ULTIMA THULE SALE LIST
# 118 (September-November 2009), web version# at the start of a line indicates a new arrival, see: mail-order info & abbreviations pages for how to order & full lay-out details.
Records
Krautrock & Kosmische Musik
Canterbury, Gong, Zeuhl, RIO
General Rock, Prog & Psych
Jazzy, Fusions, ECM, Folk
Synth, Ambient, New-Age, etc.
The Grey Area / Weird Musics
Various Artists
Traditional Musics
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AMON DÜÜL II - PHALLUS DEI (Revisited) LP £13.00 - "Acid-Wagnerian psych freak-out" debut!
AMON DÜÜL II - YETI (Revisited: GF) 2LP £16.00 - A stoned weird trip beyond Hawkwind.
AMON DÜÜL II - LIVE IN LONDON (UA USP 102) LP ex/ex £30.00 - Live at The Greyhound, Croydon (16/12/72), featuring radically different versions of classic tracks.
ASHRA - WALKIN' THE DESERT (Thunderbolt) LP £9.80 - © 1989. Most innovative & surprising of later Ashra albums. Just Manuel Gottsching & Lutz Ulbrich.
# CARSTEN BOHN'S BANDSTAND - C.B.RADIO (Erlkonig: IN) LP ex+/vg+ £3.50 - Mainstream Krautrock supergroup, with Manfred Rürup, Roman Bunka, etc. 3rd album (1980).
BRAINSTORM - SMILE A WHILE (Think Progressive: GF) LP £14.70 - A highly inventive blend of songs & instrumentals, with nods to Zappa & Canterbury (Caravan, Hatfield & The North, Soft Machine, etc.) styles, fused into a music that was all of their own.
CHECKPOINT CHARLIE - DIE DURCHSICHTIGE (Schneeball: IN,RE) LP £11.75 - Aka "The Clear LP"! Political rock in German betwixt Floh De Cologne & Ton Steine Scherben.
CHOICE - JUST A DREAM (Rocktopus: GF) LP ex/ex £15.00 - Same band as Epidaurus. Starts progressive akin to Eloy & Epitaph, but becoming less interesting as it progresses.
ELOY - LIVE (Harvest: GF) 2LP ex-m/vg+ £13.00 - German tour, March 1978. Versions of tracks from "Ocean" (all tracks), "Dawn", "Power And The Passion" & "Inside".
EMBRYO - BAD HEADS & BAD CATS (April: RE,180g vinyl) LP £11.75 - © 1976. Combining the "We Keep On" & "Surfin'" line-ups, with American jazz singer Maria Archer, this funks & twists, chills-out & really grooves. Very varied & full of surprises.
EMBRYO - LIVE (Nexus/April: 180g vinyl) LP £11.75 - Classic 1976 live album featuring Charlie Mariano. For some reason this still hasn't been issued on CD!
EMBRYO - EMBRYO'S REISE (Schneeball 0020: GF,BK) 2LP ex-m/ex £30.00 - Incredible Middle-East tour document, with location live & studio recordings.
EMBRYO - LA BLAMA SPAROZZI (Schneeball: Box) 2LP £24.50 - 2 very different LP's.
EMBRYO - EMBRYO & YORUBA DUN DUN ORCHESTRA (Schneeball) LP £11.75
EXMAGMA - EXMAGMA (Daily) LP £15.00 - Experimental fusion trio of Thomas Balluff (keyboards, effects), Fred Braceful (drums, percussion), Andy Göldner (bass, guitar, etc.). Their inventive debut that goes beyond jazz, using a wealth of effects & electronic gadgets, etc.
FAUST - WAKES NOSFERATU (Klangbad FLI 5) LP m/m £25.00 - 1998 studio versions of themes developed whilst live-scoring F.W. Murnau's "Nosferatu". A limited edition with triple fold-out cover & 180g vinyl.
FAUST/LA KUIZINE - TRAFFICS (CRDC CR 001: #968/1000) 10" m/m £25.00 - Side each (both with 3 tracks). La Kuizine are French! © 1997
FLOH DE COLOGNE - KOSLOWSKI (Plane 88230) LP m/ex+ £18.00 - With huge poster! © 1980.
EDGAR FROESE - STUNTMAN (Virgin: IN) LP ex/ex+ £7.50 - Tangerine Dream leader. © 1979.
PETER FROHMADER - NEKROPOLIS 2 (Hasch Platten KIF 002: IN,PO) LP ex+/vg+ £40.00 - Lots of powerful Jannick Top styled bass, with electronics, percussives & outer-world space sounds. A classic!
PETER FROHMADER - 2 COMPOSITIONS (Nekropolis 220171) 10" ex+/vg+ £30.00 - 500 copy limited edition & rare for over a decade. Incredible space music with Stephan Manus on violin.
PETER FROHMADER - RITUAL (Multimood) LP m/ex+ £11.00, ex+/ex £9.00 - Kind of dark synth-rock hybrid of early (Sky period) Asmus Tietchens & Heldon.
GROBSCHNITT - FANTASTEN (Teldec: IN) LP ex+/ex+ £8.00 - © 1987.
# GURU GURU - TANGO FANGO (Think Progressive: GF,180g vinyl) LP £12.75, vg+/vg+ £3.50 - Varied & very eccentric fusion, patchy but full of surprises. © 1976.
GURU GURU - LIVE (Think Progressive: GF,180g vinyl) 2LP £18.60 - Live 1978, LP1 in Karthago mode, LP2 in classic experimental vein.
GURU GURU/ULI TREPTE - HOT ON SPOT/INBETWEEN (Tripkick: 180g vinyl) LP £11.75 - Guru Guru live 1972 (23'48"), Uli Trepte sessions 1974 (20'14").
HOELDERLIN - CLOWNS & CLOUDS (Spiegelei INT 160.607) LP ex/ex £16.00 - 3rd album (1976), with more complex fusion touches & more keyboards, like Gentle Giant, but overall uniquely refined.
JANE - LIVE AT HOME (Brain: GF) 2LP ex-m/ex+ £30.00 - Excellent live set circa 1976, their first with Manfred Wieczorke (ex-Eloy) on keyboards.
JANE - SIGN NO. 9 (Brain: GF,IN) LP ex+/ex £9.00 - © 1979, varied moody album.
KARAT - DER BLAUE PLANET (Amiga) LP vg/vg+ £4.50 - DDR progressive with Pink Floyd & Novalis influence. © 1982.
KONTRAST - KONTRAST (Remi 86001: IN) LP m/ex+ £50.00 - One of the finest examples of 80's Krautrock (alongside Embryo's "Zack Gluck"), featuring Remigius Drechsler, Ingo-Schmidt Neuhaus & Moran Neumuller (all ex-Out Of Focus).
# LES VAMPYRETTES - BIOMUTANTEN/MENETEKEL (Electrola F 667.226: PS) 12" ex+/ex £20.00 - Holger Czukay, Conny Plank & Axel Gros. A classic slice of weirdo NDW/Krautrock.
# MISSUS BEASTLY - DR. AFTERSHAVE AND THE MIXED-PICKLES (April 00001) LP ex+/ex+ £50.00 - As the first LP on the independent collective April Records, it set the trend for a whole new sub-culture of German jazz-fusion, left-field, creative & experimental, drawing all sorts of elements in a fresh vibrant new brew. It also featured three Embryo musicians as guests.
# MUNJU - BROT+SPIELE (Schneeball 0022: GF,IN) LP ex+/ex £20.00 - 3rd LP, with a radical new music that pulled out all the stops! Munju had created a fusion music with the energy of new-wave, but with the invention of true Krautrock. Plus game, instructions are in German though!
# MYTHOS - STRANGE GUYS (Venus V78 MY-F1003) LP ex+/vg+ £25.00 - Mythos #3 from 1977, with a heavier Hawkwind edge, lotsa synths & gutsy prog sound.
NOVALIS - NOVALIS (Brain 1070: GF) LP ex/ex £13.00, vg+/ex £10.00 - Pioneers of a uniquely German symphonic complex progressive, largely instrumental (featuring lots of synth) with German vocals. 2nd LP, © 1975.
NOVALIS - KONZERTE (Brain 60.065) LP ex+/vg+ £20.00 - Rare LP (60+ minutes long).
