Wolfganz Szepansky & Emil Ackermann - ...denn in uns zieht die Hoffnung mit - Lieder, gesungen im Konzentrationslager Sachsenhausen

The "Sachsenhausenkomittee Westberlin" - an organisation of survivors of the concentration camp Sachsenhausen-  released around 1980 a small book with memories of the anti-fascists Wolfgang Szepansky and Emil Ackermann together with this cassette featurung songs sung in the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp.

The songs are interpreted by Wolfgang Szepansky (prisoner number 33527) and Emil Ackermann (prisoner number 775), accompanied by Josef-Maria "Pepi" Metzke, Jochen Horvath, Dieter "Max" Mehr and Robert "Robby" Hartog -  members of the folk group "Sorgenhobel".

Wolfgang Szepansky (* October 9, 1910 in Berlin-Wedding ; † 23 August 2008 in Berlin-Schöneberg) was a German anti-fascist, communist resistance fighter, author and painter.



Tracklist:

Sachsenhausen-Lied

Kameraden, lasst uns singen

Was uns auch begegnet hier

Wir sind Moorsoldaten

Das Glöckchen

Partisanen vom Amur

Wilde Gesellen

Wir sind nicht zu verbieten

Fichtemarsch

Wir sind die Moorsoldaten

Accordion– Jochen Horvath
Guitar– Robert "Robby" Hartog
Guitar, Mandolin– Dieter "Max" Mehr
Violin– Michael Spitzer
Vocals– Emil Ackermann, Josef-Maria "Pepi" Metzke, Wolfgang Szepansky
Recorded  at "Mauerton"-studio in Berlin-Kreuzberg and mixed by Leo Lehr.

Wolfgang Szepansky & Emil Ackermann - ...denn in uns zieht die Hoffnung mit
(320 kbps, front cover and informations included, tape rip)

John Lee Hooker - The Great (1963)

John Lee Hooker was the king of the endless boogie, a globally cherished bluesman whose droning, hypnotic, one-chord grooves were driving, primitive, and timeless. 

During a 50-year career, he melded regional sounds from the Delta, Detroit, and Chicago in a trademark, oft-imitated approach. From the late 1940s until 1969, he cut more than 100 singles for labels such as Modern, Chess, Federal, Atco, and Vee-Jay, including hits such as "I'm in the Mood," "Hobo Blues," "Boogie Chillen," "Crawling Kingsnake," and "Boom Boom." 

In 1966 he resurrected and reinvented the '50s R&B hit "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer" and made it his own.


Tracklist:

A1 I Need Love So Bad
A2 Sally Mae
A3 Key To The Highway
A4 How Can You Do It?
A5 It Hurts Me So
B1 She Left Me
B2 I Got Eyes For You
B3 Let's Talk It Over
B4 I'm A Howling Wolf
B5 Tease Your Daddy

John Lee Hooker - The Great (1963)

(320 kbps, cover art included)

VA - Beyond the Wildwood – A Tribute to Syd Barrett (1987)

Like a supernova, Roger "Syd" Barrett burned briefly and brightly, leaving an indelible mark upon psychedelic and progressive rock as the founder and original singer, songwriter, and lead guitarist of Pink Floyd. Barrett was responsible for most of their brilliant first album, 1967's "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn", but left and/or was fired from the band in early 1968 after his erratic behavior had made him too difficult to deal with (he appears on a couple tracks on their second album, "A Saucerful of Secrets"). Such was his stature within the original lineup that few observers thought the band could survive his departure; in fact, the original group's management decided to keep Syd on and leave the rest of the band to their own devices. Pink Floyd never recaptured the playful humor and mad energy of their work with Barrett.               

