Amazing Stories

Zier Romme is ready with his debut album. The album will be released around the time that Zier will be a father for the first time – double up! Romme is accompanied by the talented, young musicians Pelle von Bülow, Rune Fog-Nielsen and Rodney Green.

Lluís is the ambassador of Blues & Boogie Woogie piano player in Spain, and is also well-known throughout Europe and Asia as one of the masters of these styles. His music is unique, with a special personal touch that makes him an exceptional pianist and composer, combining traditional Blues & Jazz music with his special Spanish and Catalan flavour.

Jones's fondness for gospel music is well documented. The singer revealed to Jessica Walden of The 11th Hour magazine that his first musical memory was singing in church with his mother Clara and, in the 1989 documentary Same Ole Me, he recalls that he learned how to play the guitar at the church where his mother, a devout woman, played piano.

In the 25 years since 1978, Varese Sarabande Records has released well over 1000 albums. Of those, nearly 900 are film scores. Averaging over fifty new soundtrack releases a year, Varese Sarabande's catalog features virtually every great name in film music: Jerry Goldsmith, John Williams, Elmer Bernstein, John Barry, Thomas Newman, Alan Silvestri, Howard Shore, Randy Newman, Hans Zimmer, Danny Elfman, James Newton Howard, Mark Isham, Graeme Revell, Trevor Rabin, Georges Delerue, Henry Mancini, Patrick Doyle, James Horner, Carter Burwell, Rachel Portman, Randy Edelman and Marc Shaiman along with countless others and all the legendary composers of Hollywood's Golden Age. This four CD set features a total of five hours of music and becomes the biggest compilation we've ever assembled.

Totó la Momposina arrived in Paris in 1979 as a refugee with no French, no money and no abode. A theatre company took her under it's wing and it wasn't long before she was travelling through Provence with this group of mime artists, street performers and musicians, along with their hot-air balloon, double-decker bus, merry-go-round and mobile cinema. Totó's formidable voice, charisma and songs were an instant success and France became a launch-pad for her career.

Historical recordings of black music popular in Europe at the beginning of the 20th century. Going all the way back to the era of Edison’s wax cylinders, of which several photos in the lavishly illustrated booklet.