The Duisburg band Bröselmaschine was founded in 1968 by the Duisburg musician and music teacher Peter Bursch and the Duisburg artist Willi Kissmer. The band members not only played together, they also lived together in a community, following the example of the legendary Kommune 1 in Berlin. All over the world, especially in USA and Japan, the debut album from 1971 is listed as one of the most important Krautrock-albums of all time – beneath Amon Düül, Can and Tangerine Dream.
On the occasion of their 50th anniversary MIG release an Anthology-boxset contain 5 CD. The box-set contains all studio albums including the iconic debut, carefully restored and digitally remastered. “Baked” and digitalized sound engineer Hoppi made a contemporary mix,…

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…but for all that still ensouled by the ghosts of the 70ties. The album „Graublau“ (Greyblue) was digitally remastered from the original analogue 1/4 inch Mastertape from 1984.

It is fascinating and entertaining to follow this extraordinary band through the decades in different line-ups. On guitar: Willi Kissmer and Michael Dommers (previously “Wallenstein”) and, of cause mastermind Peter Bursch, who is also playing the sitar. Part of the band since years: German exceptional drummer Manni von Bohr, on keyboards: Helge Schneider, Klaus Dapper on flutes and saxophone, Detlef Wiederhöft on bass, the great Nippy Noya on percussions and many more… — MiG

“The Art Ensemble of Chicago is alone in jazz history for reaching back conceptually to long before there ever was anything called jazz and moving toward a future beyond category.”
– Nat Hentoff
The Art Ensemble of Chicago and Associated Ensembles is a 21-CD limited and numbered edition issued as the standard-bearers of Great Black Music prepare to celebrate their 50th anniversary. Both The Art Ensemble of Chicago and ECM Records were founded in 1969, and there have been many shared experiences. As Roscoe Mitchell says, “It has been amazing to have taken this journey together.”
With their first ECM album, the widely-acclaimed Nice Guys, the Art Ensemble’s revolutionary…

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…and polystylistic “ancient to the future” mix of musics – from the deeply spiritual to the fiercely experimental – was illuminated in new detail in Manfred Eicher’s panoramic production, and the stage set for many adventures to follow. These included the albums Full Force, Urban Bushmen, and The Third Decade with the classic AEC quintet line up of Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, Lester Bowie, Malachi Favors Maghostut and Famoudou Don Moye.
All of Bowie’s and Mitchell’s subsequent ECM recordings are also gathered together here. Charismatic trumpeter Lester Bowie is heard here with his Brass Fantasy group, with Wadada Leo Smith and with Jack DeJohnette. Multi-reed master and primary AEC conceptualist Roscoe Mitchell appears with his Note Factory band, with the Transatlantic Art Ensemble co-founded with Evan Parker, and with an historic trios project recorded at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art. Along the way, numerous distinguished creative musicians make appearances – the long list includes Muhal Richard Abrams, Henry Threadgill, Craig Taborn, Vijay Iyer, Matthew Shipp, Tyshawn Sorey, Fontella Bass, Charlie Haden, Kenny Wheeler, Corey Wilkes, Gerald Cleaver, Phillip Wilson, George Lewis, William Parker, John Abercrombie, Eddie Gomez, and many others, in ECM recordings made between 1978 and 2015.

This beautifully-designed box set incorporates a 300-page book reprising all original album covers, liner notes and poetry (by Joseph Jarman), as well as quotes from Art Ensemble members and the press, new texts by Craig Taborn, Vijay Iyer and George Lewis, a preface by Manfred Eicher, and an introduction by Steve Lake. Plus: many photographs (some previously unpublished), archival documents, and more.

CD 1
ART ENSEMBLE OF CHICAGO : NICE GUYS
1 Ja 08:39
2 Nice Guys 01:41
3 Folkus 10:59
4 5 9 7 – 5 9 06:43
5 Cyp 04:49
6 Dreaming Of The Master 11:40

CD 2
ART ENSEMBLE OF CHICAGO : FULL FORCE
1 Magg Zelma 19:50
2 Care Free 00:46
3 Charlie M 09:17
4 Old Time Southside Street Dance 05:11
5 Full Force

CD 3
ART ENSEMBLE OF CHICAGO : URBAN BUSHMEN
1 Promenade: Cote Bamako I 04:11
2 Bush Magic 05:05
3 Urban Magic: March / Warm Night Blues Stroll / Down the Walkway / RM Express 15:39
4 Sun Precondition Two / Theme For Sco: Soweto Messenger / Bushman Triumphant / Entering the City / Announcement of Victory 21:53

CD 4
1 New York Is Full Of Lonely People 07:37
2 Ancestral Meditation 06:56
3 Uncle 17:29
4 Peter And Judith 02:39
5 Promenade: Cote Bamako II 05:57
6 Odwalla/Theme 05:14

CD 5
ART ENSEMBLE OF CHICAGO : THE THIRD DECADE
1 Prayer For Jimbo Kwesi 09:47
2 Funky AECO 07:39
3 Walking In The Moonlight 04:07
4 The Bell Piece 06:02
5 Zero 05:55
6 Third Decade 08:19

CD 6
LEO SMITH : DIVINE LOVE
1 Divine Love 21:47
2 Tastalun (dedicated to Lester Bowie) 06:39
3 Spirituals: The Language Of Love 15:28

CD 7
LESTER BOWIE : THE GREAT PRETENDER
1 The Great Pretender 16:50
2 It’s Howdy Doody Time 02:07
3 When The Doom (Moon) Comes Over The Mountain: a) Doom? b) When The Moon Comes Over The Mountain 03:38
4 Rios Negros 07:15
5 Rose Drop 07:25
6 Oh, How The Ghost Sings 05:50

CD 8
LESTER BOWIE : ALL THE MAGIC!
1 For Louie 12:14
2 Spacehead 06:47
3 Ghosts 03:09
4 All The Magic!/Everything Must Change/T. Jam Blues 15:51
5 Let The Good Times Roll 06:47

CD 9
1 Organic Echo 03:18
2 Dunce Dance 02:05
3 Charlie M. (Part II) 02:51
4 Thirsty? 03:31
5 Almost Christmas 04:52
6 Down Home 02:40
7 Okra Influence 04:39
8 Miles Davis Meets Donald Duck 01:38
9 Deb Deb’s Face 02:05
10 Monkey Waltz 01:35
11 Fradulent Fanfare 01:01
12 Organic Echo (Part II) 05:31

CD 10
LESTER BOWIE’S BRASS FANTASY : I ONLY HAVE EYES FOR YOU
1 I Only Have Eyes For You 10:26
2 Think 01:35
3 Lament 13:47
4 Coming Back, Jamaica 05:14
5 Nonet 14:25
6 When The Spirit Returns 07:44

CD 11
LESTER BOWIE’S BRASS FANTASY : AVANT POP
1 The Emperor 10:09
2 Saving All My Love For You 05:06
3 B Funk 03:48
4 Blueberry Hill 05:24
5 Crazy 05:23
6 Macho (Dedicated To Machito) 06:16
7 No Shit 05:11
8 Oh, What A Night 05:33

CD 12
ART ENSEMBLE OF CHICAGO : TRIBUTE TO LESTER
1 Sangaredi 07:42
2 Suite for Lester 05:22
3 Zero / Alternate Line 09:16
4 Tutankhamun 08:10
5 As Clear as the Sun 12:41
6 He Speaks to Me Often in Dreams 13:52

CD 13
ROSCOE MITCHELL : NINE TO GET READY
1 Leola 09:35
2 Dream And Response 05:35
3 For Lester B 06:07
4 Jamaican Farewell 05:45
5 Hop Hip Bip Bir Rip 05:59
6 Nine To Get Ready 03:52
7 Bessie Harris 06:47
8 Fallen Heroes 06:33
9 Move Toward The Light 03:24
10 Big Red Peaches 02:03

CD 14
ROSCOE MITCHELL, THE TRANSATLANTIC ART ENSEMBLE : COMPOSITION / IMPROVISATION NOS. 1, 2 & 3
1 I 13:36
2 II 04:07
3 III 18:34
4 IV 05:42
5 V 03:54
6 VI 03:17
7 VII 09:12
8 VIII 14:48
9 IX 05:58

CD 15
EVAN PARKER, THE TRANSATLANTIC ART ENSEMBLE : BOUSTROPHEDON
1 Overture 01:21
2 Furrow 1 08:09
3 Furrow 2 05:46
4 Furrow 3 11:07
5 Furrow 4 05:21
6 Furrow 5 08:20
7 Furrow 6 12:52
8 Finale 06:19

CD 16
ROSCOE MITCHELL, THE NOTE FACTORY : FAR SIDE
1 Far Side / Cards / Far Side 30:56
2 Quintet 2007 A For Eight 09:56
3 Trio Four For Eight 12:37
4 Ex Flover Five 12:24

CD 17
ROSCOE MITCHELL : BELLS FOR THE SOUTH SIDE
1 Spatial Aspects of the Sound 12:14
2 Panoply 07:36
3 Prelude to a Rose 12:44
4 Dancing in the Canyon 10:23
5 EP 7849 08:13
6 Bells for the South Side 12:35

CD 18
1 Prelude to the Card Game, Cards for Drums, and The Final Hand 16:03
2 The Last Chord 12:26
3 Six Gongs and Two Woodblocks 07:50
4 R509A Twenty B 01:34
5 Red Moon In The Sky / Odwalla 25:49

CD 19
JACK DEJOHNETTE, NEW DIRECTIONS : NEW DIRECTIONS
1 Bayou Fever 08:40
2 Where Or Wayne 12:25
3 Dream Stalker 05:55
4 One Handed Woman 10:49
5 Silver Hollow 08:24

CD 20
JACK DEJOHNETTE, NEW DIRECTIONS : IN EUROPE
1 Salsa For Eddie G. 16:05
2 Where Or Wayne 12:29
3 Bayou Fever 18:24
4 Multo Spiliagio 09:33

CD 21
JACK DEJOHNETTE, MUHAL RICHARD ABRAMS, LARRY GRAY, ROSCOE MITCHELL, HENRY THREADGILL : MADE IN CHICAGO
1 Chant 16:56
2 Jack 5 14:53
3 This 12:13
4 Museum of Time 13:37
5 Leave Don’t Go Away 10:19
6 Announcement 03:28
7 Ten Minutes 06:09

…For nearly half a century, the sound of The Staple Singers was one of tremendous power. Roebuck ‘Pops’ Staples, daughters Cleotha, Mavis, and (sometimes) Yvonne, and son Pervis raised their voices in song to celebrate the Lord, but also to fight for civil rights and espouse messages of positivity and resilience to listeners worldwide. At Epic Records, the group transitioned from pure gospel and blues to soul and R&B – a move that would take them to the heights of commercial success at Stax Records. Cherry Red’s SoulMusic Records imprint collected the Staples’ six Epic albums on a 3-CD box set, For What It’s Worth: The Complete Epic Recordings 1964-1968.
The Chicago-based Staples came to Epic in 1964 following stints on labels including United,…

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…Vee-Jay, and Riverside.  Their Vee-Jay release “Uncloudy Day” famously caught the attention of the young Robert Zimmerman, who as Bob Dylan would become one of the brightest stars in the firmament at Epic’s parent label Columbia.  Epic teamed the group with Nashville producer Billy Sherrill.  While Sherrill would become famous for his pioneering of the lush countrypolitan sound, he also spent his early years as a producer honing his craft with pop and R&B acts.  His first album, the Staples’ Epic debut Amen! (1965), continued in the gospel-folk vein in which they’d recorded at Riverside.  It featured rousing renditions of such familiar melodies as “He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands,” “Mary, Don’t You Weep,” and the title song, which was popularized in the 1963 film Lilies of the Field and then turned into a hit recording by Curtis Mayfield’s Impressions.  The Staples revisited some of their Riverside material including “More Than a Hammer and Nail.”  Amen! is paired on the box set’s first disc, for timing reasons, with the group’s third Epic album, Pray On (1966).  It once again concentrated on traditional pieces including “The Lord’s Prayer” and “How Great Thou Art,” but also found room for Pervis’ recitation of Bob Dylan’s “John Brown.”  The Staples weren’t strangers to Dylan’s catalogue.  Not only had he befriended Mavis (and, the story goes, once proposed to her!) but they had recorded his songs including “Blowin’ in the Wind,” “Masters of War,” and “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” at Riverside.

