Ecstatic

Here is a second volume in Splasc(h)'s '60s jazz reissue series – the first being Mario Schiano's Original Sins featuring material from 1967-1970. The presentation on Ecstatic is somewhat misleading, as Gruppo Romano Free Jazz is really just Schiano with many of the ensemble players from the first volume: namely Giancarlo Schiaffini on trombone, ocarina, and baritone flugelhorn; Schiano on alto and soprano saxophone; Marcello Melis on bass and toy guitar; and Franco Pecori on drums…

Digitally remastered 1998 reissue of their second release, 1982's six track remix mini-LP "Non Stop Ecstatic Dancing". Contains new cover art, new liner notes, all of the original tracks & six bonus tracks: extended versions of "Tainted Love / Where Did Our Love Go", "Memorabilia", "What!", "So", "Torch" and "Insecure Me".
Best known for their smash 1981 cover of Gloria Jones' "Tainted Love," which turned the pop-soul tune into a haunting electronic torch song, synth pop duo Soft Cell formed in England in the late '70s. Also remembered as the first project of singer/songwriter Marc Almond, he and producer/multi-instrumentalist Dave Ball released four U.K. Top 20 albums together between 1981 and 1984 before pursuing separate music careers. Soft Cell eventually reunited in the early 2000s, releasing Cruelty Without Beauty in 2002, which produced a Top 40 U.K. hit in "The Night." The duo performed a farewell show at London's O2 Arena in 2018.

On their third album of avant-garde synth pop, Alice Merida Richards and Sam Pillay eschew protest language and the depressing status quo to conjure a vision of feminist utopia.

Digitally remastered 1998 reissue of their second release, 1982's six track remix mini-LP "Non Stop Ecstatic Dancing". Contains new cover art, new liner notes, all of the original tracks & six bonus tracks: extended versions of "Tainted Love / Where Did Our Love Go", "Memorabilia", "What!", "So", "Torch" and "Insecure Me".
Best known for their smash 1981 cover of Gloria Jones' "Tainted Love," which turned the pop-soul tune into a haunting electronic torch song, synth pop duo Soft Cell formed in England in the late '70s. Also remembered as the first project of singer/songwriter Marc Almond, he and producer/multi-instrumentalist Dave Ball released four U.K. Top 20 albums together between 1981 and 1984 before pursuing separate music careers. Soft Cell eventually reunited in the early 2000s, releasing Cruelty Without Beauty in 2002, which produced a Top 40 U.K. hit in "The Night." The duo performed a farewell show at London's O2 Arena in 2018.

Digitally remastered 1998 reissue of their second release, 1982's six track remix mini-LP "Non Stop Ecstatic Dancing". Contains new cover art, new liner notes, all of the original tracks & six bonus tracks: extended versions of "Tainted Love / Where Did Our Love Go", "Memorabilia", "What!", "So", "Torch" and "Insecure Me".
Best known for their smash 1981 cover of Gloria Jones' "Tainted Love," which turned the pop-soul tune into a haunting electronic torch song, synth pop duo Soft Cell formed in England in the late '70s. Also remembered as the first project of singer/songwriter Marc Almond, he and producer/multi-instrumentalist Dave Ball released four U.K. Top 20 albums together between 1981 and 1984 before pursuing separate music careers. Soft Cell eventually reunited in the early 2000s, releasing Cruelty Without Beauty in 2002, which produced a Top 40 U.K. hit in "The Night." The duo performed a farewell show at London's O2 Arena in 2018.