Shania Twain Turns Her Crossover Album Into Diamond

July 21, 2023

When Shania Twain issued her third full-length offering “Come On Over” back in 1997, it was a worldwide smash, the album per se and nine out of the platter’s twelve singles topping charts in different territories and signaling the Canadian chanteuse’s definitive crossover from her original chosen genre, country. Produced and co-penned by Mutt Lange, the record was heard all the time everywhere, as such pieces as “That Don’t Impress Me Much” and “Man! I Feel Like A Woman!” frequented TV screens in the form of unforgettable videos. No wonder, there’s going to be a “Diamond Edition” of it, out on August 25th, marking, with a little delay, the platter’s quarter-century anniversary: a nice, if rather flawed, package.

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Starry Hydra Of THE FUSION SYNDICATE Returns

July 19, 2023

More than a decade has passed since THE FUSION SYNDICATE, a coterie of Cleopatra Records usual studio suspects served up their self-titled debut album that didn’t make a lot of waves but is warmly remembered by quite a few prog connoisseurs who loved to hear their heroes edge into jazz rock. Which is why September 15th will see the release of the project’s sophomore offering.

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Carla Fuchs Fleshes Out Sandy Denny’s Unfinished Songs

July 17, 2023

Had Sandy Denny been a mere singer of her friend’s pieces and interpreter of folklore, she would still be considered a distinguished artist; what made the late English lady truly special – a genuine genius – was her songwriting talent. Having left this world in 1978, at 31 years of age, Sandy left a cache of tuneful treasures that still influences young musicians, one of those being multi-instrumentalist – handling guitar, piano, drums and woodwind – Carla Fuchs who used to perform gems from Denny’s repertoire alongside those of Laura Nyro, and her own numbers, of course. That’s what convinced Georgia Lucas, the former FAIRPORTS and FOTHERINGAY frontwoman’s daughter, in the German chanteuse’s ability to do justice to Sandy’s unfinished works.

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Wreckless Eric Locates A Place For Leisure

July 15, 2023

From his 1978 hit “Whole Wide World” onwards, Eric Goulden known to this whole wide world as Wreckless Eric has repeatedly shown he knows how to have fun, and while the veteran’s punk credentials got diluted when he moved into new wave and further on, that streak remained apparent on each and every album the Englishman was intermittently issuing up until now.

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Jah Wobble Sends Waves Through Time

July 13, 2023

The notion of passing time has been present in Jah Wobble‘s solo oeuvre from the very beginning, numbers like “Today Is The First Day Of The Rest Of My Life” and “Sense Of History” peppering from 1980 onward. No wonder, then, that the veteran’s 2003 album, continues the same theme: titled “A Brief History Of Now” and due to be out on August 4th, it has a concept thread run between various bits and pieces.

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