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Progressive Rock Icons Nektar To Release Covers CD “A Spoonful Of Time” Featuring All-Star Guest Line-Up
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
London, UK - Progressive rock fans worldwide are buzzing with excitement about the forthcoming release of a new covers CD by music legends Nektar called “A Spoonful Of Time”, featuring an all-star guest line-up! Celebrating their 43rd Anniversary, Nektar's contribution over the past four decades has quite rightly earned them their place in any 'Progressive Rock Hall of Fame'. But the band is much more than a “prog legend;” the Nektar brand of innovative composition, performance and visuals is simply ...
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Billy Vera Releases Big Band Jazz: Soulful Singer Salutes The Great Black Songwriters Of The 1920's, 30's And 40's
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Tamela D'Amico
Hollywood, CA: Platinum selling singer/songwriter Billy Vera is gearing up for the release of his new album, Big Band Jazz. This Fall, Billy is thrilled to share with fans his first ever album recorded with a large jazz orchestra. The CD, to be released on Robo Records (distributed by Universal/Fontana), is scheduled for release this January, 2013. The album will be available digitally on Nov 13th, 2012. “Play that again! That’s one of the most brilliant performances I’ve ever heard. ...
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To Celebrate Record Store Day's Back To Black Friday Event, Omnivore Recordings Announces Ten-inch Vinyl Eps
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conqueroo
Also from Omnivore, Jellyfish’s two-CD set Stack-a-Tracks offers rare glimpse of band in an instrumental mode LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Record Store Day comes but once a year, but its Back to Black Friday event in November brings the focus back to independent record stores during the biggest shopping day of the year. And for Omnivore Recordings, it’s an important and fun event. “Everyone at Omnivore is a fan and a collector, most of us have worked at a record ...
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Armenian Folk with Jazz Orchestration: Once Upon a Time
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FlipswitchPR, LLC
Old Stories, New Retellings: Ara Sarkissian and Musaner’s Jazz Muses Inspire a Twist on Armenian Folk with Once Upon a Time “It’s about what you inherit,” declares Ara Sarkissian, the composer and classical pianist behind modern Armenian fusion experiment Musaner. The group has plunged into the caves of tradition to rescue melodies once left for dead and renew them in the airy architecture of the halls of modern jazz. On Musaner’s sophomore release, Once Upon a Time (release: October 26, ...
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Electric Cowbell Announces: Karthala 72's Debut Album - Diable Du Feu
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Press Junkie PR
Electric Cowbell Records Presents: Karthala 72 – Diable Du Feu The sound of a 1970′s psychedelic freakout only heavier than you ever heard it before! The new Karthala 72 full-length album (Diable du Feu!) brings some seriously dark, driving funk meets Afrobeat. There isn’t much on the group out there on the internet. We can’t even figure out exactly where they are from but tribal rhythms and hypnotic guitar echo to a time when the raw sound was king. Taking ...
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A Very Special Christmas' Album Series Celebrates 25th Anniversary Benefitting Special Olympics
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Chris M. Slawecki
The A Very Special Christmas holiday music series, benefiting Special Olympics, will celebrate its 25th anniversary this holiday season with the release of two new albums of holiday music advancing the Special Olympics movement and bringing joy and peace to athletes and their families around the world: A Very Special Christmas 25th Anniversary, Bringing Joy to the World: Featuring Christina Aguilera (“Oh Holy Night"), Francesca Battistelli (“December 25”), Michael Bublé (“It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas”), Cheap Trick ...
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Massive Attack "Blue Lines" 2012 Remix/Remaster
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Maddie
On November 20th EMI will release a 2012 version of Massive Attack’s classic Blue Lines album, remixed and remastered from the original tapes at the band’s studios in Bristol. Originally released in April 1991 on the Circa imprint via Virgin Records, Blue Lines was an unprecedented mixture of breakbeats, sampling and live instrumentation with vocal styles ranging from soulful female to gritty rapping. With influences as diverse as soul, punk, reggae, dub, lover’s rock, electro and hip hop, Blue Lines ...
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Bruno d’Ambra and Francesco Lo Castro Release "Songs For Duke"
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Francesco Lo Castro
"For a duo, Bruno and Francesco produce a big warm sound on this delightful set of original compositions inspired by Duke Ellington. Highly recommended!" Jim Mullen The album Songs for Duke comes from a musical collaboration that started over two years ago at the Archduke jazz Club in London’s South Bank between pianist Bruno d’Ambra and guitarist Francesco Lo Castro. The pair wanted to pay homage to the harmonic style and melodic clarity of Duke Ellington’s jazz pieces as well ...
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