Mysterious Meishi Smile

Legendary instrumental album of famous Greek composer Manos Hadjidakis. It contains 10 instrumental pieces of amazing beauty that convey the soul and feeling of Greek musical culture. Originally mastered and recorded in New York at 1965. This version of the album came out in December 1998.

This double-CD has 24 different groups of fusion musicians (including some from Europe) paying tribute to Weather Report. Despite the personnel and often the instrumentation changing from track to track, there is a unity to the project and many of the bands sound quite a bit like Weather Report, either purposely as part of the tribute or naturally. The programming is somewhat random and the bands bring back the sound, grooves, and spirits of Weather Report rather than necessarily always sticking to their compositions. All in all, this is a heartfelt and very well-played tribute that can also serve as an introduction to a cross-section of some of today's top fusion musicians, many of whom are not household names yet.

Best known in Scandinavia for her 1994 hit "Vem Vet, " Lisa Ekdahl became one of the top Swedish pop singers of the 1990s but also records and performs straightahead jazz. Ekdahl's pop albums have been in Swedish, while her acoustic jazz albums have favored English-language standards. The thin-voiced singer was born and raised in Stockholm, where in 1990, she started singing jazz with the trio of pianist Peter Nordahl. In 1994, her self-titled debut album came out in Sweden, and it was that year that her single "Vem Vet" (which is Swedish for "Who Knows") made her a superstar in Scandinavia at the age of 23. Ekdahl's subsequent pop albums in Sweden included Med Kroppen Mot Jorden in 1996 and Bortom Det Bla in 1997. The singer's first English-language effort, When Did You Leave Heaven, was also her first jazz album and the first Ekdahl album to come out in the U.S. When Did You Leave Heaven was a big seller in Sweden, but the album (which came out on RCA Victor in the U.S.) received its share of negative reviews from American jazz critics, who felt that Ekdahl's thin, very girlish voice was wrong for standards and straightahead jazz and argued that she should stick to pop. Her next jazz recording, Back to Earth, came out in 1999. ~ Alex Henderson

We are a synth-pop-band from Germany & UK. Our music is akin to the sounds of the 80s, the life and all the new influences. A mix of the old masters and the taste of life!
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Jimmy Steeltown. Grown up as kids of the working class at the metropolitan area of the ruhr where coale mines and steelworks burned their heat, smoke and dust deep into the souls of the ciitzans. Jimmy dedicate their handmade songs to all the people who know the crazy turns of life. Who know what real pain feels like and who cherish every day of luck and airness. Jimmy are playing blues influenced music wich is flavoured with the origin of every member and it`s inspration. There is a kind of mediterian style and gypsy sounds hiding inside the songs and also elements of soul, funk, rock and pop.

After 16 years at the forefront of the Romanian rock music scene, art rock/alternative masterminds Kumm are back in top shape with their sixth studio record, enticingly titled "A Mysterious Place Called Somewhere". More than 4 years after their previous record, Kumm continue to explore and cross the boundaries of established music genres.