King Crimson

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.

Sugar Rush is the second album by The Humans (the trio of Toyah Willcox, Bill Rieflin and Chris Wong).

Containing 12 tracks that combine haunting soundscapes, edgy experiments and sweet melodies, Sugar Rush develops further the dynamic eclecticism of the band's debut with its accessible yet uncompromising approach.

The album features the magical touch of guest 'Human' Robert Fripp on all tracks.

The cd includes a code enabling access to free downloads of live tracks recorded at the Scala in February 2010.

Judy Dyble, the legendary and reclusive former Fairport Convention and Trader Horne singer, re-emerged in 2009 with the most powerful and personal album of her 41 year career.

Co-produced and co-written by No-Man's Tim Bowness and Cromer Museum's Alistair Murphy, Talking With Strangers features stunning guest performances from, amongst others, Jacqui McShee (Pentangle), Julianne Regan (All About Eve), Simon Nicol (Fairport Convention), and King Crimson's Robert Fripp, Ian McDonald and Pat Mastelotto.

Features the acclaimed 21 minute Prog Folk epic, Harpsong.

A year in the making, Levin Torn White comprises an exceptional collection of complex instrumentals that encompass wild experiments and atmospheric interludes.

A truly unexpected and unique alliance of three legendary musicians (King Crimson's Tony Levin, guitar maverick David Torn and Alan White from Yes).

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.

An expanded double disc edition of Pete Sinfield's eccentric and beguiling 1973 solo album.

Featuring guest performances from the likes of Greg Lake, John Wetton, Ian Wallace, Keith Tippett and Mel Collins, though more whimsical in nature, Still shares stylistic similarities with King Crimson's Islands and Lizard.

Contains detailed sleeve notes.

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.

Quodia, featuring Trey Gunn (King Crimson) and Joe Mendelson (Rise Robots Rise) is, 'A synthesis of music, theatre, video art, and animation; a psychedelic contemporary parable.' (BBC Moscow).

Using video projection and live instruments (including 10 string touch guitar, keyboards, and electronic percussion) Quodia creates an experience that is part movie, part theatre, and part concert.

The music for The Arrow (2007) is divided into seven chapters, containing the entire piece in audio form.

'Channeling both Brian Eno and Jack Kerouac, Quodia unfolds an elegant spectacle, telling histories with surprise, mystery, fear, and salvation. A loaded weapon of the future.' - Toma Review

'Sounding like a mix of Tangerine Dream and King Crimson, with compelling and captivating moods and atmospheres.' - Windhawk

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

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.

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.

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)

One Of A Kind, from 1979, is one of the most celebrated Bruford-related offerings.

Featuring the classic quartet of Bruford, Dave Stewart, Jeff Berlin and Allan Holdsworth, the album demonstrated a consistency and purity of vision that fully reflected the band's ongoing creative growth and maturity.

"A monumental step in the drummer's career, perhaps the greatest one, here is a branch from the progressive rock history tree that should not be overlooked." - Michael Ezzo, Expose.

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 astonishing 1977 debut album from drumming legend Bill Bruford.

Featuring a stellar line up including guitarists Allan Holdsworth and John Goodsall, bassist Jeff Berlin, keyboardist Dave Stewart, ECM flügelhorn maestro, Kenny Wheeler, and singer-songwriter Annette Peacock.

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Features bonus track, Joe Frazier.

Eclectic's remastered and expanded edition of the Psychedelic/Pop album oddity by Michael Giles, Peter Giles and Robert Fripp features six bonus tracks and detailed liner notes.

Combining elements of Psychedelic Pop, (sometimes evoking Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd) and Lounge Jazz with a whimsical sense of surreal humour, the album stands as an inspired one of a kind.

Tracks such as the complex Suite No. 1 and the lyrical Under The Sky hint at the majestic King Crimson music to come.

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."

The Bruised Romantic Glee Club is the 5th and most personal solo album by composer Jakko M. Jakszyk.

Features Gavin Harrison, Robert Fripp, Mel Collins, Mark King (Level 42), Dave Stewart and Hugh Hopper amongst others.

