Art Rock

Hugely respected for his innovative approach to the fretless bass and his groundbreaking work with Japan/Rain Tree Crow, Kate Bush, David Torn and others. Mick Karn died on the 4th of January, 2011.

Initiated by Peter Murphy, Karn's final work during his lifetime saw the unexpected resurrection of the duo's cult mid-1980s project, Dali's Car.

Conceived during the final months of Karn's life, the resulting 5 track EP features contributions from friends and regular musical collaborators Steve Jansen, Jakko M Jakszyk and Theo Travis.

InGladAloneness is a glorious testament to a unique vision tragically cut short by illness.

The first 250 copies are signed by Steve Jansen.

Preorder now for 5th April shipping date

Talk Talk's 1988 release Spirit Of Eden saw the band wholly embrace the abstract experimental urges hinted at on It's Getting Late In The Evening, Chameleon Day and April 5th.

Simultaneously haunting and hard hitting, graceful and gritty, Spirit Of Eden is very much a unified album statement. An influence on the Post Rock movement to come, as well as on the likes of No-Man, Bark Psychosis and Slint.

Heavyweight 180gm vinyl reissue.

Talk Talk's astonishing and hugely influential 1986 release The Colour Of Spring struck a perfect balance between the band's more commercial origins and its later experimental work.

Contains the mega-hit Life's What You Make It, the beautiful tone poem April 5th and the epic, uplifting Time It's Time.

Heavyweight 180gm vinyl reissue.

Including material released on Virgin as well as his more recent Samadhisound output, A Victim Of Stars is a compilation encompassing 30 years of David Sylvian's constantly evolving solo material.

Contains the previously unreleased track Where's Your Gravity?

Pre-order for 27th February release.

Multi-instrumentalist Paul Cusick's second album P'dice features PC performing alongside drumming royalty, Gavin Harrison and Marco Minnemann.

Cusick's artful compositions combine the song-craft of Radiohead and Coldplay with the Rock atmospherics of Airbag, OSI and Porcupine Tree, producing a distinctly melodic and personal music with an edge.

'A fabulous album.' - Sea Of Tranquility 5/5

We have one last copy with a slightly damaged spine - sold as seen. No returns

**Final copies of the 2-disc Snapper digipak version with the catalogue number SMACD048X - the content is the same as the later "super jewel case" version on Kscope (KSCOPE105D)**

This 2 disc Snapper edition of No-Man's Together We're Stranger comes with the original stereo mix on CD, a booklet featuring sleeve notes from Mojo's Johnny Black, improved packaging and an audiophile 5.1 DVD-A surround sound disc, also including high resolution 24 bit stereo.

The DVD-A disc includes the Break Up For Real (drum mix), (bluecoda), the video for Things I Want To Tell You and a photo gallery.

Seamlessly combining Country and Ambient influences in a uniquely ethereal way, Letka is the latest collaboration between Irish vocalist Sandra O'Neill and English multi-instrumentalist Peter Chilvers.

The evocative digipack, designed by Carl Glover, features images from his archive of photographs of American ghost towns.

Brian Eno appears on and produces Beyond The Fold.

Never one to do things by halves, Bill Nelson celebrates the 40th year of his recording career with the lavish The Practice Of Everyday Life, an 8cd box set chronicling all phases of Bill's maverick sound making.

From the Art Rock of Be Bop Deluxe to the New Wave of Red Noise and the Ambient stylings of Crimsworth, all Nelsonic musical life is contained within.

Features 11 unreleased tracks, rare BBC sessions and fully illustrated 68 page booklet.

Kate Bush radically reinterprets material from The Red Shoes and The Sensual World on this double vinyl edition of Director's Cut.

Presented in a gatefold cover with booklet.

Alternating between subtly atmospheric and brutally aggressive elements, while effortlessly
transcending barriers between a variety of genres, Blood was the potent 2009 release from the exceptional duo of Jim Matheos (Fate's Warning) and Kevin Moore (Chroma Key, ex- Dream Theater).

Along with Moore and Matheos, Blood features Porcupine Tree drummer Gavin Harrison throughout, and a guest appearance by Opeth's Mikael Ã…kerfeldt on Stockholm.

No-Man's Tim Bowness sings on the bonus CD track No Celebrations.

