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CD has superficial wear and light scratches. Inserts are pristine. Case is solid with very light shelf wear.
Notes:
Release is packaged in a clear jewel case with an opaque black disc tray. Includes a 6-page insert and a back cover inlay.
On disc face:
MADE IN U.S.A. BY WEA MANUFACTURING INC.
1. Still Got This Thing 4:352. Love Is 3:393. Black Velvet 4:494. Rock This Joint 4:005. Lover Of Mine 4:376. Kick Start My Heart 3:417. If You Want To 4:118. Just One Kiss 3:349. Who Loves You 3:3610. Hurry Make Love 2:18
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Barcode 0 7567 81956-2 4Barcode 075678195624Rights Society ASCAPRights Society CAPACRights Society PROMatrix / Runout 3 81956-2 SRC=02Matrix / Runout 3 81956-2 SRC=03 M1S7Matrix / Runout 3 81956-2 SRC=02 M3S4Matrix / Runout 3 81956-2 SRC=02 M6S19Matrix / Runout 3 81956-2 SRC=02 M8S4Matrix / Runout 3 81956-2 SRC=02 M3 S7Matrix / Runout 3 81956-2 SRC=03 M2S6Matrix / Runout 3 81956-2 SRC=02 M6S16Matrix / Runout 3 81956-2 SRC=02 M3 S2
Record Company Warner CommunicationsMade By WEA Manufacturing Inc.Phonographic Copyright (p) Atlantic Recording CorporationCopyright (c) Atlantic Recording CorporationPhonographic Copyright (p) WEA International Inc.Copyright (c) WEA International Inc.Published By Bluebear WaltzesPublished By SBK Blackwood Music CanadaPublished By David Tyson MusicPublished By Cheshire RecordsPublished By Canvee MusicPublished By Lynne J. PublishingPublished By Cross Keys PublishingPublished By Tree MusicPublished By Soap Opry MusicPublished By Chappell Music Of CanadaRecorded At McClear PlaceRecorded At Eastern SoundRecorded At Soundtown StudiosRecorded At Sounds InterchangeMixed At Atlantic StudiosMastered At Sterling SoundGlass Mastered At Specialty Records CorporationData provided by Discogs
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Made in USA by WEA Manufacturing Inc.
1. Our World Our Times 6:252. Make Me Happy 5:493. Sonny Say You Will 5:084. Tumbleweed 4:385. Livin' On A Memory 5:536. Song Instead Of A Kiss 5:047. Love In The Big Town 4:488. The Last Time I Saw William 4:159. Lies And Rumours 5:0610. Rockinghorse 3:00
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Barcode 075678240225Barcode 0 7567-82402-2 5Matrix / Runout 3 82402-2 SRC#01. 11 1
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CD has superficial wear and light scratches. Inserts are pristine. Case is solid with light shelf wear, small crack at top of front.
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Issued with 16 page booklet containing track lyrics and credits.
Track length not listed on release but determined via MusicBrainz Metadata.
1. Our World Our Times 6:242. Make Me Happy 5:493. Sonny Say You Will 5:084. Tumbleweed 4:385. Livin' On A Memory 5:536. Song Instead Of A Kiss 5:047. Love In The Big Town 4:488. The Last Time I Saw William 4:159. Lies And Rumours 5:0610. Rockinghorse 3:01
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Other D 153616Matrix / Runout 3 82402-2 SRC#01. M1S9
Recorded At Brooklyn RecordingRecorded At Capitol StudiosRecorded At Saturn SoundRecorded At The ComplexRecorded At Mad Dog StudioRecorded At Westlake AudioRecorded At A&M StudiosMixed At Image Recording StudiosMixed At Westlake AudioMastered At Precision MasteringData provided by Discogs
Tracklist:
Where Were You Hiding (When the Storm Broke)
Sixty Eight Guns
Absolute Reality
Knife Edge
Spirit of 76
Rain in the Summertime
Rescue Me
Chant Has Just Begun
Strength
Blaze of Glory
UPC: 5036436162727Label: Secret RecordsRelease Date: 4.24.26Format: Vinyl
MERIDIANS Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas announce the release of their long-awaited seventh duo album MERIDIANS - new compositions representing the apex of their musical journey of the last 25 years up to this point. The album begins with "Rise Up", Natalie's call to action in challenging times, and ends with "Peace Longing", Alasdair's heart-felt plea for peace, upon reflecting on a Mother's satellite phone conversation with her son on the Ukrainian battlefield front line. Once again, Fraser & Haas share the joy and privilege of creating and playing music together, and celebrate it's unique power to connect people together across the globe.
