Cristina Azuma - Dreams - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The bands's third & final CBS album from 1978. Features Miami Steve Van Zandt songs along with two from Bruce Springsteen. Digitally remastered, slip-cased & with new notes. BGO. 2005.

Due to an overload of the right hand and the resulting epicondylitis (golfer's elbow), Nicola Stock was initially no longer able to play the guitar normally. Inspired by Lars Wuller's InchLeft Hand Guitar ChallengeInch and due to the fact that guitar works for the left hand alone had hardly existed up to that point - unlike in the piano world, where numerous pieces by well-known composers such as Scriabin or Ravel already exist - the idea arose together with Professor Gerhard Reichenbach to commission new pieces from various composers and thus create a repertoire for the left hand alone that combines innovative ideas and old and new playing techniques. Nicola Yasmin Stock (*1998) is a multiple prizewinner in international guitar competitions. As a soloist, she regularly performs at festivals in Asia, Europe and South America and gives master classes. She studied classical guitar with Professor Gerhard Reichenbach at the University of Music and Dance Cologne/Wuppertal and has also taken part in numerous master classes with renowned artists such as Margarita Escarpa, Pavel Steidl, Judicael Perroy and many others. In addition to her current studies in musicology at the Robert Schumann University in Dusseldorf, Nicola Yasmin Stock is the artistic director of the Rotenburg Guitar Week and an instrumental teacher at the Bergische Music School. She is involved in a variety of chamber music formations and orchestras, including as conductor of the Dortmund Guitar and Mandolin Orchestra. Because of her special commitment to the largely unknown guitar repertoire of female composers, she was awarded a scholarship for female guitarists by the Equal Opportunities Commission at the Cologne University of Music and Dance. She is also involved in cross-disciplinary projects, such as the interdisciplinary annual project of the College of Music and Art in Montepulciano/IT.

Vinyl LP. Half-speed master. Originally released in February 1984, IT'S MY LIFE is the band's second album and followed the 1982 of their debut 'The Party's Over' which initially received moderate success in the UK reaching number 21 in the UK chart and finding some global success. - By the time they came to writing and recording IT'S MY LIFE the band had gone from the four piece to a three with Simon Brenner leaving the band. The album initially found considerable international success. InchSuch A Shame,Inch the album's first single was a top 10 hit across Europe and the album's title track entered global Top 40's including in the US.