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1994 was a quiet year for Neil Young, who didn't tour to promote his Sleeps With Angels album, choosing to play a few benefits instead. Farm Aid, bringing relief to stricken farmers and their families, had long been a cause close to his heart, and the performance captured here turned out to be his most prominent date of the year. Reunited with his longtime collaborators Crazy Horse, he turned in an incendiary set that was recorded for FM broadcast. It's presented here together with background notes and images.


a1. COUNTRY HOME
a2. DOWN BY THE RIVER
b1. ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER
b2. FARMER JOHN
b3. CHANGE YOUR MIND

Nino Rota is the Italian composer responsible for the well known film scores for The Godfather series (MOVATM036), though the breadth of his work extends to opera, ballet and concertos. He was born into a musical family and studied in Italy before moving to America in the early 1930s. By the 40s he was writing film scores and soon developed a long standing creative partnership with the respected and influential film director Frederico Fellini.

Fellini made Il Bidone (also known as The Swindle or The Swindlers) in 1955. Released one year after the director's internationally successful La Strada, Il Bidone continues with many of the same socially conscious, neorealist- inspired themes while minimizing the poetic realism and extravagant vitality, that is today known as "felliniesque", in favor of a more pointed political stance.

The film follows the exploits of a group of swindlers, focusing on their aging leader Augusto, as they go about their "business," reaping both rewards and consequences.

"Acoustic Spaces" is the title of Gabriele Bellini's latest album. Almost completely acoustic - classic guitar is its main instrument - and devoid of lyrics, this record includes anyway one track achieved together with the artists of JMP (jam movie project), Claire Biant Nesti (soprano) and Michel Agostini (drums and percussions). 10 new songs, totally written, composed, recorded and mixed in the time frame of one single month inside the magic climate of "la Fucina Studio", with the support of Giacomo "Jac" Salani's skillful and unique directing competences. Compared to all the previous outputs, it has been an unusual working way: the outcome of a real "carpe diem", the complete seizure of a great inspirational moment, which place's charm acted as a first role, making real this bizarre, odd and inventive musical context.

1. Season Zero
2. Awakenings
3. Squisio!
4. Remake The Renaissance - feat. Michel Agostini
5. Order'N'Desorde
6. Terraforming
7. Relativity - feat. Michel Agostini
8. Forward To Skip
9. Dynamic Day
10. Skyland - feat. Michel Agostini / Claire Briant Nesti

The first part 'Classical Trancelations' dates back to the year of 2008, uniting trance fans and non EDM lovers with a single compilation.

Now, 7 years later, Finnish producer Petri Alanko returns with a highly anticipated 'Classical Trancelations 2', composed under his famed alias Lowland.

" LA RUOTA DEL DESTINO " is the debut album of the Opera, is the goal of a long musical journey and the human started way back in March 2008. The project is the brainchild of Deborah, voice and author of all the texts and all the vocal melodies, and his meeting with Nicko, drummer with many years of live experience behind. Already in its initial formation, the band consists intense and emotional songs gathering a consensus growing during the first live performances. In May 2011, Michael, and the talented bassist deep theoretical knowledge, joins the Opera, offering complex musical textures and harmonies that blend perfectly with the melodic solutions created by Deborah. In March 2014 the Opera finally found in guitarist Mark the missing link, the solid and definitive stability that allows the band to realize the hard work done over the years. The music of the Opera is a blend unexpected and personal styles, a proposal fresh and melodic, yet powerful, sophisticated arrangements and never boring. The catchy melodies and lyrics in Italian, the solidity of rock drums, the virtuoso harmony of powerful bass lines and the depth of the arrangements of the 7-string guitar design a carousel of emotions and feelings, a musical proposal that collects the legacy of the past and it combines with modernity and power of the music of our time drawing a line important for the new sounds of the future.

The whole recording project, the rediscovery of an atypical artist like Ivan Cattaneo, is ready. The same Cattaneo has more artistic identity: painter, poet, one man show ... but with this project, some colleagues known, established and emerging, have ventured to reinterpret his pen of author, bringing to light its first decade by songwriter, when Cattaneo realized discs and songs, under the guidance of the great Nanni Ricordi, inventor of the songwriters, musicians such as PFM, Roberto Colombo, Tony Mimms. The artists who joined this project are: Banda Osiris - Garbo - Gianni Leone Ballet Bronze - Montefiori Cocktail - Luca Urbani + Alberto Styloo - Andrea Zuppini - Allerija - John Block - Egokid - Elektroshock - Ensonika - Dario Faini - Alessandro Orlando Graziano - HER - HelenaVelena - Naif Herin - Hueco - Nine Tears + Gerardo Konte - Claudio Milan - Ottodix - Stefano Pais - Susanna Paris - Brushes Vermeer - Roby Rossini - Chinese Roulette - Porfirio Rubirosa - Steetycats - Diana Tejera - Vidra + Masi




[B CD1-2. GARBO - Scarabocchio

Rest in Peace M.J. 12 Brand New Remixes......

Instruments is an acoustic project by internationally celebrated producer/performer/composer Henrik Schwarz. He is an artist highly on request to create energetic dance music productions for Boy George, Stevie Wonder, James Brown, indie stars Ane Brun, The Foals, Omar, or jazz legends like Mark Murphy. His intense laptop performances in major clubs and at the largest international music festivals in Japan, USA, Europe, Asia, Australia, South America catapulted Schwarz into the Top Ten League of electronic music performers.

