With the release of FLACO JIMÉNEZ‘ CD “Fiesta” on November 25, 2016 MIG Music is expanding its musical spectrum. Tex mex and southern styles can already be found in the catalogue but now we go further towards Mexico and folklore, with a musical style named conjunto.
Conjunto rhythms sound more than familiar to European ears because they are known from German and Austrian folk (more…)
Countdown to the release of the new Agitation Free Box on Friday, Oct: 28, 2016. Every day there will be a new photo from the bands’ history. Today we present another photo from 1974, taken from a concert at the Cliffs of River Rhine. The concert was recorded by the WDR and is part of the new box.
To be continued
Countdown to the release of the new Agitation Free Box on Friday, Oct: 28, 2016. Every day there will be a new photo from the bands’ history. Today it is a memory picture of Marseille from 1974.
In the upper row: Gustl Lütjens and Burghard Rausch; all ladies are female fans who used to call themselves at that time “groupies”.
Lower row from left (more…)
Countdown to the release of the new Agitation Free Box on Friday, Oct: 28, 2016. Every day there will be a new photo from the bands’ history.
Today we jump into the year 1972. This is the line-up of the first album and consists from left to right of Michael Günther, Michael Hönig, Lutz Ulbrich, Jörg Schwenke, Burghard Rausch.
In the meantime there had (more…)
Countdown to the release of the new Agitation Free Box on Friday, Oct: 28, 2016. Every day there will be a new photo from the bands’ history. Today, we start where it all began: In the year 1967, in a rehearsal space in Berlin-Charlottenburg, Am Karolinger Platz. Caught in the act by an unknown photographer is the very first version of AGITATION (more…)
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On October 28, 2016, MIG Music will release a new box with rare material and new live DVD of AGITATION FREE.
The band is a living legend. Since their break up in 1974 the band which was internationally just as influential as Can or Neu! had made itself scarce. Now the original members are playing occasional concerts again, and they have not (more…)
On September 30th we will add “Lonnie Donegan Meets Leinemann” to our Collectors Premium series.
In the 70’s LEINEMANN were an integral part of the so-called “Hamburger Szene” which was founded at Onkel Pö’s Carnegie Hall. And it became its home base. Udo Lindenberg, the Rentnerband and also comedians like Otto Waalkes, Willem or Truck Stop made music from Hamburg famous across city borders. (more…)
PAUL VINCENT and STEPHAN WISSNET will release their new album „Kammermusik“ with MIG Music on September 30, 2016.
People may not know the names PAUL VINCENT and STEPHAN WISSNET but they know their music. Their music is being played frequently on TV, for example in the German hospital series “In aller Freundschaft”.
But both guitarist (more…)
With this IAIN MATTHEWS Rockpalast release we celebrate a special premiere. For all musicologists out there we have also put all studio versions of the songs being played during this 1983 concert at the Hamburger Markthalle on a bonus disc to compare for the first time.
The personal liner notes for this ROCKPALAST release (more…)