I Normanni in Calabriae

Diogenio Bigaglia, a composer who at present is unknown to most people, was active in Venice in the first half of the eighteenth century, so he was a contemporary of the much better known Tomaso Albinoni, Alessandro and Benedetto Marcello, and, above all, Antonio Vivaldi, whose work shows several evident – and more or less explicit – references to Bigaglia’s production. So he turns out to be a composer who is worthy of interest not only for the intrinsic musical worth of his works, but also for the influence his activity may have had on musicians with whom we are more familiar; this is why musicologists have recently started showing an increasing interest in him.

Garage Rock Band from San Antonio, TX, USA, one of the best groups to emerge from the 60's Texas Garage Band scene were The Outcasts. This prolific group released a number of singles on the Askell label of San Angelo 1966-67. This compilation collects all their singles plus many unreleased songs. As an added bonus tracks previously released in 1984 have been newly remixed from the original masters. Furthermore, the groups later recordings in Houston have been unearthed and are released for the first time.