Welcome to The Artist Shop, a music store dedicated to the independent progressive
artist putting out his/her own product. The items we display we buy directly from the
artist or his/her own company. When you buy from these artists you can take pride in the
knowledge that more of your dollar is going directly to the artist than when you buy from
a mainstream, corporate, big business, big bucks, impersonal, conglomerate label. And that
means you're investing in the future of these artists and their continued creation of new
work. It's also been pointed out to us by some artists that there are many
independent progressive labels not owned by artists, but without which many independent
progressive artists would go unheard. So you will also see independent labels that
we consider to 'have a mission!'
The Artist Shop is geared to the listening experience! After all,
that's what music is all about. This site is loaded with RealAudio soundbites. Check out
our Audio Page to see how to maximize your listening
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here, drop us a line and let us know
about it. And as long as I'm being such a pest, please, please, please sign our guest book! It'll help us keep you up to
date on new artists and new releases coming into the store and special events like artist
IRC Chats. And have no fear. We have NO intention of giving, selling or sharing our list
with anyone!
Know what you're looking for and haven't got the time to browse?
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But if you've got the time to browse, check out our special pages
below for our member artists and labels as well as our text catalogs.
- Catalog (text version)
- For those who prefer just text or anyone who wants to print out our catalog. We
have three basic catalogs.
- Artist & Label Members
- those artists and labels with whom we work directly
- Import Text Catalog - Featuring
the latest in general import releases.
- General Domestic Text Catalog
- Featuring the latest in progressive domestic releases
- Top 100 Titles - Forget
Billboard! Here's The Artist Shop's top sellers for the month and the year!
But if you want to browse around and discover new things, below is our directory of
member artists and labels. Each page is loaded with graphics, RealAudio soundbites
and descriptions.
- 21st Century Schizoid Band
- Featuring Ian McDonald, Michael Giles, Peter Giles, Mel Collins, Jakko Jakszyk and Ian
Wallace.
- 3rd Stone Records
- Progressive ambient, space rock and more featuring No-Man, Bass Communion, Darkroom,
Spacemen 3 and many more.
- Adrian Belew Presents/Strugglebaby Records
- Adrian Belew's label for his own solo work and productions; Strugglebaby is the label
for Adrian's old cohorts in The Bears, now known as the Psychodots.
- Alchemy
- Jon Durant's home for himself, Michael Manring, Gary Willis, Caryn Lin, Robby Aceto,
Brian Gingrich and Wayne Krantz & Leni Stern. Also David Torn hangs around this home a
lot.
- Alucard
- Kerry Minnear's label for Gentle Giant archival releases.
- AMP Records
- Mark Jenkin's label for the best in electronic progressive music including Keith
Emerson, White Noise, Tangerine Dream, Ars Nova, Neil Ardley, Alquimia, Richard Pinhas,
Paul Nagle and many more
- Arion Records
- Featuring Glass Hammer!!!
- Auntie Social Music
- Featuring music from the legendary voice of Happy Rhodes!
- Buckyball Music
- Vibist Marc Wagnon and vocalist Sarah Pillow's home for jazz and fusion works including
the band, Tunnels, with bassist extraordinaire Percy Jones of Brand X.
- Burning Shed
- No-Man vocalist, Tim Bowness, and Samuel Smiles keyboardist, Peter Chilvers, CD-R label
for archival releases for their work, plus Steve Wilson, Bass Communion, No-Man, Alias
Grace, Darkroom, Navigator and more.
- Camel Productions
- Andy Latimer's new home for Camel.
- Camino Records
- Featuring Steve Hackett of Genesis and GTR. Also available through Camino is the
artwork of Kim Poor!
- Caroline Records
- Featuring the greatest of progressive classics from King Crimson, Mike Oldfield, Brian
Eno, Steve Hackett, Peter Hammill, Van der Graaf Generator, Steve Hillage, Brand X, Neu,
Gong, Japan, Bill Bruford, Robert Fripp, UK, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Harold Budd, Roger
Eno, John Wetton, Hatfield & the North and many, many more!
- Cellsum Records
- Blue Öyster Cult drummer/multi-instrumentalist Albert Bouchard and Flaming Youth
Deborah Frost created this home for The Brain Surgeons.
- Clearlight 888 Music
- French keyboardist/composer Cyrille Verdeaux as a solo artist and leader of the classic
ensemble Clearlight Symphony
- CMP Records
- David Torn, Mick Karn, Andy Summers, Jack Bruce, Trilock Gurtu, Glen Velez, Ed Mann,
Chad Wackerman, Michael Shrieve, Bernie Worrell, Sonny Sharrock & Nicky Skopelitis,
and so many more
- Crescent Discs
- Phil Miller of Matching Mole, Hatfield & the North, and National Health fame started
Crescent Discs for his In Cahoots and solo output.
- Crimsonic
- From Sweden, Par Lindh and the Par Lindh Project, Kopecky, Bjorn Johansson.
