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In 2002 Bill Frisell was commissioned by producer David Breskin to create the music for an elaborate art book project on the great German painter Gerhard Richter. The book, RICHTER 858, was published in connection with a comprehensive US retrospective of Richter's work, although it focused entirely ...

"Marc Ribot's new power trio, filled out by the remarkable versatile rhythm team of bassist Shahzad Ismaily and drummer Ches Smith, is his rawest band in ages." -- Time Out New York Party Intellectuals is the debut recording from Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog, a post-everything band combining the energi...

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The two complete albums contained on this CD, Bolivia (recorded in 1973) and Under Fire (recorded in 1971), both released in 1973, are the most successful from his Flying Dutchman years. Created upon the solid grooves created by an exceptional band led by Lonnie Liston Smith. Features 10 remaste...

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The Familiar is a rich and textured record that draws on Roger Eno's ambient/classical background, adding the haunting, ethereal vocals of Kate St. John (Dream Academy) and contributions from Bill Nelson. Originally released in 1993. Features new artwork....

The Way Up represents, in the words of guitarist Pat Metheny himself, "our most ambitious undertaking ever as a group"-a single, brilliant 68-minute piece composed by Metheny and his collaborator of 28 years, Lyle Mays. Metheny has likened the creation of The Way Up to making a film, and in some res...

Topnotch Miles Davis music complements Gus Van Sant's latest film about an urban youth (Rob Brown), torn between basketball and writing, who meets a reclusive novelist (Sean Connery). The unlikely tale is supported by a generous sampling of Davis's early 1970s work nodding to Ornette Coleman and g...

Much has been said and written about Peter Brötzmann's Machine Gun, an album as violently intense as the title implies. But as seminal and acclaimed as that album is, Nipples, recorded around the same time with many of the same people, seems to be forgotten. Until now, that is. Atavistic's Unheard ...