of reorganized sound. |
![]() Koenjihyakkei: Dhorimviskha (Skin Graft -- USA ) Price: $14.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock After a 13-year hiatus KoenjiHyakkei is back with a thrillingly joyful album of unexpected song and extended, masterful instrumental sections that turn on a pin point, referring and redefining prog and RIO forms with honest enthusiasm, in a quintet with Tatsuya Yoshida on drumming, Sakamoto Kengo on bass, Koganemaru Kei on guitar, Yabuki Taku on keys and Komori Keiko on sax. |
![]() Koenjihyakkei: Angherr Shisspa Revisited (Skin Graft -- USA ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock A new edition of Koenjihyakkei's landmark fourth album, blending progressive rock, jazz fusion, symphonic rock and neoclassicism with the energy of hardcore punk, the volume of metal and the attitude of Rock In Opposition, from Tatsuya Yoshida on drums, Sakamoto Kengo on bass, Kanazawa Miyako on keyboards Yamamoto Kyoko on voice, and Komori Keiko on reeds. |
![]() Koenjihyakkei: Angherr Shisspa Revisited [VINYL] (Skin Graft -- USA ) Price: $23.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock A new edition of Koenjihyakkei's landmark fourth album, blending progressive rock, jazz fusion, symphonic rock and neoclassicism with the energy of hardcore punk, the volume of metal and the attitude of Rock In Opposition, from Tatsuya Yoshida on drums, Sakamoto Kengo on bass, Kanazawa Miyako on keyboards Yamamoto Kyoko on voice, and Komori Keiko on reeds. |
![]() Haino, Keiji / Sumac: Even for just the briefest moment Keep charging this "expiation" Plug in to making it slightly better (Trost Records -- Austria ) Price: $16.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock The second collaboration between the American avant-metal rock trio Sumac of guitarist Aaron Turner, drummer Nick Yacyshyn and bassist Brian Cook with Japanese legendary guitarist and vocalist Keiji Haino finds the quartet settling down from their first blast of an album, here slowly building their heavy feedback-drenched, ponderous and epic music. |
![]() Toys'R Noise: Manivole [VINYL] (BeCoq -- France ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Using toys and handmade instruments alongside guitar, bass, synths, plundered recordings and electronics, the French Toys'R'Noise trio are a live performing group that borrows from electro-beat rock forms with overtones of IDM/ambient forms, building extended sections and then amusing with quick-witted sections that bridge a clear love of the music. |
![]() Bonne Humeur Provisoire: Marek [VINYL] (BeCoq -- France ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock A very odd album of experimental rock and mutilated folk forms that they refer to as "A sort of traditional music from a later country in a less faraway time", from French percussionist Bertrand Fraysse with vocalist Miha, using repetition and simple forms that build to strangely dense electronic environments, with a clear DIY and peculiar attitude; great fun! |
![]() URGE / SETE STAR SEPT: SSSURGE [VINYL] (BeCoq -- France ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock A split vinyl release between Urge (Caen) and Tokyo's Sete Star Sept, with one track from the French free jazz trio Urge of Antoine Ulmann on sax, Bubu Pagier on gutiar, and Yann Fontbonne on drums, playing in a Borbetomagus mode; and the Japanese gridcore duo of drummer Ryosuke Kiyasu and bassist/vocalist Kae Takahashi providing a thick extended rock grindcore piece; a blistering combo. |
![]() Krokofant w/ Stale Storlokken / Ingebrigt Haker Flaten: Q (Rune Grammofon -- Norway ) Price: $15.45 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock Bassist Ingebrigt Haker-Flaten (The Thing) and Stale Storlokken (Elephant9, Supersilent, Terje Rypdal) join the Nordic Krokofant trio of Axel Skalstad on drums, vibraphone, Tom Hasslan on guitar, and Jorgen Mathisen on saxophone for the band's 3rd album, performing the 4-part work "Q", an intense and sophisticated album of complex and passionate instrumental rock. |
![]() Skeleton Crew (Frith / Cora): Learn to Talk [VINYL] (ReR Vinyl -- Italy ) Price: $23.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock Reissuing the first of two albums from the NY collaboration of guitarist Fred Frith and cellist Tom Cora, both providing vocals, percussion, violin, & bass, in a classic example of Downtown NY genre-merging of improvisation and rock with a vicious edge, in smart songs and even smarter instrumental sections, an insanely inventive and intelligent album as vital now as it was then. |