- Cuneiform
- A giant among progressive labels featuring Boud Deun, Soft Machine, Hugh Hopper, Henry
Kaiser, Happy the Man, Bird Songs of the Mesozoic, Phil Miller, The Muffins, Heldon and so
much more!
- Discipline
- King Crimson, Robert Fripp, Peter Hammill, Trey Gunn, Leagues of Gentlemen and Crafty
Guitarists, California Guitar Trio and more incredible artists!
- echolyn, Inc.
- Featuring Echolyn, Brett Kull, Finneus Gauge, Almost Always and more
- ESD, NorthSide, Omnium
- ESD features Wendy Carlos, The Residents, Dirk 'Mont' Campbell, Fred Frith, Henry Cow,
Peter Blegvad, National Health, and more. Northside features some incredible new
sounds from the land of the midnight sun. Omnium features world music with a kick
like a mule!
- Esoteric Recordings
- New progressive label starting with remastered classics from Egg, Rare Bird, Daevid
Allen, Paladin, Marsupilami, Jonesy and Big Sleep!
- Mike Keneally's Exowax Recordings
- Mike Keneally, Mike Keneally & Beer for Dolphins.
- Expression Records
- Phil Manzanera's label for new releases and reissues of his solo work and group work
with Quiet Sun, 801 and The Explorers with Andy Mackay.
- Fie! Records
- Peter Hammill and David Jackson of Van der Graaf Generator, Judge Smith.
- Foxtrot Records
- Roine Stolt's label for rare recordings of The Flower Kings and various solo projects.
- Gramophone
- This label features Echo City, a percussion ensemble featuring Guy Evans from Van der
Graaf Generator, as well as The Unmen and the One King Poets.
- Hi-Note Records
- A reissue label from the UK specializing in progressive and psychedelic rock.
Includes the sublabels Aftermath, Background, English Garden and Headline. Artists
include Jade Warrior (!), July,
Tantulus, The Morrigan, Square the Moon and many more!
- Hux Records
- A label from the UK specializing in BBC Archival recordings for progressive and classic
rock artists like Soft Machine, Neil Innes, Family, Focus, Pentangle, Gentle Giant,
Caravan, Kevin Ayers, Be Bop Deluxe, Pip Pyle, Gryphon, Elton Dean and many, many more!
- Infinity
- US distributor for many important independent labels including BGO, Collector's Choice,
American Beat, Acadia, Ork, Cherry Red, Rev-Ola, Hip-O Select, Evangeline, Bear Family,
el, Bella Casa, Talking Elephant, Anagram, Bright Midnight, Gottdiscs, Lemon, President,
Rhino Handmade, RPM and more!
- Inside Out America
- New label for progressive music including The Flower Kings, Ayreon, Platypus, Arena,
Derek Sherinian, Planet X, Mastermind, Threshold, Enchant, Pain of Salvation,
Ten Jinn and so many more!
- Kartini Music
- Home for the releases of Camel's Colin Bass and his musical alter ego, Sabah Habas
Mustapha.
- Linden Music
- Home of Kit Watkins from Happy the Man and Camel. Kit's music ranges from progressive to
ambient, world music, electronic and much more.
- LoLo Records
- The Brainchild of Bon Lozaga and Hansford Rowe of Pierre Moerlen's Gong, LoLo Records is
home to their various projects including that potent progressive fusion band, Gongzilla.
- Magna Carta
- Features Bozzio/Levin/Stevens, Tempest, Magellan, Cairo, World Trade, Shadow Gallery,
Royal Hunt, Altura, Enchant, Lemur Voice
- Manticore Records
- Resurrection of the classic label for Emerson, Lake & Palmer's group and solo works.
- Masters of Art
- (Motto: 'Loud Music For Quiet People') is the label run by Judge Smith to manufacture
and release CDs of his own projects.
- Materiali Sonori
- Features Marco Polo, Brian Eno, Roger Eno, No-Man, David Torn, Frank Zappa, John Zorn,
Harold Budd, Wim Mertens, Percy Howard, Henry Kaiser, Terry Riley, Philip Glass, Thurston
Moore, Durutti Column, Embryo, Third Ear Band and many more!
- Medium Productions
- Formed by Steve Jansen, Richard Barbieri & Mick Karn all formerly of Japan and Rain
Tree Crow.
- MoonJune Records
- For music where the crossroads of progressive and jazz meet. Includes Soft
Machine, Tripod, DFA, Finisterre and many Soft Machine related artists.
- Musea
- Renowned French progressive label featuring Minimum Vital, Anekdoten, Anglagard,
Finisterre, Galadriel, Kerrs Pink, Osiris, Quidam, Sebastian Hardie, Trace, Benoit
Widemann, and so many, many more!
- NEARfest Records
- Dedicated to releasing performances from the North East Art Rock Festival starting with
Steve Hackett, Nathan Mahl and Djam Karet and many more to come!
- Noisy Records
- Noisy Records is the home for the music of violinist David Cross, famed for his tenure
in King Crimson during the Lark's Tongue, Starless & Bible Black, and Red era.