Tracklist:
[ 4:04] Rise Up
[ 4:49] Peninsula Waltz / Lady of the
Lathe
[ 5:04] Strathree / Polska Dot
[ 4:23] Not That Song! / the Leahy Challenge
[ 4:38] Burning the Midnight Oil / Turbulence
[ 3:26] An Invitation
[ 4:13] Take a Daunder
[ 4:18] El Cinco Transatlantico / Jota Para la Princesa
Castellana
[ 4:14] Aperture / Spill the Tea / Celtic Calico
[ 3:41] the Sleeping Lady of Tamalpais
[ 4:00 Cranachan / the Oatcake Club
[ 2:50] Highland Hoedown
[ 4:16] Peace Longing
UPC: 755997013020Label: Culburnie RecordsRelease Date: 4.17.26Format: CD
Media Condition: Near Mint (NM or M-)
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Record and cover very clean l record looks played once with no scratches. Cover in shrink with sticker.
Notes:
A. I'll Remember April 17:41B1. Rollins' Tune 7:09B2. Tune Up 5:33B3. Free 9:47
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This is the first REAL solo album by Albert Bouchard, drummer and songwriter for Blue Oyster Cult. Mostly brand new compositions, there are are a few BOC covers and a cover of a great David Roter song and the first song Al wrote with Robert Gordon.
Tracklist:
Ghosts
Roadshow
Ravens
Do You Believe In Me
Prayer (Light The Dark)
Trinity
Cry 3x
Voyeur, Pt. I
Face In Your Mirror
All Dreaming
Career Of Evil
Death Valley Nights
UPC: 888295130097Label: Deko MusicRelease Date: 5.8.26Format: CD
Media Condition: Very Good Plus (VG+)
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CD has very slight superficial wear. Inserts are pristine, holepunch in barcode. Case has light shelf wear. Nice copy.
Notes:
1. Man On Your Mind 3:352. Work It Out 4:183. Come Up For Air 3:564. Blues Makes Me Feel So Good 3:185. Where Did I Go Wrong 2:586. Your Sweet Love 5:097. Sleep 4:138. Separately 5:219. Lonely Bed 7:3610. Follow Your Soul 3:47
Barcode and Other Identifiers:
Barcode 0 1914-85092-2 1Barcode 019148509221Matrix / Runout 2GA12<7085>BPCD5092 DADRMastering SID Code IFPI L482Mould SID Code IFPI 81B0Matrix / Runout 2GA12<7085>BPCD5092 DADRMastering SID Code IFPI L482Mould SID Code IFPI 81A9Matrix / Runout 2GA12<7085>BPCD5092 DADRMastering SID Code IFPI L482Mould SID Code IFPI 7720Other AD/CA
Phonographic Copyright (p) Blind Pig RecordsCopyright (c) Blind Pig RecordsRecorded At Wire RecordingRecorded At Ardent StudiosMixed At Ardent StudiosData provided by Discogs
Media Condition: Very Good Plus (VG+)
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Vinyl & cover are in great shape.
Notes:
Recorded and Mixed at Western Studios and United Studios, Mastered at the Mastering Lab.
