Les Demoiselles Ont eu 25 Ans + Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (1992) [re Up]

Biographie de Jean de Médicis, l'un des plus puissants des condottières, ces chefs militaires à la tête de compagnies de mercenaires, loués pour leurs qualités militaires et craints pour les risques qu'ils faisaient courir aux Etats. Son histoire et celle de sa légende, une vie de guerre et de politique dans l'Italie de la Renaissance, sont retracées ici. …

This two-CD set contains 43 of the best recordings that Ella Fitzgerald recorded during her apprentice period with Chick Webb's Orchestra. Although only 16 years old at the time of her recording debut, she already had a strong and likable voice. She would not learn to really scat sing until the mid-'40s but, on the strength of "A-Tisket, A-Tasket," by 1938 Fitzgerald was one of the most popular of all the big-band singers. This set, which only contains a few examples of the Webb Orchestra's instrumental powers, is highlighted by "I'll Chase the Blues Away," "Sing Me a Swing Song," "You'll Have to Swing It," "Organ Grinder's Swing," "If Dreams Come True" and "You Can't Be Mine."

Harlan Leonard first showed up on traditional jazz radar as a member of Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra. He joined in 1923 and served as a vertebra in the backbone of the Moten reed section until 1931. Teaming up with another Moten veteran, Leonard worked with Thamon Hayes' Skyrockets, helping to steer this band until it too dissolved in 1937. Leonard formed his own Rockets in 1938. In 1940 they appeared at the Golden Gate Ballroom in New York, recorded about 23 sides for Bluebird, toured all over the continental United States, and finally disbanded in 1945 while working in California. This band contained a lot of young talent from Kansas City. Hearing all of their records in one package is a gas. Swing had matured. It was obviously ready to lunge forward into big-band modernity…

Often described as a quintessential band in late 60's - early 70's Italian rock scene, this band from Sanremo gave birth to important bands such as Celeste and Museo Rosenbach. This band had a three year career, first as a four piece, then with the fifth member Leonardo Lagorio joining them in 1971, during this time they could not release anything, but some good recordings were finally issued for the first time in 1991 on the double LP Il Viaggio Senza Andata.
They were led by the keyboards of Floriano Roggero and by the sax and flute of the future member of Celeste Leonardo Lagorio. Classical influences are clear, especially in their good rendition of Mussorgsky's Una Notte Sul Monte Calvo, they also show some similarities with Museo Rosenbach…

St. Tropez was another project of Ciro Perrino, who was one of the key members of Celeste and Il Sistema. Among others, he also played on the first Picchio dal Pozzo album. On this album by St Tropez, we are miles away from the folky, mellotron soaked beauty of Celeste, and we are off into space rock territory. The most obvious influence is Gong. The guitar playing very much reminds of Gong's Steve Hillage. Additionally there are space voices handled by Lady Mantide. Marimba and glockenspiel are featured several times to widen the instrumental palette. The spacey music is generally joyful and upbeat, which besides the Gong influence, also shows some similarities with the solo album, Calypso, by ex-Saint Just bass player Antoni Verde, or the second Il Volo album, Essere o Non Essere…

"Galactica" is a compilation of songs (1980-1984) by Rockets, released in 1992.
Rockets' history starts in Paris (France), in the year 1972, when they were known under the name Crystal. In 1974, they changed their name to Rocket Men (or Rocketters) as five aliens, bald, with grey eyes, silver skin and space suits, recording the single 'Rocket Man' produced by Claude Lemoine, who would become their producer 'til 1983.
In 1975, they changed their name in Rockets and recorded a single 'Future woman'. In 1976, their first LP entitled, 'Rockets' was released in France, and the group launched a series of phantasmagoric live shows which involved vocoder, lasers, coloured lights, smoke and a bazooka fighting flames three…

La révolution informatique et l'explosion d'Internet ont eu pour conséquence l'émergence de ce que le journaliste appelle un nouvel empire de la surveillance, dans lequel le droit à la vie privée est menacé et les individus sont espionnés et contrôlés. A travers de nombreux exemples et des entretiens, il met au jour la fin d'une certaine forme de démocratie.

According to several of the seven mixes on the CD EP Ali Click, "Brian's been amusing his friends by chewing on some plastic flashbulbs." "Ali Click" the tune, originally released on Eno's superb Nerve Net, is a groovy, rhythmic techno rocker perfectly suitable for creating dance mixes. Eno's sound-over-sense lyrics, presented in rap-like rhymes, heighten the composition's appeal. The closing track, "I Fall Up," is the real climax here. Originally recorded for Eno's unreleased My Squelchy Life (1993), this cut is also included on the three-CD box set, Brian Eno: Vocal. Like "Ali Click," "I Fall Up" is abundant with choice phoenetic jabberwocky ("More volts/I'm sucking the juice from the generator/Burn up/turn into a lanky housemaid/Sail up/I'm cackling off to the Congo")…