Die neue Deluxe-Edition von „Der Sommer ist vorbei“ als limited Digipak mit CD + Blu-Ray (VÖ 19.04.2024) mit 3 brandneuen Songs, 2 neue Remixe Roosevelt und TIMTIM und auf Blu-ray HD der 51 min. Konzertfilm Juli Live bei Poparound@bauhaus 2023 mit allen großen Hits. JULI meldeten sich erst letztes Jahr mit ihrem gefeierten Top10 Album „Der Sommer ist vorbei" und ihrer ersten Tour seit über 8 Jahren mehr als eindrucksvoll zurück. Die über 350K Follower:innen und über 1 Millionen monatlichen Spotify Hörer:innen begegneten der Deutschpopformation um Frontfrau Eva Briegel mit purer Euphorie und Liebe. Juli sind nicht nur Kult, sondern hoch-geschätztes Kulturgut aller Generationen. Und so sollte der Ruf von VOX nach Südafrika für SingMeinenSong 2024 nicht lange auf sich warten! Im Zuge dessen legt die Band mit der neuen DELUXE- Edition ihres Albums "Der Sommer ist vorbei" nach und veröffentlicht darauf mit "Im Großen und Ganzen", "Bitte Herz", "Delfine" gleich drei brandneue Songs. Auch Clubfans kommen mit den neuen Remixen "Der Sommer ist vorbei" vom gefeierten Producern Roosevelt und TIMTIM auf ihre Kosten. Abgerundet wird die neue Deluxe Edition mit 51 min. purer Live-Energie von Juli auf Blu-ray HD beim Poparound@bauhaus Konzert aus dem Jahr 2023, wo sie neben neuen Songs wie u.a. "Fette Wilde Jahre“ auch ihre Megahits "Geile Zeit" oder "Perfekte Welle" live auf die Bühne bringen.

With 2020's Sunset in the Blue singer Melody Gardot sinks into a dusky and languorously produced album that builds upon her love of jazz standards, Brazilian music, and intimate balladry. The record finds Gardot surrounded by a production dream team, including longtime associate Larry Klein, who helmed 2009's My One and Only Thrill and 2015's Currency of Man, as well as equally acclaimed studio pros, arranger Vince Mendoza and engineer Al Schmitt. Together, they have crafted a showcase for Gardot's delicately nuanced vocal style. The album is an interesting dichotomy, at once intimate as if Gardot is singing to you in a small club, yet also widescreen, framing her hushed vocals in sweeping orchestrations that reinforce the romantic drama at play in the songs. The opening original "If You Love Me Let Me Know," sounds like something Dinah Washington or Abbey Lincoln might sing, but filtered through the half-lidded scrim of Gardot's bedroom intimacy. Equally evocative moments follow, as on the yearning "You Won't Forget Me," in which Gardot balances a wry cabaret theatricality à la Marlene Dietrich with a tangible sadness that never feels anything but real. Elsewhere, she gently wades into a handful of earthy bossa nova songs, including a gorgeously attenuated reading of the Ella Fitzgerald number "C'est Magnifique" featuring Brazilian singer António Zambujo and a crackling take of Marco Paulo's "Ninguem, Ninguem" that she sings in Portuguese. We also get a movie theme-ready version of "From Paris with Love," as well as memorable takes on classics like "Moon River" and "I Fall in Love Too Easily." From beginning to end, Gardot's Sunset in the Blue holds you in its deeply rapturous glow.

By the end of the 1960s Lee Hazlewood’s LHI Records had burned piles of cash, gone through a half dozen distributors and failed to achieve the kind of chart success “Boots” had promised. Fortunately for Lee there was a land where he was still on the top of the charts, a place where women flowed like Brännvin…Sweden was calling. Released as the last LHI LP, Cowboy in Sweden was a soundtrack to the 1970 cult classic film of the same name starring Lee Hazlewood. The film was a surreal psychedelic account of Lee’s journey to his new homeland, while the soundtrack was a perfect compilation of Hazlewood’s orchestral melancholy country pop songs. Recorded over a prolific globe trotting three year period, Lee’s peak on LHI records was ironically the label’s swan song.