![]() ZNR: The ZNRarchive Box [4 CDs] (Recommended Records -- UK ) Price: $45.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock ZNR, the French trio of Hector Zazou, Joseph Racaille, and Patrick Portella, in a deluxe box set combining both of the official ZNR releases, "Barricades III" and "Traite de Mechanique Populaire" along with 2 CDs of additional released and unreleased material and a book of memories, histories, reflections, photographs, documents, interviews and other memorabilia. |
![]() Mattin : Songbook #5 [VINYL] [Used Item] (Disembraining Machine -- Australia ) Price: $15.00 ![]() ![]() In Stock Mattin takes 5 spontaneous 5-minute songs from 5 musicians, and a 25 minute concert structured by 5 instructions based on those song titles, then records vocals for the 5 songs as a singing lecture, then superimposes all 3 to create the five 5-minutes songs on this album. |
![]() Ahab Rex: Blood on Blonde [Used Item] (Lens Records -- USA ) Price: $13.00 ![]() ![]() In Stock |
![]() Roberts, Dean: Not Fire (erstwhile -- USA ) Price: $14.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Berlin-based songwriter Dean Roberts' first album in 12 years is a collection of dark and melancholic songs, set in unusual formats based around guitar, electronics, strings, with subtle rhythmic elements, performed by Dean's Dark Moth Ensemble, with additional musicians that include Boris Hauf on piano and The Neck's keyboardist Chris Abrahams on harp. |
![]() Various Artists (including Talibam!): Getting Rid of the Glue [VINYL] (Pendu Sound Recordings -- USA ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock First in a series of themed LP dedicated to improv / experimental / & noise music, this LP including Talibam!, Fessenden, Mialessot w/ Daniel Carter, &c. |
![]() Henry Cow: The Henry Cow Box Redux: The Complete Henry Cow [17 CDs, 1 DVD, 250pg Book] (Recommended Records -- UK ) Price: $89.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock The ultimate Henry Cow collection bringing together all of the 40th anniversary releases of this influential and innovative band, with all the remastered studio CDs, live CDs, Bonus CD, DVDs and booklets from each prior box, plus an additional 60 page booklet of band commentaries, pictures and other documents prepared specifically for this release, all in a sturdy & handsome box. |
![]() Cremaster / Komora A: split [7-inch VINYL] [Used Item] (Monotype -- Poland ) Price: $11.66 ![]() ![]() In Stock A split 7" release between Cremaster (Alfredo Costa Monteiro (electronics) and Ferran Fages (feedback mixing board and electroacoustic devices); and the Komora A trio of Karol Koszniec (electronics), Dominik Kowalczyk (laptop) and Jakub Mikolajczyk (modular synth). |
![]() Pinhas, Richard / Tatsuya Yoshida: Live In Japan (Magaibutsu -- Japan ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock After the 2014 Rock In Opposition Festival in Japan, Richard Pinhas and Yoshida Tatsuya did a two week tour of Japan; one of the results was this CD compiled from several shows during that tour, an excellent album of improvised electronics and drums from Heldon and Ruins masters. |
![]() KNW : NORTH ov GOD (Psykomanteum -- USA ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock An album of ecstatic noise improv with an experimental edge from the trio of Ulrich Krieger on tenor saxophone & contrabass clarinet, Nandor Nevai on "throats" & drums, and Wolcott on oscillator & electronics, viciously assertive music in seven track of mostly succinct statements composed or conceived by each of the band members; cathartic. |
![]() No Mor Musik: No Mor Musik (ugEXPLODE -- USA ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock This puzzling display of punk/jazz surrealism is masterminded by Nondor Nevai on drums and vocals, featuring Weasel Walter on bass and legendary journeyman Kenny Millions (aka Keshavan Maslak) on guitar and reeds, a sort of unholy fusion between extreme metal, bludgeoning noise rock, free jazz, black humor and true stream-of-consciousness improvisation. |
![]() Von LMO: Future Language (Flemish Masters -- USA ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock The 1981 debut studio album of Von LMO, released independently in 1981 through his label StraZar, dedicated to the advancement of the United States space program, described by music journalist Chuck Eddy as being one of the 500 best albums of heavy metal in his Stairway to Hell book, here in the Flemish Masters edition with the track "Shake, Rattle and Roll". |