OUT OF FOCUS - NOT TOO LATE (Nexus: 180g vinyl) LP £11.75 - Lost for 25 years!
OUT OF FOCUS - RAT ROADS (Nexus: 180g vinyl) LP £11.75 - Definitive Munich Kraut-fusion.
# PASSPORT - SKY BLUE (Atlantic) LP vg/vg £4.00 - Aka "Ataraxia" in Europe. © 1978.
RADIO NOISZ ENSEMBLE - YNIVERZE (Ubu-Muziek UMS 01) LP ex+/ex+ £33.00 - The German Third Ear Band, excellent ethnic raga fusion, ex-Emma Myldenberger, with Mani Neumeier.
REFORM - REFORM (Amiga) LP ex/ex £11.00 - Hard-edged DDR progressive, with Novalis & Pink Floyd touches, especially evident on the majestic/cosmic opus "Feuerball". © 1979.
RICHARD WAHNFRIED - PLAYS MEGATONE (InTeam) LP ex+/ex+ £9.00 - © 1984, Klaus Schulze in disguise! With Michael Shrieve (ex-Santana), Michael Garvens (Lorry), etc.
MICHAEL ROTHER - STERNTALER (Sky) LP ex+/vg+ £12.50 - More playful guitars, synths & drums, 'Shadows meets Kraftwerk'?! Ex-Kraftwerk/Neu!/Harmonia member.
CONRAD SCHNITZLER - GELB (Plate Lunch: yellow vinyl) LP £8.80 - Excellent 1974 cosmic "soundtrack" album, originally released on Block in 1981.
CONRAD SCHNITZLER - LIVE ACTION 1977 (Plate Lunch) LP £6.85 - (Plate Lunch: clear vinyl) LP £8.80 - Unreleased craziness of "Ballet Statique" meets "Rot" in a blender!
KLAUS SCHULZE - PICTURE MUSIC (Isadora) LP ex/ex £13.00 - (Spalax) LP £11.75 - German master synthesist, fascinating sequencer/percussive outing.
KLAUS SCHULZE - MIRAGE (Island: GF) LP ex/vg+ £13.00 - (Revisited) LP £13.00 - The classic cosmic dreamscape! This echoey mist-like music is purely evocative, with articulate arpeggios, sequences & atmospheres.
KLAUS SCHULZE - BODY LOVE, VOL. 2 (Brain) LP ex/vg+ £7.00 - Additional recordings.
KLAUS SCHULZE - "X" (Revisited: GF,BK) 2LP £16.00 - Legendary 10th solo, a universally acclaimed masterwork, features Harald Grosskopf.
KLAUS SCHULZE - DUNE (Brain, Holland: IN) LP ex/ex £6.00 - With Arthur Brown on side 2.
KLAUS SCHULZE - ...LIVE... (Brain: GF,PO) 2LP vg+-ex+/ex £17.00 - 4 classic live tracks, © 1980. With Harald Grosskopf & Arthur Brown.
# KLAUS SCHULZE - DIG IT (Brain: IN) LP ex/vg+ £6.50 - Klaus' first digital recordings.
# KLAUS SCHULZE - TRANCEFER (IC) LP vg+-ex+/ex £6.00 - 1981 trance sequencer rhythmic music, in "Tonwelle" vein.
# KLAUS SCHULZE - AUDENTITY (Roadrunner: GF) 2LP vg+-ex+/ex £8.00 - With the strange "Sebastian In Traum". © 1983.
KLAUS SCHULZE & RAINER BLOSS - DZIEKUJE POLAND (IC: GF) 2LP m/ex+ £15.00 - 1983 live in concert, similar to the Coventry concert set.
TANGERINE DREAM - ZEIT (Essential: 180g vinyl,GF) 2LP £14.70 - The ultimate cosmic dream opus, largely based around echo & glissando guitars, organ & synthesizers. © 1972.
# TANGERINE DREAM - STRATOSFEAR (Virgin: GF) LP vg+/ex+ £9.00 - © 1976.
TANGERINE DREAM - SORCERER (MCA) LP ex/vg+ £7.50 - (MCA, USA) LP ex/vg £7.50 - Aka "Wages of Fear" soundtrack, the classic film by William Friedkin.
TANGERINE DREAM - ENCORE (Virgin: GF) 2LP ex/vg £9.00 - Live in USA 1977.
TANGERINE DREAM - CYCLONE (Virgin: GF) LP ex+/ex £10.00, ex/ex £8.00, vg-ex/ex £6.00 - The rockiest TD line-up, with Steve Jolliffe on winds/synths/etc. © 1978.
TANGERINE DREAM - THIEF (Virgin, Germany) LP m/ex £9.00, ex+/ex+ £7.50, ex/ex £6.00 - Soundtrack to the Michael Mann film starring James Caan. © 1981.
TANGERINE DREAM - EXIT (Virgin: PO) LP ex+/ex £10.00 - One of their rockiest of the 80's.
TANGERINE DREAM - POLAND (Jive: GF,IN) 2LP ex-ex+/ex £10.00 - © 1984.
# TANGERINE DREAM - LE PARC (Jive) LP vg-ex/vg+ £4.00 - © 1985.
ULI TREPTE - JAZZ MODALITIES (Nebula) LP £9.80 - Easy going fusion hybrid of Embryo & Spacebox styles, with Hans Hartmann (ex-Guru Guru) & Edgar Hofmann (ex-Embryo).
TRIUMVIRAT - SPARTACUS (Harvest: IN) LP vg-ex+/ex £7.00 - Often quoted as the German ELP, but more progressive styled. © 1975.
TRIUMVIRAT - OLD LOVES DIE HARD (Harvest: IN) LP ex+/vg £6.00 - 4th album, with a hint of Barclay James Harvest here. © 1976.
TROYA - POINT OF ERUPTION (Very Good: 150g vinyl) LP £9.80 - Sub Faithful Breath/Jane-ish.
WALLENSTEIN - STORIES, SONGS & SYMPHONIES (Pop Import) LP £9.80 - 4th album (1975), much more classical & also Pink Floyd inspired.
WITTHUSER & WESTRUPP - DER JESUS PILZ (Think Progressive: GF,180g vinyl) LP £14.70 - 2nd album, aided by Dieter Dierks & Gille Lettmann on a vivid cosmic trip! A Pilz classic!
IVA BITTOVA & PAVEL FAJT - BITTOVA & FAJT (Panton) LP ex+/ex £9.50 - Completely different recordings but basically the same LP as "Svatba".
CARAVAN - BLIND DOG AT ST. DUNSTANS (BTM) LP vg-ex/ex £8.50, vg+/vg+ £7.00 - The last real Caravan studio album, with some of the original innovation still cooking! © 1976.
CARAVAN - BETTER BY FAR (Arista, Germany) LP ex/vg £6.50 - © 1977.
BRIAN GODDING - SLAUGHTER ON SHAFTSBURY AVENUE (Reckless) LP £9.80, m/m £7.50 - Obscure fusion from ex-Blossom Toes/Magma guitarist & band.
STEVE HILLAGE - L (Virgin) LP ex-m/ex £7.50, vg-ex/vg £5.00 - Ethnic spiced space trip by ex-Gong (now System 7) guitarist.
STEVE HILLAGE - GREEN (Virgin: IN) LP ex+/ex £9.00 - New-age rock & green policies.
STEVE HILLAGE - MOTIVATION RADIO (Virgin: RE) LP ex/g+ £3.50 - © 1977.
STEVE HILLAGE - RAINBOW DOME MUSICK (Virgin, clear vinyl) LP ex/vg+ £7.00 - (Virgin) LP ex+/ex £9.00 - Atmospheric shimmering synths & guitar.
STEVE HILLAGE - FOR TO NEXT/AND NOT OR (Virgin) 2LP ex+/ex £15.00, vg-ex/vg+ £10.00 - © 1983.
# ISOTOPE - ISOTOPE (Gull) LP vg?/vg+ £3.00 - 1974 UK jazz-rock.
# J. LACHEN - MUSIC FOR THE DYING FOREST (Bauta BAR 8503: IN) LP m/vg+ £20.00 - Aka Lach'n Jonsson. Strange & gloomy Zamla type fusion with folk, collage & Robert Wyatt-like songs.
