The Beach Boys are an American rock band formed in Hawthorne, California, in 1961. The group's original lineup consisted of brothers Brian, Dennis, and Carl Wilson; their cousin Mike Love; and their friend Al Jardine. Distinguished by their vocal harmonies and early surf songs, they are one of the most influential acts of the rock era.
“The hills are alive, with the sound of music, with songs they have sung, for a thousand years”. LAIBACH have announced details of their eagerly awaited album, The Sound of Music, out on Mute on 23 November 2018 on vinyl, CD and digitally.
Containing all the Blegvad Trio and Quintet studio releases: Downtime, Just Woke Up, Hangman’s Hill and Go Figure – all re-mastered and repackaged - plus two additional CDs of unreleased studio recordings and live performances, mostly featuring songs not available on the studio CDs.
The fifth album by In The Labyrinth, called Samas Antaral, is finally being released after a delay of almost 25 years! The songs, of which a vast majority are instrumental, were recorded mainly in the early '90s, hence making it a parallel project to their first album 'The Garden Of Mysteries'. But there are also a few tracks or parts of tracks recorded as early as 1973 and '74, while some bits and pieces have been added more recently…
Falco was the most internationally successful pop artist ever to come out of Austria. Falco had several international hits, "Rock Me Amadeus", "Der Kommissar", "Vienna Calling", "Jeanny", "The Sound of Musik", "Coming Home (Jeanny Part II, One Year Later)", and posthumously "Out of the Dark". "Rock Me Amadeus" reached No. 1 on the Billboard charts in 1986, making him the only artist whose principal language was German to score a vocal number-one hit in the United States. According to his estate, he has sold 20 million albums and 40 million singles, which makes him the best-selling Austrian singer of all time.
Released on DVD, Blu-ray and CD, the film and audio of the show ‘Inner Sanctum’, filmed at London’s Royal Opera House during a sold-out run in 2018. Staged by designer Es Devlin and choreographer/director Lynne Page, the show was filmed by director David Barnard and will be released on 12 April 2019. The full-length film on DVD and Blu-ray is accompanied by two CDs of the complete audio of the live show.
The Mystery Of The Bulgarian Voices will release their first album of new studio recordings in over two decades on May 25th, 2018. Better known to many as Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares (Grammy winner for “Best Traditional Folk Recording”), ‘BooCheeMish’ sees the esteemed Bulgarian choir performing together with erstwhile 4AD Records label mate Lisa Gerrard (co-founder of the duo Dead Can Dance) on several tracks, thereby uniting two of the most distinctive vocal acts working in music. Gerrard, who is also well known for her movie soundtrack work on films such as ‘Gladiator’ and ’The Insider’, has often spoken about the influence the choir exerted on her singing technique when she discovered their music in the early 1980’s.
27 Tracks of Previously Unissued Live Performances from Pianist, Vocalist, Producer, Label Owner and Journalist Ben Sidran Spanning 40 Years and 6 Countries. Includes an Extensive 24-page Book with Essays by Former NPR Producer Becca Pulliam and Co-producers Zev Feldman and Ben Sidran, plus Sirius XM’s Mark Ruffin Interviews Sidran, with Reflections by Janis Siegel (Manhattan Transfer) and Georgie Fame (Van Morrison).