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Lazuli are a French rock ensemble, currently recognized as an arousing, enchanting and vigorous prog rock value. Formed in 1998, their musical debut was tough and unoriginal, but in the next years, revealing a promising number of shows and a music undergoing a quality transition, they earned the appreciation those bands capable of making unusual, very pleasant or promptly fresh music usually receive. In their music, Lazuli do a relaxed blend of prog rock (classic, retro and modern spots altogether), instrumental songs and alternative/warm world music - the edge between pop and rock being, mostly, a good one. Numb folk, heavy beats or rich samples are fairly used. Their artistic top quality is not so much the high-striking, elaborate or attractive tones and prog-generating sensations, as the inspired songs and instrumental intermissions…

The collaboration by David Wright and Dave Massey under the name "Callisto". Combining the respective trademark skills that have graced a collective 30 albums, the two Davids merge striking melodies with strident rhythms and sequences in the best tradition of Vangelis, Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze, to produce fresh and original electronic music.

Shamall is the moniker used by German composer and multi-instrumentalist Norbert Krueler. His first artistic creations came to be in 1986, at that time heavily tinged by various forms of mainstream electronic music. His first ventures were rather successful from a commercial point of view, but Krueler's artistic aspirations weren't totally satisfied by these first creations. As a long time fan of bands like Pink Floyd, Marillion as well as the Krautrock of his native Germany, his works slowly but steadily started incorporating more and more of these influences in his musical endeavours - with a particular emphasis on Pink Floyd.

Toshifumi Hinata attended Berklee College of Music in Boston and graduated from the University of Minnesota-Duluth, where he studied under the tutelage of Patricia Laliberte. His career started upon graduation from university in 1982. He has composed music for numerous TV dramas, documentaries and commercials.
Taking cues from the languid feeling of classic French impressionist music, Toshifumi sculpted Sarah’s Crime (1985) as an album full of modern piano-led nocturnes that could fold in orchestral instrumentation and synthetic key beds into a seamless mix of woozy arrangements. The goal was music for half-forgotten musical touch points, with an atmosphere that could best described as illusory…

Land of Dreams (1996). Debut album of the Danish trio Eventyr, who has devloped its own style of sensitive music that blends gentle tones with soft rhythms. The music invites you to a journey into your own fantasy world, and also provides a harmonious backdrop for other activities…

Signed to the UK label AD Music for many years, Bekki Williams is best known for her melodic, emotive, orchestral style of instrumental music, which is well-showcased on her solo albums Elysian Fields, Shadow of the Wind, Innersense and Edge of Human. Classically trained from a very young age, Bekki is an award-winning flautist and multi-instrumentalist who has worked as an orchestra soloist, a music teacher, a backing vocalist, a session musician and a sound engineer, as well as running a commercial recording studio of her own. Expertly crafted, with heart, soul, and strong classical elements which give it immense depth, hers is music with considerable musical structure and style. Bekki is able to imbue her musical creations with a strong emotional content that lifts her music far above the norm.

Awakening… (1969). From the legendary hard rocking South African psych rock scene, alongside such greats as Freedom’s Children, and Suck, comes The Third Eye. Awakening is the Third Eye’s debut full length, originally released in 1969, and is a masterful and complex album of late sixties South African heavy psych, featuring fuzzed out guitars, great brass arrangements and virtuosic organ work, provided by the young Dawn Selby, who, at the time of recording was all of 14 years old…

Awakening… (1969). From the legendary hard rocking South African psych rock scene, alongside such greats as Freedom’s Children, and Suck, comes The Third Eye. Awakening is the Third Eye’s debut full length, originally released in 1969, and is a masterful and complex album of late sixties South African heavy psych, featuring fuzzed out guitars, great brass arrangements and virtuosic organ work, provided by the young Dawn Selby, who, at the time of recording was all of 14 years old…

The collaboration by David Wright and Dave Massey under the name "Callisto". Combining the respective trademark skills that have graced a collective 30 albums, the two Davids merge striking melodies with strident rhythms and sequences in the best tradition of Vangelis, Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze, to produce fresh and original electronic music.

Chicago bluesman Eddie Burks was born September 17, 1931, on a plantation outside Greenwood, MS - the 14th and youngest child of sharecroppers, his childhood was marked by tragedy, most notably his brother's lynching at the hands of the Ku Klux Klan. Burks discovered the music of Robert Johnson and Sonny Boy Williamson as a prepubescent, and began playing harmonica even before he relocated to the Windy City in 1946; there he worked at a steel mill while singing gospel as a member of the Greater Harvest Baptist Choir, famed for also launching the careers of Mahalia Jackson and Sam Cooke…