Exposé Online » Reviews of releases for 2003

Synergy - Electronic Realizations, Sequencer, Cords, Games & Audion

Synergy is, of course the name of the ongoing electronic music project of keyboardist / engineer / producer Larry Fast, also known for his work with Peter Gabriel, Nektar, and numerous other bands...

Synergy - Electronic Realizations, Sequencer, Cords, Games & Audion

Synergy is, of course the name of the ongoing electronic music project of keyboardist / engineer / producer Larry Fast, also known for his work with Peter Gabriel, Nektar, and numerous other bands...

Synergy - Electronic Realizations, Sequencer, Cords, Games & Audion

Synergy is, of course the name of the ongoing electronic music project of keyboardist / engineer / producer Larry Fast, also known for his work with Peter Gabriel, Nektar, and numerous other bands...

Synergy - Electronic Realizations, Sequencer, Cords, Games & Audion

Synergy is, of course the name of the ongoing electronic music project of keyboardist / engineer / producer Larry Fast, also known for his work with Peter Gabriel, Nektar, and numerous other bands...

Synergy - Electronic Realizations, Sequencer, Cords, Games & Audion

Synergy is, of course the name of the ongoing electronic music project of keyboardist / engineer / producer Larry Fast, also known for his work with Peter Gabriel, Nektar, and numerous other bands...

Synergy - Computer Experiments Vol. 1 & The Jupiter Menace

Here are two more re-releases from electronic composer Larry Fast’s extensive Synergy legacy (see Expose #16 for reviews of the first five Synergy albums). Computer Experiments Volume...

Synergy - Computer Experiments Vol. 1 & The Jupiter Menace

Here are two more re-releases from electronic composer Larry Fast’s extensive Synergy legacy (see Expose #16 for reviews of the first five Synergy albums). Computer Experiments Volume...

Birdsongs of the Mesozoic - The Iridium Controversy

This new offering from my favorite prehistoric animal noise group certainly lives up to the high standards of their previous releases, and over the long term may turn out to be one of my favorites....

Centrozoon - The Scent of Crash and Burn

Centrozoon represents the combined talents of singer Tim Bowness together with the German duo of Markus Reuter and Bernhard Wösteinrich. The trio does a fine job navigating around...

Oysterband - Rise Above

Oysterband, né The Oyster Band, has been developing their own mixture of British Isles folk music and rock for more than ten years. Rather than rocking up trad tunes (for the most part...

Pineapple Thief - Variations on a Dream

Pineapple Thief hasn’t changed much since 137, and that’s a good thing. A quartet of guitar / keys / bass / drums, the songs are all written by Bruce Soord, who also sings and...

Pineapple Thief - Variations on a Dream

I have to admit to being behind the curve on Pineapple Thief, though they are clearly the “next big thing” on the prog scene. To my mind, however, they are following a bit too closely...

Pineapple Thief - Variations on a Dream

I hope I don’t turn anyone off by saying Pineapple Thief has as much in common with Radiohead, Coldplay, and Smashing Pumpkins as they do with anyone in the prog community. In my book,...

Robert Wyatt - Cuckooland

With Cuckooland Robert Wyatt changes direction once again, this time toward jazz. Perhaps “Old Europe” is an early clue to the disc’s orientation, with its lyrical jazz...

Robert Wyatt - Cuckooland

Robert Wyatt’s first release of new songs in eight years is a milestone for the composer. From the outset there is a lyrical optimism overshadowed by his preoccupation with bleak world...

Väsen - Trio

Väsen are one of today’s premier neo-folk ensembles from Sweden, though they offer their renditions of original and traditional songs with a twist. Breaking from their standard quartet...

Väsen - Trio

Trio is the ninth album by Swedish folk ensemble Väsen. Originally, the group had been the strings-based trio of Olov Johannson on nyckelharpa (a keyed folk fiddle with a...

Iona - Iona DVD & Live in London DVD

Celtic prog band Iona are back in a big way, not only with their recent studio release, The Circling Hour, but also with two new DVDs. This is a great set both for fans and those new to...