Freedom Highway, the Staples’ sophomore LP, opens CD 2.  In April 1965, The Staples were joined by drummer Al Duncan and bassist Phil Upchurch at Chicago’s New Nazareth Church to record the album. It recognized that year’s historic civil rights marches from Montgomery to Selma, Alabama.  The recording of Freedom Highway followed a tumultuous, important month in American civil rights history. Three landmark marches were held in March 1965 along the 54 miles connecting Selma, Alabama with the state capital of Montgomery. The March 7 march became known as “Bloody Sunday” when 600 marchers were violently confronted by state and local police forces. The March 9 event, led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., likewise reached a standoff between police and protesters. The climactic March 21 protest found the marchers protected by a staggering 2,000 U.S. Army troops, 1,900 Alabama National Guard members, and other law enforcement personnel. In the years since, the marchers’ route has been proclaimed the “Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights Trail” and deemed a U.S. National Historic Trail. The acclaimed, new motion picture Selma, which opens nationwide tomorrow, January 9, dramatizes these dramatic events which led to the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

The Staple Singers took the opportunity afforded by their status on the Epic roster to record a service inspired by the actions of the marchers. The set preserved on Freedom Highway featured familiar civil rights anthems (“We Shall Overcome”), traditional gospel melodies (“When the Saint Go Marching In”) and religious pleas (“Precious Lord, Take My Hand,” “Help Me, Jesus”) along with the Staples’ newly-written “Freedom Highway.” Pops played his six-string guitar throughout the service – the same sound that made the passionate preacher an unlikely soul music star.  Sony’s Legacy Recordings expanded Freedom Highway to its complete form in 2015 with six additional tracks (and over 30 minutes of music).  Despite the “complete” subtitle of this box, only the original 11-track album is included here.  That seminal record is joined on the second disc by 1966’s Why, their fourth and final album to be produced by Billy Sherrill.  It was named after perhaps Pops Staples’ most famous composition, which charted for jazz great Cannonball Adderley and was also recorded by artists like The Sweet Inspirations and Brian Augur and The Trinity.  It was inspired by the plight of the Little Rock Nine, the black students who tried to integrate Little Rock’s Central High School in 1957.  Pops’ original songs and arrangements of traditional spirituals and folk songs such as “Will the Circle Be Unbroken?” (which they had first recorded at Vee-Jay) made for one of the singers’ most affecting and inspirational LPs.

The third disc has the two albums that most radically changed the sound of the Staple Singers.  Larry Williams (“Dizzy Miss Lizzy,” “She Said Yeah”) was tapped to produce the 1967 album For What It’s Worth.  Pops Staples’ penchant for protest and message songs found a vivid expression with the Stephen Stills-penned hit for Buffalo Springfield.  “For What It’s Worth” may have been written about the riots on the Sunset Strip (when police placed a curfew on the thoroughfare’s popular clubs and incited a response from the young people affected), but The Staple Singers tapped into its value as an anti-war anthem.  They were rewarded with a No. 66 Pop chart entry.  Williams ramped up their soulful, bluesy sound, even though the balance of the material was more traditional, including covers of Pete Seeger’s “If I Had a Hammer” and the gospel tune-turned-jazz-hit “Wade in the Water.”  The final album on the box, What the World Needs Now Is Love, represented a shift to pop-flavored R&B.  Helmed by Epic staff producer Ted Cooper, it featured not only the Burt Bacharach/Hal David title song but Ron Miller and Bryan Wells’ Motown hit for Stevie Wonder, “A Place in the Sun,” as well as the oft-covered “Let’s Get Together” (soon to be a hit for The Youngbloods), Curtis Mayfield’s anthem “People Get Ready,” and the Elvis Presley hit “Crying in the Chapel” as credited to lead singer Mavis with the group.  Dylan was once again present with a new recording of “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall.”  SoulMusic has expanded this album with “Power of Love,” the non-LP B-side of “Let’s Get Together.”  Both sides were produced not by Cooper, but by R&B powerhouse Jerry Ragovoy.

What the World Needs Now Is Love closed out The Staple Singers’ tenure at Epic; they signed with Stax later in 1968 and began the next, phenomenally successful chapter of their career with songs like “I’ll Take You There” and “Respect Yourself.”  SoulMusic’s set, housed in a compact clamshell box, has a 16-page booklet with detailed liner notes by compiler Bob Fisher.  Simon Murphy has remastered all six albums.  For What It’s Worth: The Complete Epic Recordings 1964-1968 is a valuable document of a fascinating period in the career of one of America’s most beloved vocal groups.

CD 1

1. More Than a Hammer and Nail
2. He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands
3. My Jesus Is All
4. This Train
5. Praying Time
6. Be Careful of Stones That You Throw
7. Samson and Delilah
8. Nobody’s Fault But Mine
9. Mary Don’t You Weep
10. As An Eagle Stirreth to Her Nest
11. Do Something for Yourself
12. Amen
13. It’s Been a Change
14. Waiting for My Child
15. How Great Thou Art
16. Wish I Had Answered
17. The Tramp on the Street
18. When Was Jesus Born?
19. Pray On
20. Glory, Glory Hallelujah!
21. The Lord’s Prayer
22. Had No Room
23. John Brown

CD 2

1. Freedom Highway
2. What You Gonna Do?
3. Take My Hand, Precious Lord
4. When I’m Gone
5. Help Me Jesus
6. We Shall Overcome
7. When the Saints Go Marching In
8. The Funeral
9. Build on That Shore
10. Tell Heaven
11. He’s All Right
12. Why (Am I Treated So Bad)
13. King of Kings
14. Step Aside
15. If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again
16. What Are They Doing (In Heaven Today)
17. Will the Circle Be Unbroken?
18. I’ve Been Scorned
19. I’m Gonna Tell God (About My Troubles)
20. My Sweet Home
21. Move Along Train

CD 3

1. For What It’s Worth
2. Father Let Me Ride
3. Deliver Me
4. He
5. If I Had a Hammer
6. Are You Sure
7. Wade in the Water
8. I’m the Light of the World
9. Jacob’s Ladder
10. Good News
11. What the World Needs Now Is Love
12. Don’t Let Nobody Turn You Around
13. A Place in the Sun
14. I Wonder Why
15. Let That Liar Alone
16. Let’s Get Together
17. Crying in the Chapel
18. Downward Road
19. A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
20. Nothing Lasts Forever
21. People Get Ready
22. Power of Love (Bonus Track)

CD 1, Tracks 1-12 from Amen!, Epic LN 26132, 1965
CD 1, Tracks 13-23 from Pray On, Epic LN 26237, 1966
CD 2, Tracks 1-11 from Freedom Highway, Epic LN 26163, 1965
CD 2, Tracks 12-21 from Why, Epic LN 26196, 1966
CD 3, Tracks 1-10 from For What It’s Worth, Epic LN 26332, 1967
CD 3, Tracks 11-21 from What the World Needs Now Is Love, Epic LN 26373, 1968
CD 3, Track 22 from Epic single 10294-B, 1968

Full Moon: The Complete Collection limited 24 CD set containing All 23 of Judie’s studio and live albums plus an extra CD with a selection of tracks from the Moon on a Mirrorball compilation and the Song Clubs.
A gifted singer and songwriter whose fans include Elton John, Brian May of Queen, and celebrated violinist Nigel Kennedy, Judie Tzuke won an enthusiastic audience in the ’70s and ’80s for her passionate and personal fusion of pop and rock, and continued to record and perform well into the 2010s. She was born Judie Myers in London on April 3, 1956. Her Polish immigrant parents had changed their last names from Tzuke to Myers shortly after relocating to England (it was a common last name in their new home of Yorkshire)…

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…but by the time Judie began her singing career, she had decided to use original family surname. Both of Tzuke’s parents were involved in music: her father, Sefton Myers, managed artists and singers (including Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice as the duo penned Jesus Christ Superstar), while her mother, Jean Silverside, acted in several popular films and TV shows. By her teenage years, Judie began penning poems and setting them to a guitar accompaniment, showcasing her original compositions at local folk clubs. Soon after, Tzuke met a songwriting collaborator in Mike Paxman, and the duo, known as Tzuke & Paxo, caught the attention of renowned producer Tony Visconti, who signed them to his Good Earth record label. The duo only managed to issue one obscure single, 1977’s “These Are the Laws” b/w “It’s Only Fantasies,” before Tzuke was signed as a solo artist to Elton John’s Rocket label.

Tzuke first issued a single for her new label, “For You,” which was a moderate success on U.K. radio, scraping the Top 40. But around the time of the release of her full-length debut in 1979, Welcome to the Cruise, Tzuke scored a more substantial hit with “Stay with Me Till Dawn,” which stayed on the British charts for 16 weeks and made several appearances on the popular TV program Top of the Pops. Despite landing a prime touring spot opening for her pal Elton John (including playing to an estimated 450,000 people at New York’s Central Park), John’s label switched distribution in the U.S. around this time, which made it difficult to find Tzuke’s music in record stores. Despite this, Tzuke’s career continued to prosper in England, resulting in such further popular releases as 1980’s Sportscar, 1981’s I Am the Phoenix, and 1982’s Shoot the Moon, in addition to appearances at major British music festivals and a pair of sold-out shows at the Hammersmith Odeon. Tzuke hoped that signing with a new label, Chrysalis Records, would bring her recording career to the next level, especially in the United States. This proved not to be the case, as Tzuke appeared to be lost in the shuffle when she issued her next studio release, Ritmo, in 1983.

Undeterred, Tzuke continued to issue further albums, including 1985’s The Cat Is Out (recorded entirely at her home studio), 1989’s Turning Stones, 1991’s Left Hand Talking, and 1996’s Wonderland (which featured a cameo by Brian May). Tzuke formed her own record label, Big Moon Records, shortly thereafter, which issued Under the Angels and the in-concert Over the Moon in 1997. Secret Agent followed in 1998, as well as another live set, Six Days Before the Flood, in 2000. Around the same time, Elton John decided to return the copyrights of Tzuke’s first three (and most popular) albums back to her, which resulted in them being remastered and reissued on Big Moon. Tzuke’s next studio effort, Queen Secret Keeper, was released in 2001, with an all-covers album, The Beauty of Hindsight, following in 2003. The 2004 album The End of the Beginning preceded her two-volume Songs series, archival releases with the first volume (2007) focusing on her softer material while the second (2008) favored rock. Two years later, her career-spanning Moon on a Mirrorball collection was supported by a tour of the U.K. After the release of One Tree Less in 2012, Tzuke offered her fans a subscription service through her website that provided access to one new song each month. Tzuke later released songs from the subscription series on the albums Song Club (2014) and Songclub Too (2015). The prolific Tzuke returned in November 2017 with the album Peace Has Broken Out, followed by a U.K. tour in 2018.