With Blood, O.S.I. have succeeded in creating a fascinating album at the cutting edge of Rock, Electronica and Progressive Metal.

A compilation of music by Markus Reuter compiled for the 2011 "Two of a Perfect Trio" US tour featuring the Adrian Belew Power Trio and Tony Levin's Stick Men (including Markus Reuter).

'Kopfmensch' features 16 tracks from more than a dozen different projects/bands/albums and includes unreleased tracks as well as alternative versions and many new mixes.

Limited edition.

Matt Stevens' third album Relic is a tougher sounding release than his previous albums.

With its inventive combination of post-rock, math rock, nu-metal, electronica, jazz and folk influences, the album might just be his finest achievement to date.

'Stevens' technical skills are breathtaking, but it's his songwriting and infusion of various genres that separates him from other guitar-based instrumentalists.' - Obscure Sounds.com

'A work of beauty and genius.' - Beardrock.com

Matt Stevens's all-instrumental 2010 outing is a strong collection of material skirting the edges of Progressive and Post Rock, ECM Jazz and Classical guitar styles.

'Ghost is a phenomenal piece of work.' - Classic Rock Presents Prog

Reinterpreting songs from his extensive back catalogue, Peter Gabriel's New Blood is a continuation of the ambitious orchestral Scratch My Back project from 2009.

This is the vinyl version comprising two album length LPs and a 7" single.

Airbag returns with its second, highly anticipated, album.

A bigger and bolder variation on the Atmospheric Art Rock of the acclaimed Identity, All Rights Removed once more creatively straddles the middle ground between the Progressive inclinations of Porcupine Tree and Pink Floyd, and the Epic Pop of Talk Talk.

The limited edition digipak has sold out - we are now selling the jewel case version

Following on from their glorious and lyrical collaborative work on Gone To Earth, David Sylvian and Robert Fripp produced the unexpectedly fiery and funky The First Day in 1993.

Hypnotically groovy and intensely vicious, while showcasing Fripp's Soundscapes identity, the album marked a departure for Sylvian and can be more easily understood as a missing King Crimson link between Three Of A Perfect Pair and Thrak than a typical post-Japan Sylvian venture.

Initially formed to play three dates at the 2010 Estonian Jazz Festival, Slow Electric is a new project from Tim Bowness and Peter Chilvers, and the Estonian duo UMA (guitarist Robert Jurjendal and trumpeter Aleksei Saks).

Using recordings from the concerts as a basis, Bowness recorded new vocals and Chilvers contributed additional keyboards and atmospherics. King Crimson’s Tony Levin added bass/chapman stick to two of the album's six songs, and the multi-tracks were mixed by ace Zurich-based percussionist/producer Andi Pupato (Nik Bartsch’s Ronin).

From the elegiac opener Towards The Shore to the 5/4 groove of Criminal Caught In The Crime, the quartet combines its collective influences - singer-songwriter, electronica/ambient and European jazz - with gracefully empathetic performances.

The Carl Glover designed digipack comes with a booklet featuring sleeve notes by Tim Bowness.

Dating from 2005 and originally released on Beggars Banquet, Everyone Into Position was Oceansize's second studio album.

Featuring the one of the band's most popular pieces, Music For A Nurse (which was used on several adverts, tv programmes and the US film, The Invisible), this double LP Music on Vinyl version is available on 180 grams audiophile vinyl.

Phil Manzanera's 2008 all-instrumental solo album Firebird VII is something of a contemporary Phil Manzanera's 2008 all-instrumental solo album Firebird VII is something of a contemporary companion piece to his earlier highly regarded outings, Primitive Guitars and Quiet Sun.

Reuniting Manzanera with Quiet Sun / This Heat drummer Charles Hayward, and featuring a Bill MacCormick composition, Firebird VII is a powerful and lyrical album that includes some of the most joyously uncompromising and creative music of Manzanera's career.

All copies sold by Burning Shed are signed by Phil.

Poland's Gods of widescreen, cinematic Rock return with a brand new 3 track, 33 minute mini-album, Memories In My Head.

A special release to mark the band's 10th anniversary, MIMH is unmistakably Riverside and unmistakably powerful and haunting, moving with ease from the mysteriously melancholic to the aggressively intense.

Mariusz Duda: "This new material, concerning themes of passing time, will be a pleasant surprise for those who have missed the kind of melodies and space known from the band's early releases."

