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VA - Reggae Archive Vol. 1 (On-U Sound)

Since 1981, with label boss and producer Adrian Sherwood at the helm, On-U Sound has released over 100 albums and singles and has launched the careers and/or inspired an endless list of artists.

The label’s influence upon a younger generation of musicians, not to mention the ambient/techno style in general, has proved enormous, helping to fuse dub with both the independent rock and post-punk scenes

This compilation features original reggae recordings from 1977 - 1981 including tracks from the pre-On-U Sound label, Hitrun. Featuring Creation Rebel, Carol Kalphat, Clint Eastwood, Doctor Pablo, Bim Sherman, Errol Holt & Prince Far I.


Tracklist:

1 Carol Kalphat & Clint Eastwood– African Land / Africa We Want To Go 5:50
2 Doctor Pablo– African Melody 5:46
3 Creation Rebel– Dub From Creation 5:13
4 Creation Rebel– Creation Cycle 5:07
5 Prince Far I & DJ Buzz – Love By Everyone / Rebel No Devil 6:56
6 Bim Sherman– Golden Locks 3:21
7 Bim Sherman– Slummy Ghetto / Pt. 2 4:33
8 Bim Sherman– Party Time / Pt. 2 5:12
9 Errol Holt– Sweet Reggae Music / Pt. 2 5:24
10 Prince Far I– Barber Salon / Pt. 2 6:04
11 Creation Rebel– African Space 6:03
12 Creation Rebel– Mother Don't Cry 6:17
13 Creation Rebel– Drum Talk 4:07



VA - Reggae Archive Vol. 1 (On-U Sound)

(192 kbps, cover art incuded)

Hanns Eisler - Septett Nr. 2, Nonett Nr. 1 & 2 (Nova, 1973)

As a Schoenberg pupil, political musician, peripatetic travellerand emigrant, musical and administrative visionary, and Brecht‟s closest musical collaborator, Hanns Eisler (1898-1962) inhabited many worlds. As a composer, he constantly sought to bridge the gaps between popular and “classical,” between the street and the concert hall, and between music for the masses and music for private, individual experience. He accompanied his prolific musical output with a steady of stream of writings and interviews characterized by the same sharp wit and dialectical thinking found in his music. 

For Eisler, a committed Marxist, these different spheres were all part of the same conceptual universe, and sprang from his lifelong aim to create music useful to Socialism. Any composer, he believed, should be able to compose a marching song for a political demonstration, easy piano pieces for children, music for a Hollywood film, a large-scale symphony for chorus and orchestra, a lyrical song cycle, or a string quartet, depending on need and circumstances.

Eisler´s deportation from the U.S. after hearings before the House Committee on Un-American Activities as well as his status as East Germany‟s leading composer have colored his reception in western countries. Although Eisler has received increasing attention in recent years, his output of 15 orchestra works, 50 choruses, 23 chamber music works, 20 cantatas, c. 250 Lieder, 37 stage works und 39 film scores was largely neglected in the West during the Cold War, when the composer was known primarily as the composer of the East German naional anthem, “Auferstanden aus Ruinen.”


Tracklist:

Septett Nr. 2 "Zirkus", aufgenommen 1965
Nonett Nr. 1 , aufgenommen 1967
Nonett Nr. 2, Suite für neun Instrumente, aufgenommen 1967

Hanns Eisler - Septett Nr. 2, Nonett Nr. 1 & 2 (Nova, 1973)

(256 kbps, cover art included)

Ewan MacColl And Peggy Seeger – Traditional Songs And Ballads (1964)

Released in 1964, "Traditional Songs and Ballads" is just one of the many joint recordings made by Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger. Both grew up in musical families (Peggy is half-sister to famed folk musician Pete Seeger), and they became two of the most influential figures of the British folk song revival of the 1960s. 

Together, they traveled the world performing and promoting folk music, emphasizing and maintaining its connection to grassroots activism. "Traditional Songs and Ballads" features music from the British Isles, including two ballads originally collected by the noted folklorist Francis James Child. 

