Reissues
Stargazer
The second and, for more than forty years, last album by Scottish singer-songwriter Shelagh McDonald, recorded in 1971 with Richard and Danny Thompson and Robert Kirby's arrangements, here with nine bonus tracks.
Dødens Triumf
The Danish group The Savage Rose's score for Flemming Flindt's ballet Dødens Triumf, released in 1972: Thomas Koppel's music for organ, piano and band, sung by Annisette, one of the best known records of Danish rock.
Wolf City
Amon Düül II's 1972 album, a tighter set of songs after the sprawling early records, with Renate Knaup's vocals, Indian sitar and tabla guests and the instrumental Deutsch Nepal, plus three bonus tracks.
Changes
The second and last album by the English band Catapilla, released by Vertigo in 1972 in a die-cut sleeve: four long tracks of jazz-rock with Anna Meek's vocals and Robert Calvert's saxophones over organ and guitar.
Bundles
Soft Machine's 1975 album, the first with guitarist Allan Holdsworth and the last full studio album with Mike Ratledge, in a 2CD Japanese edition that adds a radio recording from Nottingham University in October 1975.
The Door Is Open
The second album by Pork Pie, the European jazz-rock group of Jasper van't Hof, Charlie Mariano and Philip Catherine, recorded in Brussels in 1975 and released by MPS in 1976, with John Marshall on drums and Bo Stief on bass.
Metronomics
A 1972 solo album by Belgian violinist Raymond Vincent of the Wallace Collection, made as a promotional record for the Izarra liqueur: orchestral rock and chamber pieces that point toward his next band Esperanto.
Bereft Of A Blissful Union
Music by Peter Vermeersch's X-Legged Sally with The Smith Quartet, written for a 1996 dance production by Wim Vandekeybus and released in 1997: chamber jazz and string writing, including the 24-minute Brungle.
Fired
The live farewell of Belgian ensemble X-Legged Sally, recorded at the Cactus Club in Bruges in April 1996 for Radio 1: Peter Vermeersch's knotty pieces for horns, guitar and keyboards played with full concert energy.
Killed By Charity
The 1993 album by Belgian avant-jazz-rock ensemble X-Legged Sally, led by composer Peter Vermeersch and produced in Brooklyn by Bill Laswell: short, sharp pieces for horns, clarinet, guitar and keyboards, plus a 1996 live bonus.
Acrostichon
The 1978 debut album by the Belgian band Isopoda from Aalst: melodic symphonic progressive rock with twelve-string guitar, flute, piano and organ, recorded at Just Born Studio in Hekelgem and first issued on Twinkle.
Harakka Bialoipokku
The 1974 second solo album by Finnish bassist Pekka Pohjola of Wigwam: an instrumental suite of jazz-rock and progressive writing for bass, keyboards and a horn section, issued in the UK by Virgin as B The Magpie.
Pictures
The only album by the Swiss group Island, released in 1977 with a cover painting by H.R. Giger: dark, theatrical progressive rock without guitar, built on keyboards, saxophones and flute, with the long bonus piece Empty Bottles.
Eros
The only album by the French band Dün, self-released in 1981: an instrumental suite inspired by Frank Herbert's Dune, with flute, vibraphone and fast unison lines in the orbit of Magma and Zeuhl, plus five bonus tracks.
Barndomens Stigar
The only album by the Swedish group Kultivator, recorded in 1980 and issued in 1981: Swedish-language progressive rock that blends Canterbury lightness with Zeuhl drive, here expanded with a second disc of bonus material.
Ça Va
The 1998 reunion album by Slapp Happy, the trio of Peter Blegvad, Anthony Moore and Dagmar Krause, their first in 23 years: concise art-pop songs layered in the studio by the three of them, with two live bonus tracks.
Au Nom Deus Asos
Elizabeth Vogler sings in Occitan and other South-West dialects to harmonium alone in the church of Lescun, in the Pyrénées: six songs between ancient folk and experimental music, first time on vinyl, 100 copies.
Horses in the Sky
The 2005 album of the Montreal ensemble, back for its 21st anniversary: six songs of protest and love for strings, guitars, piano and group voices, recorded at Hotel2Tango with Howard Bilerman.
Op.170 Symphony Natura
The definitive vinyl edition of Henning Christiansen's 1985 sound installation at the Rome Zoo, made with Lorenzo Mammi from recordings of the animals, remastered by Rashad Becker, with a 20-page booklet.