The mini-album is available as a cd and a download (mp3 and flac) exclusive to the Glassville site.

Esoteric's series of Bill Nelson reissues begins with a new re-remaster of Bill's ultra-rare debut album, Northern Dream.

Strongly championed on its release by John Peel, the album was recorded in 1971 on rudimentary equipment and is considered one of the first truly independently produced LPs to be released in Britain

More wistfully singer-songwriter orientated than his later work, Northern Dream's production, dexterous guitar solos and Folk/Blues Rock influences (shades of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac) represent the fascinating creative groundwork for Bill's maverick career to come (with Be Bop Deluxe, Red Noise and solo).

This Cocteau Discs release fully restores the original artwork.

The debut release from Texan trio Herd Of Instinct sees a band pushing the limits of its own creativity.

Drawing from a vast array of influences (Tribal music, Horror film scores and assorted elements of Rock, Minimalism, Crimson-esque Prog, and more), the album features guest performances from the likes of Jerry Marotta, Pat Mastelotto, Gayle Ellett, Gavin Harrison, and Markus Reuter.

From the schizoid-frenzy of Anamnesis to the fragile beauty of Blood Sky, the album never loses sight of its desire to thrill and surprise.

Warm Winter is the debut album by Memories Of Machines, the duo comprising Tim Bowness (No-Man) and Giancarlo Erra (Nosound).

An assured and emotionally cohesive debut, Warm Winter ably highlights the sympathetic musical chemistry between Bowness and Erra, and includes guest contributions from the likes of Peter Hammill, Colin Edwin, Robert Fripp, Steven Wilson, Julianne Regan (All About Eve), Jim Matheos (OSI/Fates Warning) and Huxflux Nettermalm (Paatos).

The album, which is available as a digi-pack cd and a limited edition heavyweight vinyl release, was mixed by Steven Wilson and mastered by Jon Astley (The Who, Led Zeppelin, Tori Amos).

'A beguiling mix of giant-sounding Art Rock and bittersweet self-reflection.' - Classic Rock

Deleyaman's singular style, blending Darkwave and Alternative Folk, re-invents elements of the Post-Rock, Ambient and Shoegaze genres creating an experimental and ethereal ethnic-tinged music.

Presented in Digipak format, with a 32-page booklet, this is the companion release to 2011's Fourth, Part Two.

Ambient, Classical and Darkwave influences collide on Dwelling's Ainda E Noite.

Delicate, sensual and occasionally unsettling, the music of Dwelling is both bitterly nostalgic and sweetly romantic.

Packaged in a beautifully designed Digipack CD.

With their 9th album Offering (the first for Equilibrium), Rajna continue their musical and cultural development, fusing their atmospheric sound with influences from the Mediterranean, the Aegean islands, the Cyclades, Crete, Greece and Turkey.

An exotic sound where the Orient and the Occident meet.

Deleyaman's singular style, blending Darkwave and Alternative Folk, re-invents elements of the Post-Rock, Ambient and Shoegaze genres creating an experimental and ethereal ethnic-tinged music.

Presented in Digipak format, with a 20-page booklet, this is the companion release to 2009's Fourth, Part One.

Driven by spectral chants, poignant strings and hypnotic piano pulses, Les Fragments de la Nuit's debut presents a melancholic and mysterious musical vision.

Neo-Classical, Post-Nocturnal Darkwave at it's haunting best.

Les Fragments de la Nuit's cinematic second album.

Lush, nocturnal Neo-Classical pieces forming an epic soundtrack that flits between quiet, melancholy moments and stirring, violent passages.

Presented in a digipak format.

Sun Domingo's new release Songs For End Times combines the Hard Rock influences of Rush and Soundgarden with the pop sensibilities of Tears For Fears and Crowded House, and the conceptual ambition of Brave-era Marillion.

Recorded and engineered in Atlanta by John Holmes the album has been co-produced and mixed by Bruce Soord (Pineapple Thief), and features performances from Steve Hogarth (Marillion), Adrian Belew (King Crimson) and John Wesley (Porcupine Tree).

801 Live is regarded as one of the truly great 1970s live releases.

A supergroup comprising Phil Manzanera, Brian Eno, Francis Monkman (Sky, Curved Air), Bill MacCormick (Matching Mole), Lloyd Watson and drummer's drummer Simon Phillips, 801 produced an adventurous Art Rock music, mainly drawing on the catalogues of Manzanera, Eno and Quiet Sun.