![]() Drake, Bob: The Gardens of Beastley Manor (Recommended Records -- UK ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock Bob Drake takes his listeners on a 22 piece instrumental journey through a "Beastley" garden of confident melodic foundation anBob Drake takes his listeners on a 22 piece instrumental journey through a "Beastley" garden of confident melodic foundation and experimental forays, captured by day and night, a tour de force of conception and execution. |
![]() I Like To Sleep: Daymare (Rune Grammofon -- Norway ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock Taking their band name from a Thelonious Monk quote, the Norwegian power trio of vibraphone player Amund Storløkken Åse (son of keyboardist Ståle Storløkken and vocelist Tone Åse), guitarist Nicolas Leirtrø and drummer Øyvind Leite bridge the divide between 70's progressive rock, classical music, jazz and improvisation with a unique instrumentation. |
![]() I Like To Sleep: Daymare [VINYL] (Rune Grammofon -- Norway ) Price: $28.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock Taking their band name from a Thelonious Monk quote, the Norwegian power trio of vibraphone player Amund Storløkken Åse (son of keyboardist Ståle Storløkken and vocelist Tone Åse), guitarist Nicolas Leirtrø and drummer Øyvind Leite bridge the divide between 70's progressive rock, classical music, jazz and improvisation with a unique instrumentation. |
![]() Dorji, Tashi / Tyler Damon: To Catch A Bird In A Net Of Wind [VINYL] (Trost Records -- Austria ) Price: $22.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock Fully free improvisation from Chicago musicians, electric guitarist Tashi Dorji and drummer/percussionist Tyler Damon, performing live in a concert at Horatio N. May Chapel in 2018, the resonance of the location adding a rich reverberant level to their evolving dialog, building to ecstatic sonic states and releasing to energetically ruminative discourse. |
![]() Higgins, Tyler (w/ Monticello / Stevens): Broken Blues (Shhpuma -- Portugal ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Blues with a strong sonic sense in Atlanta, GA guitarist Tyler Higgin's 2nd release on Shhpuma, his trio again featuring drummer Paul Stevens, and here adding bassist Gabriel Monticello, known for symphonic, jazz and rock forms, bringing masterful skill to this album that richly blends blues, gospel, folk, jazz and rock forms with passion and style. |
![]() Hayward, Charles : Crossfade Estate (Klanggalerie -- E.U. ) Price: $17.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Recorded in 2005 with an ensemble of like-minded instrumentalists and then edited and collaged for the next year and a half, this was a project of Charles Hayward during his time at The Albany in Deptford, London, using their digital recording suite to create a large work using a variety of strategies and developed in a dramatic story form, issued here for the 1st time. |
![]() Mollestad, Hedvig: Ekhidna (Rune Grammofon -- Norway ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock In 2018 guitarist Hedvig Mollestad Thomassen received an invitation from the festival at Vossajazz commissioning a work for the 2019 festival, for which she expanded her instrumental rock trio to a sextet with trumpeter Susana Santos Silva, drummer Torstein Lofthus (Elephant9), percussionist Ole Mofjell, and keyboardists Marte Eberson & Erlend Slettevoll. |
![]() Mollestad, Hedvig: Ekhidna [VINYL] (Rune Grammofon -- Norway ) Price: $29.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock In 2018 guitarist Hedvig Mollestad Thomassen received an invitation from the festival at Vossajazz commissioning a work for the 2019 festival, for which she expanded her instrumental rock trio to a sextet with trumpeter Susana Santos Silva, drummer Torstein Lofthus (Elephant9), percussionist Ole Mofjell, and keyboardists Marte Eberson & Erlend Slettevoll. |
![]() Hayward Versus Harmergeddon: Hayward Versus Harmergeddon [VINYL] (God Unknown Records -- UK ) Price: $25.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock A dynamic collaboration between This Heat/Massacre legendary drummer Charles Hayward and the Dungeness improvising sound duo Harmergeddon of Polyphoniefae and Nathan Greywater, who use photophonics, electromagnetic fields and consumer electronic junk to create detailed and interactive sound environments that propel Hayward into exultant rhythmic territory. |
