The Sound - Heads & Hearts - Deluxe Gatefold 2CD Set - COMPACT DISCS

Limited Edition 2 CD Seldom has a single musician had a more lasting effect than Elmore James InchKing of the Slide Guitar.Inch That shangety-shangety bottleneck riff defined the sound after he debuted it on his seminal InchDust My Broom,Inch inspiring other Chicago slide aces and eventually spreading all around the globe as shaggy-haired blues-rockers fed it through mammoth amps. The mind-melting impact of Elmore's anguished vocals was every bit as intense as his crashing fretwork. First cut by James in August 1951, InchDust My BroomInch defined his signature style a swooping, full-octave opening figure on slide guitar. James left behind a raft of classic blues songs that influenced a legion of Chicago slide players and were a foundational influence for the 60's blues rock explosion. His influence went beyond that one riff, however, as he has been credited with practically inventing blues rock by virtue of energizing primal riffs with a raw, driving intensity. James left behind a raft of classic blues songs that include InchShake Your Money Maker,Inch InchTalk to Me Baby,Inch InchIt Hurts Me TooInch and InchThe Sky Is Crying.Inch His songs have been cut by the likes of the Allman Brothers Band, Canned Heat Fleetwood Mac and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. InchYou can hear his signature riff at least once a night from every slide guitarist working,Inch music historian Tony Glover has written, Inchbut no one has ever quite matched that vocal intensity, which transformed the lonesome moan of the Delta into a Chicago scream.Inch

The Sound were a seminal English post-punk band formed in South London in 1979 by lead vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter Adrian Borland, alongside drummer Mike Dudley, bassist Graham Bailey, and keyboardist Benita InchBiInch Marshall. Though their debut album Jeopardy is now widely recognized as a cornerstone of the post-punk movement, the band struggled to achieve commercial success on par with their peers, ultimately disbanding in 1988 • Recorded at the Marquee Club across two August nights in 1985, In The Hothouse is the only live album released whilst the band were still active. The set draws on highlights from the group's back catalogue as well as material from Heads And Hearts which had been released a few months earlier. Includes tracks Winning, Skeletons & Sense Of Purpose. • Now available for the first time in a deluxe 2CD gatefold , this expanded edition includes the original live album split over two discs and complete with bonus tracks, unseen photos and lyrics. • Also available Shock Of Daylight and Heads and Hearts, presented in matching 2CD formats.

Following on from her debut album impressions, featuring chamber music for bassoon and piano, bassoon player Sophie Dervaux is poised to her second album on the Berlin Classics tag. This album marks two premieres in addition to this being the very first recording of the Concerto no. 2 in C major for bassoon and orchestra by Johann Baptist Vanhal, Ms Dervaux performs as both soloist and conductor of the Mozarteum Orchestra of Salzburg. The recording of Mozart's Concerto in B flat major for bassoon and orchestra was the starting point for this present album. It is acknowledged to be one of the most important works ever written for the wind instrument composed in the Viennese Classical style, sophisticated and nuanced- and the only bassoon concerto by Mozart to have survived. InchThe Concerto in B flat major forms the basis for many bassoonists' repertoire,Inch Sophie Dervaux explains, Inchand for that reason I have long waited to record the work - it is an important step along my career path and I faced up to it with respect.Inch What can be paired on an album alongside a work that enjoys the huge significance of Mozart's bassoon concerto? Sophie Dervaux has chosen two composers who were close to Mozart and who share a common history with him. Vanhal and Hummel, like Mozart, all left their mark on the musical history of Vienna- the city in which Sophie Dervaux, as solo bassoonist with the Vienna Philharmonic has chosen to make her home.