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En 1996, sortait l'album fête foraine de The Apartments en version CD digipack limitedée à 3000 examples. An album souvent considered par les fans comme un sommet dans la discographie du groupe australien.
Fête foraine, enregistrement à six mains avec Peter à la guitare acoustique, Chris Abrahams au piano et Miroslav Bukovsky (trompette et bugle) est une étonnante pierre angulaire dans la précieuse discographie de The Apartments. Peter Milton Walsh y revisite dix chansons de ses précédents albums en les dépouillant de tout ou presque. Tout sauf l'émotion qui le traverse de part en part, portée ici par la voix, encore et toujours, les notes de piano et la guitare acoustique.
Bien plus qu'un exercise de style pour fans avertis, fete foraine est un disque d'une sensibilité brute, unique, indispensable.
Remasterized by Don Bartley, déjà aux manoeuvres pour le disque original, this edition contains the photos inédites de Bleddyn Butcher, (long temps photographe pour Nick Cave). With an artwork recomposed a part of the original pochette par le non moins légendaire Pascal Blua, fête foraine sort pour la première fois en vinyle.

01 What's The Morning For?
02 Knowing You Were Loved
03 Not Every Clown Can Be In The Circus
04 On Every Corner
05 Great Fool
06 Sunset Hotel
07 End Of Some Fear
08 Thank You For Making Me Begin
09 Things You'll Keep
10 Paint The Days White

Nordward Ho - these are seasoned and authentic musicians with a maritime background. The four coastal rockers tell entertaining musical stories from the north and from other coasts of this world; with charm, wit and a good pinch of irony. Straightforward songs with driving riffs from their own pen, powerful beats that are spicy mixed with pop, reggae, funk and blues. There are also hearty traditionals as well as German rock and shanty rock, which everyone knows and sings along with. Nordward Ho - that's the unbroken desire to play live and to take the audience on a rock 'n' roll catch trip again and again.
The Nordward-Ho team and their "rock'n roll shrimp cutter" call at harbor and city festivals, large and small clubs and festivals. Powerful with a powerful atmosphere! With their current longplayer "Tanz & Muterei" the four northern lights take you on a long journey...

01 Here on my Hallig
02 Rock'n'Roll Fossils
03 North Sea boogie
04 We love the storms
05 Big booty
06 Mermaid
07 Dance with me
08 The Last Ride (Irene O.)
09 mutiny
10 Keen een rut
11 True love
12 Aloha hey hey
13 Drunk Sailor

At a time when a global Covid-19 pandemic is raging, we feel restricted in our personal freedoms by social distancing and more or less strict regulations, when we have to cope with a climate crisis, the gap between the poor and Reich is getting bigger and bigger, radical thoughts are being expressed more frequently and louder and in which selfishness seems to be increasing more and more, the Berlin singer & songwriter Franky von Tide releases his third album. And it says of all things:  "Mit Dir". "Mit Dir": that's the name of the second track of the album. But anyone who now thinks that this song alone was decisive for the album title is hugely mistaken. Unfortunately, as is often the case in these times, it would only be half the truth and far too short-sighted. That: “With you” stands for much more than meets the eye! But when the last note of this album has faded away, you know why it has to be called "Mit Dir".
As with his first albums: "Seemannslust" and "Du bist der Grund", the artist was inspired by life itself. True to the motto: "That's how life writes and sets music to music", he keeps developing new ideas for rock and pop songs that let the listener feel how honestly he stands behind his music and his lyrics. And maybe that's exactly the reason why his music is so touching!

01 Show yourself
02 with you
03 Everything that makes you special
04 Is it still possible?
05 Get me out of here
06 I won't let it spoil my day
07 Tamara is dancing
08 Daisies Meadow
09 past
10 I can't keep quiet
11 If I were as great as you
12 Like a candle
13 optimists
14 "The World Hit" (Bonus Track)

The band VILNIR comes from southern Germany and, in a Nordic-fantasy musical style, their songs not only sing about the depths of human existence with all its facets, such as critical thoughts about oneself, fears, hopelessness, struggle, suffering, but also confidence and love , hope and happiness. Topics that have always occupied people and are not losing their topicality.
Born from a studio project in early 2019, composer and producer Michael "Eldur" Schnoor, together with Aranka "Ari" Nagel and later with Claudia "Jola" Elmer, developed the musical orientation in which they do not set themselves a temporal epoch, but space for Creating creativity and incorporating a wide variety of influences and ideas.
VILNIR takes the listener on journeys, puts them in the middle of a battlefield or a market where things aren't always right. He learns the story about a drunkard or about the love for a girl, which unfortunately remains unfulfilled. A rollercoaster of emotions, sometimes serious, sometimes mischievous, sometimes spirited.
VILNIR can be loud and driving with its drums and hurdy-gurdy drones complemented by distinctive melodies and the deep, raspy vocals of Eldur, rounded out with the voices of Jola and Ari. This creates the characteristic VILNIR sound, which can also be quiet, almost mystical. For example, through the delicately plucked tones of the lute and the lovely sound of the nyckelharpa. In combination with the singing of Ari and Jola, the listener is taken into another world.
The texts are mainly written in German, partly also in Swedish and Norwegian. Musically, traditional instruments such as the hurdy-gurdy, nyckelharpa, moraharpa, lyre, lute, various drums and horns are predominantly used.

01 argument
02 being - birth
03 fire dance
04 rag pack
05 Then drink!
06 being - life
07 inband
08 Halvor
09 Giljadans
10 Aimless
11 World Warriors
12 forget-me-nots
13 being - death

Parents who are tired of classical children's music and are more into the rocking style can be happy: The children's rock'n'rollers from KIZZRock have a new album at the start! And once again they have succeeded on their fourth album in combining real rock, hard rock and heavy metal songs with child-friendly lyrics - this not only pleases the young clientele, but also the legal guardians. It doesn't matter whether it's completely specially created numbers like the title song "Blabblabla", "Gummy Bear Tree" or "Schoko-Schoko-La-La" or whether classic traditionals like "Hänsel und Gretel" or "Es tanzt ein... Butzemann", you'll always find them original and catchy texts and melodies a quick way to the ear. The fact that this dynamic band is no longer unknown is also shown by the collaborations with the greats of the past, such as B. with extra wide and the newly interpreted and adapted classic "Hurra, Hurra die Schule brennt". With kind permission, Rio Reiser's original NDW anthem "König von Deutschland" became the children's king. Get rid of boredom in the children's rooms and the pampers bombers on the streets - bring on the good mood that the KIZZ rockers spread almost uncontrollably, true to their battle cry: Rock 'n' Roll? Yes!

