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Cluster - Cluster II

SteveJobs — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 11:47:35 GMT

Cluster II is the second full-length album by German electronic music outfit Cluster and their first album with the band reduced to a duo. Conny Plank, who was credited as a member on the first album, decided to concentrate on production and engineering. Plank is still credited as a composer together with Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius on all tracks.

Harmonia - Musik Von Harmonia

SteveJobs — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:52:59 GMT

Musik Von Harmonia is the debut album from the highly influential Krautrock/Kosmische Musik group Harmonia. Harmonia, was formed by the addition of Neu! guitarist Michael Rother to Cluster, the duo of Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius.
Musik Von Harmonia was recorded from June to November, 1973 in Forst, Germany. It was first released on the Brain Records label in 1974. It was produced by the band members.

Cluster - Berlin 07

SteveJobs — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 13:06:11 GMT

Berlin 2007 was a monumental performance for Cluster as it marked the first time that they had peformed live in Berlin since their 12 hour concert in the Galerie Hammer in the Europacenter in 1969. The performance was a massive success as a sold out crowd cheered loudly for Cluster to return to the stage. Fortunately, the concert was preserved for posterity and is proudly presented here on Important Records.

Jimi Hendrix – Message From Nine To The Universe

SteveJobs — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 12:40:15 GMT

Drawn from various sessions recorded between March 1969 and March 1970 some of the music featured on this disc originally appeared on the album Nine To The Universe. At the time of the albums release (1980) many suggested that Jimi was heading in a jazz direction although the recordings show no real sign of this despite featuring contributions from known jazzers such as Larry Young and Dave Holland both of whom had worked with British jazz guitarist John McLaughlin and worked along with McLaughlin on the landmark Miles Davis album Bitches Brew.
The recordings here are the unedited recordings that Alan Douglas utilised to make his final selection on the original Nine To The Universe album.

Cluster - Cluster 71

SteveJobs — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:17:00 GMT

Cluster is the eponymous first full-length album by German electronic music outfit Cluster. It is also the only album on which Conrad Plank is credited as a member. Cluster was recorded at Star-Studio in Hamburg, Germany in January, 1971. It was Cluster's only release for the Philips label.

Cluster - Qua

SteveJobs — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:36:41 GMT

It has now been 14 years since the last Cluster studio release. Recorded at Seventh Chance studio in Maumee, Ohio. Produced by Tim Story.

Liliental - Liliental

SteveJobs — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:52:07 GMT

Liliental was the sort of "supergroup" usually only seen in England or America, with everyone being not only stellar musicians but also the leaders of their respective bands.

Roedelius & Morgan Fisher - Neverless

SteveJobs — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:57:12 GMT

What could be a better title for our follow-up to Roedelius' "Evermore" than "Neverless"? Two avantgarde heroes have teamed up for a unique collaboration that was started by Hans-Joachim Roedelius in Austria and then processed by Morgan Fisher in Japan. Ambient soundscapes with an Asian touch, meditative, repetitive and very seductive.

Jimi Hendrix – Valleys Of Neptune - Target exclusive

SteveJobs — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 06:42:32 GMT

Target Exclusive CD featuring 2 previously unreleased bonus tracks

Jimi Hendrix – Valleys Of Neptune CD Single

SteveJobs — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:13:43 GMT

Limited & numbered edition of 15,000 - Walmart Exclusive CD Single featuring previously unreleased bonus track

Cluster - Zuckerzeit

SteveJobs — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:26:24 GMT

Zuckerzeit is the third full-length album by German electronic music outfit Cluster. It was co-produced by Michael Rother, their bandmate in Harmonia (whose two releases Zuckerzeit fell between). The music on Zuckerzeit is different than any other Cluster work and clearly shows Michael Rother's influence, with clearly defined melody and beat and a very rhythmic sound, at times approaching the Motorik style of Neu!.
John Bush, writing the review for Allmusic, described Zuckerzeit as: "...a vision of electronic pop, fusing the duo's haunted melodic sense with crisp, scratchy drum programs..."