ROGER MILLER - THE BIG INDUSTRY (Fundamental) LP ex+/ex £6.00 - Percussive piano based music, beyond rock... Ex-Mission Of Burma & Birdsongs Of The Mesozoic.
MIRIODOR - RENCONTRES (Rio) LP m/ex £25.00 - Canadian RIO/Zeuhl/chamber rock classic.
MIRIODOR - MIRIODOR (Cuneiform) LP vg-ex/vg+ £5.00 - 2nd LP, © 1988.
# PIERRE MOERLEN'S GONG - DOWNWIND (Arista: IN) LP ex/vg+ £6.50, vg-ex/vg+ £5.00 - Very varied mixture of Gong jazzy stuff, with guest Mike Oldfield heavily featured.
# PIERRE MOERLEN'S GONG - TIME IS THE KEY (Arista: IN) LP vg-ex+/vg+ £5.00 - More funky groove stuff, with Daryl Way, Allan Holdsworth, etc.
POTEMKINE - TRITON (Voxigrave V30/ST7162) LP ex/vg+ £18.00 - © 1977. Hints of Magma & Univers Zero in a complex hybrid fusion, against fuzzed guitars & such-like, dark classical & complex clustered interactions.
JEAN-PAUL PRAT - MASAL (Stand-By) LP m/ex £9.00 - Magma/ZAO/Bringolf-ish fusion.
QUATEBRIGA - THE CHOICE OF THE NEW GENERATION (Feniks: IN) LP ex+/ex £9.00 - 2nd LP from ex-Begnagrad band, down to a trio & more high-tech with very little folk styling.
# JAN AKKERMAN - GUITAR FOR SALE (Sounds Super) LP vg-vg+/vg £4.00 - Sounds like a Justin Spear choice to me!
AMON DÜÜL - FOOL MOON (Demi Monde) LP £9.80 - Unique improvised & amazing stuff from the UK incarnation with Dave Anderson & John Weinzierl.
# ANGE - SEVE QUI PEUT (Celluloid: IN) LP vg+/ex £5.50 - © 1989, their best from this era.
ARCANSIEL - FOUR DAISIES (MG) LP ex/ex £9.00 - Italian mellow prog, with IQ/Pallas edges, but subtle & quite complex.
AREA - MALADETTI (Akarma: GF,IN,180g vinyl) LP £15.00 - One of their most avant-garde LP's.
ARTI+MESTIERI - TILT! (Akarma: 180g vinyl) LP £15.00 - Imagine a mix of PFM with the jazzier styles & complex dynamics of Area, Ossana & Nova!
ARTI+MESTIERI - GIRO DI VALZER PER DOMANI (Akarma: GF,180g vinyl) LP £15.00 - 2nd album, with ex-Procession vocalist.
BABLICON - THE ORANGE TAPERED MOON (Pickled Egg) LP £8.80 - Recorded in a Chicago underground bunker, it often sounds like early Soft Machine meeting Henry Cow, with a bit of that radical Volcano The Bear type of thing.
BARCLAY JAMES HARVEST - TIME HONOURED GHOSTS (Polydor: IN) LP ex+/ex £5.50 - © 1975.
JEAN PASCAL BOFFO - CARILLONS (Musea) LP £9.80 - French multi-instrumentalist (ex-Mandragore/Troll). More symphonic than his earlier LP's, moving towards The Enid.
BOHEMIA - ZRNKO PISKU (Panton 11 0699) LP ex+/m+ £24.00 - Inventive 70's Czech progressive fusion supergroup, ex-Flamengo/Modry Efekt members.
BORNE - EXPRIME LA NARANJA (Chapa Discos: GF) LP ex/ex £15.00 - Very obscure 1979 Spanish prog-fusion.
CHRISTIAN BOULE - PHOTO MUSIK (Polydor: IN) LP ex/vg+ £13.00 - French Hillage/Allen guitar protege. His debut of lively psych & prog space-music, Barrett/Gilmour flights & Ame Son/Nyl/Gong edges, female vocals too!
BRAINTICKET - ADVENTURE (BT 80-1) LP m/ex+ £30.00 - © 1980. Lengthy instrumental excursions, avant-cosmic & fusion. Joel Vandroogenbroeck & Barni Palm plus 2 other musicians.
PETER BRYNGELSSON - VIA (Slask: IN) LP ex/vg+ £8.00 - (Slask) LP m/m £10.00 - Typically Scandinavian blend of rock, folk, jazz, psych, etc., from former Ragnarok & Triangulus member.
BUDKA SUFLERA - CZAS CZEKANIA, CZAS OLSNIENIA (Polton: IN) LP vg+/vg £4.50 - © 1984.
DAVID BYRNE - SONGS FROM THE CATHERINE WHEEL (Sire: IN) LP ex+/vg+ £5.00 - © 1981.
CAMEL - MOONMADNESS (Decca: GF) LP ex+/vg+ £7.50 - Highly influential classic progressive rock from Peter Bardens & co. © 1976.
CAMEL - BREATHLESS (Decca: IN) LP ex+/ex £8.00 - © 1978.
CAMEL - NUDE (Decca: GF) LP ex+/ex £8.00 - © 1981.
# CATHARSIS - TUNNEL EXTATIQUE/CANTIQUE (Saravah: PS) 7" g?/vg+ £5.00 - Seems these (2 copies) had been sitting in a French distributors warehouse for 38 years! So, new but crackly. Different/earlier versions than the longer LP tracks, with some instruments missing/mix differs!
CIRKEL - THE FIRST GOODBYE (Goodbye) LP ex/vg+ £9.50 - Dutch 80's progressive: lyrical & in between Camel & Pallas.
COMBO FH - SITUACE NA STRESE (Panton) LP ex+/ex £8.00, ex/ex+ £5.00 - Satirical & eccentric Czech rock, nothing like their debut. © 1985.
CRAFT - CRAFT (Shanghai: IN) LP ex/ex £12.00 - Instrumental keyboard progressive from ex-Enid members with Camel, Hackett, Edhels styling.
CYBOTRON - COLOSSUS (Neutron Star NS 666 316: IN) LP ex/vg+ £25.00 - Finest from the Australian 70's synth/space-rock band, often comparable to instrumental TD circa "Cyclone" & "Force Majeure".
EAST OF EDEN - SOUND OF EAST-EDEN LIVE (Hablabel HBL 20102) LP ex+/ex+ £25.00 - Official bootleg. Excellent concert recording shortly after "Snafu".
EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER - EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER (Island) LP vg-ex/vg £5.00 - © 1970.
EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER - WELCOME BACK MY FRIENDS TO THE SHOW THAT NEVER ENDS (Manticore: novelty cover: IN) 3LP ex+-m/vg+ £12.50 - Live in 1974.
# FAMILY - IT'S ONLY A MOVIE (Raft: IN) LP vg-vg+/vg £3.50 - © 1973.
FERMATA - SONG FROM RIDGES (Opus 9116 0521) LP ex/ex £20.00 - Legendary Czech 70's progressive fusion, long tracks, lotsa guitars/keyboards, notable Mahavishnu styling.
FLAT EARTH SOCIETY - WALECO (Lightning Tree: 180g vinyl) LP £12.00 - 60's Boston, USA, psych. Hints of H.P. Lovecraft & Ultimate Spinach, & varied too!
FOCUS - FOCUS 3 (Polydor: GF) 2LP vg+-m/ex £9.00 - Classic double, by Dutch prog legends.
FRENCH TV - FRENCH TV (Lost: IN,#276/500) LP vg+/vg+ £15.00 - US 1984 progressive fusion in Canterbury (National Health, Isotope, Gilgamesh) vein.
GENESIS - LIVE (Charisma Perspective) LP vg+/vg £3.00 - Live in Leicester & Manchester (February 1973).
GENESIS - WIND & WUTHERING (Charisma: IN) LP vg-ex/ex+ £4.50 - © 1976.
GENESIS - DUKE (Charisma: GF) LP ex/ex+ £3.50 - © 1980.
GENESIS - INVISIBLE TOUCH (Virgin: IN) LP ex+/ex+ £5.00 - © 1986.
# GENTLE GIANT - FREE HAND (Chrysalis: IN) LP vg/vg+ £6.00 - The last "good all the way through" Gentle Giant album.
HALLOWEEN - PART ONE (Musea) LP £9.80 - Promising debut by late-80's French progressive, especially good on side 2.
