Yame Intro

The influential nature of Teutonic legends Kreator cannot be stressed enough, and yet is an often ignored aspect of extreme metal history in the eyes of the mainstream, that has all too often directed unwarranted focus towards what is often deemed the heralding location of thrash metal, i.e the west coast of the United States. The rise of the most ground breaking, stylistically defying and unconventional genres in the cryptic extreme metal movement of the late 80’s and early 90’s was simply a reciprocal exaltation to the formative influences bestowed upon the innovators of extreme metal…

Rock in Rio is a recurring music festival originating in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It later branched into other locations such as Lisbon, Madrid and Las Vegas…

This box is the 1st of three boxes released by Yellow Dog in 1994, as they cemented their status as one of the most prolific and important Beatleg Labels.
This box contains 4 discs, 2 of which would later be released as single discs; "The Early Years" (re-released as "The Decca Tapes" YD061 in 1995) and "TV Appearances" (re-released as "The Ed Sullivan Shows" YD062 in 1995.) The other 2 discs in this set are unique to this box set.
The sound quality of these discs is truly superb, offering some very important new material to collectors.

The works of true artistic masters are things to cherish. When two such masters come together to create, it is truly a moment to behold. Pianists Kenny Barron and Mulgrew Miller have cemented themselves as two of the foremost pianists and song interpreters of the 21st century. In an inspired conception, Barron and Miller were paired in duo performances, one in 2005 and two in 2011, that are presented here as The Art of Piano Duo – Live.

Following the success of the Tabu individual expanded editions, we have subsequently received enquiries about putting some packages together on Alexander O’Neal and The S.O.S. Band which encompass all of the original albums together with the 7” versions of the singles plus some of the 12” mixes we were unable to feature on the individual expanded editions. So who better to curate these packages than Ralph Tee, curator of the Philadelphia International Box Set and all-round Soul Music expert. So here are all 6 of Alexander O’Neal’s original Tabu albums as they were originally released together with 2 bonus CDs, one of which contains of all the key 7” singles and the other which contains the 12” versions which were not included on the recent expanded editions.