The album includes the band's celebrated epic rendition of Tomorrow Never Knows..

This edition comes in a beautiful DVD sized digi-book format and features a bonus disc of rehearsals, and a comprehensive booklet containing refections from all the musicians involved plus many period reviews and photos.

All copies are signed by Phil Manzanera.

"A great live album. Eno handles most of the vocals, and Tomorrow Never Knows is pure magic." (Uncut)

Quiet Sun was Phil Manzanera's pre-Roxy Music project, alongside Bill MacCormick (Matching Mole / Random Hold), Charles Hayward (This Heat) and Dave Jarrett.

A stunning, Psychedelically inclined Progressive Jazz Rock album, Mainstream was recorded 4 years after the band's break-up during the night-shift sessions for Manzanera's debut solo album, Diamond Head.

Occasionally echoing the styles of early Soft Machine, Pink Floyd and King Crimson, and hinting at the ambition of the 801 project to come, Mainstream is the only remaining legacy of this great 'lost' British band.

This edition comes in a beautiful DVD sized digi-book format and features extra tracks and a comprehensive booklet containing many period reviews and photos.

All copies are signed by Phil Manzanera.

"This is a ferocious combination of the ideas on the first two Velvet Underground albums coupled with the musical inventiveness of King Crimson or Soft Machine. The musicians are superb, the production flawless." - Trouser Press

Phil Manzanera's 1975 debut album Diamond Head attained instant classic status with its imaginative blend of Art Rock, Latino, Psychedelic, Pop and Ambient influences.

Featuring an all-star cast including Brian Eno, Robert Wyatt, John Wetton, Eddie Jobson, Andy MacKay, and all of Manzanera's Quiet Sun companions, Diamond Head is a powerful and accessible album bursting with invention

This new digi-pack edition features a booklet including period clippings, and has the surprisingly revealing 10 minute plus extra track, Corazon Y Alma.

All copies are signed by Phil Manzanera.

"One of the best albums of 1975." (Uncut)

Hooky 80s influenced pop-rock with Progressive influences and contemporary production values, Peak Of Eternal Light is Fabio Trentini's inspired collection of timeless pop/rock-songs.

Features Pat Mastelotto (King Crimson, XTC), Dave Gregory (XTC, Peter Gabriel), and many more.

Co-produced by Trentini, Markus Reuter & Pat Mastelotto.

Japan's debut is a world away from the sophisticated pleasures of Quiet Life and Tin Drum, but has an energetic and inventive character of its own.

The raw beginnings of an innovative band.

This vinyl re-release comes with a bonus 7-inch and the first 1000 numbered, copies of this set are pressed on red vinyl.

* 180 grams audiophile vinyl
* Incl. bonus 7"
* Ltd Edition on red vinyl (1000 numbered copies)

Japan's second album still possessed an energetic rawness very different from their later work, but also hinted at the band's more discreet adventures to come.

Contains the glorious, atmospheric instrumental, The Tenant.

This double LP re-release also has 8 bonus tracks (including live tracks and versions of Life In Tokyo, I Second That Emotion and European Son).

The first 1000, numbered copies are pressed on red vinyl.

* 180 grams audiophile vinyl.
* 2LP edition with 8 bonus tracks.
* Limited edition of 1000 numbered copies on red vinyl.

Descending, Tim Motzer and Markus Reuter's duo project of dark ambient improvisations, features flautist Theo Travis, the legendary pedal steel work of BJ Cole, drummer Pat Mastelotto and glitch electronics, and cymbal work by Doug Hirlinger.

'A sublime ambience.' - Chris Twomey (Tandom)

Arguably Japan's first great album, Quiet Life was a subtle artistic triumph that effectively reinvented the band.

Originally released in 1980, the album marked a dramatic change of style, moving away from the band's earlier Glamrock approach and stepping boldly into an adventurous and sophisticated Art Pop/Art Rock territory that defined its members' music for years to come.

* 180 grams audiophile vinyl
* Gatefold Sleeve
* 3LP set including 2LP's with rare bonus tracks
* Includes Replica of Japanese insert with liner notes
* Limited Edition of 1000 copies on red vinyl

Breathing, the fifth album from Paatos, was recorded between 2008 and 2010 during a time of personal upheaval for the band members.

