Martina Claussen has been active as a composer, vocal artist and Professor of Voice in Vienna for many years. After many collaborations and appearances on some excellent compilations shes arrived at her full debut album, a project were very excited to be part of as Forwind reaches its thirtieth release. Verwoben (Interwoven) is an engrossing, […]
This playful, profound, and immensely moving docu-fantasia by Kirsten Johnson (Cameraperson) is a valentine to the director’s beloved father, Dick Johnson, made as she has begun to face the reality of losing him to dementia. Using the language of cinema both to defy death and to confront it head-on, Johnson mischievously envisions an array of […]
The kids of Third Year Class-B Shiroiwa Junior High School are back, in a brand new 4K restoration of the classic cult shocker adapted from the controversial novel by Koushun Takami. Presenting an alternate dystopian vision of turn-of-the-millennium Japan, Battle Royale follows the 42 junior high school students selected to take part in the government’s […]
3 LP Fleet Foxes Live On Boston Harbor serves as the live album companion to the bands concert broadcast in 2022, marking the autumnal equinox and coinciding with the second anniversary of the GRAMMY-nominated studio album Shore. Recorded at Leader Bank Pavilion in Boston, Massachusetts, Live On Boston Harbor documents the Shore world tour with […]
Returning for just a couple of goodbye shows, Fight Like Apes, quite simply, are one of Dublins fnest ever live bands Acerbic and exotic. Individual and evocative, Fight Like Apes have toured the UK with The Von Bondies, The Ting Tings, New Found Glory and The Prodigy and have played stacks of Irish and European […]
Cultural icon, anti-establishment statement, sadistic lord of carnival horror! With his iconic long fingernails, top hat and cape, Zé do Caixão (Coffin Joe) was the creation of Brazilian filmmaker José Mojica Marins, who wrote, directed and starred in a series of outrageous movies from 1964 to 2008. An unholy undertaker in search of the perfect […]
? NEW DELUXE AND EXPANDED 2 CD DIGIPACK EDITION OF THE 1986 ALBUM BY STEVE HACKETT & STEVE HOWE’S BAND GTR ? WITH BONUS 14-TRACK CD OF GTR LIVE IN LOS ANGELES IN JULY 1986 & THREE BONUS TRACKS TAKEN FROM RARE SINGLES & EPs ? NEWLY REMASTERED ? FULLY RESTORED ARTWORK AND ESSAY WITH […]
Meaning can come from surprising places. In 2019, while rehabilitating from a stroke and experiencing aphasia (difficulty with speech and in her case a complete inability to speak), my mother began saying: she brings me back to the land of the living seemingly out of nowhere and with little knowledge of its origin or meaning. […]
Four men of iron face their destinies within the harsh walls of a Taiwanese prison. Steve (Jackie Chan, Rush Hour) is a gambler seeking to atone for his sins. Andy (Tony Leung, The Lover) is an undercover cop solving a crime. Lee (Andy Lau, The Great Wall) is a gangster looking for vengeance. John (Sammo […]
Far East Suite is a 1967 concept album by American jazz musician Duke Ellington, inspired by his groups tour through Asia. Ellington and longtime collaborator Billy Strayhorn wrote the compositions. Strayhorn died in May 1967, making Far East Suite one of the last albums recorded during his life to feature his compositions. The album won […]
