Releases – July 2024

Perpetual Mutations offers a fusion of musical styles and sonic textures that complements Chemical Reactions – the album Gavin Harrison and Antoine Fafard put out four years previously. The intention of this new project is to stretch out artistic possibilities and contribute to expanding the musical spectrum.Gavin Harrison’s work with Porcupine Tree, King Crimson and The Pineapple Thief is well known to progressive fans around the world. Harrison has authored several instructional drum books and DVDs and has received multiple awards from various publications.Fafard has been ...

Perpetual Mutations offers a fusion of musical styles and sonic textures that complements Chemical Reactions – the album Gavin Harrison and Antoine Fafard put out four years previously. The intention of this new project is to stretch out artistic possibilities and contribute to expanding the musical spectrum.Gavin Harrison’s work with Porcupine Tree, King Crimson and The Pineapple Thief is well known to progressive fans around the world. Harrison has authored several instructional drum books and DVDs and has received multiple awards from various publications.Fafard has been ...

Like black wings from an obsidian sky, WORMWITCH descended from the darkness in 2015, somewhere upon the rain-soaked woodlands of coastal British Columbia. Animated from the bones of several local punk and metal bands, the new entity set out to combine a melodic blackened death assault with the ferocity and attitude of crust punk and classic rock and roll, jettisoning the burdens of ceremony and pomp that dominate the genre today. WORMWITCH released their first demo, ‘The Long Defeat’ in 2015, and shortly after signed to ...

Like black wings from an obsidian sky, WORMWITCH descended from the darkness in 2015, somewhere upon the rain-soaked woodlands of coastal British Columbia. Animated from the bones of several local punk and metal bands, the new entity set out to combine a melodic blackened death assault with the ferocity and attitude of crust punk and classic rock and roll, jettisoning the burdens of ceremony and pomp that dominate the genre today. WORMWITCH released their first demo, ‘The Long Defeat’ in 2015, and shortly after signed to ...

Jazz Sabbath is a jazz trio from the UK that plays (instrumental) jazz interpretations of Black Sabbathsongs. Helmed by pianist Adam Wakeman (Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne’s solo band since 2004), Jazz Sabbath explores the boundaries between jazz and the songs that defined heavy metal. Echoing already present jazz riffs and discovering new ones.Presenting themselves as a jazz trio formed in 1968 and being the original writers of the tracks, latermade famous by Black Sabbath, this album features 7 unique interpretations of ...

Jazz Sabbath is a jazz trio from the UK that plays (instrumental) jazz interpretations of Black Sabbathsongs. Helmed by pianist Adam Wakeman (Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne’s solo band since 2004), Jazz Sabbath explores the boundaries between jazz and the songs that defined heavy metal. Echoing already present jazz riffs and discovering new ones.Presenting themselves as a jazz trio formed in 1968 and being the original writers of the tracks, latermade famous by Black Sabbath, this album features 7 unique interpretations of ...

Jazz Sabbath is a jazz trio from the UK that plays (instrumental) jazz interpretations of Black Sabbathsongs. Helmed by pianist Adam Wakeman (Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne’s solo band since 2004), Jazz Sabbath explores the boundaries between jazz and the songs that defined heavy metal.Echoing already present jazz riffs and discovering new ones. Presenting themselves as a jazz trio formed in 1968 and being the original writers of the tracks, later made famous by Black Sabbath, they were forced to abandon the recording ...

Jazz Sabbath is a jazz trio from the UK that plays (instrumental) jazz interpretations of Black Sabbathsongs. Helmed by pianist Adam Wakeman (Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne’s solo band since 2004), Jazz Sabbath explores the boundaries between jazz and the songs that defined heavy metal.Echoing already present jazz riffs and discovering new ones.Presenting themselves as a jazz trio formed in 1968 and being the original writers of the tracks, latermade famous by Black Sabbath, they were forced to abandon the recording ...

SOLD OUT Four psych-pop and mod-adjacent artists, bandmates and Gare du Nord associates take on four PrettyThings songs in this EP tribute.Prolific producer and multi instrumentalist Andy Lewis does “Walking Down The Street” from the1967 Electric Banana sessions, Parisian popmeister Popincourt takes on “You Don’t Believe Me”from the Pretties’ 1965 album Get The Picture, there’s Papernut Cambridge braving the stop/startstrangeness of the 1967 single “Defecting Grey” while Canterbury’s continental pop correspondentRobert Rotifer pays a visit to “House of Ten” from ...

SOLD OUT Having worked with artists as wide-ranging as Frank Ocean, David Byrne and Sampha, Ben Reed’sown music has drawn comparisons to the Canterbury sound of progressive rock. His music is tingedwith an undeniable British melancholy, rich with melody and harmonic vocabulary, with elements ofjazz and folk. Bandaged has been Ben’s project since June 2020, with lockdown compelling him to craft new songsin a concise singer-songwriter style, recording the vocals himself – something he has done for the firsttime on ...

limited edition Coke Coloured Vinyl- 200 copies only worldwide.“What remains so remarkable about the band’s album is that… the performances retain an energy, but also a naivety, that somehow evokes both the Jefferson Airplane and the Velvet Underground — often within the same song.” —Shindig! Magazine In 1968, the Plastic Cloud released one of the greatest underground psychedelic albums ever made: a swirl of gossamer vocals and Tolkien references swathed in the some of the most relentless fuzz guitar you will ever hear. It is ...

Influential Irish prog‐folk duo Tir Na nÓg (comprising songwriters Leo O’Kelly and Sonny Condell) produced three classic alt‐folk‐fringed albums at the start of the 1970s, then split. ‘Live at The Half Moon’ was recorded at the launch of their album ‘The Dark Dance’ and features songs old and new with all the magic of the original Tír Na nÓg sounding fresh and urgent, albeit tempered with the passage of time and hindsight. Still making stylish, powerful and relevant category‐defying electro‐acoustic music with a keen sense ...

Influential Irish prog‐folk duo Tir Na nÓg (comprising songwriters Leo O’Kelly and Sonny Condell) produced three classic alt‐folk‐fringed albums at the start of the 1970s, then split. They re‐formed in 1985 and released their last studio album, The Dark Dance’ in 2015. The Dark Dance was their first new album of original material in 42 years following the release of Strong in the Sun in 1973. Despite the years, Tir na nOg continued to make stylish, powerful, and relevant category‐defying electro‐acoustic music with a keen ...

Influential Irish prog‐folk duo Tir Na nÓg (comprising songwriters Leo O’Kelly and Sonny Condell) produced three classic alt‐folk‐fringed albums at the start of the 1970s, then split. ‘Transmissions’, recorded at the height of their powers, comprises recordings made for radio broadcasts. Side one features six songs recorded in the studio and includes their unique reading of Bob Dylan’s ‘Maggie’s Farm’. Side two was recorded in concert and shows why Tir na nOg was such an in‐demand live attraction. ‘Transmissions’ is confirmation that Tir na nOg was ...

• Summer, sun, the beach and a great attitude to life – all this is reflected in a fascinating Bear Family Records® CD compilation, and the cool sounds of surf and rock ‘n’ roll instrumentals.• • Californian beach life also means the dangerous confrontation with the power of the water and the waves and pimped-up vehicles which surf fans could drive to the seaside in the USA in the 1960s.• • Great hits and numerous rarities from the 1959 to 1966 period.• • In ...