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Vibravoid - An Introduction to Vibravoid

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The last Fruits de Mer Records retrospective release for 2024 is the double CD An Introduction to Vibravoid. Over the last 35 years Vibravoid has released 22 studio albums, countless live...

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(Posted by Henry Schneider 2024-11-26)

Sidewalk Society - An Introduction to Sidewalk Society

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Sidewalk Society is a trio from Long Beach, CA which fuses the raw energy of LA’s latter-day garage and mod scenes with the sound of London’s swinging 60s. It is a band that has been a...

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(Posted by Henry Schneider 2024-11-26)

Don Schiff - Anthology

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There is no doubt that bassist Don Schiff has pioneered and mastered the Chapman Stick, NS/Stick, and bowed guitar. He helped popularize the NS/Stick and a technique of using a carabiner as a slide...

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(Posted by Henry Schneider 2024-11-17)

Coïncidence - Archives 1973-1974 & Mets Tes Lunettes et Écoute Comme Ça Sent Bon! Volume 1 / Volume 2

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By the end of the 60s the jazz-rock-fusion sound in the USA and Britain was in full swing, with dozens of bands and artists springing up like John McLaughlin and the late Larry Coryell, and artists...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2024-11-15)

Tír na nÓg - Transmissions

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Transmissions is a set of archival Tír na nÓg recordings made for radio broadcasts in the early 70s. The first six songs were recorded in the BBC studio and also appeared on...

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(Posted by Henry Schneider 2024-11-02)

Elephant9 with Terje Rypdal - Catching Fire

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In spite of this double-LP set being brand spankin’ new (also available on CD), it’s actually an archival release recorded in January 2017 not long after we reviewed Elephant9’s...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2024-10-28)

Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Company - Make Way for Mother Mallard: 50 Years of Music

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If one thinks back to the earliest synthesizer music from the 60s, it tended to fall into a few different categories: classical music adapted for the Moog synthesizer, for which Wendy Carlos’...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2024-10-16)

Delay Tactics - Out-Pop Options & Any Questions?

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Few recordings were as influential as the two mid-70s albums by Robert Fripp and Brian Eno, along with the extensive Frippertronics touring that followed through hundreds of small venues (including...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2024-09-28)

Exedra - Converged

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For last year’s 19th Dream of Dr. Sardonicus Festival, Darral Knight of exedra created a compilation CDr as part of the Fruits de Mer Records freebie bag given to all festival goers. This...

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(Posted by Henry Schneider 2024-09-21)

Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention - Whisky a Go Go 1968

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Only one thing can be said about live albums from the 60s: with few exceptions they are uniformly terrible sounding — think about Jefferson Airplane’s Bless Its Pointed Little...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2024-09-16)

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