Wish You Were Here , released in September 1975, was the follow up album to the globally successful The Dark Side Of The Moon and is cited by many fans, as well as band members Richard Wright and David Gilmour, as their favorite Pink Floyd album. On release it went straight to Number One in both the UK and the US and topped the charts in many other countries around the world. This program tells the story of the making of this landmark release through new interviews with Roger Waters, David Gilmour and Nick Mason and archive interviews with the late Richard Wright. Also featured are sleeve designer Storm Thorgerson, guest vocalist Roy Harper, front cover burning man Ronnie Rondell and others involved in the creation of the album. In addition, original recording engineer Brian Humphries revisits the master tapes at Abbey Road Studios to illustrate aspects of the songs construction.

Best known for his work with Ultravox and as a co-founder writer/founder of Band Aid’s ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas’, Midge Ure has also had a rich and illustrious career prior to Ultravox with the Rich Kids, Visage and throughout his career as a solo artist. Chrysalis Records are releasing a new 32-song collection, encompassing four decades of Midge Ure’s rich and varied career. This 2CD/1DVD is presented with double-gatefold card sleeves, a 20-page booklet with track notes by Midge and housed in a clamshell box. It features promo videos including the Rich Kids, through to his solo work and various collaborations. Bonus features include documentaries and additional live and video clips. As a special bonus, Midge has recorded a commentary over the promo videos. Midge Ure will be on a world tour from October – beginning with a full UK tour, then moving to Poland, Germany, Holland, Scandinavia, Australia, New Zealand and North America.

New Trolls are an Italian progressive rock band, known for their fusion of rock and classical music. Their history is filled with line-up changes, band name changes and struggles between band members. Along the years several members regrouped under different monikers (New Trolls Atomic System, Vittorio De Scalzi - La storia dei New Trolls, Ibis, Il Mito New Trolls, La Leggenda New Trolls, Uno Tempore). Unique in the history of Italian progressive music, New Trolls were leaders and were for a time the top band in Italy. In 1973, New Trolls split into two camps, the hard-rocking IBIS and the symphonic-oriented NEW TROLLS ATOMIC SYSTEM. They crossed many different permutations of line-up changes, many musical stylings… and great hits, passing through beat, pop ballads, progressive rock works, hard rock, and melodic pop followed groups like GENESIS and PFM.

On The Blue Room, her second Decca recording, Madeleine Peyroux and producer Larry Klein re-examine the influence of Ray Charles' revolutionary 1962 date, Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music. They don't try to re-create the album, but remake some of its songs and include others by composers whose work would benefit from the genre-blurring treatment Charles pioneered. Bassist David Pilch, drummer Jay Bellerose, guitarist Dean Parks, and pianist/organist Larry Goldings are the perfect collaborators. Most these ten tracks feature string arrangements by Vince Mendoza. Five tunes here are reinterpretations of Charles' from MSICAWM. "Take These Chains" commences as a sultry jazz tune, and in Peyroux's vocal, there is no supplication – only a demand. Parks' pedal steel moves between sounding like itself and a clarinet. Goldings' alternating B-3 and Rhodes piano offer wonderful color contrast and make it swing. Her take on "Bye Bye Love" feels as if it's being narrated to a confidante, and juxtaposes early Western swing with a bluesy stroll. A rock guitar introduces "I Can't Stop Loving You," but Peyroux's phrasing has more country-blues in it than we've heard from her before. The use of a trumpet in "Born to Lose" and "You Don't Know Me," with Mendoza's dreamy strings, allow for Peyroux to deliver her most stylized jazz performances on the set.

Never Boring is a box set of Freddie Mercury's solo work, released on 11 October 2019. The box set contains three CDs including a new 12-track compilation of a selection of Freddie's solo performances, a newly mixed 11-track special edition of Mr. Bad Guy and the nine-track 2012 special edition of Barcelona featuring a full orchestra. In addition to the CDs, the box set also contains a Blu-ray and DVD of Mercury's promos and his stage performances with Montserrat Caballé include eight that have been reassembled from the original 35mm film rushes for better visual and sound quality. The album was compiled by Queen's longtime sound team Justin Shirley-Smith, Kris Fredriksson and Joshua J Macrae.

This album is a feast for the ears–4 CDs of little-played, virtually unknown solo piano music by Reynaldo Hahn, born in Venezuela but a resident of France from the age of 4, and therefore sounding more like French romantics like Debussy than Argentine composers like Piazolla–there's nary a tango in sight. What we have here are dozens of brief (many as short as 1 minute), delicious melodies expertly played by the hyper-talented Cristina Araiagno. There's also a bonus DVD about the making of the CD with more info on the composer and the pianist. Just when you thought you'd heard the entire piano repertoire, here comes a delightful surprise.