PAVOL HAMMEL & MARIAN VARGA - ZELENA POSTA (Opus: pocket GF) LP ex+/vg £20.00 - Eclectic & unusual twist on atypical Collegium Musicum sound.
HAPPY THE MAN - CRAFTY HANDS (Arista) LP ex+/vg+ £13.00 - 2nd LP, © 1978.
HAWKWIND - WARRIOR ON THE EDGE OF TIME (UA: shield cover,IN) LP ex/ex £50.00 - Classic Hawks featuring Michael Moorcock. 1st copy of this original pressing we've had in reasonable condition for around 20 years.
HAWKWIND - LEVITATION (Bronze: RE) LP ex-m/ex £8.00 - © 1980.
HAWKWIND - NIGHT OF THE HAWKS (Flicknife: PS) 7" m/m £5.00, m/vg £3.00 - © 1984.
HAWKWIND - INDEPENDENT DAYS (Flicknife) 10" ex+/ex £7.00
HELDON - AGNETA NILSSON (Urus 000011) LP ex+/ex £50.00 - "Heldon 4", transitional Heldon, with a bigger more powerful sound: Mellotron, synths, Frippian guitars galore! The rarer 1st pressing with silver print on the rear cover.
# JETHRO TULL - MINSTREL IN THE GALLERY (Chrysalis: IN) LP vg+/vg+ £4.00 - Live in Europe with orchestra.
# JETHRO TULL - ROCK ISLAND (Chrysalis: IN) LP ex+/ex+ £4.50 - © 1989.
KAYAK - ROYAL BED BOUNCER (EMI Bovema: GF) LP ex/ex £10.00 - Dutch 70's Genesis & Yes inspired progressive. © 1975.
KAYAK - STARLIGHT DANCER (Vertigo) LP ex+/ex+ £7.00 - © 1977.
KAYAK - PHANTOM OF THE NIGHT (Vertigo: IN) LP ex/ex £8.00 - © 1978.
# KAYAK - PERISCOPE LIFE (Vertigo: IN) LP m/ex+ £9.00, ex/vg+ £4.00 - © 1979.
KAYAK - EYEWITNESS (Bellaphon: RE) LP m/ex £6.00 - Obscure live album, © 1981.
KENNEDY - KENNEDY! (Monolith MNK-8, Japan: IN,500 edition) LP m/m £25.00 - Japanese instrumental band, one part riotous Zeuhl fusion, one part Mahavishnu Orchestra, this is sizzling prog with the accent on guitar solos, lots of synths & a wealth of crazy sax, & even Godzilla!
# KING CRIMSON - DISCIPLINE (EG) LP vg+/vg+ £3.50 - Debut by 1981 version of KC.
# KING CRIMSON - THREE OF A PERFECT PAIR (EG: IN) LP vg/vg £1.00 - © 1984.
KORAL - KORAL (Pepita: IN) LP vg-ex/vg+ £5.00 - Hungarian progressive circa 1980 with Omega, Mech, Olympic type styling.
MAN - LONDON 1972 (Turning Point: 180g vinyl,GF) LP £14.70, vg+-m/m £10.00 - Their "Greasy Truckers Party" contributions plus 3 tracks live at the London Rainbow Theatre.
# MARSYAS - KOUSEK PRIZNE (Supraphon: IN) LP vg-ex/ex £5.50 - Intriguing Czech folksy, with jazz+blues, female vocals & a version of ELP's "From The Beginning" on Czech!
# PATRICK MORAZ - THE STORY OF I (Charisma: GF,IN) LP vg-ex/ex £3.50 - © 1976.
# THE MOTHMEN - PAY ATTENTION! (On-U Sounds LP 2) LP vg-ex/vg £50.00 - The Mothmen's debut is a rare UK Krautrocky classic, with Can, Metabolist, & very cleverly twisted funk/dub ala Public Image Ltd. © 1981.
# MICHEL MOULINIE - CHRYSALIDE (Crypto ZAL 6441) LP ex+/ex £33.00 - Cosmic guitar based music, produced by Francis Decamps (of Ange).
# MUSHROOM - MUSHROOM (Belmondo Discs BEL 004: IN) LP m/m £50.00 - USA 1997 instrumental acid-jam album. A) Can you imagine Faust with David Cross & Robert Fripp? B) Cul De Sac/Chillum/Can riffing. Limited edition of 125 copies on transparent green vinyl!
NEKTAR - RECYCLED (Bacillus: RE) LP £9.80 - At their most high-tech, with synth programming by Larry "Synergy" Fast. Side 1 was their last masterwork!
NEKTAR - LIVE IN NEW YORK (Bacillus: GF) 2LP ex+/ex £12.00 - (Bacillus: RE,GF) 2LP £14.70
NEKTAR - MORE LIVE IN NEW YORK (Bacillus: RE,GF) 2LP £14.70 - Alternative recordings to those on "Live In New York".
NEKTAR - MAGIC IS A CHILD (Polydor: IN) LP vg-ex/vg-co £5.00 - © 1977.
NOCO MUSIC - EVASION (NC) LP ex/ex £10.00 - Strasbourg band on the outer reaches of jazz & uniquely odd creative French fusions, with primitive/avant edges.
MIKE OLDFIELD - TUBULAR BELLS (Virgin) LP ex/ex+ £6.00, vg-ex/ex £4.50 - © 1973.
MIKE OLDFIELD - HERGEST RIDGE (Virgin) LP ex+-m/ex+ £7.50, vg-ex/ex+ £5.00 - © 1974.
MIKE OLDFIELD - OMMADAWN (Virgin: IN) LP ex/ex £5.00 - © 1975.
MIKE OLDFIELD - INCANTATIONS (Virgin: GF) 2LP ex+/ex £9.00, ex-m/ex £6.50 - © 1978.
MIKE OLDFIELD - ARRIVAL (Virgin: PS) 7" ex/m £2.50 - © 1980.
MIKE OLDFIELD - FIVE MILES OUT (Virgin: GF) LP ex+/ex £5.00 - (Virgin, Germany: GF) LP m/ex £5.00 - © 1982.
MIKE OLDFIELD - MISTAKE (Virgin: PS) 7" g?/ex £0.50 - © 1982.
PIERROT LUNAIRE - GUDRUN (Akarma: 180g vinyl) LP £15.00 - Legendary avant-garde rock/folk masterpiece from Italy. Essential for Battiato, Opus Avantra, Saint Just fans.
RICHARD PINHAS - EAST WEST (Pulse: IN) LP ex+/ex £8.50 - Richard's most "commercial" outing - with songs & cover versions!
# RICHARD PINHAS - L'ETHIQUE (Pulse) LP vg-ex/vg-co £10.00 - Pinhas' ultimate album featuring the mighty "Dedicated to K.C.".
PINK MICE - IN SYNTHESIZER SOUND (Europa) LP ex/g+ £7.50 - Classical rock adaptations of Bach, Tschaikowsky, Schumann, Mozart, Suppe & Beethoven, with kitshy synth lead.
# POISON GIRLS - ARE YOU HAPPY NOW (Illuminated: PS) 12" vg?/g £2.50
# POOH - VIVA (CGD: GF,BK,IN) LP ex+/ex+ £6.00, ex+/ex £5.00 - The inevitable concept LP from top Italian pop band attempting to be prog, featuring Red Canzian (ex-Capsicum Red).
PREMIATA FORNERIA MARCONI - JET LAG (Zoo) LP £9.80 - 1977 album, & a return to form after "Chocolate Kings", with a jazzier, less typically PFM style.
PSI VOJACI - LEITMOTIV (Globus) LP m/m £8.00 - Curious energetic Czech rock.
PULSAR - BIENVENUE AU CONSEIL D'ADMINISTRATION (Musea: IN) LP £9.80 - A very different ballet performance soundtrack, with different Pink Floyd angles (a bit of "Animals" era sound), punky Arachnoid edges. Excellent & full of surprises.
PULSAR - GORLITZ (Musea) LP £9.80 - 1988 reformation, surprisingly good though adopting a stylish 80's progressive style.
RENAISSANCE - TURN OF THE CARDS (BTM) LP vg+-m/ex £8.50 - © 1974.