MacColl also wrote many left-wing political songs, remained a steadfast communist throughout his life and engaged in political activism



Tracklist:

A1 As I Came In By Fisherrow
A2 The Spinning Wheel
A3 My Apron Now
A4 Tibbie Fowler
A5 The Beggar Laddie
A6 The Weary Pund O' Tow
A7 The Baron O' Leys
B1 The Earl Of Errol
B2 The Shepherd And His Wife
B3 Fare Ye Weel My Auld Wife
B4 Hey, How Johnny Lad
B5 Blythsome Bridal
B6 The Braes O' Balquither

Ewan MacColl And Peggy Seeger – Traditional Songs And Ballads (1964)

(ca. 256 kbps, cover art included)

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers – At The Jazz Corner Of The World Vol. 1 (1959

In the '60s, when John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman were defining the concept of a jazz avant-garde, few knowledgeable observers would have guessed that in another 30 years the music's mainstream would virtually bypass their innovations, in favor of the hard bop style that free jazz had apparently supplanted. As it turned out, many listeners who had come to love jazz as a sophisticated manifestation of popular music were unable to accept the extreme esotericism of the avant-garde; their tastes were rooted in the core elements of "swing" and "blues," characteristics found in abundance in the music of the Jazz Messengers, the quintessential hard bop ensemble led by drummer Art Blakey. In the '60s, '70s, and '80s, when artists on the cutting edge were attempting to transform the music, Blakey continued to play in more or less the same bag he had since the '40s, when his cohorts included the likes of Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, and Fats Navarro. By the '80s, the evolving mainstream consensus had reached a point of overwhelming approval in regard to hard bop: this is what jazz is, and Art Blakey -- as its longest-lived and most eloquent exponent -- was its master.


This first of two LPs features a transitional version of The Jazz Messengers with longtime members drummer Art Blakey, trumpeter Lee Morgan, pianist Bobby Timmons and bassist Jymie Merritt being joined by tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley who was with the group briefly between Benny Golson and Wayne Shorter. This live set is highlighted by Mobley's "Just Coolin'" and Thelonious Monk's "Justice," although the other selections (including Mobley's funky "Hipsippy Blues") are all quite enjoyable.




Tracklist:

Introduction By Pee-Wee Marquette
A1 Hipsippy Blues
A2 Justice
A3 The Theme
Introduction By Art Blakey
B1 Close Your Eyes
B2 Just Coolin'

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers – At The Jazz Corner Of The World Vol. 1
(320 kbps, cover art included)

André Heller – Bei lebendigem Leib - Live (1975)

"Bei lebendigem Leib" features live recordings from André Heller´s 1975 tour through 27 cities in Germany, Austria and Swiss. here. The lyrics are all in German or often Viennese dialect - and they are a pleasure if you understand this language.

If you're a fan of progressive music, you meet some old friends here. Richard Schönherz (piano) and Emanuel Rigoni (drums) published their symphonic prog album "Victor" on the Bacillus label the same year, in 1975, and they also wrote most of the songs here for André Heller. Kurt Hauenstein (bass) founded the (sorry!) Prog-Disco Band Supermax in Munich a year later, in 1976. Richard Schönherz (piano) is still active, together with Angelica Fleer, as Schönherz & Fleer, they lately released a series of CDs under the title "Rilke Projekt", compilations of various artists with lyrics by Rainer Maria Rilke. So the whole band is a crazy bunch. Enjoy !

Tracks
01. Das System 03:04
02. Wienerlied 01:59
03. Wenn i amal stirb' 01:35
04. Im Volksgarten 03:07
05. Denn ich will 02:21
06. Du Engel, du 03:09
07. Das berühmte Jean-Harlow-Lied vom 4. Oktober 1970 01:41
08. Rudolfo Valentino 01:26
09. Greta Garbo 02:54
10. Soziale Unordnung 02:47
11. Anna 07:05
12. Und dann bin i kan Liliputaner mehr 03:58
13. Lärm vor dem Hause 03:03
14. Waast es eh 04:16
15. Die Bläue des Herbstes 03:42
16. Sei Poet 02:57
17. A Gedicht fia d Moni 02:59
18. Allan 03:02
19. Der Chauffeur 02:57
20. Vom Suchen und vom Finden 04:13
21. Hallelujah 03:20
22. Hellers Thema 01:06
23. Die Narren des Königs 01:48

André Heller – Bei lebendigem Leib - Live (1975)
(192 kbps, cover art included)

André Heller - Verwunschen (1980)

"Verwunschen" was the 11th studio album by André Heller and it´s a kind of a concept album with a lot of autobiographic elements. It was recorded between 4.6.-3.8.1980 at Sound mill studio Vienna.

André Heller is an Austrian chanson singer, performance actor, composer, writer and cultural managar, born 22 March 1947,  in Vienna,

In his early years, he was attracted by Vienna's literature scene, where he met Helmut Qualtinger and H.C. Artmann. In 1967 he co-founded the austrian radio station Ö3.

