What new releases are you looking forward to?

Hi Stu,

Yeah saw it & up to speed with the pending release. I'll wait to hear some tracks, rather than buying blind though. It may be great, but as it's meant to be different, I wanna know how much.

I'm confident though that SBP will be the dogs...

New Richard Hawley 'Standing At Sky's Edge'. Early May. Likely to be a hit at our house.

Bruce

Bruce Springsteens Wrecking ball

If I only buy one more album this year, this is it. Recorded in Sydney in January 2007 - their final sessions and I was lucky enough too see them live and meet them that very same week down under.

„301“ is the second album published from the last sessions of the probably most innovative jazz band of the decade. Seemingly effortless and interconnected in their interplay, e.s.t. once more stunningly improvise on these last recordings made in the famous studio “301” in Sydney. With new inspirational experiments and sounds, “301” is a ground-breaking work that leads into a new musical universe.

There are three sound snippets to listen to on the ACT website and I like what I am hearing.........

Airbag

ALL RIGHTS REMOVED - VINYL
- double heavy weight 180g pressing
- new analog mix from master tapes
- deluxe gatefold cover
Ships in April. More details soon!

After the bad designed and well over priced box set she brought out last year,Its good to see a normal size LP coming.

Its a limited edition vinyl out on April 2,2012.

Can be pre-ordered from amazon for £11.99 inc free post.

Stu.

Thanks for the info Stu, I hope the pressing is much better than the imported version doing the rounds at the moment!!

I got it from two different sources and both times it went back, it was shocking!!

Andy,

You were the reason i posted about the album.

I think the new EMI pressings will be better on account of the others being so shite.

Also another reason for the new cover art work me thinks.

Best.

Stu.

Paul Buchanan:  Mid-Air

THE bad news is that Paul Buchanan isn't entirely sure that The Blue Nile still exists.

The good news is that Buchanan, the band's singer, brings out a solo album in April or May.

In a new interview with Mojo magazine, Buchanan describes the band's attempt to evoke something with no name. "We tried to do the most austere, sackcloth and ashes, self-flagellating thing that we could on the way to way to making a record that was free of any pose."

His forthcoming album, Mid-Air, is a "piano at two in the morning with a Dictaphone" affair –"very solitary and very empty", which pretty much sums up most of the band's earlier work. "The key thing for me is to try and capture those little elements of humanity. It doesn't matter where you live; if you hear an ambulance you go to the window and hope that it's not coming for someone you know."

No Cover Pictures yet.

Stu,

I think you are right about them changing the cover!!

Have your ordered a copy?

Think I will give it a punt, third time lucky?

ATB,

Andy.

Yes one on order and my sister has two on order just in case.

I was looking forward to this, but it turned up today so now I can play it instead of looking forward to it - it is a recording from a Radio Station Studio and worth the entrance fee.

Any good?

Had the mails from her but given up because she wont play live over here,

Stu.

Loreena McKennitt, 5th April, Barbican, it's not much but I'll take it. Seems the rest of Europe get a better look in.

It is very Celtic and very nice to listen to - not her best, but certainly worth a spin or three (or should that be a stream or three as I ripped it). It is recorded in Germany so not sure why she couldn't have dropped off in England.  

Catalogue/Preserve/Amass
Following the release of Grace for Drowning Steven Wilson embarked on his first ever solo tour. For the tour he assembled a virtuoso band, featuring Marco Minnemann (drums), Nick Beggs (bass), Theo Travis (flute and sax), Adam Holzman (keys) and Aziz Ibrahim (guitars), to accompany him.

Catalogue/Preserve/Amass is a collection of live recordings from the first European leg of this tour.

The vinyl edition of the album will be released on April 21st as part of Record Store Day.

Limited to only 2000 copies worldwide, it will only be available in selected independent record stores. More details on the stores that are taking part can be found at www.recordstoreday.com 

It might help if you know a man, who know's a man to get a copy

Oh shock horror Steve Wilson and a limited edition record , shame he didn't think of the before, oh HE DID!

Howard,

This one is his first record store day Ltd edition release.

Timed it well as his other live album vinyl release,Only 200 copies has been put back.

I just hope he never hears how good 8 track cartridges sounded.

Stu.

Esperanza Spalding: Radio Music Society in vinyl.

A little I have heard today was good and probably I'd get this in vinll. I've been told that it is coming on the Record Store Day in April.

Orbital 'Wonky', released 2nd April.

Digipack with 2nd CD of live tracks, and single studio album only versions.

New Sun Kil Moon 'Among The Leaves' in May

Bruce

I am looking forward to the release of this album.

Its out in May on vinyl and CD.

I hope its better than his last?

Stu.