(C) 1973 by Landers-Roberts Music./April Music, Inc. (ASCAP)
A1. Smokey Factory Blues 3:20A2. The Peacemaker 2:36A3. Woman Of The World 2:58A4. Everything I Want To Do 2:30A5. Who's For Lunch Today 2:52B1. The Free Electric Band 3:25B2. Rebecca 3:00B3. The Day The British Army Lost The War 4:00B4. For The Peace Of All Mankind 4:00B5. I Think I'll Go That Way 3:30
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Matrix / Runout AL 32267Matrix / Runout BL 32267Matrix / Runout AL 32267-IAMatrix / Runout BL 32267-IEMatrix / Runout AL 322667-IBMatrix / Runout BL 32267-ID
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Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. Released to celebrate Albert King's centennial, this new edition of the legendary artist's first album for Stax Records, Born Under A Bad Sign with all-analog mastering from the original tapes by Jeff Powell at Take Out Vinyl. The album has been inducted into the Grammy Hall Of Fame and is included in Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums Of All Time." It features contributions from Booker T. & The MG's and the Memphis Horns.Track List
Born Under a Bad Sign
Crosscut Saw
Kansas City
Oh Pretty Woman
Down Don't Bother Me
The Hunter
I Almost Lost My Mind
Personal Manager
Laundromat Blues
As the Years Go Passing By
The Very Thought of You
Born Under a Bad Sign [Take 1 - Alternate] [Alternate Take]
Crosscut Saw [Take 1 - Alternate] [Alternate Take]
The Hunter [Take 1 - Alternate] [Alternate Take]
Personal Manager [Take 15 - Alternate] [Alternate Take]
Untitled Instrumental [Take 3 - Alternate] [Alternate Take] [Instrumental]
Media Condition: Very Good Plus (VG+)
Sleeve Condition: Generic
Vinyl is in great shape.
Notes:
A: Mono
B: Stereo
A. Cadillac Assembly Line 3:14B. Cadillac Assembly Line 3:14
Barcode and Other Identifiers:
Rights Society BMIMatrix / Runout UA-10544-CMatrix / Runout UB-10544-A
Phonographic Copyright (p) The Gomelsky Eggers Music & Information Company Ltd.Copyright (c) Utopia Records (16)Produced For Penumbra Music CompanyManufactured By RCA RecordsDistributed By RCA RecordsPublished By East/Memphis Music Corp.Data provided by Discogs
First ever vinyl release for this landmark meeting between these two blues giants! This is the only known recording of Albert King and Stevie Ray Vaughan performing together - the greatest blues summit of all time. With each musician spurning the other to greater heights, this 1983 live recording sounds as exciting on each subsequent listening as it does the very first time through. Lineup: Albert King-electric guitar, vocalStevie Ray Vaughan-electric guitar, vocal, Tony Llorens-piano, organ, Gus Thornton-bass, Michael Llorens-drums. Recorded December 6, 1983 at CHCH Studios, Hamilton, Ontario. Stereo recording. Tracks: Call It Stormy Monday, Old Times, Pride And Joy, Turn It Over, Ask Me No Questions, Who Is Stevie?, Blues at Sunrise.Track List
Call It Stormy Monday
Old Times
Pride and Joy
Turn It Over
Ask Me No Questions
Who Is Stevie?
Blues at Sunrise
Media Condition: Very Good Plus (VG+)
Sleeve Condition: Very Good Plus (VG+)
CD has superficial wear and some small, light scratches. Inserts look good. Case has light shelf wear.
Notes:
1983, Stax Records
Fantasy, Inc
Tenth and Parker
Berkeley, CA 94710
All rights reserved
Printed in U.S.A.