Martin Barre - Stage Left

In addition to his twenty or thirty albums with Jethro Tull, guitarist Martin Barre has recorded three solo albums. Each of the 14 tracks on this, his third, features a different instrument —...

Quique Berro García - Sueños

Is beauty enough? Good music can have many other qualities we love it for – power, originality, complexity, emotional impact, and so on. But is beauty alone sufficient to recommend a...

Opossum - Bear's Banquet

Opossum is another of Garden of Delights’ wonderful finds. The band was a precursor to Morpheus, and never actually released any recordings during their existence (1971-75), though these...

Anekdoten - Gravity

The most distinctive things about Anekdoten have always been overdriven bass, Mellotron, cello, and the vocals. This CD answers the question of what happens when you remove two of those elements,...

Various Artists - Psychedelic Underground 8 - 10

One of the fundamental limitations of mining and other industries that rely upon non-renewable resources is that those resources will eventually run out. You would think the same rule would apply...

Various Artists - Psychedelic Underground 8 - 10

One of the fundamental limitations of mining and other industries that rely upon non-renewable resources is that those resources will eventually run out. You would think the same rule would apply...

John McLaughlin / Shakti - John McLaughlin Montreux Concerts

[This review covers the Shakti concerts on discs 3-4 — July 6, 1976.]

For my tastes, most of the McLaughlin Montreux box tends to range outside of my interest area, mostly...

Cardiacs - Some Fairytales from the Rotten Shed

I had heard a few early Cardiacs albums before I came across a rather shaky video of the Surbitan Assembly Rooms 4/18/85 show. This was the trigger moment for me, I mean it was obvious from...

In Cahoots - All That

The brilliant and fluid jazz, rock, and improvisational sensibilities of this outstanding lineup (now featuring new drummer Mark Fletcher, who played with them at Progman Cometh 2002, replacing Pip...

In Cahoots - All That

Guitarist and composer Phil Miller has taken full advantage of a rejuvenated outlook as a result of his band’s acclaimed first West Coast appearance. With the addition of new drummer Mark...

In Cahoots - All That

It seems hard to believe that it’s been over 20 years since Phil Miller formed In Cahoots after the late great National Health disbanded. All That is only the sixth full In Cahoots...

Gong - Camembert Electrique

Camembert... camembert... It's easy to forget that some of the great moments on Gong albums were created by some of Daevid Allen's studio wizardry or musique concrète...

Ibis - Sun Supreme

The New Trolls Family tree is a convoluted structure – if you piece it together, it includes most of the well known Italian rock groups of the 70s whether closely or barely related. Ibis was...

Ibis - Sun Supreme

OK, let's see if I remember this part of Italian progressive rock history... The band New Trolls, who started in the late 60s, split into two groups several years later. This gave birth to New...

Yolk - Die Dritte, Die Vierte, Oskivinis, This Is Syd & Fuenftens

This excellent Swiss band has been kicking around since the early 90s (not to be confused with another Yolk from NYC – we reviewed one of NYC Yolk’s live shows back in issue #11) but...

Yolk - Die Dritte, Die Vierte, Oskivinis, This Is Syd & Fuenftens

This excellent Swiss band has been kicking around since the early 90s (not to be confused with another Yolk from NYC – we reviewed one of NYC Yolk’s live shows back in issue #11) but...

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Live

The Sleepytime experience is one not soon forgotten; part of what makes it special is the banter and humor that inhabits their set between the regular songs. If you're looking for that stellar...

Arthur Lee & Love - Complete Forever Changes Live

When Love released Forever Changes in 1967, the critics panned it. But over the years opinions have changed and Forever Changes is now considered one of the top 100 most...

Hugh Hopper - Volumes 1 - 4

These are the first four volumes of material compiled for a career spanning ten-disc series celebrating the work of the late Hugh Hopper, best known as the bassist of Soft Machine during the...

