2020

Pop Smoke: Meet the Woo 2020 [CD]

Black Swan är ett band bestående av idel kända namn, eller vad sägs om följande laguppställning: på sång Robin McAuley (MSG), på gitarr Reb Beach (Winger, Whitesnake), på bas Jeff Pilson (Dokken, Foreigner) och på trummor Matt Starr (Ace Frehley, Mr. Big).<br/><br/>Fast alla vet ju att det inte räcker med bara kända namn, man måste ha låtarna också, och där levererar Black Swan med råge. De har tagit sina respektive influenser, och smält samman det hela till melodiös, klassisk hårdrock, som inte bara har stora refänger och mängder av gitarr, utan som också levererar ofelbara melodier till McAuleys klassiska rockstämma.

Recorded 12, 14 & 15, September 2018, the album marks the first release of music from the band's new, invigorated lineup of Don Henley, Joe Walsh, Timothy B. Schmit, Deacon Frey and Vince Gill.

4 panel standard sized CD softpak, 20 page CD booklet

Smash Into Pieces: Arcadia 2020 [Digipack / CD]

Whoosh! är Deep Purple's tjugoförsta album i ordningen. <br/><br/>Detta är det tredje albumet på raken där Deep Purple samarbetar med producenten Bob Ezrin (som bland mycket annat också har Alice Cooper, KISS och Pink Floyd på meritlistan). Plattan spelades in i Nashville och beskrivs som den mest mångsidiga plattan Ezrin och Purple har presenterat. Kreativt har bandet "sträckt ut sig i alla riktningar", utan hämningar, och verkligen låtit sin kreativitet flöda.<br/><br/>Gitarristen Steve Morse sammanfattar hela processen såhär:<br/>"We've included everything that made the whole band smile, including Bob Ezrin. We've always enjoyed making music and having the incredible luxury of a loyal audience." <br/><br/>Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Ian Paice, Steve Morse och Don Airey fortsätter att vara relevanta och nyskapande, och om man skulle kolla på hela Deep Purples katalog så skulle man finna ett band som betytt, och fortfarande betyder oerhört mycket för hela genren. Självklart har de skrivit in sig i rockhistorien med album som In Rock (1970), Machine Head (1972) och Made In Japan (1973), men senare alster som InFinite (2017) som placerade sig sig högre på topplistorna runt om i världen än något av deras släpp sedan 80-talet, visar att Purple fortfarande har en hängiven fanbase.

The dynamic young cellist who rocketed to fame as half of the genre-busting worldwide musical sensation 2CELLOS, HAUSER is releasing his first solo recording for Sony Classical - Classic, a collection of the most beautiful melodies from classical music and beyond, with the London Symphony Orchestra. Each piece on Classic is a longtime favorite of HAUSER's, which he chose to reinterpret for the cello along with arranger Robin Smith and producer Nick Patrick.<br/><br/>Following the release of HAUSER's acclaimed Classic album earlier this year, Sony Classical is pleased to announce a Deluxe CD+DVD edition of the album. <br/> <br/>The audio disc contains sixteen tracks, and includes some of the most beloved classical melodies ever written, each a personal, longtime favorite of HAUSER's - which he's carefully curated and rearranged for the cello. Among them are Bach's Air on a G String, the Nocturne from Borodin's String Quartet, Puccini's Nessun Dorma, Yiruma's River Flows in You, and tracks by Mozart, Tchaikovsky, and Rachmaninov.<br/> <br/>"It's simple," says HAUSER when asked to describe Classic. "It's the most beautiful, the most romantic melodies ever written in classical music - by the greatest composers - played on the cello, the most beautiful and romantic instrument of all." HAUSER could hardly be blamed for calling each of the compositions on Classic "the most iconic" or "the most beautiful" or "the most romantic" melody in classical music. Because they are. Working alongside arranger Robin Smith and producer Nick Patrick, HAUSER has adopted these immortal compositions for the cello, letting them sing as never before with help from the London Symphony Orchestra. <br/> <br/>The video disc contains a specially-edited visual program comprised of all three of the Alone, Together solo performances that were filmed earlier this year at Croatia's Arena Pula, Krka Waterfalls National Park, and the historic old town of Dubrovnik. Captured at some of the Balkan country's most stunning locations, the longform performance features HAUSER's renditions of classic compositions, as well as popular themes from film and television - including Albinoni's Adagio, Song from a Secret Garden, and fittingly, Game of Thrones, which given that much of the television program was filmed within the medieval walls of Dubrovnik's old town, was an obvious choice for inclusion.<br/><br/>CD+DVD<br/>DELUXE EDITION