As both a popular live act and in-demand studio musicians, Vis-A-Vis released 13 albums between 1975 and 1982. Led by vocalist Isaac “Superstar” Yeboah and featuring Sammy Cropper on guitar, Slim Manu on bass and Gybson “Shaolin Kung-Fu” Papra on drums, Vis-A-Vis helped propel K. Frimpong to fame as one of Ghana’s most popular stars…
We Are Busy Bodies returns with a remastered reissue of The Best of Vis-A-Vis in Congo Style. The album finds the the young band in great form, with six new songs. The album was one of three released by the band in 1976. The band continued to be the backing band of choice of some…
It was 1979 when Boston teenagers Jason Shapiro and Mike McGlinchey saw the wide-open door of punk as it turned to art-punk and no wave, and scurried straight in. Shapiro was 14. McGlinchey was only a few years older. Neither had played an instrument for long when Vitamin formed. Eventually, violinist Margie Politzer and drummer…
***ON LIMITED VIOLET W BLACK SPLATTER VINYL!!! Upon the release of the first full length album Entropic Reflections Continuum: Dimensional Unravel it was instantly revealed that VoidCeremony were treading a path few walk. The album proved that death metal can be performed with the gliding, controlled chaos and smooth fluidity of a jazz quartet, while…
This album originally came out on vinyl only in Europe, so there is still a lot of pent-up demand for a new LP reissue of this 1991 classic from the Voïvod catalog (especially in Canada, where the band is worshipped). Produced by Terry Brown of Rush fame, Angel Rat moved the band further into spacy…
Vinyl LP pressing. Includes booklet. 2023 release. Celebrating 40 eventful years of existence, Canada s progressive sci-fi metal innovators Voivod present their special Anniversary release Morgöth Tales , which includes fresh studio (re-)recordings by the band s current line-up of 9 especially selected, not-so- obvious picks from the band s hyper-classy and extremely diverse back…
Voïvod’s commercial peak and one of their many artistic peaks, 1989’s Nothingface marked a move away from the Quebec metal band’s thrash beginnings to a more progressive rock sound epitomized by their fantastic cover of Pink Floyd s Astronomy Domine. But it remains quintessential Voïvod, complete with sci-fi themes and tricky tempo changes. Long out…
Closing in on 40 eventful years of existence, Canada s progressive sci-fi metal innovators VOIVOD introduce their 15th (!) studio album “Synchro Anarchy”. Following 2018 s highly praised and Juno Award winning “The Wake” album and 2020’s stellar “Lost Machine – Live” release, the brand new 9 tracks composing the kaleidoscopic sonic monster that is…
Until we reissued it in early 2021, The Outer Limits had only come out briefly on vinyl in Europe. Which is one reason why demand for our initial LP release of this 1993 record was absolutely INSANE. But the other reason is that The Outer Limits offers the unique blend of atonal riffs, off-time tempo…
Closing in on 40 eventful years of existence, Canada s progressive sci-fi metal innovators VOIVOD were met with much acclaim for their recently released 15th (!) studio album “Synchro Anarchy”, which even managed to enter the official album sales charts in Germany on the amazing # 7 position, next to many other countries. And VOIVOD…
VOLBEAT shine like a star in the hard rock sky … Fittingly, the album Rock The Rebel Metal The Devil is released for the 15th anniversary as a glow in the dark vinyl reissue.
From the landlocked tropical savanna of Upper Volta, an ever-evolving cast of musicians brought the world s rhythms to the streets of their native Bobo-Dioulasso. Combining Congolese rhumba, American R&B, French yé-yé, Cuban son, and regional Senufo and Mandingo traditions, Orchestre Volta Jazz was at the epicenter of the West African musical explosion of the…
Steve Von Till has made a lifeÕs work out of seeking the elemental. With a solo discography that stretches back more than two decades, he has toiled in a shadow realm, peeling back layers of reality in a never-ending search for true meaning and raw emotion. A Deep Voiceless Wilderness strips back the veil even…
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VORTEX, a creative pioneer of French avant-garde jazz rock, who endlessly disassembled and reconstructed the genres, created their own unique style by blending various musical elements; such as the aggressive heaviness of Zeuhl, the complex yet elegant ensembles of chamber rock, the polytempic and polyrhythmic structures of free jazz and the profound experimentation of 20th-century…