Robert Wyatt - Cuckooland

Robert Wyatt is so much an entity unto himself that comparisons to anyone else are more or less useless. Most listeners with a rock background would probably peg his music as jazz, though I suspect...

F/i - A Question for the Somnambulist

Since they appeared on the scene back in the 80s, Milwaukee-based F/i have established themselves among the forefront of American psych rock bands. Originally issued in 2003 (and now re-issued on...

Chris Béya Atoll - Illian, J’entends gronder la Terre

There are several reasons to expect the worst from this release. Many “reunions” and “reformations” of bands from the 70s have not turned out well; a look at the credits...

Ars Nova Biogenesis Project - Biogenesis

Biogenesis is the kind of overblown sci-fi epic that has both a built-in audience and legions of detractors. The fact that it comes from Japan’s Ars Nova, not exactly known for...

Hedningarna - 1989-2003

Readers of this magazine have likely noticed over the last few years the fondness that several on the staff have for artists on the NorthSide label, with Hedningarna consistently getting good...

Outrageous Cherry - The Book of Spectral Projections & Supernatural Equinox

Since its founding in the early 90s, Outrageous Cherry has been working on their own method of updating 60s psychedelia for a later generation. Matthew Smith’s songwriting often captures the...

Satoko Fujii Orchestra East - Before the Dawn

Reviewing this CD for a magazine like Exposé is a bit of a challenge. On the one hand, it could be described as modern big-band jazz, and is certainly being marketed (if the term...

The Allman Brothers Band - One Way Out: Live at the Beacon Theatre

There's a strong hint in the band name: if you're gonna call the group brothers then prepare for some infighting. With the tragedies in the early 70s, the Allmans fizzled to a stop in the...

Fear of Flying - More Attempts at Perfection

In 1988, this upstate NY trio (then a quartet with dedicated vocalist) released their debut album Parents Tend to Oxygen First, a fairly typical slab of late-80s keyboard strong...

Gong - You

McLatchey's Top Tier #10

If I could ever commit to a favorite album — and I can't, there's too many — this would be in the final rounds for sure. In the...

Kampec Dolores + Grencsó István - Koncert!

After seeing the name Kampec Dolores around for several years, I finally get to hear them. While I’m still unfamiliar with their studio work, I’m happy to report that they put on an...

John Coltrane - A Love Supreme

McLatchey's Second Tier

My friend Charles says it would have been Coltrane's 89th birthday today, which also made me muse a bit on how McCoy Tyner still seems indefatigable...

Tasavallan Presidentti - Tasavallan Presidentti, Lambertland & Milky Way Moses

The first eponymous album Finnish band Tasavallan Presidentti recorded was a cross between folk, blues, and jazz-rock with pop influences. A really diverse album with an immaculate rendition of the...

Here Are the Facts You Requested - Felt & Testing Ground Live

Somewhere back in the late 90s, after seeing them open for the Mike Keneally Band, we reviewed this San Jose band’s earlier release, Shocks and Struts, which proved them to be a...

Mar de Robles - Mar de Robles (MdR)

This Chilean four- or five-piece (depending on where you look in the booklet) was a pleasant surprise. A rhythm section of fretless bass and subtle drum kit, along with congas and other assorted...

Ossi Duri - X & L'Ultimo dei Miei Cani

Ten years after his death – that’s what this “X” marks – one sees little decline in the interest in and dedication towards the music of Frank Zappa. The...

Synergy - Semiconductor, Release 2 & Metropolitan Suite

In 1986, the first era of Synergy releases came to an end with Metropolitan Suite, which in some ways is the culmination of Larry Fast’s original musical vision. That does not make...

Synergy - Semiconductor, Release 2 & Metropolitan Suite

In 1986, the first era of Synergy releases came to an end with Metropolitan Suite, which in some ways is the culmination of Larry Fast’s original musical vision. That does not make...

Crime in Choir - Crime in Choir, The Hoop & Trumpery Metier

This instrumental San Francisco based outfit started out life in 2000 as a guitar / bass / drums / keyboards quartet, adopting a somewhat psychedelic groove-based jamming style mixed with elements...

