Zero G Sound

Otis Verries Hicks (March 13, 1913 – July 27, 1974),  known as Lightnin' Slim, was an American blues musician who played Louisiana blues...

Though not nearly as well known as Duke Reid or Coxsone Dodd, producer and sometime vocalist Clancy Eccles made a lot of rocksteady in the l...

Bassist, composer, arranger, and bandleader Charles Mingus cut himself a uniquely iconoclastic path through jazz in the middle of the 20th c...

The historical recordings featured on the four LPs "Klingende Dokumente" offer valuable clues to the life and work of one of the...

"Die Zwanziger Jahre" is a compilation with sinfonic music written between 1924 and 1929 in the time "between the wars...

Nanni Svampa (Milano, February 28, 1938 - Varese, august 26, 2017) was an Italian singer, writer and actor, founder of the musical group I G...

Prince Buster did not invent rude reggae, but he certainly did it a lot better, and a lot more frequently, than most people.  "Wreck a ...

One of Prince Buster's finest albums and, thanks to the presence of both the much-covered title track and the oft-revisited "Whine ...

Violeta Isabel Cereceda Parra (born 29 September 1939), better known as Isabel Parra, is a famous Chilean singer-songwriter and interpreter ...

Rallying around the considerable talents of British producer/modern dub mastermind Adrian Sherwood, the New Age Steppers were not so much a ...

"Skylarking" was the debut studio album by Horace Andy. It was released on Studio One in 1972. Not to be confused with his later a...

Group 1850 is an interesting, if sometimes exasperating, late-'60s Dutch band who ranks among the most accomplished and original Contine...

The extraordinary South African pianist meets his countryman, the late, very great bassist Johnny Dyani, and the result is one of the sing...

To accompany her autobiography, Bilie Holiday released an LP in June 1956 entitled "Lady Sings the Blues ". The album featured f...

Esther Zaied, better known by her married name Esther Ofarim (Hebrew: אסתר עופרים; born June 13, 1941), is an Israeli singer. She came secon...

Dmitri Shostakovich wrote his famous 7th Symphony mostly during the Siege of Leningrad by the Germans during World War II. For 900 days, t...

This album features live recordings from the concert "Ich liebe mein Land - 35 Jahre DDR in Liedern", organized by the Free German...

Radical Dance Faction (RDF) were founded by Chris Bowsher in Hungerford in 1986. Originally known as ‘Military Surplus’, the band has experi...

While his first two superb albums, released in 1974 and 1975, failed to gain widespread popularity for Paolo Conte, his reputation among Ita...

Following his eponymous 1987 album, Mark Stewart continued his collaboration with producer Adrian Sherwood and the Maffia (Sugar Hill'...