CD1: Welcome to the Cruise
CD2: Sportscar
CD3: I am the Phoenix
CD4: Shoot the Moon
CD5: Roadnoise – The Official Bootleg
CD6: Ritmo
CD7: The Cat is Out
CD8: Turning Stones
CD9: Left Hand Talking
CD10: Wonderland
CD11: Under the Angels
CD12: Over The Moon
CD13: Secret Agent
CD14: Six Days Before the Flood
CD15: Queen Secret Keeper
CD16: Drive (Live)
CD17: The Beauty of Hindsight
CD18: The End of the Beginning
CD19: Songs
CD20: Songs 2
CD21: The October Road
CD22: One Tree Less
CD23: Peace has Broken Out
CD24: More From The Moon (Collection of selected tracks for the Box Set)

A 69 track five CD clam shell box set housing all the recordings by  Punk legends The Adicts between 1982 and 1987.
Disc 1 is the band’s second studio album “Sound Of Music” which not only hit No.2 in the Independent Chart but also managed to sneak into the National Top 100 for a week and includes the Indie Chart hit single ‘Chinese Takeaway’.
The second disc is 1985’s “Smart Alex” album which includes the singles ‘Tokyo’ and ‘Bad Boy’. The rare “Fifth Overture” LP is featured on the third disc, originally released in Germany in 1986.
Disc 4 features 18 non LP tracks including the seminal ‘Viva La Revolution’ single and the “Bar Room Bop” EP plus B-sides and 12” mixes. The final disc is a 14 track In Concert recording…

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…from 1982 that was originally released on the collectable Link Records as “Live And Loud”.
The Adicts were an influential and idiosyncratic British punk outfit formed in the late ’70s in Ipswich, Suffolk by lead singer Monkey (Keith Warren), guitarist Pete Davidson, bassist Mel Ellis, and drummer Kid Dee (Michael Davison). Originally operating under the moniker Afterbirth & the Pinz, the quartet began performing as the Adicts in 1979, and quickly became known for their wry lyrics, ferocious yet upbeat sonic attack, and distinctive image — the band affected the look of the black boots and bowler cap-adorned “droogs” from the film A Clockwork Orange, and peppered their live shows with streamers, confetti, playing cards, beach balls, joker hats, toy instruments, bubbles, and glitter. They released their debut EP, Lunch with the Adicts, in 1979 via the Dining Out label, and in 1981 they issued their inaugural full-length, Songs of Praise, independently on their own Dwed Wecords — the LP was reissued the following year on Fallout Records, and included the single “Viva la Revolution,” which would become one of the group’s best-loved tracks.
They made the British charts with their second album, 1982’s Sound of Music, and in 1983 they hit it big with the single “Bad Boy,” which led to a record deal with Sire, who convinced the group to change its name to ADX — only two singles, “Tokyo” and a cover of Marlene Dietrich’s “Falling in Love Again,” were ever released under the moniker. “Tokyo” appeared on 1985’s Smart Alex, which arrived via Razor Records, and in 1986 the band issued its fourth studio long-player, Fifth Overture, before entering a period of inactivity. That hiatus was interrupted in 1992 with the release of Twenty-Seven on the Cleopatra label, who would go on to reissue the band’s first three outings the following year. The group remained relatively quiet until 2002 with the release of Rise and Shine via Captain Oi! Records. Rollercoaster dropped in 2004, and in 2008 the band re-recorded 1981’s Songs of Praise for Europe’s People Like You Records, who also put out 2009s Life Goes On. The band continued to label-hop, eventually arriving at DC-Jam Records for 2012’s All the Young Droogs and at Nuclear Blast for 2017’s And It Was So!

Disc One: Sound Of Music

1. How Sad
2. 4321
3. Chinese Takeaway
4. Johnny Was A Soldier
5. Disco
6. Eyes In The Back Of Your Head
7. Joker In The Pack
8. Lullaby
9. My Baby Got Run Over By A Steamroller
10. A Man’s Gotta Do
11. Let’s Go
12. Easy Way Out
13. Shake Rattle, Bang Your Head

Disc Two: Smart Alex

1. Ode To Joy
2. Smart Alex
3. Troubadour
4. Tokyo
5. California
6. Crazy
7. Bad Boy
8. Jellybaby
9. Maybe Or Maybe Not
10. Rocking Wrecker
11. Runaway
12. You’re All Fools

Disc Three: Fifth Overture

1. Na Na Na Na
2. I Am Yours
3. Too Much Of A Good Thing
4. Sure Looks Pretty
5. Don’t Let Go
6. Put Yourself In My Hands
7. She’s A Rocker
8. Beauty Sleep
9. Change
10. Two Timing Me
11. Daggers
12. Going Home

Disc Four: Rarities

1. Viva La Revolution (Single Version)
2. Steamroller (My Baby Got Run Over By A) (Single Version)
3. You’ll Never Walk Alone
4. Too Young
5. Bad Boy (Single Version)
6. Tokyo (Single Version)
7. The Odd Couple
8. A D X Medley
9. I Wanna Be Sedated
10. Falling In Love Again
11. Come Along
12. It’s A Laugh
13. Saturday Night
14. Falling In Love Again (12” Version)
15. Champs Elysees
16. Sound Of Music
17. Who Spilt My Beer?
18. Cowboys

Disc Five: Live And Loud!!

1. Sensitive
2. Easy Way Out
3. Joker In The Pack
4. Chinese Takeaway
5. How Sad
6. Hurt
7. Tango
8. Viva La Revolution
9. Just Like Me
10. Numbers
11. Steamroller
12. Too Young
13. Straightjacket
14. Let’s Go

Eric Clapton‘s musical output across a career spanning 55 years and counting, has been nothing short of extraordinary. But added to this, that the lion’s share of his work has been of a quite staggering quality, with more than occasional brilliance displayed, has made Clapton one of a handful of musicians, composers and performers from the rock age who patently deserve their place at the top table of the industry.
This 3  CD set celebrates and champions the contribution Eric has made to the pantheon of intelligent rock music as it contains three broadcast recordings of live shows from the 1960s, the 1970s and the 1990s. Kicking off with a superb concert the great man gave as part of Cream, the super-group which also of course featured…

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…the talents of Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker, recorded at the LA Forum in October 1968. Next up on disc two is a unique gig Clapton gave at Dallas s Convention Center in Texas towards the end of 1976, hot on the heels of his No Reason To Cry album. Concluding the collection, disc 3 takes EC forward more than 20 years, to his astonishing show at the Edmonton Coliseum in Alberta, Canada in September of 1998.

Disc 1

1. White Room (06:16)
2. Politician (06:06)
3. I’m So Glad (06:22)
4. Sitting On The Top Of The World (04:56)
5. Sunshine Of Your Love (04:52)
6. Crossroads (03:58)
7. Traintime (07:28)
8. Toad (12:02)
9. Spoonful (17:04)

Disc 2

1. Hello Old Friend (04:02)
2. Sign Language (03:52)
3. Badge (08:53)
4. Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door (06:12)
5. One Night (04:30)
6. Tell The Truth (14:42)
7. Can’t Find My Way Home (06:23)
8. Blues Power (13:19)
9. Layla (12:56)

Disc 3

1. My Father’s Eyes (07:31)
2. Pilgrim (06:25)
3. One Chance (06:29)
4. River Of Tears (08:38)
5. Going Down Slow (05:22)
6. She’s Gone (07:36)
7. Driftin’ Blues (03:21)
8. Alberta (03:39)
9. Tears In Heaven (04:09)
10. Layla (05:09)
11. Change The World (06:11)

Disc 1 “Cream” recorded live at the L.A. Forum, Inglewood, CA October 19, 1968
Disc 2 recorded live at Dallas County Convention Center, Dallas, TX November 15, 1976
Disc 3 recorded live at the Edmonton Coliseum, Edmonton, Alberta (Canada) September 11,1998

Between 1978 and 2012, founding Genesis guitarist Anthony Phillips released 11 volumes of Private Parts & Pieces. Each volume has collected various odds and ends from the composer/multi-instrumentalist which, for one reason or another, wouldn’t have fit comfortably on any of his proper solo albums. Since 2015, Cherry Red Group’s Esoteric Recordings imprint has been reissuing and expanding these fascinating releases in box set form. The third and final box (to date), Private Parts & Pieces IX-XI, collects the albums originally issued in 1996, 1999, and 2012 plus a bonus disc.
Private Parts & Pieces IX: Dragonfly Dreams (1996) took advantage of the long running time afforded by the CD format to bring together eighteen of Phillips’ compositions dating back…

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…to 1986, including a 17+-minute epic piece for acoustic 12-string guitar, “Chinese Walls.”  The eclectic nature of the project also encompassed such tracks as “Something Blue,” a pop song once mooted for singer Elkie Brooks but reinterpreted here on classical guitar, “In the Valleys” from the recording period of his album Invisible Men (which itself was recently reissued by Esoteric), and a number of vivid improvisations.

While the artist played various guitars on Dragonfly, he turned to solo piano for Volume X, Soiree (1999).  Volume VI (Ivory Moon) was also a solo piano set.  The 20 tracks on Dragonfly were newly-written and recorded save for “Creation,” which was penned three decades earlier, in 1968.  Phillips announced that there were no overdubs on the album which embraced a soft, comforting tone on such tracks as the moving tribute to the late Princess Diana, “Fallen Flower,” and the opening musical portrait of a “Sad Ballerina.”

The final album in this box set, 2012’s Volume XI: City of Dreams, resulted from Phillips’ prolific work as a composer for television and library music on keyboard and synthesizer.  Some compositions weren’t felt by Phillips to fit into the library music genre (music written for the specific purpose of licensing for use in television, film, radio, or other media), so he collated those stray pieces to curate this 31-track Private Parts volume.  Some new recording also took place, including a guitar overdub on “King of the Mountains.”   City of Dreams remains Phillips’ final solo album to date.

The three volumes here are rounded out by a bonus disc, Private Parts & Extra Pieces III.  These eighteen previously unreleased tracks were recorded between 1991 and 2012, and comprise a varied lot of alternately shimmering and stirring instrumental material played on piano, guitar, and keyboard.  Three tracks feature guitarist Quique Berro Garcia, and a couple of alternate mixes of Dragonfly Dreams songs are also included.

