Avvenire 22agosto 2024

A founder member of SOFT MACHINE, Kevin embarked on a solo career in 1969, signing to EMI’s Harvest label and recording the album ‘JOY OF A TOY’ the same year. It is a mark of Kevin’s stature that his recordings during this period would feature contributions from notable musicians such as arranger and keyboard player DAVID BEDFORD, ROBERT WYATT, SYD BARRETT, MIKE OLDFIELD, LOL COXHILL, STEVE HILLAGE, ARCHIE LEGGET and more. This boxed set includes all of the surviving BBC sessions and In Concert appearances recorded by Kevin during this period, including a previously unreleased John Peel concert from 1970 and other tracks featuring Soft Machine, Bridget St. John and Gong. Other highlights include the inclusion of a complete set recorded at a Hyde Park Free concert in 1970, newly mixed and restored by Stephen W Tayler, previously unreleased session out-takes and a segment from a 1972 concert and a performance at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall in 1973. Rounding off the set is a region free Blu-ray video disc which includes a series of live performances recorded for French television, along with two sessions for The Old Grey Whistle Test in 1972 and 1973 (with three previous unseen alternate performances from 1972) and the ‘Caribbean Moon’ promotional film.

For the 40th anniversary of Vasco Rossi's first live album, "VA BENE, VA BENE COSÌ LIVE + LIVE UNRELEASED - 40 RPLAY SPECIAL EDITION" is released, an exclusive box set with the entire 1983 concert.

The album "Masters of Folk Presents Bob Dylan (2024 Remastered)" is a new collection that celebrates Bob Dylan's extensive contributions to folk music. This remastered edition brings enhanced audio quality to some of Dylan's most influential tracks, providing listeners with a fresh experience of his timeless music.

For the third album collection of the Joni Mitchell Archives project, The Asylum Albums (1976-1980) covers what is arguably the knottiest and most challenging period in a career known for being knotty and challenging. While there are certainly fans who have a preference for Mitchell's diaristic/post-folk sounds of the late '60s/early '70s Reprise era or the exploratory fusions of pop and jazz of her first three Asylum albums, most of those fans can find space to love all (or at least most) of the work she released between 1968 and 1975.

The album "Masters of Rock Presents Chuck Berry (2024 Remastered)" is a newly remastered collection that showcases the enduring legacy of Chuck Berry, one of rock and roll's founding fathers. This remastered edition aims to bring enhanced sound quality to Berry's classic hits, offering a revitalized listening experience for both long-time fans and new audiences.

The "Masters of Folk Presents Johnny Cash (2024 Remastered)" album is a comprehensive collection celebrating the legendary career of Johnny Cash. This album features remastered versions of some of Cash's most iconic songs, ensuring a high-quality listening experience that honors his musical legacy.

Two CD collection containing both of his cult classic electronic albums 'Emotional Disguise' (1982) and 'Correspondence' (1983). Plus all the spin-off singles and remixes from his time at Polydor, between 1981 and 1983, when he was one of the stylish lynchpins of the burgeoning New Wave / New Romantic scene! Mostly produced by Georg Kajanus from the bands Sailor and DATA, Peter's repertoire is synth- pop opulence, grandiose in scale and intent. Swoon in the melodic vastness, the majestic sweeps of lush, layered analogue synths. It is unmistakably ear-worm electronic pop, but with cinematic intimations of gloriously exotic other worlds. It presents, at times, as if an electronic travelogue of emotion fronted by the rich baritone of a suave matinée idol troubadour whose influences were unashamedly Moroder, Bowie and Ferry. It is arguably his highly sought after sensuous debut single, the Midge Ure produced 'Torch Songs For The Heroine', which has endured; the hidden gem of the 'Ballad Version' of which bristles with a redolence of Ultravox's 'Vienna' and it's landmark atmospheric, filmic, synth-pop sparseness. The release comes with a 28-page booklet containing both an introduction and comprehensive track-by-track listening notes written by Peter Godwin along with full lyrics and evocative period photographs.

En 2023, Véronique Sanson est de retour au Palais des Sports pour trois soirs sold-out – elle qui avait été la première femme européenne à en fouler la scène (devancée de peu par Aretha Franklin). Si, entre temps, la salle a changé de nom (on l'appelle désormais Dôme de Paris), l’ardeur de Véronique à y mettre le feu et la chaleur du public demeurent intacts.

Sergey Prokofiev’s spectacular music for Ivan the Terrible is arguably one of his finest film scores. This classic recording of the oratorio arranged by Abram Stasevich conducted by Leonard Slatkin is filled with Prokofiev’s irrepressible energy and eloquent melodic power. Ivan, the first ‘Tsar of all the Russias’ is portrayed in the film not as the bloodthirsty tyrant his nickname suggests, but as a sorrowful and lonely man, betrayed by his friends, deprived of love, and determined at all costs to preserve a unified Russia under constant attack from abroad and treasonous intrigues at home.