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Title:Concerto for Piano andOrchestra in A minor, Op. 16
Composer:Edvard (Hagerup) Grieg (1843 - 1907)

Title:Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in G minor, Op. 22
Composer:(Charles) Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 - 1921)

Title:Fantasia on Hungarian Folk Themes, S123
Composer:Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886)


SKU: 1073217

Poison Idea: Jerry A. (vocals); Mondo (guitar, piano); Pig Champion (guitar, recorder, background vocals); Myrtle Tickner (bass, harmonica, background vocals); Thee Slayer Hippy (drums, percussion, background vocals).
Additional personnel: Dave Hite, Phil Irwin (saxophone), Bob Stark (piano, keyboards).
Recorded fromJuly to August, 1991.
All songs written by members of Poison Idea except "Vietnamese Baby" (Johansen).
All tracks have been digitally remastered.
SKU: 1085966

Personnel: Ralph Bowen (tenor saxophone); Ryan Kisor (trumpet); Orrin Evans (piano); Reuben Rogers (bass); Gregory Hutchinson (drums).
Recorded at Systems Two, Brooklyn, New York on October 28, 2003. Includes liner notesby C. Andrew Hovan.
SKU: 6553738

Title:Rebonds
Composer:Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001)

Title:Open I, II and III (improvisations)
Composer:Hans-Kristian Kjos Sørensen (20th cent)

Title:Flow
Composer:Åse Hedstrøm (20th cent)

Title:(The) Wonderful widow of eighteen springs
Composer:John Cage (1912 - 1992)

Title:(A) Flower
Composer:John Cage (1912 - 1992)

Title:Omar
Composer:Franco Donatoni(1927 - 2000)

Title:Stonewave
Composer:Rolf Wallin (b 1957)


SKU: 1073654

Title:String Quartet No. 12 in E flat, Op.127
Composer:Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)

Title:String Quartet No. 14 in C sharp minor, Op. 131
Composer:Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)

Title:String Quartet No. 13 in B flat, Op. 130
Composer:Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)

Title:Grosse Fuge in B flat, Op. 133
Composer:Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)

Title:String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, Op. 132
Composer:Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)

Title:String Quartet No. 16 in F, Op. 135
Composer:Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)


SKU: 2077531

Personnel: Mike Oldfield (acoustic & electric guitars, accordion, piano, organ, keyboards, synthesizer, organ, glockenspiel, timpani, cymbals, tambourine, triangle,tubular bells, programming); John Cleese (vocals); Sally Oldfield (background vocals).
SKU: 1083616

'A Ruff Guide' is a collection of tracks culled from the ex-Massive Attack rapper's albums for Island Records. The album highlights the distinctive mix of hip hop beats, moody soundscapes and laidback rapping, that hasearned Tricky his reputation as an innovative, groundbreaking artist.
SKU: 1070983

Ride: Andy Bell, Mark Gardener (vocals, guitar); Steve Queralt (bass); Laurence Colbert (drums).
Additional personnel: Nick Moorbath(piano, Hammond organ, Fender Rhodes); Jeff Scantlebury (percussion).
Engineers: Richard "Digby" Smith, Paul Motion.
Recorded in London, England in 1995.
SKU: 1065213

Personnel include: Gene Simmons (vocals, guitar, bass guitar); Nina Singh (vocals, drums, percussion, loops); Frank Zappa (spoken vocals, guitar); Mark Addison (guitar, keyboards, bass guitar, drums, background vocals); Frank Tolstrup (guitar, bass guitar, drums, percussion); Dweezil Zappa (guitar, background vocals); Dave Navarro, Ritchie Kotzen, Bruce Kulick (guitar); Eric Singer (drums); Ahmet Zappa, Moon Zappa, Gail Zappa, Sophie Tweed Simmons, Nick Tweed Simmons, Shannon Tweed (background vocals).
Recording information: 2004.
Whether you love or hate Kiss bassist/marketing mastermind Gene Simmons, the main revelation of his second solo album is how eclectic he can be with his musical choices. (This is, after all, a guy who covered "When You Wish Upon a Star" on his solo debut at a time when he was still sporting demon make-up.) Apparently, the cocky bassist's Rolodexgot quite a workout for this project. Former Kiss bandmates Bruce Kulick and Eric Singer were recruited for the swaggering "Weapons of Mass Destruction," Jane's Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro shows up on a scorching cover of Prodigy's "Firestarter," and Bob Dylan, of all people, helped co-write the heartfelt ballad "Waiting for the Morning Light."
Throughout the record Simmons shifts gears, from the ZZ Top-flavored boogie of "Sweet & Dirty Love" to the Beatlesque ballad "Now That You're Gone," to the surprisingly catchy title cut. This notorious cad even gives another glimpse of his sentimental side on the lush, Patsy Cline-inspired closer "1,000 Dreams," complete with strings and crying pedal steel.
SKU: 6554198

Title:Orfeo ed Euridice
Composer:Christoph Willibald(Ritter von) Gluck (1714 - 1787)


SKU: 1073189

Banco De Gaia includes: Toby Marks (various instruments).
Additional personnel: Matt Jenkins (soprano saxophone); Dick Parry (alto, tenor & baritone saxophones); Aidan O'Brien (Uillean pipes).
More wide-world electron big beat from Toby Marks, who knows a good groove when he creates one. This 1997 entry in the Banco canon is content to forget anything that came to pass within electronica in the defining period of the mid-'90s. Marks simply fires up the drum machines, engages his samples, and lets the bullets fly. Variety lingers here, however, in welcome fashion.
"Celestine" backs the BPM down in favor of a slow motion, progish/fusion saunter replete with philistine horns and synths limned from the stone edifices of cathedrals. On "One Billion Miles Out," Marks deposits the world-weary traveler in a Banco de Galactica and blasts him out into the asteroid belt, where spooky, star-shine electronics percolate then hiss-the voices of angels arising to greet their visitor. Then it's back to "Starstation Earth" to relax to space-age bachelor-pad music made with bromide synths left over from Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze, as you lay awashin twinkling ambience. And you can take that to the Banco.
SKU: 1079858

