A wild, hypnotic dialogue of dual pianos and percussion, exploding with vanguard energy and brutal dynamism.

A thrilling, synth-charged prog rock masterpiece of rebellion and conceptual brilliance, fueled by Peart's epic lyrics.

A sprawling, hypnotic fusion of jazz, psych-rock, and tape loops. Bold, experimental, and mind-bending.

With Understanding Comes Appreciation The composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein said of one passage, "That page is sixty years old, but it's never been topped for sophisticated handling of primitive rhythms...", and of the work as a whole, "...it's also got the best dissonances anyone ever thought up, and the best asymmetries and polytonalities and polyrhythms and whatever else you care to name." Oks, first things first specially for the sake of new comers. The Rite of Spr

With Understanding Comes Appreciation Lots of jazz guitarists have veered into the world of rock and roll on occasion, but the number of "raised on the blues" rockers who have had the boulders to step into the high-falutin' domain of jazz-rock fusion can be counted on one hand. Most of us weren't sure it could be done at all until Tommy Bolin spun everyone's head around with his phenomenal work on Billy Cobham's "Spectrum" in 1973. I have no idea if that had anything to do wi

With Understanding Comes Appreciation Mr. Edgard Varèse 188 Sullivan St. New York, New York Dear Sir: Perhaps you might remember me from my stupid phone call last January, if not, my name again is Frank Zappa Jr. I am 16 years old... that might explain partly my disturbing you last winter. The reason for my letter at this time is that I am visiting relatives in Baltimore and as long as I am on the East Coast I hope I can get to see you. It might seem strange but ever since I

With Understanding Comes Appreciation In just a few short years, Peter Hammill’s Van Der Graaf Generator project had evolved from a de facto solo effort (“The Aerosol Grey Machine”) to an early progressive rock band (“The Least We Can Do Is Wave To Each Other”) and then up another few notches to one of the most innovative and boundary pushing pioneers within the prog world on “H To He Who Am The Only One.” And as if the world were coming to end in the foreseeable future, this

Our Alchemist Master's massive catalog spans avant-garde jazz, grindcore, classical, film music, klezmer, exotica and way more driven by radical improvisation and cinematic collage.

Genius Composer's colossal discography stretches art rock, jazz, orchestral music, musique concrète & complicated computer music driven by sharp satire, avant-garde complexity, and virtuosity.

Experimenting with complex arrangements, unusual harmonies and a good deal of all-round oddness.

A pioneering krautrock masterpiece that blends hypnotic jazz-funk grooves, avant-garde tape splices, and Damo Suzuki's surreal vocal improvisations into a dark, psychedelic sonic landscape.

Masterpiece of dark blues, cabaret, and avant-garde rock, using scrap-iron percussion and surreal lyrics.

Blending Jewish klezmer melodies with avant-garde jazz and chamber music into a hauntingly beautiful, lyrical suite.

A chaotic, avant-garde masterpiece blending disjointed blues, free jazz, and surreal poetry into a sonic puzzle.

A pioneering jazz-rock fusion masterpiece that trades political satire for complex, mostly instrumental compositions driven by virtuosic guitar work and cinematic orchestral arrangements.