01 blah blah blah
02 gummy bear tree
03 Choco-Choco-La-La
04 Child King of Germany
05 marathons
06 Who's afraid of the big man
07 Cheese foot reloaded
08 Hooray, hooray, the school is on fire
09 It's dancing... (Butzemann)
10 Hansel and Gretel - Episode 2
11 Fischer's Fritzi
12 Da Hoam Boy
13 Bedtime Blues HD

Rhythms, melodies and music riffs were created more than 10 years ago that led to finished songs in 2021.
An album of inspiration for life and music. After all, only life writes stories and music is there to have fun and enjoy. With "Part Of Me" an album was created that is equally interesting for young and old as it is for black and white.
The CD contains 10 songs and has a running time of about 30 minutes. All songs have come into being as far as I know what instruments and composing songs have to do with. Musical role models for the CD are Kurt Cobain, Freddie Mercury, Linkin Park, Billy Talent and many more.

01 Big Bang
02 Music
03 Harmony
04 love
05 Lonely
06 Believe
07 Lost
08 happy
09 Drama
10 forever

Claudio Roditi, Klaus Ignatzek and Jean-Louis Rassinfosse prove again and again in their concerts that they are among the greats of the scene. Breathtaking improvisations, daring tempi and the interplay developed over the years, performed energetically and intoxicatingly, make their jazz a special experience, even for non-jazz fans.
The world-famous Brazilian trumpeter Claudio Roditi, the German Klaus Ignatzek, who is one of the top European jazz pianists, and the internationally renowned Belgian bassist Jean-Louis Rassinfosse have played together continuously for almost 30 years.
Their CDs, which have been released by various labels, not only received excellent reviews worldwide, but also spent weeks at the top of the American radio charts.
The three musicians form a unit in which blind understanding and musical equality are a matter of course. The three of them always succeed in kidnapping the listener into their world of sound, unobtrusively, but intensively and crossing borders.
"A musical art that goes into the stomach and caresses the mind and soul at the same time."
In addition to specially arranged standards, the music of the trio mainly consists of their own compositions from the fields of jazz and Latin jazz. Countless concerts in Europe and 20 joint CDs impressively document their long-term collaboration.
Klaus Ignatzek celebrated his 40th stage anniversary in 2015. He can look back on an extraordinarily successful career as a pianist and composer. Without a doubt, Klaus Ignatzek belongs to the top guard of European jazz pianists. During this time he has recorded over 60 CDs on which more than 300 of his compositions can be heard. His diverse teaching experience is documented in three jazz textbooks he has written.

disc 01
01 Between The Lines
02 Zoomin'
03 Ballad foe JGL
04 cruising
05 The Girl from Ipanema
06 Message for Art
disc 02
01 Light in the dark
02 Claudio talks
03 Piccolo Blues
04 Change of Air
05 Love Dance
06 Claudio talks
07 Nutville

Curtain up, the music begins! If you had to describe the debut album "Labyrinth" by the Hanoverian band Was Nun in one word, it would be compact. It's hard to believe that there are actually only six musicians in the group, because the concentrated cohesive power and the phenomenal volume of the group are more like a big band than a sextet. The reason is quite simply that all six members have had experience in larger formations and have the big band feeling in their blood. Listening to each other and communicating accordingly is part of their DNA. The six youngsters know their strengths and build on them. And it is precisely this almost incomparable compactness in the sound that saxophonist Moritz Aring describes as the trademark of the group.
Was Nun is an event, a spectacle, a thing with hand and foot, straightforward and yet demanding, meticulously planned and yet completely open-ended in its effect. The six guys stand with all twelve feet in the here and now, and yet they make no secret of their close connection to tradition. The band name refers to a bar in Hanover where the six friends used to hang out together. There is no question mark behind the logo. It's more of a defiant exclamation, an announcement where the emphasis is on the first word, not the second. Authenticity and passion are the be-all and end-all.

01 The Road Ahead
02 Dream Patches
03 Maze
04 Home
05 fable
06 theorem
07 Unterluess
08 Mayak

Songwriter, guitarist and singer Tilo George Copperfield is always looking for the next song. With eight solo records under his belt, the likeable workaholic has earned himself a permanent place in the German blues and rock landscape
Returning to his roots, his new album The Electric Band presents a blues-rocking disc that sings loud praises to his live band. With Michael Air Hofmann on drums, Michael Karl on bass and Claus Bächer on Hammond, Copperfield has found the perfect vehicle to transport his music in a fantastic way.
Recorded live in the studio during the 2020 pandemic, it all came down to four guys in one room working with energy and heart. The work was specially mixed and mastered for vinyl and should be a very special treat, especially for audiophile fans.

01 You Knock Me Dead
02 Eastbound Train
03 When The Night Is Over
04 That foot
05 Who's To Blame?
06 Ten Men On The Dead Man's Chest
07 Bound To Pay The Price
08 Long Distance Call
09 Enough Of You
10 Welcome To The Farm

