An in-depth look at the Chinese Secret Service, the Tewu, focuses on Kang Sheng, who was a major force in making China a world power.
Il fut l'éminence grise du président Mao, le père des services spéciaux de la Chine rouge, le chef de la police secrète, l'artisan de la rupture entre Pékin et Moscou.
This Italian band with a Celtic name got together in 1992 when they signed up with Musea for the first of two albums (a third, live album was also released). Their music belies their origins as they don't sound at all like your traditional Italian prog band. Their style hovers somewhere between Prog, Neo-Prog and high-end AOR. Their debut album "The Watcher" shows their prog side and is somewhat reminiscent of the more commercial era of Yes ("Drama" period). The sound is crystal clear, the musicians skillful and the album has its share of strong emotional moments.
A mysterious, and quite possibly unauthorized, CD release of 23 hard-to-find tracks from Nelson's early career. It's actually debatable how "rare" some of these items are; there are seven songs from his 1962 LP Album Seven By Rick, which made the Top 30 and can probably still be found today without breaking a leg. For those who want some more Rick than the greatest-hits collections offer, this does have the three fairly unremarkable tracks he released on Verve in 1957 before hooking up with Imperial, all of which were hits ("Teenagers Romance," "I'm Walking," "You're My One and Only Love"). The Album Seven cuts are respectable rockabilly-pop, and there are "single versions" of the hits "Believe What You Say" and "Be Bop Baby," although the version of "Be Bop Baby" here sounds different (and inferior) to the one you usually hear on oldies stations, and which was released by Rhino as "the single version" back in the 1980s.