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NEW RELEASE INFORMATION - Proper Music Distribution
ROCK NEW RELEASE - 19/08/2016
The Stray Birds - Magic Fire
CDYEP2475
LPYEP2475
634457247529
634457247512
CD
LP
YEP ROC
YEP ROC
ROCK
ROCK
£7.99
£11.99
Magic Fire, out August 19th on Yep Roc Records, shines with striking immediacy and
conviction. Over the course of two critically acclaimed albums - Best Medicine (Yep Roc,
2014) and The Stray Birds (2012) - the band has sharpened their poetic eye against our
turbulent landscape of humanity - and the resilient landscape of our human hearts.
Straddling north and south (Maya and Oliver reside in Nashville, TN and Charlie in the
band's hometown of Lancaster, PA), the band retreated to the Hudson Valley of upstate
New York in December 2015 to bring the new collection of songs to life.
Tour Dates 2016
06th Oct - South Holland Centre,
Spalding
07th Oct - The Live Room@Caroline
Social Club, Shipley
08th Oct - Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal
10th Oct - Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
12th Oct - Kilbarchan Performing Arts
Centre, Johnstone
13th Oct - The Tolbooth, Stirling
14th Oct - Mareel, Shetland
15th Oct - Glenbuchat Hall, Strathdon
16th Oct - The Blue Lamp, Aberdeen
18th Oct - Norwich Arts Centre
19th Oct - The Met Studio, Stafford
20th Oct - Bush Hall, London
21st Oct - The Bullingdon, Oxford
22nd Oct - St Peter’s By The Waterfront,
Ipswich
They assembled inside a converted horse barn with Grammy-award-winning producer
Larry Campbell (Bob Dylan, Levon Helm) and engineer Justin Guip. The acoustic trio
embraced the songs' calls for electric guitar, pedal steel, and keys. The band was also
joined in the studio- and now on the road - by Eau Claire, Wisconsin musician Shane
Leonard (drums/percussion/vocals) and his undeniably inventive rhythmic undercurrent.
Video for ‘Sabrina’: https://youtu.be/7et_jJsVWnE
Video for ‘When I Die’: https://youtu.be/iOqeiL02zd8
Tracks: Shining In The Distance / Third Day In A Row / Sabrina / Radio / Where You Come
From / Fossil / Hands Of Man / Somehow / Sunday Morning / Mississippi Pearl / All The
News / When I Die
Also Available:
CDYEP2408/ LPYEP2408 –‘Best Medicine’ (CD/LP)
TSB003 – ‘Echo Sessions’ (CD EP)
TSB0026 – ‘The Stray Birds’
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ROCK NEW RELEASE - 19/08/2016
The Minus 5 - Of Monkees And Men
CDYEP2423
LPYEP2423
634457242326
634457242319
CD
LP
YEP ROC
YEP ROC
ROCK
ROCK
£7.99
£11.99
Special Stand Alone release from 2014s 5 LP set Scott The Hoople In Dungeon of Horror
Many special guests, including members of R.E.M. and The Smithereens,
plus Laura Gibson as The Girl
“2016 marks the 50th anniversary of The Monkees, the band that wasn't really a band
when they started (yes, they were the Prefab Four before The Rutles), but became one,
and in the process have reached legendary status, with a catalogue of music that rightly
deserves the attention it has got over the years.
I was eleven years old when I first heard Last Train To Clarksville and I became a lifelong
fan in that moment. A few years ago I gathered like-minded Minus 5 cohorts for Of
Monkees & Men, and, starting with the surreal 10-minute epic Michael Nesmith , we
crafted a song for each member, as well as one for Boyce & Hart, the duo that wrote and
produced many classic Monkees tracks. Side Two of the LP eulogizes other important
figures in that roam my psyche, naming names and proudly so. Its not a musical
documentary by any means - but it pays real tribute to people who heavily influenced my
life and music.” - Scott McCaughey / The Minus 5
Tracks: Michael Nesmith / Davy Gets The Girl / Song For Peter Tork / Micky’s A Cool
Drummer / Boyce And Hart / Blue Rickenbacker / Robert Ryan Is Among Us / Richmond
Fontaine / Weymer Never Dies
Also Available:
CDYEP2420/ LPYEP2420 – ‘Dungeon Golds’ (CD/LP)
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ROCK NEW RELEASE - 19/08/2016
Sweet Billy Pilgrim - Motorcycle Amnesiacs £5.50
KSCOPE402
802644740225
CD2
KSCOPE
ROCK
'Motorcade Amnesiacs' cements Sweet Billy Pilgrim as one of Britain's greatest cult
bands. 'Motorcade Amnesiacs' will be released as a 2CD Media book with limited edition
bonus disc with 3 brand new bonus tracks including a remix of Steven Wilson
'Insurgentes' and the near 15 minute ‘Grove Ponies’ with a 24 page colour booklet.
'Motorcade Amnesiacs' follows on from their critically acclaimed album 'Crown and
Treaty', which was awarded a coveted five stars by Mojo and featured as Album Of The
Week in The Sunday Times and its Mercury Music Prize-nominated predecessor 'Twice
Born Men' released on David Sylvian's Samadhi Sound label.
Not ones to respect musical boundaries, Sweet Billy Pilgrim have thrown every ounce of
their belief and passion into the genre spanning excellence of 'Motorcade Amnesiacs', an
album of adventurously inspired melodies, intertwining riffs and eclectic rhythms,
heavenly harmonies and thought-provoking lyrics.
The first radio single 'Just Above Midtown' saw the band fuse their pop sensibilities with
swaggering rock groove. 'Longstreth' showcases guitarist & songwriter Tim Elsenburg's
dynamic song writing ability, mixing beautiful harmonies with pounding guitar riffs, the
groove-led 'We Just Did What Happened And Nobody Came' lodges firmly in the memory
long after it ends and 'Tyrekickers', revels in co-vocalist Jana Carpenters heart-worn tones.
CD 1: Candle Book And Bell / FFwd To The Freeze Frame / Make It So / Slingshot Grin /
Tyrekickers / Burn Before Reading / Just Above Midtown / Chasing Horses / Longstreth /
We Just Did What Happened And Nobody Came / Coloma Blues
CD 2: Grove Ponies / Everclear (Demo) / Steven Wilson "Insurgentes" (Sweet Billy Pilgrim
Remix)
Also Available:
KSCOPE384/KSCOPE929 – ‘We Just Did What Happened And No One Came’ (CD/LP)
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ROCK NEW RELEASE - 19/08/2016
Steve Hogarth & Richard Barbieri Arc Light
KSCOPE401
802644840123
CD
£5.50
KSCOPE
ROCK
A 5-track mini-album 'little brother' to the splendid 'Not The Weapon But The Hand',
'Arc Light' features 4 new tracks and a new version of Intergalactic featuring Aziz Ibrahim
(Stone Roses, Ian Brown) on guitar.
'Arc Light' will be released via Kscope in deluxe digi sleeve packaging with an 8 page
booklet featuring beautiful photography from Luigi Colosanti and H lyrics.
'Not The Weapon But The Hand' was the 2012 debut album from the cult hero
collaborative. It featured appearances from Danny Thompson on double bass, Chris
Maitland (ex Porcupine Tree) on drums and Dave Gregory (XTC) on guitar, bass and string
arrangement .
Steve Hogarth is best known as the frontman of Marillion, the progressive rock legends
that he joined in 1989, following spells in The Europeans and How We Live. In addition to
the 12 albums Marillion have released in this time he has also recorded and toured as a
solo artist, under the name 'h'.
In recent years Richard Barbieri has been a core member of Porcupine Tree playing
keyboards on all the band's albums since 1993 as well as releasing two solo albums,
'Things Buried' and 'Stranger Inside'. Prior to this, it was in the new-wave pioneers Japan
that he originally came to prominence, helping to create the ground-breaking synthesiser
sound that defined the band and influenced the likes of The Human League, Duran Duran,
Gary Numan, Talk Talk and a whole raft of artists to follow.
'Hauntingly beautiful' - Progression
'One of the best albums that either has been involved with, quite stunning' - Sea of
Tranquility
Tracks: Arc Light / Intergalactic (Arc Light Version) / Daddy Does Work / Oil / Elaine
Also Available:
KSCOPE204 – ‘Not The Weapon But The Hand’
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ROCK NEW RELEASE - 19/08/2016
Family - Fearless
SMACD1062
636551706223
£5.50
CD2
MADFISH
ROCK
Classic 1971 Family album remastered from original tapes and now featuring a bonus
disc. This new 2 disc version being released through Madfish in a deluxe media book has
recordings remastered from the original master tapes with a bonus disc of the band's
highest UK charting single 1971's single 'In My Own Time' and B side 'Seasons'.
The 16 page booklet includes new sleeve notes by Family expert Pete Feenstra , with press
cuttings and memorabilia supplied by Dave Eames & Trevor Gardiner, including the
original ad promoting the album in the UK press.
Growing out of the R&B boom of the early 60s, Family's sound evolved into a unique mix
of progressive rock, blues, folk, jazz, psychedelia and high energy rock n roll built around
the distinctive vocals of frontman Roger Chapman, Charlie Whitney's innovative guitar
playing and Rob Townsend's thunderous drumming. During their seven year career Family
released eight albums, scoring 4 hit singles and seven chart albums.
Regarded by many fans and critics as the band's finest album, 'Fearless' was originally
released in 1971 and entered the UK chart at #14. The album also gave the band its first
US chart placing and features the classic tracks 'Between Blue & Me', 'Sat'D'Y Barfly',
'Spanish Tide' and 'Children'.
CD 1: Between Blue And Me / Sat 'd'y Barfly / Larf And Sing / Spanish Tide / Save Some For
Thee / Take Your Partners / Children / Crinkley Grin / Blind / Burning Bridges
CD 2: In My Own Time / Seasons
Ian Anderson - Homo Erraticus
KSCOPE403
802644740324
CD
£5.50
KSCOPE
ROCK
The debut Kscope album from Jethro Tull frontman now at mid-price.
In 2012 Ian Anderson released 'Thick As A Brick 2', the follow-up to Jethro Tull's legendary
concept album. The album was a critical and commercial success, charting around the
world. In April he returned with 'Homo Erraticus'.
The original 'Thick As A Brick ' album, released in 1972, was based around the poem of
disgraced child prodigy Gerald Bostock. For 'Homo Erraticus' Anderson is reunited with
Bostock, using lyrics written by Gerald based on an old historical manuscript. The
manuscript examines key events from throughout British history before going on to offer a
number of prophecies for the future.
Suitably dramatised and exaggerated by Bostock as metaphors for modern life, he
presented Anderson with ideas for 15 songs, which have now been set to music. The result
is 'Homo Erraticus'.
Tracks: Doggerland / Heavy Metals / Enter The Univited / Pure Ferox Adventus / Meliora
Sequamur / The Turnpike Inn / The Engineer / The Pax Britannica / Tripudium Ad Bellum /
After These Wars / New Blood, Old Veins / In For A Pound / The Browning Of The Green /
Per Errationes Ad Astra / Cold Dead Reckoning
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e-mail: [email protected]
ROCK & ROLL NEW RELEASE - 19/08/2016
Si Cranstoun - Old School
RUF1235
710347123521
CD
£8.70
RUF RECORDS
ROCK & ROLL
A good record is the cure for a bad day. You might be down on your luck, up the creek
or on the skids - but it's clinically impossible to stay depressed when Si Cranstoun's
Old School plays. In a monochrome world, this album is a spring-heeled burst of
technicolor soul, scattering your worries and shaking your feet.
Tour Dates 2016:
29th Jul - College Summer School,
Marlborough
05th Aug - Rayner Rock n Roll, York
12th Aug - NSRA Hot Rod Supernationals,
Biggleswade
13th Aug - Retro Festival, Thatcham
03rd Sep - Ace Café, London
10th Sep - Thoresby Hall Hotel, Ollerton
16th Sep - Marriott Hotel, Portsmouth
17th Sep - Key Theatre, Peterborough
30th Sep - The Blazing Donkey, Ham, Kent
Si has already been dubbed "the king of vintage" by The Express and enjoyed rave
endorsements from influential DJs like the late Terry Wogan and Chris Evans ("How
good is Si Cranstoun?"). Now, released in 2016 on Ruf Records, Old School ups the ante,
with Si setting the controls for the golden era and tipping his hat to formative influences
like Jackie Wilson, Sam Cooke and Big Joe Turner. "When it comes to taste," he says,
"it's '40s, '50s, '60s all the way."
While Old School's stylings are unashamedly retro, this album's time is unmistakably
now, driven by the original songcraft and acclaimed vocals of a bandleader who's given
the vintage scene fresh impetus.
Old School defies you not to dance. You'll be pulled onto the floor by the plinking piano
and parping brass of the title track. You'll stay there for Vegas Baby, which bottles all
the sticky thrills of a night on the Sin City Strip, complete with Reet Petite-style rolled
syllables. Si nods: "That's me having melodic and lyrical fun with the blues."
Bottling his irrepressible showmanship and spitting out the best songs of his career, the
album promises to take Si Cranstoun from cult hero to kingpin, and spread the joy
across the planet. "I'd just love Old School to be heard by as many people as possible,"
says the bandleader. "And when we take this album out on the road, we'll all be out to
bring the house down..."
Apart from his own U.K. tou dates, Si Cranstoun will be on tour with Ruf Records' Blues
Caravan 2017. More info to follow soon.
Tracks: Old School / Vegas Baby / Nighttime / Run Free / Right Girl / Jukebox Jump /
Elise The Brazilian / Count On Me / Around Midnight / A Christmas Twist / Skinny Jeans
/ Thames River Song / Commoner To King / Big Bess / Lover Please / Happy Birthday
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e-mail: [email protected]
ROCK NEW RELEASE - 19/08/2016
Chris Staples - Golden Age
CDBARK164
LPBARK164
655173116425
655173116418
CD
LP
BARSUK RECORDS
BARSUK RECORDS
ROCK
ROCK
£7.99
£12.49
Golden Age meets us at the intersection of nostalgia and the future, and holds out a hand.
It pulls us back into a moment, and asks us stay there even as our hyperactive minds
push to race ahead.
Staples notes, "It's really easy to idealize an earlier time in your life, but it's not useful. It can be a
trap that keeps you from finding new good things to live for. Golden Age is about that myth we
carry around. The myth of our past being idyllic. I don't want to waste any more time dwelling on
it."
Tracks: Relatively Permanent / Golden Age / Missionary / Cheap Shades / Full Color Dream / Park
Bench / Always On My Mind / Times Square / Vacation / Hepburn In Summertime / Dog Blowing
A Clarinet / Diary
Rocky Votolato –
Makers (10th Anniversary Edition)
LPBARK049
655173104910
LP
£13.99
BARSUK RECORDS
ROCK
This 10th Anniversary reissue marks the first time Barsuk has released the album on LP format,
and the first time it’s been pressed on high-quality 180-gram vinyl with a newly designed
gatefold sleeve.
Over the course of the last 15 years, Rocky Votolato has produced some of the most powerful
music to come out of Seattle, an impressive canon anchored by earnest, lyrical songwriting, and
delivered in a unique indie-folk-punk style that has evolved out of the Pacific Northwest music
scene he was raised in. He has matured over the course of eight increasingly accomplished solo
albums, and writes songs that seem to have been scratched into a boxcar wall by a worn-out and
lonesome ghost.
Tracks: White Daisy Passing / Portland Is Leaving / The Night’s Disguise / She Was Only In It For
The Rain / Uppers Aren’t Necessary / Wait Out The Days / Streetlights / Tennessee Train Tracks /
Goldfield / Tinfoil Hats / Where We Left Off / Makers
Band Aparte - Memory On Trial
MFOCD46101
MFOLP46101
767004610122
767004610115
CD
LP
MANIFESTO
MANIFESTO
ROCK
ROCK
£7.99
£10.99
From down the end of Los Angeles, the barebones gravepunk duo Band Aparte strips down and
combines elements of gothic rock, synthpunk, and beachy lo-fi as macabré appreciation
simmers in the gut of the city.