''I've never done anything like this before'' McCoy Tyner recently said of his second album on McCoy Tyner Music/Half Note Records, a CD/DVD titled GUITARS. Along with a trio of Ron Carter and Jack DeJohnette, Tyner invited guitarists Bill Frisell, Derek Trucks, John Scofield, Marc Ribot, and banjoist Bela Fleck for the studio recording and DVD shoot, scheduled for a September 23 release. ''It was great, and each guy had his own concept and own sound which is very, very important on any instrument, '' said Tyner, ''You know, I look for that, the individual sound and concept.''

Romantic Warriors III - Got Canterbury? Special Features DVD (2016) is the companion DVD to the highly acclaimed documentary "Romantic Warriors III - Canterbury Tales" that was released in 2015. "Got Canterbury?" contains almost 5 hours of new footage, including the remaining (and last) interviews with Daevid Allen, and pioneering promoter Giorgio Gomelsky. Also on the DVD: Live performances of bands that were featured in the film, including Forgas Band Phenomena, The Wrong Object, Soft Machine Legacy, and American bands Glass and The Muffins…

Velociraptor! is a primordial beast of a record that confirms the band's place at the top table of modern day rock'n'roll legends. Written and produced by Serge, the album was recorded in Leicester and mixed in San Francisco. The deluxe CD+DVD edition contains an audio CD with the regular album tracklisting, and a DVD featuring the band's live show from the O2 Dublin on November 27th 2009; 21 tracks in total, listed in the format details below.

Kasabian is the debut studio album by British rock band Kasabian, released on 6 September 2004. Four singles were released from the album; the highest chart position on the UK Album Chart was number 4. Like the kid brothers of the Cooper Temple Clause more interested in reviving the sound of the Stones Roses' anthemia 'Begging You' than tweaking their well coiffeured heads, Kasabian blast through thirteen tracks on their debut, self-titled album like a gang of pumped up storm-troopers with a penchant for aggro. Kasabian are as cocky as Oasis, as party-inducing as the Mondays & as inventive as Primal Scream, in short they are set to be huge. Stay out of their line of fire though, 'cause these boys have a deadly arsenal. The UK limited edition version is a double-sided DualDisc and has a glow-in-the-dark cover. The DVD element contains a making-of documentary and several music videos.

For me, this release took time to sink in because there is so much going on. Not just shredding but dynamics and melody that gives your brain a workout. Then it clicked - holy crap this is an incredible collaboration of sonic nirvana! Every song on "Culture Clash" is killer and has its own personality. Whether rock, fusion, techno, rockabilly, or prog-metal, these tunes are clever and well thought out with arrangements to die for. The disc clocks in just over 57 minutes, all instrumental, and each band mate wrote three songs. You can get lost in these songs and shouldn't focus too long on one instrument because the sum is better than its parts.

The Love We Make , a film directed by Albert Maysles ( Gimme Shelter ) and Bradley Kaplan, follows Paul McCartney as he journeys through the streets of New York City in the aftermath of the destruction of the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001. It also chronicles the planning and performance of the benefit concert that took place less than six months after the attacks: The Concert For New York City…

To celebrate the great success of the album a special "inFinite (Gold Edition)" is about to be released. The album will feature all of the great masterpieces from "inFinite", while also including a brand new live recording from Hellfest 2017, the biggest metal festival in France…

Phoenix Rising (subtitled "Coverdale • Hughes • Bolin • Paice • Lord") is a combo CD/DVD live album by the Mark IV line-up of Deep Purple, released in May 2011. It includes rare live tracks from Mk IV history, Rises Over Japan, a (30 minute) concert film directed by Tony Klinger, Gettin' Tighter, a (80 minute) new music documentary about the band's 1975/1976 tour, and some extras…

Esoteric Recordings are pleased to announce the next release in the continuing series of reissues of the entire catalogue by the legendary classical rock band Sky. Formed in 1979, Sky brought together the worlds of rock and classical music in a highly successful and inspiring way. Featuring the gifted talents of guitarist John Williams, percussionist Tristan Fry, legendary bass player Herbie Flowers, former Curved Air keyboard player Francis Monkman and guitarist Kevin Peek, Sky recorded their debut album at Abbey Road studios in the early months of 1979. The band’s self-titled debut reached the UK top ten in May 1979 and went on to achieve Platinum status in the UK and was also a major hit in Europe and Australia.