Various Artists - Teen Scene 9 (Various Artists) - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

On her fifth album, pianist and composer Beata Hlavenkova appears as singer for the first time. Her main musical partner on this album is Oskar Török who has contributed not only in his traditional role as trumpetist but also as drummer, percussionist and singer. The title SNE is a shortcut for everything that the album contains poems (baSNE), songs (píSNE) and dreams (SNEní). Beata has chosen poems by her favorite authors, Petr Borkovec and Bohuslav Reynek, and set them to music. Two of the sons are based on her own texts and two others musicalize lyrics by Dorota Barova and Martin Vedej. In foregrounding the song form on this album, Beata removes her music further away from the limits of jazz within which she used to operate and brings it forward in the direction of contemporary cross-genre songwriting. Her unique style, however, is still very much recognizable.

Just A Man reveals an early version of Lover's Rock Master, Beres Hammond; an R&B/ Disco crooner - and quite a convincing one. This 1979 album, presents a who's who of reggae heavyweights and contains the highly sought after UK Soul hit 'Do This World A Favour,' plus 7 other full length and funky tracks that treat listeners to a different side of Beres' roots. This newly re-mastered, colored vinyl edition will feature the super-rare 'Rolls Royce cover art,' originally released on the Joe Gibbs tag. The album produced by Joe Gibbs, arranged by Willie Lindo, and engineered by Errol Thompson. Featured musicians include; Val Douglas, Mikey Chung, Dean Fraser, Clive Hunt, Harold Butler, Robbie Lyn, and Pam Hall on vocals.

Bright Moments - Natives [COMPACT DISCS] Digipack Packaging date 02/21/2012