Latest releases from Gonzo

Pink Floyd T Rex Santana and more - The Dutch Woodstock 1970 (2CD1DVD) - £11.99
Release date: 20th May 2013

In these degenerate days when popular music is basically just a device to sell TV talent shows, one forgets that only a few short decades ago, an entire generation believed that music was going to change the world, and that somehow one could facilitate this global metamorphosis by sitting in mudd..

Brainville - The Childrens Crusade (CD) - £7.99
Release date: 20th May 2013

Who are Brainville? You might well ask. • Daevid Allen Whichever way you look at it, Daevid Allen is one of the most interesting and enigmatic characters in music. An Australian, he was working in a Melbourne book shop when he discovered the writings of the ‘Beat Generation’, and..

Robert Calvert - Blueprints From the Cellar / At The Queen Elizabeth Hall (DCD) - £11.99
Release date: 20th May 2013

In the 1980s Bob Calvert - the late resident poet and on-and-off frontman for the space rock kings, Hawkwind - was developing a musical career of his own until he suddenly died of heart failure in August 1988. Development of new songs, experiments with commercial electronic music and the reworkin..

John Ellis - Sly Guitar (CD) - £9.99
Release date: 6th May 2013

CHANOYU RECORDS announce the new album by UK guitarist/composer JOHN ELLIS. Known and respected for his work with major UK acts including THE STRANGLERS, PETER GABRIEL, PETER HAMMILL, THE VIBRATORS and many more, Ellis has been writing and recording original instrumental music for many years. SLY..

Daevid Allen and Kramer - Hit Men / Who's Afraid? (2CD) - £9.99
Release date: 29th April 2013

Whichever way you look at it, Daevid Allen is one of the most interesting and enigmatic characters in modern music. An Australian, he was working in a Melbourne book shop when he discovered the writings of the ‘Beat Generation’, and his life was never the same again. He travel..

Barbara Dickson - Che Faro (DVD) - £12.99
Release date: 8th April 2013

A chance to hear Barbara Dickson singing classical music in a superb television special from 1986, where, mixed with some of her best known material, she tackles the classical repertoire with style and surprising results! Barbara, known widely for her interpretation of ancient folk music in addit..

Robert Calvert - Hype (CD) - £9.99
Release date: 8th April 2013

Robert Calvert was born in Pretoria, South Africa, in 1945. While an infant, his family relocated to London, where he grew up in the hippy counterculture world of 1960s Notting Hill, a world of alternative ideas and 'underground arts'. Calvert's activities as frontman of Hawkwind in the 1970..

Hopper Dean Tippett Gallivan - Mercy Dash (CD) - £9.99
Release date: 25th March 2013

Hugh Hopper, who died of Leukaemia in 2009, started his musical career in 1963 as the bass player with the Daevid Allen Trio alongside drummer Robert Wyatt. There can be few other free jazz bands of the era with such a stellar line-up. Unlike other legendary ensembles such as The Crucial Th..

Leonard Cohen - Bird On A Wire (DVD) - £9.99
Release date: 18th March 2013

On March 18th 1972, Leonard Cohen began a 20 city European tour, beginning in Dublin and ending in Jerusalem on April 21st. Other cities included London at the Royal Albert Hall, Paris, Stockholm, Vienna, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Berlin and Tel Aviv. This film is an impression of what happene..

Hugh Hopper - Monster Band (CD) - £9.99
Release date: 18th March 2013

Hugh Hopper started his musical career in 1963 as the bass player with the Daevid Allen Trio alongside drummer Robert Wyatt. There can be few other free jazz bands of the era with such a stellar line-up. Unlike other legendary ensembles such as The Crucial Three (a Liverpool..

Keith Christmas - Live at the Pump (CD) - £9.99
Release date: 11th March 2013

In 1970, Keith Christmas was the opening guest for the new acoustic music club (you could call it folk but that wouldn't describe the range of music and artists on show at the time) in a small barn behind The Lamb in Trowbridge. This club went on to become the renowned Village Pump festival,..

MERRELL FANKHAUSER - Area 51 Suite (2CD) - £9.99
Release date: 4th March 2013

Merrell Fankhauser has for the last half century been a giant in several of the strands of what the late Gram Parsons described as ‘cosmic American music’; the indigenous North American music. Merrell was one of the founding fathers of surf music in the late-1950s and early 1960s..

Michael Des Barres - I'm Only Human (SCD) - £9.99
Release date: 25th February 2013

Michael Des Barres has been entrenched in the rock ‘n’ roll scene for four decades now; a European nobleman, brought up in England, living in Los Angeles, but with an enduring love of delta blues and the rock and soul of the mid-60s beat boom, he was front man for such seminal 1970..

Ant-Bee - Pure Electric Honey (SCD) - £9.99
Release date: 18th February 2013

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Alan Davey - Cybertooth (SCD) - £9.99
Release date: 18th February 2013

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GPS - Two Seasons Live in Japan Volume Two (2CD1DVD) - £19.99
Release date: 4th February 2013

GPS is a progressive rock group formed in 2006 by John Payne (vocals, bass, guitar),Guthrie Govan (guitars) and Jay Schellen (drums, percussion). These three had been working together in Asia, specifically on an album to have been called Architect of Time, when the fourth member of Asia, Geof..

Martin Stephenson and The Daintees - The Daintees Live 1990 (SCD) - £9.99
Release date: 4th February 2013

Martin Stephenson is one of the most literate and intelligent singer/songwriters to have come out of the boom of Indie musicians which followed in the wake of the nihilistic, ‘Year Zero’ approach of the late 1970s punk rock movement. Many of the more erudite and accomplished punk..

The Green Violinist - More Thrill and Never Ending Blessings (CD) - £9.99
Release date: 28th January 2013

Can you hear the elves in the wood or can you even see them? The Green Violinist start their new album More..

Zenit - The Chandrasekhar Limit (CD) - £9.99
Release date: 28th January 2013

Zenit was founded in Switzerland in 1998 by bass player Andy Thommen, keyboarder Ivo Bernasconi and drummer Gigio Pedruzzi, based on their wealth of experience with bands like Clepsydra, Changes and Brainstorm. In 2001, now with the addition of singer Lorenzo Sonognini, Zenit released their debut..

Magick Brothers - Live in San Francisco (CD) - £9.99
Release date: 21st January 2013

Australian poet and musician Daevid Allen, born in 1938, moved to Europe in 1960, inspired by the writings of the ‘Beat Generation’. After a year or so in Paris, he arrived in the UK in 1961. After meeting William Burroughs, and discovering the peculiar music and philosophy of free-ja..