A memorial plaque was unveiled on December 4, 2020 on the school building in Berlin-Wilmersdorf, Pfalzdorfer Straße 30, donated in 2020 by Grammy-Awrad winner Hans Zimmer and Bernd Kistenmacher. This studio was founded by Konrad Latte, director of the Berlin Baroque Orchestra, and built and managed by Swiss avant-garde composer Thomas Kessler. Bands like Agitation Free, Tangerine Dream and Ash Ra Tempel as (more…)
On 20th March 1977, Hillage gave a concert as part of the “L” tour at the Otto Hahn School in Bensberg (near Bergisch Gladbach), Germany, which was recorded by WDR and broadcast on German television with a slight time delay. Steve Hillage was on the road with a band that he had put together especially for the tour. Apart from his partner Miquette (more…)
In 1967 the british guitarist and songwriter John Renbourn together with his friend Bert Jansch founded the British folk rock band Pentangle. Like Jansch, Renbourn was considered an outstanding representative of the British “Folk Baroque” and fingerpicking playing technique. Since 1968 Renbourn successfully recorded several albums with Pentangle for the well-known UK folk/folk rock label Transatlantic. After the release of the album “Solomon’s (more…)
“Behind The Gardens – Behind The Wall – Under The Tree” is the first album by Andreas Vollenweider, which after its release in 1981, provided the worldwide breakthrough of this exceptional artist and brought millions of sales. Now the Swiss harpist is re-releasing the album in the original sound dress of the early 1980’s without bonus tracks and without artificially high BIT rates. (more…)
On 12th July 2019 Russell Smith, leadsinger and guitarist of the American country rock band The Amazing Rhythm Aces sadly passed away. After that, Billy Earheart, head of ARA along with Russel Smith, announced the definite end of the band. The country rockers take leave from their fans now with a fantastic live recording from the club “Moments” in Bremen/Germany, which was recorded (more…)
On October 8th Andreas Vollenweider and Friends (The Band: with Andreas, Walter Keiser & Isabel Gehweiler) gave a showcase for the new album “Quiet Places” with reading parts from the book “Im Spiegel Der Venus” (read by Christoph Gaugler) in Zurich’s “Miller’s Studio”.
The event, held under the strict Corona guidelines, was filmed. Now there are compact 36 minutes of pure listening and (more…)
Five women, ten instruments! The Irish Indie-Folkrock band WOOKALILY signs a worldwide contract with M.I.G. Music GmbH.
With awe inspiring four part harmonies, low bowed double bass, flutes, trumpet, banjo and more, Wookalily create a masterful and sweeping sonic tapestry that will leave audiences rapt with wonder, and wanting more.
Recorded on traditional analogue equipment by the award winning producer Julie McLarnon (The (more…)
The Georgian singer/songwriter and rock poet Nash Albert signs a worldwide contract with M.I.G. Music GmbH. Nash was, among others, frontman of the successful Soviet alternative/indie band Blast (Blast Unit Moscow). The British NME described Blast as “the godfathers of the Russian alternative scene”. In 2013 Killing Joke’s Martin “Youth” Glover produced the most successful Blast album “Krisis Of Genre”. A year later (more…)
July 29, 2020. Hamburg, Germany, Broomfield, Colorado USA – Hypertension Music today announced an agreement to distribute the complete DMD music and video catalogue of the highly successful “Bluesmasters” that feature studio and live collaborations that include Pinetop Perkins, Magic Slim, Hubert Sumlin, Cassie Taylor, Hazel Miller, Otis Taylor, The Allman Brothers Band, Elvin Bishop, John Mayall, Eric Gales, Leon Russell, Abe Laboriel (more…)
Before the OUTLAWS went on stage that night at the Loreley, the British blues rock legend NINE BELOW ZERO performed at the Rockpalast for the first time the same day. 15 years later, NINE BELOW ZERO played again at the Lorelei, this time with the “Band Of Friends” to give a tribute concert in honour of the Irish blues rock legend Rory Gallagher, (more…)