XII Alfonso is an experimental rock band from Spain, known for blending diverse musical genres such as post-rock, progressive rock, and elements of ambient and folk music. Their 2012 album, Charles Darwin, reflects their ability to craft intricate and dynamic soundscapes, often weaving complex rhythms with atmospheric textures. The album features thoughtful compositions, creating an immersive listening experience that explores themes of change, evolution, and the natural world, inspired by the work and ideas of the famous scientist Charles Darwin.

Spirit of Love is an album by Con Funk Shun, an American R&B and funk band that gained prominence in the 1970s and 1980s. The album was originally released in 1980, but it was later reissued in 1998, likely as part of a remastered collection or re-release series to celebrate the band's enduring influence in the funk and soul genres.

Eternal (2006) is an album by Miriam Stockley, a British singer known for her ethereal voice and her work in world music, particularly in the genres of Celtic, folk, and ambient music. This album features a blend of atmospheric, melodic, and spiritual elements that create a calming and mystical atmosphere.

Berimbaum (2004) is an album by Paula Morelenbaum, a prominent Brazilian vocalist known for her work in both traditional and contemporary Brazilian music. This album is particularly notable for its rich arrangements, showcasing a blend of bossa nova, samba, and other traditional Brazilian genres, with elements of jazz and classical music. The album reflects Paula’s deep connection to Brazil’s musical heritage and her ability to reinterpret it through a modern lens.

This retooled, revamped version of the Hollies' self-titled 1974 album doesn't seem like much at first glance – but first impressions can be wrong, and this one would be. At the time of its recording, the original album marked the return of original lead singer Allan Clarke to the Hollies lineup after a two-year absence, and it also yielded the group's last major hit, "The Air That I Breathe." Otherwise, Hollies has mostly been forgotten, even by many loyal fans, for the very good reason that, the one hit aside, there really wasn't that much on the album that was exceptional.

Hailed by the press as “the definitive video production” of Tchaikovsky’s music, this exceptional concert series, recorded live from the Alte Oper Frankfurt, features the leading Russian conductor Vladimir Fedoseyev and the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra. Fedoseyev’s perceptive reading of the works of his fellow countryman, the masterly playing of the orchestra and guest soloists combine to produce performances which are revelatory in their execution and understanding of Tchaikovsky’s music and the Russian heritage.

Handful of Soul is a the debut album by Mario Biondi. You will be surprised by this singer's deep and warm voice. It recalls the great interpreters soul and rhythm'n'blues music. Many will think of a black singer. Whereas Mario and Sicilian from Catania. Certainly he's capable of expressing his Soul when singing. After the first collaboration between Schema, Mario Biondi and the producer Alessandro Magnanini, which brought in 2004 to the release of Was-A-Bee's single "This Is What You Are / On A Clear Day", "Handful of Soul" is an album ranging between Jazz and Soul. The result is in this very enticing music release, whose sound swings from smooth vocal melodies to rhythmic tracks to dance…

Cerrone has been a musical icon beyond Disco for five decades. He keeps inspiring the greatest names of electronic music and improving his way of playing and creating music. With 'Disco Symphony' Cerrone revisits in a symphonic way 21 of his greatest hits performed with the Symphony Orchestra of Cannes, directed by the legendary Randy Kerber. Also featuring Cerrone himself on the drums and an additional bass-guitars-keyboards band playing with the orchestra. Merging the power of electronic music, the groove of Disco and the lyrism and unique touch of a symphony orchestra, in respect of the club Culture Cerrone was born in and with.

"Upon both your houses" based on a live performance, from Nearfest festival 2000, in front of a quite small audience (1000 sits). It contain TP songs mainly from "In this life" and "In extremis" albums. This life show could not replace any studio album by the band, but sounds different from each one and has its own uniqueness, because of the songs editing, the sound and the environment… Thinking Plague is a United States avant-garde progressive rock group founded in 1982 by guitarist/composer, Mike Johnson, and bass guitarist/drummer, Bob Drake. Based in Denver, Colorado, the band has been active off and on since 1982, taking on a number of musicians over the years. They have made six studio albums between 1984 and 2012, and released one live album recorded at NEARfest in 2000.

