Power trio instrumental electric guitar rock to accompany footage of surfers, ranging from raging metal to wailing ballads. Jimi Hendrix lives again, and this time his name is Gary Hoey. A versatile American hard rock guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter, Gary Hoey found success in 1993 with a hard-hitting cover of Focus' "Hocus Pocus," which became one of the most ubiquitous singles of the year. Hoey emerged in the late 1980s as a leading candidate to replace Jake E. Lee in Ozzy Osbourne's band (the job went to Zakk Wylde), and he later went on to found the short-lived glam metal group Heavy Bones. Since going solo in 1993, Hoey has issued a string of LPs – such as Bug Alley (1996), Wake Up Call (2003), and Neon Highway Blues (2019) – that run the gamut from rock and blues to fusion. He has worked alongside Roger Daltrey, Johnny Winter, Joe Perry, Brian May, Steve Vai, and Dick Dale, among others.
In 1957, Izumi "Mimi" Kobayashi was born and raised in the seaside city of Funabashi located in Chiba, Japan. Before Izumi launched her musical career she was mostly known as a prodigious piano player. While attending the Tokyo College of Music, Izumi formed a group called Asoca and won Yamaha’s prestigious Grand Prix songwriting contest in 1977, landing on a record contract in doing so. Going under the name Mimie-Chan Super Band, CBS Sony released her first EP (My Summer Samba). Just months later, Izumi would rebrand her group as the Izumi Kobayashi & Flying Mimi Band and release two wicked funk-influenced albums that showed Izumi’s own interest in latin and soul music…
This was the album by which millions of sons of late baby boomers (and sons and daughters of the early ones) first really discovered the Beach Boys, beyond hearing the occasional oldie on the radio. It was the summer of 1974, and the Beach Boys were still trying to get themselves back on track commercially after a seven-year commercial dry spell, when this double LP of their 1963-1966 material (all but one cut pre-dating Pet Sounds) came along and did the job…
After a long and painful winter, here come the sunny days! And as we wish this summer to be endless, Buddha-Bar comes back with it's summer selection: Buddha-Bar Beach: Endless Summer. A fresh, spicy and modern selection, full of remixes and love that will make you relive the best summer since the famous Summer of Love. Sometimes Nu Disco, sometimes Electro and sometimes deep, this new Buddha-Bar Beach version will be in your playlist this summer, whether you are on the beach or around a table sipping a cocktail as endless as the summer!
Sóley Stefánsdóttir, better known simply as Sóley, is an Icelandic multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter. After studying classical and jazz piano as a child, she joined in 2006 the seven-piece indie-folk band Seabear, where she mostly played piano and sang backing vocals, releasing their music through Morr Music. Back in 2010 she released her first solo EP "Theater Island", and since then she published two LPs: "We Sink" (2011) and "Ask the Deep" (2015), and also two more EPs: "Krómantík" (2014) and "Don't Ever Listen" (2015), all of them via Morr Music. She also collaborated on Sin Fang's last year "Spaceland" on the track "Never Let Me Go" and earlier this year she announced a collaborative work alongside Sin Fang and Örvar Smárason, where they will be releasing a new song each month of this 2017. Now the Icelandic musician presents what will be her third full length solo album "Endless Summer", which will be out also through Morr Music on May 5.
Donna Summer's contribution to Universal's mid-priced 20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection series is a decent, concise look at the queen of disco's career, including such natural choices as "Love to Love You Baby," "I Feel Love," "Bad Girls," "Hot Stuff," and "On the Radio," as well as early-'80s hits like "She Works Hard for the Money" and "Love Is in Control." 1995's Endless Summer remains the best single-disc introduction, since it covers more territory, presents a more rounded look, and includes many other singles that charted, but this works perfectly for those who want to stick to the basics.