Beyond the Wildwood – A Tribute to Syd Barrett is a tribute album consisting of music written by Syd Barrett. The musicians performing on the album are British and American indie rock artists. The songs featured come from Pink Floyd's singles; the albums The Piper at the Gates of Dawn and A Saucerful of Secrets; and Barrett's two solo albums: The Madcap Laughs and Barrett. Although Barrett's productive recording career had only lasted from 1967 though 1970, his music had a great influence on the development of psychedelic rock, alternative rock and indie rock music.

"Beyond the Wildwood" is a must have for any serious Syd fan. This album of covers is a fine tribute, the songs are not at all "replicas"; they are all fresh and re-worked, some of them quite radically. 


1. The Mock Turtles - No Good Trying
2. Plasticland - Octopus
3. SS-20 - Arnold Layne
4. Paul Roland - Matilda Mother
5. Fit And Limo - Long Cold Look
6. The Shamen - Long Gone
7. Opal - If The Sun Don't Shine (Adaptation Of Jugband Blues)
8. The Ashes In The Morning - Baby Lemonade
9. The Lobster Quadrille - Wolfpack
10. The Paint Set - Golden Hair
11. Tropicana Fishtank - No Man's Land
12. The T.V. Personalities - Apples And Oranges
13. The Soup Dragons - Two Of A Kind
14. The Green Telescope - Scream Thy Last Scream
15. The Chemistry Set - See Emily Play
16. What Noise - Rats
17. Death Of Samantha - Gigolo Aunt

^{VA - Beyond the Wildwood – A Tribute to Syd Barrett (1987)
(256 kbps, cover art incuded)}

King Tubbys, Prince Jammy´s, Scientist - Dubwise Revolution

King Tubby is to this day synonymous with dub. He was a man who had a passion for fiddling with sound equipment, and turned that passion into a new musical genre and a veritable art form. He may have started his career as a repairman, but before he was done, his name was one of the most respected around the world. He worked with virtually every artist in Jamaica, and his name on a remix was like gold, a seal of quality that was never questioned.

A member of dub's royal family, Lloyd James (aka Prince Jammy, aka King Jammy) began his career as an apprentice mixer under the late great King Tubby.

Scientist was an employee of Tubby's, fixing transformers and televisions, when one day, after an animated conversation about mixing records, Tubby challenged the Scientist to take a shot at remixing a record.

Guess "Dubwise Revolution" is a 1970s dub album, produced by Prince Jammy and mixed by Scientist nd King Tubby.

Tracklist:

Come Dub
Iniquity Dub
Just One Dub
Late Night Dub
Ants Nest
Holy Dub
Crisp Dub
Echo Chamber
Better Must Dub
Big Dub
Vanity Dub
Bell The Cat Dub
Rock A Dub
Play On Dub


King Tubbys, Prince Jammys, Scientist - Dubwise Revolution
(192 kbps, front cover included)

John Hartford - Morning Bugle (1972)

John Hartford remains best known for the country-pop standard "Gentle on My Mind," a major hit for Glen Campbell and subsequently covered by vocalists ranging from Frank Sinatra to Aretha Franklin. The song remains among the most often recorded in the history of popular music, its copyright netting Hartford well over a hundred thousand dollars annually for many years. But there was more to Hartford than that curious mix of highly literary folk music and MOR romantic nostalgia, told from the perspective of a homeless man remembering days of perfect love. Hartford was a multi-talented old-time musician, a riverboat captain, a satirical songwriter, a one-man showman of exceptional talents, and one of the founders of both progressive country music and old-time string music revivalism.

"Morning Bugle" is one of Hartford's finest records. Done mostly live in the studio with virtually no over-dubs, this is a fine collection of song covering a variety of subjects. Two of the most poignant are "Howard Hughes Blues" and "Nobody Eats at Linebaugh's," which addresses country music's abandonment of the Ryman and downtown Nashville in favor of "the park." The album features jazz double bassist Dave Holland, who performs with both Hartford and Norman Blake for the very first time. It was recorded at Bearsville Sound in Bearsville, New York and released in June, 1972. The music was all written by Hartford, except for two traditional tunes.