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Tobias Ebert is the name of the singer/songwriter, he lives in Berlin. We'll find out where exactly. Just listen to “Keiner”, the title track of this debut EP. It's about the unknown who always walks along through life. Just about the one who gives his name to this collection of four songs. It's about "nobody". This is the one who seems to come very close to the singing I and is just as often able to go far away. “Keiner” could be a song from Rio Reiser's solo years. A past of the political hides behind the very private, and the thoughtful-sensitive also appears in the form of a dynamic voice rebelling against something.
The private is in the foreground on these four songs. In "Wonderyear" Tobias Ebert even allows himself to get nostalgic, with flashbacks to leaps from the tenth at the outdoor pool and violins in the chorus. The scene: summer of love, romantic sun, meetings in the hiding places of lovers. It remains to be seen whether the "Wonder Year" has continued, but the hope for a happy ending outweighs it.
At least Tobias Ebert lives in Berlin today, in Pankow, where fox and rabbit say “good night”, no nonsense, neighbor and neighbor say “good day”. The accompanying song walks in over the drums, so the nightlife within the classic rock instrumentation. Between beginning and end, a swan song for everything big and exhausting. The celebration of the small, the quiet, face-to-face togetherness. In this milieu we can look for Tobias Ebert ourselves.
His songs sound as if he occupied houses in another life or at least smoked weed on unrenovated roof structures in Prenzlauer Berg. A few, many years ago, a few lifetimes ago. He accompanies himself on the piano and thus returns to the original instrument after Tobias Ebert had played the electric guitar in his younger years. Currently (or if possible again) Tobias Ebert is on the road as pianist for singer/songwriter colleague Florian Glässing. The little blonde is also on the stage, with solo performances at festivals for acoustic pop. And as tenor of the hkw choir, the soprano-alto-tenor-bass twinning of the Berlin House of World Cultures.
Tobias Ebert has been with us for a long time, since 2000. It seems like a record that he never wanted to release solo. Now it is time. With the song “Die Bruche” from this debut EP, produced by the already mentioned Florian Glässing, Ebert tells a story about growing up and being an adult, about the contentment that has been honed in the spectrum between pop youth and pop rebellion.
Ideally, then, that “Pankow” ends on a Hammond organ blubb; consequently on the organic whipped cream of rock instruments.
Christopher Brown

01 None
02 Wonderyear
03 The breaks
04 Pankow

"Up To Our Necks" is an album with socially critical moments that reflect and denounce world events without raising the know-it-all and instructive index finger. It's much more about hope and the option to always be able to do better. The future is in our hands and we can only move forward with empathy and forgiveness. Love is stronger than hate, even when we're up to our necks in water.
36 minutes and 11 songs show with their positive mood that there is no time to sink into melancholy and instead invite you to sing along to melodic singalongs. Of course, carefree funpunk numbers shouldn't be missing either. With little musical twists and mischievous lyrics we want to put a little smile on your face.

01 rocket 158
02 Shout It Out
03 Drowned (In Application)
04 Coca Queen
05 Submissive Boy
06 I'm sorry
07 Shards
08 Are You Ready?
09 Prosperity above all else
10 In Our Own Hands
11 Taste Of Freedom

Fresh and with a new fourth band member, Strandheizung presents seven coherent songs on the EP "Wunderkinder". Above all, the music follows the expressive EP title and thus expands the sonic horizon of the quartet with wonderful prospects. The usual candid German texts ensure familiarity. They tell of encounters, closeness, shared experiences and plans. On "Wunderkinder" these deeply human thoughts merge with the music into soundscapes that radiate confidence and passion.

01 Get to know someone new
02 child prodigies
03 No song
04 Bye bye infinity
05 comet
06 For a smile
07 Outlook
08 prodigies (acoustic)

Pre-order - delivery in time for the release on July 9th, 2021

The guitarist, singer and songwriter Oliver Scheidies presents his debut album "ICH BIN". In his texts, Ernstbold Scheidies reflects our modern society with so much witty wordplay and philosophical profundity that you want to laugh and cry at the same time.
With an overflowing joie de vivre, he sings and dissolves the surface crust of hypocrisy and exposes the open wounds of the human soul. He does so bluntly and relentlessly, but always with a lovingly tender look at our human stumbling blocks. Because in this "Show your wound" already lies the miracle of forgiveness, which I AM.
The fact that this "abysmally funny poetry" by Scheidies comes along with rolling beats, exciting arrangements and sometimes also rocky, bluesy compositions is outrageously attractive. Because his grooving band the "Chapel for All Cases" inevitably ensures a good mood.
The band sound of Oliver Scheidies is genre-spanning, sometimes it sounds rocky bluesy à la Americana, sometimes it goes more in the direction of indie, folk and singer/songwriter. The ICH BIN album was produced by Oliver Scheidies and Benjamin Riesterer, who also plays the accordion, Wurlitzer and Hammond organ.
The latter is also responsible for the high-quality and fresh sound of the recordings, which took place in the TONPONY Studios near Freiburg. A remarkable debut album by a serious songwriter from whom one can still expect a lot.

01 Masked Ball in the Dance Palace
02 Star Queen
03 The icy sea
04 Aren't we all a little disturbed?
05 Devil's monologue
06 ostrich neuroses
07 The wave
08 Only the moon
09 Germany, Germany
10 Commissioner (I AM)

After the first album with elb HANG musik called “hang'n'bass”, the second with the title “into the arctic” is now appearing on the Timezone label. This time, however, the focus is on the particularly warm-sounding SHELLOPAN from France - in this case an instrument that even has tone troughs on the underside of the metal body - and thus a tonal range of two octaves.
elb HANG musik has planned something special with the new album: a musical listening journey to the Canadian Arctic. Because the predominantly song-like, but also onomatopoeic tracks were mainly created as accompanying music for a reading by the freelance author Petra Krumme (including Süddeutsche Zeitung), who spent nine months with the First Nation tribe of the Gwich'in in the arctic wilderness north of the Arctic Circle. She processed her stay there in impressive texts that inspired the music. For the album, the individual pieces were enriched with additional instruments. Not only the shellopan and the integral and dorian hang can be heard, but also the mystical whalophone and various percussion, e-piano, flat sounds, electronic grooves, occasional (polyphonic) vocals - and an exceptionally sounding mandolin.
Between the pieces of elb HANG musik or within a track, friendly moods alternate with melancholic and exciting moods. The result is a varied concept album, atmospherically dense and groovy at the same time. In some pieces, the great musician Ramón Lazzaroni plays flutes and double bass. For this journey you only have to close your eyes - and listen!

