Petula Clark is one of Britain’s best-love female vocalists who has succeeded in combining creativity with credibility in an all too disposable world. The 50s and 60s of course came up with its fair share of female stars, some of whom proved to have staying power as well as looks, but the lady who’s enjoyed the longest, most lustrous career of all is, by common consent, Petula Clark. Here are 2CDs of Petula’s finest recordings including the global hits Downtown, My Love and This Is My Song, together with fan-favourites Sailor, Romeo, My Friend The Sea and the beautiful and heartfelt title track Couldn’t Live Without Your Love.

Extensive 5CD box set exploring the history of Thrash Metal in the UK – curated by author and scene chronicler Ian Glasper. From legends such as Venom, Onslaught, Sabbat and Acid Reign to lesser-known, cult artists. 83 tracks across 5CD. Includes TEN previously unreleased tracks! Released to coincide with the publication of Ian Glasper’s book of the same name. Curated by the people who brought you Close To The Noise Floor, Revolutionary Spirit, Creation Artifact, Silhouettes And Statues and many more critically acclaimed box sets.

Réunis dans ce coffret, 10 de ses meilleurs albums parus entre 1967 et 2006 :
MA JEUNESSE FOUT LE CAMP… (1967) / COMMENT TE DIRE ADIEU (1968) / EN ANGLAIS (1968 / LA QUESTION (1971) / MESSAGE PERSONNEL (1973) / ENTRACTE (1974) / LE DANGER (1996) / CLAIR-OBSCUR (2000) / TANT DE BELLES CHOSES (2004) / (PARENTHÈSES…) (2006). Accompagné d'un livret détaillé, tous les albums sont présentés à l'unité dans une pochette CD simple replica, reprenant les rectos / versos originaux. Ces 10 albums constituent 10 jalons qui ont marqué sa carrière emblématique : 'Ma jeunesse fout le camp'*, 'Comment te dire adieu'*, 'La question' et 'Message Personnel' ont façonné sa légende d'icone Pop dans les années 60 et 70, tandis qu''En anglais'* témoigne de son aura internationale. Le confidentiel 'Entracte'* reste un de ces recueils les plus cultes. Marquant son grand retour en 1996, 'Le Danger' a fait date. Lui succédant dans les années 2000, 'Clair-obscur' (qui comprend la reprise 'Puisque vous partez en voyage'), 'Tant de belles choses' et 'Parenthèses' (albums de duo avec Bashung, Biolay, Dutronc…) restent par ailleurs des sommets de sa discographie. *Remasterisés récemment en 2016 et 2017.

Ornette Coleman Trio, live at the Manchester Free Trade Hall on May 14th 1966 Ornette Coleman formed a new trio with bassist David Izenzon and drummer Charles Moffett in October 1961. As the decade progressed, they expanded their musical palette to include trumpet and violin not instruments Coleman was experienced on and divided audiences and critics with their fiercely uncompromising music. Originally broadcast on FM radio during a short British tour, this remarkable set finds them on typically confrontational form, and is presented here together with background notes and images.

By their very nature, remix albums carry the weight of both their source material and the expectations of a "new" record. More often than not, the original music culled for remix collections is always better, and the result isn't so much a new album as it is a set of old songs restructured and recontextualized as the artist readies their next proper LP. The Cure is no stranger to the remix album. In 1990, after the success of Disintegration, they released Mixed Up, which featured remixed songs from their first decade. A sequel, Torn Down, played catch-up with the preceding quarter century in 2018. Both albums served a purpose, closing chapters for the group.

Paul Bley is a master of the piano trio. He showed new and different ways of exploring the complex triangular geometry of what has arguably become jazz’s signature formation. Bley’s early recording with Charles Mingus and Art Blakey promised great things to come. He emerged more fully as part of Jimmy Giuffre’s innovative trio with Steve Swallow, but it was with his own trios of the mid to late 1960s, with drummer Barry Altschul and bassists Kent Carter and Mark Levinson, that he really began to unfold an individual vision that is best sampled in Touching and in the live recording he made in Haarlem, The Netherlands. These are modern jazz at its most searching.