Vocalist Brian Mendoza effortlessly channels Joy Division and Nick Cave, crooning into a death
bouquet with his shirt unbuttoned. But he's not doing it to imitate Morrissey's aesthetic - Band
Aparte's shows are fast and fierce, and the crowd works up a sweat at every venue they play.
It's a dangerous mixture that has crushed nights alongside such bands as Cruelty Code, Roses,
Ghost Noise, and Terminal A.
Tracks: Down The Road (introduction) / Creatures Of Culture / Dream Wave / Into The Window /
Cherry Chapstick / Never Antoinette / Band Aparte / Plastic Face / Welcome In / Get The Gun /
Harvey's Youth / We Are Home (end)
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ROCK NEW RELEASE - 19/08/2016
Big Eyes - Stake My Claim
CDDG111
LPDG111
634457719224
634457719217
CD
LP
DON GIOVANNI
DON GIOVANNI
ROCK
ROCK
£7.49
£9.49
Big Eyes, the brainchild of Kait Eldridge, is a band that has spent its career successfully defying
classification. They're a punk band with pop sensibilities; they're a power pop group with a
hard rock edge. Big Eyes are different things to different people, and yet have always felt
ultimately content cemented "in-between" the scenes.
Stake My Claim, the band's third full length, was recorded throughout the fall and winter of 2015.
It opens with their heaviest song to date, the title track, which sets a tone of Kait at a crossroad:
"'Cause nothing stays the same / stake my claim." Her lyrics are centered around dissatisfaction
and a need for change. Throughout the entirety of Big Eyes' discography, there is an undercurrent
of sadness and frustration, but within Stake My Claim, Kait has found a sense of acceptance.
Tracks: Stake My Claim / Behind Your Eyes / Just Not Right / Giving It Up For Good / Leave This
Town / When You Were 25 / Cheerleader / Curse Of The Tides / Count The Pegs / Alls I Know
Video Age - Living Alone
LPINFR015
634457737013
£9.49
LP
INFLATED RECORDS
ROCK
Video Age is a New Orleans-based duo, taking inspiration from late 70s and 80s new wave.
Multi-instrumentalists Ross Farbe and Ray Micarelli bring classic guitar-driven pop
together with synthetic sounds and a mechanical feel to create upbeat music with dark,
gritty undertones.
On their debut LP, Living Alone, timeless rock and roll forms were deconstructed and built back
up with synthesizers and drum machines, giving the record a sharp, grid-like tone. Much of the
album was conceptualized during the summer of 2015 while Farbe was living alone in a sparse
neighbourhood by the train tracks. It was a beautiful shell of a house with no insulation, missing
windowpanes, and rain always leaking in,” said the lead singer and guitarist. “Being alone for that
long you start to see yourself clearly. But I never felt completely alone because the walls were so
thin.
Tracks: Throwing Knives / Virtual Man / Regulars / No Future / Dance Square / Love Sick / Cruise
Control / Steady Rollin / Living Alone / Reprise
Have A Nice Life - The Unnatural World
CDFR39
723175699328
CD
THE FLENSER
£7.99
ROCK
First time on CD! New England duo Have A Nice Life describe their sound as "Depressive PostIndustrial Doomgaze" - a designation as good as any for a group that seamlessly brings together
the disparate tones of shoegaze, sludge, post-punk, metal, industrial, and just about every
outré genre there is.
Not content with merely bending and blending genres to their will, Dan Barrett and Tim Macuga
have created a sound that is immediate and essential and uniquely theirs, in the process
garnering a rabid cult following. The Unnatural World is the follow up to Have a Nice Life's cult
classic 2009 debut, Deathconsciousness.
The Unnatural World is the band's long awaited follow-up and sees them eschew the length of
their debut in favour of concision and focused songs, without sacrificing what makes them
unique. Have a Nice Life's Dan and Tim are also the co-founders and curators of the antiestablishment imprint Enemies List Home Recordings.
Tracks: Guggenheim Wax Museum / Defenestration Song / Burial Society / Music Will Untune The
Sky / Cropsey / Unholy Life / Dan And Tim / Emptiness Will Eat The Witch
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ROCK NEW RELEASE - 19/08/2016
Quintorigo & Roberto Gatto - Around Zappa
INC201
8058333570037
CD+DVD
FELMAY
£10.99
ROCK
A sincere, philological and experimental thanksgiving to Frank Zappa. Not merely a tribute
concert or live-concept. A monographic work, accurate in its theatrical and scenographic
details, an entertaining opportunity for everybody to know and rediscover Zappa's universe.
The show is also an emotional and instinctive performance, an exquisite and tasty selection from
Zappa's works which will lead us to gorge on his discography, stodgy dishes included. Working on
Zappa's music has always been a project in embryo. Thanks to Roberto Gatto all this came true.
Gatto, outstanding star of Italian and international jazz with renowned career, since forever
harboring an unrestrained passion for Zappa, invited Quintorigo to bring about this beautiful idea
together. Thankful and eager the band accepted. Coming out soon the album "Around Zappa".
The CD playlist begins with instrumentals such as Uncle Meat and Peaches En Regalia. Moris
Pradella joins the band singing Cosmik Debris, Don't Eat The Yellow Snow, Lucille Has Messed My
Mind Up, King Kong, Big Swifty, Igor's Boogie, Village Of The Sun. The beautiful Uncle Remus is
introduced by the violin of Andrea Costa while Gionata Costa at the cello leads the melanchonic
Black Napkins, making good use of effects to convey the charisma of an electric guitar enriched by
the expressiveness of the cello. And an end with a bang, playing Echidna's Arf (Of You) and Zomby
Woof.
With Roberto Gatto, Quintorigo prove once again themselves distinguished musicians, gaining
without reserve the passionate audience's approval. "Around Zappa" is not to be missed by
Zappa's fans and recommended for everyone.
CD: Uncle Meat / Peaches En Regalia / Cosmik Debris / Montana / Lucille Has Messed My Mind
Up / King Kong / Don't Eat The Yellow Snow / Uncle Remus / Big Swifty / Igor's Boogie / Black
Napkins / Village Of The Sun / Echidna's Arf (of You) / Zomby Woof
DVD: Cosmik Debris / Montana / Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up / King Kong / Don't Eat The
Yellow Snow / Uncle Remus / Big Swifty / Igor's Boogie / Black Napkins / Village Of The Sun /
Echidna's Arf (of You)
Arab On Radar –
The Yahweh Or The Highway Sessions
CDGRA115
647216611523
CD
£7.99
SKIN GRAFT RECORDS
ROCK
During the sessions that would become their final album 'Yahweh or the Highway' Arab On
Radar recorded updated versions of two tracks that had originally appeared on a split 7" EP
with The Locust a year earlier.
Locked away on a roll of analog tape since 2001, the band and SKiN GRAFT Records are making
these unheard recordings available in an edition of 550 7" vinyl singles. Produced by Weasel
Walter in 2001 at Sound Station Seven, each single comes with a hand fabricated aluminum
jacket, custom polished and treated by the bands own Mr. Clinical Depression and then screenprinted with new artwork by Mat Brinkman and Neil Burke. No two sleeves will be alike. The
single comes complete with a hand-numbered certificate of authenticity and a heavy, doublesided tri-fold sleeve featuring band photos and lyrics.
Tracks: My Mind Is A Muffler / Cocaine Mummy / God Is Dad / Semen On The Mount / Vatican Is
Up To Bat Again / Di To Solve Pi / Father, Son, And The Goalie Post / Birth Control Blues
Also Available:
CDGRA066 - Yahweh Or The Highway
647216606628
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CD
£7.99
ROCK NEW RELEASE - 12/08/2016
B-52's - Live 8.24.1979
RLGM4004852PMI
£9.99
848064004851
CD
REAL GONE MUSIC
ROCK
Real Gone Music is very proud to present this key live document of one of America's
most beloved and distinctive New Wave groups on CD for the first time, complete
with liner notes by Jason Gross featuring fresh quotes from the band members and
rare photos. From "Rock Lobster" to "Private Idaho," you WILL dance this mess
around when you hear this.
Best to let the band itself describe this live album, which is only the second B-52's
concert recording and the only one to capture them during their early years: "We
opened for the Talking Heads at the Berklee Center in Boston just six weeks after our
first record was released. We were a little scared of the audience so we kept our heads
down and focused – and we danced like mad when there was a break! Ricky was so
fierce on the guitar – so intense – it was all so raw and live and we loved it."
Tracks: 52 Girls (With Intro) / 6060-842 / Lava / Private Idaho / Devil in My Car / Dance
This Mess Around / Runnin’ Around / Rock Lobster (With Encore Outro) / Strobe Light
Fanny - Mother's Pride (Expanded Edition)
RLGM4004632PMI
848064004639
CD
REAL GONE MUSIC
£10.99
ROCK
With the release of Fanny's 1973 album Mother's Pride, Real Gone Music concludes its
reissue campaign of the groundbreaking female rock group's classic Reprise catalogue.
And while there might be some argument as to whether or not we have saved the
best for last, there is no question that we have saved the biggest for last, as this
expanded edition clocks in with no less than eight bonus tracks!
Indeed, Mother's Pride is perhaps the most controversial entry in the Fanny catalogue,
as Todd Rundgren agreed to produce the album on the condition that he and he alone
oversee the album mix. The result was a record that cemented Fanny's popularity in the
U.K. but failed to make a dent in the charts here in the States. Like our previous Fanny
reissues, this release features track-by-track annotation from the band as well as rare
photos. Another seminal '70s rock record from everybody's favorite "forgotten" allfemale rock group, supplemented with rare demos and lost tracks!
Tracks: Last Night I Had a Dream / Long Road Home / Old Hat / Solid Gold / Is It Really
You? / All Mine / Summer Song / Polecat Blues / Beside Myself / Regular Guy / I Need
You Need Me / Feelings / I’m Satisfied / Lonesome Pine / Beside Myself / I'll Never Be
the Same / All Mine / Old Milwaukee / Long Road Home / Back in My Arms Again / Till
Then
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RAP/HIP-HOP NEW RELEASE - 19/08/2016
Watsky - X Infinity
SW234282
885150342824
CD
£7.99
STEEL WOOL ENTERTAINMENT
RAP/HIP-HOP
George Watsky is a musician, rapper, author and poet from San Francisco. While still
in his teens in the mid-00's he began winning spoken word poetry competitions,
including Brave New Voices International Poetry Slam Champion. He subsequently
appeared on the final season of 'Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry' on HBO and
performed at hundreds of universities across the USA. He has also toured in the UK
and mainland Europe as Watsky with his band, most recently as part of 2013's Vans
Warped Tour.
Tour Dates 2016:
Watsky has released several mixtapes and three studio albums, including the very well
received 'Cardboard Castles' (2013) and his most recent studio effort 'All You Can Do'
(2014). The former topped Hip-Hop Charts in the UK and North America, while the
latter was co-produced by label mate Anderson Paak, who has also toured with Watsky.
24th Sep - Academy, Dublin
26th Sep - Library, Birmingham
27th Sep - King Tuts, Glasgow
28th Sep - Club Academy, Manchester
29th Sep - Islington Assembly Hall, London
30th Sep - Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff
The release of 'X Infinity' has been preceded by the publication of George Watsky's
debut essay collection, 'How To Ruin Everything' (Penguin Random House) on 14th
June. It immediately entered the New York Times Top 10 Bestselling Non-Fiction list.
Website: http://georgewatsky.com/
Tracks: Tiny Glowing Screens Pt. 3 / Talking To Myself / Chemical Angel / Little Slice /
Springtime In New York / Pink Lemonade / Don't Be Nice / Yes Britannia / Love Letters /
Stick To Your Guns / Brave New World / Going Down / Satisfied / Conversations / Knots
/ Roses / Theories
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EASY LISTENING NEW RELEASE –
AVAILABLE NOW
Frank Sinatra – The Capitol Years 1953-62 £10.99
BT12001
805520720014
CD12
BIG 12
EASY LISTENING
BBC 4: Frank Sinatra – ‘All Or Nothing At All’ 4 part series
screened from July 2016.
12 CDs in a clamshell box with 24 page booklet with informative essay and rare pictures.
The box contains 16 original albums from Sinatra's Capitol years dating from 1953-1962 where
he is backed by orchestras fronted by the likes of Nelson Riddle and Billy May.
A compendium of definitive ballads and swing sessions where the Great American Songbook is
interpreted like never before. Through the lyrics and mood of the songs you can trace the
turbulent relationship Sinatra was experiencing with Hollywood superstar Ava Gardner.
CD 1: The Girl Next Door / They Can't Take That Away From Me / Violets For Your Furs /
Someone To Watch Over Me / My One And Only Love / Little Girl Blue / Like Someone In Love /
A Foggy Day / It Worries Me / I Can Read Between The Lines / I Get A Kick Out Of You / My
Funny Valentine / Jeepers Creepers / Taking A Chance On Love / Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams
/ Lean Baby / I Love You / I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter / Get Happy / All
Of Me / How Could You Do A Thing Like That To Me / Why Should I Cry Over You? / Sunday /
Just One Of Those Things
CD 2: In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning / Mood Indigo / Glad To Be Unhappy / I Get
Along Without You Very Well / Deep In A Dream / I See Your Face Before Me / Can't We Be
Friends? / When Your Lover Has Gone / What Is This Thing Called Love? / Last Night When We
Were Young / I'll Be Around / Ill Wind / It Never Entered My Mind / Dancing On The Ceiling / I'll
Never Be The Same / This Love Of Mine / I've Got The World On A String / From Here To
Eternity / South Of The Border / Don't Worry 'Bout Me / Anytime, Anywhere / Three Coins In
The Fountain / Rain (Falling From The Skies) / The Gal That Got Away / Young At Heart
CD 3: You Make Me Feel So Young / It Happened In Monterey / You're Getting To Be A Habit
With Me / You Brought A New Kind Of Love To Me / Too Marvellous For Words / Old Devil
Moon / Pennies From Heaven / Love Is Here To Stay / I've Got You Under My Skin / I Thought
About You / We'll Be Together Again / Makin' Whoopee / Swingin' Down The Lane / Anything
Goes / How About You? / Half As Lovely (Twice As True) / You, My Love / I Could Have Told You
/ When I Stop Loving You / Love And Marriage / Learnin' The Blues / (Love Is) The Tender Trap /
You Forgot All The Words (While I Still Remember The Tune) / Look To Your Heart / Not As A
Stranger
CD 4: Close To You / P.S. I Love You / Love Locked Out / Everything Happens To Me / It's Easy
To Remember (And So Hard To Forget) / Don't Like Goodbyes / With Every Breath I Take /
Blame It On My Youth / It Could Happen To You / I've Had My Moments / I Couldn't Sleep A
Wink Last Night / The End Of A Love Affair / Our Town / Same Old Saturday Night / Fairy Tale /
The Impatient Years / If I Had Three Wishes / I'm Gonna Live Till I Die / (How Little It Matters)
How Little We Know / Wait For Me / Hey! Jealous Lover / You're Cheatin' Yourself (If You're
Cheatin' On Me)
CD 5: Night And Day / I Wish I Were In Love Again / I Got Plenty o' Nuttin' / I Guess I'll Have To
Change My Plan / Nice Work If You Can Get It / Stars Fell On Alabama / No One Ever Tells You /
I Won't Dance / The Lonesome Road / At Long Last Love / You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To /
I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good) / From This Moment On / If I Had You / Oh! Look At Me Now
/ Crazy Love / So Long, My Love / All The Way / Witchcraft / Chicago / The Lady Is A Tramp /
Something Wonderful Happens In The Summer / Everybody Loves Somebody
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EASY LISTENING NEW RELEASE –
AVAILABLE NOW
Frank Sinatra – The Capitol Years 1953-62 £10.99
BT12001
805520720014
CD12
BIG 12
EASY LISTENING
BBC 4: Frank Sinatra – ‘All Or Nothing At All’ 4 part series
screened from July 2016.
