Sage Taylor, aka Textural Being, is an ambient producer hailing from the northwestern city of Portland, Oregon, US. Eleven rain-themed ambient tracks with each song transitioning to the next using rain samples, providing the listener with a silence-free experience and the impression of one long track. Limited to 100 copies.
Eddie Higgins started his professional career in Chicago, Illinois, while studying at the Northwestern University School of Music. An elegant and sophisticated pianist, his encyclopedic harmonic approach and wide range of his repertory made him one of the most distinctive jazz pianists to come out of Chicago, gaining the respect of local and visiting musicians for his notable mastery of the instrument. Higgins also had the unusual ability to sound equally persuasive in a broad span of music, whether he was playing traditional swing, exciting bebop or reflexive ballads, providing the tone and stylistic flavor of each styles, as both a soloist and as accompanist.
Music that is a perfect mix between electronic music, rock and prog and therefore may attract a diversity of music lovers. Picture Palace Music is an electronic music band from Berlin, Germany, the city where serious electronic music was born. Thorsten "Q" Quaeschning, keyboardplayer in Tangerine Dream, is head of the project. The main idea of the group that was founded in 2003 is to reproduce the musical dynamic and experiments of old live accompaniment for silent movies and to give them a modern soundtrack with nowadays-technical options. This shows that the old silent movies are not mouldy: they are timeless and fascinating! The music is inspired by more than eighty years old silent movies. Take a deep trip into a mystical world of sounds! "Midsummer" is the first one that was released on Groove Unlimited…
Stockholm’s Oscar Simonsson and Magnus Zingmark embarked on their esoteric musical quest in 1997, initially sampling jazz’s rich and diverse catalogue into their own collage-style melting pot, topped with an array of guest singers from home and abroad which became their trademark. Over the three albums they recorded over the following 10 years, the pair refined and broadened their sound, replacing the borrowed music with their developing songwriting skills.
This 11-track set presents highlights from Koop’s three albums.
Electric Moon is Dave Schmidt's (Sula Bassana) band with his girlfriend Lulu on bass. This live show features one track on each CD. The first CD is a new piece (jam) called Demoon that lasts for 46 minutes and has a lot of experimentation going on. The next track is Doomsday Machine and this has one of the heaviest riffs that Dave has ever come up with on a guitar.
If you like Sula Bassana and want to hear him really stretch out on the guitar then this is a must have.
Originally publised as a double album including his '83 concert as well, now it's released as a single edition with remastered sound. This is the album with '87 performance of Dio at Castle Donington. It was recorded when Dream Evil went out so almost all the songs are from Dio's band unlike the '83 release with a lot of material from Black Sabbath and Rainbow.
Under Cover, though regarded a 'just-for-fun' project by Tangerine Dream themselves might become TD's most controversial album of recent years - using vocals once more and being the first album consisting of only cover versions of well-known rock and pop songs. TD have done a handful of cover versions over the years, but most of them instrumental versions mostly played as encores during their concerts, including Jimi Hendrix' Purple Haze or The Beatles' Eleanor Rigby, Back In The U.S.S.R. and Tomorrow Never Knows. The compositions, originally interpreted by international renowned artists like R.E.M., David Bowie, Kraftwerk, The Eagles or Pink Floyd were re-arranged and performed by TD's current live line-up, supported on eight tracks by vocalist Christian Hausl who already had performed with TD on Madcap's Flaming Duty (2007).