“Deliciously Progtastic.” - Classic Rock (8/10)

“An intensely personal trip through his past…. Drool over Jakszyk’s multi-instrumental writing, daring sonic juxtapositions, daunting time signatures and mania for the Mellotron.” - Uncut Magazine (4/5)

Recorded at DGM Soundworld by David Singleton, with subsequent editing, mixing and mastering by Steven Wilson, Thread comprises nine improvised pieces by Theo Travis and Robert Fripp .

This unique and almost inevitable collaboration has yielded a beautiful sequence of recordings that artfully avoids the clichés routinely associated with “ambient” and “improv”, while wholly encompassing the core elements of both forms of music.

Unfashionably, perhaps, in an era where music is often portrayed as ephemeral or disposable, it is an album that rewards repeated listening, revealing new depths with each play.

Recorded at DGM Soundworld by David Singleton, with subsequent editing, mixing and mastering by Steven Wilson, Thread comprises nine improvised pieces by Theo Travis and Robert Fripp .

This unique and almost inevitable collaboration has yielded a beautiful sequence of recordings that artfully avoids the clichés routinely associated with “ambient” and “improv”, while wholly encompassing the core elements of both musical forms.

Unfashionably, perhaps, in an era where music is often portrayed as ephemeral or disposable, this is an album that rewards repeated listening, revealing new depths with each play.

A distinctive combination of haunting melodies and cinematic production, Schoolyard Ghosts sees No-Man expanding its sonic palette by collaborating with, amongst others, Theo Travis, Pat Mastelotto, Gavin Harrison, and the London Session Orchestra (arranged by Dave Stewart).

Available as a CD/DVDA

No-Man's acclaimed second album Flowermouth re-mastered and re-packaged with extra tracks.

This 2005 edition of the album now comes in a super jewel case, features extra sleeve notes and two additonal tracks that highlight Robert Fripp's distinctive Soundscapes contributions to the album sessions.

Includes free colour postcard exclusive to Burning Shed.

Following the release of the acclaimed Fear of a Blank Planet album came this mini album (29 minutes of music) containing four lengthy tracks written during the same sessions, completed over the Summer, and presented as a cohesive self contained PT work in their own right. The title track is an instrumental featuring Robert Fripp on lead guitar, and the whole EP moves through the full PT spectrum of atmospheric ambience, melodic hooks, and crushing riffs.

The Kscope edition of Nil Recurring contains the same material as the Transmission version, but comes packaged in a super jewel case, instead of the fold out digipack.

**We have a limited number of the Peaceville version in a super jewel case with a card slipcase. The content of the disc is the same but the catalogue number is CDVILEF235 - please choose carefully**

'Double Talk' is the eighth solo release by renowned British saxophonist, flautist, composer and improviser, Theo Travis.

Featuring a dynamic new band and special guest Robert Fripp, the music is a highly contemporary evocation of the experimental Progressive, Jazz and Psychedelic music Travis was influenced by in his formative years.

The album also features a unique Travis take on the Pink Floyd classic, See Emily Play.

KIng Crimson's legendary former drummer Michael Giles returned in 2009 with his first album of original material for nearly three decades. A powerfully percussive and innovative fusion of Free Rock and Jazz influences.

The second album from The Michael Giles MAD Band adds pianist supreme (and occasional King Crimson collaborator) Keith Tippett into the mix.

Sometimes challenging, sometimes lyrical, and sometimes playfully humorous, In The Moment is a collection of contemporary improvised music, which moves skilfully between Free Jazz and Free Rock territory.

"In a spirit of freedom, The MAD Band explores the universe of sound, silence, space and time." - Michael Giles

The 2 disc Kscope edition of Gavin Harrison and 05Ric's second release, Circles.

This version includes the original album, plus a 5.1 surround mix of the album.

'Drop' is the first fruit of Porcupine Tree drummer Gavin Harrison’s collaboration with singer and Extended Range Bass player 05Ric, and features contributions from Robert Fripp, Dave Stewart and Gary Sanctuary. Nine carefully crafted songs combined with ground-breaking multi-layered guitars, vocal harmonies and rhythms.