Saga - Generation 13

There's so many good things about this album that I don't know where to begin. It marks a giant step forward for Saga – a 25-track, 69-minute concept album that includes some of the...

Bijou - El Profeta

Bijou is a Spanish instrumental symphonic prog quintet featuring your standard rhythm section, keyboards, and dual guitars, and while their sound is expansive, melodic, and respectfully bombastic...

Art of Infinity - Dimension Universe

It’s the Thorsten and Thorsten show! These two Dutchmen are staking out a claim to musical territory already paved by folks like Art of Noise and Enigma, but they still do a nice job with the...

Hazerfan - Lost Nowhere

S.F. Bay Area-based Hazerfan have been around since 1998 though this is their only album to date. The group gigs relentlessly, steadily building an audience for their fusion of eastern and western...

Lesli Dalaba / Fred Frith / Eric Glick Rieman / Carla Kihlstedt - Dalaba Frith Glick Rieman Kihlsted

Another super group of improvisers meet at the crossroads with this collection of seven dialogs. Fred Frith is well known to our readers as a proprietor of real time inspirational chaos while Lesli...

Thinking Plague - A History of Madness

Most music critics (and listeners too) tend to get caught up in the genre game when describing music. We think in terms of qualities like loud/soft, electric/acoustic, rocks/doesn’t. But...

David Shamrock - Thin Pillow

David Shamrock has drummed for both Sleepytime Gorilla Museum (on their first album) and Thinking Plague (on A History of Madness). This eight track CD is his first solo release. For those...

Psychomusak - The Extasie

You want psychedelic? The music here, spread out across five long purely instrumental tracks, each ranging from ten to twenty minutes, evokes a hallucinatory half dreamlike state by offering...

Cast - Al-Bandaluz

By this time, many readers will know what to expect from Mexico's Cast: complex, keyboard-heavy neo-progressive with lots of odd meters. They've stuck to that for what seems like twenty or...

Collage - Changes

This Polish five piece is no doubt best known for their CD Moonshine from 1994 released on the SI label, or the LP Basnie that preceded it in 1990. Their sound is firmly in the...

Nekropolis - Anubis Dance

Egypt has fascinated rock musicians to varying degrees over the years: Agitation Free, Nik Turner, Anubian Lights, Amenophis, Pink Floyd, Cosmic Jokers, Dissidenten, Gong, and Hawkwind to name a...

Various Artists - The Best of Baltimore's Buried Bands II

This two CD set was produced by OHO main-mover and elder statesman of the Baltimore progressive scene Jay Graboski. Apparently there must have been a “Part I” (maybe an LP?) and this is...

Agitation Free - Fragments

[Musique Intemporelle edition from 1995]

Agitation Free are one of Germany's finest space rock groups, an outfit that launched the careers of many respected musicians like...

Agitation Free - Fragments

Whatever else they may have done in their recording career, Germany’s Agitation Free loved a good long jam. For their farewell bow, they played a concert in November of 1974 with a...

['ramp] - Doombient.One - Verbrannte Erde

Deep space music has a lot going for it in the modern music world. There are many viable variations to explore and expand on as well. Stephen Parsick and Frank Makowski are composers whom make...

The Thicket - The Thicket

The Thicket is the Edmonton-based duo of Andrei Poukhovski and Ivan Poukhovski-Sheremetyev, a father-son combination. The instrumentation consists only of keyboards and Theremin, with programmed...

Seatrain - Watch

The Blues Project is remembered as an innovative, somewhat erratic band of the mid-60s who combined rock with folk, blues, and jazz. In 1967 they split up, with some members going on to form Blood,...

Pink Anvil - Halloween Party

Pink Anvil is a duo of Paul Barker and Max Brody of Ministry. Barker is credited with FM radio and patchbay operation while Brody works a delay and some footswitches. Halloween Party was recorded...

Halloween, Alaska - Halloween, Alaska

I try to maintain a certain openness about the various musical genres, feeling that quality is a factor only marginally related to style, so I’m happy to find something good where it’s...