01 into the arctic
02 journey
03 house cleaning
04 snow waltz
05 tolerance
06 snowflakes
07 meltwater
08 caribou
09 remembrance
10 northern lights
11 sunday moaning
12 Where are the drums?
13 to the stars
14 cool places
15 snow waltz (live version)

The album was written, arranged and recorded during the global Covid 19 pandemic. Craig Hinds started gathering initial ideas in early 2020. The songs developed slowly and when he was allowed to travel again, he met with his bandmates in Johannesburg to develop the tracks further in joint sessions. "There was a lot to write about because the emotions were high, families and couples were separated and 'times they are / were a-changing' as legend Bob Dylan would have put it" (CRAIG HINDS).
"Elephant In The Room" is a solid and warm album with twelve tracks that was recorded in a trio formation (Craig Hinds (voc, g, p), Howie Combrink (dr, voc) and Gideon Botes (g). The latter is also responsible for the production and the mixing, which he was supported by Hinds and Combrink. It contains, in addition to the usual excellent Craig Hinds compositions, also a stunning Watershed interpretation of the Bruce Springsteen classic "I'm On Fire" LP contains a good mix of up-tempo songs, classic watershed ballads and mid-tempo pieces, and the group's music has evolved over the years, incorporating a variety of influences without deviating too far from what Watershed is has always mattered.
Lyrically, Craig Hinds undertakes a journey into the unknown and questions everything that happens around him, while at the same time trying to address the “elephant in the room”. "There are just too many opinions and nobody really addresses the real situation" (CRAIG HINDS). In true Watershed songwriting tradition, the songs take up topics from everyday life, everyday worries, everyday ups and downs and everyday love in order to create songs that you won't get out of your head for a long time. His greatest fear is not being able to write a hit. “It doesn't matter how much you tour, how many fans you have or how many network followers click on your site. If you don't have good songs, you're not going anywhere ”(CRAIG HINDS).
But if you are expecting a new "Indigo Girl", you may be disappointed because Watershed anno 2021 has become more contemporary and rockier. Watershed have developed stylistically, but do not deny their own special sound. Haunting, energetic and sophisticated indie folk pop rock. Songs like the single “Undone”, “Map Of My Behavior”, the bonus track “Countdown” or the title track itself have a terrific driving drum kit without losing the melody affinity of the Hinds compositions. Memories of early R.E.M., Coldplay and the Crash Test Dummies are awakened. The focus of the instrumentation is an excellent mix of guitars, electric piano and the distinctive and naturally expressive voice of Craig Hinds.

01 Map of my behavior
02 Undone
03 Empty spaces
04 Elephant in the room
05 I'm on fire
06 Wish
07 Stone by stone
08 Try again
09 Love song
10 African stars
11 Keep your eyes on me
12 Countdown (Tribute to the frontline workers)

Hotel California combines the soulful sounds of Paul Simon, Cat Stevens and James Bay into a soothing and soul-stirring sound. Nicknamed Hotel California, producer and singer-songwriter Daniel Green [from Hamburg] creates a contemporary form of old-school folk.
Green, who has performed on the Vans Warped Tour and the Sziget Festival, is considered an entertainer who causes a sensation with his charming work. (adapted from Nexus Music Blog, track of the week, March 26)

01 Keep The Fire Burning
02 Let The Ocean Rock Your Soul
03 Universal Civilians
04 Make Some Friends
05 Fuck Yourself
06 Second Season Of Lifetime
07 Lost Love
08 Deadlier Suns
09 Cherry Stone Experiment
10 Soothe My Soul
11 Summer Sun
12 We Aren't Made Of Stone

Captn Catfish, that's the band from the Neckarbayou, which stands for handmade music on handmade instruments. With their unique self-made instruments, they clearly stand out from the general musical landscape, and they sound as impressive as they built their instruments. Everything is possible, everything is allowed and everything is used.
The origins of the three-string license plate guitar undoubtedly lie in the key of G. Fabian Fahr explores this with a fine intuition and finds masterful riffs, comparable to the great riff masters such as Keith Richards. His musical roots are in southern rock. Together with Jordan Wiest from Minnesota they find the right words, riffs plus lyrics result in catchy, straightforward melodies and songs.
The five-piece band's themes include fishing, travel, barbecues and there are homages to fictional parallel worlds such as the Wild West and the glorious times of the Vikings. Jordan's bass, built from a salmon box, has just 2 strings as a deep equivalent to the license plate guitar, which he plays simply, functionally and extremely groovy.
That's where Tobias Langguth comes into play with his 6-string winebox guitar, whose sound he cleverly interlocks and weaves into the overall sound, so that one sometimes really thinks one is in southern rock, in the Stonesque or archaic-folkloristic area. So, despite the key being the same, there is a lot of variety!
Percussionist Marcos Jesús Gonzáles Jiménez from Cuba also makes a significant contribution to this, he underlines - very unusual and new for the cigar box scene, an authentic, wonderfully smooth Afro-Cuban-Son-Groove in most of the pieces and is closed on the drums in other pieces hear.
Vocally, Fabian's distinctive and deep voice is rounded off and complemented by singer Nicole Guida. With her pronounced feeling for blues and soul, she gives the whole thing the right finishing touch.

01 Poor Man's Guitar
02 Happy Wife: Happy Life
03 The Mullet Song
04 Bounty Hunter
05 Smiley's World
06 Copper Cauldron Gypsies
07 That's Life
08 Dinner Bell
09 BBQ
10 Yggdrasil

The polarizing singer-songwriter from Ritterhude sums things up musically and lyrically! He doesn't allow himself to be directed either stylistically or in terms of content. On the contrary, they don't mince words and things are called by their proper names in an ironic and humorous way.
Marno Howald has already been on stage with Konstantin Wecker and is an unusual musician who sketches his songs with his individual, authentic and sometimes sarcastic handwriting. It's not like he can be tied down to one genre musically, that would only hamper his creativity. Nevertheless, you can feel his own style in how he writes his lyrics and what topics he takes up. Sometimes with a smile in the corner of your mouth, sometimes with melancholy but also with the unembellished truth. Whether alone on stage or accompanied by his musicians, he is ironic, cheeky, questioning, answering, loving and suffering, autobiographical and romantic. Definitely surprising! You never know if the joke is breathing down your neck or if a social topic is being outlined.
The Wahl Ritterhuder has already published an album "Ganz ohne Kritik" as well as a book of songs and poems in the past and is now about to release his second album, "Gegen den Wind". This album was recorded in 2020 at Hörwerk Tonstudio Bookholzberg and Marno Howald was accompanied musically by Regina Mudrich (violin) and Steffen Gust (guitar and bass). This was a particular challenge because Corona made it impossible to stick to the planned release, which was scheduled for September last year.