Title:Messa di Gloria in A flat
Composer:Giacomo (Antonia Domenico Michele Secondo Maria) Puccini (1858 - 1924)

Title:Preludio sinfonico in A
Composer:Giacomo (Antonia Domenico Michele Secondo Maria) Puccini (1858 -1924)

Title:Crisantemi
Composer:Giacomo (Antonia Domenico Michele Secondo Maria) Puccini (1858 - 1924)


SKU: 1063708

Title:(27) Etudes, Opp. 10, 25 and posth
Composer:Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin (1810 - 1849)

Title:(48)Songs without Words
Composer:(Jakob Ludwig) Felix Mendelssohn (-Bartholdy) (1809 - 1847)

Title:Lyric Pieces, Book 10, Op. 71
Composer:Edvard (Hagerup) Grieg (1843 - 1907)

Title:(3) Liebesträume, S541
Composer:Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886)

Title:(16) Waltzes, Op. 39
Composer:Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897)

Title:(26) Preludes
Composer:Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin (1810 - 1849)

Title:Impromptus
Composer:Franz (Peter) Schubert (1797 - 1828)

Title:Suite bergamasque
Composer:(Achille-)Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918)

Title:Mazurkas
Composer:Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin (1810 - 1849)

Title:Kinderszenen, Op. 15
Composer:Robert (Alexander) Schumann (1810 - 1856)

Title:Kinderszenen, Op. 15
Composer:Robert (Alexander) Schumann (1810 - 1856)

Title:(48) Songs without Words
Composer:(Jakob Ludwig) Felix Mendelssohn (-Bartholdy) (1809 - 1847)

Title:(27) Etudes, Opp. 10, 25 and posth
Composer:Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin (1810 - 1849)

Title:Lyric Pieces, Book 3, Op. 43
Composer:Edvard (Hagerup) Grieg (1843 - 1907)

Title:(6) Moments musicaux, D780
Composer:Franz (Peter) Schubert (1797 - 1828)

Title:Nocturnes
Composer:Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin (1810 - 1849)

Title:(24) Préludes
Composer:(Achille-)Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918)

Title:Venezia e Napoli (rev version), S162
Composer:Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886)

Title:Waldszenen, Op. 82
Composer:Robert (Alexander) Schumann (1810 - 1856)

Title:Waltzes
Composer:Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin (1810 - 1849)


SKU: 2077612

Title:Konzertwalzer
Composer:Wilhelm Fitzenhagen(1848 - 1890)

Title:Ave Maria, Op. 41
Composer:Wilhelm Fitzenhagen (1848 - 1890)

Title:(Die) Spinnerin, Op. 59 No 2
Composer:Wilhelm Fitzenhagen (1848 - 1890)

Title:Adagio
Composer:Jacques Offenbach (1819 - 1880)

Title:Scherzo
Composer:Jacques Offenbach (1819 - 1880)

Title:Deux Morceaux de Salon, Op. 53
Composer:Georg Eduard Goltermann (1824 - 1898)

Title:(4) Pieces, Op. 33
Composer:Julius Klengel (1859 - 1933)

Title:(2) Pieces, Op. 5
Composer:Julius Klengel (1859 - 1933)

Title:Weihegesang, 'Consecration Hymn', Op. 65
Composer:Friedrich Grützmacher

Title:Souvenir de Curis
Composer:Guillaume Paque (1825 - 1876)


SKU: 1073672

Kosheen: Sian Evans (vocals); Darren Decoder,Markee Substance.
Producers include: Darren Decoder, Markee Substance, Rod Bowkett, Jon Hall.
Recorded at Ledge Studio One, Bristol, England.
SKU: 1065231

First live album by British experimental trio whose line-up consists solely of electric bass guitarists. Comprised largely of previously unrecorded material, this collection of ambient soundscapes and dense harmonic interplay demon- strates the intense power of their live performance.
SKU: 1068224

After the success of 2001's disco influenced album 'Fever', Kylie Minogue returns with her ninth studio album 'Body Language'. Joined by producers Kurtis Mantronix, Baby Ash, and KarenPoole to name but a few, the album sees Kylie take a more experimental approach mixing electro, hip hop, and minimalistic soundscapes to her sultry vocals. The single 'Slow' is also included.
SKU: 1088298

Jesse Fuller sings andplays 12-string guitar, harmonica, kazoo, cymbals and fotdella.
Recorded at Good Time Jazz, Los Angeles, 1963. Originally released on Good Time Jazz (0051). Includes original liner notes by Lester Koenig.
Digitally remastered by Phil De Lancie (1991, Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, California).
SKU: 1002279

Producers: Ed Denson, Robbie Basho.
Compilation producer: Bill Belmont.
Recorded on February 9, 1966.
The Takoma record label came to prominence in the late '60s, bringing idiosyncratic folk artists to the attention of young rock fans and earninga reputation for high-quality homespun acoustic music. While John Fahey, Takoma's founder, and Leo Kottke earned well-deserved followings and critical plaudits, Robbie Basho, an influence on both of these players, remained a virtual unknown despite making some masterful recordings in his distinctive acoustic style.
The 1996 release of GUITAR SOLI, a collection of Basho's best work from his long-out-of-print records, is a well-chosen, extremely long-awaited introduction to this under-appreciated artist. Basho's gritty fingerpicked style of steel-stringed guitar playing contains marked Eastern influences, as well as Cajun and Celtic elements. The result is a style that is utterly individual. From the ghostly whistling on "Oriental Love" to the burnished beauty of "Sansara in Sweetness After Sandstorm (The Seal of the Blue Lotus)," Basho's compositions are imbued with a rough-hewn, gemlike perfection. This will be a welcome addition to the collection of anyone who appreciates the sound of six steel strings.
SKU: 1002197

Title:(La) Mer
Composer:(Achille-)Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918)
Conductor:Claudio Abbado
Ensemble:Lucerne Festival Orchestra

Title:Symphony No. 2, 'Resurrection' in C minor
Composer:Gustav Mahler (1860 - 1911)
Ensemble:LucerneFestival Orchestra