Kaolin - 2001

This Swiss five-piece has been around in one form or another for over eight years, but this five track 28 minute CD is their first release. Why it’s titled 2001 is a mystery, perhaps...

Asia - Live in Buffalo & Hyogo

Asia’s first tour of the US in 1982 was one of discovery for fans. From the ashes of Yes, Steve Howe and Geoff Downes merged musical intentions with John Wetton and Carl Palmer and a new...

Asia - Live in Buffalo & Hyogo

Asia’s first tour of the US in 1982 was one of discovery for fans. From the ashes of Yes, Steve Howe and Geoff Downes merged musical intentions with John Wetton and Carl Palmer and a new...

Maynard Ferguson - Carnival

For those of you uninitiated, Maynard Ferguson was part of the jazz-rock scene originating from the stable of jazz players who broke out under the auspices of Stan Kenton's big band....

Mary Fahl - The Other Side of Time

Mary Fahl was the lead singer of October Project, who enjoyed a sizable following among progheads and ectophiles in the mid-90s. The Other Side of Time is her first full-length solo work....

DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid - Dubtometry

Hot on the heels of the acclaimed Optometry sessions (charting high in the Billboard top 100) comes an all-star set of seventeen remixes of samples and tracks from that disc. The...

Cobra High - Sunset in the Eye of the Hurricane

I have learned to be wary when the mainstream press describes an artist as “progressive” – you never know what they really mean, since the vast majority of progressive music is...

Väsen - Trio

I’ll admit that one of the things I normally like most about Väsen is the unconventional use of percussion, so the prospect of a Väsen album without a percussionist was not at first...

Groove Unlimited 2002-2003 Releases

The Netherlands’ Groove label, perhaps the premiere label for sequencer-heavy electronic music, has been on quite the roll lately, releasing and distributing a number of albums by newcomers...

Groove Unlimited 2002-2003 Releases

The Netherlands’ Groove label, perhaps the premiere label for sequencer-heavy electronic music, has been on quite the roll lately, releasing and distributing a number of albums by newcomers...

Brian Auger's Oblivion Express - Happiness Heartaches

The latter incarnation of Oblivion Express (led by Hammond B3 player extraordinaire Brian Auger) was characterized by soulful blues-rock, percussion, and danceable grooves. Ex-Return to Forever...

The Residents - WB:RMX & 12 Days of Brumalia

If you need a Christmas album to scare your family and friends, look no further. The 12 Days of Brumalia was released as a downloadable album on the Residents web site in December of 2004,...

Sebkha-Chott - De la persistence & Niglah

Sebkha-Chott is a band of wild and crazy young French musicians playing music that is so bizarre and unclassifiable that I do not know where to begin. I reviewed their second release...

Korai Öröm - Reflected Remixes

Oh boy, it’s the remix album. I have had exposure to Korai Öröm, so I am not totally unfamiliar with their sound. Typically it’s extended free-form jams; build a theme, expand...

Cherno - Missing Illusion, Trigonometric Reactor & Slight Trick All Around

At its core, Cherno is the duo of Shin Sugawara (sax, wind synth) and Junichi Kishimoto (guitar, guitar synths, drum programming), sometimes joined by other players, track and disc depending...

Cherno - Missing Illusion, Trigonometric Reactor & Slight Trick All Around

At its core, Cherno is the duo of Shin Sugawara (sax, wind synth) and Junichi Kishimoto (guitar, guitar synths, drum programming), sometimes joined by other players, track and disc depending...

Cherno - Missing Illusion, Trigonometric Reactor & Slight Trick All Around

At its core, Cherno is the duo of Shin Sugawara (sax, wind synth) and Junichi Kishimoto (guitar, guitar synths, drum programming), sometimes joined by other players, track and disc depending...

Paul Rucker & Hans Teuber - History of an Apology & Oil

Like Nels and Alex Cline, Satoko Fujii, and even Henry Threadgill (all with their various ensembles), Paul Rucker produces music that is usually referred to as jazz, but has such far-ranging...

