In commemoration of Tatsuro Yamashita’s 50th debut anniversary, "SONGS 50th Anniversary Edition" will be released on Wednesday, April 23, 2025. "SONGS" is the only album released by Sugar Babe, consisting of Tatsuro Yamashita, Taeko Onuki, Kunio Muramatsu, Mikio Wanigawa, and Akihiko Noguchi (with later participation by Ginji Ito, Jiro Terao, and Hiroshi Uehara), originally unveiled on April 25, 1975.

-Never heard before CD compilation, dedicated to the charismatic musician and author who revolutionized folk and rock music like no other in the '60s and became the worldwide figurehead of a cultural upheaval in youth culture: Bob Dylan. -Compiled with expertise and passion by French producer Philippe Le Bras for Bear Family Records®, this anthology features original recordings, mostly from the mid-1960s. -Dylan-inspired artists such as Dion, Lou Reed, Bobby Darin, Leon Russell, David Crosby, Boz Scaggs, Bob Seger, Johnny Winter, David Blue and many others try to catch up with their mentor and colleague and produce songs in the idiom he pioneered. -Not a single Dylan song on this album, and yet the master can be heard throughout! -Foreword by the late John Sinclair, essays by Iggy Pop and Elliott Murphy, extensive liner notes and numerous rare illustrations and memorabilia in the 48-page booklet. Bob Dylan made his mark on US pop culture in the 1960s with his performances, his songwriting and lyrics like no other contemporary. An icon of folk and rock music, he influenced a generation of fellow artists who were either unable or unwilling to escape his charisma. French music producer Philippe Le Bras spent years developing the concept of a compilation on which Dylan's influence is obvious at every second, although not a single cover version of his songs can be found.

'Hergest Ridge' is Mike Oldfield's follow up to his debut album, 'Tubular Bells'. Similar to his first album it is a single composition split into two parts covering different moods and musical styles. Released in 1974 it received a quadraphonic remix in 1976 and a 5.1 surround sound and stereo remix in 2010. David Kosten has recently completed new mixes for this blu-ray in Dolby Atmos, 5.1 and stereo. All eight versions are included plus an additional 'Binaural' version for headphones-only.

Tangerine Dream (1967). Tangerine Dream probably has the edge as the best of this British psychedelic group's two albums, but not by much. A long sought-after psychedelic rarity, it includes several of Kaleidoscope's best songs: "Flight from Ashiya," "Dive into Yesterday," "The Murder of Lewis Tollani," and especially the fragile ballad "Please Excuse My Face."
Faintly Blowing (1969). For their second album, Kaleidoscope delivered something an awful lot like their debut, a body of pleasant, trippy, spacy raga-rock, with the main difference that they pushed the wattage a little harder on their instruments - they'd also been performing pretty extensively by the time of their second long-player, and a lot of the music here was material that they'd worked out on-stage in very solid versions…

Limited 10CD + NTSC/Region 0 DVD. The first complete retrospective of Nik Kershaw's early career and has been done in conjunction with Nik who has overseen the project. A 10CD box set featuring all of the MCA albums as well as four discs of B-Sides, Remixes and Extended Mixes, some of which have never appeared on CD before as well as a live show from Hammersmith released for the first time in it's entirety. The DVD - NTSC 0. features promo videos and the Hammersmith show from 1985 pulled together for the first time. The extensive booklet contains new notes by Paul Sinclair who interviewed Nik about the history and his recollections behind these albums and his life in the 80s. Newly mastered audio overseen by Nik Kershaw with Tony Dixon.

Riding the success of their award-winning breakthrough Take Me Back to Eden, the undefinable enigma that is Sleep Token made a quick turnaround with their stunning major-label debut, Even in Arcadia. A streamlined evolution of their established sound, this ten-song set tightens their rule-shattering whirlwind into a focused assault on the senses and emotions. The faithful will have a pretty good idea of what to expect, but for newcomers and the uninitiated, Sleep Token presents a wild mix that may be confusing and even off-putting to a casual observer. However, if the listener can lock in, it's a refreshing thrill to hear so many styles smashed together. Smooth jazz saxophone, sweeping strings, and twinkling piano crash into crushing djent-y riffs, pummeling drums, and proggy time signatures…

Born in Philadelphia on 11th December 1938, as a youth McCoy Tyner was encouraged to study piano by his mother and began lessons at age 13. Within two years music had become the focal point in his life and Tyner was playing on his neighbor's instrument, but his family soon invested in one of his own for the budding musician, following which he began hosting jam sessions at home. Among his friends were a number of other young musicians who would go on to make their mark in the field of jazz, including Lee Morgan, Archie Shepp, Bobby Timmons, Reggie Workman, and most notably, fellow pianist Bud Powell and his brother Richie. McCoy later said, Bud and Richie Powell moved into my neighborhood. Bud was a major influence on me during my early teens. He was very dynamic. Tyner later attended the West Philadelphia Music School and the Granoff School Of Music.