01 lifetime
02 togetherness
03 Man believes it
04 Against the wind
05 The knight man
06 My fathers
07 Learned to walk in a crouch
08 The dreamer
09 My love
10 The small bar at the port
11 Sad sick man
12 When I was a kid
13 The child in the well
14 The Moon Man

5 EUR to save the oceans. Free worldwide shipping.

A massive NZD 5,- of every CD sold will go towards saving our planet. The money will be used to support projects that save our oceans and/or combat climate change. So, by buying Gjazz5, you are helping organisations such as “Avaaz” who need funds to turn a threatened slice of paradise, a large sea area off the west coast of Arica, into a beautiful marine sanctuary. If this doesn’t happen, this (one of the last remaining) nature strongholds on this earth will likely be destroyed by commercial fishing, like so many other places have been destroyed. Or “Carbon Click”, an Auckland company who specializes in carbon footprint offset. Olivier will post updates and donation receipts regularly on his website olivierholland.com, so you know where your support is going.

For the album “Gjazz5”, German / NZ bassist, composer and educator Olivier Holland has lined up a (literally) once-in-a-lifetime-band of his all-time-favourite musicians Geoffrey Keezer (US), Terreon Gully (US), Denis Gaebel (GER), Roger Manins (NZ) as well as special guest Joscho Stephan (GER). If you aren’t familiar with any of these names, google and get familiar! Just saying that Gully and Keezer share 4 Grammy nominations between them, the latter having turned down Miles Davis’ offer to play in his band, Gaebel being one of Europe’s leading tenor sax players, Manins the same in Australasia.
The long anticipated Gjazz5 album launch represents a colossal milestone. Looking back onto his 30 CD albums (as collaborator and initiator) strong discography, Oli calls Gjazz5 his “flagship” project. 3 years in the making, multiple trips to Europe to record and mix the tracks, mastering, etcetc, Oli has not spared any efforts to make this one “count”. The recording took place at the prestigious Fattoria Musica studios in Germany. 12 of Oli’s tunes were tracked as well as Terreon Gully’s composition “Tanktified”, mixed at Fattoria, then mastered in LA by Grammy Award winning mastering engineer Kelly Hibbert.
The result: 13 tracks with an amazing sound, each one unique in itself: There is funk, afro-style, HipHop, disco, salsa, odd time signatures, ballads, and much more. A dazzling mix of genres, infused with jazz, that simply need to be “checked out”!

Disc 01
01 $10 Per Rat
02 Mrs Bombastic
03 Morse Code
04 What?
05 For Heidi
06 Easyaz!

Disc 02
01 Tanktified
02 Dog
03 Venus Fly Trap
04 Bad Tuesday
05 Don’t Worry
06 Van Dump
07 10c Per Fly

50 exclusively signed and numbered copies can now be ordered.

The debut album Wegkompanter was created over several years and every single title is a small masterpiece. So sit back and enjoy every single second. Let yourself be enchanted by the lyrics and the melodies.
Dirk Büdeker's music is German pop music, which is authentic and often very emotional. But there are also profound songs that make you think. That is what distinguishes this artist. The music speaks straight from the soul. A true firework of emotions just waiting to be started.
This album will be a faithful companion. Have fun on this journey.

01 My songs
02 companion
03 inspiration
04 You & Me
05 Without you
06 love
07 missing
08 Why aren't you here now
09 roller coaster ride
10 thanks
11 Everything will be fine
12 time to rethink

As a drummer, Christian Nowak has worked for a number of national and international musicians such as Gary Brooker (Procol Harum), Barry Ryan, Bobby Kimball (Toto) and Chuck Berry. Now he is presenting his first solo album as a composer and keyboardist with "Nachklang". In order to set new musical goals, you need to look back at your own roots from time to time. “There was a Fender Rhodes with a Roland JazzChorus, an Oberheim, a MiniMoog, a tape echo machine and a TEAK four-track tape machine. Terrific!«
Against this background, a thoughtful album was created that is connected to a lifestyle of bygone days. Impressions that still resonate. »I still get goosebumps when I hear these sounds anywhere. We often sat smoking and drinking coffee in our student butze and listened to the latest albums by Steely Dan, Yes, Gentle Giant, Zappa and and and... Now I've combined these timeless sounds with modern sounds. So I see my songs as a homage to my old "heroes" like George Duke, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea and Jan Hammer.«
»Of course, as a drummer, I also have other idols. But I see myself as a musician who always focuses on the whole package.” At some point, the sound will probably have to leave the body and return to the universe where it originally came from.

01 woodpecker
02 Isn't She?
03 791113
04 Chorale
05 smack
06 Hello song
07 Candlelight
08 Thought cloud
09 Five To Eight
10 you
11 aftertaste

Where do you go when it gets quiet
Will you stay where you are then?
Outside, the world keeps turning
Whatever the world is outside"

Musically based on the tradition of American folk songs, which have shaped him since his early youth, Jörg Erb searches for the liveliness of a person who is confronted with stagnation. Without a net, but with a double bottom, he describes human borders and destinies in his texts.
The songs on his album were mostly written in 2020; they look back and catch up with us. Thrown back on ourselves, we stand still and face the big questions that we all too often dodge: who are we, where do we come from, where are we going?
The songs want to get close, even if it sometimes hurts - without sadness there is no consolation. Jörg Erb wants to touch people with his music; In his opinion, the greatest wealth of text, music and singing is here.
The album was mainly recorded live; the recordings were produced by Uli Kringler, who also has an impressive presence as a guitarist and organist. Jörg Erb was able to win numerous other renowned colleagues as guest musicians, including Yogi Jockusch (last with Achim Reichel), Martin Bentz (Kaiser Quartet), Hagen Kuhr (Carla Bley, Giora Feidman, Die Ärzte, Selig, Udo Lindenberg).
The production was funded by the Music / New Culture Initiative.

01 Soon
02 A shirt, a scarf
03 heart rate
04 So heavy
05 hat and coat
06 Ewald
07 Silent mail
08 Stay who you are
09 Through the wind

First published in 1990, The Harp Handbook has often been referred to as “the harmonica player’s bible”. Legendary jazz musician and Grammy Award winner Howard Levy praised it as “Excellent. The first real book about the diatonic harmonica” and the American Harmonica Newsletter called it “a milestone” in harmonica literature.

