pmd new releases 14th august 2015

ROCK/HARDCORE NEW RELEASE – 14/08/2015

Order from Proper Music Distribution : Telephone: 0870 444 0805 Fax: 0208 6765169

e-mail: [email protected]

Tour Dates 2015:

18th Aug – The Borderline, London 28th Aug - Leeds Festival

30th Aug - Reading Festival

18th Oct – Vans Warped UK Tour, London

Autumn dates to follow

Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes - Blossom IDC002CD 5060186928500 CD INTERNATIONAL DEATH CULT ROCK/HARDCORE £7.99 IDC002LP 5060186928517 LP* INTERNATIONAL DEATH CULT ROCK/HARDCORE £10.99

Former Gallows and Pure Love vocalist Frank Carter is back with explosive new project, Frank Carter &The Rattlesnakes.

Produced by Thomas Mitchener at Broadfields Studio in Watford, the ten-track debut album 'Blossom' is released via the band's own label - International Death Cult - and is the follow-up to the Rotten EP that received stellar reviews across the press and saw track 'Fangs' credited as the radio 1 Rock's shows 'Rockest Record'. This year will see the band bring their intense live experience to venues across the UK and perform at The Pit Stage at the iconic Reading & Leeds Festivals. They’ve just completed a sold out UK tour in June.

*Limited LP - 180g, half & half coloured vinyl pink + clear, gatefold sleeve, uncoated board – while stocks last (500 units)

Video: https://youtu.be/wfue002hfEM Web: www.andtherattlesnakes.com

Socials:

Instagram 35.5k / Twitter 22.6k / Facebook 7.5k

Press:

NME, Big Cheese, Rocksound and Kerrang! have already covered the release.

Radio:

Support from Radio BBC 1/ BBC 6Music.

Tracks: Juggernaut / Trouble / Fangs / Devil Inside Me / Paradise / Loss / Beautiful Death / Rotten Blossom / Primary Explosive / I Hate You

https://youtu.be/wfue002hfEM

http://www.andtherattlesnakes.com/

BLUES NEW RELEASE - 14/08/2015



Canned Heat - Songs From The Road £10.00 RUF1218 710347121824 CD+DVD RUF RECORDS BLUES

The world turns. Fashions change. Bands rise and fall. But you can't stop the boogie. Fifty years after Canned Heat was founded by blues scholars Bob 'The Bear' Hite and

Alan 'Blind Owl' Wilson in Topanga Canyon, California, the West Coast legends just keep rolling on down the road.

Canned Heat have sold more records played more festivals, worldwide and than any other blues band in music history. They’re the only blues band to ever have three Number One records with On The Road Again, Going Up The Country and Let's Work Together. Until they pull up in your town, there's Songs From The Road. The famous Ruf Records live series has already showcased heavyweights from Luther Allison to Royal Southern Brotherhood. Now, in 2015, this two-disc CD/DVD set finds the modern Canned Heat lineup on blistering form, shaking Bonn's Harmonie club with a 16-song set driven by the boogie groove that's practically a strand of rock 'n' roll's DNA. Led from the back, as ever, by iconic drummer and guardian-of-the-flame Adolfo 'Fito' De La Parra, the rhythm section is given further pedigree by Sixties bassist Larry 'The Mole' Taylor. On lead vocals and harp, give it up for New Orleans legend Dale Spalding, while John 'JP' Paulus capably covers guitar duties for Woodstock-era bandmember Harvey 'The Snake' Mandel (as he recovers from recent health issues). When "Going Up The Country" strikes up, you'll imagine yourself back in the dappled sunshine of Woodstock in 1969, flicking a peace sign, flowers in your hair. From "Amphetamine Annie" to "Let's Work Together", few bands make such an evocative sound, so inextricably tied to the summer of love, yet so fresh and relevant in modern times. Canned Heat's place in the pantheon of the greats is undeniable, and their importance to the blues inestimable. The LA outfit began in 1965, born not from commercial interests, but from a deep love of the genre, as Hite and Wilson evolved from their roles as vinyl collectors and blues aficionados to lead the nascent lineup. As slide god and super-fan Sonny Landreth recently noted: "Canned Heat were, like, the ultimate white-blues aficionados. These guys, they were so into the blues, way ahead of other people." CD: On The Road Again / Time Was / Don't Know Where She Went (She Split) / Nighthawk / So Sad ( The World's In A Tangle) / Going Up The Country / Oaxaca / Chicken Shack Boogie / Future Blues / Cristo Redentor / Amphetamine Annie / Rollin' And Tumblin' / Let's Work Together / Euro Boogie DVD: On The Road Again / Time Was / I'm Her Man / Don't Know Where She Went (She Split) / Nighthawk / So Sad (The World's In A Tangle) / Going Up The Country / Oaxaca / Chicken Shack Boogie / Have A Good Time / Future Blues / Cristo Redentor / Amphetamine Annie / Rollin' And Tumblin' / Let's Work Together / Euro Boogie Also Available:

BGOCD694 – ‘Hooker 'N' Heat’ (With John Lee Hooker)

BGOCD577 – ‘Canned Heat/Boogie With Canned Heat’

ROCK & ROLL NEW RELEASE - 14/08/2015



Ricky Nelson - The Ricky Nelson Story £9.58 PROPERBOX195 805520021951 CD4 PROPER BOX ROCK & ROLL

***Digital download distributed by Proper***

From the period that this releases covers, 1957-1962, Ricky Nelson's records were only outsold by Elvis himself. During this time period Ricky was instrumental in broadening the appeal of Rock 'n' Roll into America's mainstream and in doing this played a major role in the all encompassing success of the genre, that continues to thrive to this day.

We present 100 tracks over 4 CDs in a box also containing a 24 page booklet that includes an essay, discographical information and rare pictures. There is no other Ricky Nelson set in the marketplace covering so much ground at this price point. CD 1: I'm Walkin' / You're My One And Only Love / A Teenager's Romance / Have I Told You Lately That I Love You / Be-Bop Baby / If You Can't Rock Me / Boppin' The Blues / Honeycomb / Baby I'm Sorry / I'm Confessin' / True Love / Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On / Am I Blue / Teenage Doll / Stood Up / Waitin' In School / My Bucket's Got A Hole In It / Believe What You Say / Down The Line / Shirley Lee / There's Good Rockin' Tonight / Someday (You'll Want Me To Want You) / Poor Little Fool / My Babe / I'll Walk Alone CD 2: I'm In Love Again / There Goes My Baby / Don't Leave Me This Way / Lonesome Town / I Got A Feeling / It's All In The Game / One Of These Mornings / It's Late / Old Enough To Love / Trying To Get To You / Be True To Me / Restless Kid / You Tear Me Up / Never Be Anyone Else But You / I Can't Help It / Just A Little Too Much / Sweeter Than You / One Minute To One / So Long / I've Been Thinkin' / That's All / Blood From A Stone / You'll Never Know What You're Missing / You're So Fine / A Long Vacation CD 3: Hey Pretty Baby / Mighty Good / I Wanna Be Loved / Again / I'd Climb The Highest Mountain / Young Emotions / Make Believe / Glory Train / March With The Band Of The Lord / Here I Go Again / Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans / Right By My Side / When Your Lover Has Gone / Baby Won't You Please Come Home / Time After Time / I'm Not Afraid / Yes Sir, That's My Baby / Ain't Nothin' But Love / Proving My Love / I'm All Through With You / You Are The Only One / Milk Cow Blues / Everybody But Me / Break My Chain / Travelin' Man CD 4: Hello Mary Lou / My One Desire / Sure Fire Bet / Stars Fell On Alabama / Lucky Star / Oh Yeah, I'm In Love / That Warm Summer Night / Everlovin' / Today's Teardrops / I Wonder Like You / Thank You Darling / Baby You Don't Know / History Of Love / There's Not A Minute / Mad Mad World / Stop Sneakin' Around / Excuse Me Baby / I Can't Stop Lovin' You / Summertime / Poor Loser / Young World / I've Got My Eyes On You (And I Like What I See) / It's Up To You / Teenage Idol / I Need You




Tour Dates 2015: 18th Jul - Jazz & Blues Festival, Edinburgh 19th Jul - Northumbria University, Newcastle 20th Jul - The Grand, Clitheroe 21st Jul - Boom Boom Club, Sutton

Tour Dates 2015: 02nd Aug – Gloucester Blues Festival 20th Aug – Blues Funk Club, Macclesfield 30th Aug – Blues Festival, Colne 31st Aug – Mod Festival, Brighton 06th Sep – Southern Pavillion, Worthing 15th Sep – Public Hall, Harpenden 16th Sep – Komedia, Brighton 17th Sep – The Railway Inn, Winchester And many more

Royal Southern Brotherhood - Don't Look Back £14.50

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Now available as a 2 LP set on 180gram vinyl. New blood. New beginnings. For Royal Southern Brotherhood, Don't Look Back

isn't just an album title, but the attitude that drove the award-winning US band's third release.