John Hartford - Morning Bugle (1972)
(192 kbps, cover art included)

Rolando Alarcon - Canciones de la Guerra Civil Espanola (1968)

 

On 18 July 1936, a group of military officers attempted a coup to overthrow the leftwing Popular Front government that had come to powerbin Spain in February. That date marks the beginning of the Spanish civil war, which killed 500,000 people and resulted in 450,000 fleeing Spain.

Here´s the another fine compliation with Rolando Alarcon´s recordings of songs related to the spanish civil war. It was released in 1968.

Tracklist:

01. Si me quieres escribir
02. El quinto regimiento
03. El turu ru ru ru
04. Las morillas de Jaen
05. Dime donde vas, morena
06. Viva la quinta brigada
07. Eres alta y delgada
08. Los cuatro generales
09. Nubes y esperanza
10. No pasaran

Rolando Alarcon - Canciones de la Guerra Civil Espanola (1968)

(128 kbps, cover art included)

Jalda Rebling - Hans-Werner Apel - Stefan Maass - Jews in Germany (1250-1750) - Juden in Deutschland (1994)

Today we remember the anti-Jewish pogrom in Nazi Germany and Austria on 9 to 10 November1938, also known as "Novemberpogrome", "Reichskristallnacht", "Reichspogromnacht" or "Pogromnacht" in German.

This album features jewish music from 5 centuries performed by the famous jewish vocalist Jalda Rebling and the well known musicians Hans-Werner Apel and Stefan Maass. No easy-listening, but excellent and very impressive. The album was recorded in 1994.

The present recordings provide for the first time a representative cross-section of the Jewish history of music in Germany. The highlights of Hebrew, Yiddish and German songs tell us of 500 years of fruitful and dreadful neighbourhood in a country, which seemed to be a second, intellectual home for the Jewish people, and yet became the place of ruthless persecution.

Tracklist:

1a. Wa heb' uf, unt niht envint - komponiert von Süßkind von Trimberg
1b. Ich var uf der toren vart - komponiert von Süßkind von Trimberg
2. Ein wolf vil jaemerlichen sprach - komponiert von Süßkind von Trimberg
3. Möcht ich dein wegeren
4. Der Winter will hinweichen
5. Judenverfolgung zu Passau 1477
5a. O du armer Judas
5b. Variationen auf den armen Judas - komponiert von Hans Gerle
6. Judentanz - komponiert von Hans Newsidler
7a. Vintz Hanß Lied - komponiert von Elchanan b. Abraham Helen
7b. Triumphmarsch - komponiert von Elchanan b. Abraham Helen
8. Judentanz - komponiert von Wolff Heckel
9. Addir hu - komponiert von Johann Stephan Rittangel
10. Galgengesang des Joseph Süß Oppenheimer
11. Eins wollt ihr es nennen
12. Ergötzlichkeit zur rechten Zeit - komponiert von Adam Krieger
13. Kallalied
14. Zu Chassene und B'rith-Mile - komponiert von Elchanan b. Abraham Helen
15. Akdomus - komponiert von Leijb Chasan
16. Das neue Jerusalem
17. Ki lo naeh - komponiert von Johann Stephan Rittangel

Jalda Rebling - Hans-Werner Apel - Stefan Maass - Jews in Germany (1250-1750) - Juden in Deutschland (1994)
(192 kbps, cover art included)

On-U Sound Disco Plate Collection Part II

A disproportionate amount of the best modern reggae has emerged from the strange, dark depths of the Berry Street studio in London, home base of Adrian Sherwood's On-U Sound label. On-U material has always been notoriously difficult to get in any format, but most elusive of all are the legendary 10" "disco plate" singles Sherwood produced in the early 1980s and 1990s.

