Nina Hagen Cue

From classical cover band devoted exclusively to performing Metallica's symphony-friendly epics to all purpose string ensemble interpreters of other heavy metal bands' music for the cello, to composers of original material fit to mingle with even more metallic translations, Finland's Apocalyptica had come a long way in the span of their first three albums. And, naturally, there were bound to be further innovations lined up for the band's fourth opus, Reflections, which arrived in 2003 bearing not a single heavy metal cover, and introducing several unexpected innovations into Apocalyptica's m.o., to boot. Chief among these was the addition of a drummer behind the group (recently paired down from quartet to trio), and since Apocalyptica's virtuosos would hardly stand for anything short of brilliance for such an assignment, that percussionist wound up being none other than Slayer legend Dave Lombardo…

Many years after releasing their first two great albums, the excellent French label Musea is now releasing another Cos album, but in their later career, with this very Spanish-tinged Pasiones. From the Early days, only Schell remains but he is well surrounded by other well-known Belgian musician and Spanish falsetto singer Ilona Chale sometimes sounding like Nina Hagen and Nicolas Fiszman - who played bass on the only album this writer have produced, so far - providing a very African touch. Musically, we are very much in the 80's, not that far away from some of the better new wave bands but also very close of King Crimson of the moment. As so often the case with Musea releases, the disc comes with many bonus tracks, including a short concert in France.

Spliff - The Spliff Radio Show
FLAC | Artwork | 24Bit: 1,08 GB | 16Bit: 352 MB | RS + HF
Cat#: CBS 32369 | Country/Year: Germany 198_, 1980 (ReIssue) | Genre: New Wave

Spliff was a Neue Deutsche Welle (New German Wave) rock band, active in the 1980s. The members were already playing together before they were 'adopted' by Nina Hagen when she came to West Germany in 1977. They recorded two albums with her as the Nina Hagen Band before continuing under the name Spliff when Hagen went solo. –> Although this band was NDW later, this is new wave and the album is entirely written in english.

Spliff - 85555
FLAC | Artwork | 24Bit 96kHz: 775 MB | 16Bit 44.1kHz: 246 MB
Cat#: CBS 85 555 | Country/Year: Germany 1982
Genre: New Wave, Electronic | Hoster: Hotfile/Filesonic

Spliff was a Neue Deutsche Welle (New German Wave) rock band, active in the 1980s. The members were already playing together before they were 'adopted' by Nina Hagen when she came to West Germany in 1977. They recorded two albums with her as the Nina Hagen Band before continuing under the name Spliff when Hagen went solo.