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A must for all Eurovision fans, the United By Music album features all the talented, somewhat quirky and occasionally bonkers participants from this year’s contest—because who doesn’t want to hear Europe’s finest (and most flamboyant) anthems all in one place? All 37 songs from the world’s largest TV music show contest are together on this official compilation. This 69th edition of the competition will take place in Basel, Switzerland, in May with the grand final hosted by Michelle Hunziker, Hazel Brugger, and Sandra Studer on Saturday 17th May.

Trevor Alfred Charles Jones (born March 23, 1949) is a composer of South African descent, active in the field of film and television dubbing, mainly in the UK. He is best known for his work from the 1980s and 1990s, having written music for many famous films, including Excalibur, Runaway Train, Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, Mississippi on Fire, The Last of the Mohicans, and In the Name of the Father. He has been recognized for his collaborations with such filmmakers as John Boorman, Andrei Konchalovsky, Jim Henson, Alan Parker, Jim Sheridan, Barbe Schroeder and Michael Mann.

OFT MACHINE 'FLOATING WORLD LIVE' notes by Sid Smith An indispensable record of a band at the top of their game…
The arrival of guitarist Alan Holdsworth into the ranks of Soft Machine in December 1973 marked a significant change in tone and style for the venerable jazz-rock institution. Having started out as an experimental pop group in the mid-1960s, Soft Machine had undergone several changes not only in its personnel but in its music. By the early 1970s albums such as Third, Fourth, boasting long-form compositions in complex and adventurous arrangements, secured their reputation as the UK’s leading jazz-rock performers.

Fragile Records in association with Esoteric Recordings are pleased to announce the release of a new 4-disc clamshell box set An Evening of Yes Music Plus, the classic live recording by Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe. At the close of the 1980s, fans of Progressive rock were delighted and surprised to learn that former members of Yes, namely Jon Anderson, Bill Bruford, Rick Wakeman and Steve Howe were reuniting to record a studio album and to tour the World. The resulting self-titled studio album was originally issued on Arista Records in 1989 and was a global hit. This release was followed by hugely successful world tour. A concert at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California was captured both on video and in sound resulting in both a double CD and a long form video in 1993. The set features classic Yes material alongside live renditions of material from the ABWH self-titled album. This new remastered edition features the entire concert on two CDs, and also includes the full concert video on a region free DVD. Also included is an additional region free DVD, ‘In the Big Dream’, featuring promotional videos and interviews.

Originally released in November 1971, the album was the first release by the band and featured a continuous piece of music divided into 13 tracks. This impressive conceptual science fiction inspired work, which was interpreted as a commentary on the nuclear arms race, was the band’s first album release and originally appeared in Germany, the country where the British band were formed and were based, enjoying commercial success and building Nektar’s loyal following.This new boxed set edition features a completely new remaster of the original stereo album mix (from the original master tapes), both tracks from the ‘Do You Believe in Magic’ single issued in April 1972, along with new 5.1 Surround Sound and Stereo mixes by Ben Wiseman and a new remaster of ‘The Boston Tapes’ – the recordings made by the band in the USA in 1970 for an abortive album prior to them signing to Bellaphon Records in Germany in 1971. Also included is the complete “official bootleg” recording of a concert in Darmstadt, Germany in November 1971 presented on two CDs. Finally, the set features a region free Blu-ray disc with the new 5.1 & Stereo remixes of the album, along with bonus video footage of the promotional film ‘Good Day’ made in 1971 previously unreleased in full.

Included with the February 2025 issue (TAKE 335) of Uncut magazine. The Weather Station, The Delines, Richard Dawson, Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy and more feature on our latest free CD. The Weather Station, The Delines, Richard Dawson, Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy and more feature on our latest free CD. The 15-track compilation, Take A Load Off, showcases the month’s best new music, and comes with our issue dated February 2025.

Expanded 3CD edition of Future Loop Foundation’s album and single releases on Planet Dog. Includes stand-alone tracks and remixes, previously unreleased demos and a live track. All tracks have been remastered from their original sources.

Intrada announces a 25th-anniversary edition of John Williams' Oscar-nominated score to the 2000 Columbia Pictures/Centropolis film The Patriot. Throughout Williams' long and treasured career he had developed a fresh, Americana voice, first coming to the fore in his 1969 score to The Reivers, then furthered a few years later with The Cowboys and quite powerfully in an unexpected place—-the Smallville sequences of Superman. It was a style that he would return to periodically and The Patriot provided a showcase for this style. The score involves three principal themes that correspond to protagonist Martin’s past, present, and future—the war trauma theme, the love theme and the patriot theme. As the themes weave throughout the score, Williams' beloved epic style is on full display, as well as exciting action music. It's all here in this lengthy and powerful work. Williams wrote his score for The Patriot over the course of about two months, a length of time he described as “fairly generous.” He then recorded the score over eight sessions between May 6 and May 20, 2000. For this expanded 3-CD set, producer Mike Matessino took a meticulous approach to restoring the score for full presentation as well as preserving the unique and artistic presentation of the original Hollywood Records album. As Matessino writes in in his producer’s note

Expanded 3CD edition of Future Loop Foundation’s album and single releases on Planet Dog. Includes stand-alone tracks and remixes, previously unreleased demos and a live track. All tracks have been remastered from their original sources.

If there was ever a point where the sometimes too-insular-for-his-own-good Numan couldn't have been more out of sight, out of mind – even to his central fanbase – the often-bizarre Machine + Soul is it. It makes his striking return to form on Sacrifice and his wider acceptance and influence in the following years all the more remarkable.