By 1965, Bley had settled on the trio format, and touring Europe revealed a warmer reception for music that employed chordless improvisations, three-way rhythmic counterpoint, un - familiar melodic constructs, and malleable song form. But there was an equally momentous conceptual change in the group’s material, as the adventurous pieces by Carla Bley were gradually being replaced by those of Paul’s new partner, Annette Peacock. - Art Lange

After the bruising Melanie received after The Photograph album being withdrawn from sale and the huge fall out with Atlantic Records Phonogenic, … whilst maybe not in her Top 5 albums, enabled her to exorcise her insecurities and get things off her chest in readiness for the bounce back and freshness of the up coming Ballroom Streets album and the as yet unreleased 1978 studio sessions

L'attesissima ristampa in vinile del leggendario album "…E Penso A Te" dei Ricchi e Poveri. Pubblicato originariamente nel 1981, l'album contiene alcuni dei successi più popolari della band italiana, tra cui la mega hit "Sarà perché ti amo". L'album, che ha conquistato le classifiche negli anni Ottanta, è un omaggio alla musica senza tempo dei Ricchi e Poveri e un must per tutti gli appassionati di musica pop italiana.

L'attesissima ristampa in vinile del leggendario album "…E Penso A Te" dei Ricchi e Poveri. Pubblicato originariamente nel 1981, l'album contiene alcuni dei successi più popolari della band italiana, tra cui la mega hit "Sarà perché ti amo". L'album, che ha conquistato le classifiche negli anni Ottanta, è un omaggio alla musica senza tempo dei Ricchi e Poveri e un must per tutti gli appassionati di musica pop italiana.

THE SOULFUL ROCK ‘N’ ROLL REVUE ON WHICH BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN BECOMES THE BOSS: THE WILD, THE INNOCENT & THE E STREET SHUFFLE TEEMS WITH DISCOVERY. Mastered on Mobile Fidelity's Renowned Mastering System: Numbered-Edition Hybrid SACD Plays with Expressive Clarity. Released only eight months after his exhilarating debut, Bruce Springsteen's The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle contains rousing dispatches from the boardwalk, the street, the beach, and the bedroom. It explodes with energy, dares to dream, teases with humor, crackles with tragedy, clings to hope, and overflows with discovery, youthfulness, and personality. It features an unforgettable cast of characters — corner boys, teenage hustlers, doomed lovers, jazz men, junk men, factory girls, fortune tellers, alley cats, pimps, escorts, and more — illuminated by vivid color, breathtaking detail, and poetic action.

THE SOULFUL ROCK ‘N’ ROLL REVUE ON WHICH BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN BECOMES THE BOSS: THE WILD, THE INNOCENT & THE E STREET SHUFFLE TEEMS WITH DISCOVERY. Mastered on Mobile Fidelity's Renowned Mastering System: Numbered-Edition Hybrid SACD Plays with Expressive Clarity. Released only eight months after his exhilarating debut, Bruce Springsteen's The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle contains rousing dispatches from the boardwalk, the street, the beach, and the bedroom. It explodes with energy, dares to dream, teases with humor, crackles with tragedy, clings to hope, and overflows with discovery, youthfulness, and personality. It features an unforgettable cast of characters — corner boys, teenage hustlers, doomed lovers, jazz men, junk men, factory girls, fortune tellers, alley cats, pimps, escorts, and more — illuminated by vivid color, breathtaking detail, and poetic action.

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The first compilation that brings together French groups who sing in English. English has always been taboo in the "made in France" song until the mid-2000s when a folk refrain called Chupee invaded the French airwaves. Ten years after the international success of the French electro touch, the English language took over French song. From then on, a veritable Anglophone tidal wave took over musical production in France and the doors of success opened wide for a mode of expression until then completely ignored by the media. As a result, in 2009, the Victoires de la Musique rewarded groups expressing themselves in the language of Shakespeare (Izia, Pony Pony Run Run…) Cocoon, Izia, Pony Pony Run Run, Moriarty, The Do, Coming Soon, Herman Düne, Revolver, etc. : review of the numbers of French groups (rock, pop or folk) who express themselves… "in English in the text"!

This 2-CD set devotes the first CD to Stone The Crows with all tracks recorded 1970 to 1973 and drawn from their four albums and CD2 to Maggie Bell with all tracks drawn from her first two solo albums recorded 1974 and 1975 apart from the live track recorded 1993 in Glasgow and the theme to "Taggart" recorded 1983.