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SARABIA CHELIQUE
2019. In the early '70s, composer and arranger Chelique Sarabia decided to register an album of traditional and folkloric songs from Venezuela but giving them a modern touch. Chelique, helped by a team of gifted mus..
SANFORD ARMS
2001. Devil in the Woods, Issue 3.3, 2001 5 Stars. After far too long in hiding, former Alcohol Funnycar frontman Ben London returns with a devastatingly world-weary collection of songs. The guitars have been turn..
URZE DE LUME
2018. 'As Arvores...' is the second and final chapter of Urze De Lume's ode to autumn, in a follow-up to the acclaimed 'Vozes Na Neblina' EP released in early 2017. Although predominantly focused on guitar-based pie..
FARIZ RM
2018. Originally trained in classical piano through his mother and some of Indonesia's legendary classical music virtuosos, Fariz made his own historical moment when he became Indonesia's legendary pop icon of the e..
TOP DAMIEN
2014. Son of a family of teachers, Emile Goué (1904-1946) was attracted both by his love for the sciences and for music. We do not know what his musical beginnings were, save for a brief stay at the Music Conservato..
STRAFE F.R.
2018. Based in Düsseldorf, Germany, Strafe F.R. is a long-term collaboration between the artists Bernd Kastner and S.M. Syniuga, which started in 1979. After a long period of hibernation, 'The Bird Was Stolen' ..
MAGNIFICENT TAPE BAND
2018. The Magnificent Tape Band are the alter egos of ATA Records founders Neil Innes and Pete Williams, who were the creative driving force behind the debut album by The Sorcerers, for which they wrote and produced..
MAGNIFICENT TAPE BAND
2018. The Magnificent Tape Band are the alter egos of ATA Records founders Neil Innes and Pete Williams, who were the creative driving force behind the debut album by The Sorcerers, for which they wrote and produced..
DAWSON STEVE
2008. Acclaimed Vancouver, BC musician/producer/songwriter Steve Dawson will release 2 new albums of his work in 2008; �Waiting For The Lights To Come Up� and �Telescope�. �I decided to record two album..
ONYX
2018. Onyx was an early 1980s Boston based new wave/avant-garde band, an international duo of American songwriter and instrumentalist Judd Stone, and British vocalist (and then Boston fashion model) Beveur. They rel..
CURRAN ALVIN
2018. American composer and multi-instrumentalist Alvin Curran has remained one of the great emblems of experimental music for the last half-century. In 1966, along with Frederic Rzewski and Richard Teitelbaum, Curr..
COSMOPOLITANS
2006. * Features producer Mitch Easter (REM) as producer, guitarist and/or drummer! * 80s New Wave girls are hot in 2006! * This is an enhanced CD featuring the whacky New Wave video for "Husband Happy!&q..
CHICAGO ODENSE ESEMBLE
2019. Chicago Odense Ensemble is a unique collaboration that came together in the winter of 2008 while Danish musicians Jonas Munk and Jakob Skott stayed in Chicago. Via mutual friends, and a support gig for Isotope..
CHICAGO ODENSE ESEMBLE
2019. Chicago Odense Ensemble is a unique collaboration that came together in the winter of 2008 while Danish musicians Jonas Munk and Jakob Skott stayed in Chicago. Via mutual friends, and a support gig for Isotope..
TOJA
2010. “Train Of Life” is the third album by German Heavy Rockers ToJa and their most ambitious one to date. The band has created ten songs with an impressive musical range, pushing back the common genre boundaries. ..
CRAIG PRUESS
2017. 'Sacred Chants of Shiva' was the first in a series of now globally known CDs, created by composer/musician Craig Pruess, as a direct result of the deep silence, joy and upliftment he felt from his experiences ..
KITARO
2000. Inspired by and written for the controversial Chinese film, The Soong Sisters, Kitaro's score features rich dynamic performances of orchestra colored by traditional eastern instruments. Based on the lives of t..
HAWKINS FIONA JOY
2016. Far from the shore, The winds will whisper, 600 Years and I will be home…. Once heard, one doesn’t easily forget Australian artist Fiona Joy’s evocative piano and ethereal vocals. She is often referred to ..
STEARNS MICHAEL
2019. Reissue of a pure gem of early ambient music. Michael Stearns is a multi-genre music composer and soundtrack designer/producer. His credits include music for Ron Fricke's non-verbal 70MM films 'Chronos', 'Bara..
