On August 29, 1981, Southern rockers 38 Special entered the stage of the open-air theater high above the Rhine on Loreley Rock. The Outlaws, Nine Below Zero and Thin Lizzy were in the festival line-up that day as well. It was the first of the many great outdoor festival-events of the WDR Rockpalast in this unique natural ambience in St. Goarshausen. 38 Special (more…)
Anne Clark, the British poet, singer, songwriter and grand dame of Dark Wave, is going on tour in Germany again. From 31st. May to 10th. June 2023 she travels across the country. Some of the concerts are already sold out. In November, the European tour will continue with another 12 dates in Germany, including a double concert at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. In (more…)
Who still doesn’t know WUCAN, but instead permanently playing his Tull-Zeppelin-Renft records for the umpteenth time until they just loudly crackle their circles on the turntable, should definitely dare a look from the past towards the present and future – because there shines crackle-free and crystal clear at the cutting edge, but also of the past, WUCAN! (Thoralf Koß, Musikreview.de, 10.04.2023)
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Three years after the release of his critically acclaimed album “Salone” we released almost four weeks ago the new album “Traveling Medicine Man” by Bai Kamara Jr. and his band, the Voodoo Sniffers.
As with the previous album, the press and also the radio worldwide are reacting euphorically to the new album of the musician from Brussels with his very own unique style, (more…)
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…)