One year later, in 1968 he released his first LP, mostly singing his own lyrics and combining them with typical viennese music and jazz. First success came with his second album "Platte" in 1970. In his career he worked with Astor Piazzolla, Freddie Hubbard and Chaka Khan, just to name a few. He also collaborated with the greatest singers and musicians of Austria and Germany, including Helmut Qualtinger, Ingfried Hoffmann and Peter Wolf. From 1970-1984 he was married to Erika Pluhar, who also released a couple of records with Hellers lyrics.

In 1982, he stopped his musical career due to too much success, cause he didnt want to perform for audiences just because they had paid for it and not getting at the same time anymore fun out of it for himself. He released 14 albums. Afterwards he focused on theatre, what he had started parallel to his singing career. He activly played in several movies and theatre productions, as well realized own projects. He also founded "Zirkus Roncalli", designed "Swarovski Kristallwelten", created sculptures for the "World Cup 2006 in Germany" and worked on projects worldwide in countries like India, Israel, Morocco, Hongkong and Japan.

Tracklist:

Intro
Bitter und Süß
Verwunschen
Schnitterlied
Du ungnädige Gnädige
Miruna, die Riesin aus Göteborg
… oder was?!
Angstlied
Rondeau
Der Zauberer ist tot
Mein Liebstes, tu die Schatten fort
Extro

André Heller - Verwunschen (1980)

(192 kbps, cover art included)

André Heller - Bitter und Süß - André Heller in Israel (1978)

André Heller, born in 1947 in Vienna, is one of the most successful multimedia artists in the world. His realisations include garden artworks, chambers of wonder, prose publications and processions, as well as revitalising the art of circus and varieté; his recordings as singer and songwriter have sold in the millions. Large-scale flying and floating sculptures, the Luna Luna avant-garde amusement park, moving pictures, pyrotechnic spectaculars and mazes, theatre pieces and shows directed for stages ranging from Broadway to Vienna’s venerable Burg theatre, from India to China and all the way to South America and Africa have drawn crowds of audiences. André Heller lives in Vienna, Morocco, Lombardy and on his frequent travels.

"Bitter und Süß" was recorded live in Israel, 23-28. November 1975.

Tracklist:

A1 Wenn I Amal Stirb 2:05

A2 A Musi, A Musi 2:05

A3 Bitter Und Süß 4:00

A4 Das Marine Museum 6:15

A5 Glasscherbentanz 3:45

B1 Im Paradeisgartl 4:34

B2 Wienerlied 1:39

B3 Und Dann Bin I Ka Liliputaner Mehr 3:02

B4 Windrad 2:23

B5 Kumm Ma Mit Kane Ausreden Mehr 2:15

C1 Alt Wiener Tänze 6:32

C2 A Olta Weana Fiaker 3:55

C3 Waast Es Eh 3:12

C4 Damals 2:25

D1 Lärm Vor Dem Hause 2:29

D2 A Gedicht Fia D Moni 2:06

D3 Engel-Lied 3:08

D4 Jetzt Fahr'n Wir Nach Jerusalem 4:02

André Heller - Bitter und Süß - André Heller in Israel (1978)

(320 kbps, cover art included)

André Heller - Stimmenhören (1983)

André Heller was born in 1947 in Vienna. As a poet songwriter, his work spans across a period of more than 15 years selecting diverse topics and writing for a German-speaking audience. He has worked with not only international names such as Ástor Piazzolla, Dino Saluzzi, and Freddie Hubbard, but also with Austrian artists such as Toni Stricker, Wolfgang Ambros, and Helmut Qualtinger. Heller's own poetry has been set to music. He has also sung texts by other authors. For instance, "Catherine", from 1970, was set to one of the first hits of Heller. The text came from the then still largely unknown Reinhard Mey, and the music from the Austro-Canadian Jack Grunsky.

With Werner Schneyder, he created Viennese German songs that are translated from Jacques Brel, such as "Franz" (after the Brel title "Jef"). In 1976, he published a fairy tale called, Märchen für ein Wiener Kind (English version as "A Fairy Tale for a Viennese Child"), which is part of the children's book Update on Rumpelstiltskin and other Fairy Tales by 43 Authors, which is compiled by Hans-Joachim Gelberg, illustrated by Willi Glasauer, and published by Beltz & Gelberg. Using intimate memories of traumatic childhood experiences, and insights into his life, as well as his Catholic-Jewish origin, he created songs with the title "Angstlied" (Verwunschen, 1980).