Anthony Phillips, Private Parts & Pieces IX-XI (Cherry Red/Esoteric ECLEC 42623, 2018)

CD 1: Dragonfly Dreams (Blueprint BP229CD, 1996)

Part I

1. Openers
2. In the Valleys
3. Something Blue
4. Quango
5. Lostwithiel
6. Under the Ice
7. Sarah Blakely’s Evening
8. She’ll Be Waiting
9. Still Time

Part II

10. Hills of Languedoc
11. Luigi Palta’s Confession
12. The Tears of Pablo Paraguas
13. Melancholy Flower
14. Night Song
15. Chinese Walls
16. Old Faithful
17. Summer Ponds and Dragonflies
18. Lost and Found

CD 2: Soiree (Blueprint BP319CD, 1999)

1. Sad Ballerina
2. Final Light
3. Sultry Leaves
4. Fivers
5. Creation
6. Keepsake
7. Venetian Mystery
8. Scythia
9. Cantilena
10. The Oregon Trail
11. Passacaglia
12. Gazebo
13. Passepied
14. Fallen Flower
15. Noblesse Oblige
16. Hope of Ages
17. Obezag
18. Rain Suite
19. After You Left
20. Summer’s Journey

CD 3: City of Dreams (Voiceprint VP556CD)

1. City of Dreams I
2. Piledriver
3. King of the Mountains
4. Coral Island
5. Astral Bath
6. City of Dreams II
7. Air and Grace
8. Tuscan Wedding
9. Mystery Train I
10. Sunset Pools
11. Sea and Sardinia
12. Watching While You Sleep
13. Night Owl
14. The Deep
15. City of Dreams III
16. Mystery Train II
17. Star’s End
18. Doom Flower
19. Night Train to Novrogod
20. Sea of Tranquility
21. 39 Steps
22. Lake of Fire
23. Realms of Gold
24. City of Dreams IV
25. Days of Yore
26. Across the Steppes
27. Act of Faith
28. Grand Master
29. Mystery Train III
30. Anthem for Doomed Youth
31. The Homecoming

CD 4: Private Parts & Extra Pieces III (all tracks previously unreleased)

1. High Roller
2. Piano Drama Movement I
3. Sunset Drifter
4. Lostwithiel Link
5. Roads in Between
6. Shimmering Peaks
7. Castles and Courtships
8. Brand New Cadillac
9. Ocean of Stars
10. Pablo Dries Out
11. Lost Monolith
12. A Simple Man
13. Night Song (Alternate Mix)
14. Firefly
15. Constellation of Hope
16. Piano Drama Movement III
17. Heaven’s Gate
18. Lost and Found (Alternate Mix)

In many ways, musicologist Deben Bhattacharya stands as a direct predecessor to Sublime Frequencies, as one of the label’s producers, Robert Millis, notes in his introduction to Paris to Calcutta: Men and Music on the Desert Road. While Sublime Frequencies’ website states that its members are “dedicated to acquiring and exposing obscure sights and sounds from modern and traditional urban and rural frontiers”, Bhattacharya refers in the notes to his 1956 LP to “a living tradition of folk music” in every country he traversed, a string of political states from France to India, as the title implies. Fittingly enough, then, it is on Sublime Frequencies that the fieldwork of the late Bhattacharya returns to the forefront – not just in sound but in text. Four discs of…

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…international field recordings accompany 160 pages of word and image, centered around a previously unpublished manuscript that sheds light on Bhattacharya’s personal experiences traveling and collecting. It makes for a fascinating examination of the ethnographer as an imperfect but ultimately irreplaceable tool of data collection. In his impressions of each place, Bhattacharya occasionally reveals biases and makes broad generalizations, but he also sets detailed, multisensory scenes, each one an immersive slice of his life. The observations are at least as fascinating now as they were when he wrote them in 1955, perhaps more so for the way they transport the reader through space and time. Black-and-white photos and more typewritten field notes add more visual and technical layers to the reading experience.

All of this is new to the extant body of Bhattacharya’s work; in an introduction by Deben’s widow Jharna Rose Bhattacharya, she describes her late husband’s “search for authenticity”. The movement to embrace the complexities of human involvement in ethnographic work instead of trying to present unencumbered facts is a relatively recent one, and Bhattacharya, like the Sublime Frequencies team, eschews embellishment in his recordings. It makes sense that he would also be cautious about adding more of himself to the narrative, but doing so is perfectly appropriate for this project, of which Bhattacharya is ultimately the true topic.

Placing Bhattacharya in the center of Paris to Calcutta in this way means that the music (an extensive collection of vernacular tunes that run the gamut from Bedouin coffee grinder rhythms to suites of Syrian classical music) is ultimately on the periphery, a soundtrack to set the atmosphere. Physically, the discs are set inside the covers, framing the text rather than inlaid within it, and that positioning holds on a less literal level. Brief notes on each track sit in the back of the manuscript, including track names, locations, instrumentation, and performers when known. Some, the book notes, have never before been released; all are brilliantly rough, raw works by performers often “as unused to being recorded as Deben was to recording”. It is this exact phenomenon, this sometimes shaky interaction between Bhattacharya and the participants in his project, that underscores why Bhattacharya’s reflections matter. As traveler, as researcher, Bhattacharya has always been a part of his own work, his experience or lack thereof shaping the incredible and diverse sounds that would eventually make up more than 40 hours of recordings.

Paris to Calcutta offers a wealth of words, pictures, and sounds. Taken separately, they excite the ear, marking moments in time that are preserved only in archival material as compiled in projects like this. Taken together, they are a complex and holistic portrait of a prolific and deeply influential musicologist. They illuminate the worldview and work not only of a researcher, but of a man, and in doing so, bring his unique journey to life.

Depeche Mode have released a series of 12″ box sets, compiling all their 12″ single releases from each era.
The series begins with the release of Speak & Spell: The 12″ Singles and A Broken Frame: The 12″ Singles and continues with Construction Time Again: The 12″ Singles and Some Great Reward: The 12″ Singles. Each numbered box set contains faithful reproductions of Depeche Mode’s 12″ singles of the era, with audio remastered from the original tapes and cut at Abbey Road Studios. The artwork for the exterior of each of the box sets draws on street art iconography inspired by the original releases.
“Our 12″ singles have always been incredibly important to the band,” said Depeche Mode…

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…in a press release. “It’s great to be able to re-share these songs with old and new fans in the way they were originally intended to be experienced. We hope you enjoy them as much as we do.”

Speak & Spell | The 12″ Singles contains a facsimile reproduction of the rare FlexiPop flexi-disc “Sometimes I Wish I Was Dead” & “King of the Flies” (the Fad Gadget track as on the original release); Dreaming Of Me 12″: “Dreaming of Me” b/w “Ice Machine”; New Life 12″: “New Life (Remix)” b/w “Shout! (Rio Mix)”; Just Can’t Get Enough 12″: “Just Can’t Get Enough (Schizo Mix)” b/w “Any Second Now (Altered)”.

A Broken Frame | The 12″ Singles contains See You 12″: “See You (Extended Version)” b/w “Now, This Is Fun (Extended Version)”; The Meaning Of Love 12″: “The Meaning Of Love (Fairly Odd Mix)” b/w “Oberkorn (It’s A Small Town) (Development Mix)”; Leave In Silence 12″: “Leave In Silence (Longer)” b/w “Further Excerpts From: My Secret Garden” and “Leave In Silence (Quieter)”.

Depeche Mode 12″ singles collector’s edition box set series continues with release of Construction Time Again | The 12″ Singles and Some Great Reward | The 12″ Singles on December, 2018. Construction Time Again | The 12″ Singles and Some Great Reward | The 12″ Singles contain reproductions of limited edition versions of releases showcasing rare tracks, alternate mixes, 7″ vinyl versions, live songs and more. The Construction Time Again | The 12″ Singles box includes three reproductions of limited singles which each feature four bonus live performances recorded at London’s Hammersmith Odeon on October 25, 1982. The Some Great Reward | The 12″ Singles box includes select live recordings from the Liverpool Empire Theatre, recorded September 29, 1984.

For over 15 years The Old Grey Whistle Test graced British television screens and would go on to become one of the most incredibly influential music programmes. From its premiere in 1971, through to its finale in 1988, the BBC show hosted countless performances from a number of seminal artists. A remarkable appearance would often help propel an artist from being a mere unknown to a household name.
UMC and the BBC have teamed up and created a set of lovingly curated branded compilations which celebrate the show and all the incredible music it featured. Each 3CD collection is made up of carefully selected original studio recordings of the many interesting and eclectic tracks that were performed on the show.

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Cherry Bombs takes us on a journey through all the punk, post-punk and new-wave that became synonymous with the show in from the late 70s onwards and features artists such as Iggy Pop, Ramones, The Jam, Siouxsie & The Banshees, U2, Adam & The Ants and many more…

CD1:

1. The Runaways – Cherry Bomb [02:13]
2. The Long Ryders – Looking For Lewis And Clark [03:06]
3. Iggy Pop – I’m Bored [02:42]
4. The Cars – Just What I Needed [03:40]
5. Ramones – Don’t Come Close [02:39]
6. Joe Jackson – Is She Really Going Out With Him? [03:30]
7. Big Country – Close Action [04:10]
8. Public Image Ltd. – Round [04:22]
9. Skids – Hurry On Boys [03:40]
10. Magazine – Shot By Both Sides [04:00]
11. The Mission – Tomorrow Never Knows [03:27]
12. The Cure – Inbetween Days [02:52]
13. Nine Below Zero – I Can’t Help Myself (Live) [02:14]
14. The Bangles – Walk Like An Egyptian [03:19]
15. Rachel Sweet – Who Does Lisa Like? [02:55]
16. Patti Smith – Because The Night [03:19]
17. John Cooper Clarke – Beasley Street [06:46]
18. Linton Kwesi Johnson – Inglan Is A Bitch [05:21]

CD2:

1. U2 – 11 O’Clock Tick Tock [03:44]
2. Magazine – Definitive Gaze [04:24]
3. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark – Promise [04:47]
4. Japan – The Art Of Parties [06:38]
5. Ultravox! – Hiroshima Mon Amour [05:05]
6. Public Image Ltd. – Poptones [07:42]
7. Siouxsie And The Banshees – Metal Postcard (Mittageisen)[04:10]
8. Altered Images – Insects [03:25]
9. Adam & The Ants – Ants Invasion [03:16]
10. The Cure – 10:15 Saturday Night [03:35]
11. Split Enz – Missing Person [03:32]
12. Alda Reserve – Some Get Away [04:00]
13. Joe Jackson – Fools In Love [04:19]
14. Prefab Sprout – When Love Breaks Down [03:54]
15. Aztec Camara – Walk Out To Winter [03:19]
16. Grace Jones – Private Life [04:34]
17. The Slits – I Heard It Through The Grapevine [03:55]

CD3:

1. Madness – Night Boat To Cairo [03:28]
2. The Style Council – Walls Come Tumbling Down [03:19]
3. Eddie & The Hot Rods – Do Anything You Wanna Do [02:51]
4. Dr. Feelgood – Roxette [02:56]
5. Nine Below Zero – (Just A) Little Bit (Live) [02:16]
6. Wilko Johnson’s Solid Senders – Walking On The Edge [02:51]
7. Tyla Gang – Styrofoam [02:32]
8. Nine Below Zero – Three Times Enough [02:02]
9. The Jam – ‘A’ Bomb In Wardour Street [02:27]
10. Joe Jackson – I’m The Man [03:54]
11. Wreckless Eric – Whole Wide World [02:48]
12. The Motors – Dancing The Night Away [06:28]
13. Skids – Working For The Yankee Dollar [03:35]
14. Big Country – A Thousand Stars [03:46]
15. The Mission – Wasteland [03:51]
16. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark – Messages [04:05]
17. Ultravox – Slow Motion [03:21]
18. Japan – Swing [06:22]
19. Fashion – Move On [03:52]
20. Siouxsie And The Banshees – Cities In Dust [03:59]
21. Japan – Ghosts [03:55]

Subtitled “60 Juvenile Delinquent Wrecks”, this boxset takes in Junk Shop Glam, Rock & Roll Bubblegum and Proto-Punk from around the globe and features such scene luminaries as Iggy And The Stooges, Mott The Hoople and the Spiders Of Mars by cheek and jowl with lesser known, glitter-strewn outfits Ning, Frenzy and Sleaze (featuring a young TV Smith prior to forming the Adverts) among many others…..LTW’s Ian Canty feels the full foppish assault of these stack-heeled boot boys and girls…
In the sleeve-note to this collection it mentions John Lennon stating that Glam was “Rock & Roll with lipstick on”. Pretty near the mark, but it was also a number of other things, including a dry run for Punk and a near-revival of Bubblegum. Glam’s gender confusion whipped up a media storm…

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…not unlike the Pistols with their appearance on the Today show a few years later in 1976. Without the nationwide reaction to Punk and the accompanying DIY ethos, it is possible Punk could have been seen as just a more political and slightly more outrageous version of Glam. All The Young Droogs highlights this, but really seeks to entertain by introducing some starry-eyed and platform-booted also-rans who just didn’t get the breaks, along with more successful acts who got the press but struggled for hits.