RENAISSANCE - SCHEHERERAZADE (BTM) LP g+-ex/ex £4.00 - © 1975.
RENAISSANCE - NOVELLA (WB: GF) LP ex+/m £9.00 - © 1977.
ALAIN RENAUD - OUT OF TIME (Urus) LP vg+-ex/ex £12.00 - 2nd LP from ex-Triangle/Heldon guitarist. ½ brilliant Heldon/Hillage-like, ½ more pop-rock. © 1975.
# TODD RUNDGREN - INITIATION (Bearsville: IN) LP vg-ex/ex £4.50 - © 1975.
RUPHUS - FLYING COLOURS (Brain: GF) LP ex/vg+ £8.00 - © 1978.
RUPHUS - MANMADE (Brain: GF) LP ex+/vg+ £7.50 - © 1979.
ST-ERHART - PAPRIKA (Omega Studio) LP m/vg+ £13.00 - Typical French progressive fusion with hints of Magma, & a nice spacey style (from Strasbourg).
SBB - GRUPA SBB (Muza SX 1142) LP ex+/ex £20.00 - Lengthy instrumental freak-outs & bluesy songs.
SBB - ZE SLOWEM BIEGNE DO CIEBIE (Muza) LP ex/ex £11.00, vg/vg+ £10.00
SBB - WELCOME (Wifon) LP ex/vg+ £11.00 - © 1979.
SECRET OYSTER - SEA SON (CBS 80489) LP ex/vg £24.00 - LP #2 (© 1974), wickedly complex Canterburyesque fusion, often very close to Soft Machine from the same time, & just as good.
SECRET OYSTER - ASTARTE (CBS 81208) LP ex/ex £20.00 - LP #3. Aka "Vidungerlinge Kaelling".
SECRET OYSTER - STRAIGHT TO THE KRANKENHAUS (CBS 81434) LP vg-ex/vg £15.00 - LP #4, in a similar vein to LP #3, but with even more diverse elements at work, definitely the most Scandinavian/Nordic sounding of their albums.
# SEVENTH WAVE - THINGS TO COME (Janus) LP vg?/g+-co £3.00 - Highly synthesized progressive, ex-Second Hand keyboardist & drummer.
ALEXANDER SITKOVETSKY - ZELLO (Melodia) LP m/ex £10.00 - Instrumental progressive from Autograph guitarist. Lotsa guitar over upbeat & relaxed rock (between Jan Hammer & Frank Zappa).
TAKO - TAKO (Kalemegdan: 1xBT) LP £13.70 - Amongst the most notorious of Yugoslavian progressives, the original is reputedly worth £100! Their debut, remastered with superior mix.
TAKO - U VRECI ZA SPAVANJE (Kalemegdan: 2xBT) LP £13.70 - Even better than their debut, flying beyond Ozrics, with blinding power & cosmic energy! A melting pot of instrumental styles: Pink Floyd, Solaris, Camel, Fermata, Shylock, etc.
TERPANDRE - TERPANDRE (Musea: IN) LP £9.80 - 70's French instrumental prog & fusion hinting at The Enid, Camel, Bo Hansson, etc.
TIEMKO - ESPACE FINI (Musea) LP ex+/ex £9.00 - Instrumental debut by complex neo-Hackett instrumental band from Paris suburbs, typically French style.
TOAD - DREAMS (Akarma: 180g vinyl) LP+7" £20.00 - Third LP plus "Purple Haze/Making You Feel Right" single. Note: P&P = 6 units!
HENRY TORGUE - SOUVENIRS DES CITES CREPUSCULAIRES (Spalax) LP £11.75 - Instrumental prog, French style, but with a twist in that his organ playing was very Terry Riley-like. Also ther are vague hints of Steve Reich & Philip Glass.
TRAFFIC - SHOOT OUT AT THE FANTASY FACTORY (Island) LP vg/ex £6.00 - © 1973.
TWELFTH NIGHT - LIVE AT THE TARGET (TN) LP ex+/ex+ £15.00, ex+/g+ £7.00 - Classic instrumental live set. © 1981.
TWELFTH NIGHT - LIVE & LET LIVE (Music for Nations: GF) LP ex/vg £3.50 - Live at the Marquee 11/83.
TWELFTH NIGHT - TWELFTH NIGHT (Charisma) LP ex+/ex+ £9.00 - 1986 album sometimes listed as "X". This has a novelty cover with flip-out "Magic Map" gatefold.
# UTOPIA - RA (Bearsville: IN) LP vg?/vg £1.50 - Todd Rundgren, Roger Powell, etc. © 1977.
THIJS VAN LEER - INTROSPECTION (CBS, Holland) LP vg+/vg+ £4.00 - © 1972.
THIJS VAN LEER - INTROSPECTION 2 (CBS) LP ex/f £3.00 - © 1975.
RICK WAKEMAN - THE SIX WIVES OF HENRY VIII (A&M: GF) LP ex/ex £5.00 - His classical-rock masterpiece. Yes & Strawbs keyboardist.
RICK WAKEMAN - JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH (A&M: GF,BK) LP vg-ex/ex £4.00 - Concept work narrated by David Hemmings.
RICK WAKEMAN - WHITE ROCK (A&M) LP ex/ex £4.00 - Film soundtrack.
WINWOOD/CAPALDI/MASON/WOOD/GRECH/KWAKU BAAH/GORDON - WELCOME TO THE CANTEEN (Island) LP ex/ex £10.00 - Aka Traffic. © 1971.
# WISHBONE ASH - NEW ENGLAND (MCA: GF) - vg+/vg+ £4.00 - © 1976.
WLUD - SECOND (Omega Studio OM 67010: GF) LP ex+/ex £20.00 - Inventive instrumental French prog.
YES - ROUNDABOUT/LONG DISTANCE RUNAROUND (Atlantic: RE) 7" vg+/nc £1.00
YES - RELAYER (Atlantic: GF,IN) LP ex/ex £7.50 - With Patrick Moraz. © 1974.
YES - GOING FOR THE ONE (Atlantic: triple-GF,IN) LP ex+/ex £5.00, vg-ex+/ex £4.50 - © 1977.
YES - WONDROUS STORIES/PARALLELS (Atlantic) 7" vg/nc £1.00 - © 1977.
Z KOPCE - PLNE ZALUDKY X VELKE CILE (Panton: IN) LP m/ex+ £9.00 - Offbeat /left-field Czech outfit, a bit RIO, Plastic People of the Universe & Uz Jsme Doma like. © 1990.
ZUKANICAN - E 5NUMBER (Pickled Egg) 10" £6.85 - British band exploring that offbeat Bablicon & Needs New Body style but with more RIO & experimental new-wave touchs.
ABUS DANGREUX - HAPPY FRENCH BAND (Metro) LP ex/vg £9.00 - © 1983.
ALTER NATIVES - GROUP THERAPY (SST) LP ex/ex+-co £7.50 - Eccentric fusion, with RIO, Volcano The Bear & Material edges.
# NEIL ARDLEY - HARMONY OF THE SPHERES (Decca) LP g-ex/f+ £1.50 - Synth/prog-fusion opus.
ARISTIDE PADYGROS - ARISTIDE PADYGROS (Cormelia) LP g-vg+/vg £6.00 - © 1974. French trad & folk outfit, with odd prog touches, though quite vocal.
ARISTIDE PADYGROS - ARISTIDE PADYGROS (Cezame: GF) LP g-vg+/ex £6.00 - Nice mix of Breton/Celtic folk styles, hints of Gwendal, Malicorne, Alan Stivell. © 1976.
ARSENAL - 6 (Melodia) LP £9.80 - Top Russian jazz-rock group, & one of their best: hints of Passport, "Guitar" Zappa, Nucleus, Mahavishnu Orchestra, etc.
# CHARLES AUSTIN & JOE GALIVAN THE NEW ORCHESTRA - AILANA (Hannibal) LP ex/vg £3.50 - Very unusual LP from Canterbury scene cohorts: weird jazz, percussion & electronics.
BAYON - EL SONIDO (Amiga) LP vg+/vg+ £7.50 - Intriguing DDR folky cum ethnic & classical fusion, here they are especially reminiscent of Continuum.
PIERRE BENSUSAN - PRES DE PARIS (Rounder) LP ex+/ex+ £9.00 - © 1975.