Total time has been rounded off to the nearest minute. Total Time 34:00
1. Wrapped Up In Love Again 2:212. You Don't Love Me (Instrumental) 3:313. Cockroach 3:214. Killing Floor 3:095. Lonely Man 2:426. If The Washing Don't Get You, The Rinsing Will 2:157. Drowning On Dry Land 3:578. Drowning On Dry Land (Instrumental) 2:429. Heart Fixing Business 2:4510. You Threw Your Love On Me Too Strong 3:1811. Sky Is Crying 4:11
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Barcode 0 25218-8522-2 7Barcode 025218852227SPARS Code AADMatrix / Runout DIDX-005688 1 🝊 🝊🝊 🝊🝊🝊🝊Other ★ [DADC Logo] ★
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Media Condition: Near Mint (NM or M-)
Sleeve Condition: Very Good Plus (VG+)
CD Mint, case has minimal shelf wear. Shop Small
Notes:
1. T-Bird To Vegas 2. Bullish Boogie 3. Seventeenth Summer 4. Salt Creek 5. Arkansas Traveler 6. Cannonball 7. Romany Rye 8. Erin
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Tracklist:
Reverie
Kokoro
Love Story
Blue Day
A Quiet Sun
Dolce Vita
Glare
Autumn
Arrival
Fragile
UPC: 600574100016Label: DeccaRelease Date: 5.1.26Format: CD
Leftovers is a reflective, piano-led album in which Italian pianist Alberto Giurioli distills emotions, memories, and everyday observations into intimate instrumental narratives. Rather than focusing on grand gestures, the record finds meaning in small moments - daydreams, passing seasons, love, loss, and quiet realizations.
Tracklist:
Reverie
Kokoro
Love Story
Blue Day
A Quiet Sun
Dolce Vita
Glare
Autumn
Arrival
Fragile
UPC: 600574100023Label: DeccaRelease Date: 5.15.26Format: Vinyl
Ambient post-rock from San Diego's millennial post-hardcore retreat. Tracked between Tristeza tours, The Album Leaf 's sophomore album weaves delicate guitar noodling, tinkling piano, reflective synth, eerie field recordings, and driving percussion into a meditation on the passage of time. This remastered 25th anniversary edition replicates the original, with fresh notes from author Adam Gnade and previously unpublished photos. A devastating hour of aural photosynthesis.
Tracklist:
Gust of.
The MP
Story Board
Wet The Day
The Audio Pool
Hang Over
In Between Lines
Last Time Here
Asleep
The Sailor
Vermillion
Glimmer
UPC: 825764199490Label: NumeroRelease Date: 5.22.26Format: Vinyl
Ambient post-rock from San Diego's millennial post-hardcore retreat. Tracked between Tristeza tours, The Album Leaf 's sophomore album weaves delicate guitar noodling, tinkling piano, reflective synth, eerie field recordings, and driving percussion into a meditation on the passage of time. This remastered 25th anniversary edition replicates the original, with fresh notes from author Adam Gnade and previously unpublished photos. A devastating hour of aural photosynthesis.
Tracklist:
Gust of.
The MP
Story Board
Wet The Day
The Audio Pool
Hang Over
In Between Lines
Last Time Here
Asleep
The Sailor
Vermillion
Glimmer
UPC: 825764199414Label: NumeroRelease Date: 5.22.26Format: Vinyl
Media Condition: Very Good (VG)
Sleeve Condition: Very Good (VG)
Both CD and case are slightly better than VG. Mild superficial marks on disc, look worse than they are, plays fine. Case has mild shelf wear. OBI strip inside with liner, liner VG+. Shop Small
Notes:
1. Too Young To Die, Too Drunk To Live 2. Hiroshima Mon Amour 3. Night Games 4. Island In The Sun 5. Kree Nakoorie 6. Coming Bach 7. Since You've Been Gone 8. Evil Eye 9. All Night Long
Barcode and Other Identifiers:
Barcode 4988005139061Other ¥1,800Matrix / Runout P33P-25035- 3K VMastering SID Code IFPI L237Mould SID Code IFPI 4011Matrix / Runout P33P-25035- A2D V