![]() Motorpsycho: The All Is One [VINYL 2 LPs] (Rune Grammofon -- Norway ) Price: $30.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Led by Bent Sæther, Hans Magnus Ryan and Kjell Runar Jenssen, this Norwegian prog-oriented improvising rock band is perhaps one of the finest active currently, here in a double album featuring music from 2 sessions, the 1st at Black Box Studio in France with Reine Fiske (Dungen), and the 2nd at Ocean Sound Studio in Norway with Lars Horntveth (Jaga Jazzist) and Ola Kvernberg (Steamdome). |
![]() Haden, Petra (w/ John Zorn / Jesse Harris feat. the Julian Lage Trio): Songs For Petra (Tzadik -- USA ) Price: $17.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock The songwriting team of John Zorn and Jesse Harris, who worked together on Zorn's The Song Project, wrote these beautiful melodies & lyrics that merge elements of rock and jazz for singer Petra Haden, performed in a quintet with Jesse Harris on acoustic guitar, keys & background vocals, Kenny Wollesen on drums, percussion, Julian Lage on guitar, and Jorge Roeder on bass. |
![]() Sanhedrin (Haino / Yoshida / Nasuno): Change The Density So That You Can Crawl Up From The Sea Of Duty (Trailights Record -- Japan ) Price: $19.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock Formed in the mid-2000s in the wake of the band Knead, the first new Sanhedrin album in six years sees the return of Keiji Haino on guitar, Mitsuru Nasuno on bass guitar and Tatsuya Yoshida on drums, performing live at Akihabara Club Goodman in Japan for four extended rock improvisations, dense, soulful avant-prog with feedback drenched resonance. |
![]() Wyatt, Robert: His Greatest Misses (Domino Record Co. -- USA ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Originally released in 2004 in Japan, this compilation covers songs from Soft Machine legend Robert Wyatt's solo career, from albums back to Rock Bottom through Cuckooland, sequenced non-chronologically reflecting the depth of interest, excitement & pathos of his remarkable career, one of rock's most unconventional and brilliant songwriters and singers. |
![]() Orchestra Of The Upper Atmosphere: Theta Five (Discus -- UK ) Price: $14.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock The 5th album from the UK collective improvising progressive rock band of reedist Martin Archer, drummer Steve Dinsdale, bassists Lorin Halsall & Terry Todd, percussionist Walt Shaw, keyboardist Andy Peake, violinist Yvonna Magda and string player & vocalist Jad Todd, merging acoustic and electronic instruments in rich and often dreamlike forms that flow with spirited refinement. |
![]() Lucas, Gary: The Essential Gary Lucas [2 CDs] (Knitting Factory -- USA ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A retrospective of the work of guitarist and one-time Captain Beefheart Magic Band member Gary Lucas, in two CDs, the first devoted to songs recorded with Lucas' psychedelic jazz-rock band Gods and Monsters, the second devoted to solo works, rarities and collaborations, with an incredible list of performers reflecting Lucas' diverse 40-year career. |
![]() Van Dykes Park: The Histories (Old Black Joe) [7'' Vinyl] (Corbett vs. Dempsey -- USA ) Price: $7.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock Philadelphia-based artist David Hartt invited songwriter & composer Van Dyke Parks to make an original arrangement of the Stephen Foster song "Old Black Joe" as part of his 2020 installation piece titled "The Histories (Old Black Joe)"; the B-side is a beautiful arrangement of "Souvenir de la Havane" by the pioneering pre-jazz American Creole composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk. |
![]() Elephant9 : Arrival Of The New Elders (Rune Grammofon -- Norway ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock After their double live albums, the Norwegian jazz-rock prog trio of Stale Storlokken on keyboards, Nikolai Haengsle on electric bass and electric & acoustic guitars, and Torstein Lofthus on drums & percussion, take a step back from the heavy grooves associated with their music to present a new chapter of sophisticated, spacious and sonically satisfying psychedelic interplay. |
![]() Haden, Petra (w/ John Zorn / Jesse Harris feat. the Julian Lage Trio): Songs For Petra [VINYL] (Tzadik -- USA ) Price: $32.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock The songwriting team of John Zorn and Jesse Harris, who worked together on Zorn's The Song Project, wrote these beautiful melodies & lyrics that merge elements of rock and jazz for singer Petra Haden, performed in a quintet with Jesse Harris on acoustic guitar, keys & background vocals, Kenny Wollesen on drums, percussion, Julian Lage on guitar, and Jorge Roeder on bass. |