The past year has seen seismic change for RSB. If you've read the rock press headlines, you'll know that founder members Devon Allman and Mike Zito have now amicably departed to pursue their solo careers. Don't Look Back proves the MkII lineup is up to the mark. Now, the band dynamic that Cyril famously describes as a "gumbo" gets a fiery new pinch of spice with a fresh guitar partnership. Blues-rock fans will know to expect big things from Bart Walker. Recruiting Tyrone Vaughan was another great idea. Like his feted predecessor, Devon Allman, the Texas guitarist knows all about the double-edged sword of a celebrated surname: he's the son of Jimmie Vaughan and nephew of the immortal Stevie Ray Vaughan. LP 1: I Wanna Be Free / Reach My Goal / Don't Look Back / Hit Me Once / The Big Greasy / Hard Blues LP 2: Better Half / Penzi / It's Time For Love / Bayou Baby / Poor Boy / They Don't Make 'Em Like You No More / Come Hell Or High Water / Anchor Me

Laurence Jones - What's It Gonna Be £14.50

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At this juncture, a less passionate artist might cool their heels and count their royalties. No chance. Saviour of the British blues scene is not a position for part-

timers, and in 2015, Laurence is back with his stunning third album, What's It Gonna Be.Now available on 180 gram vinyl.

What's It Gonna Be. Now there's a question. If you've followed the 23-year-old's journey so far, from his roots as the hottest guitar gunslinger in Stratford-upon-Avon, through his 2012 breakout with Thunder In The Sky, to his rise with Ruf Records, you might have an inkling of the qualities that will be found on this third album. There's gonna be white-hot fretwork. Vocals with power and soul. Songwriting that grabs you by the collar. Released in 2015 on Ruf Records, What's It Gonna Be gives you all of the above. But it gives you more, too, pushing the bandleader's talent further than ever before. For full tour details, please see: http://www.laurencejonesmusic.com/Tour.html Tracks: What's It Gonna Be / Don't Need No Reason / Evil / Touch Your Moonlight / Don't Look Back / Good Morning Blues / All I Need / Being Alone / Can't Get Enough / Stop Moving The House

http://www.laurencejonesmusic.com/Tour.html




COUNTRY NEW RELEASE - 14/08/2015

DOCUMENTARY NEW RELEASE - 10/08/2015

Ruthie Foster - Runaway Soul £7.49 BCM1503 0677967150323 CD THE ORCHARD BLUES

Reissue of 3 time Grammy nominee's 2002 album which has not been previously available in Europe. Winner of the 2014 Blues Award (Grand Prix du Disque) by the Académie Charles-Cros

and two time Blues Music Award winner For the past 15 years, 3 time Grammy nominee and Texas native Ruthie Foster has been garnering critical acclaim for her soulful fusion of blues, gospel, roots and folk. Her album 'Runaway Soul' was a feature on the Top 10 lists of many Texan critics and her fan base grows with each of her outstanding live performances. Her appeal lies in both her powerful songs and commanding voice, which has been compared to Ella Fitzgerald and Aretha Franklin. Originally released in 2002, 'Runaway Soul' has been unavailable on CD for the last 5 years. This updated version has a new cover, but the same outstanding track list as the original. Dedicating one song to her late father who passed away in January 2002, Ruthie Foster's vocals mix gospel with a healthy helping of Texas blues in the vein of Bonnie Raitt or on occasion Melissa Etheridge. Tracks: Runaway Soul / Woke Up This Mornin' / Smalltown Blues / Home / Hole In My Pocket / Give You My Love / Ocean Of Tears (Mama) / Walk On / Death Came A-Knockin' / Joy

Shaun Young And Rockin' Bonnie - Texas Duets £3.25 ET15022 8437013270557 7” EL TORO COUNTRY In August 2015 Rockin' Bonnie and Shaun Young (Ex-High Noon) crossed paths in Austin, Texas

and they recorded these two gems of Texas Honly Tonk style duets!! So here you have both the best voices, female and male, on the Honky Tonk - Rockabilly scene in the last decade teaming on the studio backed by a mix of both their current bands members and the result is a superb double sider! Tracks: Broken Hearted Boogie / We'll Make It Some How

Abominations Of Humanity: The Evil Within £8.84 RYE1174 889290132468 DVD WIENERWORLD DOCUMENTARY

Man is a unique beast in nature because he takes joy in the known suffering of other sentient beings and hunts for fun and profit. This is the history of mankind's abuse of his own species.

Ever since man became conscious of his own existence, he has experimented with death and torture. He has imagined and invented all-manner of sick and twisted ways of inflicting pain and suffering. Even under the cover of medical advancement, mankind has ignored the brutality of his own actions and excused himself. He has a remarkable ability to hide from himself and others the nature of the beast within. When the innocent animals of the world refused to give answers, man turned on himself and human experimentation began.

DOCUMENTARY NEW RELEASE - 10/08/2015



EASY LISTENING NEW RELEASE - 14/08/2015

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Nice Bombs £8.84 MVD7362D 094223027173 DVD WIENERWORLD DOCUMENTARY

In Nice Bombs filmmaker Usama Alshaibi returns to Baghdad to reunite with his family after nearly 24 years. This documentary navigates through his unique relationship to an Iraq that is much different than

the country of his childhood. Usama captures the conflicting reactions to the conditions of life in Baghdad.

Through a wide range of opinions and experiences he provides a broad panorama of voices long neglected under Saddam's regime. His cousin Tareef enters the room upon hearing an explosion. "It's a bomb. A Nice Bomb," he explains. The phrase is indicative of his family's nonchalance about their situation. As a young boy put it, "We're Iraqis. It's normal."

With humour and resilience Nice Bombs explores Usama's dual role as both Iraqi and American. The DVD contains extras including more interviews with Iraqi women and broader more detailed views of life in Iraq, from picnics in a war zone to a family living in a bombed out elementary school.

Nice Bombs received a generous grant from the Creative Capital Arts Foundation and won the Tribeca All Access Creative Promise Award for Documentary Feature. It received Best Documentary at the Chicago Underground Film Festival.

"Thoroughly engaging . . .offers a uniquely time-layered vision of the war." – Ronnie Scheib, Variety

"Alshaibi does something so simple yet, sadly, so neglected: He lets a Western audience see Iraqis not as crazed Middle Easterners shouting and shooting (and dying) en masse, but as individuals going about their daily lives..." - Time Out Chicago

Glenn Miller and His Orchestra - A Million Dreams Ago £9.70 SEPIA1287 5055122112877 CD3 SEPIA EASY LISTENING

In March 2011 when the 2-CD set '75 Glenn Miller Masterpieces' (SEPIA1165) was created by combining a keepsake album of some of his finest broadcast performances, 'For the Very First Time',

with a dozen choice tracks from two landmark "Limited Edition" anthologies, fans were delighted.

Now, in response to requests from around the world, Sepia happily gathers the remaining 80 wonderful airchecks from both "Limited Edition" sets for this new 3CD package.

This fabulous collection, lovingly presented in remastered sound and with original artwork and other archival images, adds the production history and little-known trivia about the "Limited Edition" albums, plus a discography which corrects many names, dates, or other details. CD 1: Medley: Moon Over Miami/A Million Dreams Ago/Aloha / Under A Blanket Of Blue / Little Brown Jug / Twilight Interlude / Pagan Love Song / Be Happy / Along The Santa Fe Trail / Down For The Count / So Little Time / I'm Sorry For Myself / Falling Leaves / And The Angels Sing / Twenty-Four Robbers / We'Ve Come A Long Way Together / April In Paris / Are You Jumpin' Jack / Bless You / Weekend Of A Private Secretary / St. Louis Blues / I'll Never Smile Again / V For Victory Hop / There'll Be Some Changes Made / Make Believe / Daddy / Blue Skies / My Devotion / Flagwaver

CD 2: Body And Soul / American Patrol / Heaven Can Wait / Bluebirds In The Moonlight (Silly Idea) / Humoresque / Isn't That Just Like Love / You Walk By / Tiger Rag / Deep In The Heart Of Texas / Indian Summer / Down South Camp Meetin' / Swingin' At The Séance / Sophisticated Lady / I Guess I'll Have To Change My Plan / How Deep Is The Ocean? / At Sundown / The Rumba Jumps! / My Last Goodbye / One O'Clock Jump / Deep Purple / My Heart Belongs To Daddy / Frenesi / Limehouse Blues / Doin' The Jive / I Don't Want To Walk Without You / Hallelujah!

CD 3: I Dreamt I Dwelt In Harlem / This Can't Be Love / Anchors Aweigh / Crosstown / Blue Orchids / I Want To Be Happy / Dancing In A Dream With You / A String Of Pearls / We Can Live On Love (We Haven't Got A Pot To Cook In) / After All / On The Alamo / Just A Little Bit South Of North Carolina / Daisy Mae / The Hour Of Parting / King Porter Stomp / Medley: My Darling/Blueberry Hill/I Can't Get Started / Naughty Sweetie Blues / Sunrise Serenade / Measure For Measure / Get Out Of Town / In A Sentimental Mood / The Jumpin' Jive / A Stone's Throw From Heaven / The Hop / Let's Have Another Cup Of Coffee / Bugle Call Rag / A Million Dreams Ago

EASY LISTENING NEW RELEASE - 14/08/2015




FOLK NEW RELEASE - 14/08/2015

George Greeley & Warner Bros. Orchestra - The Most Beautiful Music of Hawaii / Piano Italiano £4.48 SEPIA1288 5055122112884 CD SEPIA EASY LISTENING

First time on CD, this twofer transports the listener to two different continents.