Title:Symphony No. 2, 'Resurrection' in C minor
Composer:Gustav Mahler (1860 - 1911)
Conductor:Claudio Abbado
Ensemble:Lucerne Festival Chorus


SKU: 2089190

DeadMeadow: Jason Simon (vocals, guitar); Steve Kille (sitar, bass); Stephen McCarty (drums).
Recorded between August 2002 & January 2003.
SKU: 1084158

2LP's on 2 CD's: DEDICATON(1982)/ON THE LINE(1982).
2 LPs on 1 CD: DEDICATION/ON THE LINE.
Personnel include: Gary U.S. Bonds(vocals); Clarence Clemons (vocals, saxophone); J.T. Brown (vocals); Miami Steve (guitar, bongos); Bruce Springsteen (guitar); Danny Federici (accordion); Chuck Jackson , Ben E. King (background vocals).
Liner Note Author: John Tobler.
New Orleans R&B singer Gary U.S. Bonds had a major hit in the early 1960s with "Quarter to Three," but quickly faded into obscurity. One man who never forgot Bonds was Bruce Springsteen, who made "Quarter to Three" a staple of his live set and oversaw the release of Bonds's 1981 comeback album, DEDICATION. Springsteen produced, supplied his E Street Band, and wrote a batch of songs for the album, which captured the spirit of Bonds's early material filtered through a more contemporary sensibility, courtesy of the Boss. The album, whose Bruce-penned hit "This Little Girl" put Bonds back on the pop charts, is paired here with the follow-up record ON THE LINE. The latter repeated its predecessor's successful Springsteen-assisted formula, with Bruce contributing an even bigger percentage of the material. While it wasn't as big a success as DEDICATION, it still proved that this was no one-shot phenomenon. In retrospect its hard to believe that in the wake of two albums as strong as these it took Bonds another 22 years to return to the studio, though he seemingly never tired of playing the Comeback King role to the hilt.
SKU: 6558455

Title:(27) Etudes,Opp. 10, 25 and posth
Composer:Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin (1810 - 1849)
Venue:Teldec Studios, Berlin


SKU: 1064044

Title:(L')Apprenti sorcier, '(The) Sorcerer's Apprentice'
Composer:Paul (Abraham) Dukas (1865 - 1935)
Conductor:Heinz Rögner
Ensemble:Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra

Title:(La) Création du monde, Op. 81a
Composer:Darius Milhaud (1892 - 1974)
Conductor:Heinz Rögner
Ensemble:Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra

Title:(2) Romanian Rhapsodies, Op. 11
Composer:George Enescu (1881 - 1955)
Conductor:Heinz Rögner
Ensemble:Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra

Title:Danse macabre in G minor, Op. 40
Composer:(Charles) Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 - 1921)
Conductor:Heinz Rögner
Ensemble:Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra

Title:(El) Amor Brujo
Composer:Manuel de Falla (y Matheu) (1876 -1946)
Conductor:Heinz Rögner
Ensemble:Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra


SKU: 2077868

Title:Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, 'To the memory of an angel'
Composer:Alban (Maria Johannes) Berg (1885 - 1935)

Title:(3) Orchestral Pieces, Op. 6
Composer:Alban (Maria Johannes) Berg (1885 - 1935)

Title:Sonata for Piano, Op. 1
Composer:Alban (Maria Johannes) Berg (1885 - 1935)

Title:Lyric Suite
Composer:Alban (Maria Johannes) Berg (1885 - 1935)

Title:Lyric Suite
Composer:Alban (Maria Johannes) Berg (1885 - 1935)

Title:Lyric Suite
Composer:Alban (Maria Johannes) Berg (1885 - 1935)

Title:Lulu_Symphonie
Composer:Alban (Maria Johannes) Berg (1885 - 1935)

Title:Lulu_Symphonie
Composer:Alban (Maria Johannes) Berg (1885 - 1935)

Title:Lulu_Symphonie
Composer:Alban (Maria Johannes) Berg (1885 - 1935)

Title:Lulu_Symphonie
Composer:Alban (Maria Johannes) Berg (1885 - 1935)

Title:Lulu_Symphonie
Composer:Alban (Maria Johannes) Berg (1885 -1935)

Title:(3) Wozzeck Fragments
Composer:Alban (Maria Johannes) Berg (1885 - 1935)

Title:(3) Wozzeck Fragments
Composer:Alban (Maria Johannes) Berg (1885 - 1935)

Title:(3) Wozzeck Fragments
Composer:Alban (Maria Johannes) Berg (1885 - 1935)

Title:(5) Orchesterlieder nach Ansichtskartentexten von Peter Altenberg, Op. 4
Composer:Alban (Maria Johannes) Berg (1885 - 1935)


SKU: 2078916

Title:(La)forza del destino, '(The) force of destiny'
Composer:Giuseppe (Fortunino Francesco) Verdi (1813 - 1901)
Venue:Teatro La Fenice, Venice, Italy


SKU: 2069616

Title:Water Music, HWV348-50
Composer:George Frideric Handel (1685 - 1759)

Title:Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV351
Composer:George Frideric Handel (1685 - 1759)

Title:Serse, 'Xerxes', HWV40
Composer:George FridericHandel (1685 - 1759)


SKU: 2068389

Blood For Blood: Erick "Buddah" Medina (vocals); Rob Lind (guitar, background vocals); Ian McFarland (bass).
Principally recorded live at the Middle East Club, Boston, Massachusetts on January 6, 2001.
SKU: 1061017

Title:Sinfonia pastorella in G
Composer:(Johann Georg) Leopold Mozart (1719 -1787)

Title:Dialog mit Natur
Composer:Jean Daetwyler (b 1907)

Title:Concerto for Alphorn and Orchestra
Composer:Jean Daetwyler (b 1907)

Title:Concertino Rustico
Composer:Ferenc Farkas (1905-2000)


