Midnight Black

The first 12 of these songs were emailed to Midnight fans who pre-ordered the M2 album to tide them over until it was released. Midnight passed away before the album was finished…

Australia's Midnight Oil brought a new sense of political and social immediacy to pop music: not only did incendiary hits like "Beds Are Burning" and "Blue Sky Mine" bring global attention to the plight of, respectively, aboriginal settlers and impoverished workers, but the group also put its money where its mouth was – in addition to mounting benefit performances for groups like Greenpeace and Save the Whales, frontman Peter Garrett even ran for the Australian Senate on the Nuclear Disarmament Party ticket.

Julie London - Julie At Home & Around Midnight
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC (tracks): 334 MB | Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: EMI # 7243 8 54542 2 6 | Country/Year: UK 1996
Genre: Jazz | Style: Vocal

"…Liberty Records' Julie…At Home finds the vocalist comfortably in front of a small jazz combo highlighted by vibraphonist Emil Richards and guitarist Al Viola. The sessions seem relaxed and casual, often with the lyrics slyly slipping from London's lips, at once sophisticated and sensual…"

A young man with a love of horses, Scott Jordan (Roddy McDowall) lives on the family ranch with his uncle Bill (Damian O’Flynn). When he buys a wild stallion from his black-sheep cousin Daniel (Rand Brooks), Scott names the horse Midnight and does his best to tame him. But when the sheriff (Sky King’s Kirby Grant) suspects the stallion was stolen and Daniel’s plan to get rid of the horse ends with a man being trampled, Scott must prove Midnight acted in self-defense before his uncle destroys him.

Filthy, belligerent and obnoxious, Midnight make music to start fights to. Since 2003, one-man-band Athenar has been churning out an ungodly racket, dropping countless demos, splits and EPs, and in 2022 he returns with Midnight's fifth full-length, Let There Be Witchery. Delivering more of what can be expected from his demented mind, it is a catchy mixture of black and speed metal and dirty punk rock, and it is relentlessly compulsive.

Regardless of how long it took him (nearly 15 years, in fact) to return from his self-imposed musical exile, those familiar with singer Midnight's earlier work with Crimson Glory would know to expect something progressive, eclectic, and unconventional from his first solo album, 2005's Sakada…

Regardless of how long it took him (nearly 15 years, in fact) to return from his self-imposed musical exile, those familiar with singer Midnight's earlier work with Crimson Glory would know to expect something progressive, eclectic, and unconventional from his first solo album, 2005's Sakada…