'The Most Beautiful Music of Hawaii' has the dynamic piano concerto impressions of George Greeley, the might of the full Warner Bros. Orchestra and the lilting ukuleles of The Outriggers combined to create dramatic portraits of enchanting music of Hawaii, whilst 'Piano Italiano' has Greeley performing with the Warner Bros. Orchestra and Mandolin Choir beloved piano concertos of great Italian melodies.

Tracks: Beyond The Reef / My Little Grass Shack In Kealakekua, Hawaii / Hawaiian Wedding Song / King Kamehameha / Blue Hawaii / Hawaiian War Chant / Song Of The Islands / Malihine Mele / Sweet Leilani / Lovely Hula Hands / On The Beach At Waikiki / Aloha Oe / Three Coins In The Fountain / Arrivederci Roma / O Sole Mio / Mattinata / Love Them From La Strada / Funiculi, Funicula / Come Back To Sorrento / Love Theme From La Boheme / Volare / Be My Love

We Banjo 3 - Live in Galway £8.45 WB3CD003 889211518920 CD WB3 RECORDS FOLK

lt has been a rollercoaster few years since the 2012 release of We Banjo 3's debut album Roots of the Banjo Tree. The accolades flowed in for the band's second album,

Gather the Good In 2014.

Cumulatively the albums have racked up awards such as The lrish Times Traditional Album of the year, lrish American News Album of the Year, Livelreland Concert of the Year, Celtic Connections Album of the Year and shortlisted for Songlines Newcomers Album of the Year.

The band's live shows have garnered a stellar reputation and We Banjo 3 are now the top headlining act at lrish and Folk festivals worldwide.

We Banjo 3 recorded this live album at The Rosin Dubh In Galway, over two nights in February 2015. Something very special happened that weekend. An electric atmosphere thick with anticipation, an audience breathlessly on the edge of their seats. and a band at the height of their skills with perfectly hewn songs and visceral energy.

This is We Banjo 3 at its raw, cutting edge best.

Tracks: Get Onboard / The Bunch Of Green Rushes/Salt Creek / Lonesome Road / Sail Away Ladies / Because It's There / We All Need More Kindness In This World / Padraig O'keefe's/The Foxhunter's Slip Jig/Roddy Mcdonald's / Tickle Me Pink / Air Tune / Gonna Write Me A Letter / Pressed For Time / High On A Mountain / Shove The Pig's Foot A Little Further In The Fire/Fine Times At Our House / The Long Black Veil / Poor Old Lisa Jane/Dance Boatman Dance / Bill Cheatum/Kitchen Girl/The Donegal Lass

Molly Warburton - Molly Warburton £6.75 MATB003 767715069929 CD NEW WORLD MUSIC FOLK

Molly Warburton's second studio album with 10 great tracks from this popular new artist. Molly seems to be growing in popularity week by week!

Tracks: Endless Night / No Place To Be / Not Sure / On The Run / Bones / No Where / Calling Out / See You / Standing There / Sirens

JAZZ NEW RELEASE - 14/08/2015



Dusko Goykovich & Bigband RTS - Latin Haze £7.99

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Master trumpet player and composer Dusko Goykovich has worked and recorded many times with the Bigband RTS from Belgrade, so naturally when they were looking

for an artist to collaborate with to celebrate their 65th anniversary their turned to Dusko. 'Latin Haze' is further proof of his fascination with Latin music, as they perform

ten compositions by the leader. The album continues on from Dusko's other fine Latin albums that were both also released on Enja - 2003's 'Samba Do Mar' and Samba Tzigane' from 2006. He is joined by the Macedonian bass virtuoso Martin Gjakonski, a frequent collaborator who has performed on many of his albums. Another important contributor is percussionist Cesar Granados, whose artful percussion gives a Cuban touch to Dusko's arrangements. Tracks: Latin Haze / Quo Vadis Samba / Sambalero / Inga / Good Old Days / Come Dance With Me / Samba Tzigane / In the Sign of Libra / Five o'clock in the Morning / Samba do Carnaval

Donald Vega - With Respect to Monty £9.25

RCD1023 096802280160 CD RESONANCE RECORDS JAZZ

In celebration of the Jamaican jazz icon, Monty Alexander, pianist Donald Vega puts together a hard-swinging compilation of Monty's great, early compositions. ‘With Respect to Monty’ features an all-star lineup of Anthony Wilson (guitar), Hassan

Shakur (bass) and Lewis Nash (drums). Since his debut on Resonance Records, Spiritual Nature (2012), Vega is entirely his own man, completely in command of his material. As the late, great Mulgrew Miller's replacement in the Ron Carter Trio, Vega has big shoes to fill and does so admirably. His wide appreciation of piano maestros is spotlighted with this release that includes seven original Monty Alexander masterpieces. Much like Monty, Donald approaches the piano with technical prowess, yet with a sense of playfulness and light spirit. Both men share a warm touch to the instrument - melodic and free. The trio of Vega, Shakur and Nash have an intimate working relationship. Shakur's bass is a solid anchor, while Nash's colorful, rhythmic drumming is chameleon-like, adapting effortlessly to each piece. Add to that the imagination, depth and precision playing of guitar virtuoso Anthony Wilson - and you have a winning combination. Tracks: Eleuthera / 3000 Miles Ago / Compassion / Slippery / Consider / Mango Rengue / Renewal / You Can See / Sweet Lady / The Gathering

JAZZ NEW RELEASE - 07/08/2015



Dave Koz - Collaborations: 25th Anniversary Collection £7.99 CRE3764202 888072376427 CD CONCORD RECORDS JAZZ

Nine-time GRAMMY® nominee Dave Koz is marking the 25th Anniversary of his recording career with this collection of musical collaborations (Concord and Capitol). Featuring

colloborations with Herb Albert, Anita Baker, India.Arie, Barry Manilow, Michael McDonald, Keb' Mo', Stevie Nicks, Rod Stewart, Luther Vandross, Stevie Wonder and others.

They are complimented with three new songs ("Let It Go" with Mark Portmann, "Higher and Higher" with Rick Braun & Kenny Latimore, and "Good Foot" with Jeff Lorber). During his stellar careeer Koz has been honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and established himself as a platinum-selling artist, humanitarian, entrepreneur, radio host and instrumental music advocate. Tracks: Good Foot / (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher / When Will I Know For Sure / So Very Hard To Go / (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons / Let Me Count The Ways / This Guy's In Love With You / Linus and Lucy / Can't Let You Go (The Sha La Song) / All You Need Is Love / Game of Thrones Theme - The Smooth Version / Cryin' for Me (Wayman's Song) / Think Big / Apartment 2G: I Hear Her Playing Music / Let It Go

Nathan East - Nathan East £7.99 CRE3789202 888072378926 CD CONCORD RECORDS JAZZ

After more than 30 years making music with others comes the self-titled, debut album from bassist, GRAMMY® nominee and Fourplay co-founder Nathan East.

This highly anticipated album includes 13 instrumental and vocal songs composed by Nathan East, Bob James, Pat Metheny, Stevie Wonder, Van Morrison, Steve Winwood and Michael McDonald. It features an amazing collection of musicians including Sara Bareilles, Eric Clapton, Bob James, Michael McDonald, Ray Parker Jr., Tom Scott and too many others to mention. The lead track "Daft Funk" was inspired by Nathan's work with Daft Punk's hugely successful "Get Lucky". Already released in the States, Nathan East was nominated for a GRAMMY in the Best Contemporary Instrumental category. Tracks: 101 Eastbound / Sir Duke / Letter From Home / Moondance / I Can Let Go Now / Daft Funk / Sevenate / Can't Find My Way Home / Moodswing / Overjoyed / Yesterday / Finally Home / Madiba / America the Beautiful

Terri Lyne Carrington - The Mosaic Project: Love and Soul £7.99 CRE3777902 888072377790 CD CONCORD RECORDS JAZZ

GRAMMY® award winning drummer extraordinaire Terri Lyne Carrington expands on her highly-acclaimed 2011 Mosaic Project exploring repertoire revolving around songs inspired by

love and the soul. Once again, the all-female supporting cast is a who's who of inspiring and acclaimed artists. Vocalists include Natalie Cole, Paula Cole, Lalah Hathaway, Chaka Khan, Ledesi, Nancy Wilson, Jaguar Wright, Lizz Wright and many, many others Tracks: Come Sunday / I'm A Fool To Want You / For You To Love / So Good (Amazing) / Somebody Told A Lie / Imagine This / Best of the Best / This Too Will Pass / Can't Resist / You Just Can't Smile It Away / Get To Know You / When I Found You

RAP/HIP-HOP NEW RELEASE - 14/08/2015



Finale - Odds & Ends

MMG000742 0888608665926 CD MELLO MUSIC GROUP RAP/HIP-HOP £7.49 MMG000741 0888608665933 LP MELLO MUSIC GROUP RAP/HIP-HOP £10.60

Former automotive engineer for The Big Three, and Morehouse drop-out, Finale has worked alongside some of the best producers in the game. From Black Milk to Nottz,

and Apollo Brown to J Dilla, Finale is known for picking some of the best production in the business.