PIERRE BENSUSAN - 2 (Rounder) LP ex+/ex+ £9.00 - © 1979.
PIERRE BENSUSAN - MUSIQUES (Rounder) LP ex/m £7.00 - © 1980.
PIERRE BENSUSAN - SOLILAI (Claddagh) LP ex/ex+ £7.00 - French folk circa 1981, with guests Didier Malherbe (flutes, sax) & Yvan Lantos (bagpipes).
BINDER - IN ILLO TEMPORE (Krem) LP vg-ex/vg+ £5.00 - Moody Hungarian jazz-fusion with piano lead, quite an odd one really. © 1985.
BLEIZI RUZ - COZ LIORZOU (Pluriel) LP ex/vg+ £13.00 - Breton folk & cross-culture with a prog edge, towards Gwendal/Alan Stvell realms. © 1983.
BLEIZI RUZ - KLASK AR PLAC'H (Pluriel) LP ex/vg+ £13.00 - 7-piece band on this one & a richer sound, quality Breton folk-moderne! © 1985.
BLEIZI RUZ - PELL AR KICHEN (-) LP ex/ex+ £10.00 - © 1988, recorded in Cornwall.
BRACHA - BRACHA (CMP) LP £9.80 - Inventive ethnic spiced fusion, with Mark Nauseef.
RAINER BRUNINGHAUS - FREIGEWEHT (ECM) LP ex+/ex £9.00 - 1981 debut as album project leader (ex-Eiliff/Weber's Colours), piano & synth fronted fusion in the typical ECM style.
PHILIPPE CAILLAT GROUP - FRENCH CONNECTION, DIRTY RATS (JARO) LP ex+/ex £8.50 - Typical French jazz-fusion with an eccentric edge.
CITANIA - CITANIA (Sonifolk H-022) LP ex+/ex+ £25.00 - Spanish Galician folk instrumental, really rich & nicely esoteric. © 1986.
STEVE ELIOVSON - DAWN DANCE (ECM) LP ex+/ex £9.00 - Very obscure 1981 ECM LP, in acoustic Steve Tibbetts & spacey Ralph Towner vein, all moody & very restrained.
ETERNAL WIND - TERRA INCOGNITA (Flying Fish) LP co £7.85 - US ethnic-jazz-world music fusion, much more radical than Oregon or Cadona. © 1987.
ETERNAL WIND - WASULA (Flying Fish) LP co £7.85 - © 1988.
FREY·TIEPOLD·THIERFELDER - ZIYADA (Concept) LP ex+/ex £15.00 - Sparkingly vibrant & moody jazz & classical mixture, with hints of Eberhard Weber.
GEORGE GRUNTZ CONCERT JAZZ BAND '83 - THEATRE (ECM) LP ex+/vg+ £5.50 - Euro fusion 70's supersession, with Joachim Kuhn, Jasper van't Hof, Fritz Pauer, etc.
GWERZ - AU DELA... (Escalibur) LP ex/ex+ £10.00 - Creative mix of songs & instrumentals. © 1987.
KORNOG - PREMIERE (Green Linnet: IN) LP ex+/ex+ £7.50 - Live in the USA. © 1984.
KORNOG - ON SEVEN WINDS (Green Linnet) LP ex+/ex+ £7.50 - French/Irish Breton folk with lotsa Central European & other ethnic influences. Flutes, bouzouki, bombarde, etc. © 1985.
KORNOG - IV (-) LP ex+/ex+ £9.00 - Mostly trad folk done in a new way. © 1987.
SAKARI KUKKO - KAJASTUS (Kerberos) LP ex+/ex £10.00 - Varied folk songs & instrumentals with many strange touches, from Piirpauke leader. © 1979.
GEORGES LOCATELLI - ECLECTIC GUITAR (Musica) LP m/m £8.00 - Acoustic & electric guitars in varying moods, some of it is very strange indeed!
DIDIER LOCKWOOD - THE KID (JMS: IN) LP ex+/vg+ £7.00 - Jazz-rock from famous French violinist & his US band, inc. David Sancious. © 1983.
DIDIER LOCKWOOD GROUP - DIDIER LOCKWOOD GROUP (JMS: IN) LP ex+/ex+ £8.00 - Here with a cast of Magma & Eric Serra band people. © 1984.
MALICORNE - LES CATHEDRALES DE L'INDUSTRIE (Celluloid: IN) LP ex+/ex+ £8.00 - A radical advance on early Malicorne, with high-tech instrumentation.
MICHAEL MANTLER - LIVE (Watt: GF) LP ex+/vg £6.00 - Frankfurt 8/2/87, with Jack Bruce, etc.
PAT METHENY GROUP - FIRST CIRCLE (ECM: IN) LP ex+/ex+ £8.00 - © 1984.
# STEPHAN MICUS - IMPLOSIONS (Japo: IN) LP ex-m/ex £7.50 - Superb atmospheric music for sitars, flutes, zithers, guitar, etc. Inspired & magical!
# STEPHAN MICUS - TILL THE END OF TIME (Japo) LP ex/ex £7.00 - © 1978.
STEPHAN MICUS - TWILIGHT FIELDS (ECM) LP £14.70 - Innovation is the key to this 1987 album, with an orchestra of flowerpots!
GARY PEACOCK - VOICE FROM THE PAST - PARADIGM (ECM) LP ex+/ex+ £9.00 - © 1982. With Jan Garbarek, Tomasz Stanko & Jack DeJohnette.
PIRCHER-PEPL-JAZZZWIO - GEGENWIND (Mood) LP £10.00, vg+/ex £4.00 - Unusual atmospheric music for acoustic guitar, tuned percussion & studio processing.
PEKKA POHJOLA - MIKE & SALLY OLDFIELD, PEKKA POHJOLA (Happy Bird, Benelux) LP vg+/ex £6.00 - Aka "The Mathematicians Air Display", instrumental fusion.
PEKKA POHJOLA - EVERYMAN (JA&RO) LP ex/vg+ £6.50 - © 1984.
# JEAN-LUC PONTY - AURORA (Atlantic) LP ex/vg+ £4.50 - © 1976.
# JEAN-LUC PONTY - IMAGINARY VOYAGE (Atlantic) LP vg+-ex/vg+ £4.50 - © 1976.
# JEAN-LUC PONTY - COSMIC MESSENGER (Atlantic: IN) LP vg+/vg+ £3.50 - © 1979.
RITMIA - FORSE IL MARE (Robi Droli RD 003) LP ex/ex £25.00 - 1986 Italian cross-culture folk/ethnic mix, towards Canzionere Del Lazio.
PHILIPPE SAISSE - VALERIAN (Windham Hill) LP ex+/ex £8.00 - © 1988. Light new-age & ECM-like fusion (Metheny-Mays vein) by pianist/multi-instrumentalist & guests: Don Alias, etc.
SANTANA - CARAVANSERAI (CBS: GF) LP ex/vg+ £5.00 - Santana's most esoteric but powerful album, with dual guitars overdose!
# SANTANA - WELCOME (CBS, Canada: GF) LP ex/vg+ £5.50 - © 1973.
# ALAN STIVELL - ALAN STIVELL (Impact) LP ex/vg+ £3.50 - Anthology 1970-74. Nice intro.
TAMMILES - TAMMILES (Escalibur) LP ex/ex+ £15.00 - Obscure 80's Breton folk band, very varied & highly creative mix of trad & originals, bit Malicorne-like.
TAMMILES - EMBARQUEMENT IMMEDIAT (Escalibur) LP ex/ex+ £15.00 - Same mixture of styles as their debut, but richer & more varied, inc. synths & electric instruments. © 1985.
RALPH TOWNER SOLSTICE - SOUND & SHADOWS (ECM: textured cover) LP ex+/ex £8.00 - © 1977. With Jan Garbarek, Eberhard Weber, etc.
TRI-O - THREE HOLES (Melodia) LP £9.80 - Virtually a trio of winds players, yet their music amounts to much more than that. A Russian RIO band?!
LITO VITALE - EN SOLITARIO (Grabaciones Accidentales) LP vg-ex/vg+ £7.00 - © 1987.
LITO VITALE - CUARTETO (Messidor) LP ex/ex £8.50 - Argentinian rock synthesist ventures into lazy jazzy fusion, with a symphonic style. © 1988.