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Alcest took an audible step towards their black metal roots with their sophomore full-length "Écailles de Lune" ("Moon Scales") without losing any of the trademarks that had evolved on their debut album "Souvenirs d'un Autre Monde". The French post-black metal pioneers created a sound of lucent, dreamlike quality and otherworldly beauty that has equally defined them and been refined by them ever since.In musical terms, Alcest amalgamate calm, semi-acoustic passages, repetitive, hypnotic patterns, and captivating melodies with outbursts of harsh riffing and aggressive drumming. The same contrasting and complementing effect is used by band founder and guitarist Neige for his vocals. Clean singing that is morphing back and forth between a warm and darker tone and a gentle higher pitch occasionally gets swept aside by despairing shrieks and furious black voices - only to flowingly return like an unstoppable tide. "For this album, I was especially inspired by the sea, the energy, and the exaltation that you can feel when you sit in front of the ocean at night," Neige explained about "Écailles de Lune". "The sea appears terribly fascinating, full of secrets, beautiful and frightening at the same time."Alcest's music has received many labels over the years including post-black metal, post-rock, shoegaze, and blackgaze to name some of the more commonly found terms. Yet whatever the band originally from Avignon and now based with Neige in Paris is called, their sound has always remained unique. Another typical element of their albums is a concept or theme that runs through the songs. On "Écailles de Lune" it is a tale of transformation. "This album's story is not a metaphor for death as it might appear to be", says Neige. "To me, it is about a man who decides to literally leave one world for another. It can rather be seen as a passage to another reality or another state of existence." For those, who want to follow in those footsteps and journey to another place, Alcest offer a key. Just close your eyes and listen to "Écailles de Lune" and you will be taken far away to a world of musical wonders and haunting beauty - but beware, even roses of the otherworld have thorns. UPC: 884388895713Label: ProphecyRelease Date: 5.1.26Format: Vinyl
Alcest took an audible step towards their black metal roots with their sophomore full-length "Écailles de Lune" ("Moon Scales") without losing any of the trademarks that had evolved on their debut album "Souvenirs d'un Autre Monde". The French post-black metal pioneers created a sound of lucent, dreamlike quality and otherworldly beauty that has equally defined them and been refined by them ever since. In musical terms, Alcest amalgamate calm, semi-acoustic passages, repetitive, hypnotic patterns, and captivating melodies with outbursts of harsh riffing and aggressive drumming. The same contrasting and complementing effect is used by band founder and guitarist Neige for his vocals. Clean singing that is morphing back and forth between a warm and darker tone and a gentle higher pitch occasionally gets swept aside by despairing shrieks and furious black voices - only to flowingly return like an unstoppable tide. "For this album, I was especially inspired by the sea, the energy, and the exaltation that you can feel when you sit in front of the ocean at night," Neige explained about "Écailles de Lune"?. "The sea appears terribly fascinating, full of secrets, beautiful and frightening at the same time." Alcest's music has received many labels over the years including post-black metal, post-rock, shoegaze, and blackgaze to name some of the more commonly found terms. Yet whatever the band originally from Avignon and now based with Neige in Paris is called, their sound has always remained unique. Another typical element of their albums is a concept or theme that runs through the songs. On "Écailles de Lune" it is a tale of transformation. "This album's story is not a metaphor for death as it might appear to be", says Neige. "To me, it is about a man who decides to literally leave one world for another. It can rather be seen as a passage to another reality or another state of existence." For those, who want to follow in those footsteps and journey to another place, Alcest offer a key. Just close your eyes and listen to "Écailles de Lune" and you will be taken far away to a world of musical wonders and haunting beauty - but beware, even roses of the otherworld have thorns.Track List
Écailles de lune - Part 1
Écailles de lune - Part 2
Percées de lumière
Abysses
Solar Song
Sur L'Océan Couleur De Fer
Kodama" the fifth album from Blackgaze pioneers, Alcest, marks the French duo's ferocious return to the stylistic maximalism of it's early albums while continuing the band's relentless pursuit for new sounds and fresh ideas.
