The Physics House Band is one of the best bands still on eMusic, particularly if you are into progressive/psychedelic/experimental rock and excellent musicianship (see the All Music Guide link below). Try any of their albums but the best one to start with is Death Sequence". 4 tracks of excellent music lasting over 16 minutes for 99 cents.
"Criminal Return" by Holy Sons is another excellent rock album still on eMusic. Holy Sons is Emil Amos who plays in one of my favourite progressive rock bands - Grails (a great eMusic discovery from a few years back).
If you want to try Grails as well, there are still two tracks of theirs to be found on the Important Records sampler "The Tape Is Supposed To Be About Love". However, probably best to go elsewhere and try their albums "Take /Refuge In Clean Living" and "Doomsdayer's Holiday".
Sun City Girls - great band if a bit of an acquired taste. However, if you really like them then you are in luck - 27 of their albums on eMusic including some of their best. Start with "Torch of the Mystics" - rated tops by All Music Guide.
It's been a great day for finding treasures on eMusic! Two bands that are again an acquired taste but that I like a lot and are well represented on eMusic.
The Field Mice and their successor band, Trembling Blue Stars.
@peterfrederics The Sun City Girls are hilarious. I tried to lure a fan of theirs and other "outsider" music onto eMusic with their catalog, but he said he already owned all 20+ albums. I was very impressed.
@peterfrederics The Sun City Girls are hilarious. I tried to lure a fan of theirs and other "outsider" music onto eMusic with their catalog, but he said he already owned all 20+ albums. I was very impressed.
A friend of mine was at an Atlanta gig where they poured some / all (I can't remember now) of Charles Gocher's ashes over the crowd's heads. There's a night to remember.
East and West Rendezvous - two excellent Prog Rock albums S/T and "Fade a Little Deeper/Windbreaker". The latter a great fit for @omnifoo's 99 cent club (£5.00 on Bandcamp).
The group say they are "influenced by electric Miles Davis, Parliament/Funkadelic, Santana, Pink Floyd, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock and all fusion from the late 60s and 70s". The Bandcamp entry describes the S/T album as follows "East and West Rendezvous is a supergroup comprised of various East Records friends of old and new. It was a recorded in a one day session and can best be described as a jazz/funk/soul freak out. The 3 tracks range from deep jazz clav funk to meditative psych, ending in a latin funk workout." 3 tracks lasting over 40 minutes for $2.49 and absolutely top notch.
A really excellent mix of obscure Funk music, "Contemporary Funk" 2009 sampler record from Tramp Records. 11 tracks lasting over 40 minutes for 99 cents on eMusic.
Wonder of wonders, there is actual legit new jazz release at eMusic. New hard boppish from a young Detroit crew on the Shifting Paradigm label. There is a review and free track at All About Jazz.
This will take up $4 of my last-ever $7 at eMu...Open to suggestions as to how best to deploy the last $3
Can't we PLEASE all pitch in and buy a copy so that it hits number 1 on the eMusic charts? Now THAT would be a screenshot that could go viral rapidly... an eMusic chart with this album at #1. It should take only about 10 copies sold to make it to #1 on eMusic these days... ;-)
Not really my cup of tea but if you're in to Melodic Death Metal then "Slaughter of the Soul" by At the Gates is regarded as one of the top albums of the genre. All Music Guide gives it its top rating of 5 stars whilst the Discogs rating is 4.58 out of 5 from 1,068 raters.
Top bands include Nine Stones Close, The Fierce and the Dead, Gift, We Are Kin and Heliopolis. Unfortunately there have been no new additions for the last couple of years.
There is a bigger selection over at bandcamp at prices which are comparable to eMusic. First try the two sampler albums, one of which (a Prog Magazine sampler) is free and the other, a double album, at "Name Your Price".
Two of very best late 60s/70s Hard Rock/Heavy Psych sampler albums anywhere (forget about just eMusic), are "Brown Acid - The Third Trip" and "Brown Acid - The Fourth Trip".
If these two albums don't take you back to those, heady, swirly days then nothing will! Absolutely top notch.
Thanks for the heads up...had me heading for the vinyl. I have 8 albums including 3 copies of Organisation and I have to agree, A&M and Dazzle Ships are my favourites. I'll look forward to the O's.
Not sure when they arrived (recently is my guess), but cult folky/electronic label Clay Pipe Music have a few releases available. None of the Jon Brooks ones unfortunately.
If you're inventive in your search processes then you can still find some interesting tracks on eMusic. Although granted that it's much, much harder than it used to be in the heady days back in the 2000s and early 2010s.
