Hans Theessink & Blue Groove - live is a collection of live recordings with my former band. We had lots of fun on the thing and played much in Europe and North America. This CD is also a good demonstration of the interplay of vocals, guitar and tuba. Only the band and their audience without Studio tricks. (Hans Theessink) Hans Theessink (vocals, guitars), Jon Sass (tuba), Alee Thelfa (drums, percussion, vocals), Dorretta Carter (vocals).

La Futura, ZZ Top's 15th studio album and the group's first since 2003's Mescalero, was recorded at Foam Box Recordings in Houston and at Shangri La Studios in Malibu, and produced by Rick Rubin and the band's guitarist, Billy Gibbons. The album was recorded at a leisurely pace between tours over a four-year period, resulting in ten new tracks from the best little three-chord boogie band to ever come out of Texas.–by Steve Leggett

Berliner Vokalensemble "Carl Maria von Weber" - Kein schöner Land
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Label/Cat#: MDG # 616 0663-2 | Country/Year: Germany 1995
Genre: Classical, Folk | Style: Vocal, Songs

All the singers of the Berlin Vocal Ensemble “Carl Maria von Weber” were members of the nationally and internationally renowned Berlin Male Chorus “Carl Maria von Weber”. After the compulsory dissolution of his professional male chorus in May 1995, choral director Andreas Wiedermann decided to risk a new start with these 14 experienced singers…

Georg Kreisler - Die alten, bösen Lieder
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Label/Cat#: Kip Records # kip 6008 | Country/Year: Germany 1997
Genre: Chanson | Style: Cabaret

Georg Kreisler was an Austrian-American Viennese-language cabarettist, satirist, composer, and author. He was particularly popular in the 1950s and 1960s. Kreisler was considered a master of language. His songs are characterized by black humour and uncompromising criticism of society and politics. This caused him many difficulties and also contributed to appearance prohibitions in radio and television…

Nick Mason - Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports (1981) {Columbia}
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© 1992 Columbia Special / Collectors Series | WF 75070
Rock / Fusion

Columbia, apparently attempting to cash in on Pink Floyd's explosion in popularity, released this album in 1981 under Nick Mason's name when in reality he's simply the drummer in this incarnation of Carla Bley's ensemble; Ms. Bley composed all the music and lyrics for this project. It's possibly her most overtly pop-oriented album, with all eight songs featuring vocals by Soft Machine alumnus Robert Wyatt. The music, by Bley's standards, is fairly pedestrian if occasionally catchy, though the lyrics are often wryly amusing.

Not only is this an intriguing programme with some premiere recordings but also it’s played on Suk’s own Bösendorfer. There’s even a colour photograph of Tomáš Víšek playing it in Křečovice surrounded as he is by Suk memorabilia. The works include his well known Jaro or Spring but Arco Diva adds the much less played opus 22 stable mate Letní dojmy (Summer Impressions). The Two and Three Piano Pieces have never been recorded before and nor has Spanish Capers. We also have four little morceaux by Dvořák’s daughter and Suk’s short-lived wife, Otilie as well as four attractive pieces by Suk’s son, also Josef. None of these have ever been recorded………

Jonathan Woolf @ musicweb-international