CD 6: Where Are You? / The Night We Called It A Day / I Cover The Waterfront / Maybe You'll
Be There / Laura / Lonely Town / Autumn Leaves / I'm A Fool To Want You / I Think Of You /
Where Is The One? / There's No You / Baby Won't You Please Come Home / You'll Always Be
The One I Love / Time After Time / If You Are But A Dream / It's The Same Old Dream / I Believe
/ Put Your Dreams Away (For Another Day) / Sleep Warm / Monique / Mr. Success
CD 7: Jingle Bells / The Christmas Song / Mistletoe And Holly / I'll Be Home For Christmas / The
Christmas Waltz / Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas / The First Noel / Hark! The Herald
Angels Sing / O Little Town Of Bethlehem / Adeste Fideles (O Come All Ye Faithful) / It Came
Upon The Midnight Clear / Silent Night
CD 8: Come Fly With Me / Around The World / Isle Of Capri / Moonlight In Vermont / Autumn
In New York / On The Road To Mandalay / Let's Get Away From It All / April In Paris / London By
Night / Brazil / Blue Hawaii / It's Nice To Go Trav'ling / High Hopes / Talk To Me / French
Foreign Legion / All My Tomorrows / They Came To Cordura / River, Stay 'way From My Door /
This Was My Love / Ol' MacDonald / To Love And Be Loved / It's Over, It's Over, It's Over
CD 9: Only The Lonely / Angel Eyes / What's New? / It's A Lonesome Old Town / Willow Weep
For Me / Goodbye / Blues In The Night / Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry / Ebb Tide / Spring
Is Here / Gone With The Wind / One For My Baby(And One More For Them Road) / The Moon
Was Yellow / Sentimental Baby / The Nearness Of You / Hidden Persuasion / I Love Paris / Love
Looks So Well On You / I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues
CD 10: Come Dance With Me / Something's Gotta Give / Just In Time / Dancing In The Dark /
Too Close For Comfort / I Could Have Danced All Night / Saturday Night (Is The Loneliest Night
Of The Week) / Day In, Day Out / Cheek To Cheek / Baubles, Bangles & Beads / The Song Is You
/ The Last Dance / When No One Cares / A Cottage For Sale / Stormy Weather / Where Do You
Go? / I Don't Stand A Ghost Of A Chance With You / Here's That Rainy Day / I Can't Get Started
/ Why Try To Change Me Now? / Just Friends / I'll Never Smile Again / None But The Lonely
Heart
CD 11: Nice 'n' Easy / That Old Feeling / How Deep Is The Ocean? / I've Got A Crush On You /
You Go To My Head / Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear To Tread) / Nevertheless / She's Funny
That Way / Try A Little Tenderness / Embraceable You / Mam'selle / Dream / When You're
Smiling (The Whole World Smiles With You) / Blue Moon / S'Posin / It All Depends On You / It's
Only A Paper Moon / My Blue Heaven / Should I / September In The Rain / Always / I Can't
Believe You're In Love With Me / I Concentrate On You / You Do Something To Me
CD 12: Day By Day / Sentimental Journey / Almost Like Being In Love / Five Minutes More /
American Beauty Rose / Yes Indeed! / On The Sunny Side Of The Street / Don't Take Your Love
From Me / That Old Black Magic / Lover / Paper Doll / I've Heard That Song Before / (Ah, The
Apple Trees) When The World Was Young / I'll Remember April / September Song / A Million
Dreams Ago / I'll See You Again / There Will Never Be Another You / Somewhere Along The
Way / It's A Blue World / These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You) / As Time Goes By / I'll Be
Seeing You / Memories Of You
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FOLK NEW RELEASE - 19/08/2016
Jackie Oates & Megan Henwood –
Wings EP
DHARMACD25
5060041539322
CD
£4.99
DHARMA
FOLK
Multi award winning contemporary folk duo Jackie Oates and Megan Henwood meld
together their love of storytelling, songwriting and melody with their voices and acoustic
instruments, resulting in a fresh sound that combines both reworked traditional folk
song with original and contemporary material.
Their individual musical backgrounds are quite different yet their voices blend effortlessly,
sensitively backed by viola, guitar, sometimes piano and the accomplished double bass
player Pete Thomas.
The three met at Nettlebed Folk Club in Oxfordshire, already admiring one another's work
- they began playing music together shortly after and both Jackie and Pete contributed
heavily on Megan's last album 'Head Heart Hand'. Since then they have been working
together on new material and experimenting with arranging traditional and contemporary
songs to fit their musical vision. Working with producers Pete Brown and Tom Excell they
have recorded a 5 track EP entitled 'Wings' which features their haunting adaption of
Brain Bedford's poignant song 'What's The Use Of Wings?'.
The three have a relaxed and engaging connection onstage - two very different singers
combine their voices sinuously, telling stories in song, gracefully blending their
instruments to produce a mellifluous and sometimes melancholic soundscape.
The girls will be out on tour with bass player Pete Thomas with selected dates through July
to September including a special launch gig at St Pancras Old Church on August 25. Other
dates still tbc. but include Oxford Folk Weekend and Whitby and Yarm Festivals.
Tracks:Love Vigilantes / Bettystown / What's The Use Of Wings? / Setting Of The Sun /
Ghosts
Also Available:
ECC015 – ‘The Spyglass & The Herringbone’ (Jackie Oates)
ECC004 – ‘Saturnine’ (Jackie Oates)
DHARMACD21 – ‘Head Heart Hand’ (Megan Henwood)
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FOLK NEW RELEASE - 12/08/2016
New Christy Minstrels - Ramblin' featuring "Green,
Green" (Expanded Edition)
£12.99
RLGM4004902PMI
848064004905
CD
REAL GONE MUSIC
FOLK
The New Christy Minstrels' classic Ramblin' album has long been considered that
great group's creative high water work. Released in July of 1963, the album instantly
made the charts and stayed there for 77 weeks, earning founder Randy Sparks and his
group their first Gold Record…and bringing fame and a little "Green, Green" to one
Barry McGuire.
Now in an expanded edition loaded with rare material (including six unreleased tracks)
related to the album! You'll hear the creation of "Green, Green" – the group's biggest
hit – in unreleased versions that feature members Dolan Ellis, Jackie Miller, and Gayle
Caldwell (later "Jackie and Gayle" of Shindig fame), with Barry McGuire on only the
third verse. It's a great arrangement, very different from the hit single…and a MUST
HAVE for every Christy fan. Plus, you'll hear the German and Spanish versions of the hit
recorded just after (future Byrd) Gene Clark joined the group. PLUS…an unreleased
"live" version recorded at Randy Sparks' folk club Ledbetter's and a "gag" version with a
solo by Randy himself (teasing his group).
And, there's more…you'll hear the brilliant Nick Woods' amazing solo of "Natural Man"
– originally intended to be the follow up single to "Green, Green." Those plans were set
aside when Randy came up with a little number called "Saturday Night"… which had
"hit" written all over it. And, it was! Both songs are here…along with "The Banjo" (the
B-side of "Green, Green"), "Walk the Road", an unreleased version of "The Drinking
Gourd," and – most rare of all — a demo of "Last Farewell" (JFK's favorite Christy song)
with a pop arrangement featuring a terrific solo by Randy Sparks himself.
Tracks: Ramblin’ / Mighty Mississippi / Hi Jolly / A Travelin’ Man / Down the Ohio / The
Drinkin’ Gourd (The Muddy Road to Freedom) / Green, Green / Rovin’ Gambler /
Wagoner’s Song (Land of the Sacramento) / My Dear Mary Anne / Ride, Ride, Ride / Last
Farewell / Walk the Road (Stereo Mix) / The Banjo (Stereo Mix) / Green, Green (Original
Arrangement) / Green, Green (Original Arrangement with Doubled Chorus) / Grun, Grun
(German “Green, Green”) / The Drinkin’ Ground (Abridged Version) / Natural Man (Final
Mix in Hollywood) / Verde, Verde (Spanish “Green, Green”) / Saturday Night / Green
Green (Live at Ledbetter’s) / The Far Side of the Hill / Last Farewell (Pop Demo
Arrangements) / Green, Green (Gag Version)
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FOLK NEW RELEASE - 19/08/2016
Félix Lajkó - Most Jöttem
FA3712
5998048537129
£7.99
CD
HANGVETO
FOLK
Virtuoso variations of Félix Lajkó on folk themes for violin and zither with
extraordinary singers.
Félix Lajkó's music draws richly from the music traditions that influenced his everyday
life from childhood. This means the folk music of his native Voivodina region which
includes also Hungarian, Gypsy, and even Romanian folk music. On this record entitled
"Most jöttem/ I just arrived" we hear virtuoso variations on folk themes for violin and
zither with extraordinary singers such as Bea Palya, Gabriella Tintér and Anna
Csizmadia, and musicians such as László Porteleki, Antal Brasnyó and Gergo Szabó
Csobán.
'Félix Lajkó Folk' debuted as a formation in February 2015 during the Félix Lajkó
Marathon event at Budapest's Palace of the Arts celebrating Felix's 40th birthday. Since
then, the material has continued to develop over the course of several memorable
concerts and has now been released by Fonó.
Tracks: Még Azt Mondják / Verbunk / Harangszó / Kicsi Madár / Mi Zörög / Lassan
Kocsis / Elmegyek / Diófa / Szivaroztam / Most Jöttem / Román / Zeng A Szó
Kubinyi Julia - Magam Jarom
VLM002
5999548113479
CD
£7.99
VIVA LA MUSICA
FOLK
Júlia Kubinyi is a folk singer who won Hungary's title of 'Young Master of Folk Arts' in
2012 and the Junior Prima Award in 2013. Many know her as one of the finalists in
the 2012 Páva Folk Talent Contest broadcast on Hungarian TV. Since 2008 she has
been the Ensemble's singer.
Now her own singing work comes to the forefront with her first solo recording:
Magam Járom – On My Way.
Hungarian folk music and folk dance have been part of her everyday life since she was a
child. She grew up performing and has appeared on numerous recordings, at festivals in
Hungary and abroad, and in Hungarian folk song competitions.
She is a member of the generation that could study folk singing already in elementary
school within the framework of the music schools. She learned from her own mother
who taught singing at the music school in Salgótarján, Hungary.
She has been a student of those dedicated to Hungary's dance house movement – the
ones that started the movement and keep it alive today, and whose music and song
provide an example for young folk artists just spreading their wings.
Tracks: Kedves édesanyám / Szívesen Köszöntél / Hosszú útra Egyedül / Tova Túl A
Csengöbe / Csillag Nélkül / Aki Rózsát Adtál / Amíg élek / Szerelmes Istenem / Oda
Gyerünk, Ahol Kellünk / Dudaszó Hallatszik / Szelidecske / Kedves édesanyám / Ideje
Volna Már
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FOLK NEW RELEASE - 19/08/2016
Michel Balatti - The Northern Breeze
FY8240
885016824020
CD
£7.99
FELMAY
FOLK
The Northern Breeze is the debut solo album of Italian flute and whistle player Michel Balatti,
driving force of bands such as Birkin Tree and Liguriani. The core of the album repertoire is Irish
music, from traditional tunes to a selection of reels, jigs and slow airs by some of the
predominant contemporary composers within the tradition.
The album features Scottish guitarist Michael Bryan, multi instrumentalist Fabio Biale on most
tracks. Guest appearances by Irish flute player and singer Nuala Kennedy, Irish concertina player
Caitlin Nic Gabhann and harpist Elena Spotti. Simple artistic production and minimalistic
arrangements were chosen to highlight the strength of the melodies and the expressiveness of
Balatti's flute playing.
"I've had the great pleasure of performing on stage many times with Michel Balatti over the
years. He is a fine flute player with a thorough understanding of the style and repertoire in Irish
music. His flute playing sounds as authentically Irish as the best playing you might expect to hear
in co. Clare or Sligo. This is a beautifully arranged and produced recording". - Martin Hayes
Tracks: The Cloon / The Price Of My Pig / Coleman's March / For Johnny / Over The Edge /
Swedish Waltz / The Humours Of Giulia / Eleanor Plunkett / Harvest Moon / The Air Tune / Agata
The Devil Makes Three –
The Devil Makes Three
M2705021
789577705012
LP
£10.99
TDM3 LLC DBA KAHN RECORDS
FOLK
Vinyl version of the band's acclaimed self-titled album!!!
Download available with purchase.
The Devil Makes Three is an American band. Based in Vermont, they play a blend of bluegrass,
folk, country, indie rock and blues - all with an all-acoustic punk-rock feel. The group has three
members: Pete Bernhard (guitar), Lucia Turino (upright bass), and Cooper McBean (guitar, tenor
banjo). The band is constantly touring the U.S. all year round.
*Digital download distributed by Proper*
Tracks: The Plank / Graveyard / Beneath The Piano / Ten Feet Tall / Shades / Old Number Seven /
Chained To The Couch / To The Hilt / The Bullet / For My Family / Nobody’s Dirt Business (Bonus
Track) / Dynamite (Bonus Track) / Fun Has Just Begun (Bonus Track) / Oceans Cold (Bonus Track)
The Devil Makes Three - Do Wrong Right
M2364261
789577724112
LP
TDM3 LLC DBA KAHN RECORDS
£10.99
FOLK
The Devil Makes Three's fan favourite 2009 record, Do Wrong Right!
Download card included.
Tracks: All Hail / Do Wrong Right / Gracefully Facedown / For Good Again / Statesboro Blues /
Johnson Family / Poison Trees / Help Yourself / Working Man’s Blues / Aces And Twos / Cheap
Reward / Car Wreck
*Digital download distributed by Proper*
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JAZZ NEW RELEASE - 19/08/2016
Shirley Horn - Live at the 4 Queens
HCD2015
096802280177
CD
RESONANCE RECORDS
£8.72
JAZZ
Recorded Live at The Four Queens Hotel in Las Vegas on May 2nd, 1988 (the day after
her 54th birthday), this never-before-released sparkling set by the angora-voiced jazz
singer and pianist Shirley Horn captures her at the very beginning of her resurgence on
the jazz scene.
This is the first set of previously unreleased Shirley Horn music to be issued in over 10
years and features Horn's classic rhythm section of 25 years - Charles Ables on bass and
Steve Williams on drums.
This release boasts re-mastered audio from the original tapes, and a host of notable liner
note essays by acclaimed jazz writer James Gavin, vocalist Sheila Jordan, daughter Rainy
Smith, manager Sheila Mathis, jazz radio DJ Rusty Hassan (from her hometown of
Washington DC), producers Richard Seidel and JP Allard, and more.
Music lovers of all kinds will be lucky when they pick up this CD.
"Songs are lucky when Shirley Horn chooses them.'' - Jon Pareles, The New York Times
Audio: https://soundcloud.com/resonancejazz/sets/shirley-horn-live-at-the-fourqueens/s-5DRrk
Tracks: Hi-Fly / You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To / Meditation (Meditação) / The Boy
From Ipanema / Isn't It Romantic? / Lover Man (Oh Where Can You Be?) / Something
Happens To Me / Just For A Thrill / Blues For Big Scotia
Also Available:
SCCD31203 – ‘The Garden Of The Blues’
SCCD31111 – ‘A Lazy Afternoon’
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JAZZ NEW RELEASE - 19/08/2016
John Beasley –
Presents MONK'estra, Volume 1
MAC1113
673203111325
CD
£8.49
MACK AVENUE
JAZZ
John Beasley has shared stages with some of the most important names in jazz during his threedecade career. From his days as a member of Freddie Hubbard's quintet and one of Miles Davis'
last touring bands to his role as Music Director for Jazz Day galas for the Thelonious Monk
Institute, Beasley has had a first-hand involvement with the genre's never-ending evolution.
Thelonious Monk is a Mount Rushmore figure in the creation of modern jazz. As the centennial of
his birth rapidly approaches, Beasley - pianist, conductor and arranger - has grappled with the
complex composer's legacy with his versatile big band riffing on the wit and unmistakable
architecture of the Monk songbook with irrepressible energy and swinging abandon.