The diatonic harmonica is a strange instrument. It was never originally designed to create the sounds for which it subsequently became popular, and many of the techniques used to create these sounds were only imperfectly understood, even among accomplished players. With this groundbreaking book, Steve Baker set out to demystify the myths surrounding the instrument. The Harp Handbook was the first work in harmonica literature to provide detailed insights into how the diatonic harp actually functions, explaining in clear and simple terms exactly what has to happen when you bend notes, and how dual reed systems work, as well as providing detailed descriptions of the essential playing techniques and how to master them.

These have made it a standard work on the instrument and Steve Baker’s insights have subsequently been adopted by countless later authors and teachers. The Harp Handbook is not primarily an instructional book, but a reference work, with chapters on harmonica history, construction and tonal layout, how to play in different positions or keys on one instrument, what really happens when bending or overblowing notes, different playing techniques and styles, alternate tunings and much much more. Concluding with an extensive selection of exercises in notation and tabs, to be heard on the accompanying CD, it remains just as relevant today as when it first came out.

"Today stupid and tomorrow stupid and the day after tomorrow again" tells the first almost 35 years of band history of the Abfallenden Brieftauben and traces the development of (fun) punk in Germany.
Founded at the end of 1983 as a taunt of the NDW in the heart of the vibrant Hanoverian punk scene, the self-proclaimed "fun punk duo no. 1" was to become the figurehead of German fun punk in the early 1990s. Neither the turbulent DIY genesis of the debut album Das wern wern we already done from 1986, nor the unbelievable record deal with EMI from 1989 (including cooperation with BRAVO and the newly born private television), nor the festival of the folk music tour in 1990 through the east of the republic , or even the guest appearance in Hape Kerkeling's cult feature film Kein Pardon (1993) may be missing.
In over 30 interviews, companions and contemporary witnesses (e.g. Olga from the Toy Dolls, Ted Gaier and Schorsch Kamerun from the Golden Lemons, Rodrigo González from the Doctors) describe in their own words what really happened, how they experienced it then and how they do it today think about it. The biography was created in close collaboration with founding member Micro Bogumil and is authorized by the band and management.

01 dancing

PERCIPIO ERGO SUM is the second solo album by the multi-instrumentalist and producer Jens Lueck (including Syrinx Call, Isgaard), aka SINGLE CELLED ORGANISM.
Clearly rooted in art and progressive rock of the 70s, the range is wide: post rock, alternative, soundtrack and electronic interjections, interspersed with distinctive rhythms and independent guitar riffs. Like a red thread, polyphonic vocal passages and exciting solos, which despite their complexity never lose their melodiousness, run through the pieces. Jens Lueck, who grew up on the piano and later mainly played the drums on the stage, often had the guitar in hand while composing this album - the result are many unorthodox guitar parts that Ingo Salzmann (who contributed his own solos) ) and Johnny Beck as well as Jürgen Osuchowski on the acoustic guitar.
As with all Lueck projects, real strings were used again (for the orchestral simulation in the overdub process) and Jens Lueck's partner ISGAARD took over the vocal parts of the female protagonist again.
PERCIPIO ERGO SUM is again a concept album and continues the story of the previous album SPLINTER IN THE EYE (more on the website www.singlecelledorganism.com). The two protagonists survived the fall of civilization and the reconstruction and suffer - each for himself, without meeting each other personally - from the past as well as from the present. The “brave new world” displeases both of them, but in different ways.
The focus is on the so-called TV girl with her perception of civilization, people, the world par excellence, because all of this is for the early 20-year-olds, the 16 years as a test object in a sealed off bunker (without knowledge of the existence of the outside world / other people) completely new.
At its core, it differs fundamentally from other people who are either speechless and uninterested or who are largely shaped by the Cartesian worldview (“cogito, ergo sum” = “I think, therefore I am”).
Her credo is PERCIPIO ERGO SUM (= I perceive, therefore I am), because she sees herself as part of a whole and defines herself through interaction.
The attitude of both protagonists is to be understood as a criticism of humanity in the age of the Anthropocene.

01 She’s Awake
02 The Final Door
03 I'd like to see
04 Ride On A Ray
05 doubts
06 Save Me From Dreaming
07 I'm not human
08 Hey You
09 Humble
10 entanglement runs off
11 Inhale The Dark

In the lockdown, the doors of the clubs remain closed, concerts do not take place, events are cancelled, friends are met digitally. TEVALIK used this time sensibly to fulfill a heart's desire, their own album with their own music, for all friends of black, electronic (dance) music.
The debut album of the duo from the Rhineland will conquer your hearts, make your auditory ossicles vibrate and make your body sway.
Songs like "Own Rules", "Be Mine" and "No One" are energetic, catchy and belong in the city's clubs to be danced to. If the doors should remain closed, the album is ideal for cruising from A to B in a good mood in the car. Songs like "Scared KI", "Timewaster" or the title track of the album "Own Rules" inspire. At home, the CD unfolds particularly well on headphones. Every single song on the album wants to be discovered and also – or especially – unfolds new worlds of sound after repeated listening. Particularly noteworthy here are "Forcelife", "One Thought" and "The Shame".

01 Groundfly
02 The Shame
03 Forcelife
04 Dangerous Air
05 Time Waster
06 Be Mine
07 own rules
08 Min
09 Scared AI
10 No One
11 One Thought
12 hourglass
13 Forbidden Underground (Bonus)

When you hear the name Friedel Geratsch, many people think of Neue Deutsche Welle and funny songs that, despite everything, always had a deeper message.
Here, on his first solo album, after all he has been playing the guitar since 1964, the Ruhrpottler proves that he is more complex and thoughtful. It's not a "Ja, ne merry" record, you have to listen to the songs in peace, it's not for streaming on the side. We are proud that we can present this record to the (music) world together with Friedel. This is 100% gossip.

»I am in a place between shadow and light« is not just a song line, but a clear description of the location. Sweet melancholy meets powerful, pounding rhythms and captivates from the first to the last note. And all this played on four-string cigar box guitars that Friedel had built himself.
Music couldn't be more honest and earthy. And always think about it, live every moment consciously, »because you can no longer take the milk out of the coffee«.