Released in 2007, Alcest's debut album, "Souvenirs d'un autre monde", marks the starting point of the band's extraordinary career. With the release of "Souvenirs d'un autre monde", Alcest mastermind Neige forged a luminous new sound that floats on the fringes of metal, yet incorporates emotions of euphoria, bliss and nostalgia. The singer and multi-instrumentalist dedicated the album to his childhood memories of experiences in a spiritual otherworld; personal themes that would become conceptual cornerstones of subsequent Alcest albums. "Souvenirs..." became known as one of the fundamental releases of the Blackgaze / Post-Black Metal genre, a record that continually influences countless other bands in it's wake, and was selected by Pitchfork as one of it's best Shoegaze albums of all time.Track List
Printemps Emeraude
Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde
Les Iris
Ciel Errant
Sur L'autre Rive Je T'attendrai
Tir Nan Og
"For principal songwriter and frontman Neige, Alcest has always been a gateway to the otherworldly, a means of exploring his spirituality. An elemental two-piece, completed by long-serving drummer and creative confidante Winterhalter, their forthcoming sixth album "Spiritual Instinct" finds Neige at his most personal. "This time I had something urgent to put on the table," he explains. "It is a very cathartic record - something needed to get out of me. It's darker than usual, and heavier."
Written in bursts both during and after a prolonged period of touring in support of 2016's hugely successful "Kodama", the sense of urgency Neige speaks of manifests in a record full of spontaneity, of immediate impact - be that in the breath-taking pace of the tempo changes in 'Les Jardin de Minuit' or the sun-kissed harmonies over an impermeable back beat in 'Sapphire', one thing "Spiritual Instinct" has is riffs, an acknowledgement and celebration of the black metal foundations that anchor their uplifting post-metal."
Green LPTrack List
Les Jardins de Minuit
Protection
Sapphire
L'île Des Morts
Le Miroir
Spiritual Instinct
New Zealand based musician and songwriter Aldous Harding's fifth album, Train on the Island, arrives on May 8. The 10-track record was co-produced with long-time collaborator John Parish (PJ Harvey, Dry Cleaning, Sparklehorse) at Rockfield Studios in Monmouth, Wales, where the pair recorded Harding's previous albums Party (2017), Designer (2019) and Warm Chris (2022). Musical contributions to the new recordings come from pedal steel player Joe Harvey-Whyte; harpist Mali Llywelyn; synth artist Thomas Poli; drummer Sebastian Rochford (Polar Bear); and Huw Evans (H. Hawkline), across bass, vocals, acoustic/electric guitar, and organ.
Tracklist:
I Ate the Most
One Stop
Train on the Island
Worms
Venus in the Zinnia
If Lady Does It
San Francisco
What Am I Gonna Do?
Riding That Symbol
Coats
UPC: 191400087323Label: 4adRelease Date: 5.8.26Format: CD
New Zealand based musician and songwriter Aldous Harding's fifth album, Train on the Island, arrives on May 8. The 10-track record was co-produced with long-time collaborator John Parish (PJ Harvey, Dry Cleaning, Sparklehorse) at Rockfield Studios in Monmouth, Wales, where the pair recorded Harding's previous albums Party (2017), Designer (2019) and Warm Chris (2022). Musical contributions to the new recordings come from pedal steel player Joe Harvey-Whyte; harpist Mali Llywelyn; synth artist Thomas Poli; drummer Sebastian Rochford (Polar Bear); and Huw Evans (H. Hawkline), across bass, vocals, acoustic/electric guitar, and organ.
Tracklist:
I Ate the Most
One Stop
Train on the Island
Worms
Venus in the Zinnia
If Lady Does It
San Francisco
What Am I Gonna Do?
Riding That Symbol
Coats
UPC: 191400087316Label: 4adRelease Date: 5.8.26Format: Vinyl
This is a Latin Pop album, includes the hits "Si tu Supieras", No Se Olvidar", "Yo Naci Para Amarte" plus many more Alejandro still performing and touring across the U.S. and Latin America
Tracklist:
Yo Naci Para Amarte
Si Tu Supieras
No Se Olvidar
En El Jardin
Me Estoy Enamorando
Como El Sol El Trigo
Noche Triste
Volveras
Te Juro
Promesa
UPC: 196587932916Label: Sony U.s. LatinRelease Date: 4.17.26Format: Vinyl
This is a Ranchera album, includes the hits "Loco", "Si He Sabido Amor", "Nadia, Simplemente Nadie" plus many more Alejandro still performing and touring across the U.S. and Latin America.