MONK'estra, Volume 1 has its roots in a commission from Los Angeles's Luckman Jazz Orchestra.
When the gig was over, Beasley felt inspired to search deeper and continued to write more
arrangements long after the performance, eventually assembling some of the finest musicians in
Los Angeles to bring the charts to life in a musician's union rehearsal room.
Amassing enough arrangements and developing a signature feel, he took the band public at Los
Angeles's jazz incubator, the Blue Whale, to sold-out crowds. With a fifteen-piece ensemble,
which includes first-call horns like Bob Sheppard, Bijon Watson, Rashawn Ross, Beasley
conducted the band with an improviser's eye - free flowing and open to solos that add to the
narrative. Since that casual debut in 2013, the band has become a fixture on the scene,
performing at Disney Hall, Jazz Standard, Ford Amphitheatre, SFJAZZ twice and most recently at
the Playboy Jazz Festival held at the world famous Hollywood Bowl.
Tracks: Epistrophy / Skippy / Oska T / Monk’s Processional (medley) / 'Round Midnight / Ask Me
Now / Gallop's Gallop / Little Rootie Tootie / Coming On The Hudson
Lucia Cadotsch - Speak Low
YEB77611
767522776119
LP
£12.99
YELLOWBIRD
JAZZ
‘Speak Low' is Lucia Cadotsch's new working band. With Petter Eldh on double bass and Otis
Sansjö on tenor saxophone, she sings a captivating beautiful collection of modern classics, like
"Gloomy Sunday", "Strange Fruit" and "Moon River". The versions carry the unmistakable
stamp of Berlin 2016. Live, minimalistic, symphonic!
What's special about this trio is the absence of both a harmonic and a rhythmic instrument. But if
you think this would narrow the trio's expressive range you are mistaken. Speak Low have
everything they need to interpret these beautiful songs in their own unique, stirring and very
contemporary way. In one place, you hear the saxophone and think of a vintage synthesizer, in
another, the strings and wood of the bass sound like the kick and claps of an 808.
This is a real band, with musicians who can play the hell out of anything and are not afraid to hold
back. Above all, Lucia Cadotsch lays it down straight. She sings freely and with pride, she uses her
gorgeous instrument like a real storyteller. What she sings always sounds real because there is a
hotline between the song and her heart.
Tracks: Slow Hot Wind / Speak Low / Strange Fruit / Ain't Got No, I Got Life / Don't Explain / Deep
Song / Some Other Spring / Willow Weep for Me / Gloomy Sunday / Moon River
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JAZZ NEW RELEASE - 19/08/2016
Euan Stevenson & Konrad Wiszniewski –
New Focus On Song
WR4690
5052442008309
CD
£7.99
WHIRLWIND RECORDINGS
JAZZ
Scottish pianist/composer Euan Stevenson and saxophonist/composer Konrad Wiszniewski
continue their musical collaboration New Focus with a second album New Focus On Song for
Whirlwind Recordings. After the critical success of their first release which featured a unique
blend of classical, jazz and Scottish Folk that was shortlisted for the 2012 Scottish Album of the
Year Award, the pair have established themselves as leading lights on the burgeoning creative
music scene in Scotland.
*Digital download distributed by Proper*
Much of the acclaim received to date for New Focus has centred on the pair's ability to write
beautiful, haunting melodies where every piece in the sequel balances emotional power with
exquisite craftsmanship. Stevenson provides the majority of the compositions and orchestrations
and largely employs the subtle palette of the first album (jazz quartet, string quartet and harp),
further enriching these textures with the addition of woodwind. Wiszniewski solos on both tenor
and soprano saxophones throughout, while on ensemble passages he and his wife Nicola
Wiszniewski a provide orchestral colour on clarinet and flute respectively with Alina Bzhezhinska
once more featured on concert harp.
The resulting chamber music is rich and varied. Both composers pay tribute to their young
daughters with heartfelt musical letters dedicated to each; but sensitivity and sweetness is
balanced with hard edged improvising on the fast swinging 'Corea Change' and the angular and
spiky 'Fourths Ostinato', whilst the folky 'Green Park' and 'Sophia's Song' (with Wiszniewski on
Celtic whistle) leave the listener in no doubt as to the composers' heritage. That being said, the
Gallic influence of Debussy, Satie and Ravel is never far away - tracks like 'Ascension' and
'Braeside' are a unique blend of French impressionism and jazz, a testament to Stevenson's
versatility as a composer/performer who is able to move seamlessly between idioms. This holistic
approach is moreover exemplified in the two short improvised solo piano vignettes which appear
as sparkling contrasts to the full ensemble dynamic.
Alive to every textural nuance is drummer/percussionist Alyn Cosker, hooking up splendidly with
the ever supportive bassist Andrew Robb. Indeed, the Glasgow String Quartet, all members of
the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, are used to working in perfect synergy, and from start to
finish all the players on this genre-defying album appear to breathe joyfully as one, a powerful
demonstration of accessible, creative music making in the 21st century.
Tracks: Air In D Minor / Green Park / Destination Unknown / Sophia's Song / Little Allegory /
Braeside / Corea Change / Ascension / Piano Interlude / Fourths Ostinato / Ascension (Reprise) /
Flora / Epilogue
Marc Ribot & The Young Philadelphians –
Live in Tokyo
YEB77601
767522776010
LP
£12.99
YELLOWBIRD
JAZZ
The Young Philadelphians pays tribute to twin legacies.
The mind-blowing harmolodic punk-funk of Ornette Coleman's first Prime Time band
and the sweet, optimistic pulse of 1970s Philly soul.
Marc Ribot enlists bassist Jamaaladeen Tacuma and drummer G. Calvin Weston, both Prime
Time alumni and Philadelphia natives, along with guitarist Mary Halvorson and a lush 3-piece
string section to do the job.
Tracks: Love Epidemic / Love TKO / Fly, Robin, Fly / TSOP / Love Rollercoaster / Do It Anyway You
Wann / The Hustle
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WORLD MUSIC NEW RELEASE - 19/08/2016
Odion Iruoje - Down To Earth
SNDWLP086
5056032304635
LP
£11.99
SOUNDWAY
WORLD MUSIC
Soundway Records are to release the only LP by Nigeria's number-one producer of the
1970s and early '80s, 'Sound President' Odion Iruoje.
Available for the first time since the 80's, it’s limited to 1000 copies worldwide and is
pressed on 180g Vinyl. The album features a limited tip-on sleeve.
Originally produced on his own label Odion Ltd and released in 1983, this over-looked and
obscure LP was originally only ever distributed in small numbers back in the early 1980s.
Iruoje is credited as being the man who signed Fela Kuti to EMI Nigeria and produced all of
Fela's revolutionary early material from 1970-73.
His first job upon being taken on by EMI Nigeria in 1969 was to be sent to London on a
work experience placement at their London studios in St. Johns Wood. When he arrived he
was pitched straight in at the deep-end, finding The Beatles deep in the recording of their
Abbey Road album. He also signed and produced most of the great body of Nigerian
material on the EMI label including BLO, Mono-Mono, Tunji Oyelana (who adds vocals on
this LP), Ofege, Geraldo Pino, Sonny Okosuns and many many more.
Part disco, part Nigerian rap, Afro-funk & Juju it's a unique and at times eccentric blend of
Nigerian music that certainly deserves another look after all these years.
Soundcloud link:
https://soundcloud.com/soundway-records/sets/odion-iruoje-down-to-earth/s-GpTDz
Tracks: Identify With Your Root (Which One You De?) / Anogo - Giri / Ikebe / Alhaja And
Obiageri / Love Care / Are Affair (Crazy Scene)
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WORLD MUSIC NEW RELEASE - 19/08/2016
Zelia Fonseca - O Terceiro Olho Da Abelha
YEB77621
767522776218
LP
YELLOWBIRD
£12.99
WORLD MUSIC
Due to her virtuosic guitar playing, her sense for original ballads and warm singing voice, each
of Zélia Fonseca's new songs catches the listener's ear quickly. The sound mixture is innovative,
unmistakable and convincing.
Among the fine musicians involved are multi-instrumentalist Marcio Tubino (Gismonti, Zawinul),
drummer lady Angela Frontera (Airto Moreira, Lou Bega), guitarist Kosho (Xavier Naidoo).
Fearless and daring Zelia's playfulness lead her to the most different, successful projects with
Jazz, World right up to recordings with Shantel (Considerando) or with the Irish House/Techno DJ
Ian Pooley (Coração Tambor). Her music has even entered into the world of Pina Bausch.
Tracks: Fora Da Rede / Coracao Abelha / No Ar / Danca Mamangava / Castelo De Areia /
Amoramento / Trilha Do Mel / Baile Do Desassossego / Choro Do Impasse / Nocolo Do Rio
Paride Peddio & Jonathan Della Marianna –
Brinca
PC0116
885016007621
CD
FELMAY
£7.99
WORLD MUSIC
Paride Peddio (melodeon) and Jonathan Della Marianna (launeddas, flutes) are two young
virtuosos of traditional Sardinian music.
"Brinca" means "Jump!" and this their first album contains ten dances repurposed in a new and
original way, to listen to, but above all to dance. They are joined by Carlo Crisponi and Federico
Di Chiara, singers of the new Sardinian folk scene, and guitarist David Pudda. To further enrich
the line-up two special guests: Elena Ledda, internationally known as the most beautiful voice of
Sardinia, and Beppe Dettori former singer of Tanca Ruja and Tazenda. "Brinca", with the strength
of these amazing young performers, demonstrates once again the vitality of a unique tradition in
the Mediterranean.
Tracks: Adios A Nugoro / A Bengasi / Anninnora / Su Pippiu / Scal'e Oru / Ballittu Cantau /
Femminas Bellas / Su Ballu 'e Bengasi / A Diosa / Po Paride
Roberto Tombesi - In 'Sta Via
CAL017
885016007423
CD
£7.99
FELMAY
WORLD MUSIC
Roberto Tombesi is one of the historical protagonists of Italian folk revival and founded the
historic ensemble Calicanto, contributing internationally to spread and revitalize the music of
Venetian tradition and northern Adriatic.
This is his first solo album entirely dedicated to melodeon and the Venetian traditional dances
collected and disseminated in a lifetime of research and concerts. 32 traditional dances, from
Dolomites to Venice lagoon areas, which are here arranged and returned to the art of dancing
and listening enjoyment with refined and elegant simplicity.
Tracks: Valsivier Di Goro / Scotis Di Casini / Menacò / Polca A 126 / Mazurca Di Cencenighe /
Mazurca Minore / Polesana / Pairis Di Lamon / Tarantella Agordina / Antica Marcia Gli Sposi /
Mazurca Il Voto / Gajarda / Do Passi / Sette Passi / Pive / Valzer N° 39 / Scotis “Gran Vechia” /
Bassanello / Vilote Lagunari / Quadriglia Di Italo / Quadriglia N° 13 / Pia / Monferrina N° 20 /
Manfrina Di Carfon / Manfrina Dei Coce / Veneziana / Furlana Di Adria / Giga Ferrarese / Subiotto
/ Balletti N° 1/ Balletti N° 2 / Ratapatà
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WORLD MUSIC NEW RELEASE - 19/08/2016
Stefano Saletti & Banda Ikona – Soundcity
FT67
8018550060773
CD
FELMAY
£7.99
WORLD MUSIC
Soundcity, the fourth record of Stefano Saletti & Banda Ikona, was born from Stefano's travels
along the "streets" of the Mediterranean. Discovering that the "Cities of Borders" bring us
music and sounds of that complexity through all of their wealth of echoes, voices and tools.
Tracks: Lampedusa Andata / Berkin'e Bak / Balar Tzigana / Azinhaga / Padri Di Noi / Sarajevo Mon
Amour / Gaza Beach / Sbendout / Balkan Trip / Tangeri / Lampedusa Ritorno
Ustad Rahim Khushnawaz –
Afghan Rubab With Songbirds
FY8238
885016823825
CD
£7.99
FELMAY
WORLD MUSIC
An unusual CD presenting the 1994 recordings of one of the greatest masters of
Afghan traditional music, Ustad Rahim Khushnawaz. He plays the rubab,
the national instrument of Afghanistan.
His wonderful renditions of folk pieces, classic songs, and two Afghan ragas were recorded by his
friend Veronica Doubleday, in the relaxed atmosphere of his home in Herat, western
Afghanistan. Of special interest is the beautiful singing of his two canaries, the remarkable
expressive interaction between a musician and his songbirds makes these recordings unique.
Some tracks feature solo rubab, but most include drum accompaniment by musicians visiting the
house. The CD has a fully informative 16-page booklet.
Tracks: Rag Shivaranjani / Asadullah Jan / Be Nok-e Panjeh Mirawi / Mahamud-e Ghaznawi /
Peimaqneh Bedeh / Rag Talang / Saqi Por Kon Saghar-e Mei / Dar Daman-e Sahra Am / Bolbol Ze
Tu Amukhteh Shirin Sokhanira / Beshnau Az Ney / Atan / Ambient Sound Of Birds
WORLD MUSIC DVD NEW RELEASE - 15/08/2016
The Return Of Ruben Blades
MVD7498BR
760137749899
BLU RAY
WIENERWORLD
£10.21
WORLD MUSIC/DOCUMENTARY
"Robert Mugge is a filmmaker with a music critic's sensibility. His good taste in subjects is
matched by the subtle way in which he lets his movies reveal all the music that fits. The result is
filmmaking that informs and entertains, and in the age of overblown music videos and the
blatantly artful hard sell of music, Mugge's movies are a relief to watch.
For salsa fans, ‘The Return Of Ruben Blades’ is a must-see. Politicos looking for a credible and
humane view on the fire down below our borders, and people interested in the evolving
dynamics of pop culture will likewise find engaging ideas and insights in Mugge's most recent
effort...a refreshing portrait of an artist with a demonstrative grace and an irresistible beat.
Listening to Blades discuss his work and then seeing him perform it onstage with his band is a
lesson in humility, courage and musicianship. He's an immensely likeable person...a movie
natural.
What finally emerges in ‘The Return Of Ruben Blades’ is not really a platform for political insight
or a profile of the heir apparent to the Latin music traditions of Machito, Tito Puente, and Ray
Barretto. The film certainly is ripe with both, but there's a larger, more passionate statement to
be made. Mugge's affectionate and smart movie is a vision shared by two soulmates who believe
the world can be discovered and better understood through music."
- Martin Keller, Twin Cities Reader (Minneapolis/St. Paul)
Tracks: Buscando America / Pedro Navaja / Tiburon / Silencios / Muevete / Todos Vuelven / Mack
The Knife
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BOOKS NEW RELEASE – AVAILABLE NOW
Godmachine - The Art Of Godmachine
FGP001
9780992836603
BOOK
GODMACHINE
£13.99
ROCK
A true original who bleeds passion with every stroke. Godmachine is a powerhouse.
This lavishly produced art book is the first ever collection of the unique and ground
breaking art of one of the UK's leading cult artists. Twisted Dark fantasy, Modern Heavy
Metal, New School Tattoo, Horror... Godmachine has blazed the trail and although many
artists have followed his path Godmachine is the original and he remains unique, his
illustrative style stands alone... he is simply the best at what he does.
The book showcases many of his best art pieces, sketches and through many quotes taken
from interviews the book gives insight into the mind and humour of the artist himself. In
'The Art of Godmachine' you will see an artist who is at the peak of his powers and who is
revered by his contemporaries. This book will inspire you and its power will stay with you.
Godmachine is an illstrator based out of Wales, with some seriously nasty skills. Growing
up and working as an electrician and bricklayer as a young lad, it was skateboard graphics
through which he rekindled his connection to art.
Influenced by artists such as Horsebites, Giger, Aubery Beardsley, Klimt, Richard James,
Calvin and Hobbes and anyone who drew for 2000AD during the 90s, it's probobly fair to
say that he does a bit of influencing himself these days.
As a freelance artist, Godmachine's art graces skateboards and band merchandise such as
t-shirts, album covers and posters.
