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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’ Order from Proper Music Distribution : Telephone: 0870 444 0805 Fax: 0208 6765169 e-mail: [email protected] 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) Order from Proper Music Distribution : Telephone: 0870 444 0805 Fax: 0208 6765169 e-mail: [email protected] 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) Order from Proper Music Distribution : Telephone: 0870 444 0805 Fax: 0208 6765169 e-mail: [email protected] 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’ Order from Proper Music Distribution : Telephone: 0870 444 0805 Fax: 0208 6765169 e-mail: [email protected] 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 Order from Proper Music Distribution : Telephone: 0870 444 0805 Fax: 0208 6765169 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 Order from Proper Music Distribution : Telephone: 0870 444 0805 Fax: 0208 6765169 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) Order from Proper Music Distribution : Telephone: 0870 444 0805 Fax: 0208 6765169 e-mail: [email protected] 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 Order from Proper Music Distribution : Telephone: 0870 444 0805 Fax: 0208 6765169 e-mail: [email protected] 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 Order from Proper Music Distribution : Telephone: 0870 444 0805 Fax: 0208 6765169 e-mail: [email protected] 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 Order from Proper Music Distribution : Telephone: 0870 444 0805 Fax: 0208 6765169 e-mail: [email protected] 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 Order from Proper Music Distribution : Telephone: 0870 444 0805 Fax: 0208 6765169 e-mail: [email protected] 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 Order from Proper Music Distribution : Telephone: 0870 444 0805 Fax: 0208 6765169 e-mail: [email protected] 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 Order from Proper Music Distribution : Telephone: 0870 444 0805 Fax: 0208 6765169 e-mail: [email protected] 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) Order from Proper Music Distribution : Telephone: 0870 444 0805 Fax: 0208 6765169 e-mail: [email protected] 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) Order from Proper Music Distribution : Telephone: 0870 444 0805 Fax: 0208 6765169 e-mail: [email protected] 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 Order from Proper Music Distribution : Telephone: 0870 444 0805 Fax: 0208 6765169 e-mail: [email protected] 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* Order from Proper Music Distribution : Telephone: 0870 444 0805 Fax: 0208 6765169 e-mail: [email protected] 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’ Order from Proper Music Distribution : Telephone: 0870 444 0805 Fax: 0208 6765169 e-mail: [email protected] 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 Order from Proper Music Distribution : Telephone: 0870 444 0805 Fax: 0208 6765169 e-mail: [email protected] 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 Order from Proper Music Distribution : Telephone: 0870 444 0805 Fax: 0208 6765169 e-mail: [email protected] 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) Order from Proper Music Distribution : Telephone: 0870 444 0805 Fax: 0208 6765169 e-mail: [email protected] 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 Order from Proper Music Distribution : Telephone: 0870 444 0805 Fax: 0208 6765169 e-mail: [email protected] 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 Order from Proper Music Distribution : Telephone: 0870 444 0805 Fax: 0208 6765169 e-mail: [email protected] 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 Order from Proper Music Distribution : Telephone: 0870 444 0805 Fax: 0208 6765169 e-mail: [email protected] 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 Order from Proper Music Distribution : Telephone: 0870 444 0805 Fax: 0208 6765169 e-mail: [email protected] 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 Order from Proper Music Distribution : Telephone: 0870 444 0805 Fax: 0208 6765169 e-mail: [email protected] 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 Order from Proper Music Distribution : Telephone: 0870 444 0805 Fax: 0208 6765169 e-mail: [email protected] 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 Order from Proper Music Distribution : Telephone: 0870 444 0805 Fax: 0208 6765169 e-mail: [email protected] 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) Order from Proper Music Distribution : Telephone: 0870 444 0805 Fax: 0208 6765169 e-mail: [email protected] 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 Order from Proper Music Distribution : Telephone: 0870 444 0805 Fax: 0208 6765169 e-mail: [email protected] 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 Order from Proper Music Distribution : Telephone: 0870 444 0805 Fax: 0208 6765169 e-mail: [email protected] 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 Order from Proper Music Distribution : Telephone: 0870 444 0805 Fax: 0208 6765169 e-mail: [email protected] 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 Order from Proper Music Distribution : Telephone: 0870 444 0805 Fax: 0208 6765169 e-mail: [email protected] 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 Order from Proper Music Distribution : Telephone: 0870 444 0805 Fax: 0208 6765169 e-mail: [email protected] 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 Order from Proper Music Distribution : Telephone: 0870 444 0805 Fax: 0208 6765169 e-mail: [email protected] 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 Order from Proper Music Distribution : Telephone: 0870 444 0805 Fax: 0208 6765169 e-mail: [email protected] 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) Order from Proper Music Distribution : Telephone: 0870 444 0805 Fax: 0208 6765169 e-mail: [email protected] 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 Order from Proper Music Distribution : Telephone: 0870 444 0805 Fax: 0208 6765169 e-mail: [email protected] 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 Order from Proper Music Distribution : Telephone: 0870 444 0805 Fax: 0208 6765169 e-mail: [email protected] 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! Order from Proper Music Distribution : Telephone: 0870 444 0805 Fax: 0208 6765169 e-mail: [email protected] 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 Order from Proper Music Distribution : Telephone: 0870 444 0805 Fax: 0208 6765169 e-mail: [email protected] 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 Order from Proper Music Distribution : Telephone: 0870 444 0805 Fax: 0208 6765169 e-mail: [email protected] 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 Order from Proper Music Distribution : Telephone: 0870 444 0805 Fax: 0208 6765169 e-mail: [email protected] 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 Order from Proper Music Distribution : Telephone: 0870 444 0805 Fax: 0208 6765169 e-mail: [email protected] 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 Order from Proper Music Distribution : Telephone: 0870 444 0805 Fax: 0208 6765169 e-mail: [email protected] 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 Order from Proper Music Distribution : Telephone: 0870 444 0805 Fax: 0208 6765169 e-mail: [email protected] 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 Order from Proper Music Distribution : Telephone: 0870 444 0805 Fax: 0208 6765169 e-mail: [email protected] 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 Order from Proper Music Distribution : Telephone: 0870 444 0805 Fax: 0208 6765169 e-mail: [email protected] 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 Order from Proper Music Distribution : Telephone: 0870 444 0805 Fax: 0208 6765169 e-mail: [email protected] 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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