SKU: 1073731

ALL GOOD THINGS contains: GARCIA (1972)/GARCIA (COMPLIMENTS) (1974)/REFLECTIONS (1976)/CATS UNDER THE STARS (1978)/RUN FOR THE ROSES (1982)/OUTTAKES, JAMS & ALTERNATES (2004).
Includes remastered versions of Jerry Garcia's five solo studio albums with bonus tracks, a bonus disc of previously unreleased tracks, and a 130 page booklet.
Personnel includes: Jerry Garcia (vocals, acoustic & electric guitar, pedal steel guitar, piano, organ, bass); Donna Jean Godchaux (vocals); John Kahn (guitar, organ, keyboards, bass); Larry Carlton, Bob Weir (guitar); David Grisman (mandolin); Brian Godchaux, Candy Godchaux (violin); Steve Schuster (flute, clarinet, saxophone); Joel Tepp (clarinet); Jackie Kelso (tenor & baritone saxophones); Melvin Moore (trumpet); Keith Godchaux (keyboards, background vocals); Michael Omartin (piano, tack piano, Fender Rhodes piano); Nicky Hopkins (piano); Melvin Seals, Merl Saunders (organ); Mickey Hart, Ron Tutt (drums, percussion); Johnny D'Fonseca, Bill Kreutzmann (drums); Bobbye Hall (congas, shakers, bells); Maria Muldaur (background vocals).
Producers include: Bob & Betty, Ram Rod, Bill Kreutzmann, Jerry Garcia, John Kahn.
Compilation producers: James Austin, David Gans, Blair Jackson.
Recorded between 1972 & 1982. Includes liner notes by Robert Hunter and Blair Jackson.
All tracks have been digitally remastered using HDCD technology.
Though the Grateful Dead were notorious for sounding better onstage than in the studio, Dead leader Jerry Garcia's solo work fared better on record, perhaps due to its less open-ended nature. The six-disc ALL GOOD THINGS set brings allof Garcia's studio recordings under one roof--along with a handsomely appointed booklet and a disc of outtakes--and convincingly makes the case for Garcia as the most aesthetically successful Dead solo artist.
The first album, GARCIA, essentially a one-man-band record, contains some of Garcia and Robert Hunter's best songs, which would become Dead standards ("Sugaree," "Loser," etc.). The follow-up, COMPLIMENTS, is full of covers and expectedly tasty guitar work. Recorded in 1976, REFLECTIONS is a Dead album in all but name, though considerably more concise than the band's contemporaneous offerings. CATS UNDER THE STARS and RUN FOR THE ROSES are the most polished, but also contributed to the Dead's repertoire ("Gomorrah," "Valerie"). As this collection proves, Garcia's amiable singing and astonishing guitar playing, even over the course of six CDs, never becomes too much of a good thing.
SKU: 6556955

Title:Requiem in D minor, K626
Composer:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart(1756 - 1791)


SKU: 1064095

Performers include: Bill Haley, Freddie Bell &The Platters, Little Richards, Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran.
Features 2 radio broadcasts from January & October in 1957.
Includes liner notes by Adam Komorwski.
SKU: 6557462

Title:(3) Sonatas, Op. 28
Composer:Joseph Wölfl (1773 - 1812)

Title:Sonata for Piano in C minor, Op 25
Composer:Joseph Wölfl (1773 -1812)


SKU: 1089403

Fog: Andrew Broder (vocals, various instruments).
Additional personnel: Owl (vocals); Mark Erickson (spoken vocals, accordion); James "Hymie" Peterson (acoustic guitar); Mike Lewis (clarinet); Julie Wellman (trumpet, bells); Greg Lewis (French horn); Adam Linz (bass);Martin Dash (drums).
Recorded at Third Ear Studios, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
SKU: 1082077

Sprung Monkey: Steve Summers (vocals); William Riley, Mike Summers(guitar); Tony Delocht (bass); Ernie Longoria (drums, percussion).
Additional personnel includes: Hal Summers (saxophone); Poncho Sanchez, Tiki Pasillas (percussion); DJ Bobby B (vinyl scratching); Bree Darling (background vocals).
Producers include: Jim Wirt, Sprung Monkey, David Darling, Dave Kaplan.
Engineers include: Jeff Peters, Jim Wirt, Donat Kazarinoff.
SKU: 1061581

Title:(6) Sonatas
Composer:Luigi (Carlo ZanobiSalvadore Maria) Cherubini (1760 - 1842)


SKU: 2080169

Title:Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in E minor, Op. 64
Composer:(Jakob Ludwig) Felix Mendelssohn (-Bartholdy) (1809 - 1847)
Conductor:Daniel Harding
Ensemble:Mahler Chamber Orchestra

Title:Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D minor, Op. posth
Composer:Robert (Alexander) Schumann (1810 -1856)
Conductor:Daniel Harding
Ensemble:Mahler Chamber Orchestra


SKU: 2089175

'A Grand Don't Come For Free' is the quasi-concept album follow up to 2002's hugely successful 'Original PirateMaterial'. This release sees the Birmingham rapper Mike Skinner merge street talk, garage beats and rock guitars as he follows the loose story of losing money and love and how to regain them. The album doesn't steer too far from the winning formula used on earlier work and includes the single 'Fit But You Know It'.
SKU: 6552861

Full Title: More Music From Coyote Ugly.
Original score composed by Trevor Horn.
A second discof tuneage featured in the 2000 Jerry Bruckheimer film COYOTE UGLY, MORE MUSIC FROM COYOTE UGLY is a fun mix of classic bar jukebox fare and modern party music that mirrors the wild good time atmosphere of the movie. Can't-miss rock songs by Blondie, The Stray Cats and The Georgia Satellites bump rumps with dance-oriented tracks from the Miracles, Rob Base and Pigeonhead, guaranteeing a celebratory vibe from start to finish. The album also includes two bonus mixes of recordings by country superstar LeAnn Rimes, who provided the singing voice of actress Piper Perabo in the film. An ideal disc for filling up the living room dance floor at just about any beer-fueled gathering, MORE MUSIC FROM COYOTE UGLY is 5-1/2" of pure par-tay.
SKU: 1080032

