This set collects tracks from the Impressions' early-'60s years with ABC-Paramount and includes classic tracks like "It's All Right," "Keep on Pushing," "Gypsy Woman," "I'm So Proud," and the majestic "People Get Ready" along with later-era Impressions sides like "This Is My Country" and "Choice of Colors," which show lead tenor vocalist and songwriter Curtis Mayfield blossoming toward his subsequent solo career. …
Two-CD set commemorates both the 40th anniversary of Pablo Records and the 50th anniversary of the recordings. LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Concord Music Group will reissue a remastered and expanded edition of John Coltrane’s Afro Blue Impressions album on August 20, 2013 (international release dates vary). Enhanced by 24-bit remastering by Joe Tarantino, three bonus tracks, and new liner notes, the new reissue celebrates the 40th anniversary of Pablo Records, the jazz label founded by Norman Granz in 1973.
There couldn’t be a more fitting reintroduction to the world of Brighton’s Tall Ships than ‘Road Not Taken’, the slow-burning opener to Impressions, their second full-length album - released early 2017 via FatCat Records. Rooted in the idea of facing a fork in the road, the four-piece’s frontman Ric Phethean describes the track - which draws its title from Robert Frost’s poem The Road Not Taken - as tackling “the consequences of our choices and actions, and the regrets that come with them;”striving to “make the most of the moment, as it’s the only thing you’ve got any control over.”
Detlev Schmidtchen, born in 1954 in Wolfenbüttel, had been an important piece of the Eloy core during the second half of the 70's.He started his career with Getriebe, before meeting Frank Bornemann in a 75' festival, where the winners had the opportunity to have dinner with Eloy, who were the headliners…
"He started to record the beautiful chanting of the monks, the sounds of the environment and the singing of the local working men and women. These turned out to be the first elements of the Tibet Impressions CD. (…) Before he set out for a trip to Mount Kailash, he went to Tsurphu and got permission to record one sutra recited by the now eight year old Karmapa. This turned out to be one of the most moving tracks on the CD. In Lhasa he recorded sounds of the streets ('Life in Barkhor'), a street singer performing protest songs , groups and all sorts of other sounds of daily life."