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  • Steve Adams / Ken Filiano Quartet – Anacrusis
    Steve Adams / Ken Filiano Quartet – Anacrusis
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    Interesting, reed-led Free Jazz from a power group featuring Billy Mintz, Ken Filiano, Steve Adams, and Vinny Golia Label: Nine Winds Records – NW 0128 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • The Only Ones – Live In London
    The Only Ones – Live In London
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    This live set from The Only Ones features rawer & more ragged arrangements of some of their best tracks, including Another Girl, Another Planet. Label: Skyclad Records – GOD 67 […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Rock / Pop
  • Talking Heads – Remain In Light
    Talking Heads – Remain In Light
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    “The musical transition that seemed to have just begun with Fear of Music came to fruition on Talking Heads’ fourth album, Remain in Light. “I Zimbra” and “Life [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Merry Airbrakes ‎– Merry Airbrakes
    Merry Airbrakes ‎– Merry Airbrakes
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    “Its 1973… in three years it will be 1976. This album of music, conceived and recorded during the months between the 1972 Presidential election and the full-flowering of the Watergate [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Circuit Des Yeux ‎– Symphone
    Circuit Des Yeux ‎– Symphone
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    Debut release from Circuit Des Yeux that shows Haley Fohr at her darkest and most lo-fi. Label: De Stijl – IND-066 Format: Vinyl, LP, Limited Edition, White Label, Gray Marbled […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Bee Mask ‎– When We Were Eating Unripe Pears
    Bee Mask ‎– When We Were Eating Unripe Pears
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    “That old saw about dancing and architecture notwithstanding, I am like most people who make records in that I do not especially relish the task of writing about them. (Better […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Greymouth ‎– Parked Up
    Greymouth ‎– Parked Up
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    The duo of Mark Anderson (Bancho Taste / Mysteries of Love) and Mark Sadgrove (Mazda Hatchback / Mysteries of Love) take the wheel and don the louvres to serve up […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Gene Dunlap ‎– Party In Me
    Gene Dunlap ‎– Party In Me
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    Hard-hitting and heavy Disco/Soul, ala Roy Ayers, from one of the most underrated percussionists of 70’s & 80’s. Label: Capitol Records – ST-12190 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album [...]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • The New Lee Dorsey – Working In The Coal Mine – Holy Cow
    The New Lee Dorsey – Working In The Coal Mine – Holy Cow
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    “Lee Dorsey epitomized the loose, easy-going charm of New Orleans R&B perhaps more than any other artist of the ’60s. Working with legendary Crescent City producer/writer Allen [...]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • New York Contemporary 5* – Vol. 2.
    New York Contemporary 5* – Vol. 2.
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    “Recorded at the end of a string of engagements throughout the Scandinavian countries, Archie Shepp + The New York Contemporary Five, Vol. 2 captures a group of young musicians seeking […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Devo – Freedom Of Choice
    Devo – Freedom Of Choice
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    “With Freedom of Choice, Devo completed their transition into a full-fledged synth-pop group, producing arguably their most musically cohesive effort in the process. Synthesizers are now [...]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Alexander von Schlippenbach – Globe Unity
    Alexander von Schlippenbach – Globe Unity
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    “In 1966, pianist Alexander von Schlippenbach assembled his first large ensemble to play his compositions “Globe Unity” and “Sun.” This 14-piece band, which brought together some of the [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Yvette Mimieux & Ustad Ali Akbar Khan – Baudelaire’s Flowers Of Evil (Les Fleurs Du Mal)
    Yvette Mimieux & Ustad Ali Akbar Khan – Baudelaire’s Flowers Of Evil (Les Fleurs Du Mal)
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    “Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, whose father was the great Bengali (now Bangladeshi) musician Allauddin Khan, and who himself is one of the most important musicians in Indian classical music, has [...]

