After 43 (!) years, this groundbreaking piece of German electronic music is finally available again remastered on CD and in digital format.
The “band-project” Elmulab, that was the Munich composer, musician and painter Klaus Netzle (aka Claude Larsen) and the Munich film composer, arranger and musician Gerhard “Delle” Haensch (aka Manuel Landy).
From the mid-1970s, Klaus Netzle’s interest in electronic music started to (more…)
Tír na nÓg were an Irish folk duo formed in Dublin in 1969 by Leo O’Kelly and Sonny Condell. They were often considered one of the first progressive folk bands and are often compared to other artists like Nick Drake or bands like Pentangle. Their music consists mainly of original compositions based on strong Celtic roots, typically featuring intricate acoustic guitar playing and (more…)
The band signed up in 1977 with famous British label HARVEST created by EMI in 1969 to market progressive rock music and at that time already had well-known artists like Barclay James Harvest, Deep Purple, Pink Floyd or Kevin Ayers under contract. Neuronium’s debut album from the same year, “Quasar 2C361″, cased as Spain’s first “cosmic music” album. One year later, “Vuelo Quimico”, (more…)
“The Complete Recordings” – this is the retrospective album-collection of the Northern German based Progressive Rock trio Eduard Schicke, Heinz Fröhling and Gerd Führs (short: SFF) with the three long-players “Symphonic Pictures” (1976), “Sunburst” (1977), “Ticket To Everywhere” (1978) released on the Brain label as well as the live album “Live 1975″, which contains mainly early works of the band but also tracks (more…)
On April 28, 2023 Moosicus will release a live album by legendary American alto saxophonist, composer and ethnomusicologist Marion Brown (1931 – 2010).
From 1962 Brown worked with musicians such as Alan Shorter and Archie Shepp, who also became his mentor. Brown also participated in Shepp’s album “Fire Music”, John Coltrane hired Marion Brown in the summer of 1965 for the recording of (more…)
Big joy and tension for Steamhammer and Nash Albert. The Recording Academy put both artists with their current releases on the proposal lists for the Grammy awards in the forthcoming year. Steamhammer’s longplayer “Wailing Again” is on the proposal list for “Best Rock Album Of The Year”, Nash Albert’s album “Yet” on the lists for “Best (more…)
The four electronic musicians of S.A.W. and M.i.G. will collaborate in the future. Label and musicians met on a beautiful autumn day in Hitzacker at the river Elbe in Lower Saxony in Johannes Schmölling’s Red Kite Studio to seal the collaboration and signing contracts. S.A.W. had finished the production of their new album “Hydragate” and handed over the final mastering to M.i.G..
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It’s finally official. Tony Williams – Play Or Die, the super rare and obscure album by the drumming legend is finally back on vinyl and part of this year’s Record Store Day Black Friday lineup!
Find more info and a participating store near you at https://recordstoreday.com
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STEAMHAMMER’s guitarist Martin Pugh celebrates his 75th birthday today. We from M.i.G. congratulate him and we are looking forward with him to the release of the new STEAMHAMMER album “Wailing Again” on Friday in two weeks.
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On September 9th the German guitarist, electronic musician and one of the pioneers of the Berlin School Manuel Göttsching (Ash Ra Tempel / Ashra / Manuel Göttsching) turned 70. The whole M.i.G. team sends birthday greetings to Berlin. Above all, stay healthy, Manuel, and may you never run out of ideas and inspiration.
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