Paul Rucker & Hans Teuber - History of an Apology & Oil

Like Nels and Alex Cline, Satoko Fujii, and even Henry Threadgill (all with their various ensembles), Paul Rucker produces music that is usually referred to as jazz, but has such far-ranging...

Randone - Nuvole di Ieri, Ricordi & Hybla Act 1

Oddly enough, for their first release on Electromantic, Randone was a trio: Nicola Randone on vocals and guitar (who had previously released material under his full name); Marco Crispi on lead...

Glenn Branca - The Ascension

This is a long overdue re-issue of Branca's first LP, before the days of the army of guitars, but well past his punk days. On this album, Branca was joined by three other guitarists, a bassist,...

Vinegar - Vinegar

This band from Cologne selected their name to set themselves apart from bands that sounded “sweet” and forged a decidedly unconventional course with their music. After roughly a year of...

Ange - By the Sons of Mandrin & Par les Fils de Mandrin Live 77

Banco and PFM did it, so why not Ange? The world of rock music has always been dominated by the English language, and many of the bands who sing primarily in another language have seen fit to...

Ange - By the Sons of Mandrin & Par les Fils de Mandrin Live 77

Banco and PFM did it, so why not Ange? The world of rock music has always been dominated by the English language, and many of the bands who sing primarily in another language have seen fit to...

Santana - Welcome

McLatchey's Second Tier

After members of the original Santana band started leaving the group, Carlos Santana moved the music in a jazzier direction and during the era he'd...

Horace X - Sackbutt

In the mega-genre that is World Music there is a subgenre often called World Beat. Rather than being specifically from any part of the world, either in fact or in sound, World Beat combines...

Oöphoi & Tau Ceti - Subterranea

This collaboration between Oöphoi & Tau Ceti pre-dates their most recent, and was released on the Czech label Nextera along with reissues of his 2000 releases Mare Imbrium and...

Louisa John-Krol & Oöphoi - Alabaster & I Hear the Water Dreaming

Australian singer Louisa John Krol has been releasing music for about ten years, although these mark the first time she has been reviewed in these pages. Alabaster is her 2003 solo release...

House of Not - The Walkabout Parts 1 & 2

The brainchild of Brian Erikson (vocals and lyrics), House of Not appears to be some sort of concept project, with Lou Roppoli and Ken O’Gorman providing guitars and a host of guests on other...

Manuel Göttsching - Die Mulde, Concert for Murnau & E2-E4 Live

As 2005 neared its end, Manuel Göttsching released three new CDs: Die Mulde, Concert for Murnau and E2-E4 Live. Die Mulde is a composition Manuel recorded...

Marco Gallesi - Riff

Fans of Italian outfit Arti & Mestieri will likely find it to be no surprise that long-time bassist Marco Gallesi has a deep fondness for traditional jazz and fusion. Now out on his own,...

Spirit - Feedback

Tangerine Dream - Mota Atma

Pekka Pohjola - Five Reissues

For anyone not yet familiar with the name of Pekka Pohjola, he is a Finnish composer, bandleader, and bassist among bassists primarily, but also fluent on piano, synthesizer, and trumpet as well....

Iceberg - Sentiments

[This review was written for the 1994 reissue on Si Wan. The album has since been reissued again. -ed.]

The Korean collector Si Wan has taken it upon himself to fill the void of...

Kevin Ayers - Joy of a Toy, Whatevershebringswesing, Shooting at the Moon & Banamour

Ex-Soft Machine bassist Kevin Ayers left that group after their full-on live U.S. assault with the Jim Hendrix Experience in 1969. After that time, Ayers spent the following years putting together...

Kevin Ayers - Joy of a Toy, Whatevershebringswesing, Shooting at the Moon & Banamour

Ex-Soft Machine bassist Kevin Ayers left that group after their full-on live U.S. assault with the Jim Hendrix Experience in 1969. After that time, Ayers spent the following years putting together...

