A world of musical influences were fused into the late-1960s and early-70s music of Montreal-based Druick & Lorange. Combining the talents of guitarist/vocalist Kirk Lorange and Dave Druick, the duo released one self-titled album, produced by Marty Lewis, in 1974, before the E.A.R. label declared bankruptcy and went out of business. Although it was reissued, in 1975, by the Goodear label, Lorange was so frustrated by the experience that he moved to Australia, where he's continued to awe audiences with his soulful slide guitar playing as a soloist and a member of the Marc Hunter Band and Glenn Sharrock Band. …

Il 33 giri "L'Estate Dei Poveri – Dalla Realtà Di Classe Al Progetto Libertario" del Collettivo Del Contropotere, edito dal Circolo Di Cultura Popolare di Massa nel 1976, fu il primo LP prodotto e realizzato da gruppi del movimento anarchico. In origine fu diffuso per finanziare Radio Popolare Massa, l'emittente radiofonica del movimento comunista libertario massese.
The first record produced by a group of the Italian anarchy movement. It was sold to finance Radio Popolare Massa, the radio station of the Italian libertarian communist movement in Massa, Tuscany.

Two internationally renowned musicians, Mikis Theodorakis from Greece and Zülfü Livaneli from Turkey, have – at a time of considerable political tension between their two countries – made a record together. Five compositions by each of the two artists were recorded in Instanbul and in Athens respectively. For 18 weeks this LP was top of the Turkish charts, and in September 1986, the 'Golden Record' was presented to Mikis Theodorakis personally in Istanbul.

"Medail est un poète, et c'est pour ça qu'el ne m'a jamais tradi. Et puis, il a du talent, et puis il chante bien. Ecoutez-le. Vous ne l'entendrez jamais su "Hit Parade" de la merde. Et c'est bien comme ça. Il me ressemble et bravo!" – Léo Ferré

Zairean Bony Bikaye's Felaesque chants (sans agitprop, avec Afrobeat girls) provide the identity, but the substructure is all French-Algerian Hector Zazou, whose synth arrangements are praised for their orchestral density and distinguished by their propulsive linearity. Most of the Afrogallic music I've heard makes too much (Toure Kunda) or too little (Manu Dibango) of its Africanness. This strikes me as an original balance: minimalist Eurodisco that trades pseudosophistication for pseudoprimitivism.

This album presents to its listener a sample of the Rochester Rock'n'Roll scene from 1979 to 1980. It goes without question that some of the tracks are a bit crude, but it reflects the feel of the groups at their particular stages of growth.

Another great example of innovative and dark Kraut/Prog Rock, "Der große rote Vogel" follows the lines of better-known Krautrock bands such as Eulenspygel, Eiliff and Tomorrow's Gift, incorporating influences from Jazz, Heavy/Psych Rock and Classical Music, delivering long and rich tracks full of impressive twists and convincing breaks and keeping a balance between complex, symph-oriented arrangements and loose executions.

Antler Records is an Independent Alternative Music label from Belgium (Aarschot). It was founded in the early 80's by Roland Beelen and Maurice Engelen. Initially they launched the label Kleo, then in the early 80's, evolved into Antler Records. Sometime later, they merged with Subway around 1989, to form a new independent company: Antler-Subway Records NV, in order to follow the most recent dance movements of the time. They also did appropriate new beat clothing.

The first time I listened to this music, I was awed. It's so unlike all the other synthesis music, the Jazz Rock whatever. It's cosmic without being pretentious and down to earth without being trivial, at once freaky and funky, and altogether of the spirit, created in a free get together of the spirit. All that happens happens because they're creating it as they will, out of and into all that they happen to be. And the more I listened, the more I was out of and into myself, which is what this music is about.

Allied to the more organic, instrumental groovesters in the American post-rock scene led by Tortoise, Ui focuses on angular grooves provided by a dual-bass attack. The New York band was formed in 1990 by bassist Sasha Frere-Jones (formerly of the group Dolores and probably better known as a journalist than a musician) and drummer Clem Waldmann. … As part of a tour that year with Tortoise and Labradford, Ui signed a contract with Chicago's Southern Records. … The group collaborated with Techno Animal and Luke Vibert, among others in the experimental electronica underground, before teaming up with Stereolab for the Fires EP, released as Uilab. A second album, Lifelike, followed in 1998. …