Recent examples for me include the following eclectic mix all highly rated by not only me but also All Music Guide, Rate Your Music and Discogs:
- "Imagine a street corner anywhere in the world, where those who live on
the fringes of society gather to talk, to each other and to themselves,
about life-changing events, missed opportunities, memory, loss and
regret.Five "street people" recount the memories and experiences of one
of their group, a man who has lost his legs in some unnamed war. As part
of the experience of losing his legs, he began a conversation with God,
under the influence of the morphine he was given to ease his pain.Now
he wishes that the conversation, which was interrupted when the morphine
wore off, could be continued so that he could get the "secret word"
that would stop all wars and suffering."
- Released in 1995 and rereleased by a label called Fábrica de Sons in 2017:
Telectu, Chris Cutler & Jac Berrocal - Telectu Cutler Berrocal
Telectu
- is a Portuguese experimental, avant-garde music duo formed in 1982 by Vítor Rua (former member of GNR) and Jorge Lima Barreto, a jazz musician and musical essayist. Their music incorporates a variety of elements from free jazz, rock, electronica, minimalism and concrete music.
They are arguably the most important project of its genre in Portugal.
Their career spanning 30 years, includes a voluminous discography, many
national and international performances and collaborations, both live
and recorded, with important experimental and improvisation musicians such as Elliott Sharp, Carlos Zíngaro, Jac Berrocal, Sunny Murray, Chris Cutler amongst others.
They have also composed music for theater, video art and multimedia
performance. The project ceased activity with the death of Jorge Lima
Barreto in 2011
Jac Berrocal
- “Trumpeter” is hardly an adequate epithet for Jac Berrocal, a
1946-born musician, poet and sometime film actor who came of age in the
‘70s Paris improv scene, where the boundaries between music, art and
theatre were porous and begging to be breached. Inspired by bebop,
chanson, free jazz, beat poetry, early rock ‘n roll and myriad Eastern
influences, and with an iconoclastic, anything-goes approach to
instrumentation and technique that would later align him with post-punk
sensibilities, Berrocal blazed an eccentric and unstoppable trail across
the underground throughout the ‘70s and ‘80s, both solo and as part of
the Catalogue group he co-founded.
During this time
his uproarious performances routinely wound up jazz and rock audiences
alike, but earned the admiration of no small number of wised-up weirdos:
Steven Stapleton invited him to perform on two Nurse With Wound albums,
and other notable collaborators in his career include Sunny Murray,
Lizzy Mercier-Descloux, Lol Coxhill, Yvette Horner and James Chance. In
the 90s his protean achievements were celebrated on the Fatal Encounters
compilation, but far from slowing down in the autumn of his life,
Berrocal has maintained an extraordinary work-rate, keeping studio dates
with Pascal Comelade, Telectu and Jaki Liebezeit, among others. In 2014
he released his first solo album proper in 20 years, MDLV.
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https://www.emusic.com/artist/rs_1235014/The-Physics-House-Band
https://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-physics-house-band-mn0003086349/biography
If you want to try Grails as well, there are still two tracks of theirs to be found on the Important Records sampler "The Tape Is Supposed To Be About Love". However, probably best to go elsewhere and try their albums "Take /Refuge In Clean Living" and "Doomsdayer's Holiday".
https://www.allmusic.com/artist/holy-sons-mn0000825280/biography
https://www.emusic.com/album/55936350/Holy-Sons/Criminals-Return
https://www.emusic.com/album/61133102/Various-Artists/The-Tape-Is-Supposed-To-Be-About-Love
https://www.allmusic.com/album/torch-of-the-mystics-mw0000648058
https://www.emusic.com/artist/rs_329950/Sun-City-Girls
https://www.allmusic.com/album/have-a-little-faith-mw0000164900
https://www.emusic.com/artist/rs_30139/Mavis-Staples
The Field Mice and their successor band, Trembling Blue Stars.
https://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-field-mice-mn0000066869
https://www.emusic.com/artist/rs_163824/The-Field-Mice
https://www.allmusic.com/artist/trembling-blue-stars-mn0000019494
https://www.emusic.com/artist/rs_87195/Trembling-Blue-Stars
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The group say they are "influenced by electric Miles Davis, Parliament/Funkadelic, Santana, Pink Floyd, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock and all fusion from the late 60s and 70s". The Bandcamp entry describes the S/T album as follows "East and West Rendezvous is a supergroup comprised of various East Records friends of old and new. It was a recorded in a one day session and can best be described as a jazz/funk/soul freak out. The 3 tracks range from deep jazz clav funk to meditative psych, ending in a latin funk workout." 3 tracks lasting over 40 minutes for $2.49 and absolutely top notch.
https://www.emusic.com/album/191230765/East-and-West-Rendezvous/East-and-West-Rendezvous
https://www.emusic.com/album/191230776/East-and-West-Rendezvous/Fade-A-Little-Deeper--Windbreaker
https://www.emusic.com/album/359966/Various-Artists/Contemporary-Funk
Wonder of wonders, there is actual legit new jazz release at eMusic. New hard boppish from a young Detroit crew on the Shifting Paradigm label. There is a review and free track at All About Jazz.