There was a ready made market for these bands that could have helped make them. The Skinhead rough kids, whose enthusiasm had waned for Reggae as the 70s wore on, were looking for something else to focus their tough-nut attentions on. Slade offered them easy access into the new, with their grafting some of Glam accoutrements onto the Skin garb of boots and braces and their rabblerousing Rock & Roll hitting the spot. Also there was a new set of young fans who had missed the 60s and wanted something of their own, something ultra-modern looking and sounding.

More than anything else they wanted something that had been tacitly promised them, by the spectre of the 60s, in films, on TV, something that was in short supply on the faceless estates and dowdy terrace housing where they lived or the grotty back street cafes, drab concert halls and old men’s pubs and clubs that they tried to eke out a nightlife in. Glamour. It was a perfect storm of attitude, dazzling colour and space-age technology, allied to a framework which looked back towards the dynamic flash of early Rock & Roll scene and Bubblegum’s basic but infuriatingly catchy simplicity. From there, garnished sometimes by primitive synths, Glam looked forward into a Sci-Fi future.

David Bowie and Marc Bolan, two ex-Mods written off as one hit wonders in the swinging decade, had been biding their time and launched a hostile takeover of the UK charts – you were either with them or you belonged in the past, that was clear. Glam resonated with these kids because it talked the same language as them, despite the otherworldly appearance and alien posturing; Cum On Feel The Noize, Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting, Ballroom Blitz, simple, savage and hugely infectious snapshots from the streets that these teens knew so well. Though looked on now as more of a UK phenomenon, Glam was popular in many other countries, with the US (where the form arguably emanated from), Australia, Sweden and even Iceland having their representatives present on this compilation…[louderthanwar]

CD1: ROCK OFF!

1. HEY SWEETY – Ray Owen’s Moon
2. WORKING CLASS MAN – Third World War
3. I GOT A RIGHT – Iggy & The Stooges
4. WOK N’ WOLL – Milk ‘N’Cookies
5. HOLD ON TIGHT – Method
6. BE A MAN – The Brats
7. LAZY LONDON LADY – Change
8. LOOKING FOR LOVE – Glo Macari
9. BIG BOOBS BOOGIE – Slowload
10. LOVELY LADY ROCK – James Hogg
11. TEENAGE LOVE AFFAIR – Iron Virgin
12. I LIKE IT BOTH WAYS – Supernaut
13. BROTHER JOHN – Fancy
14. DON’T LET GO – Rats
15. SHE’S NOT MY LOVER – Cole Younger
16. ROXY ROLLER – Sweeney Todd featuring Brian Guy Adams
17. BOYS WILL BE BOYS – Taste
18. GET OUTTA MY HOUSE – Hustler
19. MACHINE – Ning
20. HARD ROAD – Stevie Wright

CD2: TUBTHUMPERS & HELLRAISERS

1. MY TEENAGE QUEEN – Harpo
2. BY BYE BAD DAYS – Hector
3. SATURDAY NIGHT – Bilbo Baggins
4. GAME’S UP – Hello
5. POSER – Frenzy
6. SEX APPEAL – Simon Turner
7. YEAH – The Jets
8. LUCIFERA – Lemming
9. WHIZZ KID – Mott The Hoople
10. LITTLE BOY BLUE – Angel
11. BABY GRANDE – Zephyr
12. I WANT YOU (ALL NIGHT LONG) – Hot Rod
13. LOOKING FOR YOU – Redhead
14. CUT LOOSE – Stud Leather
15. GIMME GIMME SOME LOVIN’ (GIMME GIMME GOOD LOVIN’/GIMME SOME LOVIN’) – Biggles
16. DOG EATS DOG – Mint
17. FAST TRAIN – Tank
18. HEY HEY JUMP NOW – The One Hit Wonders
19. SWEETNESS – Boneshaker
20. LET ME TELL YA – U.K. Jones

CD3: ELEGANCE & DECADENCE

1. ABSTRACTING BILLY – Brett Smiley
2. GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER – John Howard
3. CRIMINAL WORLD – Metro
4. WHITE STOCKINGS – Roy Allison
5. SPACESHIP LOVER – Paul St John
6. ULTRASTAR – Rococo
7. STAR MACHINE – Woody Woodmansey’s U-Boat
8. NIGHT CREATURES – Be Bop Deluxe
9. NEW YORK CITY PRETTY – Clive Kennedy
10. I WON’T DANCE – John Henry
11. DON’T LEAVE YOUR LOVER LYING AROUND (DEAR) – Steve Elgin
12. WONDER ONES – Alastair Riddell
13. I LIVE IN STYLE IN MAIDA VALE (DEMO VERSION) – Helter Skelter
14. VIRGINIA CREEPER – Greg Robbins
15. PAPER PARTY – Brian Wells
16. WAITING – The Doctors Of Madness
17. SHOWBIZ KID – Sleaze
18. WHITE MAN, BLACK MAN – Spiders From Mars
19. PASTICHE BLUE – James Arthur Edwards
20. DAYBREAK – Buster

This 3-CD version overseen by Tom Stevens contains the re-mastered album, a disc of demos from the band’s personal archives and a memorable live show from Palm Springs.
…The third – and so far last – Long Ryders album was originally released in 1987, the torturous tale of the process from demoing through recording and then mishandled releasing of which is told by Sid Griffin in the glossy booklet accompanying this sumptuous re-issue. You can read that in detail when you pick up this three disc box-set. Suffice to say that the final part of the story – the wholehearted getting behind the album by the record company – didn’t go exactly to any kind of plan the band might have had in mind.  Even to the extent – shockingly and unbelievably…

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…– that the album cover (not the box art shown here) had only been meant as a mock-up prior to a proper photo-shoot.  Ironically, that put them in good – and appropriate – company: the Byrds never meant to release an album called ‘(Untitled),’ the record company just messed that up.

Any subsequent lack of sales is clearly not the fault of the album itself – it comes barrelling out of the gates with ‘Gunslinger Man,’ then careers straight into the Byrdsian ‘I Want You Bad‘ then pushes into ‘A Stitch In Time‘ which shows the Long Ryders mining a seam right alongside R.E.M. who were in the studio with ‘Life’s Rich Pageant‘ and ‘Document’ around the same time. Only it was the Long Ryders who came up with the dramatic mandolin lead history lesson of ‘Harriet Tubman’s Gonna Carry Me Home.’

Again, the second disc of this set is a collection of demos, from three different studio sessions, which not only documents the evolution of the songs on ‘Two Fisted Tales,’ but also proffers versions of songs that didn’t make the album such as the contemporary war story of ‘Flak Jacket,’  and the slow ballad ‘He Can Hear His Brother Calling’ with some nice guitar jangle below the small town tale of despair – it’s got a great Gene Clark feel to it. The final CD of the box set is a live show, this one from Oasis Water Park in Palm Springs. Naturally it predominantly features the new material but there were a few older tracks, such as ‘State Of Our Union,’ mixed in. Overall it’s good quality and well worthy of release. — AmericanaUK

3-CD version overseen by Tom Stevens contains the re-mastered album, a set of demos from the band’s archive, and a legendary show from London’s Mean Fiddler. Re-mastered by Andy Pearce.
The Long Ryders’ second album, the one that opens with the powerful ‘Looking for Lewis and Clarke‘, has been given the deluxe 3-disc box set treatment for this reissue on Cherry Red Records. It hardly seems worth saying that the original album is one of the finest ever releases in the genre that didn’t yet know it was called Americana. This is the holy water sprung from the sacred source. With songs like ‘Capturing the Flag‘, ‘Good Times Tomorrow, Hard Times Today‘, the arse-kicking ‘WDIA‘ and the rock and roll boogieing title track it sounds as fine today as it did in 1985. No-one has…

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…any excuse not to own at least one copy of this album. Disc 1 is the original album, filled out with the B-sides to the album’s singles – these were in the ‘Final Wild Songs‘ box in 2016, but not to include them again here would be peculiar.

So far so good – and Disc 2 doesn’t disappoint either. It’s a full set of the demos to the album, not in the album running order, not that that matters. Demos can, often, be rather dull filler – not here. ‘Years Long Ago‘ is a gaping wound of a song, and in the demo form there’s an additional layer of raw pain. ‘WDIA‘ is perhaps a tad slower than the final version – it’s longer for sure and without the sweetening of the horn overdubs it’s a more primal groove. Disc 3 fills out the box with the 8th December 1985 Mean Fiddler gig – there’s a blend of end of tour exuberance and in the encore there’s the heartfelt weariness of the sarcastic “yeah thanks” for all the critics as Sid Griffin reads out the reviews – all of them bad. — AmericanaUK

For over 15 years The Old Grey Whistle Test graced British television screens and would go on to become one of the most incredibly influential music programmes. From its premiere in 1971, through to its finale in 1988, the BBC show hosted countless performances from a number of seminal artists. A remarkable appearance would often help propel an artist from being a mere unknown to a household name.
UMC and the BBC have teamed up and created a set of lovingly curated branded compilations which celebrate the show and all the incredible music it featured. Each 3CD collection is made up of carefully selected original studio recordings of the many interesting and eclectic tracks that were performed on the show.

