Selections from the first 11 Zacht Automaat albums, recorded 2010-2012, previously released online / cassette. Label: Calico Corp – CCRP05 Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Numbered Country: [...]
Highly political krautrock/folk-rock by the Austrian group, Schmetterlinge. Label: Antagon – ALP 3213 Format: 3 x Vinyl, LP, Album, Boxset Country: Germany Released: VG+/VG. Sticker and some wear [...]
Michigan-based neo-garage/psych rock. RIYL: Black Angels, Oh Sees Label: HoZac Records – HZR-085 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 2011 VG+/VG. Some corner creasing/sleevewear
“I have learned over the years that when Nigel Cross (founder of Bucketfull of Brains fanzine and the Shagrat label) speaks, it’s worth paying attention. Thus, when he began telling […]
“An infamous album by London scene maker Screaming Lord Sutch, who, among other things, claimed to be a genuine Earl and to have started the long hair craze of the […]
“Recorded before the debut LP was released in June 2010, the majority of Ashram to the Stars was initially intended as the debut album for yet another new Matt LaJoie […]
“Frijid Pink’s self-titled debut album is a slashing, seriously soulful example of late-’60s Detroit rock near its best. Although they never registered with critics or rock [...]
“Like other hard-psych-revisionists, these guys seem to have learned some of their guitar and vocal moves in a post-Dinosaur universe, but we were never too big on yappy emotive vocals […]
“A bit over ten years separated John Cale’s 2012 album Shifty Adventures in Nookie Wood and his next LP of original material, 2023’s Mercy. Chalk it up to a more […]
“L. EUGENE METHE (pronounced meth-e) is a sub-underground DIY lifer. At age 17, Methe started performing at bars in Omaha, Nebraska, fronting a band with six guitars, bass and drums […]
“No River Long Enough Doesn’t Contain a Bend finds High Aura’d’s bleak, wordless Americana is at its most visual—patiently building in intensity and lingering like clouds of smoke. On past […]
“The result of over three years of location recordings in sewers, subterranean facilities, and abandoned industrial complexes, Gnawed’s latest full length is without question his most [...]
Folk influenced ambient soundscapes by the California based collective. Label: Pesanta – PESANTA URFOLK 039 Format: Vinyl, LP Country: US Released: 2014 VG+/VG+
“The saxophonist and composer Roscoe Mitchell is best known as a founding member of the Art Ensemble of Chicago. But even when operating outside that pan-stylistic group, his approach [...]
“Underwater Sunlight was the first album Paul Haslinger recorded with Tangerine Dream and his presence is immediately felt. With Haslinger, the group relied more heavily on strict [...]
BASIC – the trio of Chris Forysth (guitar), Mikel Patrick Avery (percussion, drum machine, electronics), and Douglas McCombs (Fender Bass VI) – produced their new 7-track album over [...]
BASIC – the trio of Chris Forysth (guitar), Mikel Patrick Avery (percussion, drum machine, electronics), and Douglas McCombs (Fender Bass VI) – produced their new 7-track album over [...]
Virga III is the third installment in Eluvium’s inspired experimental series – and the first in nearly five years. In unmistakable contrast to the dense, ominous sprawl of Virga II, […]
To be an attentive listener to the world as it stands is to be saturated with language. Speech resounds through nearly every space that features human beings, whether unwanted or […]
In Library Copy Do Not Remove, Discovery Zone’s JJ Weihl presents a digital enchantment of reality, braiding together the material and non-material to reveal that they are, in fact, two […]
In (heavy and over-sized) wooden box of 40 handnumbered copies. Includes one handnumbered insert. 10 audiotqps with interviews/statements, experimental and electronic music by William Burroughs, [...]
Images of Life is the career-spanning, 3xLP retrospective boxset illuminating the staggering breadth and depth of Detroit’s unheralded songwriting genius, Ted Lucas. Disc one “Strange [...]
XKatedral Anthology Series III is the third installment in a series of archival releases dedicated to presenting music by composers working within the realm of slowly evolving harmonic and [...]
Pneuma is a cycle of eight compositions by double bassist and composer Henry Fraser, released by Kou Records, exploring breath, resonance, and the evolving relationship between form and [...]
Anthony Pasquarosa focuses the third eye back to 1910 to conjure a lysergic spaghetti Western experience. Expect to be transported to another realm where gunshots, galloping horses and [...]
On Transgression!!!, Donald Miller, guitar icon known for destroying worlds in the great Borbetomagus, takes the listener on an unexpected journey through the 12-string acoustic guitar. Utilizing [...]
“The debut release from the original Incredible String Band trio — Robin Williamson (violin/whistle/mandolin/guitar/vocals), Clive Palmer (banjo/guitar/vocals), and Mike Heron [...]
Lots of ground covered: abraded fury, free forms and serpentine Rang-dang-doodle songatechture mutated via some kind of lateral gene transfer of their musical DNA — a trip best taken WHOLE. […]
“Matthew Sullivan’s Matthew is nailed together with driftwood from around the world. The waters of Italy, the pubs of London, birds of Japan, a phone call in Los Angeles. Sullivan [...]
“Eddie Glass of Fu Manchu fame has put together one of the most sonically aural music obliterations ever put down on tape. Along with Queens of the Stone Age and […]
Chamber/art-rock from the Philadelphia ensemble, Musica Orbis. Straddles the line between Henry Cow/Art Bears and Lovely Music LTD. Beautiful stuff. Label: Longdivity Records – LD 1 Format: [...]
The second album by the proto-metal/hard rock German band. RIYL: Deep Purple, Uriah Heep, ELP. Label: Passport Records – PPSD-98008 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue Country: US Released: 1975 VG+/VG
“Once a symbol of the Vertigo label’s adventurism, Jade Warrior’s lack of sales led to their dismissal in 1972, which inevitably resulted in the band’s disintegration. [...]
“Welcome to the sound of Garcia Peoples at full speed. Without losing a ray of sunshine or a drop of dew, One Step Behind is the first major statement by […]
“Lambent Flame was recorded just before the core members of this band got completely lost in drugs and mysticism, which doesn’t mean this release is short of references to either. [...]
Originally issued with booklet / sheet music Label: Music Minus One – MMO 4052 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo Country: US Released: VG+/VG. General light wear & sleeve discoloration
“Limited to just 100 copies with silk screened covers. For the past ten years, Albany, New York free-rock family Burnt Hills have gotten together every Monday night in the basement […]
“Cleared is the duo of Steven Hess and Michael Vallera, both veterans of the Chicago experimental underground. With their new album Drown, Cleared integrate elements of minimalism and sound [...]
“After a string of successful solo efforts, Billy Cobham began to slip into mediocrity beginning with this recording, originally released in 1975. While elements of funk were always a part [...]
Modern alt-psych from Austin, Texas. In similar zone as Moon Duo, Psychic Ills, Black Angels. Label: Monofonus Press – MF038 Format: Vinyl, LP Country: US Released: 2012 VG+/VG+. Light scuffs [...]
“On their first two albums, Red Red Meat built their signature sound by taking the blues, filtering it through their druggy post-punk sensibilities, and bending it into something that was [...]
“The most refined of the three albums by the Frost features singer/songwriter Dick Wagner as producer, with Sam Charters, producer of the first two albums — Frost Music and Rock […]
“Although tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon had moved to Europe in 1962, he made a return visit to the U.S. in 1965 that resulted in both this album and Gettin’ Around. […]
Coursing through the cosmic pulse of Jazz-Funk is the inimitable influence of Lonnie Liston Smith. For over five decades, the legendary keyboardist and bandleader has been a driving force in […]