![]() Corsano, Chris / Bill Orcutt: Made Out of Sound (Palilalia Records -- USA ) Price: $14.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock Continuing the collaboration that started in 2013, the duo of drummer Chris Corsano and guitarist Bill Orcutt expand on their free playing during the pandemic, recording remotely, with Orcutt improvising two passes over Corsano's initial drum tracks, creating something that blurs the lines between jazz, rock, folk and something passionately unique to their dialog. |
![]() Pomerance, Erica: En Concert a la Commune le P'tit Quebec Libre [VINYL] (Tour De Bras -- Canada ) Price: $19.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock A live recording from a concert presented during the Workers' Festival at the Municipality of Petit Quebec Libre in 1972 by Quebec counter-culture folk singer and documentary film maker Erica Pomerance, know best for her 1968 ESP album You Used To Think, here performing solo on guitar & voice, with previously unpublished songs and pieces from her ESP album. |
![]() Taylor, Mike: Trio, Quartet & Composer, Revisited (ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd -- Austria ) Price: $18.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Found dead in the Thames River in 1969, pianist & composer Mike Taylor left a legacy of two solid & lyrical jazz albums, of which the complete Trio album and one track from Pendulum are remastered; but he was also a songwriter for the Eric Clapton/Ginger Baker/Jack Bruce band Cream, of which three Taylor compositions with lyrics and vocals by Baker are included. |
![]() Drake, Bob: Planets & Animals (Recommended Records -- UK ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Bob Drake continues to tug on the heart-strings of prog in short but smart songs that reference the best of the last few decades of prog/psych/avant rock forms, Drake as always handling all parts in a great balance of guitar, electronic & acoustic instruments, including some newly invented instruments; includes a fold-out poster in Bob Drake style from Joe Mruk. |
![]() Squid: Bright Green Field (Warp Records -- UK ) Price: $14.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Blurring the boundaries of popular rock, composed and electro/experimental/ea forms, with hints of The Ex, Gang of Four, Talking Heads, LCD Soundsystem and their own happily quirky sound, Squid was formed in Brigton by Ollie Judge (Drums & Lead Vocals), Louis Borlase (Guitars), Arthur Leadbetter (Keys, Strings & Percussion), Laurie Nankivell (Bass & Brass) and Anton Pearson (Guitars). |
![]() Mollestad, Hedvig Trio: Ding Dong. You're Dead (Rune Grammofon -- Norway ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock A scorching album of instrumental rock bridging avant, prog and jazz/rock forms, from the inspired and burning Norwegian band led by guitarist Hedvig Mollestad Thomassen and her trio with bassist Ellen Brekken and drummer Ivar Loe Bjornstad; reference John McLaughlin, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Black Sabbath, or just focus on the powerhouse that is the Hedvig Mollestad Trio. |
![]() Mollestad, Hedvig Trio: Ding Dong. You're Dead [VINYL] (Rune Grammofon -- Norway ) Price: $28.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A scorching album of instrumental rock bridging avant, prog and jazz/rock forms, from the inspired and burning Norwegian band led by guitarist Hedvig Mollestad Thomassen and her trio with bassist Ellen Brekken and drummer Ivar Loe Bjornstad; reference John McLaughlin, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Black Sabbath, or just focus on the powerhouse that is the Hedvig Mollestad Trio. |
![]() Motorpsycho: Kingdom of Oblivion (Rune Grammofon -- Norway ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock The productive and excellent work of Norwegian rock band Motorpsycho, releasing an album a year for 30+ years, continues with this superb example of long form and diverse approaches to the rock medium, the core trio of Saether (bass, vocals, mellotron, &c), Hans Magnus Ryan (guitar, sax, vocals) and Tomas Jarmyr (drums) extended by Reine Fiske on guitar and Ola Kvernberg on percussion. |
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