Wishy - Paradise on Planet Popstar - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Widely and rightly regarded as one of the best ever soul and funk bands, the now legendary Average White Band tore-up the rule book and conquered the US, UK & International charts with a series of soul and disco hits between 1974 and 1980. • Although probably best known for their global hit, the US #1 signature single 'Pick Up The Pieces', which reached #1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 Chart, this superb collection features 12 classic recordings from 1974 to 1980. • InchThe Essential SelectionInch also includes 'Cut The Cake', 'Queen Of My Soul', 'Walk On By', the much sampled 'School Boy Crush', the track that Chaka Khan demoed for AWB and recorded in 1981 'Whatcha' Gonna Do For Me', the duet with legendary soul singer Ben E. King 'Keepin' It To Myself' and the floorfiller 'Let's Go 'Round Again'. • InchThe Essential SelectionInch collection, features all of the band's international hits, including collaborations with Ben E. King, album favourites, as well as the 2021 Dimitri From Paris Remix 'Let's Go 'Round Again'. • AWB's repertoire has been a source of inspiration and influence for many R&B acts and they are one of the most sampled bands in history, remaining relevant today, continuing to reach new generations of younger audiences. • Snoop Dogg, Fatboy Slim, Ice Cube, Puff Daddy, TLC, Rick Ross, will. i. am and Mark Ronson amongst countless others, have all borrowed sections of their grooves. • InchThe Essential SelectionInch has been overseen by Alan Gorrie, Hamish Stuart and Onnie McIntyre.

From Nottingham in the English North Midlands, Blues/ hard rock quartet Ten Years After became one of the most successful of British musical exports of the late 1960s and 70s. One of the star bands of the 1969 Woodstock Festival, and the subsequent film/ soundtrack of same, TYA became a touring favourite in the USA, enjoying a diehard fanbase and shifting considerable quantities of albums. Based on the lightning-fingered guitar skills of Alvin Lee, alongside Ric Lee (drums), Leo Lyons (bass, vocals) and Chick Churchill (keyboards, vocals), the core quartet remained remarkably solid throughout their existence, until the departure of Alvin Lee in 2003. The tracks on this collection are taken from the band's first few albums with some additional live recordings, as well as both sides of the band's debut single, 'Portable People'/ 'The Sounds'. Ten Years After continue to tour, especially in Europe, and record sporadically, with only drummer Ric Lee from the original line-up. Alvin Lee died in 2013 from complications following routine heart surgery. This set captures TYA at an exciting, emergent stage of their career, a launch pad for a band who would go on to thrill huge audiences worldwide and who carved their own distinctive niche in rock and roll history.

You could call Wishy's story a lucky one. After prior monikers and iterations, Wishy was born as a kaleidoscope of alternative music's semi-recent history, with traces of shoegaze, grunge and power-pop swirling together. On Triple Seven, Indiana songwriters Kevin Krauter and Nina Pitchkites' musical synergy proves itself to be a rare one-the kind that sounds like someone striking gold. Part sly wink and part warm gratitude, it's only fitting their much anticipated full length debut is titled Triple Seven, where Wishy's penchant for indelible hooks is couched equally in pillowy atmospherics and scathing distortion. Growing up in a scene defined by hardcore and emo, Krauter and Pitchkites instead found themselves writing melodies in their heads while driving to work, pulling music from the air and arriving at a blearier, more ethereal interpretation of Midwest expanse. The subject of their songs create a loose web of vignettes and snapshots, capturing Krauter and Pitchkites in a whirlwind couple of years - exiting the pandemic, embarking on an embryonic project, making sense of their musical pasts while forging a musical future alongside one another, each of them on a journey of self-acceptance and self-understanding. Sometimes gorgeous, sometimes festering, and always cathartic, Triple Seven is a vibrant and exhilarating document of self-discovery with the scope and heft of the bygone big-budget rock albums that inspired it.