Alco Frisbass (2015). Alco Frisbass from France advances a spectacular combination of elegant melodies and melting riffs revisiting the best Canterbury’s scenes with the support of: Jacob Holm Lupo (White Willow), Paolo "Ske" Botta (Not A Good Sign, Ske, Yugen), Thierry Payssan (Minimum Vital), Archimede De Martini (Stormy Six).
Le Bateleur (2018). Second episode for this French ensemble that has garnered great acclaim with the first work of 2015. Canterbury sound, convincing and effective melodies together with instrumental joints with typically French flavor remain essential ingredients to compose this eclectic mix. The vintage timbres of the keyboards are always the master, now the group shows greater maturity and awareness, a decisive step forward that places Alco Frisbass among the best episodes of the genre of recent years…

On Backwards, the legendary British avant-progressive icons and foundational pioneers of the Canterbury Scene, Soft Machine, present a towering, historically volcanic, and masterfully panoramic archival studio and live document. Released by the specialized avant-progressive vanguard imprint Cuneiform Records, this monumental milestone unearths crucial, legendary tracking sessions and broadcast captures spanning 1969 to 1970. Spanning nearly 73 minutes of historic spatial design, this document preserves the band at its absolute creative zenith, highlighting the monumental evolutionary leap from psychedelic whimsey to complex, horn-driven jazz-rock fusion geometry. The landscape operates with an intense, beautifully volatile, and heavily syncopated kinetic energy, firing off massive landmarks like the legendary, raw 1969 studio demo of Robert Wyatt’s masterpiece Moon in June, and blistering, sprawling live-in-the-studio iterations of Facelift and Esther's Nose Job. Driven by Wyatt's iconic vocal poetry and polyrhythmic drum patterns, Mike Ratledge's fiercely distorted Lowrey organ architectures, Hugh Hopper's legendary fuzz-bass foundations, and the stinging brass extensions of Elton Dean and Lyn Dobson, this pristine historical archive remains an indispensable masterpiece for serious Canterbury purists and progressive rock collectors worldwide.

On Middle Earth Masters, the legendary British avant-progressive icons and foundational pioneers of the Canterbury Scene, Soft Machine, unveil a towering, historically volcanic, and masterfully panoramic archival live document. Released in 2006 by the specialized avant-progressive vanguard imprint Cuneiform Records, this monumental milestone unearths rare, legendary performance tapes captured primarily at London’s iconic underground Middle Earth Club in 1967 and 1968. Spanning over 64 minutes of historic spatial design, this crucial power-trio document operates with an intense, beautifully volatile, and heavily syncopated kinetic energy. The trio shatters traditional pop and rock boundaries with absolute uninhibited improvisational velocity, showcasing the band's transition from raw, whimsical psychedelia to long-form, fuzz-drenched jazz-rock geometry. Firing off massive highlights like Kevin Ayers's hypnotic, sprawling classic Why Are We Sleeping?, the proto-minimalist loop intensity of We Did It Again, and the winding, intricate organ-led movements of I Should've Known, this pristine historical archive remains an indispensable masterpiece for serious Canterbury purists and progressive rock collectors worldwide.

Released in 1994 on the legendary underground label Shimmy Disc, A Remark Hugh Made is a brilliantly eccentric, deeply avant-garde collaboration that bridges the historic UK Canterbury Scene with New York's alternative art-rock underground. The album unites Soft Machine's legendary bass pioneer Hugh Hopper—showcasing his iconic, heavily overdriven fuzz-bass, electric, and piccolo bass textures—with alternative mastermind Mark Kramer on piano, organ, Mellotron, tape loops, and guitars. Together with a stellar avant-garde cast including drumming master Bill Bacon, guitarist Randolph A. Hudson III, and the wild sax work of Gary Windo, they construct a fascinating, experimental architecture of sound. A major highlight includes the opening track "Free Will & Testament," featuring unforgettable, hauntingly beautiful guest vocals and lyrics by Canterbury icon Robert Wyatt. Moving from psych-tinted jazz-rock grooves to surreal soundscapes and reimagined covers, this definitive recording stands as a highly unique, deeply compelling, and essential masterpiece of outsider contemporary music history.

"Subrepticement" (1979) is the only, rare, and cult-favorite album by the French band Bedjabetch. Released on the private independent label A.W.A. Records (catalog number BB 006), the record was extremely limited in quantity, making the original vinyl a highly collectible item today.

