2007 six CD box set featuring more of Blues' greatest performers. Disc One contains Muddy Waters' Goin' Home: Live in Paris, 1970. Disc Two features Professor Longhair Live in Germany. Disc Three finds Left Hand Frank Live at the Knickerbocker Caf‚. Disc Four includes J.B Hutto and the New Hawks' Live at the Shaboo Inn, Conn, 1979. Disc Five features Eddie Clearwater' Two Times Nine. The final CD, Disc Six, contains Luther "Snakeboy" Johnson's Get Down To The Nitty Gritty. Last Call. 2007.

Nova honours the legacy of 2005 Albedo with another outstanding narrative-driven compilation showcasing more intimate yet intriguing fresh sounds. Imaginary Friends features a melange of styles, different facets of ambient electronica infused with neo-classical moods, acoustic sensibilities, epic melodies and impressionistic textures and tempos for a vibrant and overall warm feel. As always emphasis was put on gathering original and tailor-made compositions from a variety of well-known artists on Ultimae and interesting newcomers such as Murya from Iceland, offthesky from the US, to create a musical palette that shares Nova's own eclectic and unconventional vision.

"Miracles do happen, it seems. Three weeks after Rossini's La pietra del paragone received its first DVD incarnation on Opus Arte, the French Naïve label released this alternative. Remarkably, both DVDs document excellent, entertaining performances, both are extremely well filmed, both come with generous extras and both are brilliantly packaged. Yet each performance offers a different approach – musically and production-wise – so both are worthy of consideration…
– Dominic McHugh, MusicalCriticism.com

Otis Taylor - Below The Fold
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 241 MB | MP3 CBR 320: 105 MB | Full Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Telarc # CD-83627 | Country/Year: Europe 2005
Genre: Blues | Style: Electric Blues

Otis Taylor doesn't suffer fools lightly, and his insistent, hard-driving modal songs, full of defiant reclamations of history and tender vignettes of people struggling to survive in hostile cultural territory, are like nothing else on the contemporary blues scene. Imagine John Lee Hooker if he had grown up in the Appalachians and cut his teeth playing with a steam-driven mountain string band, then add in the fierce political commitment of a Peter Tosh, and you begin to get the picture…