For his new album Finale handed all the production duties to rising star Oddisee. Building on the raw Detroit template, Finale brings a modernist revision of the industrial foundation laid by the city's premiere lyrical foremen. The album features Homeboy Sandman (Stones Thow) & Kenn Starr Tracks: Choppy Waters (Intro) / Cut Day / Just Due (feat Homeboy Sabdman & Miz Korona) / Steep Climb (feat Thaione Davis) / Plain View (feat Bilal Salaam) / 7 Days (feat Kenn Starr & Hassaan Mackey) / Perseverance (feat Big Tone & Vandalyzm) / Spike The Punch / Hard To Kill / The Revival (feat Invincible)

L'Orange & Kool Keith - Time? Astonishing! £11.25

MMG000731 0888608665919 LP MELLO MUSIC GROUP RAP/HIP-HOP L’Orange & Kool Keith set out to make something absurd, yet traditional, putting the Ultramagnetic MC in a position to rap over beats that fans have wanted to hear him on for years. Joining the team is a cast of legendary rappers to create a diversity of

talent. Now on vinyl.

Features J-Live (BBE), Mr. Lif (Def Jux), Blu (Hiphop DX’s Rookie of the Year, XXL 'Top 10 Freshmen'), Open Mike Eagle (Rolling Stone’s Best of 2014 List) among others. Released on Mello Music Group (Oddisee, Apollo Brown), 'go-to label for underground rap’ - MTV Hive “L’Orange builds a gilded stage from a clutter of film, soul and synth samples, refurbishing the worn 9th Wonder/early-Kanye warped soul template” - Pitchfork Tracks: Time? Astonishing! / The Traveler (feat J-Live) / The Green Ray / Twenty Fifty Three (feat Mr. Lif) / Meanwhile, Back Home (feat Open Mike Eagle) / The Wanderer / This New World (feat Blu, Montage One & DJ Trackstar) / Dr. Bipolar / Suspended Animation (feat MC Paul Barman) / I Need Out Of This World (feat MindsOne) / Upwards. To Space! / Days I Used To Know / Sometimes I Feel (Bonus Track)




Carl Perkins & Friends - Blue Suede Shoes £7.60

SMACD1032 636551803274 DVD+CD MADFISH ROCK & ROLL

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of this unique show, Madfish are releasing the concert both on CD & DVD packaged together for the first time. Carl Perkins & Friends 'Blue Suede Shoes – A Rockabilly Session' is being presented in a mediabook with liner

notes from Sam Szczepanski, who was one of the lucky fans who managed to get a ticket the show.

Written in October 1955 and released in January 1956, ‘Blue Suede Shoes’ was an instant classic earning a place in the history books when it became the first million-seller to crossover from the Country chart to the Pop and R&B listings. Swiftly covered by Elvis Presley and later The Beatles, the song remains a Rock’n’Roll anthem. Fitting then that Carl Perkins, the man who wrote and first performed ‘Blue Suede Shoes’, should be accorded a television special to celebrate its 30th anniversary. On 21st October 1985 at London’s Limehouse Studios a superstar cast of friends and fans joined Carl Perkins to record a TV special celebrating his career and the classic songs that he had recorded during it. Perkins was joined on stage by George Harrison and Eric Clapton along with other stars including Dave Edmunds, Slim Jim Phantom and Lee (Stray Cats) Rocker plus Earl Slick and singer Rosanne Cash, daughter of the legendary Johnny Cash. George Harrison struck up a lasting friendship with Perkins and much of the continued interest in the programme lies in the prominent role played by Harrison. The former Beatle takes lead vocal on several tracks as well as playing guitar and having a great time. The Beatles connection is even stronger in that Harrison is joined by former colleague Ringo Starr with the show representing their first reunion gig since the mid-1970’s. This CD DVD captures the whole concert, both as an audio and visual experience capturing Carl Perkins and the All-Star band performing Perkins’ finest songs which also include That’s Alright Mama and Whole Lotta Shakin’ Going On, plus the DVD includes short interviews with Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison & Jerry Lee Lewis interviews discussing the importance and influence of Carl Perkins. Tracks: Carl Perkins " Boppin' The Blues " / Carl Perkins " Put Your Cat Clothes " / Ringo Starr " Honey Don't " / Carl Perkins, Ringo Starr & Eric Clapton " Matchbox " / Carl Perkins & Eric Clapton " Mean Woman Blues " / Carl Perkins " Turn Around " / Carl Perkins & Rosanne Cash " Jackson " / Rosanne Cash " What Kind Of Girl ? " / George Harrison " Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby " / Carl Perkins, George Harrison & Dave Edmunds " Your True Love " / Carl Perkins " The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise " / Carl Perkins, George Harrison & Eric Clapton " Medley : That's Alright Mama / Blue Moon Of Kentucky / Night Train To Memphis " / Carl Perkins & George Harrison " Glad All Over " / Carl Perkins & Eric Clapton " Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On " / Carl Perkins " Gone Gone Gone " / Carl Perkins " Blue Suede Shoes " / George Harrison " Blue Suede Shoes " (Encore) / Carl Perkins " Blue Suede Shoes " (Encore) // Carl Perkins " Gone Gone Gone " (Encore)* / Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison & Jerry Lee Lewis – Interviews** *CD only **DVD only




Billy And The Kids - Dial My Number £7.99 ETCD6071 8437013270700 CD EL TORO ROCK & ROLL

The first time these 3 swedish cats approached El Toro asking about a record deal we asked them which style did they play... Their answer was Old-School - New-School - No-School

Rockabilly... Were we understanding it right? Too good to be true? Can a band sound classic and fresh and no rules at once?

We asked them for a demo to proof they really had something old, new and different and you can bet they do have it! Dial My Number is made of many originals mixed with clever and different covers of Rockabilly greats from different decades... Old-School - New-School - No-School Rockabilly, that's it! Tracks: Dial My Number / Beautiful Browneyes / Bring My Cadillac Back / I Just Cant Be,Wont Be, Just Your Friend / So Long Baby Good Bye / No Go / Low Down / Shake Rattle N Roll / Lets Fool Around / You Aint Nothin But Fine / Feels Like Im In Love / Prisoner Of Your Love / Fame And Fortune / Queen Of My Heart / Hot Tin Roof

Various Artists - Danny Wolfe And Friends £3.25 ET15040 8437013270311 7” EL TORO ROCK & ROLL

Danny Wolfe was a singer, pianist and musical entrepreneur, but by far his most important legacy is as a songwriter. During the second half of the 50's he wrote some really good rock 'n'

roll songs, some recorded by himself but many others by other artists. Tracks: So Help Me Gal - Danny Wolfe / Fools Hall Of Fame - (Demo) - Danny Wolfe / Thunder & Lightnin' - Tooter Boatman / Who Dat? - The Commodores

Elvis Presley - Sings The Hits Of Sun Records £3.25 ET15060 8437013270625 7” EL TORO ROCK & ROLL Third of four volumes specially released to conmmemorate the King's 80th anniversary! Pressed on cool orange vinyl! The Tupelo Tornado tackles a quartet of tunes made famous by his fellow

Sun stars in this tribute to the local label that gave him his start on the road to fame! Tracks: Blue Suede Shoes (G.I. Blues version) / I’m Comin’ Home / Mystery Train / When It Rains It Pours (Sun studio, Memphis, Tennessee, November 1-4, 1955)

The Long Boards - Dragger Joe £3.25 ET15070 8437013270656 7” EL TORO ROCK & ROLL The new Long Boards' vinyl EP gathers two tracks taken from their latest CD – Insane!” of pure

Surf, Hot Rod and Drag sounds on the B side. And, proving once again that there's enough originality to create something new and fresh on every new record, and an unreleased tune on its A side showing a new twist on their sound with the addition of sax and hammond. Dragger Joe is bound to surprise and to please old and new fans of the band and worldwide lovers of Surf, Frat and Hot Rod Music of the late 50s early 60s... Tracks: Dragger Joe / Drag Beat / Beach Bus




Dion - Feelin' No Pain £3.25 ET15023 8437013270649 7” EL TORO ROCK & ROLL

After a few years as one of the top vocalists on the USA, legendary New York rocker, Dion Dimucci, was going to be featured as one of the main characters on a Canadian movie to be

called “Ten Girls Ago”, with Buster Keaton, Bert Lahr, Eddie Foy Jr, Jan Miler and Riselle Bain. Unfortunately the movie was never ended, and was lost forever, including the soundtrack that included “Feelin’ No Pain”, a song that would be recorded in 1963 by, his then backing group, the Del Satins . The original version, as featured on “Ten Girls Ago” is released for the first time ever on this record. It’s companions are four the best tracks Dion recorded by Dion for Laurie Records at that time. A fantastic addition to any serious Dion or classic Rock and Roll collection. Tracks: Feelin' No Pain / Lonely World / Sandy / (I Was) Born To Cry / Little Diane

Various – Johnny Powers And Friends - Michigan Rockers £7.99 ETCD1048 8437013270168 CD EL TORO ROCK & ROLL