John Lennon - Testimony

SteveJobs — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:09:47 GMT

The album features one of the last interviews given by John Lennon and Yoko Ono. It was recorded at the offices of Geffen Records in New York City as part of the promotion for the Double Fantasy album. The Interviewer is Bob Miles ans the interview was originally intends for US radio broadcast. Recorded on December 8th, 1980.

John Lennon - The Unheard Lennon 1969 Interviews

SteveJobs — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:59:21 GMT

Highlights from the Bed-in in Montreal and a press conference in Toronto.

John Lennon-Wonsaponatime

SteveJobs — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 08:37:26 GMT

Wonsaponatime is a collection of home demos, alternative studio outtakes and unreleased material recorded by John Lennon and serves as a one disc distillation of the highlights from the simultaneously released John Lennon Anthology box set.

Lou Reed - Hudson River Wind Meditations

SteveJobs — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:11:41 GMT

Hudson River Wind Meditations is an album of meditational music by Lou Reed. It is a departure from his regular rock output. It is named for one of New York City's key features, the Hudson River. It is inner music to relax the body, mind and spirit, adjunct to Tai Chi and bodywork. The cover photograph is by Lou Reed.

Vic Chesnutt - At The Cut

SteveJobs — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:49:28 GMT

At The Cut is a record of overt honesty – it’s raw and uncompromising but never once forceful and it cements Vic Chesnutt as one of the most important and overlooked artists of the last 20 years. It’s endearing, it’s charming and it’s raw to the nth degree – unadulterated brilliance.
BEARDED

Vic Chesnutt - North Star Deserter

SteveJobs — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 18:33:01 GMT

A truly extraordinary recording. Chesnutt is a songwriter of singular talents, embracing a homey but keenly intelligent expressionism in his songs that conveys a genuine, often touching humanity, but his collaborators on North Star Deserter have taken his music in a powerful new direction…they’ve truly brought out the best in one another; this is powerful, adventurous music that’s as challenging as it is beautiful, and ranks with Chesnutt’s finest work to date.
ALL MUSIC

Vic Chesnutt - Drunk

SteveJobs — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 09:18:32 GMT

On his third, and maybe most conceptually complete, album, Vic Chesnutt emerges as that rare kind of artist who can see right into the living room of small-town America. Drunk opens with one of Chesnutt's more overtly hook-oriented songs, the punchy "Sleeping Man," which also appears later in the album as a slightly twangier reprise, and is a fine commentary on the insatiable hunger for human spectacle that plagues American culture. "One of Many" is a bleak tale of murder and execution that finds Chesnutt truly at the top of his game lyrically and melodically.

Vic Chesnutt - Skitter on Take-Off

SteveJobs — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 14:40:50 GMT

Skitter On Take-Off is Chesnutt’s first album for Vapor Records. It was produced by indie legend Jonathan Richman and his drummer Tommy Larkin, and they had a very definite idea of how they wanted the album to sound. According to Richman, “We were both thinking that the way to get the feeling for Vic as a listener was to hear just Vic — no arrangements, no guest guitar solos, no “ironic” touches or anything else to cloud his voice or his poetry.” The end result is an album that features Chesnutt on guitar and vocals, Richman on guitar and harmonium, and Larkin on drums. It was recorded completely live, and there were no overdubs.

Allen Ginsberg in Wuppertal : Poems and Songs 1980

SteveJobs — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:52:06 GMT

Allen Ginsberg toured Europe in 1980 with Peter Orlovsky and Stephen Taylor. On December 11th, still shocked by the murder of John Lennon, he improvised 'Prayer Blues - For John Lennon' at the stage of the Schauspielhaus Wuppertal. By public demand he also read the complete text of his most famous poem: 'Howl'.