This disc is the second volume in an attempt to remedy that situation by reissuing the best of the disco plates on CD. Though fans of the label will already own alternate versions of a number of these tracks (such as "93 Struggle" and Bim Sherman's "Keep You Dancing") and even the exact same versions of a couple of others ("Autobiography" and "Breaking Down the Pressure" have been credited elsewhere to Singers & Players), this disc is more than worth the investment if only for the brilliant obscurities: Undivided Roots deliver a charming lament titled "England Cold," which is followed by a typically over-the-top Sherwood dub mix; "Can't Stop Jumping" is a dub version of "Keep You Dancing" featuring Dr. Pablo on keys.

This is pure reggae & dub gold, and devotees are well advised to snap it up while they can...

VA - On-U Sound Disco Plate Collection Part II
(192 kbps, small front cover included)

Slapp Happy & Dagmar Krause - Ultra Rare Trax

Slapp Happy was formed in 1972 when British keyboardist and avant-garde composer Anthony Moore met New York guitarist/artist/cartoonist/poet Peter Blegvad. The two were living in Hamburg at the time, and Moore had already released several albums of “new music” for Polydor. When Polydor rejected one of his albums outright, he proposed a pop-oriented project instead. Local girl Dagmar Krause, a former member of the folk-rock group The City Preachers, was recruited as vocalist and Slapp Happy was born.

This terrific collection was released in 1996.


Tracklist:

          Casablanca Moon EP:
                Casablanca Moon (single edit)
                Me and Pavarti (single edit)
          City Preachers:
                Hey, La La La
                Who are you
                Any Day in Wonderland
                Sometimes the Sky is filled with Rain
                Canada
                On a Train Ride
                Betty Dupree
                Wenn Abendlichter Glanzen
                Penelope
                Golden Yesterdays
                Come Back
                Franky and Johnny
                Old Shanty Town
          Commuters:
                The Ventriloquist
                The Young Lieutenant
                The Architect
                The Poet
                The Man on the Island
                The Acrobat
                The Organist
                The Philosopher
                The Gentlemen on the Stairs
                The Priest
          Sort Of EP:
                Alcohol
          Anthony Moore EP:
                Judy (single edit)
                Lucia (single edit)
          Slapp Happy Including Anthony Moore EP:
                Johnny's Dead
                Mr. Rainbow


Slapp Happy & Dagmar Krause - Ultra Rare Trax
(320 kbps, cover art included)

The Members - Uprhythm, Downbeat (1982)

The punk-orthodoxy view of the Members is that after a string of promising reggae-tinged singles, the septet released one fine album in 1979's "At the Chelsea Nightclub", then lost the plot completely with the follow-up, 1980: "The Choice Is Yours", after which they're ignored with an embarrassed throat-clearing. In point of fact, however, the Members rebounded after their second album (which itself is actually not nearly as bad as many would have you believe, sort of the Members' own version of "Sandinista!" in its appealing looseness and lack of consistent focus) by ridding themselves of any lingering punk associations and going for a complete sonic makeover. 

The band joined up with producer Martin Rushent (Human League, Altered Images, the Go-Go's), who was a master of making unpromisingly non-commercial bands have big shiny hit records without losing their souls in the process. Rushent nailed it immediately with the Members, concocting the utterly delightful "Working Girl." A mixture of snarky lyrics about the joys of freeloading and a genuinely transcendent chorus, "Working Girl" is a classic '80s pop single and -- despite the protestations of the punker than thou -- easily the best thing the Members ever did. Yes, including "Solitary Confinement." Sadly, the rest of Uprhythm Downbeat doesn't reach the same heights, but the good outweighs the bad, including an inspired reggae version of Kraftwerk's "The Model," the self-celebrating "The Family" and "Boys Like Us," and another minor hit, "Going West."

