Can Lost Tapes

When the studio of ever-groundbreaking Krautrock pioneers Can was sold to Germany's Rock n' Pop Museum, the entire space was disassembled and moved, and in the process, reels and reels of poorly marked and seemingly forgotten tapes were found buried amid other detritus in the studio. These tapes held over 30 hours of unreleased music from Can spanning a nine-year period and including work from both vocalists Malcolm Mooney and Damo Suzuki. Edited down to just over three hours, The Lost Tapes still includes an extensive amount of unheard studio, live, and soundtrack work from the band, and at its heights is as revelatory and brilliant as the best material on their well-loved albums…

French composer Alain Goraguer who first made a name for himself as a sideman and arranger for Serge Gainsbourg wrote very few soundtracks, but amongst them, the legendary La Planète Sauvage (1973) is an absolute staple of France’s essential music.

The Modern Jazz Quartet - Germany 1956-1958. Lost Tapes (2013) {Jazzhaus}
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Jazz / Cool / Third Stream / Bop

At the time of these recordings, John Lewis was still in the process of developing the unique concept of MJQ as a jazz chamber group, for which he often scored even the bass and drum parts. Every track of this pioneering early phase exemplifies how Lewis, to quote Andre Francis, turned four musicians into 'a sensitive instrument which vibrates in the same universe of sound, achieving a communion unique in the world of jazz.'

New York, March 1960. At 22, Monica Zetterlund is a starry eyed Swedish vocalist with Ella, Sarah and Billie on her mind. On her first New York visit, famous critic and sometime record producer Leonard Feather rents Bell Sound Studios on West 54th Street. An all-star cast including Thad Jones, Zoot Sims and Jimmy Jones is hired to accompany Monica's first attempt to conquer the US jazz world. And then the tapes are lost. 36 years later, they surface. 12 unreleased songs, heard only by a handful of people. 4 outtakes not familiar even to Monica. A not to be missed portrait of a masterful young performer.

Volker Kriegel - Lost Tapes: Mainz 1963-1969 (2013) {2CD Set Jazzhaus 101 726}
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Jazz / Bop / Cool / Guitar

The complete - and previously unheard - early work of a later celebrated jazz guitarist recorded in first-class audio quality and produced by SWF-Landesstudio Rheinland-Pfalz in Mainz, as it was then known. It is fascinating to discover the sources from which Volker Kriegel - just 19 years old at the time of the first session - derived inspiration for some of the best known jazz standards: John Lewis' Django, a relaxed Thelonious Monk (Rythm-A-Ning), Autumn Leaves, Norwegian Wood, and other down-tempo numbers of the bop and beat era before discovering his personal laid-back style.

I select a few tracks, what didn’t get that attention, or something happened that they didn’t release in the past. Finally, I’m so happy to release them without saying “these are old” because I produced them in a timeless way. I want to thank you guys for supporting me and follow my releases all those years. And for sure a big thanx to all people that I meet and had beautiful studio time and produced nice flows. Who I want to thank? Well, how snoop once said, I want to thank myself to being real in all those years and done all those with the real love to the music even how other acted. If you read to this, you are the one who now know that my mate Lee and I will go for a fancy spacy Atmo box next. A box of glory.

Collection of songs featuring Lowell George, Linda Ronstadt, Nicollette Larson, Jeff Procaro, Billy Payne, Fred Tackett, David Hungate, Bob Glaub, Davey Johnstone, Michael Landau, Prince, Burt Bacharach, Will Jennings, Steve Tyrell, David Lasley, and more.

As DG celebrates its 125th birthday this year, the label is bringing to light some great recordings from the past for the very first time, having unearthed some hidden treasures in the archives. The second release in the “Lost Tapes” series is a digital-only release of Wolf’s Mörike- and Goethe-Lieder with soloist Thomas Quasthoff and Christian Thielemann conducting the Münchner Philharmoniker. The album comes out on 24 November but you can pre-order it now and have a first listen to Der Rattenfänger.