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With over twenty albums and sales of more than ten million records worldwide, Spyro Gyra is one of the most prominent and commercially successful bands in jazz history. Between 1980 and 1985, the band won seven Grammy Awards. In November 2022, the band came to Germany to perform at the Leverkusen Jazz Days. WDR recorded the concert for ‘Rockpalast’. “Art manifests (more…)
With the Geyers (known as “Geyers Schwarzer Haufen” from 1983 onwards), Thomas was a founding member of the first band in Germany to combine rock with medieval music, using traditional medieval instruments such as the hurdy-gurdy, bagpipes, and the nyckelharpa. The Geyers disbanded in 2014 following the sudden, accidental death of their drummer, Jost Pogrzeba. Since then, Thomas Roth has spent much of (more…)
Jimi Barbiani is an Italian musician known for his energetic blues rock. His three albums with the Jimi Barbiani Band — Back on the Tracks, Blue Side, and Boogie Down the Road — not only sold very well in Italy, but also found fans in the United States. Jimi Barbiani’s videos sometimes reach over 500,000 views. In February 2026, the Jimi Barbiani Band (more…)
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Austrian singer Wilfried had his first number one hit in the Austrian charts in 1973 with his English-language debut single, “Mary, Oh Mary.” With “Ziwui, ziwui,” he temporarily switched to singing in dialect and established himself as an early Austro-pop artist. His rock interpretation of the “Kufsteinlied” in 1981 is considered an early example of “new folk music.” From 1978 to (more…)
It is with great sadness that we say goodbye to Manfred Schütz, an outstanding visionary in the music industry and a pioneer of the independent music scene. The founder of SPV and Founder and managing director of MIG Music passed away on January 3, 2025 at the age of 74 after a long and serious illness.
Manfred was a driving force in the music (more…)
The new Andreas Vollenweider Album “Live At Rockpalast 1982″ enters the german album charts on number #82. In the swiss charts Vollenweider was able to get the #68 spot.
The long lost and never before seen recording was released September 20th, 2024 on CD/DVD, vinyl and digital.
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Earlier this week we learned that French multi-instrumentalist Teddy Lasry had passed away. We are deeply saddened by this news. Our thoughts are with his family at this difficult time.
Born in Paris, Teddy Lasry was a member of the experimental French progressive rock band Magma. Together they developed the genre of Zeuhl (= heavenly music), including the artificial language of Kobaïan for (more…)
In the autumn of 1969 and twice more in 1970, three festivals took place in Essen’s Grugahalle on the initiative of the young Konrad Mallison with the “Essen Pop and Blues Days”, which presented a very large number of the best bands in the rock scene in its early stages. The thousands of hippies and freaks may not have been aware of this, (more…)
Under the banner of the “Ginger Baker Archive,” we are thrilled to present music lovers worldwide with the first-ever complete release of the 1970 Beat Club recordings by the groundbreaking “Ginger Baker’s Airforce,” titled “What A Day,” scheduled for the end of May.
The next step, slated for the end of July, will be the CD release of Airforce II, featuring previously unreleased bonus (more…)
We are happy to announce that we will be re-releasing Richard Vimal’s 1980 album “Aquarythmies” on 31st May 2024. It’s an underrated album from the French electronic scene that deserves to be rediscovered. More information coming soon!
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