“Colosseum’s only performance at the prestigious Montreux Rose D’Or festival presented in superior quality. Taken from the official master tapes, this is the first vinyl release to capture the original Colosseum line-up performing at Montreux in best quality sound. Experience James Litherland, Dick Heckstall-Smith, Tony Reeves, Dave Greenslade and bandleader Jon Hiseman wowing the crowd with their innovative jazz/rock fusion.”
“Brilliant vintage live performance from Iron Butterfly featuring a mind-blowing 24 minute version of the all-time psych rock classic “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida!””
“Edena Gardens return with Dispossessed, a record that strips everything back to instinct and atmosphere. Captured in a single studio session at Causa Sui’s Jonas Munk’s Odense base, this is the first time the trio played together since 2023’s Dens. The results channel shifting tempos, heavy riffage, and moments of meditative stillness into something raw yet cohesive. From the sludgy propulsion of opener ‘Hiraeth’ to the glacial, ten-minute closer ‘Aftenstjerne’, the record charts an unbroken arc of first-take improvisation, shaped only slightly by drummer Jakob Skøtt in post. Every dubbed texture stems from the same day’s recordings, preserving the chemistry between Skøtt (also of Causa Sui), guitarist Nicklas Sørensen (Papir), and bassist/baritone guitarist Martin Rude (London Odense Ensemble).”
“Something is brewing in the state of Norway! Kronstad 23 are the latest trailblazers from northern Scandinavia: a creative force exploring the boundaries of musical genres, including but not limited to: psych rock, jazz, post-rock & scandinavian folk music. The group of young players follows the footsteps of Motorpsycho, Elephant9 & El Paraiso’s own Lotus, Fra Det Onde & Kanaan, carving out their path through the musical landscape in seemingly effortless ways! One minute you’re floating on cosmic Pharoah Sanders waters, the next you’re ascending on electrified if-Tortoise-played-Allman Brothers-style jamming.”
“Minerall is the project of Marcel Cultrera (Guitar; Speck), Tommy Handschick (Drums; Kombynat Robotron, Earthbong) and Sula Bassana (Bass, Synth; Zone Six, Interkosmos, ex Electric Moon).”
Camel’s The Live Recordings 1974–1977 captures the band stretching their classic progressive rock pieces into long, flowing live journeys across full concerts from the Camel, Mirage, The Snow Goose, Moonmadness, and Rain Dances eras. Themes from the studio albums open out into extended instrumental sections, with Andrew Latimer’s guitar and Peter Bardens’ keyboards drifting from mellow, atmospheric passages to powerful climaxes.
“In what refers to its musical content, Clearlight Symphony is a completely opposed concept to that of the other project in which Verdeaux was involved at the time: the collective album Delired Chameleon Family (also reissued recently on Wah Wah Records), a brilliant psychedelic dive into the French underground of the seventies. Clearlight Symphony, instead, is a much more author-controled work, where all the musicians adapt themselves to Verdeaux’s circular, systematic composition. The alleged and collected improvisations, dissonances and atonalities (superb Boulé), the rhythmic tension of Artman’s enigmatic, Heldonian drumming, Blake’s environmental VCS3 modulations, Hillage’s content cosmicism, Verdeaux’s crescendos and counterpoints… Plus echoes of Débussy, Terry Riley, Soft Machine, Magma, and why not, the aforementioned Tubular Bells. In short, a work of honesty, an album of its time.”
“Producer, composer and musician, Achim Reichel is a key figure in the explosion of krautrock… Late 60’s he launched his first solo musical project called A.R and the machines. Musically it provides a supreme sonic musical voyage turned to cycled psychedelic guitar playing with lot of echoes and delay… Today A.R and the machines remains a high class standard of hypnotic space-echo guitar inventions.”
“Next to EMBRYO, KRAAN are among those German groups who include psychedelic, sometimes ethnic elements to their distinctive, innovative jazz rock. At the beginning of their career, started in 1970, KRAAN free form jazz rock was really into jam sessions, totally improvised, mainly instrumental (featuring sax sections and many guitar / bass solos)… Really imaginative, inspired and technical these albums provide something new and amazing: an absolute trippy ethnic jazz rock. This particular facet of the KRAAN music culminates with their masterwork “Live” (1975).”
“One of the most original, layered, and innovative krautrock bands, Embryo fuses traditional ethnic music with their own jazzy space-rock style. Over the course of their decades-long existence, the group has traveled the world, played with hundreds of different musicians, and released dozens of records. Almost every album features different lineups and styles.”