KENNY WHEELER - DOUBLE, DOUBLE YOU (ECM) LP ex+/ex £7.50 - © 1984.
WORLD MUSIC - TO HEAR THE WORLD IN A GRAIN OF SAND (Soul Note) LP ex/ex £9.00 - Connie Bauer, Lennart Aberg, etc., live at the Donaueschingen Festival 1985.
MAREK BILINSKI - OGROD KROLA SWITU (Wifon) LP ex/vg+ £6.00 - Unusual melodic synth with swirling textures & dynamic rhythmic drives, Poland © 1983.
IAN BODDY - PHOENIX (Something Else) LP £9.80, m/ex £6.00 - © 1986. On this much more energetic synth LP Ian ventured towards Mark Shreeve realms.
BOGNERMAYR/ZUSCHRADER - ERDENKLANG (Erdenklang) LP m/ex+ £7.00 - The first Fairlight symphony? Ex-Eela Craig keyboardists.
MICHAEL BROOK - ALBINO ALLIGATOR (4AD: IN) LP ex/m £6.00 - © 1997.
STEPHEN CAUDEL - WINE DARK SEA (Landscape) LP ex+/vg £5.00 - Atmos/melodic multi-guitars/synths/etc. Produced by Tom Newman.
CENTRAL EUROPE PERFORMANCE - BREAKFAST IN THE RUINS (Erdenklang) LP £8.80 - Harald Grosskopf (ex-Wallenstein/Ashra/etc.) with members of You.
MICHAEL GARRISON - PRISMS (Windspell) LP ex+/vg+ £9.00 - © 1981. USA synth with a bright Tangerine Dream & Jean Michel Jarre like mix.
SVEN GRUNBERG - OM (Melodia) LP £9.80 - Estonian electronic music pioneer who began his career with E. Artemiev & V. Martinov. 2nd LP of cosmic electronic music.
N.R. HILLS - ROMEO & THE BEAST (Gothic Electronique) LP £5.90, ex+/m £4.00, ex+/ex+ £3.50 - Experimental UK synthesist, radical & challenging. Numbered/signed 500 copy edition!
MICHEL HUYGEN - BARCELONA 1992 (AMP) LP ex/ex £7.00 - (Thunderbolt) LP £9.80, m/ex £3.00 - © 1986. TV movie soundtrack.
JEAN MICHEL JARRE - EQUINOXE (Polydor) LP ex/vg+ £4.00 - Renowned French synthesist. His 2nd album, © 1978.
JEAN MICHEL JARRE - MAGNETIC FIELDS (Polydor: IN) LP ex+/ex £5.00 - © 1981.
JEAN MICHEL JARRE - ZOOLOOK (Polydor, Germany: IN) LP ex/ex £5.00 - © 1984.
STEVE JOLLIFFE - JOURNEYS OUT OF THE BODY (Nada Pulse: IN) LP ex+/m £10.00 - Mysterious early LP from ex-Steamhammer/Tangerine Dream multi-instrumentalist. © 1983.
# ESA KOTILAINEN - AJUTASLAPSI (Love LRLP 196) LP g-ex/ex £12.50 - Incredible cosmic synth trip, ex-Wigwam. © 1976.
RUDIGER LORENZ - SOUTHLAND (Syncord) LP g?-m/ex+ £5.00 - Inventive German synth, with odd use of melody & rhythms. © 1984.
RUDIGER LORENZ - ANGARIA (Syncord) LP m/ex+ £12.00 - © 1987.
# MICHEL MADORE - LA CHAMBRE NUPTIALE (Egg 910 007) LP ex+/vg+ £20.00 - Fantastic weird synth, organ & sound collage from Canada. © 1979.
JOHN MILLS-COCKELL - NEON ACCELERANDO (Aura) LP ex+/ex £8.50 - Offbeat synth fronted rock circa 1978, by former Intersystems member.
MIND OVER MATTER - THE COLOURS OF LIFE (Thunderbolt) LP £9.80 - Highly talented guitarist/synthesist with cosmic styling.
NEURONIUM - CHROMIUM ECHOES (Thunderbolt) LP £9.80 - Last of the classic cosmic "psychotronic" cosmic era of Neuronium.
NEURONIUM - SUPRANATURAL (Thunderbolt) LP £9.80 - © 1987, at this time Neuronium & Huygen solo are the same!
GILES REAVES/JON GOIN - LETTING GO (MCA) LP ex+/ex £8.00 - © 1989. Giles Reaves is nowadays a member of Spacecraft (US) cosmic new-age band & soundtrack composer.
SERGEI SAMOILOV - EXTRATERRESTRIALS (Melodia) LP m/ex £10.00 - Starting deceptively as a piano solo, the sound grows with synths, etc., breaks up & goes weird.
JOHANNES SCHMOELLING - WUIVEND RIET (Erdenklang) LP ex/ex £8.00 - Surprisingly inventive & unique debut album by 1980-85 Tangerine Dream member.
BERND SCHOLL - TALES OF FANTASY (Blubber Lips) LP ex/vg+ £9.00 - Rare debut.
ROBERT SCHROEDER - FLOATING MUSIC (IC: 45rpm) LP ex/ex £9.00 - (Racket) LP ex+/ex £6.00 - © 1980.
MARK SHREEVE - LEGION (Jive) LP £5.90 - © 1985.
MARK SHREEVE - CRASH HEAD (Jive) LP £5.90 - © 1988.
DAN SIEGEL - SHORT STORIES (Pausa) LP ex+/ex-co £8.00 - Lilty synth fusion. a bit like some Patrick Moraz, Kit Watkins, or KPM/de Wolfe & soundtracky type stuff.
SOFTWARE - DIGITAL-DANCE (Thunderbolt) LP £9.80, ex/ex £4.50 - Peter Mergener & Michael Weisser project. Their 4th album, © 1988.
# STARDRIVE - INTERGALACTIC TROT (Elektra) LP vg/g+ £6.00 - Quirky 1973 synth curio with some great fusionsections, featuring Steve Gadd, Bruce Ditmas, etc.
YOSHIO SUZUKI - MORNING PICTURE (Pan East) LP ex+/ex £5.00 - Piano based Japanese jazzy new-age obscurity. © 1986.
# SYNERGY - ELECTRONIC REALISATIONS FOR ROCK ORCHESTRA (Passport) LP vg/vg+ £3.00 - Larry Fast's debut from 1975.
SYNERGY - SEQUENCER (Passport: GF) LP ex+/m £7.50, ex+/ex+ £7.00 - Aka Larry Fast, classical influenced synth. © 1976.
SYNERGY - COMPUTER EXPERIMENTS, VOL. 1 (Passport) LP ex+/ex £10.00 - 1981 album.
SYNERGY - METROPOLITAN SUITE (Audion) LP m/ex+ £7.00 - © 1987.
NIK TYNDALL - SOUNDS OF SILENCE (Sky) LP £11.75 - Subtle, atmospheric & ambient music, with gentle melodic content.
# VANGELIS - HEAVEN & HELL (RCA: GF) LP ex/ex+ £8.00, ex/ex £6.00 - © 1975. With Jon Anderson.
VANGELIS - OPERA SAUVAGE (Polydor) LP ex+/vg+ £4.50 - © 1979.
VANGELIS - CHINA (Polydor: GF,IN) LP ex+/ex £6.00 - © 1979.
VANGELIS - CHARIOTS OF FIRE (Polydor) LP vg-ex/vg £2.00 - 1981 award winning soundtrack.
VANGELIS - SOIL FESTIVITIES (Polydor) LP ex+/ex £6.00 - The sounds of nature carefully crafted & blended into Vangelis' rich sound. © 1984.
# WAVEMAKER - NEW ATLANTIS (Polydor: IN) LP vg/vg+ £3.00 - 1977 British classical synth by John Lewis & Brian Hodgson.
ABRAXAS - NATURE COILS (Pylon) LP m/ex+ £10.00 - Kinda ethno primitive cum industrial stuff, O Yuki Conjugate, Left Hand Right Hand, Bourbonese Qualk realms. 1-sided, #286/500.
# GLENN BRANCA/JOHN GIORNO - WHO YOU STARIN AT? (GPS: IN) LP ex/vg £15.00 - Side each: Branca's is excellent, Giorno's isn't recommended! © 1982.