    GENRE: Hindustani
  • John Cage Assisted By David Tudor – Variations IV Volume II
    John Cage Assisted By David Tudor – Variations IV Volume II
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    “This work was originally used as music for the choreographed piece by Merce Cunningham, “Field Dances,” with stage and costume design in the original version by Robert [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Alan Vega – Insurrection
    Alan Vega – Insurrection
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    “In The Red are proud to announce the release of Insurrection – a previously unreleased album by the Brooklyn born master of minimalism Alan Vega. The 11 songs on [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Tom Waits ‎– Swordfishtrombones
    Tom Waits ‎– Swordfishtrombones
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    “Between the release of Heartattack and Vine in 1980 and Swordfishtrombones in 1983, Tom Waits got rid of his manager, his producer, and his record company. And he drastically altered […]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • John Cale – Slow Dazzle
    John Cale – Slow Dazzle
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    “Recording again with Phil Manzanera, along with noted journeyman guitarist Chris Spedding, Cale kept up the focus and amazing music on Slow Dazzle, easily the equal of Fear in terms […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Tom Waits – Heartattack And Vine
    Tom Waits – Heartattack And Vine
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    “Heartattack and Vine is Tom Waits’ seventh and final album for Asylum. As such, it’s transitional. As demonstrated by its immediate predecessors, 1978’s excellent Blue [...]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Tom Waits – Closing Time
    Tom Waits – Closing Time
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    “Tom Waits’ debut album is a minor-key masterpiece filled with songs of late-night loneliness. Within his chosen narrow range of the cocktail bar pianistics and muttered vocals, Waits [...]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • John Carter ‎– Fields
    John Carter ‎– Fields
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    “Clarinetist John Carter, a few years before his death, musically told the story of Black Americans in five albums. The fourth set concentrates on the years of slavery, which were […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Anthony Braxton – For Four Orchestras
    Anthony Braxton – For Four Orchestras
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    “Braxton’s contract with Arista during the ’70s allowed him a unique opportunity to perform and record a number of projects that would normally have been, considering his [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • The Woolies ‎– Basic Rock
    The Woolies ‎– Basic Rock
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    “Lansing, Michigan’s Woolies weren’t as bracing or confrontational as contemporaries like MC5 or the Stooges (or even the Rationals, for that matter), but they got a lot of [...]

    GENRE: Garage / Proto Punk
  • Nico – The End…
    Nico – The End…
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    “It is one of the most entrenched visions in the rock critic’s vocabulary; Nico as doomed valkyrie, droning death-like through a harsh gothic monotone, a drained beauty pumping dirges [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Paul Bley – Copenhagen And Haarlem
    Paul Bley – Copenhagen And Haarlem
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    “This double LP from Arista’s Freedom series features Paul Bley with his trios (either Kent Carter or Mark Levenson on bass along with drummer Barry Altschul) at two different [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • The Stooges ‎– The Stooges
    The Stooges ‎– The Stooges
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    “While the Stooges had a few obvious points of influence — the swagger of the early Rolling Stones, the horny pound of the Troggs, the fuzztone sneer of a thousand […]

    GENRE: Garage / Proto Punk
  • Mort Garson ‎– Mother Earth’s Plantasia
    Mort Garson ‎– Mother Earth’s Plantasia
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    “If you purchased a snake plant, asparagus fern, peace lily, or what have you from Mother Earth on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles (or bought a Simmons mattress from Sears), […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Uniform ‎– Perfect World
    Uniform ‎– Perfect World
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    “Uniform formed in New York City in late 2013 when old friends Ben Greenberg (Hubble, The Men, Pygymy Shrews) and Michael Berdan (York Factory Complaint, Drunkdriver, Believer/Law) realized [...]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Fontella Bass – Free
    Fontella Bass – Free
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    “If Fontella Bass’ “Rescue Me” is the best soul single that Aretha Franklin never made, then Free is the lost classic that deserves space in any record collection housing [...]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Lenny Breau – The Velvet Touch Of Lenny Breau – Live!
    Lenny Breau – The Velvet Touch Of Lenny Breau – Live!
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    “Recorded live at Shelly’s Manne-Hole in Hollywood, California, The Velvet Touch of Lenny Breau: Live! features a trio setting of Breau on electric guitar, Reg Kelln on drums, and Ron [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Devo ‎– Duty Now For The Future
    Devo ‎– Duty Now For The Future
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    Devo begins to embrace poppier leanings on their second album. Particular highlight is their cover of Johnny Rivers’ Secret Agent Man. Label: Warner Bros Records – BSK 3337 Format: Vinyl, [...]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Raw Deal!
    Raw Deal!
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    Part of Raw Records New Wave Series, this compilation features The Users and The G.T’s, along with several other Power-Pop/New Wave influenced UK punk bands. Label: Raw Records – RAWL […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • The Star Club – The Very Best Of The Star Club
    The Star Club – The Very Best Of The Star Club
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    A compilation of the best of the early material from the first era of The Star Club, a long running and heavily influential Japanese punk band. Label: Club The Star […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Bad Brains – I And I Survive (1982 Bad Brains Records)
    Bad Brains – I And I Survive (1982 Bad Brains Records)
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    “”I And I Survive” is a 1982 EP by Bad Brains, released on the heels of their iconic self-titled debut album. Like the band’s subsequent album “Rock for [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • The Modern Lovers – The Original Modern Lovers
    The Modern Lovers – The Original Modern Lovers
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    “After recording demo sessions in 1972 with John Cale for Warner Bros. Records and others with Alan Mason and Robert Appere for A&M, the Modern Lovers re-performed some of the […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Suicidal Tendencies – Join The Army
    Suicidal Tendencies – Join The Army
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    Suicidal Tendencies embrace thrash & metal influences on their second album Label: Caroline Records – CAROL 1336 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1987 VG+/VG. Vinyl is clean [...]