Johnny Henry Smith II, born June 25th 1922, became one of America's most revered cool jazz guitarist. This 4CD set features eight of Johnny Smith's most potent, dynamic and rewarding albums on which he served as band-leader, recorded for the Roost label between 1955 and 1960. Containing all of this most underrated Jazz master's finest compositions and performances, the collection will work equally well for those new to Smith's music and those who merely require a delightful reminder of his most extraordinary work and most unusual talent.

Zakk Sabbath is the Black Sabbath tribute band featuring guitarist/vocalist Zakk Wylde (Black Label Society, Ozzy Osbourne), bassist Blasko (Ozzy Osbourne, Rob Zombie) and drummer Joey Castillo (Danzig, Queens of the Stone Age), who have been constantly gigging since 2014 with their take on the Birmingham four's early songs.

Simon and Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Water was the hottest album in the land in 1970, and Paul Simon's tunes from that and their earlier albums unexpectedly find a congenial advocate in Paul Desmond. Against the odds as determined by bopsters, Desmond finds something beautiful, wistful, and/or sly to say in each of these ten tunes, backed by Herbie Hancock's Rhodes electric piano and a set of ravishing, occasionally overstated (as in "America") orchestrations by Don Sebesky. "The 59th Street Bridge Song" is given a jaunty, carefree rendition, adapting quite well to a jazz treatment (after all, Desmond's old teammate in the Brubeck quartet Joe Morello played drums on S&G's original record) and Desmond even does some cascading overdubs on his solo part. "Cecilia" is a fast samba, Desmond cleverly works his old "Sacre Blues" into the solo on "El Condor Pasa," and the title track has a breathtakingly pretty fadeout…

East coast band with strong Canterbury school besides Muffins or Happy The Man and RIO influences. However delivers a very experimental music rich in wind instruments, acoustic guitars and many vintage keyboards. They use their musical abilities to build upon the Gentle Giant and Canterbury foundation to create a music that can only be described as one of the better American efforts from the late '70s into the '80s.
"Sudden Dusk" (1981) has the feel if not the actual sound of the English Canterbury school married with a detectable American folk influence, producing rock/chamber compositions of unusual beauty and dimension… The usual reference points given include Zappa, National Health, Gentle Giant and the like, but the similarities to those groups are only in that these are first rate players and the fact that the music is often complex…

The soundtrack to a VHS cassette of Christine Alicino's "video paintings" (which can be viewed properly only when the monitor is stood on its side), Thursday Afternoon is an hour-long, uninterrupted ambient piece created in Eno's "holographic" compositional style, in which even the most brief snippet of music is representative of the performance as a whole.

Deluxe box set contains three CDs + two Blu-Rays. This limited edition deluxe boxed set comprises three CDs featuring a new remaster of the original album, along with superb new stereo mixes by Stephen W Tayler, including three session out-takes and new mixes of the single tracks 'Urban Guerrilla' and 'Brainbox Pollution'. Also included is a stunning new mix of Hawkwind's performance at the Greasy Truckers Party at the Roundhouse on 13th February 1972. The set also includes two region-free Blu-ray discs which feature Stephen W Tayler's stunning new 5. 1 Surround Sound mixes of 'Doremi Fasol Latido' and bonus tracks and the complete live Greasy Truckers Party performance. An additional bonus feature is the 1973 promotional film of 'Urban Guerrilla'. The set is completed with a 68-page illustrated book with new essay and a reproduction poster initially included with the first pressing of album in November 1972 making this boxed set the definitive release of this legendary album.

This 40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition includes the original studio album, ten previously unreleased live tracks that were recorded during the band s three-night stand at the Los Angeles Forum in October 1976. Presented in an 11 x 11 hardbound book, the set also features rare and unseen photos from the era, a replica tour book, and three stand-alone posters.
The Eagles took 18 months between their fourth and fifth albums, reportedly spending eight months in the studio recording Hotel California. The album was also their first to be made without Bernie Leadon, who had given the band much of its country flavor, and with rock guitarist Joe Walsh. As a result, the album marks a major leap for the Eagles from their earlier work, as well as a stylistic shift toward mainstream rock…

In the liner notes to these carefully packaged reissues, all four of the Incredible String Band principals– co-founder Clive Palmer, core duo Mike Heron and Robin Williamson, and Elektra records executive Joe Boyd– offer their insights in separate essays. Three of them mention the smell of patchouli. Such were the times, certainly, but the ISB are loved equally by avant-garde musicians, psychedelia enthusiasts, and those slightly dweeby young gentlemen who hang around music shops on college campuses. The reissue of their first four albums probably put to rest any notion that the ISB were a properly great band, releasing just one true classic, but they were rarely anything less than brave, inspired, and profoundly weird.