Fausto Papetti was an Italian alto saxophone player. His recordings, sometimes under the pseudonym "Fausto Danieli", are also characterized by album art with sexy women posing half naked. His works have been widely well-known all over the world for the last six decades. He has played the majority of most famous world Hits and pop & jazz songs of 20th century, in 45 years of his career…

No Fuel Left for the Pilgrims was an outstanding international debut from Danish rockers D:A:D, following two promising efforts on the European Mega label. Irresistible lead-off single "Sleeping My Day Away" combined a rhythm guitar straight out of the AC/DC handbook, spiced by melody lines performed with a country-ish, '50s-style guitar twang – a unique formula that the band successfully applied to other standouts like "Point of View" and "Lords of the Atlas." "Rim of Hell" is a stomping party anthem riding a monstrous, mid-paced groove, and the band also rocks out full-throttle on "Jihad," "True Believer," and the almost Metallica-heavy "Ill Will."

After being shamefully dropped by EMI following a number of commercial and critical stiffs to close out the 1980s – a decade that ironically had started so gloriously for them – Saxon began their long climb back to respectability with their tenth studio album, 1990's tellingly named Solid Ball of Rock…

At nine discs and 244 tracks, The Complete Stax-Volt Singles: 1959-1968 is far too exhaustive for casual fans, but that's not who the set is designed for – it's made for the collector. Featuring every A-side the label released during those nine years, as well as several B-sides, the set is a definitive portrait of gritty, deep Southern soul. Many of the genre's major names – Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Carla Thomas, Booker T. & the MG's, William Bell, Rufus Thomas, the Bar-Kays, Albert King – plus many terrific one-shot wonders are showcased in terrific sound and augmented with an in-depth booklet.

Another great example of what Rhino does so well, Anthology brings together no less than 27 of Tommy James and the Shondells' nuggets on one disc. Along with good liner notes from Parke Puterbaugh, who interviewed James extensively (James himself contributes a slew of fun and informative anecdotes about many of the songs) and the usual skilled remastering job, it makes for one heck of a collection.

The Italian band RANESTRANE was formed back in 1998, although it would take them more than a decade before they started releasing any material. "A Space Odyssey Part One: Monolith" is their third studio album, and was released through the Italian label MaRaCash Records. Ranestrane is a band that has specialized in the creation of concept albums based on movies, and in this case it is "2001: A Space Odyssey" that is the source of inspiration…

This feature length DVD exposes scenes beyond the horizon of the mind, together with a CD album packed with tracks for the clubbed down and chilled out or the clubbed out and chilled! Striking, hypnotic images are married to adventurous but relaxing sounds on this DVD, which features some of the finest chillout experiments from DJ's and electronic music artists.

Music - The Universal Language (Musik - Sprache der Welt) presents a series of landmark sessions from Deutsche Grammophon's uniquely rich archive, important recordings of conerstone composers such as Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky, Dvorák and Grieg; however, it also takes in "modern" composers such as Stravinsky and Falla. And more modern still, from DG's remarkable initiative Musica Nova, a series which championed postwar German composers, come selections of works by Karl Amadeus Hartmann and Karl Höller. A significant number of CD premieres is included.

Japan group Spectrum release 4th album Second Navigation, released here for first time on Japan only CD