A potent and creative statement, Breathing shows a new found maturity and sense of purpose for these fearlessly hard-hitting Post-Progressive pioneers.

A retrospective double disc set including over 2 hours of music drawn from Gunn's extensive solo and collaborative projects.

Best known for his work with King Crimson, Sylvian/Fripp and as a pioneer of the touch guitar, Gunn has personally selected the material on I'll Tell What I Saw.

Contains music from the Trey Gunn Band, TU and Saro Cosentino.

The latest studio release from acclaimed Norwegian Post-Progressive band Gazpacho, and their first for the Kscope label.

Intelligent and compelling Rock dynamics meet Ambient, Classical and World Music influences on the band's darkest album to date.

Packaged in a deluxe rigid digi-book.

"A delightfully mellifluous selection. They won't be Norway's best kept secret much longer." - Jerry Ewing, Classic Rock Prog

Alongside international drumming icon, and rhythmic illusionist Marco Minnemann, former King Crimson member and Tap Guitar innovator Trey Gunn explores new compositional and rhythmic possibilities with his latest album Modulator.

An astonishingly complex and accomplished technological feat that encompasses the brutal and the ethereal, Gunn regards this as one of the most challenging projects of his long and distinguished career.

Recorded live in Japan and the US during 1998, Blue Nights is the acclaimed double cd release from Bruford and Levin's Jazz-tinged Art Rock supergroup project, B.L.U.E..

An ideal companion piece to King Crimson's innovative, contemporaneous ProjeKct series of releases.

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Bill Bruford - drums, percussion
Tony Levin - basses, stick
David Torn - guitars, loops, oud
Chris Botti - trumpet

The music on this latest release by US instrumental outfit Djam Karet was recorded live in the studio without any overdubs or computer manipulation.

Featuring wailing guitar solos, beautiful analog synth melodies, and a hard-hitting rhythmic attack, The Heavy Soul Sessions showcases the band at its fiery best.

In order to create a livelier and more dynamic sound, no compression or limiting was used during the making of this CD.

A superb introduction to the work of instrumental Californian Post Progressive legends, Djam Karet.

Unique and hypnotic, A Beginner's Guide provides a compelling argument for Djam Karet's reputation as one of America's greatest undiscovered bands.

'Pink Floydian dreamscapes intersect with the jagged complexity of King Crimson.' - Rolling Stone

Available in Japanese miniature vinyl replica format.

Released in 2001, Ascension is a collection of instrumentals that further explores the musical approaches that emerged during Djam Karet's recording sessions for its album, New Dark Age.

An inspired mixture of Progressive, Folk and World Music concepts, Ascension is another valuable entry into this intriguing band's catalogue.

'Never less than exhilarating in its virtuoso interplay.' - Billboard

Available in Japanese vinyl miniature format.

A Monument To The Death Of An Idea, Enochian Theory's 34 minute EP/mini-album, was originally issued as a limited edition release in 2006.

The band has subsequently signed with Mascot Records and released its debut album Evolution: Creatio Ex Nihilio to glowing reviews.

Offering a modern and melodic fusion of atmospheric Progressive and Metal influences, Enochian Theory's sound evokes the likes of Riverside, Tool, Katatonia and Porcupine Tree.

The Burning Shed copies are amongst the last of the original pressings left.

Enochian Theory are offering Burning Shed customers a free download track taken from their new album Evolution: Creatio Ex Nihilio.

John Paul Jones's second solo album for DGM, following the all-instrumental Zooma, was an even more eclectic affair and was the first to feature JPJ's lyric and vocal contributions.

Moving from the abrasive to the ethereal, the album also included performances by Robert Fripp and Chapman Stick virtuoso, Nick Beggs.

Last remaining copies.

In 1999, former Led Zeppelin bassist and keyboardist John Paul Jones, produced the all-instrumental Zooma for the DGM label.

By turns bone-crunchingly hard and achingly delicate, Zooma represented a powerful and frequently surprising statement from one of Rock's true originals and featured contributions from King Crimson's Trey Gunn and Pete Thomas from The Attractions.

Last remaining copies.

Kscope's remastered re-release of Nosound's 2005 debut album

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Expanded to a 2 disc set (CD/DVD), this edition features new and revised artwork.

