Category Archives: Reissues

STONE THE CROWS & MAGGIE BELL – Best Of

September 10, 2018

Angel Air 2018 Most prominent moments of Scotland’s finest purveyors of Mississippi blues and its mighty spin-offs – majestically tragic and eternally vibrant. They might be giants, yet this group’s career turned out to be short-lived – or, rather, cut … Continue reading →

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IAN HUNTER Feat. Mick Ronson – Live At Rockpalast

September 8, 2018

MiG 2011 / 2017 Climbing up the mountains without falling down the holes, a couple of HOOPLE lads deliver a night to remember. Ian Hunter and Mick Ronson were firm friends from the time David Bowie had saved the failing … Continue reading →

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PETER BANKS – The Self-Contained Trilogy

September 6, 2018

HTD 1993, 1997; One Way 1996 / The Right Honourable 2018 Former YES axeman’s oft-overlooked hat-trick of low-profile individual endeavors creates an arc of arcane narrative. This is a paradox but the invariably individual Peter Banks always preferred running with … Continue reading →

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NIRVANA – Black Flower

September 4, 2018

Metromedia 1969 / Esoteric 2018 Semi-mythical album from original psychedelic duo who fractured under the weight of their cinematic vision. They may have devised a first rock-opera in “The Story Of Simon Simopath” in 1967 and had been blackened on-screen … Continue reading →

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BARIS MANCHO – Nick The Chopper

August 28, 2018

CBS 1976 / Pharaway Sounds 2018 Anatolian nightingale’s futile attempt to fill European forests with Eastern song. He might have been larger than life in his native Turkey, yet Bariş Manço always dreamed of taking his art outside the country, … Continue reading →

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