After 53 years (!) STEAMHAMMER will release a remake of their monster hit “Junior’s Wailing”.
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Neuronium & Vangelis – “In London” (1981) for the first time completely on vinyl and CD
Photo © Juan Alvarez
It was in the year 1981 when Belgian electronic musician Michel Huygen and his Spanish colleague Carlos Guirao, both better known as Neuronium, met with Evángelos Odysséas Papathanassíou, better known as Vangelis, to record a joint session in London.
Michel Huygen remembers: “The music we played together starting from my score, was flowing, flowing so fast and smoothly between the (more…)
Ralf Kothe – almost forgotten acoustic instrumental music from East Berlin
Ralf Kothe studied music in East Berlin, graduated as a music teacher for guitar and composition, is a sought-after studio musician as well as a composer and arranger of numerous film scores and advertising trailers. In 1987 Ralf Kothe released his first instrumental album “Regendurst (Gitarrenballaden I)” on the state-run GDR label Amiga, followed by his second Amiga production “Die Andere Seite (Gitarrenballaden (more…)
Dieter Schütz – Rerelease of his 1981 debut album “TransVision”, produced by Klaus Schulze
Dieter Schütz, born in Flensburg/Germany in 1955, was a highly talented multi-instrumentalist who unfortunately died at the age of only 36. Shortly before his death, he founded the pop rock trio Deja Vue together with his partner Ulla Witt and his friend Adelbert von Deyen. The album “Nightflight” was released in 2004 at the instigation of Adelbert von Deyen. Germany’s electronic legend Klaus (more…)
Mas Hysteria again – Carolyne Mas releases new live album
“Mas Hysteria” was the absolute high flyer in 1980. A live album in a blank LP sleeve with an amateur cover pasted on it to make it look like this was a bootleg. Only In Germany, “Mas Hysteria” sold more than 250,000 copies. The centerpiece of the album was a 12-minute, almost hypnotic version of “Sittin’ In The Dark,” which Carolyne had released (more…)
Rerelease of the De Danann album “Selected Jigs Reels & Songs” after 46 (!) years
Dé Danann was an Irish folk band from which several successful soloists like Maura O’Connel, Mary Black, Caroline Lavelle and Dolores Keane (US Americana & Country star Nancy Griffith: “Dolores Keane, the queen of the soul of Ireland”) emerged. In 1976 the five Irishmen from County Galway were in the studio of Conny Plank in Wolperath near Cologne (Germany) to produce their album (more…)
Manfred Schoof – The “great romanticist” of the German jazz avant-garde releases a live 3-CD boxset
Without any doubt, the trumpeter Manfred Schoof belongs to the first generation of jazz musicians in Germany, who very early developed a very own European signature in this form of music and thus no longer simply emulated American models. The rich fund of church scales was just as essential for him as influences from the so-called New Music. Schoof had already been active (more…)
Kate & Anna McGarrigle – musical legacy to Kate
In 2010, aged 63, Kate McGarrigle sadly died of sarcoma, a rare form of cancer.
On Monday, April 22, 2005, Kate and Anna McGarrigle performed at Radio Bremen’s broadcast hall. Anna remembers:
“Our second French record “La vache qui pleure” had just been released in Europe and we were touring in support of it. At that time, the core group consisted of Kate (more…)
Nash Albert: Duet with Musia Totibadze
Two who searched and found each other:
Nash Albert and Georgian singer, actress and model Musia Totibadze (75k followers on Instagram) harmonize wonderfully with their voices on the acoustic duet – version of the track “Marabella” from Nash’s current album “Yet”:
Musia comes from a family of artists, she is the niece of the famous Georgian painter and illustrator Gogi Totibadze, his brother (more…)
Harvey Summers won the One World Music Award
Well this is a nice surprise!
Harvey Summers and M.i.G. are very honoured and very excited to announce that “Moon” has won the award for ‘best electronic album’ in the One World Music Album Awards!
Congrats harvey, it is a big pleasure working with you.
You can listen to the award ceremony here: https://harveysummers.lnk.to/owmraward