On October 8th Andreas Vollenweider and Friends (The Band: with Andreas, Walter Keiser & Isabel Gehweiler) gave a showcase for the new album “Quiet Places” with reading parts from the book “Im Spiegel Der Venus” (read by Christoph Gaugler) in Zurich’s “Miller’s Studio”.
The event, held under the strict Corona guidelines, was filmed. Now there are compact 36 minutes of pure listening and (more…)
Five women, ten instruments! The Irish Indie-Folkrock band WOOKALILY signs a worldwide contract with M.I.G. Music GmbH.
With awe inspiring four part harmonies, low bowed double bass, flutes, trumpet, banjo and more, Wookalily create a masterful and sweeping sonic tapestry that will leave audiences rapt with wonder, and wanting more.
Recorded on traditional analogue equipment by the award winning producer Julie McLarnon (The (more…)
The Georgian singer/songwriter and rock poet Nash Albert signs a worldwide contract with M.I.G. Music GmbH. Nash was, among others, frontman of the successful Soviet alternative/indie band Blast (Blast Unit Moscow). The British NME described Blast as “the godfathers of the Russian alternative scene”. In 2013 Killing Joke’s Martin “Youth” Glover produced the most successful Blast album “Krisis Of Genre”. A year later (more…)
July 29, 2020. Hamburg, Germany, Broomfield, Colorado USA – Hypertension Music today announced an agreement to distribute the complete DMD music and video catalogue of the highly successful “Bluesmasters” that feature studio and live collaborations that include Pinetop Perkins, Magic Slim, Hubert Sumlin, Cassie Taylor, Hazel Miller, Otis Taylor, The Allman Brothers Band, Elvin Bishop, John Mayall, Eric Gales, Leon Russell, Abe Laboriel (more…)
Before the OUTLAWS went on stage that night at the Loreley, the British blues rock legend NINE BELOW ZERO performed at the Rockpalast for the first time the same day. 15 years later, NINE BELOW ZERO played again at the Lorelei, this time with the “Band Of Friends” to give a tribute concert in honour of the Irish blues rock legend Rory Gallagher, (more…)
After the great success of their current album “Dixie Highway”, which also entered the sales charts here in Europe in spring this year, THE OUTLAWS will now release their first legendary German show at the Rockpalast on the Lorelei on 29th. Aug. 1981.
That night THE OUTLAWS line-up was Freddie Salem (guit./voc.), Hughie Thomasson (guit./voc.), Billy Jones (guit./voc.), David Dix (drums) and Rick (more…)
On March, 23rd. 1987, the British Mute label released LAIBACH’s “Opus Dei”. The album includes, inter alia, a specific “Laibach” – interpretation of “Live Is Life”, the big single hit of the Austrian rockgroup Opus (one as a German version under the name “Leben heißt Leben” as well as an English version under the title “Opus Dei”) and also the interpretation of the (more…)
“Catfish are synonymous with the Mississippi Delta, this is where the roots of what I play began…the Blues.
The Church considered it Devil’s music, it was rebel in the making and spawned the greatest and most influential rebel Bluesman – Robert Johnson…he paid for it with his life…and his soul…
This album is a combination of essential “Catfish”, lifelong influences, rebellion, humour, love, (more…)
Andreas Vollenweider, the Swiss harpist, wanderer in and between the musical worlds, who has created his own trademarked musical universe, is back in the public focus, full of energy, after almost ten years of retreat, but of a creative heydey either.
Vollenweider, that is the US Grammy winner, winner of the Swiss Music Award, the World Music Award and the Edison Award. Two of (more…)
Dear friends, partners and fans,
The times are unreal, almost unimaginable, like in a bad Hollywood blockbuster. But we have to go through it. Solidarity is needed now, with our work colleagues, our families and friends, our neighbours and the people on the street. So that we can stay healthy, protect our fellow human beings and of course ourselves. Many things will change, some things will no longer be the way (more…)