Home Again is the fourth studio solo album by singer Jimmy Somerville, released in 2004. Highlights include 'It's So Good' (written with Paul Mac) and 'Come On' (written and recorded with Rosenstolz). An album of storming club and radio hits, maintaining a completely fresh and contemporary feel, thanks to the help of various internationally renowned producers and DJs. «But Not Tonight», the other cover, was only good enough as a B-side for fellow Eighties electro stalwarts Depeche Mode, but it is the revelation of the album. We hear a completely different version of Jimmy’s voice, to great effect.

Hammond-driven Blues Band with soulful vocals, stinging guitar, stylish harp and groove drums. Dennis Newman began his professional career in music at age twelve as a drummer/singer when he formed a pop group called "The Runaways", and played local events in his hometown of Rye, New York. He later switched from drums to keyboards and founded another rock band, "The Saratoga Wrecking Crew", and performed at high school and college dances. He also took up harmonica and fronted the "Odds ‘n Ends", a rock'n'roll band gigging throughout the New York/New England area. Newman relocated to Los Angeles and hooked up with various bands, and developed a unique playing style, backing his soulful vocals with swirling Hammond organ and stylish blues harp…

James Last - My Favourites
Die schönsten Pop-Melodien aus den Jahren 1989-1993
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 442 MB | Full Artwork: 26 MB | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Polydor # 521 120-2 | Country/Year: Germany 1993
Genre: Pop | Style: Easy Listening, Instrumental

"James Last is a German big band leader with a large fan base in Europe, although he has never had a comparable following in the United States. Last's trademark is arranging pop hits in a big-band style; his series of "party albums" is equally well-known. Over the course of his career, he has sold well over 50 million albums."

This 60 disc box set contains 60 original 'Living Stereo' recordings. This is the first time a comprehensive collection of these iconic recordings has been created. Each album comes complete with its original LP artwork. An extensive booklet is included with the liner notes from each original album. Includes recordings by such great artists as Jascha Heifetz, Charles Munch, Fritz Reiner, Julian Bream, Leontyne Price and Arthur Rubinstein.

Humperdinck's reputation rests chiefly on his opera Hänsel and Gretel, which he began work on in Frankfurt in 1890. He first composed four songs to accompany a puppet show his nieces were giving at home. Then, using a libretto by his sister Adelheid Wette rather loosely based on the version of the fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, he composed a Singspiel of 16 songs with piano accompaniment and connecting dialogue. By January 1891 he had begun working on a complete orchestration. The opera premiered in Weimar on 23 December 1893, under the baton of Richard Strauss, who called it: "a masterpiece of the highest quality… all of it original, new, and so authentically German.

James Robinson was a featured lead vocalist with the R&B/Disco group Change and in 1987 he signed with the then CBS/Sony-distributed Tabu Records label and recorded this stunningly beautiful but criminally underrated album. Like most R&B albums of the late 1980s, "Guilty" features a variety of tempos and styles ranging from slow-tempo Quiet Storm ballads to New Jack Swing-flavored dance tracks to mid-tempo ballads to a Gospel number. For my personal taste, the Quiet Storm ballads "Guilty", "Feel Like Going On", "Can We Do It Again?" and the mid-tempo groover "Just What I've Been Missing" are the ones that make this album (which was issued on CD only in Japan). Enjoy!

BIS present a disc of music from two long-standing collaborators: the Russian composer Nikita Koshkin and the Greek guitarist Elena Papandreou. On the present disc, all four works are world première recordings, and three of them were written with Elena Papandreou in mind. The Megaron Concerto was the result of a commission from the Athens concert hall which has given its name to the concerto.

Chandos certainly has guts, going toe-to-toe with Mackerras’s Gramophone Award-winning set. Hickox’s Australian forces need not fear the comparison. Cheryl Barker may not have the refulgent tones of Renée Fleming on Decca (who has?) but she is even more moving in conveying Rusalka’s desperation. Mackerras is still my must-own, but this runs it close.

A stunning self-reinvention by a band that many had given up for dead, 90125 is the album that introduced a whole new generation of listeners to Yes. Begun as Cinema, a new band by Chris Squire and Alan White, the project grew to include the slick production of Trevor Horn, the new blood (and distinctly '80s guitar sound) of Trevor Rabin, and eventually the trademark vocals of returning founder Jon Anderson…