    GENRE: Metal
  • Iggy And The Stooges – Raw Power (1973 Japanese Press)
    Iggy And The Stooges – Raw Power (1973 Japanese Press)
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    “In 1972, the Stooges were near the point of collapse when David Bowie’s management team, MainMan, took a chance on the band at Bowie’s behest. By this point, guitarist Ron […]

    GENRE: Garage / Proto Punk
  • Husker Du – Metal Circus
    Husker Du – Metal Circus
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    “A five-song EP bristling with energy and pummeling guitars, Metal Circus is the first indication of Hüsker Dü’s greatness. With these five songs, the band shows more invention, [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Wheezing Maniac – Shade Through The Night Door
    Wheezing Maniac – Shade Through The Night Door
    $28.00 | Add to cart

    Wheezing Maniac was a mysterious, short-lived band with enigmatic lyrics that was active in Southern California in the late eighties. Due to their off-kilter originality, high energy, and thanks [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • PRE-ORDER
    Cameron Knowler – CRK
    Cameron Knowler – CRK
    $27.00 | , Ships on/around Apr 04, 2025 Add to cart

    ***Ships On Or Around 04/04/25 “Pure musical expression pulling from over a hundred years of American folk history but still feels unburdened by the past and looks sharply towards the […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • PRE-ORDER
    Dylan Golden Aycock – No New Summers
    Dylan Golden Aycock – No New Summers
    $30.00 | , Ships on/around Mar 21, 2025 Add to cart

    ***Pre-Order Item – Ships on or around 3/21 Nice to hear the first solo LP in a good while by this most excellent guitarist who also runs the superb Scissor […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • The Kinks – Arthur Or The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire
    The Kinks – Arthur Or The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire
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    “Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) extends the British-oriented themes of Village Green Preservation Society, telling the story of a London man’s decision to move [...]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Clifford Thornton & The Jazz Composer’s Orchestra – The Gardens Of Harlem (Japanese Pressing)
    Clifford Thornton & The Jazz Composer’s Orchestra – The Gardens Of Harlem (Japanese Pressing)
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    “The documentation of avant-garde jazz from any period becomes severely hampered by production insecurities as soon as the subject at hand is large-scale orchestral music. The Jazz [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Lee Morgan ‎– Caramba [1968 pressing]
    Lee Morgan ‎– Caramba [1968 pressing]
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    “Of the other selections, “Soulita” has the catchiest melody while Cal Massey’s slow ballad “A Baby’s Smile” was previously unreleased. While Morgan and [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Alan Sondheim / Ritual-All-770* – Ritual-All-7-70
    Alan Sondheim / Ritual-All-770* – Ritual-All-7-70
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    “Ritual All 7-70 is a curious collection of short improvisations by the multi-instrumentalist Alan Sondheim — who plays, among others, koto, English horn, electric and acoustic [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Wilson Pickett – The Wicked Pickett [white label promo]
    Wilson Pickett – The Wicked Pickett [white label promo]
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    “A fabulous album, done when Pickett was in the midst of his best period at Atlantic. It had everything — great songs, wonderful production and arrangements, and a hungry, galvanizing [...]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • V/A – A² (An A-Square Compilation)
    V/A – A² (An A-Square Compilation)
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    “A-Square (Of Course) is an essential compilation of the Michigan garage revolution in the late ’60s, all revolving around the catalyst for the revolution, Hugh “Jeep” [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Gregorio Paniagua ‎– Batiscafo
    Gregorio Paniagua ‎– Batiscafo
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    ““Batiscafo” by Gregorio Paniagua is one of these elusive treasures. First released in 1980 on Hispavox, the album disappeared after a short run and no further editions in any format […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • The Watersons ‎– Frost And Fire (A Calendar Of Ritual And Magical Songs) [1977 Mono]
    The Watersons ‎– Frost And Fire (A Calendar Of Ritual And Magical Songs) [1977 Mono]
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    “Seasons of anxiety, seasons of joy. The common people had their rites of propitiation and triumph, older than the rituals of the Church and closer bound to their daily lives. […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Leo Cuypers ‎– Leo Cuypers
    Leo Cuypers ‎– Leo Cuypers
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    The Dutch free-jazz legend’s intense debut Label: BASF – 14 25182-9 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: Netherlands Released:1972 VG+/VG. Sleeve shows noticeable edgewear/corner creasing

