If this Bill Bruford compilation took an Ancestry DNA test, the results would point to an old Soft Machine song: It feels, it reels and it squeals.

Udo Pannekeet’s wondrous ‘Electric Regions’ is rock; it’s jazz – and then it’s everything in between.

Fernando Perdomo lights votive acoustic-guitar devotion to the music of early King Crimson.

The second album by Kaprekar’s Constant requires a patient listen, but it eventually reveals so much beauty.

Just like Joseph from the Bible, Bent Knee’s ‘You Know What They Mean’ has a coat of many colors.

I always associate Anthony Phillips records with the fall. ‘Strings of Light,’ his first new album in seven years, is no different.

Permeated with literary, historical, and mythological references, Big Big Train’s ‘Grand Tour’ is a clever and exquisitely arranged musical journey.

Isildurs Bane and Peter Hammill’s ‘In Amazonia’ reminds us that music can still investigate new dimensions.