Although I hadn’t realized at the time, this recording was one of the most important of my career; a comeback of sorts. It was my one and only concept album and would reap dividends for the rest of my career which, by the way, is still some thirty years, after the fact, moving forward.
It was 1987 and I’d been denying the creative muse (more…)
MIG Music transforms February 24, 2017, into a day for the blues – with three new releases in the series “Live At Rockpalast“: the concert of Champion Jack Dupree from 1980, George Thorogood from 1980 and Pat Travers from the year 1976, one of his very first shows in Europe. All three of them love the blues, each interpreting it in his very particular (more…)
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In spring 2017, the American singer and songwriter Patricia Vonne will visit Europe for several concerts again. Last fall she swirled over German stages and took her audience for a good 90 minutes to Texas. And at the end of the set, probably everybody wondered “what, are we already finished?”
Patricia Vonne, dressed in velvet and lace but with a cowboy hat and booties, is always (more…)
The Swedish band SIENA ROOT has signed a worldwide record contract with M.I.G. Made In Germany Music in Hanover. “A Dream Of Lasting Peace” is the sixth studio album of the Swedish retro rock pioneers and is already scheduled for release end of April this year. The psychedelic and progressive rockers of SIENA ROOT already have an established and loyal fan base in (more…)
On January 21, 2017, it has been 25 years since the great barrelhouse blues pianist and singer Champion Jack Dupree died. Dupree who was born in New Orleans was one of the very first blues musicians to cross the Atlantic in 1959 to escape a life of segregation and racism still prevailing in the United States at that time.
The Caribbean influences of his home town (more…)
Bringing together two of the planet’s most virtuosic and innovative percussionists, on February 1, 2017 in Glasgow, the Celtic Connections festival presents the world première of Trilok Gurtu’s and Evelyn Glennie’s first collaborative creation, “The Rhythm in Me”, to celebrate the 70th anniversary of India’s independence in 2017.
A triple Grammy winner, Scotland’s Dame Evelyn Glennie OBE has premièred more than 200 works by (more…)
On January 27, 2017 Mig Music releases the second album by singer/songwriter ZAINE GRIFF titled “The Visitor”. The album “Child Who Wants The Moon” marked the beginning of this collaboration. In Europe, the artist who was born 4 October 1957 in Auckland, New Zealand, is especially known in the United Kingdom. Like many young musicians he came to London during the 70s (more…)
On December 16, 2016, just in time for Christmas, MIG Music is releasing the album “Heading North 53°N 8°E – Live in Bremen” by THE BEAT FARMERS. Their rather peculiar mix of rock’n’roll, rockabilly, Americana, blues, folk- and country elements was called cowpunk. It is comparable a little bit to Jason & The Scorchers who were trying to conquer the market at practically the (more…)