Kevin Ayers - Joy of a Toy, Whatevershebringswesing, Shooting at the Moon & Banamour

Ex-Soft Machine bassist Kevin Ayers left that group after their full-on live U.S. assault with the Jim Hendrix Experience in 1969. After that time, Ayers spent the following years putting together...

Kevin Ayers - Joy of a Toy, Whatevershebringswesing, Shooting at the Moon & Banamour

Ex-Soft Machine bassist Kevin Ayers left that group after their full-on live U.S. assault with the Jim Hendrix Experience in 1969. After that time, Ayers spent the following years putting together...

Collage - Moonshine

Men without Hats - No Hats beyond This Point

Brannan Lane - Answer the Sky

Fra Fra Sound - Kultiplex

Earthmonkey - Audiosapien

Cursive - The Ugly Organ

Mari Boine - Eight Seasons & Remixed

Mari Boine - Eight Seasons & Remixed

Hermes Orchestra - Live

Gentle Giant - Artistically Cryme, The Missing Face & Playing the Cleveland

Gentle Giant’s headlining and support tours are further documented in three more marginal bootleg renditions from Voiceprint in the UK. Artistically Cryme is the first release, and a...

Gentle Giant - Artistically Cryme, The Missing Face & Playing the Cleveland

Gentle Giant’s headlining and support tours are further documented in three more marginal bootleg renditions from Voiceprint in the UK. Artistically Cryme is the first release, and a...

Gentle Giant - Artistically Cryme, The Missing Face & Playing the Cleveland

Gentle Giant’s headlining and support tours are further documented in three more marginal bootleg renditions from Voiceprint in the UK. Artistically Cryme is the first release, and a...

Matthew Shipp, Spring Heel Jack & Others - Equilibrium, VisionFest, Good and Evil Sessions

Back in the late 80s, the style called acid jazz emerged, blending jazz with hip-hop elements, essentially bringing a modern groove to jazz, analogous to the incorporation of funk, soul, and rock...

Matthew Shipp, Spring Heel Jack & Others - Equilibrium, VisionFest, Good and Evil Sessions

Back in the late 80s, the style called acid jazz emerged, blending jazz with hip-hop elements, essentially bringing a modern groove to jazz, analogous to the incorporation of funk, soul, and rock...

Matthew Shipp, Spring Heel Jack & Others - Equilibrium, VisionFest, Good and Evil Sessions

Back in the late 80s, the style called acid jazz emerged, blending jazz with hip-hop elements, essentially bringing a modern groove to jazz, analogous to the incorporation of funk, soul, and rock...

Matthew Shipp, Spring Heel Jack & Others - Equilibrium, VisionFest, Good and Evil Sessions

Back in the late 80s, the style called acid jazz emerged, blending jazz with hip-hop elements, essentially bringing a modern groove to jazz, analogous to the incorporation of funk, soul, and rock...

Motorpsycho + Jaga Jazzist Horns - It's a Love Cult, The Stix & In the Fishtank

After hearing the name Motorpsycho for a few years, I was pretty curious to actually hear the band. I did not expect an album of such variety, that combines intensity and subtlety and a wide range...

Motorpsycho + Jaga Jazzist Horns - It's a Love Cult, The Stix & In the Fishtank

After hearing the name Motorpsycho for a few years, I was pretty curious to actually hear the band. I did not expect an album of such variety, that combines intensity and subtlety and a wide range...

Glass Hammer - Lex Live

Fuchsia - Fuchsia

While Tony Durant (guitars and vocals) was a student at Exeter University in 1970, he and his mates Michael Day (bass guitar) and Michael Gregory (drums and percussion) decided to form the band...

(I Am) One - The Gates of Industry

Németh Gábor Project - Könnyü lépések (Easy Steps)

The Cheebacabra - Metamorphosis

Daimonji - Improg

Cold Fairyland & Lin Di - Ten Days in Magic Land, Bride in Legend, 2005 Live & Seeds on the Ground

One of the first musical things I discovered after moving to Beijing was this band from Shanghai. Their Chinese name (Lengku Xianjing) is taken from the Chinese title of a book by Japanese writer...