Titles like "Miruna, die Riesin von Göteborg" (Verwunschen, 1980) are, in turn, influenced by the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism. "Das Lied vom idealen Park" (Narrenlieder 1985), or, as a duet with Wolfgang Ambros, he also introduced the Bob Dylan cover, "Für immer jung" (Stimmenhören, 1983), are now titles that are part of the Austro-pop cannon. In 1983, he appeared on Stimmenhören with the song "Erhebet euch Geliebte", a song at the time of the peace movement in the early 1980s. Since the early 1980s, he turned increasingly to large public productions, installations and performances, until 1982, where his concert career came to close.

In 1985, the album, Narrenlieder, was released. Between 1967 and 1985, he published a total of fourteen LPs, twelve of those were gold records, and earned him seven times platinum. In 1991, he wrote, looking back on this period:
"I started in 1967, to put my poems together using my voice on record and in recitals before millions of people. This was following the example of Bob Dylan's first meaningful and self-published poetry [...] 1982 was certainly the zenith of that career, where I had to stop my concerts. I realized at this point, it was spoiled for me, because at 8pm, I had to act gifted in front of a few thousand listeners, just because they had paid for admission." – Heller in the liner notes of Kritische Gesamtausgabe published in 1991.
However, on his 60th birthday, Heller gave a concert in April 2007 at the Viennese Radiokulturhaus, after twenty-five years of absence from the stage in a recital entitled, Konzert für mich (Concert for me).

In 2006, thanks to the initiative of Chris Gelbmann, he released his last album called, Ruf und Echo. The 3-CD compendium is the first release in the past 20 years, containing new songs, and interpretations of old hits by artists like Brian Eno, Xavier Naidoo, Thomas D, and The Walkabouts.

Tracklist:

Der Mikado	1:43
Wie mei Herzschlag	3:25
Tulios Lied	4:17
Die Hundertjährige	4:04
Zehn Brider	6:13
Für immer jung	3:54
Der erste Reif in Rimini	4:17
Mir Träumte	4:20
Erhebt euch Geliebte	4:16
Nachbemerkung	2:25

André Heller - Stimmenhören (1983)
(ca. 180 kbps, cover art included)

VA - Wien - Zoten und Pikanterien - Rare Schellacks 1906 - 1932

Throughout the world, the rise of mass culture in the 19th century brought the music of the common man to the forefront of the popular agenda. Expressions of "high culture" no longer dominated in the big cities. The taste of recently-urbanised country migrants was increasingly catered for.

Since the turn of the 20th century popular melodies, folk songs, humorous commentaries and dance music with a hard edge gained widespread acceptance. In the suburbs of Vienna, Berlin, Munich, Leipzig and Dresden new types of urban folk singers and entertainers emerged at the cutting edge of recreation. Their songs reflected the dissonant and raucous reality of urban life in harsh and critical lyrics, but always modified by a pinch of irony and a considerable amount of humor.

The commercial recording industry recognized the mass appeal of these emergent syncretic forms and a representative sample from that early period is featured on this series.

Tracklist:
Die Erbsünd - Freddy Wellmann
Der Grillenkitzler - Karl Huber mit Lenz Quartett
Brombeerlied - Franz Niernsee mit Lenz Quartett
Der Pfannenflicker - Brder Breier mit "Neuwirth" Quartett
Wiener Lokal-Verse - Franz Mika mit Neustifter Schrammel Begleitung
Das Lied ist modern - Scheimbauer & Lenz mit Mojka-Nast Schrammelbegleitung
Roserl, wie schön bist du im Hoserl - Richard Waldemar mit Klavier Begleitung
Weil ich anstnädig bin - Fritzi Rolly mit Orchesterbegleitung
Im roten Hahn - Franz Mika mit original Lanner-Quartett
Die Müllerin - Jungbauer mit Lenz-Quartett
Wo's Wasser herrauscht - Franz Niernsee mit Schrammelquartett "Lenz"
Breier G'stanzeln - August Breier begleitet vom "Neuwirth-Quartett"
Stilleben - Mika und Drechsler mit Schrammelbegleitung "Pischinger"
Hansi Führer am Telefon - Hansi Fhrer mit Klavierbegleitung
Schnauzbart-G'stanzln - Karl Huber mit Butschetty-Quartett
I hab mei Freud mit die Vögln - Mika & Drechsler mit Schrammel-Terzett
Unterm Paraplui - Rudi Hermann mit Schrammel-Terzett
Der Landkirtag - Scheimbauer & Lenz mit Schrammelquartett Moja-Nast
Bauerng'stanzeln - Karl Huber mit "Quartett Lenz und Ernst"
Beim Heurigen in Ottakring - Mika & Drechsler mit Schrammelbegleitung "Pischinger"
Laternderl - Franz Niernsee begl. Vom Wiener Salon Orchester "D`Geigerbuben"
I hab an alten Daimler - Rudi Hermann mit Schrammel-Terzett
Das Vergissmeinnicht - Franz Mika mit Original-Lanner-Quartett
Bauerng'stanzeln - Rudolf Heller mit Klavierbegleitung
Brunnstangl - Lenz und Scheimbauer mit Schrammelbegleitung

VA - Wien - Zoten und Pikanterien - Rare Schellacks 1906 - 1932
(192 kbps, cover art included)

V/A - Beat Jazz - Pictures From The Gone World Volume 2

So here´s volume 2 of this great collection of 50s/60s beat and jazz cuts, of songs and poetry.