The classical arrangements on Instruments are created by Johannes Brecht as a fully acoustic listening experience of Schwarz's chart topping melodic compositions. On this album, 7 of his compositions are transcribed for a contemporary music ensemble, including the first single ever released that got worldwide attention - Marvin' (which came out in 2002).

Both performed and recorded strictly acoustic, without the backbone of any electronic instruments, the pureness and elegance of wood brass, strings and percussions are transporting the repetitive grooves and hymnal anthems into renowned concert halls. The Tonhalle Zurich, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester & Deutsches Kammerorchester commissioned arrangements to be performed in their residential venues - the concert at the Kammermusiksaal of the Berlin Philharmonic Hall on November 15, 2011 was sold out.

UK limited edition LP pressed on 180 gram vinyl and cut from the original album master tapes.
sealed picture sleeve

Rockabilly Riot: All Original", das erste Studioalbum seit dem Grammy-nominierten "Setzer Goes Instru-Mental!" (2011), bietet von Anfang bis Ende Rockabilly der feinsten Art!
Mit 12 neuen Originalsongs steht das Album damit in einer Reihe mit dem Hitalbum "Rockabilly Riot Vol. 1" und zeigt, dass Setzers charakteristischer Sound brillant ist wie eh und je. Unterstützt wird er von drei Musikern, die laut Setzer "die Besten ihres Faches" sind: Mark Winchester (Bass), Kevin McKendree (Piano) und Noah Levy (Drums). Produziert wurde das Album von Peter Collins in Nashville, der auch schon bei Setzers Alben "Vavoom!"(2000) und "The Dirty Boogie"(1998) beteiligt gewesen ist.
Der dreifach mit dem Grammy-Award ausgezeichnete Brian Setzer hat nicht nur als Leader der Stray Cats eine vielfach dekorierte Karriere und eine Reihe Chart-Hits hingelegt, sondern auch mit seinem 18-köpfigen "Brian Setzer Orchestra" und als Solokünstler. Er wird fortwährend als einer der besten Gitarristen der Welt zitiert, und hat eine beträchtliche Bestseller-Linie von Gretsch Signature-Guitars mit seinem Namen vorzuweisen.

Deutsche Grammophon präsentiert: Martha Argerich & Claudio Abbado - Sämtliche
Konzert-Aufnahmen, jetzt auch als limitierte 6-LP-Box erhältlich, gepresst auf 180g Vinyl bei Record
Industries.
Erleben Sie die Entwicklung der beiden Ausnahmetalente von ihren Anfängen 1968 mit Argerichs
brillianter Konzert-Debütveröffentlichung mit Prokofiev bis zu den Mozart-Konzerten, Live vom Lucerne
Festival 2013.

Decca präsentiert einen Teil ihrer legendärsten Veröffentlichungen auf Vinyl: Jetzt sind 4 streng
limitierte Vinyl-Alben erhältlich, die klanglich nicht spektakulärer sein könnten. In den Abbey Road
Studios von den analogen Bändern neu gemastert und von OPTIMAL auf 180g Vinyl gepresst,
genügen sie den höchsten audiophilen Ansprüchen. Jedes Album erscheint mit dem jeweils originalen
Cover.
Ein Meisterwerk auf einer Doppel-LP: Gustav Mahlers Sinfonie Nr. 8- aufgenommen mit dem Chicago
Symphony Orchestra, den Wiener Sängerknaben, dem Wiener Staatsopernchor, Wiener Singverein,
Soltisten wie Heather Harper oder Lucia Popp und unter der Leitung von Sir Georg Solti.
- Die erste richtig großartige Aufnahme von Mahlers Achten (Grammophone)
- Schon bei Erscheinen hatte diese Einspielung für Furore gesorgt und auch heute gibt es an Soltis
emphatischer, dennoch durchaus auf Klarheit bedachter Durchdringung des sinfonischen Kolosses
kaum etwas zu bemängeln. (stereoplay 10/85)

Since the release of Solo Piano II, Chilly Gonzales composed the best-selling book of easy piano pieces Re-Introduction Etudes, produced and released Octave Minds, the piano-meets-electronica album with Boys Noize and, most importantly, devoted himself to finding a modern take on chamber music. The result is "Chambers", an album for piano and string quartet (and a few surprises along the way). Inspired by the deepening relationship with Hamburg's Kaiser Quartett, the album re-imagines Romantic-era chamber music as today's addictive pop. Gestures from rap, ambient, easy listening and the avant-garde co- exist as always in Chilly Gonzales' musical universe - this time with strings attached.

Known equally for his intimate piano touch as for his showmanship, "Gonzo" aims to be a man of his time, approaching the piano with classical and jazz training but with the attitude of a rapper. Chilly Gonzales holds the Guinness world record for the longest solo concert at over 27 hours. He performs and writes songs with Jarvis Cocker, Feist and Drake, among others. In 2014 he won a Grammy for his collaboration on Daft Punk's Best Album of the Year. With "Never Stop", Chilly Gonzales composed a global hit for the inaugural Apple iPad campaign.

[aE] CD 1-5 | Ce Ce Peniston - We Got a Love Thing (Extended Version)