MIKHAIL CHEKALIN - BETWEEN SPRING & AUTUMN BY STEALTH (Melodia) LP ex+/vg+ £15.00 - This curiously titled LP often reminds me of the explorative work of Ralph Lundsten.
MIKHAIL CHEKALIN - PRACTICAL MUSIC MAKING II (Melodia) LP ex+/ex £13.00 - With Tietchens & Frohmader synth stylings, but full of contrasts & surprises.
MIKHAIL CHEKALIN - THE GREEN SYMPHONY (Melodia) LP ex+/ex £15.00 - Sitting between classical avant-garde & synth, hinting at the recent explorations of Klaus Schulze (only this is a lot earlier).
MIKHAIL CHEKALIN - BOARDER STATE (Melodia) LP ex+/ex+ £15.00 - With elements of Peter Frohmader/Asmus Tietchens' electro-experimental rock.
MIKHAIL CHEKALIN - THE SYMPHONY: PHONOGRAM (Melodia) LP ex+/ex £25.00 - A grand electronic/sonic weird symphony.
MIKHAIL CHEKALIN - INTRODUCTION INTO INTUITION (Melodia) LP ex+/ex+ £13.00 - Intuitive improvisations with electronic keyboards, rhythm computers, etc. Not at all what you'd expect!
MIKHAIL CHEKALIN - CONCERTO GROSSO - I (Melodia) LP ex+/ex+ £15.00 - Challenging innovative floating, really unusual (but quite accessible) instrumental fusion. Most fascinating.
MIKHAIL CHEKALIN - CONCERTO GROSSO - II (Melodia) LP ex+/ex £13.00 - A step on from Frohmader's darker synth world towards the spooky regions of Schulze/Grosser's "Babel".
COFFEE - HEX VEX & THE LAVANDER MINK (Elica: GF) 2x10" ex+/m £9.50 - Chintz & retro stuff with quirky avant-pop stuff. Bizarre!
# CONTRASTATE - THROWING OUT THE BABY WITH THE BATHWATER (Tesco: #101/525) LP+12" ex+-m/ex+ £18.00 - Picture discs! Weirdo ethno industrio gothico abstractions. © 1994.
CURRENT 93 - LIVE AT BAR MALDOROR (Mi-Mort MM 1) LP ex+/vg+ £60.00 - Original white label LP with stickered sleeve. Excellent weird stuff with strong NWW influence.
ROGER DOYLE - BUDAWANNY (Atlantean) LP £5.90 - We never knew this 1987 soundtrack existed on vinyl (we used to stock the cassette). It's stylistically recognisable as Doyle at the keys, in that it's slightly eccentric, but often feels more like Budd & Eno.
TOM EHRLICH - SUNSTAR (Trikont) LP £9.80 - Unusual ethnic spiced piano/synths.
BRUCE GILBERT - MUSIC FOR FRUIT (Mute) MLP £5.90 - Unusual sonic conceptions, more electronic than his usual works. © 1991.
GYLLENSKÖLD, GEIJERSTAM AND FRIENDS - LIVE AT BAR MALDOROR (Mi Mort III) LP ex+/ex+ £100.00 - Limited edition, 2nd 100 pressing we believe. Actually a NWW super jam session of weird & wonderful stuff, & very different to the NWW "Live At Bar Maldoror"!.
PETER MICHAEL HAMEL - TRANSITION (Kuckuck) 2LP ex-m/ex £12.00 - © 1983. 4 different styles: classical, avant-garde & systemic piano, plus a big synth & electronics opus.
HOVERCRAFT - EXPERIMENT BELOW (Blast First) LP £9.80 - With a new drummer making a Branca meets Guru Guru/Fushitsusha hybrid. Freaky! © 1998.
IN THE NURSERY - COMPULSION (Sweatbox: PS) 12" EP ex/vg+ £3.50 - © 1987.
INTIMATE OBSESSIONS - EREBUS TO HANDS (Third Mind: IN) LP ex/vg+ £6.00 - © 1985. Electro-pop & new-wave in similar vein to Bushido, Cabaret Voltaire, etc.
BENJAMIN LEW & STEVEN BROWN - DOUZIEME JOURNEE (MTM) LP £9.80 - Ambient, synth, ethnic & more unusual softly toned soundscapes, akin to Musci/Venosta, Cluster & Eno.
MELTED MEN - HAIR IT IS (Nerve Rust: red vinyl) 10" ex+/ex+ £7.50 - Really wonky synths, kinda ZNR a bit, but more Pyrolator, Asmus Tietchens, et al.
# MUSICA ELETTRONICA VIVA - LEAVE THE CITY (Byg 529 335: GF) LP ex/vg £40.00 - Classic spacey album from the French incarnation of MEV (June 1970), with a nix of folky stuff, trippy electronics, demented radio & wonderful female voices.
ORDINAIRES - THE ORDINAIRES (Dossier) LP ex/ex £9.00 - New Yorkers in Fred Frith meets chamber RIO mix. Very lively!
VALENTINA PONOMAREVA - TEMPTATION (Melodia) LP £9.80 - Amazing Russian vocalist, weird & totally innovative. © 1989.
MICHAEL PRIME - REQUIEM (Die Stadt) LP £12.75 - Morphogenesis member. 1998-2000 recordings.
PETER PRINCIPLE - SEDIMENTAL JOURNEY (MTM) LP £9.80, m/ex+ £5.50 - Collection of soundtracks & other multi-tracked home produced recordings from ex-Tuxedomoon member.
MIROSLAV RAJKOWSKI - THE PRIMARY PRINCIPLE (Beta-lactam Ring) 10" ex+/ex+ £7.00 - Weird overtone singing, with instruments, collage & all manner of other vocal expressions.
ELLIOT SHARP - CARBON (Zoar) LP ex+/ex £7.50 - Rocky Branca strangeness, © 1984.
RICCARDO SINIGAGLIA - CORRENTI MAGNETICHE (ADN: IN) LP £9.80 - Innovative Italian computer music composer. More innovative fusions of electronics & acoustics, with a weirder esoteric style.
SONGS OF NORWAY - DESPITE THE CLOAK (Beta-lactum ring) LP £20.00 - Volcano the Bear alter-ego project of Aaron Moore & Nick Mott = freeform abstractions, duets & trios, scuttle & writhe. We have a limited number that come with a bonus 7" EP, P&P = 5 units!
SONGS OF NORWAY - DESPITE THE CLOAK (Beta-lactum ring) LP £9.80 - No 7" EP!
ASMUS TIETCHENS - LEUCHTIDIOTEN (Die Stadt) 10" £9.80 - 14 minutes duration.
UNDER NEATH WHAT - WHAT IT IS II (Antar: PS,#14/500) 7" m/m £10.00 - 1-sided demo! UK underground, remixed by Cally, Krauty-acid-funk. © 1989.
ENCHANTEMENT (Musea) LP £9.80 - Compilation with original: Ange, Atoll, Pulsar, Edhels, Atmosphere, Minimum Vital, Raison De Plus, etc.
FEST-NOZ NEVEZ (Arfolk: GF) 2LP ex/ex+ £10.00 - French folk festival (?): Soeurs Coulouarn, Freres Kergosien, Freres Pennec, Ar Penseerien, Ar Sonnerien Du, etc.
UNTITLED (Die Stadt: PS) 7"+7"EP £10.00 - Limited edition: #500. 7" by Z'ev, 7"EP by Zerfall_Gebiete (Thomas Köner & Ulrich Krieger). Note: P&P = 4 units!
WIR SIND KINDER DER REVOLTE, BEST OF VOL. 1 (Think Progressive: GF,180g vinyl) 2LP £18.60 - Live recordings from the Open Air Burg Herzberg festivals (1995-97): Gong, Guru Guru, Hawkwind, Faust, Embryo, Chris Karrer, Man.
ANTHOLOGIE DE LA MUSIQUE TRADITIONELLE FRANCAISE, VOLUME 5 (Chant du Monde: GF,BK) LP f-vg?/ex+ £2.00 - "Chants Traditionnels des Marins Pecheurs de Fecamp".
EGYPTE: LES MUSICIENS DU NIL, VOL. 2 (Ocora: RE) LP ex+/m £6.50
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