On paper, Michigan seems an unlikely candidate for a rockabilly hotbed, yet because of its plentiful jobs in the steel and automobile industries centred around Detroit, the state became a

magnet for Southerners in the 1930s and 1940s. Consequently, a healthy market for country and blues music developed into one for rockabilly amongst the children of the migrants. Boasting the longest freshwater coastline of any of the US states, there is nothing wet about the searing rock 'n' roll laid down by the likes of Johnny Powers nor the wealth of recordings made at the tiny Fortune Studio in Detroit and others dotted around the state long before Motown held sway Tracks: Johnny Powers & his Rockets - Honey Let's Go (To A Rock And Roll Show) / Johnny Powers & his Rockets - Your Love / Johnny Powers with Stan Getz & his Tom Cats - Long Blond Hair, Red Rose Lips / Johnny Powers with Stan Getz & his Tom Cats - Rock Rock / Johnny "Scat" Brown - Indeed I Do / Johnny "Scat" Brown - Mama Rock / Johnny Powers - With Your Love, With Your Kiss / Johnny Powers - Be Mine, All Mine / Bob & The Rockbillies - Your Kind Of Love / Harold L & The Offbeats - Three Years / Jimmy Wayne & The Galaxies - You Shake Me / Jimmy Franklin with Pete De Bree & The Wanderers - Long Tall Lou (From Louisville) / Roy Hall & his Alley Cats - Dig, Everybody, Dig That Boogie / Lafayette-Yarborough - Livin' Doll / Vic Gallon - I'm Gone / Jimmy Gartin & his Bad Cats - Honey Won't You Love Me / Jimmy Kirkland with Stan Getz & his Tom Cats - Come On Baby / Dell Vaughn with The Fortune-Aires- Rock The Universe / Bobby Smith - Bevy Mae / Roy Hall & his Jumping Cats - Three Alley Cats / Harold L & The Offbeats - Connie / Ray Taylor & The Alabama Pals - Connie Lou / Roy Kelly - Rock and Roll Rock / Leon James & The Rhythm Rockers - Thinkin' About You / Ellis Kirk & The Town And Country Boys - Sweetie Pie / Jimmy Kirkland with Stan Getz & his Tom Cats - I Wonder If You Wonder / Lafayette-Yarborough - Cool, Cool Baby / Leon James with Walter Atkins & his Homotones - Baby, Let's Rock / Bobby Smith - She's Gone From Me / Farris Wilder - It's All Your Fault / Bob & The Rockbillies - Baby, Why Did You Have To Go / Ray Taylor & The Alabama Pals - My Hamtramck Baby / Jimmy Carroll - Big Green Car / Jimmy Franklin with Pete De Bree & The Wanderers - Hey, Mr Presley!

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Jessica Hernandez & The Deltas - Secret Evil £7.49 INS000062 0885150340547 CD THE ORCHARD ROCK

'Secret Evil' is fresh, focused and surprising, and a remarkable debut album from an indescribably compelling new band. A self-described storyteller at heart, Hernandez chronicles

her personal trials and triumphs throughout 'Secret Evil', all in the hope of touching a truly universal chord.

The album follows their well received 'Caught Up' EP and sees the Detroit-based band serving up a brilliantly polyglot sonic stew – equal parts rockabilly and surf pop, cabaret jazz and funky reggae, Latin psych and Gypsy punk – all cooked up on the hot Motor City pavement and seasoned by that distinctly Detroit combination of blasted R&B, showband theatrics and limitless rock 'n' soul energy. Songs like 'Caught Up' and the syncopated 'No Place Left To Hide' showcase Hernandez's unstoppable vocals and breadth of musical ambition, braiding contemporary pop thrills with an original and unmistakable creative persona all her own. "Hoodoo blues stomps, country waltz ballads, primitive rock and jazzy inflections coalesce and flow around the anchor of Hernandez's rich voice" – Popmatters Tracks: No Place Left To Hide / Sorry I Stole Your Man / Cry Cry Cry / Dead Brains / Tired Oak / Over / Caught Up / Neck Tattoo / Run Run Run / Downtown Man / Lovers First / Gone Two Seconds / Demons / Don't Take My Man To Idaho

Allen Toussaint – Toussaint: The Real Thing 1970-1975 £12.49 RVCD386 9398800038622 CD2 RAVEN SOUL/R&B

Toussaint (1970), Life, Love and Faith (1972) and Southern Nights (1975) are essential in understanding this truly influential and much venerated musician, composer and record

producer who has sustained a career since the 1950s and is still active today. Backing Toussaint are the likes of fellow New Orleans masters Mac 'Dr John' Rebennack and The Meters, with backing vocalists Merry Clayton and Venetta Fields also present. This releases is issued with superb audio, a 12-page color booklet with detailed notes and bonus tracks. He has written numerous hits for other artists and these albums include his own versions of the classic songs 'From A Whisper To A Scream', 'Everything I Do Gonna' Be Funky', 'Southern Nights', 'Working In A Coal Mine', 'Get Out Of My Life, Woman' and 'Basic Lady'. "Pianist, producer, and songwriter who almost single-handedly fashioned a fresh, vital New Orleans R&B sound for the 1960s and '70s." – All Music CD 1: From A Whisper To A Scream / Chokin’ Kind / Sweet Touch Of Love / What Is Success / Working In A Coal Mine / Everything I Do Gonna’ Be Funky / Pickles / Louie / Either / Cast Your Fate To The Wind / Number Nine / Poor Folks CD 2: Victims Of The Darkness / Am I Expecting Too Much / My Baby Is The Real Thing / Goin’ Down / She Once Belonged To Me / Out Of The City (Into Country Life) / Soul Sister / Fingers And Toes / I’ve Got To Convince Myself / On Your Way Down / Gone Too Far / Electricity / Last Train / Worldwide / Back In Baby’s Arms / Country John / Basic Lady / Southern Nights / You Will Not Lose / What Do You Want The Girl To Do? / When The Party’s Over / Cruel Way To Go Down

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Voodoo Love Orchestra - Amor Y Muerte £7.99

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Brand new studio release by The Voodoo Love Orchestra. Harking back to the big band sound of 1960s Latin America via the back streets of New

Orleans, the infectious, maverick and irresistibly swinging street music of Voodoo Love Orchestra will have the crowd baying for more.

This is more an invasion than a performance, with a euphoric riot of musicians weaving in and out of the throng, overseen by a megaphone-wielding High Priestess invoking the spirits of celebration. Delving deep into the heart of the tropics, this globe-trotting ensemble straddles a whole range of pan-Atlantic sounds: Colombian Cumbia, Cuban Comparsa, New Orleans Jazz, Mississippi Blues, Nigerian Afrobeat, Jamaican Ska and Ghanaian Highlife. The musical melange of relentlessly syncopated beats and squealing trumpets is an abundantly joyous salute to the roots of carnival, with a line up of sousaphone, trombone, trumpet, baritone sax, tenor sax, alto sax, clarinet, vocals, military drumcorps and latin percussion. Since its formation the ensemble has graced the halls of the Royal Festival Hall, got down and dirty with festival-goers at Secret Garden Party, entertained Russian oligarchs and everything in between! Available as a small band or a larger invasion of dance, drum and brass, Voodoo Love Orchestra are as happy parading the streets as they are on stage! Tracks: Clarinete Y Bombardino / Zombie / Linda Magdalena / Hong Kong Mambo / Fever / Voodoo Chile / Sunshine of Your Love

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Tour Dates 2015: 13th Jul - 606 Jazz Club, London (Album Launch) 13th Aug - Ronnie Scott’s Late, Late Show

Alex Hutton Trio - Magna Carta Suite £7.99

FIRECD82 5060092198202 CD F-IRE JAZZ Alex Hutton is one of the UK’ Jazz’s hidden treasures. A fine composer, with an ear for

folk and classical influences, he is a gifted, thoughtful improviser and a mainstay of the London Jazz scene who has worked with the leading figures from Jim Mullen and

Pete King to Pete Wareham. Magna Carta Suite is his fourth album and offers a musical journey of ideas exploring the layers of history and landscapes from 1215 to 2015. The suite highlights the influence of Magna Carta as a founding document of the western traditions of liberty and democracy in this the 800th anniversary of it’s signing and its influence in the creation of the American constitution. Magna Carta Suite features Hutton’s long established trio with drummer Asaf Sirkis, who brings “a wide palate of colours, a full dynamic range and an optimism and calmness which is essential on both the studio and live dates’ and bassist Yuri Goloubev. The album also features spoken word from Neil Sparkes on the last 2 pieces and his words and performance (from a larger publication ‘Xerox sonnets & X-Ray Blues ‘ which will be published by Hesterglock Press in June 2015) add a huge dimension and drama to the album. Capitalizing on the wide range of colours and textures available to him with his trio, he composed a suite that draws on music from northern European and especially English sources over the last 800 years. Hutton then tied these themes to specific political or social events in history. Using early music, baroque classical and English folk as melodic and harmonic fragments Hutton depicts a forward momentum in the music as Western music developed in parallel with the pursuit of liberty and democracy. Magna Carta Suie preview: https://youtu.be/OgRqyfGpR4M The Making of the Magna Carta Suite: https://youtu.be/hgahoT8dIqg Press/ Radio: Guardian review confirmed (John Fordham) Observer review confirmed (Dave Gelly) Jazzwise – 4 star review in August issue Reviews confirmed in Jazz Journal and Record Collector and on Be Bop Spoken Here and UK VIBE – 4 star review by Mike Gates London Jazz News – full album review (Peter Jones) The Jazz UK - Album of the Week Jazz Views (including Take 5 Q & A) BBC Radio 3 ‘In Tune’ Session confirmed Tracks: Old Yew / King John's Hunting Lodge / The Barons / June 15th 1215 / Gutenburg Press / Gunpowder And Compass / Self Made Man / The Fog Of War / King John's Hunting Lodge (reprise) / Old Yew (reprise) / Thoughts Bear Heirs To Memory / As Sunlight Passes (Old Yew)