Foil blocked case jacket
192 Pages.
Dimensions: 340 x 288mm
Printed on 170gsm matt art paper
Hardback
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BOOKS NEW RELEASE – AVAILABLE NOW
Tom Sheehan - Aim High - Paul Weller In
Photographs 1978 – 2015
£17.99
9780992836641
9780992836641
BOOK
GODMACHINE
ROCK
Our latest project is a stunning photographic history of the Mod-legend Paul Weller,
by celebrated Music photographer Tom Sheehan. Encompassing his incredible career from
The Jam, to The Style Council and his solo work, the book features a foreword by Paul Weller
himself and an essay written by the critically acclaimed music journalist Simon Goddard.
Book size ( including slipcase) 304 x 265 x 42mm
240 pages
3mm rigid slipcase
Printed on 150gms matt art paper
Hardback
Index - The Visual Language of Steven Wilson &
Porcupine Tree
£13.99
9780992836634
9780992836634
BOOK
GODMACHINE
ROCK
A deluxe hardback collection illustrating the visual language of Steven Wilson by his longterm collaborators Lasse Hoile & Carl Glover. The book covers the period from Porcupine
Tree's 2002 album "In Absentia" up to Steven's fourth solo album "Hand. Cannot. Erase."
from early 2015.
240 Pages. 340 Pictures.
Dimensions: 266 x 273mm
Printed on 150 gsm
Luxury Hardback
Todd Slater –
The Rock Poster Art Of Todd Slater
9780992836627
9780992836627
BOOK
£6.99
GODMACHINE
ROCK
Based in Austin, Texas, Todd Slater is one of the world's leading gig poster artists. This book is
a retrospective on Slater's extensive and incredible gig poster artwork for some of the biggest
bands around, including Arctic Monkeys, Neil Young, Fleetwood Mac, Queens of The Stone
Age and many, many more.
Bake In Black
9780992836610
9780992836610
£6.99
BOOK
GODMACHINE
ROCK/COOKERY
Bake In Black draws influence from the world of rock and heavy metal to create edible
tributes in the kitchen. This cookbook is a music themed collection with 58 sweet
indulgences. Written by Eve O’Sullivan & Dave O’Sullivan
160 Pages.
Dimensions: 221 x 187mm
Printed on 150gsm
Hardback
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BLUES NEW RELEASE - 19/08/2016
Peter Green - Very Best Of
SMACD1063
636551706322
CD2
£5.50
MADFISH
BLUES
Deluxe 2CD set collecting the finest recordings from the British Blues legend's work with
Splinter Group, Peter Green is widely regarded as one of the finest guitarists of his generation.
His virtuoso blues playing was an integral part of the sound of the original Fleetwood Mac,
which he founded in 1967.
In the early '70s Green left the band and he was to spend much of the next three decades in the
wilderness, battling a number of health issues. He re-emerged in the late 1990s, performing with the
Peter Green Splinter Group. Between 1997 and 2004, Green and the group recorded seven albums
and this 2CD set collects the best recordings from these all albums for the first time.
The highlights include tracks from the W.C. Handy award winning album The Robert Johnson
Songbook', guest appearances from Paul Rodgers, Buddy Guy, Otis Rush, Dr John and Hubert
Sumlin and live renditions of the Fleetwood Mac classic 'The Green Manalishi'.
The 2016 Madfish edition will be presented in a media book with a 20 page colour booklet.
CD 1: Look On Yonder Wall (Live) / The Stumble (Live) / Steady Rollin' Man (Live) / It Takes Time
(Live) / When You Got A Good Friend / Walkin' Blues / Ramblin' On My Mind / Me And The Devil
Blues / Sweet Home Chicago / The Supernatural / Shake Your Hips / Last Fair Deal Gone Down / If I
Had Possession Over Judgement Day / The Green Manalishi / Big Change Is Gonna Come / Heart Of
Stone
CD 2: Burglar / Hiding In Shadows / Man Of The World / Dead Shrimp Blues / Little Queen Of Spades
/ They're Red Hot / Crossroad Blues / Come On In My Kitchen / Downsize Blues (Repossess My Body)
/ Feeling Good / Time Keeps On Slipping Away / Underway (feat Snowy White) / Ain't Nothin' Gonna
Change It / Look Out For Yourself / Don't Walk Away / I'm Ready For You
Johnny Rawls - Here We Go
JSP3004
0788065300425
£7.79
CD
JSP
BLUES
This wonderful album, full of terrific songs and performances, kicked off Johnny's international
career. He was soon hitting the European and festival circuit.
It's the start of several years of collaboration with JSP, where Johnny became variously A&R man,
songwriter, producer and bandleader on a series of acclaimed CDs.
This first Johnny Rawls album also helped to widen the audience for Southern Soul/Blues and it's
all Johnny. We work through a bunch of songs where the words 'groove' and 'soul' spring to mind.
Johnny loves those mid-tempo loping rhythms and there are plenty of examples here such as
'What A Night', 'Don't Worry About It' and 'Sweet Woman'. The slow blues 'I Got A Problem' and
the deep 'I Feel So Good' further illustrate his command of the Soul/Blues genre.
Tracks: Here We Go / Old Flame / I Would Be Nothing / Don’t Worry About It / Working My Way
Back To You / Sweet Woman / What A Night / I Got A Problem / Gonna Put You Down / Candy
Man / I Feel So Good
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BLUES NEW RELEASE - 19/08/2016
Harlem Hamfats –
Masters Of Jazz & Blues 1936-1944
JSP77201
0788065720124
CD4
£11.40
JSP
BLUES/JAZZ
A&R man Mayo Williams had an idea: combine blues with more popular material. He put
trumpeter Herb Morand and clarinettist Odell Rand with Joe and Charlie McCoy and party
pianist Horace Malcolm to form the Harlem Hamfats - a name blending the sophisticated
and the downhome.
The result was good time music, played with the skill and panache of experienced session players.
It's rare to encounter music that's both classy and just downright fun. Here's some. Enjoy it.
CD 1: Oh! Red / Lake Providence Blues / Live And Die For You / New Oh Red! / What You Gonna
Do / She’s Gone Again / Let’s Get Drunk And Truck / Move Your Hand / Sales Tax On It (But Its The
Same Thing) / You Done Tore Your Playhouse Down / Little Girl / Southern Blues / My Garbage
Man / Weed Smokers Dream / If You Want To Live / I Feel Like A Millionaire / Bad Luck Man / My
Daddy Was A Lovin Man / Shes Trickin Me / We Gonna Pitch A Boogie (Tk A) / Hamfat Swing /
Who Done It / Growling Dog / We Gonna Pitcha Boogie (Tk C) / Keep It Swinging Round And
Round / Ooh-wee Babe / I Dont Want You Loving Me / Shes A Mellow Mother For You
CD 2: Hallelujah Joe Aint Preachin No More / Whats My Baby Doin / It Was Red / I Feel Like Going
To Town / Im So Glad / Jam Jamboree / Down In Shady Lane / Im Cuttin Out / Hoodooin Woman
/ I Love That / My Old Lady Blues / Baby Dont You Tear My Clothes / You Drink Too Much / Empty
Bed Blues / Let Your Linen Hang Low / If Youre A Viper / Rosetta Blues / Its Your Turn / Lets Fall In
Love Again / Worried Mind Blues / Tempo De Bucket / You Got The Devil To Pay / Times A-Wastin
/ Black Gal You Better Use Your Head / Root Hog Or Die / You Got To Be Satisfied / Toodle Oo
Blues / Rampart And Gravier Blues
CD 3: Whats On Your Mind / Broken Hearted Blues / We Gonna Move / Back Door / You Done
Tore Your Pants With Me / Save Me Some / Dont Start No Stuff / Let Me Feel It / Little Girl / Id
Rather Be With You / Im In So Much Trouble Now / I Believe I ll Make A Change / It Will Never
Happen Again / Trading Old Love For New / Stay On It / Delta Bound / You Got To Go When The
Wagon Comes / How Long Baby (Will You Keep Me This Way) / Harlem Jamboree / Mellow Little
Devil / The Barefoot Boy / Stomp It Out Gate / The Candy Man / Oh Rider / Stay Away From My
Door / All On Account Of You / Youve Had Your Last Good Time With Me
CD 4: What Was You Doing / Something Wrong With My Mind / Way Down That Lonely Road /
When The Sun Goes Down In Harlem / Thats Going To Ruin Your Beauty Spot / Bartenders Blues /
Ready For The River / Rockin Myself To Sleep / Business Is Gone Away / You Done Turned Salty On
Me / You Brought Me Everything But Love / Oh Babe Has Your Money Come / Take Me In Your
Alley / You Can’t Win In Here / When My Love Has Come Down / If You Take Me Back: Big Joe &
His Washboard Band / Im Through With You: Big Joe & His Washboard Band / When You Said
Goodbye: Big Joe & His Washboard Band / I Love You Baby: Big Joe & His Washboard Band / What
Will I Do: Big Joe & His Rhythm / Oh Red’s Twin Brother: Big Joe & His Rhythm / We Can’t Agree:
Big Joe & His Rhythm / Lets Try It Again: Big Joe & His Rhythm / I ll Get You Off My Mind: Big Joe
& His Rhythm / It Aint No Lie: Big Joe & His Rhythm / Your Money Cant Buy Me: Big Joe & His
Rhythm / Im Alright Now: Big Joe & His Rhythm
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COUNTRY NEW RELEASE - 12/08/2016
Marty Robbins - Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs
(Limited Magenta Vinyl Edition)
£15.99
RLGM4004691PMI
848064004691
LP
REAL GONE MUSIC
COUNTRY
Real Gone Music is proud to present the original mono version of what most folks consider to
be the single greatest postwar album of Western music, Marty Robbins' Gunfighter Ballads and
Trail Songs.
Everything about this album is iconic, from its "quick draw" cover art to the songs it contains—
"Big Iron," "Cool Water," "The Master's Call," "Billy the Kid," "The Strawberry Roan," and, of
course, "El Paso" (here in its rare, full-length version)— that have come to define the Western
genre. And the music has never sounded better than it does here: our limited edition (of 360
copies) magenta vinyl pressing was remastered by Vic Anesini at Battery Studios in New York with
lacquer cutting by Kevin Gray. Comes complete with the amazing original album art, too…a classic
album now even more collectible than before!
Tracks: Big Iron / Cool Water / Billy the Kid / A Hundred and Sixty Acres / They’re Hanging Me
Tonight / Strawberry Roan / El Paso / In the Valley / The Master’s Call / Running Gun / Down in
the Little Green Valley / Utah Carol
Diamond Rio - The Definitive Hits Collection
RLGM4004892PMI
848064004899
CD2
REAL GONE MUSIC
£14.99
COUNTRY
Oddly enough for a band that started as an attraction at the Opryland theme park,
Diamond Rio turned out to be more authentic and original than most any of their country
contemporaries, eschewing session musicians to sing and play everything on just about
every song they recorded.
Add crisp, multi-part harmony arrangements and excellent songwriting to that streak of
homegrown creativity and you had, along with Alabama, the biggest country group of the '90s,
whom The Definitive Hits Collection celebrates by living up to its name with 31 of the 33 hits
Diamond Rio notched during its unparalleled run on the Arista Nashville label. The 40-song set
leads off "Meet in the Middle," the only debut single EVER to hit #1 on the charts, and doesn't let
up with such chart-toppers as "How Your Love Makes Me Feel," "One More Day," "Beautiful
Mess," and "I Believe," plus such favorites as "Love a Little Stronger," "Walkin' Away," "You're
Gone," and more. Notes by Bill Kopp round out the set. By far the biggest and best Diamond Rio
collection ever!
CD 1: Meet in the Middle / Mirror Mirror / Mama Don’t Forget to Pray for Me / Norma Jean Rile /
Nowhere Sound / In a Week or Two / Close to the Edge / Oh Me, Oh My, Sweet Baby / This
Romeo Ain’t Got No Julie Yet / Sawmill Road / Lyin’ Eyes / Love a Little Stronger / Night Is Fallin’ in
My Heart / Ten Feet Away / Kentucky Mine / Workin’ Man Blues / Bubba Hyde / Finish What We
Started / Walkin’ Away / That’s What I Get for Loving You
CD 2: It’s All in Your head / Holdin’ / How Your Love Makes Me Feel / Imagine That / You’re Gone
/ Unbelievable / Two Pump Texaco / I Know How the River Feels / Stuff / One More Day / Sweet
Summer / That’s Just That / I’m Trying / Hearts Against the Wind / Beautiful Mess / I Believe /
Wrinkles / One Believer / God Only Cries / Walking in Jerusalem
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EASY LISTENING NEW RELEASE - 12/08/2016
Mitch Miller - The Definitive Collection
RLGM4004882PMI
848064004882
CD
REAL GONE MUSIC
£13.99
EASY LISTENING
There was never anybody like Mitch Miller in the music business. And there never will be again.
Head of A&R for Columbia for over 15 years, star of his own television show on NBC,
accomplished oboist and enormously influential on pop music during the '50s and early '60s,
producing and nurturing the careers of such popular artists as Doris Day, Frankie Laine, Jo
Stafford, Johnny Mathis, Guy Mitchell and many others, while famously passing on more rock
and roll-oriented acts like Elvis, The Beatles, and Buddy Holly.
But Miller's contribution didn't stop there—he was also a successful recording artist in his own
right, recording 13 Top Ten albums and a series of bestselling singles with an orchestra and
chorus, often credited to Mitch Miller and the Gang. Spanning the years 1950 to 1962, The
Definitive Collection covers virtually his entire recording career at Columbia. Gene Sculatti's notes
(festooned with photos from the Columbia vault) trace a career arc like no other in the annals of
the music industry. 38 freshly remastered tracks.
CD 1: The Yellow Rose of Texas / Tzena, Tzena, Tzena / Meet Mister Callaghan / Autumn Leaves
(Les feuilles mortes) / Lisbon Antigua (In Old Lisbon) / Song for a Summer Night / Elaine (Gitane) /
Napoleon / Without My Lover (Bolero Gaucho) / Under Paris Skies (Sous le ciel de Paris) / The
Bonnie Blue Gal / Piece for English Horn / Greensleeves / Song of Delilah / The Bowery Grenadiers
/ Medley: The River Kwai March/Colonel Bogey March / The Children’s Marching Song (Nick Nack
Paddy Whack) / You Are My Sunshine / Do-Re-Mi
CD 2: Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree (With Anyone Else but Me) / On Top of Old Smokey /
Shenandoah / When the Red Robin Comes Bob Bob Bobbin’ Along / Tunes of Glory / Jeepers
Creepers / It’s Only a Paper Moon / Red River Valley / That Old Gang of Mine / The Longest Day /
I’ll Take You Home Again, Kathleen / Beautiful Ohio / The Gang That Sang “Heart of My Heart” /
The Whistler and His Dog / By the Light of the Silvery Moon / Bidin’ My Time / Jeanie with the
Light Brown Hair / The Guns of Navarone / Goodnight Sweetheart
ELECTRONIC NEW RELEASE - 19/08/2016
Liz Durette - Six Improvisations
CSEHSESS021
634457729742
MC
£3.99
EHSE RECORDS
ELECTRONIC
Ehse is proud to announce the arrival of ‘Six Improvisations’, the debut tape by Baltimorebased keyboardist and composer Liz Durette. 2013 began a series of electrifying performances,
with Liz galvanizing new song forms of tonal intimacy and profound technical expansion. Having
adopted a Rhodes electric piano as her instrument in this period, live outings found local
venues submerged in near-total environments of physical soundswell.
‘Six Improvisations’ captures all of the excitement of Liz’s live excursions, while offering what
might be more private expressions from an enclosed studio environment. Captured in but a few
evenings, we find Liz exploring heights of spiritual wander, spectral ecstasy, tension and release,
abandoning this reality for myriad others, yet never relinquishing command of the keys. Flowing
from one structural invention to another, clouds of sustain crackle, twinkling rhythms jump and
skitter about, melodies flow. Modern pastorals, cerebral invocations, sure-handed melodic
puzzles that resolve, implode, dissolve, and in some instances cease to exist.