The audio CD features digitally restored and analogue re-mastered audio of the original album, plus three extra tracks, while the DVD includes a new video for the track Sol29, plus the original 2005 album mixes, and three ambient audio/video tracks previously included on The World Is Outside DVD-R.

This is the definitive Sol29 edition and collects all of Nosound's early studio material.

Inspired by three of his major formative influences (Cocteau Twins, Japan and 1980s King Crimson), Gavin Harrison collaborator and multi-instrumentalist 05Ric has created the BubbleBurstFlow EP specifically for the Mick Karn Appeal.

The EP additionally features Suzanne Barbieri and Lisa Fletcher on vocals, Gavin Harrison on drums and Markus Reuter on TouchGuitars U8.

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N.B. All 05Ric's and Burning Shed's profits will go directly to the Mick Karn Appeal.

KTU was originally a double duo formation featuring Kimmo Pohjonen (electronic accordion) and Samuli Kosminen (also from Icelandic band Mum) (accordion samples and noises), with King Crimson members, Trey Gunn (Warr-guitar) and Pat Mastelotto (rhythmic devices, beats, electronics, noises).

8 Armed Monkey, the band's debut album, was recorded live in Tokyo in 2004.

Ranging from atmospheric soundscapes to gut-wrenching, brain-thrashing noise this astonishing fusion of mercurial talents contains an inspired mix of original compositions and improvisations.

"Pohjonen is a wonder unto himself: attacking the bellows with the ecstatic fury of Jimi Hendrix." (David Fricke, Rolling Stone)

'awesome...awesome...awesome...awesome...' (The Wire)

"blending the best elements of experimental and progressive rock into a tangible, listenable entity. It's like nothing you've heard before." (Andrew Magilow, Splendid)

Preorder now for 25th June 2010 release

By 2007, KTU had evolved into the unique power trio of Trey Gunn, Kimmo Pohjonen and Pat Mastelotto.

A heavier and more focused release than its predecessor, KTU's second album, Quiver, was recorded at Zone studios in Texas and mixed at Seawolf in Helsinki (bar three pieces mixed at Nomansland by Steven Wilson).

'KTU sounds like a Siberian mushroom shaman with accordion meets King Crimson and Cream in the world's most psychedelic power trio!'� (Jussi Niemi, Aamulehti)

Ex Anthema keyboard player, Duncan Patterson beautifully reinvented himself with his Ion project.

Immaculada, from 2010, is a collection of slow motion ballads evoking Irish landscapes and Mediterranean sunbathed seashores with its haunting Celtic atmosphere and tribal rhythmic patterns.

Dating from 2006, ex Anathema keyboard player Duncan Patterson's first album as Ion represented a highly personal statement.

Minimalist in its overall approach, Madre, Protegenos's true strength stems from its multi-layered soundscapes and its haunted introspective ambiance.

Norwegian band Airbag create a uniquely Scandinavian fusion of contemporary Progressive Rock edge, Art Pop emotionalism and Post Rock atmospherics.

Taking inspiration from the likes of Porcupine Tree, Radiohead, Pink Floyd, Talk Talk, Coldplay and No-Man, the band's debut release, Identity, combines cinematic soundscapes, epic guitar grandeur and sweetly soulful melodies to produce an astonishingly assured first statement.

“Prog at its most chilled, honeyed and soothing.” - Classic Rock

Estonian duo UMA's second album, Hymn To Undiscovered Land, is a mesmerising and inventive merging of atmospheric European Jazz and electronic influences, that highlights the evolving abilities of guitarist Robert Jürjendal and trumpet player Aleksei Saks.

Recorded and mixed by celebrated percussion player Andi Pupato (from ECM band, Nik Bärtsch's Ronin), who performs throughout, the album also features an evocative vocal contribution from No-Man's Tim Bowness.

The debut instrumental release from Adrian Belew Power Trio bassist Julie Slick is an adventurous combination of progressive rock, jazz-fusion, funk, electronica, post-rock, and world music influences.

Featuring an inspired ensemble, including King Crimson members Robert Fripp and Pat Mastelotto, the album is an impressive statement from a talent Guitar Player's Anil Prasad described as being, "One of the best bassists in the world."

