Zappa '75

‘A Better Day’ features 10 Old, New, Borrowed, & Blue tunes from London born, Top of the Pops, multi-platinum songwriter & member of Strawbs, The Monks. Hudson Ford. Highlights featuring Ian Lloyd of Stories & Edward Rogers collaborations, a new take on Dave Cousins' "Deep In The Darkest Night" + other marvels await you in this album. ‘A Better Day’ is a 58th Grammy Award entry in several categories. Looking ahead to 2016, some of Ford’s songs will be featured in an upcoming network TV movie on a notorious cult killer, and other surprises!

Backtracking - a chronological history of the work of John Ford with hits from Strawbs, Hudson Ford and The Monks plus a selection from his Solo repertoire all in place for you to enjoy. Includes liner notes in John's own words about the songs…

Always at least three steps ahead of contemporary popular music, Can were the leading avant-garde rock group of the '70s. From their very beginning, their music didn't conform to any commonly held notions about rock & roll – not even those of the countercultures. Inspired more by 20th century classical music than Chuck Berry, their closest contemporaries were Frank Zappa or possibly the Velvet Underground. Yet their music was more serious and inaccessible than either of those artists. Instead of recording tight pop songs or satire, Can experimented with noise, synthesizers, non-traditional music, cut-and-paste techniques, and, most importantly, electronic music; each album marked a significant step forward from the previous album, investigating new territories that other rock bands weren't interested in exploring…

Modernized Retro sound brought into New Milenium invoking strong imagery, and tells a story without saying a word! The album’s cover is telling, too, as every string plucked here belongs to a Fender, the only implicit thing about the record being the homage it pays to THE SHADOWS, which becomes obvious once the muscular chord of “The Reaper” starts hugging its gently rippling strum. Ringing in the years, its echo takes Ford down the memory lane, as no matter how long John’s been living on the other side of the Pond, the reminiscences he puts in “Granny Takes A Trip” still bear an imprint of foggy-eyed English psychedelia and “Tomorrow’s World” contrasts its futuristic self with an air of nostalgia, while out of the title cut the same axe carves a prime example of surf rock…

Vialka is a French avant-progressive band in the Rock in Opposition vein. Their music is a great mixture of genres and influences such as folk, rock, punk (in their musical "attitude", mostly) and Balkan music, notably. Formed in 2002, Vialka consists of Marylise Frecheville and Éric Boros…