Tracks: (9:45) / (3:06) / (4:15) / (3:44) / (9:47) / (1:37)
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POP NEW RELEASE – AVAILABLE NOW
Breathe – This Shining Moment –
Recordings 1986-1990
FGRBOX1
0797776132317
LP BOX SET
£17.99
GODMACHINE
POP
Flood Gallery Records is proud to announce its debut release, a deluxe vinyl box set in
homage to the superb 80s band, Breathe.
The Shining Moment - Recordings 1986 to 1990 contains both Breathe studio albums, All
That Jazz (1988) and Peace of Mind (1990) as well as early seven-inch single In all Honesty
and a coloured 12-inch single that features the USA extended version of their biggest hit
Hands to Heaven and a selection of B-sides.
These albums have been out-of-print on vinyl for a quarter of a century and have been recut from the original masters. Original album artwork (inner and outer sleeve) is respected
and the vinyl will reside in a rigid board box which will also contain a 64-page book with
photos and lyrics.
Breathe were the first UK group to have 3 top 10 singles from a debut album on the US
Billboard Hot 100, 'Hands to Heaven' (US #2, UK #4), 'How Can I Fall' (US #3) AND 'Don't
Tell Me Lies' (US #10).
LP 1: Jonah / All That Jazz / Monday Morning Blues / Hands To Heaven / All This I Should
Have Known / Don’t Tell Me Lies / Any Trick / Liberties Of Love / Won’t You Come Back? /
For Love Or Money / How Can I Fall?
LP 2: I Hear You're Doing Fine / Say A Prayer / Does She Love That Man? / Mississippi
Water / Will The Circle Be Unbroken? / Woman / Got To Get By / Say Hello / Where Angels
Fear / Without Your Love / A Perfect Love
Coloured 12”: Hands to Heaven (Extended Heaven) / Moments / Stay / Life and Times
7” Single: In All Honesty / Take A Little Time
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POP NEW RELEASE - 12/08/2016
Dusty Springfield –
Faithfull (Limited Orange Vinyl Edition)
RLGM4004441PMI
848064004448
LP
REAL GONE MUSIC
£15.99
POP
These stunning pop, soul and gospel flavored selections showcase the iconic singer at the height of
her vocal magic. A missing/jumbled part of Dusty's august recorded legacy, finally set right and
available in its intended format. Out on orange vinyl limited to 600 copies!
In 1971, Atlantic Records released a pair of Dusty Springfield singles produced by the legendary
songwriter/producer Jeff Barry (one-time songwriting and romantic partner of Ellie Greenwich, and
author of too many hits to name): "Haunted"/"Nothing Is Forever" and "I Believe In You"/"Someone
Who Cares." A restless Dusty, freshly relocating to America from her native England, then departed the
label and left an additional 9 songs recorded with Barry in the can, where they stayed until Rhino issued
one track, "Faithful" (in mono), as a bonus track on the 1990s CD release of Dusty's 1970 Atlantic album
A Brand New Me. The other tracks didn't surface until a subsequent deluxe reissue of Dusty's landmark
1969 album Dusty in Memphis included them as bonus cuts.
Now, reissue producer Jim Pierson—who tracked down the missing masters after being lost for over
two decades —has assembled Dusty's Barry-produced masters and put them together in a single
package for the first time to create the third Dusty Springfield Atlantic Records album as planned in
1971. Real Gone Music's release of Faithful on LP presents these historic Barry-Springfield
collaborations exactly as they were originally intended to be heard, with the 12 tracks meant for the
album release finally out on vinyl 45 years later.
Tracks: I'll Be Faithful / Live Here With You / Haunted / Someone Who Cares / Make It With You / Love
Shine Down / I Believe In You / Have A Good Life Baby / Natchez Trace / All The King's Horses / You've
Got A Friend / I Found My Way Through The Darkness
Various Artists - Baking Songs
CRIMCD589
654378058929
CD3
£4.99
CRIMSON
POP
Sixty feel good songs across 3CD’s whether to bake to, cook to, or just enjoy. Packed full of Top 40
hits including SEVENTEEN UK No.1’s + FOURTY SEVEN TOP TEN HITS!
Released in time for the new series of ‘The Great British Bake Off’ which runs for 9 weeks concluding
with ‘National Baking Week’ on 17th October. The series accounted for seven of the Top Ten mostwatched TV shows of 2015.
CD 1; Anastacia I’m Outta Love / Jennifer Lopez Waiting for Tonight / Five Keep on Movin’ / Backstreet
Boys I Want It That Way / Earth, Wind & Fire with The Emotions Boogie Wonderland / The Jacksons
Can You Feel It / Labelle Lady Marmalade / Dolly Parton 9 to 5 / Cyndi Lauper Girls Just Want to Have
Fun / Nena 99 Red Balloons / Belinda Carlisle Heaven Is A Place On Earth / Kenny Loggins Footloose /
Bonnie Tyler Holding Out for a Hero / Matthew Wilder Break My Stride / Len Steal My Sunshine / Ciara
Goodies / Toni Braxton Un-Break My Heart / Shawn Mullins Lullaby / A1 Take On Me / Westlife You
Raise Me Up
CD 2: Dead Or Alive You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) / The Pointer Sisters Jump (For My Love) /
Donna Summer This Time I Know It’s For Real / Alexander O’Neal Criticize / SOS Band Just Be Good To
Me / TLC Waterfalls / Sophie B. Hawkins Right Beside You / Real McCoy Another Night / Tina Arena
Chains / Starship Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now / REO Speedwagon Keep on Loving You / Meat Loaf
with Cher Dead Ringer for Love / Toto Rosanna / Odyssey Use It Up and Wear It Out / Baccara Yes Sir, I
Can Boogie / Bucks Fizz Making Your Mind Up / Daryl Hall & John Oates Out of Touch / Altered Images
Happy Birthday / Haircut 100 Fantastic Day / The Isley Brothers Summer Breeze, Pt. 1
CD 3: DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince Summertime / M People Moving On Up / Des’ree Life / Steps
Tragedy / ‘N Sync Bye Bye Bye / Gloria Estefan Everlasting Love / Barry Manilow Copacabana (At the
Copa) (‘93 Remix Version) / Leo Sayer You Make Me Feel Like Dancing / Sweet Ballroom Blitz / Bay City
Rollers Bye Bye Baby / New Seekers You Won’t Find Another Fool / Showaddywaddy Dancin’ Party /
The Three Degrees When Will I See You Again / Raffaella Carrà Do It Do It Again (A Far L’Amore
Comincia Tu) / Vicki Sue Robinson Turn the Beat Around / Tina Charles I Love to Love / DJ Otzi Hey
Baby / Men Without Hats Safety Dance / DJ Sammy The Boys Of Summer / Groove Armada At the
River
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RAP/HIP-HOP NEW RELEASE AVAILABLE NOW
Gensu Dean & Denmark Vessey –
Whole Food (Coloured Vinyl)
MMG000881
888608666657
LP
MELLO MUSIC GROUP
£10.99
RAP/HIP-HOP
These days everything you consume has to be checked - a vibrant outside can hide a genetically
modified Frankenstein interior. Finding that 100% organically grown with no artificial rhymes
can be difficult. This album is for those looking for something less calculated.
Powerful production runs the range from soulful, funk filled, and hard knocking to cool, laid back
easy nodders. The rhymes are politically aware without taking themselves too serious - so from
the occasional judo chop to the need for sexy, dirty slutty money - Denmark explores life from the
perspective of a man who grew up on minimum wage and butter sandwiches but has grown into
a self-aware scholar.
Lyrics don't sugar coat anything -no matter how rough that truth might appear: "The fleek shall
inherit the Earth and the meek shall be buried in dirt - ain't nothing sweet." Denmark delivers
existential truths while still throwing in a "where the hoes at?" A street savvy album that
explores Black love, brutality, capitalism's grip on our daily thoughts, and the connection it all has
to our ancestors. Gensu Dean has produced for David Banner, Large Professor, Roc Marciano,
and more, while Denmark Vessey has had his praises sung by the likes of Earl Sweatshirt. This is
that sh*t to get you through sh*t.
Tracks: Intro / The Meek / Whole Food / Ode to XX Chromosome / Saturday / Black Love (feat.
7evenThirty & Iman Omari / Gun Emoji (Bang) / Biscuits & Gravy / Racka Lamb / Broken Petal /
Surreal N_gga / Let's Go (Move)
REGGAE NEW RELEASE - 19/08/2016
Various Artists - Jah Golden Throne
ZHP006
0609788036906
CD
ZION HIGH PRODUCTION
£3.50
REGGAE
A classic roots collecton.
Featuring artists old and new from across the reggae spectrum, Zion High Productions presents
an album of all original riddim tracks with studio work anchored by Zion I Kings, David “Jah
David” Goldfine/ Zion High Productions, Alfred “Tippy” Laurent from I Grade, and Andrew
“Moon” Bain of Lustre Kings.
As is the usual scenario from this collective, there are high level production values, the use of
intriguing effects, dazzling horns and vintage keyboard sounds and the result feels organic and
clean, pure and spacious.
The singers are so comfortable in the tunes, it really feels like a jam session in the old time sense
where the singers and musician vibes build in the live setting, not through email or hard drives
but while in the same room, breathing the same air.
Tracks: Empress Omega - Chet Samuel / Fall On Me - Glen Washington / Make It Work - Tippa Irie
& Lloyd Glen / Race Of Life - Lutan Fyah / Babylon Yuh Wrong - Cornel Campbell & U Roy / Set A
Way - General JAH Michael / World Needs Love - Jahdan Blaakamoore / Y Should Yee - Arkaingelle
/ Just So That You Know - Lloyd Brown / Culture Inna Yuh Face - Pressure / Towerful - Prezident
Brown / Nowhere To Run - Marcia Ball / Life To Live - Messenjah Selah / Showers Of Blessings Mr Mention / Crown I Got - Toussaint / Highway To Zion - Jah Bless
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REGGAE NEW RELEASE - 19/08/2016
Glen Washington - Masterpiece
ZHP007
910371649640
CD
ZION HIGH PRODUCTION
£3.50
REGGAE
Glen Washington is a different sort of reggae artist. A 25-year veteran in the industry, he
started out as a drummer, and was actually known as the "singing drummer" at a certain point
in his career. He brings that ability to his songwriting, which means he brings the songs to life
using his sense of being "in the pocket" with phrasing and song ideas that engage the listener.
Washington's trademark husky vocals are unassuming, steeped in the rich tradition of the varied
music of the African Diaspora, with influences from gospel and soul and the roots of reggae as
well as meant, its folk music predecessor.
This release includes the input of the Zion High partners, I Grade and Lustre Kings all of whom
lend their expert hands, ears and heads in making the rhythms and teaming with the artist.
Tracks: There Is A Joy / Take Away The Whip / Puppet Master / Let Me Have My Way / I Must Be
Dreaming / Chant Down Wickedness / More Than I Desire / When We Pray / Fall On Me / Highest
Quality / Why Worry / Jah Oneness / My Vision / One Way / Lovelife / One Thing On My Mind /
Dark Days Are Gone
General Jah Mikey - Original Yard Food
£3.50
ZHP008
REGGAE
700220552821
CD
ZION HIGH PRODUCTION
Commanding seductive control over the music and the message, General Jah Mikey serves up a
nourishing roots reggae release on his new album, Original Yard Food, produced by critically
acclaimed Zion High Productions.
For those of you hungry for real reggae music, Original Yard Food showcases that authentic
signature sound, a powerful intersection between edgy riddim selections combined with breezy
lyrics or, on the other hand, driving drum and bass lines with hardcore message music. The
thirteen tracks on Original Yard Food include up to the time reggae one-drop riddims, electrifying
deejay segments, dub breakdowns and even jazzy explorations. And here, General Jah Mikey’s
husky tenor adds yet another layer of cool and deadly vibes producing a subtly sweet listening
experience even on the most hard hitting reality tunes.
Tracks: Good Life / Hard Time Pressure / Recession / Love That Is Real / Heartbeat Music / Love
Yourself / From Way Back / Set A Way / Deal With It Crabit / Easy Squeezie / Calling Ras Tafari /
Inna Light / Rise Up
Buju (Dub) Banton - Dubbing With The Banton
£3.50
PHCD2096
REGGAE
737748209623
CD
REGGAE COLLECTABLES
Dubbing with the Banton is an underground dub album by dancehall/reggae artist
Buju Banton released in 2000. The album is among the rarest Buju Banton albums ever as
it was a limited release, primarily issued in Jamaica.
Tracks: What You Go Do - DUB / How Could You - Dub / Chuch It So - Dub / Untold Stories - Dub /
Wanna Be Loved - Dub / Hills & Valley - Dub / Give I Strength - Dub / Close One Yesterday - Dub /
Destiny - Dub
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RELIGIOUS NEW RELEASE - 19/08/2016
Rev. Luther Barnes - The Favor Of God
£8.49
SHANCD5835
GOSPEL
016351583529
CD
SHANACHIE
Grammy-nominated artist Rev. Luther Barnes has been one of Gospel's finest singers,
songwriters, producers and spiritual forces over the past three decades.
'The Favor Of God' is a sparkling set of new recordings that takes the legacy of the Red
Budd Gospel Choir into the contemporary arena. Featuring the lead vocals of both
Luther and his wife Deborah (the voice of Red Budd's "I'm Still Holding On" smash), The
Favor Of God delivers Barnes' trademark quality production on a varied set of Gospel
ballads as well as uptempo selections.
Tracks: One More Time / God’s Grace / Old Saints Praise / Blessed Be The Name Of The
Lord / Feel The Fire / Jesus Is A Friend To Me / Even Then / The Favor Of God / You're
My God / In The Cross / Stay Focused / God’s Grace (extended Radio Mix)
Compagnia Sacco Di Ceriana –
Tabulae - Chants Of Holy Easter Weeks
FY8237
885016823726
CD
FELMAY
£7.99
RELIGIOUS/CLASSICAL
Compagnia Sacco, from 90 years now, is one of the most authentic and exciting
examples of traditional Italian polyphony. In the small village of Ceriana (Liguria) is
still alive a vocal style based on the strong presence of the vocal bass drone.
In this album, they present the complete collection of ancient songs performed by
Ceriana's Brotherhoods on the occasion of the Holy Week rites, sacred songs in Latin.
Arousing feelings of deep emotion and profound spirituality.
Tracks: Miserere Della Misericordia / Stabat Mater Di Santa Caterina / Miserere Della
Visitazione / Domine Jesu Christe / Miserere Di Santa Caterina D'Alessandria / Stabat
Mater Della Visitazione / Miserere Di Santa Marta / Lauda Da Madona Da Vila / Alma
Contempla / Quasi Cedrus
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SOUL/R&B NEW RELEASE - 12/08/2016
Wilson Pickett - Land Of 1000 Dances - The Complete
Atlantic Singles Vol. One
£11.99
RLGM4004872PMI
848064004875
CD
REAL GONE MUSIC
SOUL/R&B
Here, in one smokin' hot set, are the first 22 single sides that the great Wilson Pickett
recorded for the Atlantic label, some of the most hallowed recordings in the history of
soul music. Along with the intoxicating mix of hits and rare B-sides that come with the
territory on a singles collection, you also get those punchy mono single
mixes/versions that bring out the raw excitement of these seminal performances, not
to mention the incredible musicianship of folks like Steve Cropper, Al Jackson, Donald
"Duck" Dunn, and Isaac Hayes.
Indeed, even if you purchased Rhino Handmade's collection of Pickett's complete
Atlantic studio sessions, you don't own the single versions—this volume (and the two to
come after it) are necessary complements to that outstanding set. Remastered by Mike
Milchner from sources derived from the original tapes, and annotated by Joe
Marchese, who penned the notes on Real Gone's previous collection of the Wicked
Pickett's RCA recordings, Land of 1000 Dances—The Complete Atlantic Singles Vol. One
presents some of the greatest soul ever waxed exactly how it was originally waxed—as
singles for airplay on the radio. It's the material that made Wilson Pickett a legend.
