The Sorcerers’ latest long player lands in perfect time for the summer, offering a further progression into their unique take on Ethio-inspired jazz.Other Worlds and Habitats is, of course, released on ATA Records and is blessed with the analogue recording and painstakingly loving production we have come to expect from this boutique studio.This, The Sorcerers […]
Arguably one of the most acclaimed and loved bands of the past 20 years, by both fans and their musical peers alike, The Beta Band formed in St. Andrews, Scotland, in 1996. Innovative and singular, their unique musical and aesthetic approach to everything they did set them far apart from their musical contemporaries. Together for […]
Formed in Glasgow in 1977, and later becoming best known internationally for the song ‘Don’t You (Forget About Me)’ in 1985 (which topped the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States) and the UK number one single “Belfast Child” in 1989, Simple Minds have achieved 24 top 40 singles on the UK Singles Chart, and […]
Jay McShann was an R&B, blues and jazz pianist, singer, composer and bandleader, originally hailing from Oklahoma but basing himself in Kansas City. He played an important role during the 1940s and ‘50s scene as a leading performer of a particular style of R&B which spanned the various shades of the genre, and provided an […]
Nellie Lutcher was an American R&B, jazz and pop singer of the 1940s and early ‘50s, with a highly distinctive vocal style, which influenced other singers including Nina Simone. She was unusual in that she became especially popular in the UK, where she toured in the early ‘50s. This 54-track 2-CD collection comprises most of […]
During a six-night run at the Gaumont Cinema in Bournemouth, the group managed to nip into London for a Saturday Club appearance on August 24th.This was the day after the official UK release date of She Loves You, which they performed along with the B-side, I’ll Get You for only the second time on radio.In […]
Known as the “Queen of Soul,” Aretha Franklin ranked as No.1 in the “100 Greatest Singers of All Time” Rolling Stone magazine’s 2010 poll. She was also an 18-time Grammy Award winner as well as a Grammy Lifetime Achievement and Grammy Living Legend awardee (she died in 2018 at the age of 76). Presented on […]
2 LP Eponymous debut album, now available on vinyl for the first time since its release 20 years ago. Featuring the haunting hit single ‘Strange & Beautiful (I’ll put a spell on you)’ from the VW Beetle TV advert which launched Aqualung into the world and an additional album of live versions. Matthew Hales aka […]
Richard D James returns with the first Aphex Twin album in more than a decade and its rich and thrilling.. He delivers a grand synthesis of retro sounds and wild textural play. On Syros first side the tracks are trademark Aphex Twin – instantly graspable yet endlessly complex, folding detail and experimentation into simple structures. […]
The Girl from Ipanema was the first album by Antônio Carlos Jobim and features a dozen instrumentals arranged by Claus Ogerman, whose work would mark the beginning of a lifelong musical relationship with Jobim. Of these twelve songs, nearly all of them are jazz standards. The opening track “The Girl from Ipanema” is believed to […]