STEARNS MICHAEL
2019. Reissue of a pure gem of early ambient music. Michael Stearns is a multi-genre music composer and soundtrack designer/producer. His credits include music for Ron Fricke's non-verbal 70MM films 'Chronos', 'Bara..
TOLLEY & DARA
2018. Welcome to the strange musical world of Tolley & Dara, an experimental duo whose incredible music held a marginal yet vital position on the fringe of the Australian music industry during the late 1970s and..
SCAIOLI MATTEO
2019. Harmograph is a project by and with Matteo Scaioli. Matteo Scaioli summarized his latest research on sound by building various electromechanical instruments, one of which he called the 'Harmograph', which give..
SARABIA CHELIQUE
2019. In the early '70s, composer and arranger Chelique Sarabia decided to register an album of traditional and folkloric songs from Venezuela but giving them a modern touch. Chelique, helped by a team of gifted mus..
CITY OF WOMEN
2019. Jimi Tenor and a group of friends visited Edward Vesala's home studio twice. Matti Knaapi and Jimi Tenor have been designing and building instruments since early 80s. They started jamming with their own device..
SAGI REI
2019. New fourth album by Sagi Rei " JADE DIAMONDS & PEARLS " "I decided to name this album "Diamonds & pearls jade " - says Sagi - Rei " because these songs are for me the precious stones and their memory elicits a..
SWAMPWATER
2019. Originally released in 1971, the second album by the US country-rockers is now available on the CD-format. The songs feature great vocal harmonies, rock instruments and plenty of fiddle and banjo. Swampwater i..
REICH STEVE
2019. Alternative Fox delivers a landmark release in the history of minimalism with a live performance documented from one of the genre's key figures - Steve Reich. Recorded live at Berkeley University in the 1970s..
G.O.L.E.M.
2022. It was in the early 2000s when Wicked Minds graced the stages all over Europe and the audience would applaud their powerful mix of hard and progressive rock. After fifteen years the G.O.L.E.M. has now taken up..
ALDORANDE
2019. Aldorande's preliminary, in-depth studies of seventies jazz-funk were a great source of inspiration. Very early on, they knew that this sonic esthetic would allow them to travel even further, navigating only w..
ALDORANDE
2019. Aldorande's preliminary, in-depth studies of seventies jazz-funk were a great source of inspiration. Very early on, they knew that this sonic esthetic would allow them to travel even further, navigating only w..
REICH STEVE & ENSEMBLE M
2019. As noted on Alternative Fox's 'Live In Berkeley 1970' and 'Information Transmission, Modulation And Noise' releases, the New York-born composer and abstract keyboard artist Steve Reich was one of the most imp..
SMEGMA
2022. Los Angeles Free Music Society (LAFMS) formed in the mid-1970s as a loose-knit experimental music collective and multimedia publishing vehicle. Founded by teenage Le Forte Four members Chip Chapman, Joe Potts ..
SAGOR & SWING
2021. The myth of Sagor & Swing tells that they are children of nature that grew up in the forest. That they at an early age built their first instruments and isolated from the noise of civilization invented a m..
JOY UNLIMITED
2021. Joy Fleming and her band, Joy Unlimited, released six high brow LP's in the early seventies. 'Schmetterlinge' (in English 'Butterflies') was released on the legendary Pilz label in 1971 and presents a fine ble..
JOY UNLIMITED
2014. In 1973 singer Joy had quit het group Joy Unlimited, which then was fronted by Ken Traylor. The LP 'Reflections', released by BASF (as the Pilz label had folded) featured music that was written and recorded fo..
KUUPUU
2013. A collection of darkly shining northern diamonds, 'Sous Juju' is a two-CD compilation of the musical work of Kuupuu from her first releases in 2003 up to previously unreleased material from 2012. Kuupuu, known..
VÝBEROVKA
2018. The first ever reissue of 'Whirled Music' by Max Eastley, Steve Beresford, Paul Burwell and David Toop, one of the key documents of the inventive and energetic scene around the London Musicians Collective in t..
VÝBEROVKA
2019. 'explorations in irish jazz, fusion & folk 1969-81' - 'buntús rince' translates from irish as 'basic rhythms', and this compilation explores how irish musicians were influenced by strands..
WLOSOK MCGUIRK RILEY
2017. When I met Pavel in 2011 to find out more about his own live trio project, I was intrigued not only by the project‘s compositions, instrumentation and personnel, but also by the unorthodox way it was recorded ..
