DKV trio's concert in the course of 2012 Autumn Jazz Festival was a night to remember for many reasons. The trio played up to the promise and delivered. The concert itself, a result of a decade - long logistical struggle to bring together the three at one place and time, was also the release date campaign to a 7cds boxset called "Past Present" that would gather a several of the famed DKV performances done near the end / beginning of each year in Chicago and Milwaukee.
On August 26, 2017 VOLBEAT sold out the Telia Parking Stadium in Copenhagen. With 48.250 tickets sold, they hold the record for the biggest show of a local artist ever since. To celebrate and celebrate this high point of their career, the band is releasing their new live album and accompanying concert film Let's Boogie! Live At Telia Parking. The 26 tracks include live versions of chart breakers such as Still Counting, For Evigt, The Devil's Bleeding Crown and A Warrior's Call, as well as a live performance of the new song The Everlasting. Special guests include Mille Petrozza, Johan Olsen, Mark "Barney" Greenway, Lars Ulrich, boxer Mikkel Kessler and Danko Jones.
I still remember the first time I heard Ahmed Malek. It was 2012. Back then I didn’t know much about Arabic music, but I was about to leave Berlin for a couple of weeks to go to Tunisia. I was working as a project manager for a music recoding session which ended up being released by Jakarta Records as the “Sawtuha” release. I knew I would have some time off during my stay and I was certain that I would dedicate some of this time to diggin. I asked some people whether they knew of any titles that I should look for. Roskow, who also ended up re-mastering this release, told me about an Algerian composer called Ahmed Malek whose music was also released in Tunisia.
Digitally remastered edition of this album from the pianist, poet and composer extraordinaire from Montenegro. Recorded in 1975, Soul Impressions condenses the entire mastery and inspiration of the brilliant Franco-Yugoslav composer Janko Nilovic into 12 generous tracks. A total adept when it comes to bubbling studio sessions and gleaming arrangements, our man incessantly works furiously and devotedly on his music, throwing himself body and soul into the creation of one of the '70s most individual and coherent musical works. On Soul Impressions we discover an incredible kaleidoscope of influences which diffract musical perspectives: here pop dives into torrents of fuzz, funk takes on a psychedelic air, jazz flirts with rock, and easy listening contorts strangely into the baroque.