Music from United States

Two 1970s’ CTI albums and 1980’s ‘Skagly’ make up this triumvirate from trumpeter Freddie Hubbard. Amongst those sidesmen featured on these albums are Billy Cobham, George Duke, George Benson, Hubert Law and Jeff Baxter. ‘Keep Your Soul Together’ and ‘Polar AC” both made the US Top 200. Digitally remastered and slipcased with extensive new notes.

Recorded in Paris in 1965, Don Cherry’s Togetherness is a five‑part live suite where pocket‑trumpet chants, Gato Barbieri’s searing tenor, vibes and a dancing rhythm section turn early free jazz into something fiercely open yet strangely joyful.

With With a Heartbeat, Pharoah Sanders and Bill Laswell ride the amplified pulse of the human heart into a slow, glowing trance, fusing tabla cycles, electronic drones and cornet smears into four long arcs of cosmic late‑period Sanders.

Trios is a collaboration between five musicians, over time, and over space. It combines instrumental and electronic improvisation with non-real-time computer processing and editing. Chris Mann, Douglas Repetto, and Larry Polansky recorded several hours of live improvised material in one session. Months later Repetto, Polansky, and Christian Wolff recorded some more. The recordings were then sent off to Tom Erbe, who culled interesting sections from both sessions and then processed, edited, and m…

Binaural motion recordings composed as a dialogue of distances. Live recordings of music for electronic network music ensemble juxtaposed with location recordings of traditional music and environmental soundscapes. Made in Bali, the Philippines, Turkey, Europe, Cuba and America 1991-99. - Chris Brown

2026 stock The Original Sins was a garage Rock band that formed in 1985 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA. The group were known for combining the musical stylings of punk rock, psychedelic rock, and even pop music with their songs. The band released a total of nine full-length studio albums across their entire career before they band broke up in early 1998.

2026 stock Poison Gown is the 2016 album by Portland-based chamber ensemble Disemballerina, blending cello, viola, guitar, and harp into a haunting, doom-laden sound. Released on Minotauro Records, its six tracks evoke dark romanticism with slow, gloomy strings, subtle distortions, and atmospheric effects like hellish howls or cricket chirps. The music merges elegant chamber arrangements with a metallic edge, creating a sense of primordial dread and internal turmoil. Tracks like "Impaled Matador…

2026 stock “Terminal” by The Windbreakers is a sharply crafted collection of jangly guitar pop that balances tuneful immediacy with a rough, emotional edge. Built around bright, chiming guitars and insistent rhythms, the album channels the energy of mid‑’80s college rock while keeping the songwriting lean and direct. Tracks like “Off and ON,” “Changeless,” and “That Stupid Idea” showcase a knack for hook-laden melodies that stick after the first listen, yet the arrangements never feel polished t…

2026 stock "Run" is the sophomore album by The Windbreakers, a jangle pop duo from Jackson, Mississippi. Released in 1986 on Twin/Tone Records, it showcases their signature blend of melodic Southern pop hooks and raw emotional depth. Hailed as a power pop gem, "Run" earned cult status for its infectious energy and DIY spirit. It remains a standout in the 1980s indie scene, influencing jangle and alternative acts.

Dive into the eclectic genius of Frank Zappa with this essential 8-CD retrospective, spanning two decades of groundbreaking music from 1966 to 1986. Capturing the evolution of Zappa's visionary career—from the raw rock edge of The Mothers of Invention to his orchestral masterpieces and satirical masterpieces—"20 Years Of Frank Zappa" showcases 68 tracks that define his irreverent style, blending jazz fusion, doo-wop parody, avant-garde experimentation, and razor-sharp social commentary. Highligh…

In Complete Works for Multiple Piano, Morton Feldman’s quietly radical writing for three or more hands is heard as a three‑hour continuum of hushed, hovering sonorities, where time dilates and the piano becomes a shared, breathing instrument.

2026 stock In A Different Climate is the second and final studio album by the American rock band Mallard, released in 1976 on Virgin Records. Formed by ex-Captain Beefheart Magic Band members Bill Harkleroad (guitar), Mark Boston (bass), along with vocalist Sam Galpin, keyboardist John Thomas, and drummer George Dragotta, the band leaned into a progressive country-rock sound with swampy blues elements. Recorded in Wales and produced by Robert John "Mutt" Lange, it features Harkleroad's signature…

Terrific session just released in 1974 on influential independent Muse. A modal masterpiece verging on spiritual jazz with a series of excellent players: from Richard Davis and Cecil McBee on bass to Ray Mantilla on congas and percussion, through Harold Vick distinctive flute and tenor sax. The major voice on this record belongs to the traps of Joe Chambers. The enormous potency combined with complete authority and tonal clarity that Chambers brings to the drums has made him one of the more dist…

The rhythm team by Rashied Ali and Reggie Johnson (with former Sun Ra member Ronnie Boykins adding texture on "Capricorn Moon") establishes a solid foundation, complemented by Alan Shorter's sharp trumpet, while Benny Maupin's close expressions in monophonic form also support it. The fact that pianist Burt Green recorded an almost unnoticed ESP album (just a month later) with Brown as a sideman illustrates how fluid and negotiable musical activities were within this nascent community. Although R…

The album "Spirits," released by a debut label based in Copenhagen, marked the first opportunity for Ayler to record his "free music" in February 1964 in New York. The musicians selected by him included notable figures such as Cecil Taylor (with drummer Sunny Murray), members from Sonny Rollins' band (bassist Henry Grimes), and musicians from his Cleveland period (trumpeter Norman Howard, bassist Earl Henderson). This work also represents his first focus on his own compositions, which includes H…

On Awofofora, Marion Brown folds funk, reggae and Afro‑Caribbean rhythm into his mature structural language, using grooves not as decoration but as architecture for golden‑toned alto lines and quietly radical collective improvisation.

RAW/ReSpace is the first-ever experimental noise-metal saxophone solo album, changing and re-defining how the saxophone can sound and what saxophone playing means. No saxophone player ever dared to explore these uncharted outer realms of woodwind expression. RAW brings together noisescapes and electronica with death and doom metal approaches and contemporary instrumental composition techniques. While ReSpace combines dark ambient, controlled-feedback soundscapes with a reductionist approach to c…

A long time resident of the Appalachian town of Asheville, North Carolina, Shane Parish is the mastermind behind the cutting edge rock band Ahleuchatistas. Here he steps out with a remarkable and soulful acoustic solo project that digs deep into Appalachian roots. Taking classic old times folk songs, Shane has abstracted them in utterly fascinating ways evoking the haunting and brooding world of the American South. At times reminiscent of John Fahey and Robbie Basho, at times of John Cage and Mo…

Three of downtown’s most dynamic performers join forces to form Mephista—one of the first all women supergroups (Susie Ibarra, Sylvie Courvoisier, and Ikue Mori). Separately these three have worked with some of the most important musicians in new music (Derek Bailey, Wadada Leo Smith, Pauline Oliveros, William Parker, John Zorn, Fred Frith, Mike Patton, Dave Douglas, etc.)—together they have created a whole new kind of music spanning the worlds of rock, classical, jazz and electronica. Sensitive…

Frank London, a major voice in today’s Jewish music renaissance, who has worked with the likes of LLCooI J, LaMonte Young, Jane Siberry and Gal Costa, is a trumpetist, composer, arranger and musical scholar of startling range and creativity. The Debt is the first collection of his work for film and theater, and contains a wide variety of his musical obsessions: Latin grooves, Mingus-style jazz arrangements, classical chamber compositions, moody sound pieces, funky bachelor pad music and a gorgeo…