MUJURU EPHAT & THE SPIRIT OF
2021. Ephat Mujuru exemplifies a unique generation of traditional musicians in Zimbabwe. Born under an oppressive colonial regime in Southern Rhodesia, his generation witnessed the brutality of the 1970s liberation ..
MR.FOX
2020. This is the official re-release on vinyl under licensed courtesy of BMG Rights Management,UK, remastered from an original master copy out of the vaults of BMG. Originally released in 1970 on Transatlantic Reco..
CISCO STU
2021. Originally released in 1980, 'Amanita' is an early approach of Canadian artist Sherine Cisco, formerly known as Stu Cisco, to the limitless world of synthesizers in music, through ambient, progressive rock and..
CIDRON JUAN MANUEL
2011. Cidron, from Almeria (Andalusia), is a legendary Spanish synthesist who started in 1985. A veteran of analog electronic sounds. His early influences were the Berlin School of the seventies (Tangerine Dream, Kl..
TOWNLEY JOHN
2020. John Townley is associated with various musical projects by different groups of people. For some he's the driving force behind the double-album by The Family of Apostolic (1968), for others the guitarist of fo..
ALESSANDRONI ALESSANDRO
2020. Rsd 2020 release. At the end of the '60s in italy - but also abroad, especially in france and england - a very particular trend began to spread, that one known as 'library music' or 'sono..
JONES PETER
2019. Former Public Image Ltd. bass player Pete Jones releases his first album on his own Jam UK label. Pete has a long history stretching back to the halcyon days of the early eighties punk/post punk scene. He play..
HADIDJAH IDJAH
2020. Indonesian music has enraptured ears across the globe for many years, and few styles hold such a colorful history and place in the hearts of the people of West Java as Jaipongan. Hive Mind Records announced a ..
LA BREICHE
2020. After their 2017 debut 'Le Mal Des Ardents' (Cold Spring), 'Le Rite' opens a new door, with post-folk sounds close to post-rock, influenced by ancient music, with folk used in a modernist way. Dark, ambient an..
BRIGADE FOZZY
2020. Brigade Fozzy was one of the early hardcore punk bands from the Westphalian Münsterland. They started in 1983 with a trashy kind of punk, which Maximum Rock'n'Roll magazine described as "enjoyable, o..
SPIRAL GALAXY
2020. Traveling the spaceways as Spiral Galaxy, flautist/painter Sara Gossett and treated guitar/machines manipulator Plastic Crimewave (of Plastic Crimewave Syndicate/Galactic Zoo Dossier magazine) have created dev..
GR RECORD HEAD
2020. No-bullshit underground free-rock and proto-punk dosage featuring a multi-piece line up of GRs! This acetate slab of defiant mixture makes the magic happens like an hallucinatory disenchantment ..
WINTER EDGAR
2020. 'They Only Come Out At Night' is the first Winter album released under the Edgar Winter Group. Edgar played most of all the album's instruments, including keyboards and wind instruments. This set collects ten ..
STAGG
2018. Stagg, four guys from Frankfurt, all students were one of the very best bands who recorded at the former German radio station SWF. Well trained on their instruments flute and sax, organ and keyboard, guitar, b..
PALESTINE CHARLEMAGNE &
2020. A famous English conductor said that the harpsichord sounded like "two skeletons copulating on a tin roof". An instrument that was once the basis of every orchestra and chamber ensemble was long ago ..
AXELROD DAVID
1979. Having already set a Catholic Mass to psychedelic guitar in 1967 with the Electric Prunes album Mass in F Minor, in 1971 legendary arranger/producer David Axelrod went for Baroque and set Georg Friedrich Hand..
SAID RIZAN
2019. 'Saz U Dilan' is the second solo album of Rizan Said. After 'King Of Keyboards', released in 2016 by Discrepant, this release brings you the most exciting Kurdish-Syrian dance music to your ears. Surrounded by..
MCCANN LES
1972. While Les McCann has always revealed a decided tendency toward the funky side of things in his playing and singing, going back to his earliest gospel-tinged soul-jazz recordings for the Pacific Jazz label from..
JULES BAND
2019. The Jules Band provide a modern sound of rock, blues and soul which is rooted in the music of the '60s and '70s. The 27 years old Nuremberg-based Julia "Jules" Fischer is the center of the band with ..
ARMSTRONG RANDY
2003. Listening to No Regrets, Randy Armstrongs tenth album, is like listening to a whole season of concerts in one sitting. As one of the pioneers of the world fusion music genre in the early 70s with Do'ah World M..