Mig Music News
Gil Scott-Heron: “Bob Dylan’s Black Brother” shares his legacy
Foto: Volker Beinhorn
Critics in the early 1970s called Gil Scott-Heron the most important Black voice since Martin Luther King Jr. and described him as a black Bob Dylan. “His poetry is with much muscle, with stiletto humor, with street talk, much of it justifiably angry and accurate,” the New York Times wrote in 1975, marveling at the angry man from the Bronx. No (more…)
38 SPECIAL will release their 1981 Lorelei performance
On August 29, 1981, Southern rockers 38 Special entered the stage of the open-air theater high above the Rhine on Loreley Rock. The Outlaws, Nine Below Zero and Thin Lizzy were in the festival line-up that day as well. It was the first of the many great outdoor festival-events of the WDR Rockpalast in this unique natural ambience in St. Goarshausen. 38 Special (more…)
Anne Clark – on tour in Germany with her Rockpalast CD/DVD-release in the luggage
Anne Clark, the British poet, singer, songwriter and grand dame of Dark Wave, is going on tour in Germany again. From 31st. May to 10th. June 2023 she travels across the country. Some of the concerts are already sold out. In November, the European tour will continue with another 12 dates in Germany, including a double concert at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. In (more…)
Quote of the week about WUCAN’s “Live At Deutschlandfunk”:
Who still doesn’t know WUCAN, but instead permanently playing his Tull-Zeppelin-Renft records for the umpteenth time until they just loudly crackle their circles on the turntable, should definitely dare a look from the past towards the present and future – because there shines crackle-free and crystal clear at the cutting edge, but also of the past, WUCAN! (Thoralf Koß, Musikreview.de, 10.04.2023)
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Bai Kamara Jr.s new album “Traveling Medicine Man” mirrored in the press
Three years after the release of his critically acclaimed album “Salone” we released almost four weeks ago the new album “Traveling Medicine Man” by Bai Kamara Jr. and his band, the Voodoo Sniffers.
As with the previous album, the press and also the radio worldwide are reacting euphorically to the new album of the musician from Brussels with his very own unique style, (more…)
Rediscovery after 43 years – ELMULAB’s “Microprozessor 8080A”
After 43 (!) years, this groundbreaking piece of German electronic music is finally available again remastered on CD and in digital format.
The “band-project” Elmulab, that was the Munich composer, musician and painter Klaus Netzle (aka Claude Larsen) and the Munich film composer, arranger and musician Gerhard “Delle” Haensch (aka Manuel Landy).
From the mid-1970s, Klaus Netzle’s interest in electronic music started to (more…)