The Best of Leonard Cohen is a greatest hits album by Leonard Cohen, released in 1975. In some countries from Europe, it was released under the title Greatest Hits. This alternative title was used for the original vinyl release and for CD reissues from the 1980s onwards. The album was not a hit in the United States but did well in Europe, Cohen's major market at the time. He toured in support of the album in 1976, beginning in Berlin on April 22 and ending in London on July 7. The front cover photograph was taken in 1968 in a Milan hotel room, according to Cohen's liner notes.

When ad hoc studio group Plastic Penny scored a surprise Top Ten hit in early 1968 with an orch-pop cover of Box Tops B-side 'Everything I Am', a band of that name was quickly put together by session singer Brian Keith. Although Keith quickly dropped out to pursue a solo career, Plastic Penny stayed together for around eighteen months, with future Chicken Shack/Savoy Brown/UFO stalwart Paul Raymond sharing lead vocal duties with subsequent Elton John Band drummer Nigel Olsson. Completed by future Procol Harum guitarist Mick Grabham and Troggs-bound bassist Tony Murray, Plastic Penny recorded two fine albums - including such bona fide UK psych-pop masterpieces as 'Mrs Grundy' and 'Your Way To Tell Me Go' - before the final line-up morphed into country-rockers Cochise in the second half of 1969. Everything I Am: The Complete Plastic Penny does exactly what it says on the tin, assembling everything the band recorded during their brief lifespan under one roof: mono and stereo versions of debut album "Two Sides Of A Penny", the stereo-only follow-up "Currency", non-album singles, alternative versions and mixes, foreign language recordings, the studio outtake 'Celebrity Ball' and, most intriguingly of all, forty-five minutes of BBC recordings in pristine sound quality.

Record Store Day limited edition with OBI Strip. Jacket's done with metallic foil printing technique.
Consequently the flash on the front sleeve is "silverish" compare to original white color on the first pressings or most of the reissues.The record was cut using a specialist technique known as half-speed mastering.
The artisan process results in cuts that have superior high frequency response (treble) and very solid stable stereo images.In short, a very high quality master that helps to create a very high quality record.

Now the Road to Red offers a comprehensive overview of this final tour and at last does justice to a group who were operating at the very height of their powers. Every soundboard quality recording known to exist is presented with audio fully restored, all released on CD for the first time. There are also five complete concerts, drawn from multi-track recordings, alongside the restored audio bootleg of the band's final show from New York and a new stereo mix of Red by Robert Fripp and Steven Wilson undertaken in 2012. a total of 16 concerts are featured across 20 discs, with the studio Red as the 21st CD. The set also features: A DVD containing a high resolution stereo presentation of USA (in all mixes) and the new stereo mix of Red 2 Blu-ray discs containing the five full length multi-track concert recordings (newly transferred at the highest resolution available from the original analogue Dolby SR source mix-down tapes & presented in 24/192 DTS-HD master sound), new & original stereo versions of Red and the existing 5.1 multi-channel mixes of the album presented in 24/96 DTS-HD also feature on Blu-ray.

German conductor Eugen Jochum is considered by many to have been the foremost Bruckner conductor of the mid- to late twentieth century; he producing many outstanding recordings of Bruckner's symphonies (as well as worthy interpretations of a great many other composers). He also left to posterity a number of written articles on the interpretation of that composer. Musical studies began in early childhood (both of Eugen's brothers, Otto Jochum and Georg Ludwig Jochum, went on to become successful musicians in their own right), and Jochum attended the Augsburg Conservatory until he was 20 years of age. He enrolled in the Munich Academy of Music as a composition student of Hermann von Waltershausen, but soon diverted his energies to conducting (working with Siegmund von Hausegger). He worked as a rehearsal assistant at the Munich National Theater, and, after a successful Munich debut in 1926, was invited to join the conducting staff at the Kiel opera. In 1926, having developed a sizable operatic repertory, he moved to Mannheim (1929-1930) and then to Duisburg (1930-1932).

GEP are pleased to announce the release of ‘Pareidoliving’, the new release by German multi-instrumentalist Thomas Thielen. ‘t’ maestro Thomas Thielen returns with ‘Pareidoliving’, his most compelling and satisfying work to date. This new album skillfully blends the more ‘alt rock’ elements of ‘t’s previous works with a greater progressive sensibility, whilst somehow managing to make the whole more pleasingly accessible and immediate.