1998 Rca

Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings - Anyway The Wind Blows (1998) {BMG RCA Victor, UK Pressing}
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© 1998 BMG / RCA Victor | 74321 59523 2
Blues-Rock / British Blues / Rock & Roll / Roots Rock / Boogie Rock

Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings are a blues-rock band founded and led by former Rolling Stones bass guitarist Bill Wyman. Featuring the regular Rhythm Kings line up plus ''a dream team of musicians of the calibre of Eric Clapton, Chris Rea, Albert Lee, Georgie Fame, Andy Fairweather Low and Mick Taylor. This follow-up consists of '30s and '40s blues/jazz standards and Wyman's pastiche originals. With no corners cut in production or performance, delivery is immaculate. There's not a duff track on the album.

Lokua Kanza - 3 (1998) {Kanisa–RCA 74321628462}
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© 1998 Kanisa / RCA / BMG | 74321628462
World Music / Pop / African / Soft Rock / Worldbeat

A great opportunity to discover the unusual career of this artist with discreet and bewitching charm. Lokua Kanza will have been slow to take his place on the world scene, undoubtedly because of an eclecticism that we could have seen as indecision. But precisely, the young man with the frail voice likes nothing more than to kiss the whole world. So he lets his heart speak and gives life in his own way to songs he loves above all.

Claude Debussy - La Mer / Prelude A L'Apres-Midi D'Un Faune / Nuages / Fetes / Printemps
The Boston Symphony Orchestra / Charles Munch
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Label/Cat#: RCA Victor Gold Seal # GD86719 | Country/Year: Europe 1998, 1991
Genre: Classical | Style: Romantic

Charles Munch's Debussy performances always have been treasured for their color, vitality, and seeming oneness with the composer's conception. It's hard to imagine finer performances of Images or the two Nocturnes. Munch's rhythmic sense and timbral distinctiveness vividly render Debussy's multi-layered textures and subtly varied moods. Then there's the Boston Symphony, captured at the height of its glory, offering vibrant, virtuoso playing from all sections. (…) As it stands it's a great–and essential, if supplemental, collection.

Barricada is a rock band from Pamplona, Navarra (Spain) formed in 1982 in the neighborhood of Txantrea disctrict. With 21 albums to date and countless concerts behind them is one of the groups with more years in the Spanish rock scene, they received a Diamond Disc for selling over a million records over their career.

Beethoven’s Triple Concerto, completed about the same time as the Eroica Symphony, has suddenly become popular. One reason for its previous lack of popularity was the fact that three soloists cost three times as much as one normally expensive pianist, violinist or cellist. Another reason is that the work seeks to be a popular success, hence the Rondo alla Polacca with which it concludes. The piano part was intended for Beethoven’s patron and pupil, the Archduke Rudolph von Habsburg, and hence is less technically demanding than the composer’s usual pianistic writing, destined for himself. The standard CD (previously LP) of the work was a spectacular performance and recording made by EMI many years ago with David Oistrakh, Rostropovich and Richter with the Berlin Philharmonic under Karajan. It was opulently played with the BPO’s luscious sound, but has little to do with what Beethoven would have heard in 1804. Another choice was the version of Stern, Rose and Serkin (Sony), less lush and not so high-powered as Karajan’s.

The title sets itself up for one hell of a fall, and the ongoing need for a decent Sweet box set is never going to be assuaged by this. But it is what it says on the tin, a 37-strong collection that, OK, they're not all the "Best Glam Rock Songs Ever," but maybe a dozen of them are, and the remainder should at least be invited to the awards ceremony. A dizzying spin through the band's entire RCA catalog, a mass of A-sides, B-sides, album cuts and what-on-earth-were-they-thinking cuts jostle for your attention…

Born in Chicago in 1949, Gil Scott-Heron became one of the inspirators of Rap Music. With very much of a political viewpoint, Gil became a mouthpiece for the Black Person in America during the Seventies and Eighties. Gil was the son of a Jamaican professional soccer player and a college graduate mother who worked as a librarian. His father played for the Scottish football side, Celtic. Both parents divorced whilst Gil was still a child and he was despatched off to his grandmother in Lincoln, Tennessee. His grandmother helped Gil musically, however, early racial tensions at school, in Jackson, led him to relocate again to the Bronx during his adolescent years to live with his mother and he later moved again to the Spanish neighbourhood of Chelsea.

At the age of 13, Gil had already written a book of poetry. Gil attended college in Pennsylvania and then left to concentrate on writing his first novel entitled 'The Vulture' in 1968. It was at college he met Brian Jackson, who was later to be a long time musical collaborator.
He released his debut album, 'New Black Poet: Small Talk at 125th and Lennox', in 1970, the title of which was influenced by a piece of poetry written by his mentor, Bob Thiele. The album contained the powerful 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised', a damning political attack on the media and the treatment of Black People in the U.S.

Kurt Weill - The Seven Deadly Sins
Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra / Dennis Russell Davies / Marianne Faithfull
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Label/Cat#: RCA Victor # 74321 601192 | Country/Year: Europe 1998
Genre: Classical | Style: Contemporary

…Marianne has spent her life researching this work. She displays that rare intelligence that allows all "misfortunes" to be converted to her benefit. There is a detachment that allows one to be intimately involved with, but not consumed by this type of work. This is her best work in quite some time. She deserves all the accolades that come her way as a serious singer who can pull off the piece. A wonderful disc from one whose live presence we must count as miraculous considering what she has lived through.