Personnel: Dominic Miller (classical guitar); Placido Domingo, Alejandro Lerner, Sting (vocals); Rufus Miller (guitar); Chris Botti (trumpet); Jason Rebello (piano); Richard Cottle (keyboards, programming); Pino Palladino (bass); Nick Patrick, Mile Bould (percussion); The Budapest Film Orchestra, The London Session Orchestra.
Recorded in 2003. Includes liner notes by Dominic Miller.
SHAPES is a collection of classical compositions by Bach, Satie, and Schubert, among others, that have been retooled for the Latin-influenced acoustic guitar of Dominic Miller. A seasoned session player, Miller has performed with a diverse roster of artists, most notably Sting, with whom he has recorded eleven albums including the critically acclaimed THE SOUL CAGES. In the liner notes, Miller credits Sting's gift of a book of Bach partitas and sonatas as the catalyst for this ambitious project. "Mass in B Minor (Qui Tollis)," a Bach choral work, is one of the album's unexpected gems. Miller reverses the Mass's melodic structure and replaces the vocal lines with a lush string arrangement, while he explores the counter-melody on guitar. This novel approach is what makes SHAPES such a pleasure. Miller's ability to profoundly reinvent these beloved compositions and yet deliver them with all their original passion and reverence is remarkable. "Ave Maria" is the one song Miller decides not to touch. He performs it exactly as written, but invites his friends Placido Domingo and Sting to perform it as a duet. The result is a classic performance that only adds depth to SHAPES'high luster.
SKU: 6553513

Pink Grease:Steve Santa Cruz (vocals, guitar); John Joseph Lynch (guitar, saxophone, synthesizer, background vocals); Max Hood (drums).
Recording information: Jacobs Studios, Farnham, England (2004).
SKU: 6559584

Contains24 tracks.
Performers include: Bullmoose Jackson, Mabel Scott, Zeb Turner, Royals, Platters, Tiny Topsy, Little Esther, Wyonnie Harris, Jesse Powell, Lucky Millinder, Tiny Bradshaw, Moon Mullican.
SKU: 1079734

Killswitch Engage's third album (the follow up to 2003's 'Alive Or Just Breathing') is the first to include vocalist Howard Jones (after their last vocalist left in late 2002). This album sees the band's metal-core sound progress as it is much heavierand leans more towards 80's thrash then the previous album's hardcore sound. As on the band's earlier releases, the album is produced by guitarist Adam Dutkiewitz (also producer for Every Time I Die and From Autumn To Ashes).
SKU: 6556490

THE BEGINNING OF ALL THINGS TO END is an unaltered version of an early demo EP.
Includes liner notes by Mudvayne.
Reissuing rare tracks and early demos is a risky affair, especially in an era where studio proficiency and high production value have come to be expected. In the case of THE BEGINNING OF ALL THINGS TO END, the self-proclaimed "oxygen wasting losers" better known as Mudvayne felt compelled to make the contents of their KILL, I OUGHTTA demo available to loyal fans fallen victim to the scams of opportunist bootleggers. The edgy, raw ferocity of tracks such as "Cultivate" and "Some Assembly Required" are evidence of a developing metal band honing their craft, in the hopes of being discovered. Two remixes of L.D. 50 album track "Dig" are also included, as well as the blistering live tracks, "Central Disposal" and "Coal." "L.D. 50" is a disturbing industrialmetal noisescape (compiled from the interludes on the band's full-length debut), with flown-in spoken passages that perpetuate a recurring theme of medical references and a repeating whispered chant that dares the listener with the phrase, "open your mind."
SKU: 1071723

Personnel includes: Dave Swarbrick (vocals, violin); Simon Nichol (acousitc guitar, bass); Beryl Marriott (piano); Alan Robertson (piano, accordion); Roger Marriott (melodeon); Dave Pegg (bass); Bruce Rowland(drums, tambourine).
SKU: 1083115

'Flor De Amor' is the second album from female Buena Vista vocalist Omara Portuondo. The album sees Portuondotaking influence from her early work of popular bossa nova rhythms and being backed by various Brazilian musicians and also the Cuban outfit Orquesta Aragon.
SKU: 6558554

'Happiness In Magazines' is Coxon's fifth studio album (after 2002's 'The Kiss Of Morning'). The album is also his first 'post-Blur'album and as such sees a more developed and polished style in his solo work. This translates to a wider range from his usual solo efforts taking in straight-up rock/punk (first single 'Freakin' Out') to the more thoughtful tracks (second single 'Bittersweet Bundle Of Misery').
SKU: 6559862

Fourth album from Chicago's Twista, officially the fastest rapper in the world, comes five years after his last, 'Legit Ballin'. Less violent and with more of a sexy party feel than his previous work, the album features production from his longtime collaborator Toxic and man of the moment Kanye West, as well as contributions from a host of hip hop and R&B stars including R. Kelly.Includes the US no.1 single 'Slow Jamz'. This special edition release also features bonus tracks for the UK market.
SKU: 6555065

Napalm Death includes:Mark Barney Greenway (vocals).
SKU: 1085464

This 2005 CD reissue presents eight bonus tracks, including numerous alternate takes.
Personnel: Jerry Garcia (vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, pedal steel guitar, piano, organ, bass guitar); Bill Kreutzmann (drums).
Producers: Bob Matthews; Betty Cantor; Bill Kreutzmann.
Recording information: Wally Heider Studio, San Francisco, California (07/1971).
All tracks have been digitally mastered using HDCD technology.
Jerry Garcia's first solo venture is partially a testament to the creative surge that the Garcia/Robert Hunter songwriting team experienced at the dawn of the 1970s. Along with such seminal Grateful Dead albums as WORKINGMAN'S DEAD, AMERICAN BEAUTY, and EUROPE '72, it is one in a series of explorations of American musical traditions draped in the colors forecast by JOHN WESLEY HARDING-era Bob Dylan. But this record also included modernist, outer-space moments for all of those concerned that Garcia had turned his back on his music's innovational trips.
Having veered away from the mystical compositions they helped create for the late-'60s Dead, Garcia and Hunter began focusing on the timeless aspects of Americana, building on existing foundations. This meant electrifying old country and folk texturesuntil they crackled with the possibility of epiphany. "Deal," a blistering, steel-guitar-propelled tale that preaches the wisdom of caution, centers around a refrain popularized by Bill Monroe, and the strutting, mid-tempo "Sugaree" is loosely based on an Elizabeth Cotten song ("Shake Sugaree"). By comparison, GARCIA's weird sides are odd transmissions into free musical space. "Late for Supper," "Spidergawd," and "Eep Hour" are concoctions full of loops, sound effects, and Garcia's fragmented piano playing, hinting at the spacey electronic music the Dead would soon tackle.
SKU: 6585204