01 This is how time flies
02 The desert inside me
03 Over the years
04 From the Ruhr area
05 It's hot
06 No blues
07 thousand women
08 Thank you Thank you Thank you

Eckhardt Günther is a German composer, guitarist and author. He was born in Perleberg/OT Schönfeld/Brandenburg and has lived in Osnabrück since 1975. His work includes pieces of almost every genre: orchestral works, stage works, chamber music but also pop-rock-jazz songs with their own lyrics...
This double album ON ALL NOTES,17 PRELUDES AND FUGUES FOR PIANO is so titled because the Preludes and Fugues are composed on all notes along the chromatic scale (from A to G#). All movements have neither "major" nor "minor" and each end on neutral chords without being atonal. Strict order and freedom are combined in a meaningful way, leaving room for improvisation.
In the present digital version, it is not the organic musical expression that is in the foreground, but the motor pulse. This work is also intended as an offer to pianists to expand their repertoire and to give these pieces their own personal touch and more "natural" character.

01 Prelude On A
02 Fugue On A
03 Prelude On Bb
04 Fugue On Bb
05 Prelude On A#
06 Fugue On A#
07 Prelude On B
08 Fugue On B
09 Prelude On C
10 Fugue On C
11 Prelude On Db
12 Fugue On Db
13 Prelude On C#
14 Fugue On C#
15 Prelude On D
16 Fugue On D

Tell-Tale-Heart is a project launched by jazz saxophonist Ralf-Peter Fuchs in 2015 to perform his own pieces. Sava Medan, bassist currently living in Paris, has been there from the start. For the first CD, two musicians from the Ruhr area, Christian Hammer (guitar) and Michael Knippschild (drums), were part of the party and got involved in a sensitive way in bringing musical stories to life. Ralf-Peter Fuchs, Professor of History at the University of Duisburg-Essen, wrote his songs over a longer period of several years, under the impressions he received from dealing with historical topics. Many of the songs were written in Munich, where he also worked as a professional musician for a while. The CD "Dance in the Haze" is about, among other things, witch dances, Spanish mercenaries in the early modern period, the medieval hustle and bustle in a port on the Ligurian coast, and last but not least the story of Chunanup, the eloquent oasis man, from ancient Egyptian literature .
The project stands in the tradition of storytelling in jazz, for which there are numerous role models. The recordings for "Dance in the Haze" were made in August 2019. Due to the corona epidemic, it was not possible to present the music together in concerts. The band hopes that this will change soon and performances can be planned again. Other compositions are also waiting to be played. Tell-Tale-Heart will thus be continued and further developed as a concept.

01 Dance In The Haze
02 First Flight
03 Cantarana
04 Armada
05 remainder
06 Prophecy
07 Chunanup
08 Good Neighbors
09 Land Of The Prince Bishop

The book as a PDF file and the sound examples as MP3 files can be downloaded at the end of the ordering process.

Digital English Edition (PDF + MP3)

Volume 3 of Steve Baker’s blues Harmonica Playalongs offers his most varied selection of pieces to date, with 11 new instrumental compositions in musical notation and tablature (all solos are notated), plus extensive explanations and practising tips for each song, in combination with an audio package offering each tune in the full version with Steve’s original harmonica, plus a playback version without harp for you to jam along to. Stylistically these tunes cover a wide range of genres including swing, reggae, afrofunk, soul and punk, as well as more conventional blues styles. Recorded with top professional accompanists, Blues Harmonica Playalongs Vol. 3 offers a fantastic range of high quality material for the aspiring diatonic harmonica player to expand and develop their skill set and have a great time playing some really cool tunes in the process.

• Back At The Farm Key: G Harp: C
• Let's Get It Straight Key: A Harp: A
• The Third Kind Key: A Harp: G
• Rockin 'Ragga Key: On Harp: F
• Boogie Time Key: A Harp: D
• Rockabilly Shake Key: A Harp: D
• Feelgood Thrash Key: E Harp: A
• Have Mercy On Me Key: D Harp: G
• Afro-inspiration Key: E Harp: A
• Black & Blue Key: G Harp: C
• Loose & Lazy Key: A Harp: G

The book as a PDF file and the sound examples as MP3 files can be downloaded at the end of the ordering process.

Digital English Edition (PDF + MP3)

The 2nd volume of Steve Baker’s Blues Harmonica Playalongs contains 12 new instrumental compositions in musical notation and tablature (solos are notated where indicated), plus extensive explanations and practising tips for each song, in combination with an audio package offering each tune in the full version with Steve’s original harmonica, plus a playback version without harp for you to jam along to. The first six titles explore acoustic blues, country and bluegrass music, while the remainder cover styles ranging from traditional Chicago blues to rock, funk and rockabilly. Recorded with top professional accompanists, Blues Harmonica Playalongs Vol. 2 offers a fantastic range of high quality material for the aspiring diatonic harmonica player to expand and develop their skill set and have a great time playing some really cool tunes in the process.

• Headed For Home Key: C Harp: F
• Backwoods Blues Key: A Harp: D
• Bluegrass Moon Key: G Harp: C
• Lonesome Key: E Harp: A
• Back To The Country Key: C Harp: F
• National Blues Key: G Harp: C
• Steve's Shuffle Key: A Harp: D
• Been To Detroit Key: A Harp: A
• Boogaloo Train Key: E Harp: A
• 5th Dimension Key: Em Harp: C
• (Please Don't Get Too) Stoned Key: B Harp: A
• Take Me With You When You Go Key: E Harp: A

The book as a PDF file and the sound examples as MP3 files can be downloaded at the end of the ordering process.

Digital English Edition (PDF + MP3)

The first volume of Steve Baker’s Blues Harmonica Playalongs contains 11 of his best known instrumental compositions in musical notation and tablature (solos are not notated), plus extensive explanations and practising tips for each song, in combination with an audio package offering each tune in the full version with Steve’s original harmonica, plus a playback version without harp for you to jam along to. In addition, Vol. 1 comes with an appendix on music theory and the underlying principles of harmony in terms of how they relate to the diatonic harmonica. Recorded with top professional accompanists, Blues Harmonica Playalongs Vol. 1 offers an ideal starting point for the aspiring diatonic harmonica player to expand and develop their skill set and have a great time playing some really cool tunes in the process.