This will take up $4 of my last-ever $7 at eMu...Open to suggestions as to how best to deploy the last $3
https://www.allmusic.com/album/slaughter-of-the-soul-mw0000646486
https://www.emusic.com/album/3705005/At-The-Gates/Slaughter-of-the-Soul
That would be good, but i suspect like many here, I'm no longer there!!
This has always been a favourite of mine as a source of great modern prog rock
https://www.emusic.com/label/214613/Bad-Elephant-Music?sortField=POPULARITY&descending&pageNumber=1
Top bands include Nine Stones Close, The Fierce and the Dead, Gift, We Are Kin and Heliopolis. Unfortunately there have been no new additions for the last couple of years.
There is a bigger selection over at bandcamp at prices which are comparable to eMusic.
First try the two sampler albums, one of which (a Prog Magazine sampler) is free and the other, a double album, at "Name Your Price".
https://music.badelephant.co.uk
https://music.badelephant.co.uk/album/bad-elephant-music-prog-magazine-sampler
https://music.badelephant.co.uk/album/2016-sampler-2
If these two albums don't take you back to those, heady, swirly days then nothing will! Absolutely top notch.
https://www.emusic.com/album/3783815/Various-Artists/Brown-Acid-The-Third-Trip
https://www.emusic.com/album/65386606/Various-Artists/Brown-Acid-The-Fourth-Trip
P.S. Also worth looking for the other albums in the series at "Riding Easy Records" on Bandcamp.
https://ridingeasyrecords.bandcamp.com
Probably OMD's best two albums in an outstanding live performance
https://www.emusic.com/album/218519191/Orchestral-Manoeuvres-In-The-Dark/Architecture--Morality---Dazzle-Ships---Live-At-The-Royal-Albert-Hall-Live
If you're inventive in your search processes then you can still find some interesting tracks on eMusic. Although granted that it's much, much harder than it used to be in the heady days back in the 2000s and early 2010s.
Recent examples for me include the following eclectic mix all highly rated by not only me but also All Music Guide, Rate Your Music and Discogs:
Heavenly "Les Jardins de Heavenly"
https://www.emusic.com/album/1824610/Heavenly/Le-Jardin-De-Heavenly
Capercaillie "Delirium"
https://www.emusic.com/album/2829319/Capercaillie/Delirium
Nurse With Wound "Soliloquy for Lilith"
https://www.emusic.com/album/545989/Nurse-With-Wound/Soliloquy-for-Lilith
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark "Architecture & Morality/Dazzle Ships"
https://www.emusic.com/album/218519191/Orchestral-Manoeuvres-In-The-Dark/Architecture--Morality---Dazzle-Ships---Live-At-The-Royal-Albert-Hall
Tapiman S/T
https://www.emusic.com/album/4218424/Tapi/Tapiman
Various Artists "Music of Morocco: From the Library of Congress - Recorded By Paul Bowles"
https://www.emusic.com/album/61591544/Paul-Bowles/Music-of-Morocco-Recorded-by-Paul-Bowles-1959
Wood of Ypres "Woods 4: The Green Album"
https://www.emusic.com/album/4141387/Woods-Of-Ypres/Woods-4-The-Green-Album
Enrico Pieranunzi "Perugia Suite"
https://www.emusic.com/album/156896680/Enrico-Pieranunzi/Perugia-Suite
Gabrielle Papillon "Keep the Fire"
https://www.emusic.com/album/109253728/Gabrielle-Papillon/Keep-the-Fire
Wolverine "Cold Light Of Monday"
https://www.emusic.com/album/5591997/Wolverine/Cold-Light-Of-Monday
Sound Direction by Robert Ashley
Visual Direction by Yukihiro Yoshihara
Singers: Sam Ashley, Thomas Buckner. Jacqueline Humbert, Joan La Barbara, Robert Ashley
Live mixing and sound processing: Tom Hamilton
Synthesizer: "Blue" Gene Tyranny
Electronic orchestration by Robert Ashley, Tom Hamilton and "Blue" Gene Tyranny
Sound Effects for Friends composed by Tom Hamilton
Technical Coordination/Sound System Engineer: Cas Boumans
Telectu, Chris Cutler & Jac Berrocal - Telectu Cutler Berrocal
Jac Berrocal
"Mort aux Vaches" by Tarentel including two tracks ("Steele Bonnet" & "For Carl Sagan") from their excellent first album "From Bone to Satellite".
https://www.emusic.com/album/61133141/Tarentel/Mort-Aux-Vaches