2015. Listening to 'Unit Five' (Music Center BA112CD) makes you remember those days when you got the latest Blue Note album because you knew that you were going to hear the kind of lines that would make you snap you..

1983. Drummer and composer Pheeroan AkLaff's celebrated 'House of Spirit/Mirth' was originally released in 1979 on the composer Oliver Lake's bespoke private-press label Passin Thru' Inc., a not for profit label 'de..

2013. With its new album Aargh!, Amsterdam-based group The Jig establishes its reputation as an original, heart-warming and uncut funk collective. The Jig is one of few genuine funk bands in Europe. It is an instrum..

2010. "In Memory Of Jhon Balance And Homage To Coil". 17 French bands from the genesis of industrial, experimental, free jazz musics, for the most part unclassable underground musics, and more recent and e..

2011. Reform is a Swedish group that plays progressive rock with jazz influences. The group has always functioned as a collective, but has lately tried to stick to a regular core unit consisting of Jesper Bergman (e..

2012. 'Ferenc Nemeth is a nimble Hungarian drummer with a feel for African rhythm, as he has proved through a marquee association with the guitarist Lionel Loueke. On “Triumph” (Dreamers Collective), an album due ou..

2017. There is a cyclical nature in life. One can come to expect, and sometimes take for granted, the change of seasons, rising and falling tides, sunrises and sunsets, and the like. It is when the unexpected occurs..

2017. Chicago Afrobeat Project (CAbP) is a dynamic, 8- to 14-piece collective rooted in '70s funk and jazz-infused afrobeat. In its own urban, contemporary style, CAbP reinterprets music pioneered by Nigeria's chari..

2016. Alex Meixner is one of the leading performers of polka music in the USA. He tours relentlessly throughout the country, with occasional forays into Canada and Europe spreading the happiness of his musical messa..

2010. Originally released in 1972, Lo Borges solo debut is a stunning piece of post-bossa nova Brazilian pop music. Combining influences ranging from soul, jazz, pop, psychedelic, and bossa nova with brilliant music..

2014. Influenced by African rhythms and Ethiopian jazz, the Woima Collective manages to produce wonderfully unique and hypnotic pieces of music. The Woima Collective was born from deep within the brass section of re..

2017.  - myster tier,chega,moussa caravelle,padee,pambiche,yassa,thierno,afrosur,rantanplan,rumbon

2015.  - vopli vidoplyasova - musika dika,mahala rai banda - colindat,messer chups - tchaikovsky beat,little cow - viragok a reten,shukar collective - dalladida,haydamaky - meni zdayetsa,slavic soul party!..

1971. Iranian born American guitarist and composer Ahmad Mansour attended Berklee College of music in the early eighties, also studying with John Abercrombie, Mick Goodrick and Ritchie Beirach before moving to New Y..

2015. Never released before recordings from Belgium's mythic kosmische band Kosmose (1973-'78). The collective's line-up fluctuated quite a lot around a rock-solid core formed by Alain Neffe and Francis Pourcel. ..

2015. Hear why two legendary SiriusXM reggae radio hosts, Pat McKay and Dermot Hussey, can't get enough Island Head. Within an hour of hearing 'Punky Reggae Party' by Island Head, program director Pat McKay added '..

2016. The second solo album by the Dutch bass player. This serving of groove oriented jazz can be filed between the Blue Note classics and New Cool Collective. On these recordings Jo is joined by fantastic musicians..

2016. Book Of Air is a series of bundled compositions. This second chapter is played by a group of 18 improvisers with roots in jazz and classical music. The group investigates performing and improvising music, in c..

2012.  Back in print! 'pewt'r sessions 1-2' collects two limited vinyl-only causa sui albums originally released in 2011.  The two albums, released in april and august respectively, both features..

2011. The Amazing fell far from the tree. A natural process: coming together through affection, then slowly crystallising into a folk-rock-psych-pop-collective slowly pushing, bending, then playing with any preconce..

2016.  - space cowboy - eve st.  Jones,creep - karen souza,gypsy woman (she's homeless) - george white grou,don't speak - sarah menescal,wonderwall - the cooltrane quartet,personal jesus - jazzys..