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The Old Grey Whistle Test: Easy Riders

Easy Riders celebrates to very best in rock, pop, folk, prog and singer-songwriters that appeared on the Old Grey Whistle Test. It features the likes of Thin Lizzy, Free, Mike Oldfield, Rick Wakeman, Lynyrd Skynyrd and many more…

CD1:

1. Meat Loaf – Bat Out Of Hell [04:46]
2. Lynyrd Skynyrd – Sweet Home Alabama [04:44]
3. The Allman Brothers Band – Jessica [04:05]
4. Free – My Brother Jake [02:51]
5. Thin Lizzy – Whiskey In The Jar [05:39]
6. Santana – Jingo [04:17]
7. Johnny Winter – Jumpin’ Jack Flash (Live) [04:21]
8. Status Quo – Big Fat Mama [05:49]
9. Wishbone Ash – Blind Eye [03:41]
10. Rory Gallagher – Walk On Hot Coals [06:57]
11. Vinegar Joe – Proud To Be (A Honky Woman) [04:27]
12. The Band – King Harvest (Has Surely Come) [03:34]
13. Joe Walsh – Life’s Be Good [04:33]
14. Dr. Hook – Levitate [03:02]
15. John Stevens’ Away – Anni (Pts 1 & 2) [07:32]
16. Stealers Wheel – Star [02:50]

CD2:

1. Mike Oldfield – Tubular Bells [13:25]
2. Rick Wakeman – Catherine Howard [06:34]
3. Emerson Lake & Palmer – Fanfare For The Common Man [02:52]
4. Camel – Air Born [04:58]
5. Vinegar Joe – Charley’s Horse [03:00]
6. Lynyrd Skynyrd – Workin’ For MCA [04:41]
7. Rory Gallagher – Bullfrog Blues (Live) [06:42]
8. Uriah Heep – Look At Yourself [03:14]
9. Stealers Wheel – I Get By [03:09]
10. Jim Capaldi – Short Cut Draw Blood [04:18]
11. Dr. Hook – The Millionaire [02:57]
12. Jack Bruce – Theme For An Imaginary Western [03:25]
13. Lynyrd Skynyrd – Free Bird [03:29]

CD3:

1. Stealers Wheel – Stuck In The Middle With You [03:20]
2. Electric Light Orchestra – Livin’ Thing [03:27]
3. McGuinn, Clark & Hillman – Don’t You Write Her Off [03:12]
4. Justin Hayward & John Lodge – My Brother [03:24]
5. Bruce Johnston – Disney Girls [05:04]
6. Elkie Brooks – Jigsaw Baby [05:11]
7. Linda Ronstadt – Desperado [03:30]
8. Dave Mason – Give Me A Reason Why [04:57]
9. Colin Blunstone – Say You Don’t Mind [03:13]
10. Joan Armatrading – Love And Affection [04:25]
11. Bread – Baby I’m-A Want You [02:19]
12. Chris De Burgh – Satin Green Shutters [05:00]
13. Sandy Denny – It’ll Take A Long Time [05:05]
14. Pentangle – Light Flight [03:09]
15. Camel – The Snow Goose [03:08]
16. Landscape – Sonja Henie [03:30]

The Old Grey Whistle Test: Jetboys and Ladytrons

Jetboys and Ladytrons is an interesting and eclectic mix of all the many musical styles that The Old Grey Whistle Test showcased. From rock, to prog, reggae to soul, it features a number of hugely influential artists including Lou Reed, Bill Withers, John Lennon, Roxy Music, New York Dolls and many more…

CD1:

1. New York Dolls – Jet Boy [04:36]
2. Roxy Music – Re-Make – Re-Model [05:08]
3. Mott The Hoople – All The Way From Memphis [03:20]
4. The Edgar Winter Group – Frankenstein [03:21]
5. Cheap Trick – I Want You To Want Me [03:08]
6. The Tubes – Sushi Girl [03:26]
7. U.K. – Nothing To Lose [03:17]
8. Ian Hunter – Once Bitten Twice Shy [04:40]
9. Captain Beefheart – Upon The My O My [02:37]
10. Roxy Music – Do The Strand [04:00]
11. Steve Hillage – Motivation [04:06]
12. Kevin Ayers – Shouting In A Bucket Blues [03:41]
13. Kevin Coyne – House On The Hill [04:48]
14. Peter Hammill – Crying Wolf [05:10]
15. Marianne Faithful – The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan [04:06]
16. Vangelis – The Dragon [04:09]
17. Edgar Froese – Epsilon In Malaysian Pale [05:26]
18. Tangerine Dream – Movements Of A Visionary [07:55]

CD2:

1. Roxy Music – Ladytron [04:22]
2. Big Audio Dynamite – Medicine Show [06:27]
3. New York Dolls – Looking For A Kiss [03:14]
4. Lou Reed – I Love You, Suzanne [03:10]
5. Grace Jones – Warm Leatherette [04:25]
6. Marianne Faithfull – Broken English [03:00]
7. Patti Smith – Land: Horses – Land Of A Thousand Dances – La Mer(de)[09:24]
8. Nico – Valley Of The Kings [03:53]
9. Van Der Graaf Generator – Lizard Play [04:27]
10. Gentle Giant – The Advent Of Panurge [04:38]
11. Steve Hillage – Hurdy Gurdy Glissando [08:56]
12. Brand X – Dance Of The Illegal Aliens [07:47]
13. Nico – Secret Side [04:04]
14. Captain Beefheart – This Is The Day [04:43]

CD3:

1. John Lennon – Stand By Me [03:28]
2. Kevin Coyne – Marlene [02:40]
3. Bill Withers – Ain’t No Sunshine [02:00]
4. The Spinners – Ghetto Child [03:41]
5. Sister Sledge – Love Don’t Go Through No Changes On Me [03:12]
6. Graham Central Station – Feel The Need [03:48]
7. Tower Of Power – What Is Hip? [05:01]
8. Isaac Hayes – Good Love 6-9-9-6-9 [05:14]
9. Kool & The Gang – Rhyme-Tyme People [03:15]
10. Billy Preston – The Bus [03:26]
11. Freddie King – Woman Across The River [02:42]
12. Nicky Thomas – Love Of The Common People [02:13]
13. Graham Parker & The Rumour – Don’t Ask Me Questions [05:32]
14. Grace Jones – She’s Lost Control [03:42]
15. The Fabulous Poodles – Mirror Star [04:21]
16. Spliff – Deep In The City [04:22]

The Old Grey Whistle Test: Cherry Bombs

2019 marks the fiftieth anniversary of Curtis Mayfield’s solo career. He had previously spent 14 years as a member and driving force of The Impressions. His unique voice and guitar stylings, not to mention his exemplary songwriting skills, helped bring the world such classics as “It’s All Right,” “Gypsy Woman,” and the iconic “People Get Ready.” When Mayfield split with The Impressions in 1969, he forged a new chapter in his career and in soul music. His unique blend of gospel-influenced R&B and socially charged lyrics paved the way for much of the soul music that was to come in the decades ahead.
Rhino Records reissued Mayfield’s acclaimed first four albums as Keep On Keeping On: Curtis Mayfield Studio Albums, 1970-1974.

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Featuring the classic debut Curtis (1970), as well as Roots (1971), Back To the World (1973), and Sweet Exorcist (1974), Keep On Keeping On displays the range and versatility of Curtis Mayfield as a musician, songwriter, and singer.  Each groundbreaking album has been newly remastered for the special box set.

Disc 1: Curtis (originally Curtom/Buddah LP CRS 8005, 1970)

1. (Don’t Worry) If There’s A Hell Below, We’re All Going To Go
2. The Other Side Of Town
3. The Makings Of You
4. We The People Who Are Darker Than Blue
5. Move On Up
6. Miss Black America
7. Wild And Free
8. Give It Up

Disc 2: Roots (originally Curtom/Buddah LP CRS 8009, 1971)

1. Get Down
2. Keep On Keeping On
3. Underground
4. We Got to Have Peace
5. Beautiful Brother of Mine
6. Now You’re Gone
7. Love to Keep You in Mind

Disc 3: Back To the World (originally Curtom/Buddah LP CRS 8015, 1973)

1. Back To The World
2. Future Shock
3. Right On For the Darkness
4. Future Song (Love A Good Woman, Love A Good Man)
5. If I Were Only A Child Again
6. Can’t Say Nothin’
7. Keep On Trippin’

Disc 4: Sweet Exorcist (originally Curtom/Buddah LP CRS 8601, 1974)

1. Ain’t Got Time
2. Sweet Exorcist
3. To Be Invisible
4. Power To The People
5. Kung Fu
6. Suffer
7. Make Me Believe In You

Music has the power to bring people together from parties to protests to prayer, music is a powerful catalyst for celebration, for change, and for a sense of community. Through making music together, we become bigger than ourselves. Whether singing with our families and friends or with thousands of strangers in an arena, music transforms lives, engages individuals, and connects local and global communities. The social power of music chronicles the vivid, impassioned, and myriad ways in which music binds, incites, memorializes, and moves groups of people.
This richly illustrated 124-page book, with 80+ tracks on 4 CD’s, invites listeners into musical practices, episodes, and movements throughout the USA And beyond. These songs of…

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…struggle, devotion, celebration, and migration remind us that music has the potential to change our world. The social power of music looks at this music through four different perspectives.: Disc 1: Songs of struggle channels the visceral power of the fight for civil rights. Disc 2: Sacred sounds, presents music from many religions and spiritual practices. Disc 3: Social songs and gatherings shows how we use music to come together, often in celebration Disc 4: Global movements looks to the use of roots music in key political movements around the world, tapping into anti-fascist verses, odes to the working class, and polemics against governmental corruption and violence.

CD1:

1. The Freedom Singers – We Shall Overcome [02:02]
2. Woody Guthrie – This Land is Your Land [02:41]
3. Baldemar Velasquez & Aguila Negra – De Colores [(Made) Of Colors][02:57]
4. Bobbie McGee – Union Maid [02:08]
5. Pete Seeger – If I Had a Hammer [01:50]
6. Peggy Seeger – Reclaim the Night [04:29]
7. Quetzal – Estoy Aquí (I Am Here) [05:17]
8. Sammy Walker – Deportees (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos) [04:51]
9. Chris Kando Iijima, Joanne Nobuko Miyamoto & Charlie Chin – We Are the Children[02:48]
10. Fannie Lou Hamer – I Woke up This Morning [02:25]
11. Country Joe McDonald – I Feel Like I’m Fixin’ to Die [02:53]
12. Andres Jiminez – El Pobre Sigue Sufriendo (The Poor Keep On Suffering)[03:17]
13. Kristin Lems – Ballad of the Era [04:06]
14. Pete Seeger – Where Have All the Flowers Gone? [01:59]
15. The New World Singers – Blowing in the Wind [02:26]
16. – Quihubo Raza (What’s Happening, People) [03:40]
17. Joe Glazer – Solidarity Forever [02:21]
18. Paul Robeson – Joe Hill [02:54]
19. Rumel Fuentes – Joaquin Murrieta [03:29]
20. The Almanac Singers – Which Side Are You on? [02:03]
21. Ewan MacColl – Legal/Illegal (feat. Peggy Seeger) [04:05]
22. Barbara Dane & The Chambers Brothers – It Isn’t Nice [04:02]

CD2:

