This debut LP comes across with a good measure of honesty and credibility — and that would be enough, but there are some catchy melodies mixed in with the fine […]
“Hard as it is to believe, George Harrison, guitar picker, was also an electronic music pioneer, as these two lengthy, abstract tone poems for early-vintage Moog synthesizer reveal. A naif [...]
“In “Three Aspects Of The Name” I return to my hard-core roots as a minimalist. The musical vocabulary is essentially the same as that of my earlier composition, “Guitar [...]
A double 12″ of pulsating house energy. Label: Help Recordings – HELP019 Format: 2 x Vinyl, 12″, 33 ⅓ RPM, Album Country: Denmark Released: 2022 VG+/VG+
“Following on the somnambulant heels of When I See The Sun, our massive, near-complete Codeine overview, comes What About The Lonely?, an eight-track LP recorded at the group’s live zenith. [...]
“Appearing after the sprawling, unfocused double-album set Ummagumma, Atom Heart Mother may boast more focus, even a concept, yet that doesn’t mean it’s more accessible. If [...]
Conceptual/art-music melding of minds between two lynchpins of the 60’s. Label: Apple Records – T-5001 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo Country: US Released: 1969 VG+/VG+
“Chamber music, loud riffs, pure choirs, electronic textures, This first album from OGIVES, “La mémoiredes orages” (The Memory of Storms) is a myriad of contrasts. The double LP [...]
“Ultra limited LP release, comes with 6 pages booklet, featuring two tape works pieces by conceptual artist John Perreault (b. 1937). The first work, “A Recorded Message,” features a tape [...]
“Shit & Shine’s sidestep from percussion led bunny rabbit rock ensemble performance based glee to ultimate heavy fools of the sticky dancefloor remains one of the more inspiring turn [...]
Contains both Country Club albums and the EP Brothers. Label: Breathing Problem Productions – BPP-151 Format: 3 x Vinyl, LP, Remastered Country: US Released: 2021 VG+/VG+
“It’s been speculated that this album, taped in front of an enthusiastic Tokyo audience in the early ’70s, was recorded without UFO’s knowledge. When it was issued, [...]
“Kate NV’s WOW offers listeners a prismatic shift in perspective and scale, a parallel dimension in which the mundane becomes funny, unfamiliar, and altogether sensational. Turning the [...]
Works for electric organ and multiple pianos by the Belgian composer. Label: Musica Magna – MAG 50 010 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo Country: Belgium Released: VG+/VG+. Sleeve has some […]
“The first piece on this CD originates in a commission that Stockhausen received from the WDR, but nobody – perhaps not even Stockhausen – could foresee the kind of music […]
Split comp between The Razors & Modern World. Live and hard Belgian punk! Label: Gnome Records – 00001 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Unofficial Release Country: Belgium Released: 2000 VG+/VG+
Compilation of various tracks from Fallout Records. Features The Adicts, UK Subs, Urban Dogs & more. Label: Fallout Records – FALL LP 040 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: UK Released: [...]
“Charles Ives is one of the most important American classical composers of international distinction, but it wasn’t always so: he was frustrated by indifferent audiences and ambivalent [...]
“Originally released in 1981 as a limited vinyl pressing of 300 copies on Agi Yuzuru’s fabled experimental label Vanity Records (R.N.A. Organism, Dada, Sympathy Nervous, Tolerance…), Lady [...]
“Lawrence’s pedigree as an artist extends beyond his solo career, as the drummer of popular Americana act The Felice Brothers, as well as John Early and the Lemon Squares and […]
Kentucky singer, songwriter and poet, Grace Rogers, comes from a family of old time, traditional and string band musicians. Her great grandpa Charlie Rogers played guitar in the Kentucky String [...]
“Shutaro Noguchi didn’t set out to make a farewell album, but On the Run captures a moment of profound change. Recorded just weeks before moving back to Japan after 20 […]
Stretching out from purple dawn (Patch of Violet) to cicada twilight (Spittle of the Morning Moon) like Whitman laying on his back observing the dew drop worlds collected on shards […]
““Piece” for cello and harp. “Motet” for mezzo-soprano, narrator, bass clarinet and harp. “Three New Mexico Landscapes” for piano and clarinet. “Toccata” for electronically derived [...]
“”RÊVE PARISIEN” features four new Rhys Chatham compositions that were performed live at Kassay’s exhibition at Art: Concept in Paris in 2010, and loosely functions as an audio [...]
Part of Deutsche Grammophon’s avantgarde series. Label: Deutsche Grammophon – 137 001 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: Germany Released: 1968 VG+/VG. jacket has small radio station [...]
“One of the London Sinfonietta’s landmark commissions of the past fifty years, Henze’s Voices is a collection of 22 folk songs from all over the world, spanning the soundworld of […]
Works specifically composed for the Finnish youth orchestra. Label: Ondine – ODE 705 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: Finland Released: 1986 VG+/VG. Sleeve has some creasing/wear
“XKatedral Anthology I is the first in a series of archival releases dedicated to presenting music by XKatedral affiliated composers working within the realm of slowly evolving harmonic and [...]
On her fourth album, Unclouded, Melody’s Echo Chamber embarks on a life-affirming new chapter with an album that celebrates the present moment, whatever state we find ourselves in. There’s a […]
A new live album that sees the band reflecting on their 6th album, Radiohead’s Hail to the Thief (Live Recordings 2003-2009) is comprised of performances of songs in London, Amsterdam, […]
Tremor – the breathtaking sixth album by Daniel Avery. An inner world built from chaotic noise, transcendental ambience and voices that echo around it like pulsing transmissions from some distant [...]
It was winter in Manhattan. The streets were frozen and still the band rode bicycles to the Power Station on 53rd and back to Brooklyn for three weeks. Three weeks […]
Pharoah Sanders’ Izipho Zam (My Gifts) is a groundbreaking jazz masterpiece. Recorded in 1969, two years after John Coltrane’s passing, and released in 1973 on Strata-East, the album [...]
In 1954, Joyce Johnson’s Barnard professor told his class that most women could never have the kinds of experiences that would be worth writing about. Attitudes like that were not […]
I first encountered the Gotobeds in August 2014, at a benefit for the great rock bard Karl Hendricks in their mutual hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Gotobeds went on fashionably […]
“Icelandic artist and musician Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson is known for his work with Stilluppsteypa, numerous solo albums and collaborations with other artists, such as Swedish composer BJ [...]
“One of the finest pianists and composers of the hard bop era, Sonny Clark seemed to arrive fully formed on his supremely swinging debut album Dial “S” for Sonny recorded […]
“Sound sculptures and gongs by Harry Bertoia unite both sides of the album. O’Neil’s Medusa Smack was commissioned by Venessa Renwick for her video installation of the same name, [...]
“It could be said that Tank (BB 070CD/LP), Kreidler’s critically-acclaimed previous album — is a drum album. Not in the sense of the brute force of a Ginger Baker or […]