This album was released on Pesky Serpent records with 16 rare and obscure tracks featuring beat poetry, be-bop and hip beat-jazz. Invokes the atmosphere of a smokey underground club from the late '50s/early '60s making this one of thee coooolest comps you'll ever hear!

Artists include Buddy Collette, Kenyon Hopkins, Amus Moore, Wardell Gray, Young Tiger, Babs Gonzales, Muhamed Habeebalah, Ernie Andrews, Oscar Moore, Early Zell, Katie Lee, Johnny Lewis Trio + Millie, Bing Day, Maxwell H. Brock, Joya Sherril, and Mel Henke.

Beat Jazz - Pictures From The Gone World Volume 2

(256 kbps, front & back cover included)

Varius Artists - Beat Jazz - Pictures From The Gone World (1995)

"Beat Jazz" is a out-of-print 20 track compilation of cool 50s style jazzy beat numbers. Kind of
Beat era recordings from spoken word, to sung poetry, to bebop, to doo-wop, to R&B, to hipster and jive....
It was released on Pesky Serpent Records in 1994.

From the web:
"this is one beautiful collection of beat music,
spoken word and crazed goofballed lyrics. Way out there selections
of many unknown beat artists at their most primitive level spewing
forth underground sounds and styles of a bygone era. No Zane or kitch
here but straight ahead songs that ooze the beat feel! This is a
fantastic selection of music. For me its the beat of this genre..."


Tracklist:

1. FROSTY AND THE DIAMONDS - Destination Mars
2. SLIM GAILLARD - Travelin Blues
3. KENNETH REXROTH - State & 32nd
4. COLEMAN HAWKINS - Picasso
5. GREGORY CORSO - Bomb
6. SCOTTY McKAY - Black Cat
7. JACK HAMMER - Like
8. GIL MELLE - The Gears
9. DOCTOR BOP - Satin & Velvet
10. ANITA ELLIS w/DAVID AMRAM - The Crazy Daisy
11. BOB DOROUGH (by Ferlinghetti) - Dog
12. HARVEY ANDERSON - Monday Night at 8pm
13. JACK KEROUAC - Cockroach
14. THE COSMIC RAYS with SUN RA - Dreaming
15. ROY GLENN - Big High Song For Somebody
16. ADA MOORE - Devil
17. MOONDOG - Up Broadway
18. WOODY LEAFER - Drums In My Typrewriter
19. THE NEW BANGS - Go Go Kitty
20. ELLIE GIRL & THE 7 BEAT SULKS - Let's Make It

VA - Beat Jazz - Pictures From The Gone World

Gisela May & Thanassis Moraitis - Mikis Theodorakis - Lieder

This album is a historical musical document that has been recorded in Berlin in 1988, just a year before the fall of the Berliner Wall. The “great lady” of the Berliner Ensemble and excellent interpreter of Brecht’s songs, Gisela May, meets the Greek singer Thanassis Moraitis.

Together, they sing an anthology consisting of important compositions signed by Mikis Theodorakis, one of the most significant Greek composers such as “Asma Asmaton”, “Antonis”, “To gelasto pedi” and others.

Tracklist:

A1	Lied der Lieder (Part 1)	3:56
A2	Andonis	2:58
A3	Der Flüchtling	3:02
A4	Wenn der Krieg vorbei ist	3:03
A5	Lied der Lieder (Part 2)	0:53
A6	Am 18. November	2:00
A7	Der Junge mit dem Lächeln	2:34
A8	Weil er sich nicht Gesetzen beugte	2:52
A9	Anatolien	2:45
B1	O Dromos Tou Phegariou	2:44
B2	Santiago	5:27
B3	Patrida Mou	2:40
B4	Chameni Apostoli	3:02
B5	Arkouda	3:24
B6	Tripolis	4:00
B7	To Taxidi	2:51

Gisela May & Thanassis Moraitis - Mikis Theodorakis - Lieder
(320 kbps, cover art included)