Shifting from acoustic intimacy to metallic rage and from raga to dark electronics, Alessandro Monti's debut release as Unfolk combines unorthodox music for mandolin, with ethnic percussion, violin and a variety of guitars/electronic processes.

Presented in a gatefold cover (with insert: The Lost Opus of Heracleum Ipotesis), these are the last copies of the limited edition first pressing of the album.

'Beautifully produced music that brings a refreshing new angle to the folk/world/electro discourse.' - Daniel Biro

ProjeKct Two, featuring Robert Fripp, Trey Gunn and Adrian Belew (in an unaccustomed role as drummer), was the second of King Crimson's ProjeKcts to be planned, but the first to play and record.

Space Groove, recorded over three days (19-21 November 1997), comprises an hour and half's worth of typically idiosyncratic and adventurous improvisations captured in the studio during the band's first sessions together.

An unusual 'concept album', The Venetian Book Of The Dead is a remarkable collaboration between Italian producer Alessandro Monti and British songwriter Kevin Hewick.

Mixing Electronica and lyrical acoustic arrangements with beguiling and unusual song-structures, the album features 10 modern 'protest songs' and 6 haunting instrumentals.

Mastered by Jon Astley (Led Zeppelin, The Who etc), the CD comes in a beautiful limited edition gatefold cover with a 32 page booklet.

Fjieri member Stefano Pununzi's second solo album is a sublime mixture of exotic ballads, rich textures and Art Rock adventurism.

Features Mick Karn, Tim Bowness, Thomas Leer, Giancarlo Erra, Robbie Aceto, Sandra O'Neil, Theo Travis and Markus Reuter.

2CD jewel case edition of Robert Fripp's seminal solo debut.

Comes with 24 page booklet.

“The Sergeant Pepper of avant-punk.” – The Wire

10 years in the making, Fjieri's debut album Endless represents the satisfying conclusion to a meticulously executed labour of love.

The band, led by Stefano Panunzi and Nicola Lori, are joined by an impressive cast of guest musicians, including Mick Karn, Tim Bowness, Peter Chilvers and Porcupine Tree members, Gavin Harrison and Richard Barbieri.

Co-produced by Barbieri, the album artfully combines Ambient and Progressive Rock influences to create a sophisticated sound that incorporates delicate atmospherics, rich melodies and hard-hitting riffs.

Materia Prima is the debut recording by ‘blld’, a collaboration between multi-instrumentalist Ric Byer/ 05ric on drums, extended range bass and vocals, and Touch Guitarist / producer Markus Reuter. Porcupine Tree drummer Gavin Harrison also contributes to one track.

A dynamic fusion of ethereal atmospherics and frantic drumscapes.

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The Resonance Association returns with the wildly eclectic, dark progressive statement of intent, Clarity In Darkness.

"... a genre hopping exploration of sounds ..."
- Terrorizer

An intense modern progressive rock album mixing classic sounds (mellotrons, analogue synths and multi-tracked guitars abound) with a contemporary production sensibility,

Rich in contrasts and dynamics, Dulcima changes on a dime from serene and meditative to loud and menacing.

"The year's autumn soundtrack" (Natt&Dag)

Conceived, written and recorded in a week whilst hidden away in the english countryside, Daniel Vincent - better known as one half of electronic rock band The Resonance Association - delivers industrial pop, heavily processed guitar wigouts and processed electronic beats in a 60 minute musical trip.

The Resonance Association return with the follow-up to their critically acclaimed debut "Failure Of The Grand Design" (BSHED0703).

This dynamic selection of songs sees the band build on their strengths with a mixture of electronic beats, soaring guitar solos and motorik riffing.

'We Still Have The Stars, is a genre hopping exploration of sounds.....a colourful musical journey.' - Terrorizer

Buy the vinyl LP 'We Still Have the Stars' and 'Failure of the Grand Design' CD together and save money.

'Failure Of The Grand Design' is The Resonance Association's debut album for Burning Shed.

Clocking in at just under 55 minutes, the album consists of nine dark and ambitious instrumentals (described by the band as being an 'ambient-techno-goth-prog crossover') , and includes a new version of live favourite 'Electrolyte'.

Echoes of Porcupine Tree, Coil, Kraftwerk, Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Sunn O))) and Neu! grace the album's powerful mixture of electronic atmospherics, soaring guitar solos and fractured motorik rhythms.