SanRenSei - Ceremony

Richard Thompson - 1000 Years of Popular Music

Satoru Wono - Sonata for Sine Wave and White Noise

Thriving Ivory - Thriving Ivory

The Blue Series Continuum - The Sorcerer Sessions: Featuring the Music of Matthew Shipp

The Deserts of Träun - Part III: The Lilac Moon

Värttinä - Iki

David Sancious and Tone - Transformation (The Speed of Love)

Kinzokuebisu - Hako-Otoko (Box-Man)

Various Artists - Twentieth Anniversary

Larry Coryell / Badi Assad / John Abercrombie - Three Guitars

Dave Sinclair - Full Circle & Into the Sun

Dave Sinclair - Full Circle & Into the Sun

Jeff Beck - Jeff

Mani Neumeier + Friends - Terra Amphibia: Deep in the Jungle

Satoko Fujii & Natsuki Tamura - Illusion Suite, Sketches, Exit & Ko Ko Ko Ke

Japanese pianist Satoko Fujii is one busy lady – she appears on three of these four releases. Illusion Suite finds her in the standard piano trio setting, though the result is anything...

The Muffin Men - Baker's Dozen & Live @ The Cavern

The Muffin Men are a UK based act that is heavily versed in the fine art of being a Frank Zappa tribute band that features old Mothers vocalist Jimmy Carl Black. Baker's Dozen serves as a...

The Muffin Men - Baker's Dozen & Live @ The Cavern

The Muffin Men are a UK based act that is heavily versed in the fine art of being a Frank Zappa tribute band that features old Mothers vocalist Jimmy Carl Black. Baker's Dozen serves as a...

Big Wedge - Minutiae

Lithops - Scrypt

Roger Chapman - The Legendary Funny Cider Sessions/Swag

Bob Nell - Soft and Bronze

Bumble B - Flight of the Bumble B

Luminescent Orchestrii - Luminescent Orchestrii

Kraan - Through

Groovector - Darklubing at Tavastia

Phoenix - Renascent Phenomenon (Archives 4: 1970-1971)

Inquire - Melancholia

Sonus Umbra - Spiritual Vertigo

Nyl - Nyl

Luminos - Seize the Day

Satoko Fujii Quartet - Zephyros

Jack Bruce - Out of the Storm

Barclay James Harvest - ...BBC in Concert 1972

Barclay James Harvest - Time Honoured Ghosts

Cinematik - Cinematik & One Full Moon Away

Bouchard, Dunaway and Smith - Live in Paris

Saturnalia - Magical Love

Vanderhoof - A Blur in Time

Bill Nelson - Whimsy

Magma - Rock Duo »Magma«

Poetica in Silentio - What Do Fish Know?

King Crimson - The Power to Believe

Azigza - Kriya

Ahleuchatistas - On the Culture Industry & The Same and the Other

Barclay James Harvest - XII

Gregg Bendian - Jeff Gauthier - Steuart Liebig - G.E. Stinson - Bone Structure

Ray Weston - This Is My Halo

Hector Zazou - Sonora Portraits 2: Strong Currents

Embryo - Bremen 1971

Nurse with Wound - She and Me Fall Together in Free Death

Taal - Skymind

The Mars Volta - De-loused in the Comatorium

Bruce Palmer - The Cycle Is Complete

Joy of Cooking - Joy of Cooking, Closer to the Ground, & Castles

Those looking for a 'good ole time' need look no further — funky West Coast psychedelia flavored country-rock to be found here. Equally rooted in the blues, this stuff is steeped in the tradition...

The Bass Gang - Evasioni, Fughe & La Contrabbassatta

The Fiery Furnaces - Gallowsbird's Bark, Blueberry Boat, Rehearsing My Choir, EP, & Bitter Tea

Flëur - First Four Albums

Phideaux - Fiendish, Ghost Story, Chupacabras, 313, & The Great Leap