Aswad - Distant Thunder (Don't Turn Around) - VINYL LP

After her triumph with the album Offenbach Colorature (ALPHA437), Jodie Devos has chosen to follow in the footsteps of one of her compatriots, the Belgian coloratura soprano Marie Cabel (1827-85), who at the age of twenty-six scored a phenomenal success in Adolphe Adam's opéra-comique Le Bijou perdu, which she premiered in Paris. She then took on a more dramatic role in Halévy's Jaguarita l'Indienne, whose great Invocation with chorus ('À moi ma cohorte!') again hit the bullseye in a run of 124 performances over just a few months. Cabel enjoyed one hit after another, in Auber's Manon Lescaut and La Part du diable, Meyerbeer's L'Étoile du Nord and Le Pardon de Ploërmel, Victor Massé's Galathée, and Le Songe d'une nuit d'été by Ambroise Thomas, who in 1866 gave her the biggest role of her career Philine in Mignon, based on Goethe. In partnership with the musicologists of the Palazzetto Bru Zane, who have resurrected and edited all these unjustly forgotten rarities, and Pierre Bleuse conducting the Brussels Philharmonic and the Flemish Radio Choir, Jodie Devos pays tribute to this star of the nineteenth century, whose audacity and sense of mischief she undoubtedly shares!

Boomtown United is St. Louis's premier ska collective, a powerful 8 piece delivering horn driven harmony-laced 2-Tone style songs, their catalog is overflowing with an innovative sound that has captivated audiences worldwide. Comprised of veterans from the StL ska and reggae scene, Boomtown United bring an energy that is both refreshing and therapeutic on their debut full lengh InchTuffer Than IInch. A must for fans of classic 2-Tone like The Specials, English Beat, and Madness; early American and European wave ska like The Toasters, Bim Skala Bim, Let's Go Bowling, Hotknives, Potato 5 and Mr Review.

Insight was a Phill Pratt (Star Wars Dub)project originally released in 1979, this is a 180 gram vinyl reissue. Features many heavyweights from the Jamaican studio scene like Sly & Robbie, Ansel Collins, Tommy McCook and more.