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Mario Lanza - My Italian Soul £4.48 SEPIA1286 5055122112860 CD SEPIA CLASSICAL/EASY LISTENING This CD is the first compilation devoted to Mario Lanza's Neapolitan and Italian song recordings,

and represents the tenor at his interpretative peak in the genre. The collection comprises not only the highlights of his 'Mario!' and 'Caruso Favourites' albums, but the best of his earlier recordings of Neapolitan and Italian songs. It also includes a newly discovered rendition of "Mattinata." Bonus tracks aside, the recordings are arranged chronologically, providing fascinating evidence of the rapid darkening of Lanza's timbre during his final years, as his voice changed from a lirico spinto to a richer, pure spinto. Tracks: Mamma Mia, Che Vò Sapé? / Rimpianto (aka Toselli's Serenade) / 'A Vucchella / Torna a Surriento / La Danza Introduced by Lanza / 'O Sole Mio / Tu Ca Nun Chiagne! / Santa Lucia Luntana / Fenesta Che Lucive / Dicitencello Vuie / 'O Surdato 'Nnammurato / Voce 'e Notte / Canta Pe' Mme! / Comme Facette Mámmeta? / 'Na Sera 'e Maggio / Passione / Senza Nisciuno / Vaghissima Sembianza / Serenata / Pour un Baiser / Luna d'Estate / L'Alba Separa dalla Luce l'Ombra / Ideale / Agnus Dei (previously unreleased) / Mattinata (Live recording)

Mario Lanza – Greatest Operatic Recordings Volume 2 £4.48 SEPIA1289 5055122112891 CD SEPIA CLASSICAL

When "Mario Lanza: Greatest Operatic Recordings" (SEPIA 1274) was released in February 2015, both Lanza and opera fans were delighted, for this compilation disc was said "to do

justice to his much misrepresented recording legacy". Now, in response to requests from around the world, Sepia Records happily gathers together some more Lanza greatest operatic recordings; some never before released commercially ("Qual occhio al mondo"), some private ("Aria sconosciuta" and "Questa bocca tua"), some live ("Lasciatemi morire" and "Già il sole dal Gange") and some radio broadcasts ("Vesti la giubba") etc. to form a Volume 2 compilation. This fabulous collection, lovingly presented in re-mastered sound even includes Lanza rehearsing and warming up his voice. Tracks: Cilea: L'Arlesiana. Lamento di Federico / Scarlatti: L'honestà negli amori. Già il sole dal Gange (Live) / Lanza warming up his voice / Verdi: Rigoletto. Questa o quella / Verdi: Rigoletto. Parmi veder le lagrime / Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore. Una furtiva lagrima / Verdi: La traviata. Parigi, o cara (Live) / Puccini: La bohème. O soave fanciulla (Live) / Puccini: La bohème. Testa adorata / Rimsky-Korsakov: Sadko (adapted). Song of India / Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana. Bada, Santuzza! / Verdi: Il Trovatore. Sconto col sangue mio / Puccini: Tosca. Qual occhio al mondo (Film outtake) / Puccini: Tosca. E lucevan le stelle (Live) / Giordano: Andrea Chénier. Un dì all'azzurro spazio (Live) / Leoncavallo: Pagliacci. Un tal gioco Leoncavallo: Pagliacci. Vesti la giubba / Leoncavallo: Pagliacci. Vesti la giubba / Verdi: La forza del destino. O tu che in seno agli angeli / Verdi: Aida. Celeste Aida / Verdi: Aida. Gloria all'Egitto / Ignoto: Aria sconosciuta (private recording) / Giordano: Madame Sans-Gêne. Questa bocca tua (Previously unreleased home rehearsal) / Puccini: Tosca. E lucevan le stelle (Live/Previously unissued) / Bizet: Carmen. La fleur que tu m'avais jetée / Ponchielli: La gioconda. Cielo e mar




George Malcolm - Scarlatti: Sonatas. Bach: Italian Concerto; Chromatic Fantas £6.50 ELQ4820506 0028948205066 CD AUSTRALIAN ELOQUENCE CLASSICAL

Although from an earlier age of Baroque performance practice, these recordings have a vividness and freshness that leap out of the speakers more than sixty years after they were

made. They receive their first reissue on Decca CD George Malcolm, who died in 1997, irreverently called the harpsichord the ‘jangle box’, yet he was a master of that instrument, and of several other musical domains as well. Of Scottish ancestry, he was born in London in 1917 and when he was just seven he was admitted to the Royal College of Music. He also excelled at the organ and at the piano (his first keyboard instrument), and as a choral conductor, he served as Master of Music at Westminster Cathedral, beginning in 1947. Pianist András Schiff, who recorded with Malcolm on several occasions, commented that he ‘was a great musician, a Renaissance man, a wonderful human being. He has been influential in the development of choral and instrumental music in Britain and abroad, and l consider myself one of the fortunate recipients of his immense knowledge, broad culture, and excellent taste. He should never be forgotten.’ In 1965 Malcolm was made Commander of the Order of the British Empire. ‘George Malcolm clearly delights in playing with colours […] this disc will prove very rewarding: the sheer technical brilliance of the playing … and the faultless rhythmic control make these performances outstanding’ - Gramophone, June 1954 (Scarlatti) ‘Malcolm’s outlook on the Fantasia gives us new insight into its poetical and meditative aspects; he plays it as if he were in rapt contemplation of the quintessential Bach. […] The Italian Concerto, too, gains a new lease of life in this altogether splendid version. […] This is a disc which should form part of every Bach lover’s collection.’ - Gramophone, June 1955 (Bach) Tracks: Domenico Scarlatti: Sonata In G Major, Kk 146 Sonata In B Minor, Kk 33 Sonata In A Major, Kk 24 Sonata In D Minor, Kk 9 Sonata In B Flat Major, Kk 544 Sonata In F Major, Kk 505 Sonata In C Major, Kk 132 Sonata In G Major, Kk 169 Sonata In B Flat Major, Kk 202 Sonata In F Minor, Kk 519 Sonata In E Major, Kk 380 Sonata In B Major, Kk 245 Sonata In G Minor, Kk 8 Sonata In A Major, Kk 322 Sonata In D Major, Kk 29 Sonata In G Major, Kk 125 Johann Sebastian Bach: Italian Concerto In F Major, BWV 971 Chromatic Fantasia And Fugue In D Minor, BWV 903




Cesare Siepi, George London, The Roland Shaw Orchestra - Siepi And London On Broadway £6.50 ELQ4820120 0028948201204 CD AUSTRALIAN ELOQUENCE CLASSICAL

This recording will make you smile. Two of the most accomplished opera singers of the twentieth century turn their attention to some of the best known songs from Broadway

musicals, and the effect is Wunderbar! Cesare Siepi was a prolific recording artist on 78rpm records before making a number of outstanding LP sets for Decca. His voice was a classic basso cantante – a singing or lyric bass with good upper reach. Being more than six feet tall and with handsome physique, he cut an impressive figure on stage. He brought a dignity to everything he performed. He was a lover of Cole Porter songs and, as can be heard on this recording, enunciated them without a trace of an Italian accent. The lines are delivered with directness and warmth, and with a welcome absence of sentimentality. His tone is dark, smooth and rich, and his style is subtle and elegant. George London began his singing studies in Los Angeles and, by the 1940s was touring with a trio that included Frances Yeend and Mario Lanza. The Bel Canto Trio performed 86 concerts of operatic arias and ensembles throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico between July 1947 and May 1948. The Broadway songs recorded by London in 1957 reveal a singer willing to explore unusual (for an operatic bass-baritone) material, and to invest in it a rich, powerful voice, a subtle array of vocal colours and sensitivity to the character of each piece. Both LPs were recorded with the Roland Shaw Orchestra, a light music orchestra active in the 1950s. Shaw became an arranger and record producer for Decca Records with his orchestra recording for Decca and its Phase 4 series. Tracks: Cole Porter: The Gay Divorcee Kiss Me Kate: So In Love Born To Dance: I’ve Got You Under My Skin Something To Shout About: You’d Be So Nice To Come Home To Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye Kiss Me Kate: Wunderbar Begin The Beguine / Easy To Love Anything Goes: I Get A Kick Out Of You Mexican Hayride: I Love You Rosalie: In The Still Of The Night Anything Goes: Blow, Gabriel Blow Richard Rogers: Oklahoma!: Oh! What A Beautiful Mornin’ Oklahoma!: The Surrey With The Fringe On Top South Pacific: This Nearly Was Mine Carousel: If I Loved You Carousel: Soliloquy Frederick Loewe: Paint Your Wagon: They Call The Wind Maria Brigadoon: There But For You Go I My Fair Lady: On The Street Where You Live Kurt Weill: Knickerbocker Holiday: September Song Jerome Kern: Very Warm For May: All The Things You Are Show Boat Ol‘ Man River




