45 original recordings on 3 CDs in a digipak!! Albums mastered from original recordings. Including "It's Your Thing", "That Lady (Part 1 & 2)", "Fight The Power (Part 1 & 2)" and many more.
Once again working with producer/songwriter Tom Hambridge – the bluesman's main collaborator since 2008's Skin Deep – Buddy Guy serves up a straight-ahead platter with Born to Play Guitar, his 28th studio album. Many of Guy's latter-day records loosely follow a theme, but Born to Play Guitar is pretty direct: just a collection of songs designed to showcase Buddy's oversized Stratocaster. Which isn't to say there's either a lack of variety or pro forma songwriting here. Hambridge cleverly colors Born to Play Guitar with a few bold, unexpected flourishes: the sweeps of sweet strings that accentuate "(Baby) You've Got What It Takes," a duet with Joss Stone that lightly recalls Etta James' Chess Records work; the big, blaring horns of "Thick Like Mississippi Mud" that moves that track out of the Delta and into an urban setting; the acoustic "Come Back Muddy" which performs that trick in reverse, pushing Chicago blues back down south.
German instrumental group My Sleeping Karma have been carving out a unique niche over their previous four albums. The group’s sound takes progressive metal, post-rock, psychedelic rock, and heavy shades of Eastern music influence into a rather immersive listening experience. On its most recent fifth record, "Moksha", we find My Sleeping Karma honing in even further into a comfort zone. Very rarely do the songs break out into metallic fury, but much like The Ocean, the results are powerful and wonderful. It takes a couple songs to really get the feel for what the band does, but that’s common of any music with post-rock or psych leanings…
ZOFO is the San Francisco piano four-hands duet of Eva-Maria Zimmermann and Keisuke Nakagoshi. (The name stands for "20-finger orchestra.") Zimmermann and Nakagoshi have been rightly lauded for their chemistry and their glittering, precise high-register work, and that is in evidence once again here on this collection of short pieces by the father of minimalism, Terry Riley. But an even stronger attraction is the chance to sample some of the music Riley has written in the years since his epochal In C. Riley has been somewhat neglected in comparison with Philip Glass, John Adams, and Steve Reich, each of whom made moves in the direction of the classical grand tradition.
Néodyme is an instrumental family of passionate musicians, a true friendship with music constantly expanding. A place where piano, keyboards and guitars share melodies while drums and bass build the rhythm section. Percussions, sound effects and a bit of woodwind instruments customize its sound. In spring 2015, Néodyme released its most mature work to date, La Signature du Temps (The Time Signature). Its music is an evolving exploration of genres, even including a song with vocals. Band’s performance is at its best and Néodyme’s signature is heard more than ever…
Deep Purple are an English rock band formed in Hertford in 1968. The band is considered to be among the pioneers of heavy metal and modern hard rock, although their musical approach changed over the years. Originally formed as a progressive rock band, the band shifted to a heavier sound in 1970. Deep Purple, together with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, have been referred to as the "unholy trinity of British hard rock and heavy metal in the early to mid-seventies". They were listed in the 1975 Guinness Book of World Records as "the globe's loudest band" for a 1972 concert at London's Rainbow Theatre, and have sold over 100 million albums worldwide…
Miles Davis’ 20-year association as an artist at impresario George Wein’s renowned Newport Jazz Festival is a thriving tradition celebrated with the release of MILES DAVIS AT NEWPORT 1955-1975: THE BOOTLEG SERIES VOL. 4, released 60 years to the date since Davis’ breakthrough performance at Newport in 1955. The four-CD box set is comprised of live performances by Miles’ stellar band lineups in 1955, 1958, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1971, 1973, and 1975, in Newport, Rhode Island, New York City, Berlin, and Switzerland. (All tracks previously unreleased, except where otherwise indicated).