Tracklist:
La Lluvia Sigue Cayendo
Loco
Si He Sabido Amor
Avisame
Hoy Que Estas Ausente
Mi Verdad
Mentirosos
Nadie, Simplemente Nadie
A Una Señora
Por Que?
Esta Noche
Amante Torero
Asi Como Soy Yo Soy
UPC: 196588885419Label: Sony U.s. LatinRelease Date: 4.17.26Format: Vinyl
Alena Baeva and Vadym Kholodenko are starting their recording of Beethoven's complete sonatas for violin and piano. Alena is recognised as a versatile violinist with a magnetic presence and now performs with the greatest orchestras and conductors, while Vadym has been one of the most impressive pianists of his generation since winning the gold medal at the 2013 Van Cliburn Competition. For more than ten years, they have formed a close-knit and highly sought-after duo (both on and off stage). The three sonatas featured on this recording (Op. 12 No. 3, Op. 24 "Spring," and Op. 47 "Kreutzer") were composed between 1797 and 1803, a period that brought Beethoven both his first recognition on the European stage and the first signs of his deafness. Baeva and Kholodenko used the 2020 edition by Bärenreiter and carried out in-depth research into their interpretative choices: phrasing, ornamentation, and tempi are the result of this research and of sources from the period. UPC: 3701624512081Label: AlphaRelease Date: 4.10.26Format: CD
Principally surveying the Preludes and Images, the first two volumes of Alessandra Ammara's Debussy survey have attracted praise for their affinity with the composer's elusive but painterly idiom. According to Fanfare, 'Ammara reveals her sensitivity to the Debussy sound world, rife with blurred outlines of objects and infiltrated with variegated light, in the manner of the painter J.M.W. Turner.'For Volume 3, her focus turns principally to the set of 12 Etudes which miraculously took shape over the course of just two months, in August and September 1915. Plagued by ill-health following the diagnosis of rectal cancer in 1909, presented with the pressing need to increase his earnings through editing and performing, Debussy wrote the Etudes while staying in a town near Dieppe, on the Normandy coast. Emerging from a period of severe depression, he once more took inspiration from the sea in a sudden and final burst of creativity which also saw the composition of the suite for two pianos, en blanc et noir, and the Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp. However, it is the 12 Etudes which have come both to define Debussy's late style - on the piano, as a counterpart to his ballet for Diaghilev, Jeux - and to present both a model and a challenge to later composers of piano etudes from Tansman to Ligeti. Debussy himself said that they were "a warning to pianists not to take up the musical profession unless they have remarkable hands". While the dry titles of the individual Etudes serve to conceal their rich and turbulent inner landscape, aspects of their invention are prefigured by the earlier works on Alessandra Ammara's album. The three movements of Estampes are as much 'studies' in their way as the Etudes - of particular kinds of movement refracted through the images of a Japanese pagoda, a Spanish evening and a garden in the rain. From 1904, and capturing the passion of his affair with Emma Bardac, L'isle Joyeuse references both the island of Jersey and a painting by Watteau, but it also serves as a study in superimposed scales. UPC: 5063758103619Label: Piano ClassicsRelease Date: 4.17.26Format: CD
Media Condition: Very Good Plus (VG+)
Sleeve Condition: Good Plus (G+)
Clean VG+/EX playing vinyl with no scratches. Cover with red 2 inch tapoe along spine, ticker in corner front. promo sticker in corner, shelfwear, small split at opening.
Notes:
Produced by Alex Bradford for Brad-Mount Productions
[l27576 pressing, per "SP" matrix suffix.
A1. Do It While You Can A2. It Is Thy Servant's Prayer A-Men A3. Black Man's Lament A4. I'm Alright Now A5. Waiting B1. That's What The Bible Say B2. Just Another Name B3. Lead Me Now B4. Something Happened Today B5. Goodnight Goodbye
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Matrix / Runout ST-CTN-722485 SPMatrix / Runout ST-CTN-722486 SP
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