This is a lavish boxed set covering the Radio Gnome Invisible years of Gong, as well as the Shamal album - arguably the last album from their Virgin run where their original psychedelic whimsy was still in evidence, before the more buttoned-down fusion style of Pierre Moerlen's Gong started to predominate on Gazeuse.
Not only do you get lavish remasters of the relevant albums from the original master tapes produced by Mike Howlett, but the overall presentation is overseen by Steve Hillage, and if you're aware of Steve's fantastic Searching For the Spark boxed set of his solo albums you know that Steve is no slouch when it comes to this sort of thing. Even better, you also get a wealth of live material here, including at least one complete concert corresponding to each studio album release, giving you a deep look at the other side of Gong during this era.

It is his second studio album released through the label áMARXE Records, which in recent years has given us very important releases for the continuity and evolution of prog.
In recent times Canterbury flavoured prog has almost been reborn and flourished under the wave of young musicians playing homage to the likes of Egg, Hadfield and the North, Camel and Caravan, but bringing a fresh up to date element to the music, one such artists is Tom Penaguin who is now firmly established as a master craftsman in field of Canterbury styled instrumental music.

Homunculus Res, a fantastic Italian prog band with strong Canterbury Scene elements is back with a new album, after their phenomenal work from 2020 "Andiamo in Giro di Notte e ci Consumiamo nel Fuoco". "Ecco l'impero dei doppi sensi" is the name of the new album, and here, the band successfully brings a combination of Canterbury that perfectly implements elements of psychedelia, tinged with jazz and progressive, but also gives a dose of pop from the sixties. Ironic and oblique, evocative but also meticulous, the compositions represent a perfect union of the aforementioned styles. All these are elements of fundamental importance for the sonic alchemy of the band.

An obscure footnote of early-'70s British art rock, Khan featured guitarist Steve Hillage, keyboardist Dave Stewart, and ex-Crazy World of Arthur Brown bassist Nick Greenwood. Their sole album from 1972 was dominated by Hillage's lengthy, ambitious compositions and Stewart's organ, which owed much to the Canterbury Scene of British prog rock. The group didn't offer much to distinguish themselves from the many other British outfits exploring similar territory, and disbanded after one LP. Hillage went on to join Kevin Ayers and Gong before establishing a solo career; Stewart played with Hatfield & the North and National Health.

Smile A While is a spectacularly complex, historically monumental, and masterfully irreverent progressive jazz-rock masterpiece by the legendary Baden-Baden-based ensemble Brainstorm, originally released in 1972 on Spiegelei and beautifully reissued in 1996 with vital bonus material by the premier French historical archival imprint Musea Records. Spanning nearly 63 minutes across 11 definitive tracks, this high-fidelity document serves as an essential monument to the highly specialized Canterbury-inflected sector of German Krautrock. While many of their national peers focused on cosmic electronic drones or heavy blues jamming, Brainstorm carved out a fiercely intelligent, completely distinct sub-genre niche, combining the complex, shifting time signatures of Soft Machine and Caravan with sharp avant-garde humor, complex harmonic counterpoint, and relentless woodwind-driven jazz-fusion.

Sound Effect Records presents "Natt o Dag", Me and My Kites brand new studio album! Out on March 16th, on limited edition vinyl, CD and Digital download,"Natt o Dag" is possibly the Swedish collective's best so far. Darker, moodier and filled with some irresistible pop-hooks, "Nat o Dag" is destined to become a modern psychedelic classic. Natt o Dag is a flower common in the Swedish forests. Its purple and yellow flowers represent night and day and the idea of this two sided record took place in a huge patch of these flowers on a lonesome bike trip on remote paths some two Summers ago.

'Thirteen’ is the thirteenth studio album by classic British band Soft Machine. Comprising thirteen brand new tracks, the album marks a new chapter in the group’s 60 year history. Soft Machine is one of the greatest UK avant/jazz-rock bands of all time. Originally one of the Canterbury Scene bands, their work, from their earliest performances as a psychedelic band who were contemporaries of, and shared stages with Syd Barrett’s Pink Floyd and the Jimi Hendrix Experience, all the way to being one of Europe’s best known ‘fusion’ bands has influenced several generations of bands, and continues to be name-checked by today’s hip experimentalists.