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The album "The New Street In Old City" by December Thirty Jazz Trio, released in 1993, is recognized as an important jazz work. The trio consists of pianist Giorgio Occhipinti, bassist Giuseppe Guarrella, and drummer Francesco Branciamore. This album showcases their development of a unique sound and artistic expression in jazz, blending melody with freedom of improvisation. The music combines inventive concepts with intense yet clean melodic lines, making it compelling and a significant part of …
Banquet was the fourth album by the legendary German rock band, fronted by British singer John Lawton. This album featured the band temper their usual hard rock style with a Santana-esque jazz-fusion edge, with help from a full brass section. Rated their most progressive album by fans. Five lengthy band-penned tracks, with standout opening pirate-themed 'Spanish Galleon' and the string-enhanced ballad 'Sorrow'.
2024 Stock. Minor signs of wear from long-time storage. ** "On this set recorded live at the Knitting Factory, George Cartwright (switching between various saxophones) and clarinetist Michael Lytle battle it out on three lengthy free improvisations."
2024 Stock. Minor signs of wear from long-time storage. ** André Ricros is the founder and director of the Agence des musiques traditionnelle d’Auvergne (the equivalent of our CMTRA); he is a specialist in collecting and also a musician and singer. He plays the cabrette, a kind of Auvergne bagpipe – with a softer sound, however, than that of its Celtic equivalents. It is his contribution that gives the basic colouring to this album recorded in Lyon 23 years ago.But the other musicians come from …
2024 Stock. Minor signs of wear from long-time storage. ** "All previously unreleased recordings by this great Canterbury rock/fusion band. Includes performances by musicians who also performed with National Health, Soft Machine, Hugh Hopper, Mike Oldfield, Stomu Yamash'ta and others. Features a large booklet of previously unseen interviews and photographs."
2024 Stock. Minor signs of wear from long-time storage. ** "This duet performance between improvisational soprano saxophone wizard Evan Parker and Tuvan jazz and new music vocalist Sainkho Namtchylak was recorded live in 1996 at the Toronto Music Gallery. It was not the first time they had played together, though it was the first as a duo. The recording is aptly titled, not because the music is spaced out, but because it appears beyond the scope and breadth of human language to encompass, let al…
2002 release ** "The chronicle, divided between neo-dada and "fluxus", of some life-scenes. Luca Miti works for the deconsecration of the artist's role, and guide us thru the "delicate" representation of a domestic and personal art, near both to the artist and the listener. The four (or five) pieces of the title (compositions of two friends Otfried Rautenbach and Matthias Maas and Miti itself), performed by Anna Guidi and Luca Miti (piano, sax and live electronics) are mixed with the joyous "int…
Nine solos for Hardanger fiddle that trace a fascinating journey between tradition and experimentation, composed and performed by Sarah-Jane Summers, a virtuosic Scottish musician based in Norway. With Echo Stane, Summers employs the Hardanger fiddle – the national instrument of her adopted country – as a bridge across the North Sea, connecting the musical heritage of the Scottish Highlands with Norwegian folk traditions while pushing both toward the avant-garde.
Summers grew up in rural Inverne…
Edited by Lawrence Kumpf with Joe Bucciero. Contributors and featured artists include Masayuki Takayanagi, Louise Landes Levi, Joseph Jarman, Catherine Christer Hennix, Charles Stein, Henry Orlov, Maryanne Amacher, Alan Cummings, Bill Dietz, Peter Kastakis, Art Lange, Leo Svirsky, Satoru Obara, and Tomoyuki Chida.Aspirations of Madness, Blank Forms’ fifth collection of archival, unpublished, or newly translated texts, takes its title from a series of interviews with Japanese free jazz pioneer Ma…
For many bands, having all their gear stolen would be catastrophic. For Third Ear Band, this unfortunate 1968 incident opened a portal to beneficial change that would ultimately define one of British experimental music's most singular statements. Now, Antarctica Starts Here presents the first-time vinyl reissue of the group's self-titled 1970 sophomore album - often called Elements due to its elemental track titles - complete with new liner notes by Dave Segal that illuminate this remarkable cha…
Cult album of Brazilian music finally reissued. Official reissue of this real tour de force of Brazilian creativity, where the mighty Naná Vasconcelos is joined by his friends Nelson Angelo and Novelli (both members of the legendary Clube da Esquina) to create one of the greatest Brazilian albums ever recorded outside of Brazil. The three musicians grasp here for the kind of musical freedom that could then only be achieved outside of their country. A boundary-pushing experimentation that makes y…
Essential jazz from Argentina, originally released in 1971. Bronca Buenos Aires is one of the highlights in the career of Jorge López Ruiz, alongside El Grito and the much-acclaimed Viejas Raíces project. The album is jazz poem by López Ruiz to the city he loved, not just for its virtues but also its faults, and the recording was an ambitious project that gathered many of the prominent jazz musicians of Buenos Aires.
However, due to the repressive political context of the time, Bronca Buenos Air…
Proto-prog act Titus Groan came together in London from disparate influences: drummer Jim Toomey, who later played in the Tourists, had a trad jazz background, and then played in a soul act with saxophonist/flutist/oboist Tony Priestland; bassist John Lee had played with jazz saxophonist Dick Morrissey, and guitarist/keyboardist Stuart Cowell was a blues fan, hence the diverse directions of their sole LP. Rare 12-inch ‘Open The Door Homer’ features their cover of the unreleased Bob Dylan song th…