Joan Sutherland, London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Bonynge - Command Performance; Weber, Verdi, Rossini Etc £9.25 ELQ4804670 0028948046706 CD2 AUSTRALIAN ELOQUENCE CLASSICAL The first complete issue (outside of a limited edition box set collection) of a celebrated 2LP set

recorded by Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge in 1962. The songs, arias and ballads were selected to make up the kind of program which, as contemporary accounts reveal, might well have been given by royal command before Queen Victoria. The pieces range from ‘Ocean! Thou mighty monster’ from Weber’s Oberon to one of Queen Victoria’s staunchest favourites – Home, sweet home. The colourful and fascinating original notes for the LP issue by Andrew Porter are reprinted for this CD issue. A remarkable and highly successful achievement … Of Miss Sutherland’s singing it is difficult to speak too highly and her programme has been admirably chosen.' - Records and Recording, 1963 CD 1: Weber: Oberon: Ocean! Thou Mighty Monster Massenet: Le Cid: De Cet Affreux Combat … Pleurez, Mes Yeux Meyerbeer: Dinorah: Dieu! Comme Cette Nuit Est Lente … Ombre Légère (Shadow Song) Leoncavallo: Pagliacci: Qual Fiamma Avea Nel Guardo ... Stridono Lassù Verdi: I Masnadieri: Dall’infame Banchetto … Tu Del Mio Carlo Luisa Miller: Che! E Segnar Questo Mano … Tu Puniscimi, O Signore? La Cambiale Di Matrimonio: Come Tacer … Vorrei Spiegarvi Il Giubilo Bellini: Beatrice Di Tenda: Eccomi Pronta … Deh, Se Un’urna CD 2: Benedict: The Gypsy And The Bird Arditi: Parla! Ricci: Crispino E La Comare: Io Non Sono Più L’Annetta Tosti: Ideale Arditi: Il Bacio Tosti: La Serenata Leoncavallo: Mattinata Bishop: Lo, Here The Gentle Lark Flotow: Martha: The Last Rose Of Summer Wallace: Maritana: Scenes That Are Brightest Balfe: The Bohemian Girl: I Dreamt I Dwelt In Marble Halls Bishop: Clari, The Maid Of Milan: Home, Sweet Home 8203;




Mario Del Monaco; Fraco Ghione; Alberto Erede - Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana, Leoncavallo: Pagliacci £9.25 ELQ4807268 0028948072682 CD2 AUSTRALIAN ELOQUENCE CLASSICAL

These new re-masterings cast fresh light on seminal recordings of Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci, both featuring Mario del Monaco. He was in his prime when he recorded Turiddu and Canio, and his performances in both recordings could hardly be more spine-tingling. Cavalleria

rusticana was recorded in 1954 and Pagliacci in 1953. Franco Ghione’s feeling for the lyricism of Mascagni’s score is clear from the outset, reminding us that although this music is usually regarded as marking the birth of verismo, it is in many ways a continuation of the Bellinian love affair with the vocal line. Alberto Erede conducts a grippingly dramatic Pagliacci. The scoring is brilliant and Erede makes the most of it. Lavished with praise when first issued, they are released from hibernation to enjoy new life on CD. ‘… a recording of Pagliacci stands or falls by its Canio, and Mario del Monaco has a role which fits him like a glove. […] Clara Petrella has a warm voice, and sings the part of Nedda with great dramatic conviction […] Afro Poli is really excellent as Tonio […] [the performance of the chorus and orchestra] under the baton of Alberto Erede is superb. In fact I have never heard finer choral or orchestral recording than we are given on these discs. […] Probably more important than anything, there is a feeling of cohesion about the whole production, and the discs really do create in most vivid fashion, the atmosphere of an actual performance.’ - Gramophone, November 1953 ‘Elena Nicolai has one of those beefy, beautiful Italian mezzo-sorano voices … it is a magnificent sounding organ, vibrant, passionate, beautifully placed. […] Signor Del Monaco is well cast as Turridu: his magnificent power and rather bullying way with a phrase conjure up well the Don Juan of this Sicilian village.’ - Gramophone, June 1954 Tracks: Pietro Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana Ruggiero Leoncavallo: Pagliacci




Pierre Monteux, Vienna Philharmonic & London Symphony Orchestra - Brahms: Symphony No. 2; Variations On A Theme By Haydn £6.50 ELQ4808913 0028948089130 CD AUSTRALIAN ELOQUENCE CLASSICAL

Monteux recorded Brahms’s Second Symphony several times; in addition to the present recording for Decca with the Vienna Philharmonic, there are versions with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra. He recorded the Variations on a

Theme by Haydn just once, in 1958, with the London Symphony Orchestra. This reissue continues Eloquence’s survey of selected Philips and Decca recordings by Monteux. ‘Monteux gives a fresh, relaxed account of the Second with the Vienna Philharmonic and the spaciousness of his reading is enhanced by the fact that he observes the first movement exposition repeat. […] Recommended.’ - Gramophone, July 1971 ‘Monteux’s account of the [Haydn Variations] is hugely enjoyable and the natural, unforced yet splendidly disciplined orchestral playing makes this record highly desirable’ - Gramophone, June 1971 Tracks: Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 2 In D Major, Op. 73 Variations On A Theme By Haydn




D’Oyly Carte Opera Company, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra – Gilbert & Sullivan: The Yeomen Of The Guard £9.25 ELQ4820508 0028948205080 CD2 AUSTRALIAN ELOQUENCE CLASSICAL

That this recording was made at all is remarkable; that it is, on the whole, a success is miraculous. Though tinged with sadness – the 104-year-old company had just three more years to live – it is a fine swan-song recording for the D’Oyly Carte. Released for the first time on CD.

This reissue continues Eloquence’s survey of selected Philips and Decca recordings by Monteux. With its roots in the mid-nineteenth century English opera tradition of Balfe and Wallace, The Yeomen of the Guard is an integrated hybrid of operetta and romantic opera that combines the sparkling essence of previous Savoy successes with heightened drama and emotion, while its score is also free from the earnestness in which much of Sullivan’s 1891 grand opera Ivanhoe (with libretto by Julian Sturgis) is mired. It is fair to say that, despite maintaining high artistic standards and attracting loyal audiences, the overriding story of the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company in the late 1970s and early 1980s is not a happy one. Under-resourced and under constant threat of closure, the company which had been founded by Richard D’Oyly Carte in 1875 to perform new works by Gilbert and Sullivan struggled on under an increasingly threatening cloud of uncertainty until eventually giving its final performance on 27 February 1982. Yet there is no sign of this gloomy atmosphere in the present recording – the company’s last – of The Yeomen of the Guard. Neither, other than a few rough edges which could easily have been fixed with retakes if there been enough time or money, does it suffer too much from the unconducive circumstances of the sessions. Taped at Decca’s West Hampstead studios in the miserable depths of winter 1979, with many of the cast suffering from flu, sessions were crammed almost unfeasibly into the company’s busy performance schedule. The set boasts many glories, not least the final recorded performances of much-loved veteran stars John Reed and Kenneth Sandford, both of whom had been with the company since the 1950s. Though a little past their vocal prime, they give masterful portrayals of the lead comedy roles of jester Jack Point and gaoler Wilfred Shadbolt. Reed retired from the company shortly after this recording, continuing to guest star until its closure; Sandford remained until the end. The set is also notable for including the first professional recording of a song which was cut immediately after the work’s premiere – Sergeant Meryll’s ‘A laughing boy but yesterday’, rendered with confidence by John Ayldon. ‘Royston Nash keeps the score moving along agreeably, and there some attractive new voices – above all the Fairfax and Elsie Maynard of Geoffrey Shovelton and Barbara Lilley – to add to such familiar and dependable old-stagers as John Reed and Kenneth Sandford.’ - Gramophone, November 1979 Tracks: Sir Arthur Sullivan & W.S. Gilbert: The Yeoman Of The Guard

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Ben E King - The Complete Atco/Atlantic Singles Vol.1 1960-1966 £18.99 RLGM4003812PMI 848064003816 CD2 REAL GONE MUSIC SOUL/R&B

From his early days as a last-second replacement in the Drifters to his sterling solo career during which he scored a total of 31 pop and 24 R&B chart hits, the late, great Ben E. King was

responsible for some of the most indelible recordings in pop music history.

His big, beautiful baritone powered such Hall of Fame songs as "There Goes My Baby," "Save the Last Dance for Me," "Spanish Harlem" and, of course, "Stand by Me," and—almost alone among R&B singers of his era—he successfully transitioned into the disco era of the '70s with hits like "Supernatural Thing" and his acclaimed collaboration with the Average White Band.