• Session Shuffle Key: E Harp: A
• Poor Boy Boogie Key: C Harp: F
• Rainy Day Blues Key: G Harp: C
• Funky Mardi Gras Key: A Harp: D
• Straight Harp Shuffle Key: A Harp: A
• Off The Top Key: G Harp: C
• Doublecrossed & Blue Key: Bm Harp: A
• Worried Mind Key: C Harp: F
• Stomping Key: E Harp: A
• Ready To Go Key: D Harp: C
• Gimme A Break Key: A Harp: D

The songs can be downloaded at the end of the order.

Sounds of the 80s | Harmonica Pop Instrumentals

The 1980s marked the start of the digital era and most commercial music productions from that period reflected the latest technical innovations. Polyphonic synthesizers, sequencers, drum computers and sample sounds were all recent developments back then, and they totally changed the way that much recorded music was created. In those days, Hamburg was a major hub for the German music industry and Steve Baker played on countless studio recordings throughout the 1980s and 90s, experiencing the digital revolution in music production at first hand.

In summer 1986 he joined forces with a group of Hamburg session musicians including legendary drummer Peter Franken and producer and guitarist Dieter Faber, to write a collection of modern pop harmonica instrumentals, reflecting the technology and sounds of the day. The results were recorded in Adrian Askew’s Simple Sound studio.

The combination of 1980s production techniques and slick studio musicianship puts Baker’s soulful harmonica playing into a context which may surprise listeners more familiar with his work in blues, rock and folk, but the combination is both unusual and effective. As well as his exemplary diatonic harp playing, The Free Fall Sessions also feature rare recordings of Steve on chromatic harmonica.

Three of the tracks were released as a 12“ maxi-single in 1987, long since deleted, but the remainder never saw the light of day. The entire production is now available for the first time from Timezone Records as a download.This vintage release highlights another side of Steve Baker’s wide ranging musicality and underlines his status as one of today’s most influential harmonica players.

Adrian Askew - recording, keyboards
Steve Baker - harmonica
Dieter Faber - guitars, bass, keyboards
Peter Franken - drums & percussion
Michael Pohnke - keyboards

1. Free Fall - soft mix (Steve Baker / Dieter Faber)
2. Reaching Out (Michael Pohnke)
3. Meet The Beat (Steve Baker / Dieter Faber)
4. Winter Sun (Steve Baker / Dieter Faber)
5. Iona (Steve Baker)
6. Grenadina (Dieter Faber)
7. Whistling In The Dark ((Steve Baker / Dieter Faber)
8. Chasing Rainbows (Steve Baker)
9. Free Fall - maxi mix (Steve Baker / Dieter Faber)

The songs can be downloaded at the end of the order.

Groundbreaking first album from the true inventors of Folk-Punk

Steve Baker came to Germany in 1976 with Have Mercy, a crazed Anglo-American acoustic blues and jugband whose members also included Henry Heggen and Rory McLeod. German blues expert Werner Weber, who saw the band performing in London and spontaneously invited them to play in his hometown of Aachen, described their music as “Rocking Harmonica Blues”, but in spirit it was in many ways closer to the energy of the punk rock scene then emerging in Britain. Have Mercy ended up in Hamburg, the northern port city which played such a vital role in the development of British beat music, where their riotous performances swiftly earned them the reputation as one of the hottest acts on the thriving “Hamburg Scene”.

Thanks to their highly individual but undeniably authentic style of rocking roots music and their inspired live shows, Have Mercy gained a considerable degree of notoriety in their adopted hometown. They were soon offered a deal with Antagon Records, a Hamburg label which had recently released LPs by Scottish folk icon Alex Campbell and jazz singer Bill Ramsey. By coincidence, Boodlam was recorded in Hamburg during the same two week period in February 1977 when The Clash were recording their eponymous debut LP in London.

As well as the title song, the album includes ripping versions of J.B. Lenoir’s “Mojo Boogie”, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee’s “Poor Man But A Good Man” and Leadbelly’s “Midnight Special”, plus several originals, among them Steve Baker’s “Hustle On Down” and two early songs from Rory McLeod, “Collector Man” and the whimsical “Somebody Else Will”. Powered by massed harmonicas, with Heggen and McLeod’s formidable lead vocals, plus backing vocals from everybody else, and driven by the double Dobros of Brian Barnett and Dick Bird, the album oozes manic youthful energy. It also gives Have Mercy a serious claim as inventors of what later came to be known as Folk Punk. For the first time since the band parted company in the late 1970s, their seminal debut album is now available again, as a download from Timezone Records including original artwork.

Steve Baker: harmonica, vocals, kazoo, guitar
Brian Barnett: guitars, vocals, kazoo
Dick Bird: guitar, vocals, mandolin, washboard
Jon Echols: harmonica, vocals, percussion
Henry Heggen: lead vocals, harmonica, jug, washboard, kazoo
Rory McLeod: Lead vocals, harmonica, jug, washboard, spoons
Werner Weber: rhythm guitar (Dallas Rag)

1. Mojo Boogie (J.B. Lenoir)
2. Hustle On Down (Steve Baker)
3. Somebody Else Will (Rory McLeod)
4. Poor Man But A Good Man (Terry / McGhee)
5. Stealin '(Gus Cannon)
6. Biggest Kick (Henry Heggen)
7. Dive Bomber (Have Mercy)
8. Viola Lee (Noah Lewis, Gus Cannon)
9. Dallas Rag (Trad. Arr. Dick Bird / Werner Weber)
10. Blind Man (Lafayette Leake)
11. Collector Man (Rory McLeod)
12. Wine (Sticks McGhee)
13. Midnight Special (Leadbelly)
14. Boodlam Shake (Trad.Arr. Have Mercy)

The extremely transparent, clear and very spatial sound is also positive. Whenever the classical rock instruments appear increasingly as an opposite pole, “The Moon On A Stick” has its strongest moments. Kuinke proves this, for example, on “Traces In My Mind”, a fine Eloy homage, and the eight-minute long “The Man In The Spotlight”, which cleverly brings blissful Pink Floyd times to life. This mix of flute sounds that meet lush keyboard carpets and elegiac guitar solos works excellently and is really fun. (Martin Dambeck, babyblaue-seiten.de)

01 Sunday Mood
02 The moon on a stick
03 In a Daze
04 Blue Hour
05 Traces in My Mind
06 Stillborn
07 Raqs Sharqi
08 Quantum Theory and Philosophy
09 Breathe In
10 Wait for the Light of the Day
11 scars
12 The Man in the Spotlight