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Moosicus presents the Volker Kriegel Archive
It reads like a fairy tale. Ev Kriegel found in her husband’s estate many tape boxes with partly unreleased music by Volker Kriegel from his various creative phases. The first idea was to make these treasures audible again only for private use in the circle of friends. But after the tapes were digitally transferred and lovingly remastered, it was quickly clear what a treasure came to light. The circle of (more…)
SOUL BASEMENT present video for their single “Better Days”
The soul record by italian DJ Fabio Puglisi and texan vocalist/saxophonist Jay Nemor has been in stores for a little over a month, and critics are abuzz. In the July issue of the German Hifi magazine “Audio” the album “Onenesss” is celebrated as “Klangtipp” (Sound tip) and “Geheimtipp” (Insider tip): There it says “Nemor ennobles the 8 pieces on “Oneness” with its velvety, deep organ and its vocal sovereignty, so (more…)
MUDDY WATERS in seventh place on the American Billboard Blues Charts!
Today, McKinley Morganfield would have been better known as Muddy Waters, now turning 105. If the American blues icon had made it to this biblical age he would have had two reasons to be celebrating today: the Muddy Waters Bluesband made it into the US Billboard Charts again! The release of their Rockpalast concert from 1978 called “Live At Rockpalast” got (more…)
MIG Music and Soul Basement set final seal on cooperation
The Italian keyboarder and songwriter Fabio Puglisi as well as the Texan singer and saxophone player Jay Nemor are the heart of the soul/ jazz crossover band SOUL BASEMENT. Just in time for this year’s “Jazzahead” taking place at the end of April at Bremen, the new album of SOUL BASEMENT titled “Oneness” will be presented on the Moosicus label for a release (more…)
The first releases of MIG’s new jazz label Moosicus: Albert Mangelsdorff, Atom String Quartet and Leon Redbone
The administrative essentials are completed, and finally, it is all about the music again. The series of historic recordings from the archives of the NDR which have been released by Moosicus titled “NDR 60 Years Jazz Edition“, will be continued as “NDR Jazz Edition“.
At first, “ALBERT MANGELSDORFF – THE JAZZ SEXTET” will be launched in this series. The recording from the Hamburg (more…)
Moosicus GmbH taken over by MIG Music
Moosicus had been founded in 2012 by Michael Becker and Andreas Thran, both responsible for the Imagion AG and BOB Design from Trier, as well as Grammy winner and producer Joachim Becker.
The products released on the label Moosicus are masterpieces in sound and appearance. The label released artists like funk icon Maceo Parker or Larry Graham, Sheila E, Randy Brecker, Chuck Loeb, Dean (more…)