Recorded in London, England between1947 & 1949. Includes liner notes by Peter Dempsey.
SKU: 4123055

BAD GIRLS: DELUXE EDITION contains a remastered BAD GIRLS plus a bonus disc of 12" singles.
Personnel includes: Donna Summer (vocals); Brooklyn Dreams (vocals); Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, JayGraydon, Paul Jackson, Jr., Ben Benay (guitar); Al Perkins (pedal steel guitar); Gary Herbig (saxophone); Steve Madaio, Jerry Hey, Gary Grant (trumpet); Dick Hyde, Bill Reichenbach (trombone); Harold Faltermeyer, Bruce Roberts (piano, Fender Rhodes piano, keyboards, synthesizer, bass); Jai Winding (piano); Greg Mathieson, Don Gregorio (keyboards);Scott Edwards, Bob Glaub, Mike Porcaro (bass); Keith Forsey (drums, percussion); Stephanie Spruill, Maxine L. Willard, Julia Tillman (background vocals).
Producers: Giorgio Moroder, Pete Bellote, Gary Klein, Bill Levenson.
Recorded at Rusk Sound Studio and Westlake Studios, Los Angeles, California; Musicland Studios and Arco Studios, Munich, Germany; Record Plant Studios, New York, New York between 1977 & 1979.
SKU: 1085887

Original scored composed by EnnioMorricone.
Includes 7 bonus tracks.
Personnel includes: Edda Dell'orso (vocals).
SKU: 1082351

Title:Prelude for GSMD
Composer:Witold Lutoslawski (1913 - 1994)
Conductor:Witold Lutoslawski
Ensemble:Guildhall Symphony Orchestra

Title:Concerto for Cello and Orchestra
Composer:Witold Lutoslawski (1913 - 1994)
Conductor:Witold Lutoslawski
Ensemble:Guildhall Symphony Orchestra

Title:Symphony No. 2
Composer:Witold Lutoslawski (1913 - 1994)
Conductor:Wojciech Michniewski
Ensemble:Guildhall Symphony Orchestra

Title:Novelette
Composer:Witold Lutoslawski (1913 - 1994)
Conductor:Wojciech Michniewski
Ensemble:Guildhall Symphony Orchestra

Title:Fanfare for Louisville
Composer:Witold Lutoslawski (1913 - 1994)
Conductor:Wojciech Michniewski
Ensemble:Guildhall SymphonyOrchestra


SKU: 2069763

Title:(La) Favola di Orlando
Composer:Jacquet de Berchem (c1505 - c1565)
Ensemble:Daedalus EnsembleChoir
Venue:Alte Kirche, Boswil,Switzerland


SKU: 2059642

'Psychedelic Love' isthe debut album by the South London female solo artist who fuses R&B, jazz and soul to create her sound. The record was produced by Guy Sigsworth who has previously worked with Madonna and Seal. The singles, 'Believers' and 'Promises', are included.
SKU: 1081488

Scritti Politti: Green Gartside (vocals, guitar);Nial Jinks (bass guitar); Tom Morley (drums, drum machine).
Recording information: 1981.
SKU: 6584232

Includes a bonus DVD featuring "Live At Vicar Street," a solo acoustic concert of Greendale.
Personnel: Neil Young (vocals, guitar, harmonica, organ); Billy Talbot (vocals, bass); Ralph Molina (vocals, drums).
The Mountainettes: Pegi Young, Nancy Hall, Twink Brewer, Sue Hall.
Includes liner notes by Neil Young.
Critics were sharply divided over this album, some hailing it as a masterpiece and some dismissing it as a tossed-off trifle. Longtime Young fans will notice right away that GREENDALE's raw, minimalistic sound and quirky songs hearken back to such gloriously off-kilter 1970s releases as ZUMA and TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT. This is a "concept album," but it's one of the few instances in rock history where those words needn't send audiences fleeing in the opposite direction. Young's rare combination of deceptively effortless, organic narrative and unpredictable strangeness keep things flowing, and there are valuable moments of humor sprinkled throughout to keep GREENDALE from getting weighed down.
Crazy Horse guitarist Poncho Sampedro is absent, leaving Young backed only by the primal thump of Billy Talbot and Ralph Molina, but a number of the tunes stretch out to 10 minutes or more, forcing you to confront the transcendentally ragged simplicity and eloquence of Young's guitar and musical vision. Ultimately, the effect is not unlike that of latter-day Bob Dylan or Lou Reed--a veteran rock poet fully immersed in his idiom pushes its boundaries to meet hisidiosyncratic needs, simultaneously confounding expectations and leaving deep footprints in the landscape of modern musical art.
SKU: 1086003

This two CD set brings together classic tracks from Underworld's back catalogue starting in 1992 when DJ Darren Emerson joined Karl Hyde and Rick Smith's late eighties synth outfit of the same name. The album features the blend of Emerson and Smith's techno based production and Hyde's infectious vocals to create the unique sound thatgave them worldwide recognition. The singles 'Cowgirl', 'King Of Snake' and the UK number two hit 'Born Slippy' are included.
SKU: 1088711