Now, Real Gone Music, in tandem with SoulMusic Records, is planning to release two of the most ambitious collections ever devoted to Ben E. King's work, a pair of 2-CD sets containing the A and B-side of every single the man released during his storied career recording for the Atco and Atlantic labels. Long in the making, this first volume features 50 tracks that cover the years 1960 to 1966; many of these songs (especially the B-sides) never came out domestically on CD, and most never came out at all on CD in the original mono single versions found here, all from original tape sources.

CD 1: Brace Yourself / Show Me the Way / A Help-Each-Other Romance (LaVern Baker & Ben E. King) / How Often (LaVern Baker & Ben E. King) / Spanish Harlem / First Taste of Love / Stand by Me / On the Horizon / Amor / Souvenir of Mexico / Young Boy Blues / Here Comes the Night / Ecstasy / Yes / Don’t Play That Song (You Lied) / Hermit of Misty Mountain / Too Bad / My Heart Cries for You / I’m Standing By / Walking in the Footsteps of a Fool / Tell Daddy / Auf Weidersehn, My Dear / How Can I Forget / Gloria, Gloria / I (Who Have Nothing) / The Beginning of Time / I Could Have Danced All Night / Gypsy

CD 2: What Now My Love / Groovin’ / That’s When It Hurts / Around the Corner / What Can a Man Do / Si Senor / It’s All Over / Let the Water Run Down / Seven Letters / River of Tears / The Record (Baby I Love You) / The Way You Shake It / She’s Gone Again / Not Now (I’ll Tell You When) / Cry No More / (There’s) No Place to Hide / Goodnight My Love / I Can’t Break the News to Myself / So Much Love / Don’t Drive Me Away / I Swear by Stars Above / Get in a Hurry

Dusty Springfield – Come For A Dream - The U.K. Sessions 1970-1971 £9.99 RLGM4003832PMI 848064003830 CD REAL GONE MUSIC SOUL/R&B

During her 1968-1971 period with Atlantic Records in the United States, Dusty Springfield also continued to record material in England, where her Atlantic repertoire was released on Philips

Records. In turn, Atlantic received rights to issue Dusty's British recordings from the era, but chose to focus entirely on her American sessions.

In fact, it wasn't until the '90s that some of these masters (many of which originally came out on the Philips See All Her Faces album overseas) were available Stateside, but they were scattered across several compilations and were never comprehensively assembled.

Now, with the release of Come For A Dream—The U.K. Sessions 1970-1971, all of Dusty's "orphaned" British recordings from her 1970-1971 Atlantic period have been gathered together for the first time. These 16 sides document what was intended to be a complete album plus some extra single sides and outtakes. Dusty was singing at her absolute best during this time, covering pop, rock and soul with equal power and sensitivity. Tracks: A Song For You / Mixed Up Girl / Wasn’t Born To Follow / Sweet Inspiration / Yesterday When I Was Young / Let Me Down Easy / Come For A Dream / Girls It Ain't Easy / See All Her Faces / Crumbs Off The Table / What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life? / How Can I Be Sure / Goodbye / Girls Can't Do What The Guys Do / I Start Counting / Go My Love / O-o-h Child




Lesley Gore - Someplace Else Now £9.99

RLGM4003852PMI 848064003854 CD REAL GONE MUSIC POP It's hard to overestimate the role Lesley Gore played in charting the course of popular music. Not only was she probably the biggest female teen idol of her era—with four Top Five hits before she was of legal age—but she broke out of the "girl singer" mold

with "You Don't Own Me," the proto-feminist #2 hit that inspired generations of female singers to come.

However, despite Lesley's lofty place in the pop music pantheon, there remain some pretty major gaps in the reissue of her repertoire on CD, notably the lone album she cut for Berry Gordy's Motown subsidiary MoWest, Someplace Else Now. Produced by Joe Porter, this 1972 release marked Lesley's move into a singer-songwriter mode. Gore wrote or co-wrote (with Ellen Weston or her brother Michael, with whom Lesley would later gain renewed acclaim for collaborating on the score to the hit film Fame) every song on the album. Though it failed to make a significant commercial impact at the time, Someplace Else Now has come to be regarded as a lost, blue-eyed soul gem, and it makes its worldwide CD debut on this Real Gone reissue. Tracks: For Me / The Road I Walk / Out of Love / She Said That / Don’t Wanna Be the One / Be My Life / Where Do You Go (When You Get Home) / What Did I Do Wrong / Someplace Else Now / Mine / No Sad Songs / For You

Ben Jorge - Ben £10.99

RLGM4003782PMI 848064003786 CD REAL GONE MUSIC WORLD MUSIC

This replaces RLGM4003572PMI that was due to be released 15th June 2015 If there was one thing that all the movemenst that swept Brazilian popular music during the '60s and '70s—bossa nova, Jovem Guarda, Tropicalia, Música Popular

Brasileira, samba soul, Black Rio—had in common, it was that they all revered Jorge Ben.

That's because Ben incorporated aspects of all their styles without compromising his own. As Caetano Veloso put it, "Jorge Ben, without attempting an artificial or homogenizing 'fusion,' came through with a strong, original sound confronting a body of issues from the opposite end that of the finished treatment, while we were groping and coming up with varied and incomplete solutions." Now, Real Gone Music and Dusty Groove are embarking on a long-awaited tour through Ben's catalog, starting with his 1972 masterpiece, Ben. This is the album that made Jorge Ben a superstar in Brazil, a lean marvel of rhythmic and melodic concision that contains some of his most indelible, durable songs, like the first version of "Taj Mahal" and his ode to his favorite soccer player, "Fio Maravilha." Peerless Brazilian pop, out on CD for the first time outside of Brazil, and packaged inside a mini LP sleeve that exactly replicates the original vinyl release. Limited edition of 2000! Tracks: Morre O Burro, Fica O Homem / O Circo Chegou / Paz E Arroz / Moça / Domingo 23 / Fio Maravilha / Quem Cochicha O Rabo Espicha / Caramba!...Galileu Da Gaililéia / Que Nega É Essa / As Rosas Eram Todas Amarelas / Taj Mahal




Robbie Robertson & Alex North – Carny / O.S.T. £9.99 RLGM4003722PMI 848064003724 CD REAL GONE MUSIC SOUNDTRACK

Though he was one of the three acting leads (along with Jodie Foster and Gary Busey) in the 1980 film Carny, it's debatable how many fans of Robbie Robertson and his work with and

without The Band are aware of this key release in his discography. That's because, despite the pedigree of its cast and the colourful setting of a traveling carnival, the film bombed at the box office, weighed down by a weak script and questionable directorial choices. But the score—half composed by Robertson and half by the great Alex North (Cleopatra, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf et al.) remains a wonderful oddity. Robertson had himself spent two years working at a carnival in his teens, so it was a subject near and dear to his heart (witness The Band's "Life Is a Carnival"). He also reached out to friends like Dr. John and Randall Bramlett to create sonic settings alternately sleazy, strutting and funky (and don't miss his guitar solo on "Garden of Earthly Delights"). North, for his part, seemed affected by what Robertson in Rob Bowman's liner notes to this Real Gone reissue terms the "insane" nature of the film shoot, particularly on the closing "Carny Theme," which Robertson calls "like Nina Rota on acid." Right after the film wrapped, Robertson went to New York to serve as musical supervisor for Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull, which began a long string of collaborations with Scorsese and other film directors. Tracks: Garden of Earthly Delights / Pagan Knight / The Fat Man / Freaks’ Lament / Sawdust and G-Strings / Rained Out / Carnival Bozo / Remember to Forget / Lust / I’m a Bad Girl / Rednecks Rumble / Fear and Revelation / Carny Theme

Mike Bloomfield & Nick Gravenites – Steelyard Blues O.S.T. £9.99 RLGM4003622PMI 848064003625 CD REAL GONE MUSIC SOUNDTRACK

With a killer leading couple of Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland—fresh from their box office triumph co-starring in Klute —and a soundtrack by the Electric Flag's Mike Bloomfield and Nick Gravenites—with performances by Paul Butterfield and Maria Muldaur—you would think that

the 1972 film Steelyard Blues would be better known than it is. Poorly reviewed and largely forgotten by film audiences, it has remained a cult classic because of its soundtrack, which marked Mike Bloomfield's first release of any kind in three years, and reunited him with Gravenites, with whom he'd composed music in the Electric Flag for the soundtrack to Roger Corman's B-movie classic The Trip. Here, the emphasis was less on psychedelia than on a jaunty mix of blues, rock and country to match the shambolic goings-on on screen. There's no mistaking Bloomfield's stinging blues-rock licks for those of any other guitarist, and a pre-"Midnight at the Oasis" Muldaur serves notice of her impending superstardom. Completing the musical cast was Paul Butterfield, in whose band Bloomfield first broke into prominence, keyboardist Merl Saunders, later of course to collaborate with the Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia, and Annie Sampson of the Bay Area group Stoneground. Tracks: Swing with It / Brand New Family / Woman’s Love / Make the Headlines / Georgia Blues / My Bag (the Oysters) / Common Ground / Being Different / I’ve Been Searching / Do I Care / Lonesome Star Blues / Here I Come (There She Goes) / If You Cared / Theme from Steelyard Blues (Drive Again)

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