Alturas (Heights) is an improvisation session of unusual players and rare quality. When French prog legend Richard Pinhas (of Heldon) and his longtime associates Acid Mothers Temple were in Peru for the festival Integraciones, Buh records label boss Luis Alvarado put together this session. The longtime […]
An immense and intensive debut by this thrilling Brazilian band. Avant-prog, metal, and heavy spacious psych intersect to weave a dark conceptual tale of man seeking spiritual salvation from our collective crimes against the earth. Certainly classic zeuhl and progressive metal influences are touched up on […]
Among the many collabs between Tatsuya Yoshida and Uchiashi Kazuhisa (Altered States, Ground-Zero,…), this is a particularly overlooked one released in 2022 where Yoshida plays a drum set with four snares. Definitely my favorite live recording from recent years. The whole thing is available as audio […]
It’s hard to nail this one down, and this for the best. Look at that cover art, I mean, come on. Shit is gorgeous, and it does a hell of a job of visualizing the spiraling depths this album will take you into. This is a […]
Finnish quartet MAHTI released their debut with our friends at Riot Season and it’s a great listen. Three current and former members of psych/prog mainstays Circle are joined by Finnish folk musican and scholar Hannu Saha on the kantele. It’s ambient leaning prog that thankfully doesn’t […]
Check out this performance by Nash the Slash, on an unknown (to me) Canadian TV program. The eccentric musicians signature brand of avant-prog meets new wave won him a good amount of acclaim in his day. Here he’s performing two tracks from his Steve Hillage produced […]