Tracks: I’m Gonna Cry / For Better or Worse / Come Home Baby / Take a Little Love / In
the Midnight Hour / I’m Not Tired / Don’t Fight It / It’s All Over / 634-5789 (Soulsville,
U.S.A.) / That’s a Man’s Way / Ninety-Nine and a Half (Won’t Do) / Danger Zone / Land
of 1000 Dances / You’re So Fine / Mustang Sally / Three Time Loser / Everybody Needs
Somebody to Love / Nothing You Can Do / I Found a Love—Part 1 / I Found a Love—Part
2 / Soul Dance Number Three / You Can’t Stand Alone
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CLASSICAL NEW RELEASE - 05/08/2016
Rudolf Moralt: Vienna Philharmonic; London,
Weber, Zedak - Mozart: Don Giovanni
£14.00
ELQ4807181
0028948071814
CD3
AUSTRALIAN ELOQUENCE
CLASSICAL
The Vienna State Opera resumed its performing schedule very soon after the end of the
fighting over the Austrian capital in 1945. As the ‘House on the Ring’ had been destroyed
by direct hits the company had to move to the Theater an der Wien, though it had been
closed since 1938 and was therefore dilapidated.
This house, with its wealth of tradition, nevertheless proved to be an ideal setting for
performances by the State Opera once it reopened on 6 October 1945. It took only a few
years to return to an international standard of opera performance; indeed, music lovers
and opera buffs believed that some of its productions even went beyond that level.
A decade or so later, studio recordings commenced in earnest. When the Opera House on
Vienna’s Ringstrasse opened after rebuilding in May 1955, it boasted an ensemble of
supreme vocal artists. The incomparable George London, who for some years had been
cast as an ideal Don Giovanni, was now joined by a Don Ottavio sung by the Canadian
Léopold Simoneau, who was then celebrated as a Mozart singer, particularly in Paris and
at the festivals in Glyndebourne and Aix-en-Provence. The attractive Italian singer
Graziella Sciutti, from Turin, was an appropriate choice for the role of Zerlina.
After some years in exile in Israel, Hilde Zadek made her début at the State Opera in 1947
and was a distinguished performer of numerous prima donna roles. Her well thought-out
interpretation of Donna Anna was a yardstick for generations of singers to come. Ludwig
Weber had joined the State Opera in 1945, becoming one of the company’s finest singers;
he is heard here in the role of the Commendatore. The already stellar cast was joined by
the Viennese Croatian soprano Sena Jurinac in the role of Donna Elvira and by the young
singers Walter Berry as the Don’s long-suffering manservant Leporello and Eberhard
Waechter as Masetto.
All through these years Rudolf Moralt, with his ideal knowledge of the repertoire, was
present as the staff conductor. He ensured faultlessly secure musical direction of
performances, both at the Theater an der Wien and – until his untimely death in 1958 – at
the House on the Ring. Moralt held the reins as securely in Mozart as he did in Hans
Pfitzner, Richard Strauss and even Johann Strauss, whose works he performed with verve
and gusto with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra.
Tracks:
CD’s 1-3: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791):
Don Giovanni
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CLASSICAL NEW RELEASE - 05/08/2016
Henry Lewis, Sir Georg Solti, Chicago Symphony
Orchestra Stars And Stripes & Star Spangled Banner
£6.50
ELQ4806875
0028948068753
CD
AUSTRALIAN ELOQUENCE
CLASSICAL
***FIRST TIME ON CD***
Choreographer George Balanchine gave many gifts to the American people – and to the New
York City Ballet – but the most typically American and sparkling of these gifts was the ballet
Stars and Stripes, which was premiered in 1958, and has been revived many times since.
Sousa’s music was adapted and assembled into a 30-minute score by Hershy Kay (1919–81),
who enjoyed several earlier collaborations with the New York City Ballet.
Sousa loved baseball, and he even wrote a march, The National Game, to honour it. Baseball
remains the national sport in the United States, but many Americans will agree that football has
supplanted it, in terms of popularity and revenue. Chicago’s National Football League team, the
Chicago Bears, was recognized by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, with Sir Georg
Solti conducting, in January 1986, when they performed the Bears’ fight song, Bear Down,
Chicago Bears, as a surprise concert encore.
The song was recorded shortly thereafter, along with The Stars and Stripes Forever and the
American national anthem, and released as a 7” 45rpm single – surely the most unusual recording
Solti and the Chicagoans ever made. All these recordings receive their first international release
on CD.
Tracks:
John Philip Sousa:
Stars And Stripes – A Ballet In Five Campaigns (adapted And Arranged By Hershy Kay)
King Cotton (arr. Rogers)
Semper Fidelis (arr. Rogers)
El Capitán (arr. Rogers)
The Stars And Stripes Forever
John Stafford Smith:
The Star-Spangled Banner (arr. Frederick Stock)
Jerry Downs:
Bear Down, Chicago Bears (arr. John T. Boudreau)
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CLASSICAL NEW RELEASE - 05/08/2016
Sir Georg Solti, London Philharmonic & Zurich
Tonhalle Orchestra - Solti Overtures: Beethoven,
Verdi, Rossini, Suppe
£6.50
ELQ4806588
0028948065882
CD
AUSTRALIAN ELOQUENCE
CLASSICAL
This collection of overtures – many of them appearing internationally on Decca CD for the first
time – comes from the very start of Georg Solti’s recording career. That for Beethoven’s Egmont
was, in fact, his first recording as conductor, issued as a 78rpm record. The two Rossini
overtures were issued as a 45rpm and the Verdi was included on a collection of other overtures
and orchestral music from opera.
Solti re-recorded several of the overtures in this collection in stereo with the Chicago Symphony
Orchestra and the Vienna Philharmonic. But for sheer explosive energy, these rare mono
recordings from the late-1940s and the first half of the 1950s remain as persuasive as ever and
are collectors’ items.
‘The playing is real musical, intelligent, and interested.” (Suppe) Gramophone, November 1951
‘Most enjoyable … well recorded’ – (Verdi) Gramophone, July 1951
‘First-rate, both of them, with every player on his toes (which is the only position in which to play
Rossini) and the result is of both charm and virtuosity. A bright recording suits the character of
the music…’ - (Rossini) Gramophone, December 1955
Tracks:
Ludwig Van Beethoven:
Egmont: Overture Op. 84
Gioachino Rossini:
L’italiana In Algeri: Overture
Il Barbiere Di Siviglia: Overture*
Giuseppe Verdi:
La Forza Del Destino: Overture (Sinfonia)*
Franz von Suppe:
Die Leichte Kavallerie: Overture
Dichter Und Bauer: Overture
Ein Morgen, Ein Mittag, Ein Abend In Wien: Overture
Pique Dame: Overture
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CLASSICAL NEW RELEASE - 05/08/2016
Sir Georg Solti, Israel And Vienna Philharminic
Orchestras - Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 3, 5 & 7.
Schubert: Symphony No. 5
£9.25
ELQ4806596
0028948065967
CD2
AUSTRALIAN ELOQUENCE
CLASSICAL
Erich Kleiber was one of Georg Solti’s idols and it was a Kleiber performance of Beethoven’s
Fifth Symphony that was, by his own admission, the catalyst in his decision to become a
conductor – a decision he made at the age of fourteen. The Schubert recording comes from one
of only two recording sessions with the Israel Philharmonic – in May 1958. It is genial, but not
without the Solti trademark of excitement.
Solti recorded two complete Beethoven symphony cycles, both with the Chicago Symphony
Orchestra, in both analogue (1974) and digital (1986–90) formats. With the Vienna Philharmonic
in 1958–9 he recorded the Third, Fifth and Seventh symphonies. (He also made a ‘live’ recording
of the Fifth with this orchestra in 1990.) Over several decades he worked extensively with the
Viennese players, and despite making several legendary recordings with them openly admitted
that it was seldom a harmonious relationship, especially in those early years: ‘They hated me. For
many years I used to say that my favourite street in Vienna was the road to the airport’.
This reissue continues Eloquence’s tribute to Sir Georg Solti with, in the main, reissues of his
earlier Decca recordings.
‘masterly from a technical point of view, and in the main very impressive interpretations. They
are of the big, heavy, powerful kind, though usually with plenty of drive where it’s required.’ (Beethoven) Gramophone, December 1959
‘There is a lot of beautiful playing […] What I like best about this disc is the marvellous sound’ (Schubert) Gramnophone, May 1959
Tracks:
CD 1 - Franz Schubert:
Symphony No. 5 In B Flat Major, D. 485
Ludwig Van Beethoven:
Symphony No. 3 In E Flat Major, Op. 55 ‘Eroica’
CD 2 - Ludwig Van Beethoven:
Symphony No. 5 In C Minor, Op. 67
Symphony No. 7 In A Major, Op. 92
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CLASSICAL NEW RELEASE - 05/08/2016
Arnold Van Mill, Otto Edelmann, Vienna
Philharmonic - Great Bass Arias: Nicolai, Lortzing,
Beethoven
£6.50
ELQ4820200
0028948202003
CD
AUSTRALIAN ELOQUENCE
CLASSICAL
The Dutchman Arnold van Mill (1921–1996) never enjoyed the international fame of his
German contemporary Gottlob Frick or the younger Martti Talvela and Nicolai Ghiaurov. Yet at
the height of his formidable powers in the 1950s and 60s, he had few rivals for rotund depth
and sonority of tone (with what Hope-Wallace called ‘double bass tug’) and versatility in a
repertoire that stretched from Mozart’s surly Harem overseer Osmin, via Verdi to Wagner.
In this, one of his all-too-rare recital discs, he displays that typical amplitude and generosity of
voice, and shows how seamlessly he can move from geniality and humour to baleful and blackvoiced.
Like Van Mill, Edelmann sealed his international reputation at the 1951 Bayreuth Festival, where
his Hans Sachs was admired for its robustness and authority, flecked with mischievous humour.
Edelmann’s resonant, cleanly focused bass (without woolliness or ‘spread’) lay a tone or so higher
than Van Mill’s. His extremely rare 1951 recital disc for Decca here forms a coupling to Van Mill’s
recital for Philips.
‘fine musical oratory [in the Wagner] … Edelmann sings this quite enchanting music [Cornelius]
with a superb legato, and I would buy the disc of this aria alone.’ - (Edelmann) Gramophone,
May 1952
‘one of the most magnificent bass voices I know’ - Philip Hope-Wallace in Gramophone, June
1963
Tracks:
Otto Nicolai:
Die Lustigen Weiber Von Windsor: Als Büblein Klein An Der Mutterbrust
Albert Lortzing:
Zar Und Zimmermann - O Sancta Justitia!
Den Hohen Herrscher Würdig
Der Wildschütz: Fünftausend Taler!
Der Waffenschmeid Auch Ich War Ein Jüngling
Ludwig Van Beethoven:
Fidelio: Hat Man Nicht Auch Gold Beineben
Carl Maria von Weber:
Der Freischütz Hier Im Ird’schen Jammertal
Schweig – Damit Dich Niemand Warnt!
Peter Cornelius:
Der Barbier Von Bagdad O Wüssest Du, Vererhter – Bin Akad
Heil Diesem Hause – Salaamaleikum!
Ludwig Van Beethoven:
Fidelio: Ha! Welch Ein Augenblick!
Richard Wagner:
Tannhäuser: Gar Viel Und Schön
Giuseppe Verdi:
Falstaff: He! Holla! Wirtschaft!
Peter Cornelius:
Der Barbier Von Bagdad: Salaamaleikum!
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CLASSICAL NEW RELEASE - 05/08/2016
Hilde Gueden, Stanley Black & His Orchestra & Choir My Secret Heart: The Music Of Ivor Novello And Noël
Coward
£9.25
ELQ4820115
0028948201150
CD2
AUSTRALIAN ELOQUENCE
CLASSICAL
Certain rhythms seem to flow naturally for certain people. Shakespeare could probably have
held a conversation in iambic pentameters and, when it comes to music, you can find many
national preferences: the tango for Argentinians, the samba for Brazilians, the polka for Czechs,
the mazurka for Poles, the czárdás for Hungarians, and so on.
The Austrians have developed a predilection for the waltz, which grew out of an earlier dance, the
Ländler. It comes so naturally to them that it is almost like a second language. The great Viennese
soprano Hilde Gueden had it in her bones and was second to none in interpreting her native
operettas. But, in an inspired move by the Decca recording team, in 1955 she was persuaded to
try her hand at the waltz music of two British men of the theatre, Ivor Novello and Noël Coward.
The resulting album, beautifully arranged and conducted by Stanley Black, has become a classic.
This 2CD set presents Gueden in folkloric vein, from the songs from musicals by Coward and
Novello, to a sequence of Viennese songs, including waltzes, and two programs delivered with
often touching simplicity, one of children’s songs, the other of Christmas music. All are treated
with the same polished perfectionism, a total eschewal of sentimentality, and that indefinable
quality through which great singers make intimate contact with their listeners. The recordings
were made between 1952 and 1969 for Decca, with whom she enjoyed a long collaboration.
CD 1: Ivor Novello: Music in May (Careless Rapture) / Noel Coward: I’ll follow my secret heart
(Conversation Piece) / Zigeuner (Bitter Sweet) / Ivor Novello: Leap Year Waltz (The Dancing Years)
/ Some day my heart will awake (King’s Rhapsody) / I can give you the starlight (The Dancing
Years) / Waltz of my heart (The Dancing Years) / Noel Coward: I’ll see you again (Bitter Sweet) /
Ivor Novello: The violin began to play (King’s Rhapsody) / We’ll gather lilacs (Perchance to Dream)
/ Noel Coward: Some day I’ll find you (Private Lives) / Ivor Novello: Glamorous Night (Glamorous
Night) / Hilde Gueden Sings Music From Vienna: O du lieber Augustin / Brüderlein fein / Die
Banda kommt / S’Mailufterl / Wenn’s die Geigen heimlich streicheln / Wiener Künstler / Das ist
mein Wien / Kunst und Natur / Ich und der Mond / Wien, Weib, Wein / S’Herz von an echten
Weana / Vogerl, flieg’ in’ d’ Welt hinaus / Wie sich der Wiener den Himmel vorstellt / WienerWald / Herrgott, wie schön bist du, Wien
CD 2 - Children’s Songs From Many Lands (Arranged by Paul Fürst): Hänschen klein / Backe
backe Kuchen / Alle Vöglein sind schon da / Fuchs, du hast die Gans gestohlen / Es tanzt ein Bi-BaButzemann / Hänsel und Gretel / Wer hat die schönsten Schäfchen / Vögelhochzeit / Ein
Männlein steht im Walde / Suse, liebe, Suse / Die Blümelein, sie schlafen / Es klappert die Mühle /
Kommt ein Vogerl geflogen / Müde bin ich, geh zur Ruh / Alle meine Entchen / Guter Mond, du
gehst so stille / Sing a Song of Sixpence / Hickory Dickory Dock / Hush a Bye Baby / Oranges and
Lemons / Baa, Baa Black Sheep / Three Blind Mice / I Had a Little Nut Tree / Bye Baby Bunting /
Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush / Frère Jacques / Sur le pont d’Avignon / Meunier tu dors /
Il était un petit navire / Au clair de la lune / Tengo / Buji / Kasoeuta / Ma come balli bella bimba /
Fa la nana bambin / Pajarito que cantas / Christmas Songs (Arranged By Richard Rossmayer): O
du Fröhliche / O Tannenbaum / Was soll das bedeuten / Es blühen die Maien / Es ist ein Ros’
entsprungen / Es hat sich eröffnet / Süsser die Glocken nie klingen / Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht
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CLASSICAL NEW RELEASE - 05/08/2016
Zubin Mehta - Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 ‘Romantic’,
Wagner: Meistersingers
£6.50
ELQ4613562
0028946135624
CD
AUSTRALIAN ELOQUENCE
CLASSICAL
‘Zubin Mehta: The Decca Years’ has celebrated Mehta’s wide-ranging Decca recordings.
