Ola All Over The World

Kenny Herbert is an Edinburgh songwriter/musician who has been working on the music scene for many years having been inspired throughout his life by the music of The Beatles, Paul McCartney, Stephen Bishop, James Taylor and Gallagher & Lyle. Over the years he has written and recorded a catalogue of original songs in various styles. Along with his solo writing Kenny has co-written with various writers including ‘Pilots’ David Paton, Scottish Guitar legend Rab Howat, his Beatle pal Ed Jones and also with one of the UK’s top soul jazz artistes, the London based brilliant Ola Onabule. Keeping his music as honest as possible with timeless melodies and story lyrics written from the heart. "The songs on this album where written by my friend Ed Jones and myself with our love of all things Beatles."

To paraphrase Tolstoy, all happy memories feel more or less the same; but the unhappy times are experienced differently by each one of us. We’ve all had some really tough weeks, which sometimes turned into months, and (with a bit of bad luck) into years… I like to think that “off” years help us grow and prepare for the beautiful things that will undoubtedly come our way (I am an optimist at heart), but living through dark times is a complicated process.

Sweden’s power metal masters Insania return with their brand-new album “The Great Apocalypse“. 4 Years after the successful “V”, the Swedes are back with their own recipe of Power Metal, full of speedy, double-bass drums, great hooks, and amazing solos. The band's current line-up consists of Mikko Korsbäck (drums), Tomas Stolt (bass), Niklas Dahlin (guitar), Ola Halén (vocals) and Peter Östros (guitar). The first version of Insania was formed in 1992 by drum player Mikko Korsbäck and guitar player Henrik Juhano. Bass player Tomas Stolt was added to the line-up shortly after and a few other musicians were also part of the band for short periods of time. The band initially started off playing covers of their favorite bands such as Helloween and Iron Maiden, but eventually Mikko´s classmate Niklas Dahlin joined as a second guitar player and they started writing their own tunes…

BANDA DO CASACO's genesis comes from the reunion of jazz musician Nuno Rodrigues and FILARMÓNICA FRAUDE's men António Pinho and Luís Linhares, who made the decision to establish a new group who could wield some influence in the Portuguese music scene…

The Belfast Gypsies' sole album was first issued in Scandinavia by Sonet in 1967. Though the lettering on the sleeve led many to incorrectly think it was an album by Them titled "Belfast Gypsies," the name of the group is indeed the Belfast Gypsies (though some of the group had played in Them when Van Morrison was their lead singer), and the album title Them Belfast Gypsies…

The debut release of a Scandinavian singer has seldom been as surprising as that of the Swedish vocalist Ida Sand two years ago with her album Meet Me Around Midnight (ACT 9716-2). It simply didn’t sound at all like a typical Scandinavian record. What the critics and the public heard was, “the most soulful white female singer to come along in some time” – earthy, tart, deep black, and authentically bound to gospel and blues. Beside this, another basic difference to a lot of other singers is that Ida Sand plays piano, and her singing and piano playing go hand in hand.