"The live recording of a one-off event bringing a constellation of extreme innovators together. Brian Eno ex Roxy Music, John Cale & Nico ex Velvet Underground, and Kevin Ayers of Soft Machine fame !!"
"Full title: "A Bell is a Cup Until it is Struck". Long-running, UK, spartan, minimalists with a stark but elegant instinct for hypnotic and catchy song structures. One of their most satisfying."
"The 3 piece Cocteaus fashioned arty and atmospheric impressions of songs featuring Robin Guthrie's spacey guitars and Elizabeth Fraser's infamous glossolalic vocal whispings. 4AD stars."
"Gong guru guitarist in great form as a boundary leaper, vaulting effortlessly into hitherto unknown ground and making it all so charming at the same time. Totally unique, uncompromising vision."
"Utterly Euro in sound, conception and effect. Connectivity! launches itself ecstatically into a future full of light and bright promise. Millenium, futurist, Cocteau Twins in so many ways."
"Byrne went totally minimalist on this one. Rigorously stripped but unusually arranged and conceived fusing dark obsessions and nerdy pre-occupations. Total New York arty."
"Commonly perceived as prog dinosaurs, King Crimson's 'fractalizing' ProjeKCts here are extremely daring questionings of music on so many levels. Risky and rewarding chance-taking. VERY contemporary."
"Anderson is of that New York, performance art, logo-philic, semiotics bending generation who found herself moving into music. Here the combo is perfect: good, well-played music & cutting edge art."
"Former Bauhaus goths, Love and Rockets, reinvented, rocked it out intensely while bending and warping song forms in classy UK art-rock style. Yeah !!!"
"Debut solo album from Dead Can Dance's otherwordly, female vocalist. Here her music takes on an very deeply Feminine nature, evoking Maiden, Mother and Crone. Stunning and chilling."
"Uber-dub bassist, Bill Laswell, takes Sacred System's star players to the outer edges of jazz, dub, fusion, improvisation, indian classical and exotic electronica. Experimental esperanto."
"Phil Manzanera and Brian Eno, both ex Roxy Music, pulled together a kick-butt band culled from Quiet Sun largely and put on an amazingly powerful show. TOO SHORT !!!"
"A seminal piece of wall-of-sound, overdriven power chords and layers and layers of microtonally varied distortion all over top of a solid understructure. Still hot and fresh."
"Pre-fame, Simple Minds were a cogent experimental outfit and this was the cream of those days. BIG, BIG sound, artful lyrics and tight, cutting edge arrangements. Lost Gold !!!"
"Ex Velvets, Reed and Cale, themselves members of the "Factory" days, produced this tribute to the life of pop-art doyen, Andy Warhol, a combination of Dracula and Cinderella."
"The last and most intriguing album Japan did. You can really see not only Sylvian's solo work coming but also Karn's, Jansen's and Barbieri's. Elegant sino-art-pop. A classic."
"Hardly a 60's curio, Hendrix's music seems timeless and there's no questioning the gigantic power and influence of his first album. He blew rock into a million, kaleidscopic pieces ..."
"Under the aegis of Bill Laswell, a collection of indo-electro dub by greats such as Jah Wobble, Makyo, Sacred System and Material. Haunting and trance-inducing."
""El Magnifico's" first solo album while still in Roxy. Shining evidence of Manzanera's deft balancing of front edge experimentation and strongly melodic rock. "Miss Shapiro" is a classic."
"Zazou, more of a facilitator and arranger culls artists from many fields together to collaborate on an extremely artful interpretation of Rimbaud's poetry. Unashamed Beauty."
"Former Japan bassist and multi-instrumentalist has creds coming out the wazoo. Totally untrained, he creates fascinatingly unique compositions unlike anyone else around."
"Siberry is one of the rare echelon of right out there, cutting edge women who resist the "babe-ization" of the industry and produce really impressive experimental, but accessible work."
"Perry's contribution, after the fact, to the total "Dead Can Dance" phenomenon becomes clear on this very elegant and mood rich release. He has a rich, woody, full-bodied voice, unlike anyone else."