Lewis: Brett Tohlen (vocals, guitar, Fender Rhodes piano); Matt Beaton (vocals, guitar); Jeff Truly (bass); John Owen Parish (drums).
Additional personnel: Chuck Parish(piano).
Recorded at Echo Lab, Denton, Texas in August 2001.
SKU: 1073972

THE BEST OF THE ART OF NOISE is a slightly misleading title. This ten-track compilation from 1989 containsnone of Anne Dudley and J.J. Jeczalik's innovative and groundbreaking collaborations with producer/theorist Trevor Horn from 1982 to 1985 (except in the form of themes and motifs which endlessly recur throughout this album and the rest of the Art of Noise's many releases). Also, this compilation contains no re-releases of familiar material, but entirely--and in some cases startlingly--new remixes of the older works.
The compilation focuses on the band's singles, including a drastically altered version of their hit "Legs" called "Legacy," as well as novelties like collaborations with Duane Eddy ("Peter Gunn"), Max Headroom ("Paranoimia"), Dan Ackroyd ("Dragnet '88") and Tom Jones (Prince's "Kiss"). Other tracks include the lovely, orchestral "Opus" and the more sinister "Something Always Happens."
SKU: 1070655

Title:(6) Brandenburg Concertos, BWV1046-51
Composer:Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)
Conductor:Leonid Malyshev
Ensemble:Nova Festival Orchestra

Title:Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV565
Composer:Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)

Title:(6) Concertos,BWV592-7
Composer:Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)


SKU: 2068283

Queen: Freddie Mercury (vocals, piano); Brian May (guitar, background vocals); John Deacon (bass); Roger Taylor (drums, background vocals).
Recorded in Montreux, Switzerland and Nice, France between July and October, 1978.
In 1978, all eyes were on Queen as they released the follow-up to their monster global hit NEWS OF THE WORLD. Predictably, JAZZ didn't achieve the massive commercial success of it's predecessor, but in aesthetic terms, it's a solid statement, and a marked progression of the band's musical vision. Though the band was already well into their "eclectic" mode by this time, the stylistic ventures the band takes on this album bring them evenfurther afield from the heavy rock they're best known for.
Freddie Mercury kicks things off with "Mustapha," a nod to his Middle Eastern origins. Queen exhibits a ribald sense of humour on "Fat Bottomed Girls." Mercury indulges his Broadway tendencies to the hilt on "IF You Can't Beat Them" and "Don't Stop Me Now," which sound like they could have come from some obscure '50s musical. The jazzy "Dreamer's Ball" and the mellow, romantic "In Only Seven Days" provide welcome contrast. Amid all this eclecticism, though, the standout tracks are the propulsive rockers "Let Me Entertain You" (whose promise they fulfill) and "Dead on Time."
SKU: 4123757

F-Minus: Brad Logan, Erica Daking(vocals, guitar); Joe Steinbrick (bass); Adam Zuckert (drums).
Recorded at Electrical Audio, Chicago, Illinois.
SKU: 1082107

Taking tracks from the retrospective album of the same namereleased in 2002, Toby Marks AKA Banco De Gaia asked old friends to rework some of their favourite Banco tracks. Remixes come from the likes of Eat Static, Dreadzone, Transglobal Underground, and Asian Dub Foundation, to name but a few, each adding their own stamp to Toby Mark's world music influenced trance.
SKU: 1082172

The 1997 reissue of THE BALLAD OF EASY RIDER includes seven tracks that did not appear on the original LP; "Way Behind The Sun," "Mae Jean Goes To Hollywood," "Fiddler A Dram," "Build It Up," "The Ballad Of Easy Rider" and alternate versions of "Oil In My Lamp" and "Tulsa County."

The Byrds: Gene Parsons (vocals, guitar, 5-string banjo, drums); Roger McGuinn (vocals, guitar, synthesizer); Clarence White (vocals, guitar); John York (vocals, bass).
Producer: Terry Melcher.
Reissue producer: Bob Irwin.
Recorded between June 17, 1969 and August 26, 1969. Includes liner notes by David Fricke and Johnny Rogan.
By 1969, the Byrds had already been through the Gram Parsons-fired country rock innovations of SWEETHEART OF THE RODEO, and had just lost Chris Hillman, the last original member except for Roger McGuinn. McGuinn was involved in so many extracurricular activities that he found little time to compose new material for EASY RIDER. His sole writing credit is the stellar title tune, co-written with Dylan for the famous biker film that gives this album its name (dislikingthe film, Dylan removed his name from the song). Fortuitously, McGuinn's taste in cover material and the compositional abilities of his bandmates more than made up for his lack of new material.
McGuinn continued his experiments with combining old and new on an imaginative version of the traditional "Jack Tarr The Sailor," laced with synthesizer at a time when that instrument was barely being utilized in rock. Gene Parsons kicks in with one of the finest tunes of his career, "Gunga Din," a self-referential country-rocker that recalls the band's recent musical past. The balance of the album is a mixture of gentle folk-rock (Dylan and Woody Guthrie covers) and unabashed weirdness (the interstellar experimentalism of "Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins." All of it is eminently listenable.
SKU: 1000261

