© Claus Cordes
Finally the time has come – after 41 (!) years Wolfgang Bock’s masterpiece of the Berlin School, “Cycles”, is rereleased on CD and digitally. Polydor had released the album produced by Klaus Schulze in 1981, on vinyl only. As a bonus to the original album, the rerelease will come with the track “Wir fliegen ins All”, which Wolfgang Bock aka Peter (more…)
On March 25th., 2022, we will continue the series “OMEGA – The Bacillus Years” with the next edition. This time the two albums “200 Years After The Last War” (originally released in 1974) and “The Hall Of Floaters In The Sky” (1975) influenced by Progressive Rock and Space Rock will be released in a gatefold digi with booklet including liner-notes and original artworks. (more…)
© Adam Piggott
“I’ve always been very visually inspired, it’s one of the reasons I love composing for film, along with my desire to tell a story with my music. I’m always looking for a narrative, a journey or adventure to explore with music and sound. Above all, I want to capture some magic; that child-like sense of wonder which can be so elusive”.
These (more…)
LIPS TURN BLUE, formerly known in the Upstate New York region as the popular club act, DDRIVE, has regrouped and returned with a new name, a brilliant debut album, a world-wide record contract, and a new member in singer/musician Iggy Marino. The band (nicknamed LTB) which also includes guitarist Don Mancuso, keyboardist Eric Bieber, bassist Mike Mullane, and drummer Roy Stein are currently (more…)
Back in 1962 they formed as a school band, the name was given to them by the promoter back then and they kept it until today: OMEGA. Between all these years there are millions of sold records, countless tours over half the globe and sold out concerts in stadiums. Their English-language albums for the Bacillus label, produced by Peter Hauke (also Nektar, Karthago, (more…)
Credit: Patrick Hinely, Work/Play®
The legend has it that the four Oregon musicians met at the legendary Woodstock Festival in 1969. However, it is documented that at least guitarist/pianist Ralph Towner and bassist Glen Moore were on stage with US singer/songwriter Tim Hardin. But three more years had to pass before Oregon really got off the ground musically. Colin Walcott and Paul McCandless completed (more…)
In the 1970s, the Berlin based rockgroup Karthago achieved great successes and “belonged to the elite of the German rock scene” (Hamburger Abendblatt). Foreign music magazines, like “Sounds UK” or “New Musical Express” expressed similar views, calling Karthago “The best German rock band of the 70’s” (NME). In 1978, Karthago split up for the first time. In 2003, the band reunited with the (more…)
Started in 1976 as a Deep Purple cover band, the four Northern Irish school friends, singer and guitarist Jake Burns, guitarist Henry Cluney, bassist Gordon Blair and drummer Brian Faloon, discovered punk in 1977. After Blair’s departure from the band, he was replaced by Ali McMordie, the name “Highway Star” no longer seemed appropriate for a snotty punk band and so from then (more…)
With the Groundhogs, Tony McPhee wrote British blues rock history from the 1960s onwards. Along with Neil Young, he is one of the founding fathers of grunge rock. Still today records like “Thank Christ For The Bomb”, “Hogwash” or “Split” belong in every well-kept collection. Julian Cope, the British “Krautrock” expert and former frontman of The Teardrop Explodes, once said: “The way Tony (more…)
In 1967 John Hartford recorded the album “Sweetheart Of The Rodeo” together with the Byrds. The album is seen as a milestone in rock history, it was the birth of the new genre country rock, nowadays also called Americana. Without this album, future successes of bands like the Flying Burrito Brothers, Poco and the Eagles, or artists like Jackson Browne and Alison Krauss (more…)