Neon Soul

His childhood friend and one-time bandmate Prince once described André Cymone "heaven sent". Having grown up together and lived together, Cymone played bass for Prince's backing band in the days before it was called The Revolution. By 1981, relations between Prince and Cymone had broken down and he went solo, signing with Columbia Records and launching a career as a New Wave/Funk artist. Originally released in 1985, A.C. was André Cymone's third solo album. It contains his biggest hit, the #10 R&B single The Dance Electric, written and produced by Prince, who had offered Cymone the track when the two met in a nightclub. Fans of both André Cymone and Prince have been campaigning for decades to have A.C. released on CD.

The first non-blues artist on Analogue Productions, Los Angeles singer/songwriter Nancy Bryan offers in Neon Angel, her second APO release, social commentary with intense soul.

It really was no accident that the Sunshine Pop genre arose when it did. Its roots lay in the largely white post rock’n’roll pop era when writing and production teams had firmly established footholds on both coasts of America, and when recording studios were starting to offer more tracks than the hitherto very basic four. Around 1965, a glance at the US charts revealed that harmony vocals were one of the few genres to withstand the British onslaught, and geed by that success record companies were eager to put money behind one of the few areas where indigenous acts could still outdo the Britons.

The first non-blues artist on Analogue Productions, Los Angeles singer/songwriter Nancy Bryan offers in "Neon Angel", her second APO release, social commentary with intense soul.

By choosing to combine for this recording two complementary but distinctly different drone-based, immersive pieces by the legendary veteran composer and artist/film-maker Phill Niblock (born 1933, USA), and the younger, Berlin-based composer/violist Catherine Lamb (born 1982, USA), Norway’s Ensemble neoN creates a perfect sense of aesthetic balance. Loud is followed by quiet; what seems like random patterning gives way to orderly design; and the opening instrumental ensemble-setting is transformed by the subsequent addition of guest voices. Listening to both pieces one after another is like experiencing thesis and anti-thesis through the medium of Side A and Side B.

With a voice as distinguishable and versatile as her name, Season Ammons is an award-winning songwriter and vocalist. The Lone Star native plays multiple instruments and is a virtuosic writer crossing over effortlessly from Blues, Country, Jazz and Americana. Her soulful voice grabs you instantly whether crooning a country ballad about lost love or telling it like it is in one of her many sassy tongue and cheek blues numbers. Season's Latest Single "Jim Beam and Nicotine" is currently making waves on the Texas Country Music Charts and will appear on her forthcoming album “Neon Side of Town” with Grammy Award-Winning producer Dave Percefull due out January 18th 2019.

Unlike other labels subjected to exhaustive multi-disc retrospectives like this whopping ten-disc Revolutions in Sound: Warner Bros. Records – The First Fifty Years, Warner Brothers never embodied a scene or sound: they've always embodied what a major label should be – a dominant force that chronicles and dictates the sound of the mainstream. Coming out at the tail-end of 2008, when the influence of major labels is on a slow steady decline, Revolutions in Sound can be seen as a portrait of a time that's beginning to recede into the past: a time when there was such a thing as mass entertainment, when the pop audience all shared a common bond of hit records they either loved or rallied against. Perhaps the greatest things about this monumental box set is that it captures that colossus while also illustrating that for a while, majors did take risks. Of course, Warner was the riskiest of all the majors, never held back by an anti-rock & roll sourpuss like Mitch Miller, who struggled to keep CBS out of the tumult of the '60s (this with no less than Bob Dylan as the label's flagship rock artist). Instead, Warner embraced the underground, recording some of the strangest to shake out of the '60s, and that adventure fits a label that turned to rock & roll to help establish themselves as a real player at the turn of the '60s.

Blast From The Past 5.0 is a 4CD bootleg set by the late Prince Rogers Nelson, better known as Prince. The subtitle indicates what this is: Demos, Outtakes And Other Rare Studio Material 1987-2016. This is the 5th installment in the Blast From The Past series, released by Eye Records.

Born in Porter, TX and winner of Season 11 of “The Voice” for Team Blake, Sundance Head is noted for his signature Blued-Eyed “Soul Country” and powerhouse voice. The son of 1965 hit-maker Roy Head (“Treat Her Right”) Sundance has been singing professionally in front of live audiences and slinging guitar since the age of 13. With numerous independent releases under his belt, musical accolades, and a bevy of life shows on the books, Sundance has completed a brand new album with iconic songwriter/producer Dean Dillon at the production helm. His new single “Leave Her Wild,” is available now on digital retailers and streaming platforms and can also be heard on Country radio. The full length release, STAINED GLASS AND NEON, on Dean Dillon’s Wildcatter Records is slated for release on January 25th.