This is an Enhanced CD which contains regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.
Personnel includes: Gladys Knight, Jamie Foxx (vocals); James "D.C." Wilson III, Shep Crawford (various instruments); James Harrah (acoustic & electric guitars); Bruce Gritsch (acoustic guitar); Jerry McPherson (electric guitar); Jamey Jaz (guitar, programming); Joe Mumford, Josh Sklar, John "Jubu" Smith, Eric Jackson, Proffessa, Tim Morey (guitar); Gene Orloff, Winterton B. Garvey, Max Ellen, Regis Landiorio, Andrew Stein, Elizabeth Miller, Abraham Appleman, Katsuke Esaki, Marilyn Reynolds, Belinda Whitney, Ming Yeh, Peter J. Prossier, Jeanne Leblanc, Richard Locker (strings); Greg Phillinganes (piano, Fender Rhodes piano, keyboards); Keith Thomas (piano, synthesizer, programming); Keith Crouch (organ, keyboards); Bradley Spalter (keyboards, programming).
Producers: Gladys Knight, Randy Jackson, Tiger, Gary Brown, James "D.C. Wilson, III.
Engineers: Tiger, Adam Kagan, Jamey Jaz.
AT LAST won the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Traditional R&B Vocal Album.
For her first mainstream pop/R&B album since 1994's JUST FOR YOU, soul legend Gladys Knight teamedup with a host of young contemporary producers including Randy Jackson and Shep Crawford. The result is a record that successfully places her alongside younger acts like Kelly Price and Deborah Cox. Plunging headfirst into the many facets of love, Knight comes up with a collection of slower songs that combine her soulful singing style with mature subject matter.
Topics vary, from the pleading piano-driven "Please Help Me I'm Falling (In Love With You)," about breaking off an illicit relationship, to the search for a worthy mate (the Brian McKnight-flavored Jamie Foxx duet "I Wanna Be Loved"). Knight's vocals get to marinate in the midtempo grooves, with rich material like a hushed, gospel-flavored reading of Bill Withers' "Grandma's Hands," and the harmony-laden slow jam that is Babyface's "Love Hurts." Most impressive is the former child prodigy's reworking of country star Phil Vassar's "Rose Bouquet," which gets transformed into a future Quiet Storm classic, complete with call-and-response vocals, chimes, and a rock-solid groove. AT LAST is a powerful creative statement from one of music's all-time greats.
SKU: 1081877

Insolence:Mech 1, Mark Herman (vocals); Mike Rowan (guitar); Paul Perry (bass); Armando Cardenas (drums, turntables); Jerry Dalalao (samples, turntables).
Additional personnel includes: Sen Dog (rap vocals); Logan Mader (guitar); Sylvia Massy Shivy (melodica); Angelo Moore (saxophone, Theremin); Robert Trujillo (bass); Roy Moyorga (percussion); D-Styles (scratches).
Engineers: Sylvia Massy Shivy, Richard Veltrop.
Recorded at Sound City Studios & Cello Studios, Los Angeles, California and Mad Dog Studios, Burbank, California.
SKU: 1067123

Cocteau Twins: Elizabeth Fraser (vocals); Robin Guthrie (guitar); Simon Raymonde (bass).
The Cocteau Twins released their second album, 1983's HEAD OVER HEELS, following their first bass player's departure, and came close to reinventing themselves. Songs like "Sugar Hiccup" and the brilliantly named "Glass Candle Grenades," with their swooping vocals, clattering percussion, and vibrant guitars, go a long way to lightening the downbeat mood cast on the band's previous album. (Collectors should note that early versions of the CD included all four tracks from the band's 1984 EP, SUNBURST AND SNOWBLIND.)
Standouts include "The Tinderbox (of a Heart)," which is fleshed out with synthesized orchestral strings and multilayered vocal tracks; the strange, barreling, music-hall quality of "Multifoiled"; and the crunching, heavily echoed "Musette and Drums," which features Elizabeth Fraser's vocals at both their most commanding and most elusive. Arguably the best track is the spectacular "In the Gold Dust Rush," which highlights Robin Guthrie's multiple guitar effects to create an enveloping cocoon, broken only by shards ofdistortion. The underlying combination of basic song structures, ethereal vocals, and effects make HEAD OVER HEELS probably the best place to start investigating the Cocteau Twins' unique sound.
SKU: 1079774

Personnel includes: Mystikal, Butch Cassidy, Juvenile, Redman, Method Man, KLC, Byou2ful, Shonnie, Beezy Boy, Dart (rap vocals); Rich Tapper (guitar); Pharrell Williams (horns, background vocals); Chad Hugo (horns); Mitch DeStefano (bass); Chad Hugo (horns); DJ Scratch (turntables); Big V-90, $tevie Green, DJ Ron, Evelyn Mojica, Lara Vaidya (background vocals).
Producers include: Juvenile, The Neptunes, Rockwilder, Scott Storch, DJ Ron.
Engineers include: Andrew Coleman, Pat "The Natural" Viala, KLC.
TARANTULA was nominated for the 2003 Grammy Awards for Best Rap Album.
"Bouncin' (Bumpin'Me Against The Wall)" was nominated for the 2003 Grammy Awards for Male Rap Solo Performance.
Southern rapper Mystikal came so far so fast from his initial thug-life/No Limit Records image that anyone keeping even a casual eye on his progress over the years should find the stylistic and thematic breadth of TARANTULA to be no great surprise. Opening track "Bouncin' Back," which features uberproducers the Neptunes, doesn't sample James Brown like zillions of other rappers might; it inhabits the James Brown spirit, offering a very clear picture of what would happen if the Godfather of Soul ever went the hip-hop route. The accessible, highly melodic backing on "Settle the Score" contrasts perfectly with the verbal jousting of Mystikal and Juvenile. When Mystikal's not getting down over cracking, old-school funk tracks, he's interacting with spare, angular synth riffs in a thoroughly modern manner. Whatever the mode, it's the man and his message that matter most on TARANTULA.
SKU: 1070202

This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multmedia computer files.
Clem Snide: Eef Barzelay (vocals, guitar); Jason Glasser (cello); Jeff Marshall (acoustic bass).
All tracks have beendigitally remastered.
SKU: 1082164

STRAWBERRIES MEAN LOVE, unless you're allergic, in which case they mean hives. That pretty much sums up the two likely responses to the Strawberry Alarm Clock, Santa Barbara's first and best exponent of flower power-era psychedelic pop. Either you'll find their catchy pop tunes, laced with pseudo-profound lyrics and cool trippy production effects, to be potent reminders of a certain place and time, or you'll find it all extremely calculated and commercial.
Actually, the Strawberry Alarm Clock were both at once, and as a result, songs like "Incense and Peppermints" and "Rainy Day Mushroom Pillow" are both somehow more honest evocations of the real spirit of '67 as most people actually experienced it and, frankly,much better pop songs than, say, "Somebody To Love." This anthology, a remastered and expanded version of a previous collection on the excellent UK reissue label Ace/Big Beat, is the best SAC experience.
SKU: 4123488