Re-released by popular demand is Mehta’s recording of Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony, the
‘Romantic’ (in the Nowak edition of 1878–80) with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, coupled with
an early Vienna Philharmonic recording of the Prelude to the first act of Wagner’s
Meistersinger.
‘The Decca engineers have now certainly got the measure of Royce Hall, Los Angeles, with rich
reverberation wrapping round the bald Brucknerian textures […] I have never before known this
music sound so like Wagner. […] In all four movements Mehta with his suave style is a degree
more extrovert [than the versions by Kertesz and Haitink]’ - (Bruckner) Gramophone, April 1971
Tracks:
Anton Bruckner:
Symphony No. 4 ‘Romantic’
Richard Wagner:
Die Meistersinger: Prelude To Act I
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CLASSICAL NEW RELEASE - 05/08/2016
Steffen Schleiermacher –
Federico Mompou: Fêtes Lointaines
MDG6131935
760623193526
CD
£9.25
MDG
CLASSICAL
After Música Callada Steffen Schleiermacher is now presenting Fêtes lointaines, his second
release featuring one-of-a-kind piano compositions by Federico Mompou. Along with the title
cycle, this CD includes other miniatures from the period between 1914 and 1921.
The titles of the short cycles very much refer to the real world. “Suburbis” depicts street scenes in
Barcelona, a guitarist endeavors to get a waltz going, gypsies form the topic of conversation,
suddenly an old gray mare appears, and then a beggar concludes the series with hurdy-gurdy
distress signals. The festivities in Fêtes lointaines, hints, mere impressions, are heard in the
distance – which is why the instructions at the end read: “To be played like an echo.”
Mompou resembles Erik Satie, whom he had the opportunity to meet in Paris and learned to
respect. The “Manfred Bürki” Steinway D grand piano presents its very transparent colour in
contact with Steffen Schleiermacher’s fine-touch fingertips.
Tracks:
Federico Mompou:
Charmes
Trois Variations
Cants Magics
Suburbis
Fêtes Lointaines
Pessebres
Also Available:
MDG6131792 - Federico Mompou - Música callada Steffen Schleiermacher
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CLASSICAL NEW RELEASE - 05/08/2016
Vladimir Soltan, Hamburg Symphoniker –
Nielsen, Debussy, Francaix: Clarinet Concertos
MDG9011964
760623196466
SACD
MDG
£9.25
CLASSICAL
Breathtaking virtuosity, sumptuous sound, expression brimming with suspense. On his debut
album the young Belarusian clarinettist Vladimir Soltan gives his all while enjoying superb
ensemble support from the Hamburg Symphony orchestra. Under its conductor José Luíz
Gómez this orchestra simply surpasses itself in concertante competition with the soloist.
Coupling together three almost-contemporary clarinet concertos from three different composers
but equally virtuosic in style, this recording is a wonderful exploration of the repertoire.
When the wonderfully nimbly instrumented piece from Francaix was composed, there were
considerable doubts about its playability, but today it numbers among the most popular works of
its genre.
The precision teamwork characterising this recording by Vladimir Soltan and the Hamburg
Symphony is an absolute listening must. The music sparkles with delight and joy, making for true
listening pleasure. And MDG’s 2+2+2 sound in three dimensions enhances this sublime
experience: you are right there, live, in the midst of musical things – so fasten your seatbelts!
Tracks:
Carl Nielsen:
Clarinet Concerto Op. 57 - Allegretto Un Poco
Poco Adagio
Allegro Non Troppo
Allegro Vivace
Claude Debussy:
Première Rhapsodie - For Clarinet And Orchestra
Jean Françaix:
Concerto - For Clarinet And Orchestra Allegro
Scherzando
Andantino
Allegrissimo
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CLASSICAL NEW RELEASE - 05/08/2016
Karl-Andreas Kolly - Josef Suk: Piano Works
MDG9031956
760623195667
SACD
MDG
£9.25
CLASSICAL
A double stroke of fate divided Josef Suk’s life into a “before and after.” Within little more than
a year he first lost his mentor and father-in-law Antonín Dvorák and then his young wife Otilie.
The Swiss pianist Karl-Andreas Kolly’s latest release illustrates this break pervading Suk’s entire
compositional oeuvre and offers a refreshing look at a composer who has not yet received his
proper due.
Suk’s piano cycle Moods op. 10 continues to be situated very much in the best Bohemian
tradition; Dvorák’s influence is quite audible. The rhythm and harmony of the five enchanting
character pieces evoke memories of folk music from the eastern Austro-Hungarian Empire, often
with its typical, slightly melancholy undertone, while it also becomes quite evident that the
extremely successful violinist Suk knew his way around the piano.
Karl-Andreas Kolly concludes his Suk recital with a “Love Song” capturing ecstatic longing with
suspended harmonies full of yearning and languishing. The MDG sound engineers again have
captured this gem in the best SACD technology, high resolution and in 3-D, for the perfect
Lucullan audio feast at home.
Tracks:
Josef Suk:
Moods
Nálady Op. 10
Dumka Op. 21,3
Things Lived And Dreamt
17Divotem A Snem Op. 30
Love Song
Píse Lásky
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CLASSICAL NEW RELEASE - 05/08/2016
Robert Oberaigner, Michael Schoch - Max Reger:
Complete Works For Clarinet And Piano
£9.25
MDG9031963
760623196367
CD
MDG
CLASSICAL
The Dresden State Orchestra’s young solo clarinettist Robert Oberaigner and the ARD
prizewinner Michael Schöch have joined forces on this recording to present Reger's two
clarinet sonatas op. 49 along with his Sonata op. 107.
Right from the beginning Reger’s op. 49 No. 1 is absolutely enthralling: “Allegro affannato” is his
interpretive prescription here, and Oberaigner and Schöch’s rendering of a character situated
somewhere between “breathless,” “hurried,” and “pressured” has to be heard to be believed!
Reger’s third sonata, composed some eight years after the first two, produces its effect in a very
similar manner: classical in its design, this work wins over the listener with clarity and simplicity
reflecting the greatest mastery. The premiere, at which the dedicatee Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig
zu Hesse himself was in attendance, must have been an overwhelming success.
The two soloists form a chamber dream duo of a kind that is only rarely found. Tone colours and
expressive gestures are exchanged and further developed, so that the result is pure joy.
Competition occurs in the field of dynamic expression, and the quest for the unknown becomes a
common cause. Luxurious 2+2+2 sound, a Super Audio CD of the highest recording quality.
Tracks:
Max Reger:
Sonata Op. 49/1 In Ab Major
Sonata Op. 49/2 In F Sharp Minor
Sonata Op. 107 In B Flat Major
Tarantella WoO II/12
Album Leaf WoO II/13
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CLASSICAL NEW RELEASE - 05/08/2016
Piano Due Trenkner –
Smetena: Ma Vlast - Mein Vaterland
MDG9301960
760623196060
SACD
£9.25
MDG
CLASSICAL
Bedrich Smetana’s fabulous tone painting rich in legend is so uncommonly popular because
behind the extremely vivid natural depiction there is a deeply felt program creating a place for
it in the six-part cycle Má Vlast (My Fatherland).
Contemplating his fiftieth stage anniversary as a much-acclaimed pianist, Smetana published the
version for piano four hands even prior to the release of the orchestral score. The Evelinde
Trenkner – Sontraud Speidel Piano Duo has now undertaken this mammoth task and recorded
the complete, very demanding cycle, revealing many a discovery in repertoire long thought to be
so very familiar.
Tracks:
Bedrich Smetena:
Ma Vlast - Vyšehrad
Vltava - Die Moldau
Sárka
Z Ceských Luhu A Háju - From Bohemian Woods And Fields
Tábor
Blaník
Also Available:
MDG9301778 - Mahler Symphony No. 1 and 2 (arr. for piano 4 hands) Pianoduo Trenkner /
Speidel
MDG3301616 - Honegger: Pacific 231/ Ravel: Boléro/ Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade. Suite
Symphonique op. 35 arr. for piano 4 hands Pianoduo Trenkner / Speidel
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CLASSICAL NEW RELEASE - 12/08/2016
Mari Kimura - Harmonic Constellations –
Works For Violin & Electronics
NW80776
093228077626
CD
NEW WORLD
£9.25
CLASSICAL
Mari Kimura’s career is a measure of how violin virtuosity has changed over the last few
centuries, and particularly in the last fifty years. By the middle of the 20th century, violinists
and composers began to feel that the violin’s traditional technical arsenal required updating,
lest the instrument continue to sound like the 16th-century technology it is, trapped in a
quickly changing, increasingly high-tech modern world.
One approach, mirrored closely in the world of woodwind instruments, has been to find the
violin’s “extreme” technique, which would yield ways to twist the violin’s familiar timbre into
something new. One such technique was to exploit the violin’s harmonics—the glassy, highpitched tones produced by bowing a string on which a finger was placed lightly, rather than
pressed fully to the fingerboard. Kimura herself discovered a counterpart to traditional harmonics
in the early 1990s.
Expanding on a technique intended to bring an extra measure of presence to high notes that are
not naturally resonant, she began experimenting with notes on the G string, and found that she
was able to wrest sounds as much as an octave lower than violin’s lowest natural note, the G
string’s open G. She spent several years perfecting the technique, which she calls subharmonics.
For Harmonic Constellations, Kimura has collected half a dozen works for violin and electronics,
by a group of American composers each of whom has a distinctive compositional style, and who
take different approaches to the challenge of composing for the violin and electronics. Of
particular note is the premiere recording of the title track, a major new composition from
Michael Harrison, which is scored for violin with 13 pre-recorded tracks and computer generated
sine tones. The work is comprised of nine constellations of complex just intonation harmonies
that gradually shift and evolve over time.
Eric Chasalow: Scuffle and Snap (2010), Michael Gatonska: Shinrin-yoku (Forest Bathing) (2013,
re. 2015), Michael Harrison: Harmonic Constellations (2016), Mari Kimura: Sarahal (2013),
Hannah Lash: Mièle (2014), Eric Moe: Obey Your Thirst (2014)
Tracks:
Mari Kimura:
Sarahal
Eric Chasalow:
Scuffle And Snap
Michael Gatonska:
Shinrin-yoku (Forest Bathing)
Hannah Lash:
Mièle
Eric Moe:
Obey Your Thirst
Michael Harrison:
Harmonic Constellations: The Spaceship (descending)
Harmonic Constellations: The Romantic Constellation (trapezo)
Harmonic Constellations: The Magic Constellation (ascending)
Harmonic Constellations: The Romantic Constellation (descending)
Harmonic Constellations: The Harmonic Opening Constellations
Harmonic Constellations: The Spaceship (ascending)
Harmonic Constellations: The Cross
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CLASSICAL NEW RELEASE - 12/08/2016
Chris Brown –
Six Primes For Piano In 13-limit Just Intonation £9.25
NW80781
093228078128
CD
NEW WORLD
CLASSICAL
Chris Brown (b. 1953) composes music for traditional instruments, acoustic instruments with
interactive electronics, improvisers, and computer networks. With Six Primes (2014), for
retuned piano in 13-limit just intonation—drawing on the Rhythmicana ideas of Henry Cowell,
the pure keyboard focus of Conlon Nancarrow, the affection for just intonation of Lou Harrison,
and the unadulterated clarity of mathematical process of James Tenney—Brown is staunchly
positioned, aesthetically, as a West Coast American experimentalist.
“Six Primes is composed using the first six prime numbers 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, and 13 to govern both its
tuning and temporal structure, including harmony, rhythmic subdivisions, and form. I wrote this
music to explore the limits of using the same integer ratios to simultaneously provide melodic,
harmonic, and rhythmic materials. The piano must be retuned in just intonation using the tuning
system factor of 2, three ratios with highest prime of 3, and two ratios each with highest primes
of 5, 7, 11, and 13. This creates a great diversity of interval relationships: whereas 12-tone equal
temperament has just twelve distinct intervals, this tuning has 75.
I employed this algorithmic control over form in part to evoke the egalitarianism of twelve-tone
music, and to divert from monocentric tendencies of modal musics. Within that form, however, I
allowed myself to compose freely, using a diversity of melodic, harmonic, and polyphonic ideas.
Lou Harrison’s endlessly branching melodies, Cowell’s polyrhythms and tone clusters, Cage’s
equanimity and Stockhausen’s deterministic force, the complex minimalism of Morton Feldman,
and the harmonious buzz of Ellen Fullman . . . all provided influence and inspiration. I discovered
that playing asymmetrical rhythms in odd numbered subdivisions of a strong pulse can evoke a
bebop-like swing. And although I never thought about it during the composing process, I think I
hear in its mixture of styles an influence of Ives.” - Chris Brown
Tracks:
Chris Brown:
Six Primes: 13-7-6-4
Six Primes: 11-7-6-4
Six Primes: 13-6-5-4
Six Primes: 7-6-5-4
Six Primes: 13-11-8-6
Six Primes: 11-5-4-3
Also Available:
NW80723 - Chris Brown—Iconicities
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CLASSICAL NEW RELEASE - 19/08/2016
Herbert von Karajan - Beethoven: 9 Symphonies
600339
4053796003393
CD6
DOCUMENTS
£8.49
CLASSICAL
Karajan's first complete recorded cycle of the Beethoven symphonies with the Berlin Philharmonic. These
legendary interpretations were made in 1961/62 in Berlin's Church of Jesus Christ, at Dahlem, and were the
world's first orchestral production in stereo quality. It was one of the most ambitious and successful
projects in recording history.
Herbert von Karajan was a superstar, the most successful and influential conductor of the twentieth century,
who could work wonders with musical sounds. Fellow musicians/composers described him in such glowing
terms as "King of classical music" (Yehudi Menuhin); "one of the greatest geniuses of his time" (Rolf
Liebermann), and "le grand maître" (Leonard Bernstein).
The Beethoven symphonies held a central position in Karajan's repertoire. In the opinion of many, this, the
first of three complete recordings with the Berlin Philharmonic under his direction, remains unsurpassed.
Audiences were simply captivated by the expressiveness and wonderful sound of his interpretations, by the
perfection of the orchestra and their faultless musicality and sensibility.
CD 1:
Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 21
1. Adagio molto - Allegro con brio
2. Andante cantabile con moto
3. Menuetto. Allegro molto e vivace
4. Adagio - Allegro molto e vivace
Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36
5. Adagio - Allegro con brio
6. Larghetto
7. Scherzo. Allegro
8. Allegro molto
CD 2:
Symphony No. 3 in E flat major “Eroica”, Op. 55
1. Allegro con brio
2. Marcia funebre. Adagio assai
3. Scherzo. Allegro vivace
4. Finale. Allegro molto
CD 3:
Symphony No. 4 in B flat major, Op. 60
1. Adagio - Allegro vivace
2. Adagio
3. Allegro vivace
4. Allegro ma mon tropo
Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67
5. Allegro con brio
6. Andante con moto
7. Allegro attacca
8. Allegro
CD 4:
Symphony No. 6 in F major “Pastoral”, Op. 681
1. Erwachen heiterer Empfindungen bei der Ankunft auf dem Lande (Allegro ma non troppo)
2. Szene am Bach (Andante molto mosso)
3. Lustiges Zusammensein der Landleute (Allegro)
4. Gewitter - Sturm (Allegro)
5. Hirtengesang. frohe und dankbare Gefühle nach dem Sturm (Allegretto)
CD 5:
Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92
1. Poco sostenuto - Vivace
2. Allegretto
3. Presto
4. Allegro con brio
Symphony No. 8 in F major, Op. 93
5. Allegro vivace e con brio
6. Allegretto scherzando
7. Tempo di Menuetto
8. Allegro vivace
CD 6:
Symphony No. 9 in D minor “Choral”, op. 125
1. Allegro ma non troppo, un poco maestoso
2. Molto vivace
3. Adagio molto e cantabile
4. Presto
5. O Freunde, nicht diese Töne!
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