1. The Old Regular Baptists – Amazing Grace [02:37]
2. Barbara Dane & The Chambers Brothers – Come by Here [05:26]
3. Strange Creek Singers – Will the Circle Be Unbroken [03:31]
4. The Paramount Singers – Peace in the Valley [03:43]
5. The Pembina Chippewa Singers – Many Eagle Set Sun Dance Song[02:04]
6. Members of Zuni Pueblo – Zuni Rain Dance [04:37]
7. Shape-note singers at Stewart’s Chapel – Calvary [01:18]
8. The Old Harp Singers of Eastern Tennessee – Northfield [01:52]
9. Ahmad Al Alawi – The Call to Prayer / Adhan [02:21]
10. Sheikh Xhemail Shehu, Members Of The Prizren Rifai Tekke – Zikr (excerpt) [02:38]
11. Tu Huyen, Hai Phat, Tam Thu & Hai Dat – Buddhist Chants and Prayers[04:23]
12. Cantor Abraham Brun – Kol Nidre [04:59]
13. Raasche – Dayeinu (feat. Alan Mills) [01:40]
14. Sandoval Begay – Night Chant [02:08]
15. Carolers from the Black Bull, Ecclesfield, UK – Hark, Hark[03:03]
16. The Princely Players – Swing Low, Sweet Chariot [02:40]
17. The Paschall Brothers – Rugged Cross [05:11]
18. – Madre de Dolores (Mother Of Sorrows) [02:49]
19. Francia Reyes – San Miguel (Saint Michael) [04:04]
20. Rose Maddox – I’ll Fly Away [02:25]

CD3:

1. Clifton Chenier And His Red Hot Louisiana Band – Party Down at the Blue Angel Club[04:44]
2. Los Reyes de Albuquerque – San Antonio Rose [02:30]
3. Austin Pitre – Jolie Blonde (Pretty Blonde) [02:40]
4. John Littlejohn – Shake Your Moneymaker [04:13]
5. Flaco Jiménez, Max Baca – Beer-Drinking Polka [02:19]
6. The Goose Island Rambers – In Heaven There is No Beer [02:28]
7. Sam Brothers Five – Sam (Get Down) [04:04]
8. Lester Bradley and Friends – Golden Slippers / The Butterfly Whirl[04:24]
9. Tony DeMarco – Sligo Indians / Paddy Clancy’s / Larry Redican’s / The Rambling Pitchfork[04:13]
10. Lorenzo Martínez – La Entrega de los Novios (The Delivery Of The Newlyweds)[03:36]
11. Francis Eagle Heart Cree, Boy Joe Fayant, and Leo J. Wilkie – Rock Dance Song (Cree/Metis)[02:12]
12. Chippewa Nation – Pow Wow Song [02:44]
13. Lillys Chapel School, Alabama – Mary Mack [01:54]
14. Janie Hunter & children at home – Johnny Cuckoo [01:06]
15. John Henry Mealing and group – Rooster Call [03:51]
16. Elizabeth Mitchell – Joy to the World [02:59]
17. The Golden Gate Gypsy Orchestra – Oylupnuv Obrutch (The Broken Hoop Song)[01:52]
18. The Liberty Brass Band – Liberty Funeral March [04:46]
19. Key West Junkanoo Band – Junkanoos #1 [02:59]
20. Unknown Orchestra – The Star Spangled Banner [01:14]
21. Rebirth Jazz Band – Mardi Gras Medley (excerpt) [04:26]

CD4:

1. Pete Seeger – Viva la Quince Brigada (Long Live The 15th Brigade)[02:59]
2. Singers Of The bella Ciao Production Of Spoleto – Bella ciao (Goodbye Beautiful) [01:28]
3. Expresión Joven – A Desalambrar (Tear Down The Fences) [05:00]
4. Lilly Tchiumba – Muato Mua Ngola (Women Of Angola) [02:28]
5. Luis Godoy & Grupo Mancotal – Un Gigante Que Despierta (an Awakening Giant)[03:54]
6. Melike Demirag – Hasret (Longing) [03:02]
7. Suni Paz – Prisioneros Somos (We Are All Prisoners) [02:10]
8. Zelia Barbosa – Funeral do Lavrador (Funeral Of a Worker)[01:53]
9. South African refugees in Tanganyika – Izakunyatheli Afrika Verwoerd (Africa is Going to Trample on You, Verwoerd)[01:46]
10. Mikis Theodorakis – The Boy with the Sunlit Smile [02:43]
11. Gambang Kromong Slendang Betawi & Kwi Ap – Hidup di Bui (Life in Jail)[05:27]
12. Caravan – Man and Buffalo (Kon Gap Kwai) [03:34]
13. Cantor Abraham Brun – Why Need We Cry? [02:29]
14. Grupo Raíz – El Palomo (The Dove) [04:01]
15. Inger Nielsen – Hvem Sidder Dér Bag Skærmen (The Roadmaker) [03:03]
16. Musician supporters of the MPLA – Mon Etu Ua Kassule [05:28]
17. Yves Montand – Le temps des cerises (Cherry Blossom Time)[04:31]
18. Singer from central Korea – Chongsun Arirang [03:56]
19. Marcel Khalifé – The Passport [09:20]
20. Choir of FLN fighters – Inno della Resistenza (Hymn of the Resistance)[01:24]

One of the key bands of the street punk scene that gave a second wind to the U.K. punk rock scene, G.B.H. (also known as Charged G.B.H.) were also one of the first bands to add a strong heavy metal influence to punk rock, and would be cited as an influence by Metallica and Rancid. Hailing from Birmingham, England, G.B.H. were formed in 1978 by lead singer Colin Abrahall, guitarist Colin “Jock” Blyth, bassist Sean McCarthy, and drummer Andrew “Wilf” Williams. The band’s name comes from the British legal term “Grievous Bodily Harm,” with which bassist McCarthy had been charged.
76 track 5 CD box set featuring all of Hardcore Punk legends GBH’s recordings for the Rough Justice label between 1984 and 1995. The first disc is 1984’s “Midnight Madness & Beyond”…

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…album which now comes with the bonus of the Indie Chart hit EP ‘Oh No. It’s GBH Again’. Disc 2 is 1987’s “No Need To Panic” album which now has the ‘Wot A Bargain’ EP added as bonus tracks. 1989’s self-produced “A Fridge Too Far” is on Disc 3, complete with the bonus of three rare studio demos from the time. Disc 4 is 1990’s “From Here To Reality” album, again having three rare studio demos added. The final disc is 1992’s “Church of the Truly Warped”.

Disc One: Midnight Madness & Beyond…

1. Limpwristed
2. Future Fugitives
3. Too Much
4. Iroquois
5. Guns & Guitars
6. Horror Story
7. Midnight Madness And Beyond…
8. Chance For Living
9. The Seed Of Madness
10. Sam Is Your Leader
11. How Come
12. Blood

Bonus Tracks
13. Malice In Wonderland
14. Lost In The Fog
15. Get Out Of The City
16. Company Of Wolves

Disc Two: No Need To Panic!

1. Transylvanian Perfume
2. Hearing Screams (For The Last Time)
3. To Understand
4. Makin’ Whips
5. I Shot The Marshall
6. Electricity Through Space
7. Hit The Deck
8. Rumblin’ Underground
9. Desperate Times
10. Gunning For The President
11. Avenues And Alleyways
12. Unanswered Prayers

Bonus Tracks

13. Checkin’ Out
14. No One Cares
15. Infected
16. Tipuki Thunder

Disc Three: A Fridge Too Far

1. Pass The Axe
2. Captain Chaos
3. Go Home
4. Checkin’ Out
5. See You Bleed
6. When Will It End?
7. A Fridge Too Far
8. The Fist Of Regret
9. Needle In A Haystack
10. Twenty Floors Below
11. Nocturnal Journal
12. Crossfire

Bonus Tracks
13. No
14. I’m On Heat
15. Last Of The Teenage Idols

Disc Four: From Here To Reality

1. New Decade
2. Trust Me I’m A Doctor
3. B.m.t.
4. Mass Production
5. The Old School Of Self Destruction
6. You Don’t Do Enough
7. From Here To Reality
8. Dirty Too Long
9. Destroy
10. Just In Time For The Epilogue
11. Don’t Leave Your Honey Down The Pits
12. Moonshine Song

Bonus Demo Tracks

13. Trust Me I’m A Doctor
14. You Don’t Do Enough
15. Last Of The Teenage Idols (Second Version)

Disc Five: Church Of The Truly Warped

1. Pure Greed
2. Not Enough Hate
3. Leather Coffin
4. Candy Man
5. Lords Of Discipline
6. Where The Wild Things Are
7. Church Of The Truly Warped
8. Back
9. I Need Energy
10. Evil Evar
11. All For The Cause

Bonus Demo Tracks

12. Pure Greed
13. Candy Man
14. Not Enough Hate

Highly influential, singular sound artist and engineer Stephan Mathieu offers another heart-stopping compendium in Folio, collecting 5 albums worth of music, plus lots of bonus material, following his massive ‘Radiance’ boxset released earlier in 2018.
A lesson in the art of craftng patient, deeply absorbing drone and string panoramas, Folio offers a fully zoomed out birds-eye view over reams of Mathieu’s more recent works (just shy of 8 hours in total), ranging from his haunting dedication to Ridley Scott’s original Alien crew in ‘Nostromo’ – arguably the last word in abandoned space station ambience – and thru to an expanded edition of ‘The Falling Rocket’ [2013], a rework of the droning dream sequences off…

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…his 3CD set ‘Nachtstucke’, and a previously unpublished version of ‘Palimpsest’, the first Schwebung release, here retitled as ‘Folio’.

The ‘Nostromo’ disc is a big favourite for us, full of finely layered detail and subtle spatial dynamics in a way that perfectly evokes its subject matter. Likewise, we can say much the same for ‘Sacred Ground’, Mathieu’s soundtrack to a film of the same name, where again his skills as a scene dresser and dramaturgist come into play, whilst ‘The Falling Rocket’ finds him tilted skyward, with attention given to a vertiginous sense of scale and heady movement in the mid-higher registers.

Once again, the slow gaze is key to this amazing suite, offering some of the most restrained and absorbing drone and orchestral minimalism you’ll hear this side of Philip Jeck, Stars Of The Lid, Kassel Jaeger or Akira Rabelais.

Throughout his long and winding solo career, guitarist Robin Trower has had to endure countless comparisons to Jimi Hendrix due to his uncanny ability to channel Hendrix’s bluesy/psychedelic, Fender Strat-fueled playing style.
Born on March 9, 1945 in Catford, England, Trower spent the early ’60s playing guitar in various London-based outfits, the most successful being the R&B group the Paramounts, who specialized mostly in covers, but managed to issue several singles between 1963 and 1965. It wasn’t until 1967 that Trower received his big break, however, when he joined Procol Harum. The group had just scored a worldwide smash hit with “A Whiter Shade of Pale,” but the only problem was that the band’s leader, singer/pianist Gary Brooker…