Tracklist:

"Working Girl" (Nick Tesco, Jean-Marie Carroll) 4:09
"The Family" (Jean-Marie Carroll) 4:11
"The Model" (Ralf Hütter, Karl Bartos, Emil Schult) 5:10
"Chairman of the Board" (Nick Tesco, Payne, Jean-Marie Carroll) 4:05
"Boys Like Us" (Nick Tesco, Adrian Lillywhite, Chris Payne, Jean-Marie Carroll, Simon Lloyd, Steve Thompson, Nigel Bennett) 4:11
"Going West" (Chris Payne) 4:10
"Radio" (Nigel Bennett) 5:52
"Fire (in My Heart)" (Nick Tesco, Adrian Lillywhite, Chris Payne, Jean-Marie Carroll, Simon Lloyd, Steve Thompson, Nigel Bennett) 4:19
"You and Me Against the World" (Nick Tesco, Adrian Lillywhite, Chris Payne, Jean-Marie Carroll, Simon Lloyd, Steve Thompson, Nigel Bennett) 4:22
"We the People" (Nick Tesco, Chris Payne) 5:10

2006 CD Bonus Tracks:

"Working Girl" (single version)
"Holiday in Tanganika"
"Every Day is Just a Holiday"
"If You Can't Stand Up"
"At the Arcade"
"Membership"

The Members - Uprhythm, Downbeat (1982)

(128 kbps, cover art included)

Mississippi John Hurt - Friends Of Old Time Music Concert, December 13, 1963

No blues singer ever presented a more gentle, genial image than Mississippi John Hurt.

A guitarist with an extraordinarily lyrical and refined fingerpicking style, he also sang with a warmth unique in the field of blues, and the gospel influence in his music gave it a depth and reflective quality unusual in the field. Coupled with the sheer gratitude and amazement that he felt over having found a mass audience so late in life, and playing concerts in front of thousands of people -- for fees that seemed astronomical to a man who had always made music a sideline to his life as a farm laborer -- these qualities make Hurt's recordings into a very special listening experience.
Here´s the soundboard recording of the "friends of old time music concert", School of Medicine, Alumni Hall
New York, N.Y., December 13, 1963.

Tracklist:
1.Do Lord intro
2.Do Lord Remember Me
3.Since Ive Laid My Burden Down
4.C.C. Rider
5.Casey Jones
6.Nobody's Dirty Business
7.Richmond Woman Intro
8.Richmond Woman Blues
9.Let The Mermaids Flirt W Me
10.Spike drivers Blues
11.Stagger Lee
12.Pallet On Your Floor
13.Coffee Blues Intro
14.Coffee Blues
15.My Creole Blues
16.Franky and Jonnie
17.Talking Casey

Filler tracks from 1964:
18.Monday Morning Blues
19.Pallet on Your Floor

Thanks to http://arizjones.blogspot.com/!

Mississippi John Hurt - December 13, 1963
(320 kbps, no cover art included)

Minimal Compact – Minimal Compact (1982, Crammed)

Minimal Compact was an Israeli rock band associated with the post-punk and indie rock movement of the 1980s.

When punk and new wave blew up in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, the fallout was felt on a global level even though acts from the U.S. and the U.K. snagged most of the attention. Minimal Compact from Tel Aviv, Israel were one of the little-known post-punk acts outside of the usual suspects. Formed in 1981 by vocalist Samy Birnbach, bassist Malka Spigel, and guitarist Berry Sakharof, Minimal Compact incorporated native Middle Eastern sounds into dark European rock, breaking ground that groups such as Blancmange and Savage Republic would eventually cross. 

What prevented Minimal Compact from becoming completely obscure because of their geographic roots was that they relocated to Amsterdam early in their career and therefore found support within the European music community. The band wanted refuge from their native land's provincial attitudes; moving to Amsterdam enabled them to fulfill their dream of international recognition. The group was signed to the Belgian label Crammed and released this self-titled EP in 1981.


Tracklist:

Statik Dancin' 3:47
Creation Is Perfect (I Am A Camera) 4:28
Ready-Made Diary 4:37
To Get Inside 5:18
Happy Babouge 3:29

Minimal Compact – Minimal Compact (EP, 1982, Crammed)

(320 kbps, cover art included)