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • The New York Bass Violin Choir – The New York Bass Violin Choir
    The New York Bass Violin Choir – The New York Bass Violin Choir
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    “This might easily be Bill Lee’s greatest epiphany. It also celebrates the artistic partnership that Bill Lee shares with the six other bassists on the album. The seven movements run […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Charles Tolliver’s Music Inc* – Live At The Loosdrecht Jazz Festival
    Charles Tolliver’s Music Inc* – Live At The Loosdrecht Jazz Festival
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    Recorded at the Loosdrecht Jazz Festival, Holland (The Netherlands), 9th August 1972 by courtesy of Joop de Roo, N.O.S. Radio, Hilversum. Label: Black Lion Records – PA-3001/2 Format: 2xVinyl, [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Il Gruppo* ‎– The Private Sea Of Dreams
    Il Gruppo* ‎– The Private Sea Of Dreams
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    Italian free-jazz featuring Roland Kayn & Ennio Morricone Label: RCA Victor – LSP-3846 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo Country: US Released: 1967 VG+/VG+. Light marks/edgewear

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Conrad Schnitzler – Zug
    Conrad Schnitzler – Zug
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    “Schnitzler’s Zug is one of the most important and first electronic minimalist works that were published in the 70s. Almost simultaneously with Kraftwerk’s groundbreaking “Autobahn” Zug [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • The Descendants Of Mike And Phoebe ‎– A Spirit Speaks
    The Descendants Of Mike And Phoebe ‎– A Spirit Speaks
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    “Active during the prime years of New York jazz label Strata-East, The Descendants of Mike and Phoebe was one of the various projects on the label spearheaded by bassist Bill […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Dino Valente* – Dino Valente
    Dino Valente* – Dino Valente
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    “Dino Valente’s sole album recalls the one issued by another San Francisco artist signed to CBS in the late ’60s, Skip Spence: quirky, lyrically vague, folky yet psychedelic, [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Eugene Chadbourne With Camper Van Beethoven (aka) Camper Van Chadbourne ‎– Camper Van Chadbourne
    Eugene Chadbourne With Camper Van Beethoven (aka) Camper Van Chadbourne ‎– Camper Van Chadbourne
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    “Camper Van Chadbourne is one of Eugene Chadbourne’s best albums, and perhaps the best introduction to his weird world. He offers up his usual assortment of cover songs, medleys, and [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Ryley Walker & Chris Brokaw – Strangled Pairs #13
    Ryley Walker & Chris Brokaw – Strangled Pairs #13
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    Guitar duo improvisation from Walker & Brokaw Label: American Tapes – AM 982 Format: Vinyl, 12″ Country: US Released: 2014 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Red Lights ‎– Red Lights
    Red Lights ‎– Red Lights
    $14.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Prior to forming Gun Club, Jeffrey Lee Pierce fronted the short-lived Red Lights in 1978. A power-pop obsessive at the time, Pierce managed to record a Red Lights demo. These […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Albert Ayler – Goin’ Home
    Albert Ayler – Goin’ Home
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    “Albert Ayler was confronted with a spiritual anxiety that both plagued and comforted him throughout his life. This is frighteningly clear listening to the highly intense musical yin and [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Cecil Taylor Unit* ‎– Spring Of Two Blue-J’s
    Cecil Taylor Unit* ‎– Spring Of Two Blue-J’s
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    “Recorded live at New York’s Town Hall in 1974, Spring of Two Blue Jays is split between Taylor’s solo piano version of the title song and a quartet rendition featuring […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz