The 1975 masterpiece of progressive sci-fi rock by British band Nektar, featuring Larry Fast (later of Peter Gabriel’s band) on keyboards, digitally remastered and re-issued with a full length bonus mix! Recycled is the sixth album from English progressive rock band Nektar. It is a concept album addressing the band member's concerns about the environment.
Solitary is a 2008 acoustic rock album by Don Dokken (singer of his original band Dokken). The album was only sold to fans attending his tour for the album, but was rereleased digitally in 2014, then on physical media in 2020. It was released on October 21, 2008, exactly eighteen years after his first solo album, Up from the Ashes.
175 years ago, on March 28th 1842, Otto Nicolai raised the baton for the first ever concert of a new ensemble destined to become one of the world's great orchestras. The Wiener Philharmoniker 175th Anniversary Edition offers a hand-picked selection on 44 CDs of the best albums of the orchestra released on the label. Presented in a luxury box with matt lamination and hot-foil printed gold, the box includes original cover art, rare photographs from the Wiener Philharmoniker Archives as well as two new essays by Dr. Silvia Kargl, Head of the Historic Archive of the Vienna Philharmonic, and Richard Evidon. With a Bonus DVD of the famous 1989 New Year's Concert conducted by Carlos Kleiber.
Though he released Live in Williamsburg back in 2014, it has been 44 years since guitar wizard Shuggie Otis released a studio album. Coming of age first with his father Johnny's wonderfully raucous R&B band and playing on sessions by T-Bone Walker and Big Joe Turner, Otis gained first notice from rock fans for his starring role on Kooper Session: Super Session, Vol. 2). He released three fine studio albums under his own name between 1970 and 1974 including the classic Inspiration Information. Here Otis leads a quintet that includes veteran rockers Carmine Appice (Vanilla Fudge, Beck, Bogert & Appice) and bassist Tony Franklin (the Firm, Roy Harper), keyboardist/producer Kyle Hamood (Them Guns), and guitarist Aaron Kaplan…
Australia's legendary bad boys of vintage hard rock storm the shores of the States with this superb revisitation of their debut album along with previously unreleased tracks from the same era! Founding member and vocalist Angry Anderson leads the assault with his powerhouse voice on such beloved tracks as "Nice Boys," "Rock N' Roll Outlaw," "Bad Boy For Love" and many more!
4.5 stars. Nik Turner's debut was my first experience with his music other than of course his work with HAWKWIND. The debut was called "Xitintoday" from 1978 and it was a unique recording in that Nik recorded much of it in a pyramid over in Egypt. It's a really good album too and there's such a cool story to that one…