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…didn’t have a proper band to back him. Brooker was previously a bandmate of Trower’s in the Paramounts, and offered the guitar slot in his new fast-rising project to his old friend. As a result, Trower appeared on such Procol Harum classics as 1967’s Procol Harum, 1968’s Shine on Brightly, 1969’s A Salty Dog, 1970’s Home (which spawned the popular Trower tune “Whiskey Train”), and 1971’s Broken Barricades.
While Procol Harum helped launch Trower’s career, the guitarist realized there was limited space for his guitar work and eventually left for a solo career. Enlisting singer/bassist James Dewar and drummer Reg Isidore (who was soon replaced by Bill Lordan) as a backing band, Trower issued his solo debut, Twice Removed from Yesterday, in 1973. The album barely made a dent in the U.S. charts, but that would change soon enough with his next release, 1974’s Bridge of Sighs. With rock fans still reeling from Hendrix’s death a few years earlier, the album sounded eerily similar to the late guitarist’s work with the Jimi Hendrix Experience (especially his 1968 release, Electric Ladyland), and as a result, the album skyrocketed into the U.S. Top Ten, peaking at number seven.
Although Bridge of Sighs was to be his most popular solo release, Trower’s stock continued to rise throughout the mid-’70s, as he became an arena headliner on the strength of such hit albums as 1975’s For Earth Below, 1976’s Robin Trower Live!, and Long Misty Days, plus 1977’s In City Dreams. Further releases followed, yet by the dawn of the ’80s, it became quite obvious that Trower’s star was rapidly fading, as each album sold less than its predecessor. A brief union with ex-Cream bassist/vocalist Jack Bruce spawned a pair of releases, 1981’s B.L.T. and 1982’s Truce, before Trower returned to his solo career.
The ’80s saw Trower make efforts to expand his audience with several releases that attempted to update his blues-rock style (such as 1987’s slickly produced Passion), but none returned the guitarist back to the top of the charts. During the early ’90s, Trower returned to Procol Harum for a brief reunion (1991’s Prodigal Stranger), before backing ex-Roxy Music singer Bryan Ferry on a few releases (1993’s Taxi and 1994’s Mamouna, the latter of which featured a Trower co-producer credit). Trower continued to issue solo albums at the dawn of the 21st century (2000’s Go My Way), and a steady stream of live sets and compilations also appeared. Trower returned to work with Ferry once more on 2002’s Frantic (again earning a production credit). Reassembling most of his late-’80s band, Trower released Living Out of Time in 2004 and returned with Another Days Blues in late 2005. What Lies Beneath appeared in 2009 from V-12 Records. Over the next several years, Trower recorded steadily, issuing albums every few years: The Playful Heart appeared in 2010, followed by Roots and Branches in 2013, Something’s About to Change in 2015, and Where You Are Going To in 2016. Trower’s prolific run continued in 2017 with Time and Emotion which debuted at number two on Billboard’s blues chart.

Disc: 1
1. I Can’t Wait Much Longer (2010 Remastered Version)
2. Daydream (2010 Remastered Version)
3. Hannah (2010 Remastered Version)
4. Man Of The World (2010 Remastered Version)
5. I Can’t Stand It (2010 Remastered Version)
6. Rock Me Baby (2010 Remastered Version)
7. Twice Removed From Yesterday (2010 Remastered Version)
8. Sinner’s Song (2010 Remastered Version)
9. Ballerina (2010 Remastered Version)

Disc: 2
1. Day Of The Eagle (2007 Remastered Version)
2. Bridge Of Sighs (2007 Remastered Version)
3. In This Place (2007 Remastered Version)
4. The Fool And Me (2007 Remastered Version)
5. Too Rolling Stoned (2007 Remastered Version)
6. About To Begin (2007 Remastered Version)
7. Lady Love (2007 Remastered Version)
8. Little Bit Of Sympathy (2010 Remastered Version)

Disc: 3
1. Shame The Devil (2010 Remastered Version)
2. It’s Only Money (2010 Remastered Version)
3. Confessin’ Midnight (2010 Remastered Version)
4. Fine Day (2010 Remastered Version)
5. Alethea (2010 Remastered Version)
6. A Tale Untold (2010 Remastered Version)
7. Gonna Be More Suspicious (2010 Remastered Version)
8. For Earth Below (2010 Remastered Version)

Disc: 4
1. Same Rain Falls (2010 Remastered Version)
2. Long Misty Days (2010 Remastered Version)
3. Hold Me (2010 Remastered Version)
4. Caledonia (2010 Remastered Version)
5. Pride (2010 Remastered Version)
6. Sailing (2010 Remastered Version)
7. S.M.O. (2010 Remastered Version)
8. I Can’t Live Without You (2010 Remastered Version)
9. Messin’ The Blues (2010 Remastered Version)

Disc: 5
1. Somebody Calling (2012 Remastered Version)
2. Sweet Wine of Love (2012 Remastered Version)
3. Bluebird (2012 Remastered Version)
4. Falling Star (2012 Remastered Version)
5. Farther On Up the Road (2012 Remastered Version)
6. Smile (2012 Remastered Version)
7. Little Girl (2012 Remastered Version)
8. Love’s Gonna Bring You Round (2012 Remastered Version)
9. In City Dreams (2012 Remastered Version)

Disc: 6
1. My Love (Burning Love) (2012 Remastered Version)
2. Caravan to Midnight (2012 Remastered Version)
3. I’m Out to Get You (2012 Remastered Version)
4. Lost in Love (2012 Remastered Version)
5. Fool (2012 Remastered Version)
6. It’s for You (2012 Remastered Version)
7. Birthday Boy (2012 Remastered Version)
8. King of the Dance (2012 Remastered Version)
9. Sail On (2012 Remastered Version)

Disc: 7
1. Jack and Jill (2012 Remastered Version)
2. Roads to Freedom (2012 Remastered Version)
3. Victims of the Fury (2012 Remastered Version)
4. The Ring (2012 Remastered Version)
5. Only Time (2012 Remastered Version)
6. Into the Flame (2012 Remastered Version)
7. The Shout (2012 Remastered Version)
8. Mad House (2012 Remastered Version)
9. Ready for the Taking (2012 Remastered Version)
10. Fly Low (2012 Remastered Version)

Disc: 8
1. Into Money (feat. Jack Bruce) [2012 Remastered Version]
2. What It Is (feat. Jack Bruce) [2012 Remastered Version]
3. Won’t Let You Down (feat. Jack Bruce) [2012 Remastered Version]
4. No Island Lost (feat. Jack Bruce) [2012 Remastered Version]
5. It’s Too Late (feat. Jack Bruce) [2012 Remastered Version]
6. Life On Earth (feat. Jack Bruce) [2012 Remastered Version]
7. Once the Bird Has Flown (feat. Jack Bruce) [2012 Remastered Version]
8. Carmen (feat. Jack Bruce) [2012 Remastered Version]
9. Feel the Heat (feat. Jack Bruce) [2012 Remastered Version]
10. End Game (feat. Jack Bruce) [2012 Remastered Version]

Disc: 9
1. Gonna Shut You Down (feat. Jack Bruce) [2012 Remastered Version]
2. Gone Too Far (feat. Jack Bruce) [2012 Remastered Version]
3. Thin Ice (feat. Jack Bruce) [2012 Remastered Version]
4. Last Train to the Stars (feat. Jack Bruce) [2012 Remastered Version]
5. Take Good Care of Yourself (feat. Jack Bruce) [2012 Remastered Version]
6. Fall in Love (feat. Jack Bruce) [2012 Remastered Version]
7. Fat Gut (feat. Jack Bruce) [2012 Remastered Version]
8. Shadows Touching (feat. Jack Bruce) [2012 Remastered Version]
9. Little Boy Lost (feat. Jack Bruce) [2012 Remastered Version]

Disc: 10
1. Back It Up (2012 Remastered Version)
2. River (2012 Remastered Version)
3. Black to Red (2012 Remastered Version)
4. Benny Dancer (2012 Remastered Version)
5. Time Is Short (2012 Remastered Version)
6. Islands (2012 Remastered Version)
7. None But the Brave (2012 Remastered Version)
8. Captain Midnight (2012 Remastered Version)
9. Settling the Score (2012 Remastered Version)

Following on from the success of The Albums 1979-82 Cherry Red records present a second box of Angelic Upstarts albums covering 1983 to 1991. Disc 1 is the Indie Chart hit “Reason Why?” album which now comes with ten bonus tracks. Featured are the singles ‘Woman In Disguise’, ‘Solidarity’ and ‘Not Just A Name’.
The second disc is 1984’s “Last Tango In Moscow” LP which again comes with ten bonus tracks, mainly rare studio demos. Includes the Indie Chart hit single ‘Machine Gun Kelly’.
“Live In Yugoslavia” is Disc 3 and reads like a “Greatest Hits Live” as it includes many of the band’s chart hits such as ‘Teenage Warning’, ‘Never Had Nothing’ and ‘I’m An Upstart’. Disc 4 is 1985’s “Power Of The Press” album which now comes…

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…with the bonus of the highly controversial single ‘Brighton Bomb’. The fifth disc is another controversial album, “Blood On The Terraces” which incurred the wrath of MP’s and tabloid newspapers when originally released in 1987.
The final disc is the rare 1991 album “Bombed Out” which saw original guitarist Mond reunited with vocalist Mensi for the first time in nearly a decade.

Disc One: Reason Why?

1. Woman In Disguise
2. Never Give Up
3. Waiting, Hating
4. Reason Why
5. Nobody Was Saved
6. Geordies Wife
7. Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner
8. 42nd Street
9. The Burglar
10. Solidarity
11. As The Passion
12. A Young Punk
13. Where We Started Bonus Tracks
14. Lust For Glory
15. Five Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
16. Dollars And Pounds
17. Don’t Stop
18. Not Just A Name
19. The Leech
20. Victory For Poland
21. Solidarity (A Polish Folk Song) (Demo)
22. Calypso (Demo)
23. The Tut Shuffle (Demo)

Disc Two: Last Tango In Moscow

1. One More Day
2. Machine Gun Kelly
3. Progress
4. Blackleg Miner
5. Who’s Got The Money?
6. Last Tango In Moscow
7. I Think It Should Be Free
8. Never Return
9. Rude Boy
10. No News
11. Jarrow Woman
12. Nowhere To Run

Bonus Tracks

13. Paint It In Red
14. There’s A Drink In It
15. I Won’t Pay For Liberty
16. Never Return To Hell
17. When Will They Learn
18. Listen To The Silence
19. She Don’t Cry Anymore
20. No Nukes
21. Living In Exile
22. Box On

Disc Three: Live In Yugoslavia

1. Never Had Nothing
2. Leave Me Alone
3. Teenage Warning
4. Solidarity
5. Last Night Another Soldier
6. Guns For The Afghan Rebels
7. Machine Gun Kelly
8. Police Oppression
9. Kids On The Street
10. Woman In Disguise
11. 2,000,000 Voices
12. One More Day
13. Upstart
14. Who Killed Liddle Towers
15. White Riot

Disc Four: Power Of The Press

1. I Stand Accused
2. Nottingham Slag
3. Joe Where Are You Now?
4. Soldier
5. Empty Street
6. Power Of The Press
7. Stab In The Back
8. Here I Come
9. Thin Red Line
10. I’d Kill Her For Sixpence
11. Greenfields Of France

Bonus Track

12. Brighton Bomb

Disc Five: Blood On The Terraces

1. Pride Of Our Passion
2. Everyday
3. I Wanna Knighthood
4. Heart Attack In Paris
5. Four Grey Walls
6. I Don’t Wanna Fight The Soviet
7. Our Day Will Come
8. Blood On The Terraces
9. Heroin Is Good For You
10. It’s Your Life
11. Ruby (Don’t Take Your Love To Town)

Bonus Tracks: The Main Event Tapes

12. Never ‘ad Nothin
13. Leave Me Alone
14. Teenage Warning
15. Last Night Another Soldier
16. Guns For The Afghan Rebels
17. One More Day
18. Two Million Voices

Disc Six: Bombed Out

1. Red Till Dead
2. Albert’s Gotta Gun
3. Victim Of Deceit
4. Open Your Eyes
5. Still Fighting
6. The Writing On The Wall
7. A Real Rain
8. Let’s Build A Bomb
9. Proud & Loud
10. Stone Faced Killer