2017. 'The VOID UNION is a collective of like-minded musicians and friends worldwide, brought together by their love of traditional Jamaican musical styles, jazz, and groove-oriented music. This project was conceptu..

2004.  - the world according to shaquana goldstein,nefertiti,the mass,young lions in the meat market,remembranza,spirit take my hand

2010.  - yuliet,imbia bwana,chacha were,mawa,cita rapida,elegua,nishiombo,gracias,baba nijaze na roho

2013. The Electrics shift smoothly across adjacent genres, edging over from free jazz simmer to intricate small sound mosaics. They vary pace and dynamics expertly, and the energy flow is unaffected by their collect..

1979. Esoteric Recordings are pleased to announce the release of a newly remastered edition of the classic underground album EAROF BEHOLDER by LOL COXHILL. Coxhill was a noted figure on the UK underground jazz and..

2001. This new recording by internationally acclaimed improvisational music artists pianist Joel Futterman, drummer Alvin Fielder, and reed player Ike Levin represents the first time these three veteran musicans hav..

2001. 'Reedist Matt Bauder, bassist Zach Wallace and percussionist Aaron Siegel have honed a handsome improv aesthetic since their collaboration began a decade ago. The trio's crystalline drones and patient, chamber..

2005. Critics called Natto Quartet's April 2003 debut, Headlands, 'exotic, equisitely crafted, and eye opening' (Signal to Noise) and 'music for our time' (AllAboutJazz.com), with The Wire's Bill Shoemaker noting, '..

2001. A two-disc set featuring a DVD movie and its CD soundtrack. A combination of avant-jazz and avant-cinema produced, directed and edited by New York-based multi-instrumentalist/filmmaker Tom Abbs and based on..

2017.  Newly remastered and repackaged as of january 2004! album description: a ride through the great plains landscape of julie's stone cupid soul, evoking the influences of joni mitchell, aretha franklin..

2017. Fitting together like hand in glove, the five musicians of the Cohelmec Ensemle build something together, rather than trying to destroy an established order, as was the done thing at the start of the 1970s, le..

2010. The UAJO’s new program is...a comparison of the song material of Vienna and Upper Austria. Starting with Friedrich Gulda’s “Golowin” songs which had their premier during the Gmundner Festwochen (festival week..

1986. Soul Jazz Records' new Deutsche Electronische Musik 2 is their second voyage into the world of Krautrock and German electronic music from the 1970s and early 1980s. This collection (with over 2 hours of amazin..

2016.  - madilu system - pie mboyo,papa wemba - adidas kiesse,orchestra super mazembe - ji ji,etoile de dakar featuring youssou n'dour - thiely,abdou diop - monde,africando - doundari,sam mangwana - escrob..

2006. '...a stroke of genius... The sheer beauty of 'Dream #8''s melody, the insistent head of 'Furious' and the unlikely dub closer 'No Harm' (with Saft on rhythm guitar!) are only a few of the highlights found on ..

1990. Document Chicago #5 Recorded October 6, 2003 live at 3030 in Chicago. After nearly four years of developing their voice as an improvising collective, Rempis (Triage, Vandermark Five, Thread Quintet, Territo..

2014. 'Contemporary Jazz And Funk Inspired by Ethiopian Sounds From The '70s'. 'Beyond Addis' is a collection of contemporary bands inspired by Ethiopian music from the '70s. It features Akale Wube (France), Helioce..

2013. Instrumental jazz-avant-rock by October Equus guitarist that runs through soundscapes with echoes of African, Arab and Oriental. Intricate chamber music compositions alternate with collective improvisations w..

2010.  - leaders and believers (unkle mix) - emperor's new clothes,the new avengers (raw deal mix) - mfos,souljah - manasseh,nothing - sandals,sleep walk - cloud nine,right on roy (keep on trying) - intro..

2009.  - tussentijds,blues on tuesday,aankondiging,no problem,machowe,trees and grass and things,wee / jazz is,lang lang,lucoolmi,kutsong / psychoville,jules / jazzverleden,bum wrap,romilar / free jazz,toe..