- One Step Records
- After too long an absence, Moody Blues keyboardist/vocalist Mike Pinder returns to the
music scene with his own music on his own label.
- Papabear Records
- This homegrown label is owned and operated by Tony Levin of King Crimson and Peter
Gabriel.
- ProgRock Records
- New progressive rock label featuring Ajalon, Cryptic Vision, Frameshift, Ghost Circus,
K2, Liquid Scarlet, Lizette &, Lucas White & Edsey, Guy Manning, Henning Pauly,
Salem Hill, Sandstone, Sylvan, Thessera, Under the Sun, Oliver Wakeman, and many more!
- Radiant Records
- Radiant Records is the label for Spock's Beard and Neal Morse!
- Repertoire
- Reissue label based in Germany responsible for great releases of great Progressive and
Classic Rock titles from the likes of Gentle Giant, Jade Warrior, Renaissance, Atomic
Rooster, Marc Bolan, If, Curved Air, Family, Gravy Train, Alvin Lee, Magna Carta,
Mountain, The Move, Pretty Things, Procol Harum, Quatermass, The Zombies and many, many
more!
- ReR Recommended
- Chris Cutler's Rock in Opposition label featuring his own work plus Fred Frith, Art
Bears, Biota, Cassiber, Bob Drake, Faust, The Necks, Jon Rose, Thinking Plague, Tim
Hodgkinson, ZGA and many, many more!
- Rykodisc
- Frank Zappa, Yoko Ono and John Lennon, Elvis Costello, Richard Thompson, Badfinger,
Bootsy Collins, Bernie Worrell, The Roches, The Residents, Bob Mould, Medeski Martin and
Wood, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Robert Hunter, Mickey Hart, Fairport Convention, Nick
Drake, Devo, Sandy Denny, Bruce Cockburn, John Cale, and so many more!
- Samadhisound
- Home to the new works of David Sylvian, Steve Jansen and more!
- Seventh Records
- Home to the classic French band, Magma, along with the solo works of Christian Vander!
- SheetMusicPlus
- Where you'll find sheet music, books, instructional videos, music equipment and much,
much more!
- Sinclair Songs
- The label for the solo work of legendary Canterbury voice, Richard Sinclair, of Caravan,
Hatfield & the North, Camel, etc.
- Summerfold/Winterfold
- Two labels from Bill Bruford to showcase his jazz and progressive rock leanings.
- Third Contact
- Larry "Synergy" Fast's label to re-release his back catalog and move into the
future. Also features his good friend, Joy Askew.
- Toff Records
- Independent label for the British progressive group Pendragon.
- Voiceprint/Blueprint/Resurgence Records
- Including Phil Manzanera, Bill Nelson, Asia, Anthony Phillips, David Bedford, John
Greaves, Hugh Hopper, Jakko, Dagmar Krause, National Health, Flash, Tom Newman, John
Wetton and many, many more!!!
- White Dove
- Featuring Annie Haslam of Renaissance
- Witchwood Records
- The record label of The Strawbs, Acoustic Strawbs and Dave Cousins!
- Wounded Bird Records
- Wounded Bird Records was formed in 1998 as a label that specializes in the reissue of
albums from the 60's, 70's and early 80's on compact disc!
- New Labels - Page 1
- Established artists like Andy Ward, Mark Craney & Friends, Doane Perry of Jethro
Tull. Also look for biographies of John Wetton and Vangelis.
- New Labels - Page 2
- Michael Manring, Rhonda Larson.
- New Labels - Page 3
- Terry Sullivan's Renaissant, The Syn, Andy Rinehart.
- New Artists - Page 1
- Paul Adams, Andrew Booker, David Bagsby, Roger Zahab.
- New Artists - Page 2
- Neil Sadler, Hamster Theatre, Dave Willey.
- New Artists - Page 3
- Quarkspace, National Steam.
- Gary's Vanity Page
- I admit it. This page is pure vanity on my part. It consists of CD's in which I played a
part in the production whether in assisting the producers or actually producing them
myself.
- Exposé
- All lovers of progressive music should check out this great progressive journal!
- Accessories
- Japanese mini-LP sleeve baggies, round bottom CD sleeves, etc.
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- Overstock Sale
- Overstock items being let go at a reduced price
- Gift Certificates
- For the discriminating gift giver to give to the discriminating music lover!
- The Artist Shop FAQ
- Here's where you'll find our privacy policy, returns policy and answers to other common
questions.
- Newsletter Updates
- Check out our newsletter with information on the latest releases, tour dates, IRC Chats,
etc.
- Links Page
- The success of The Artist Shop will be due in no small part to all our friends
throughout the 'net who have been so kind to add links from their site to ours. I hope
you'll check them out.
- IRC Page
- Our new page to give you information about our IRC Chats with various musicians.
Send inquiries/suggestions/etc. to
artshop@artist-shop.com. Questions on management, public relations or booking issues
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