Releases – January 2023

Released in January 2023, ‘Satan Is Busy In Knoxville: Revisiting The Knoxville Sessions, 1929-1930’ distills onto a single CD the major recordings and the groundbreaking research found on Bear Family Records®’ Grammy Award-nominated 4-CD box set‚ ‘The Knoxville Sessions, 1929-1930: Knox County Stomp’ (BCD 16097). 27 essential recordings from the historically significant location sessions conducted during 1929 and 1930 by the Brunswick/Vocalion labels in Knoxville, Tennessee. * Influential releases of ‘hillbilly music’ as well as landmark recordings of Black Appalachian ...

Although we’ve picked Slim’s rockinest tracks here, there is variety in his piano and vocal performances, and you can still hear all the elements of blues and gospel and R&B that shaped him. When he took that music to Chicago in the 1940s and formed an R&B group, The House Rockers, many of the recordings he made then were firmly in the advance guard of rock and roll. Slim always maintained a fine band of mainly Memphis musicians. These included sax players Ernest Cotton and ...

Bopping has been a beloved Bear Family Records® tradition for as long as the company has been inexistence. So ‘On The Dancefloor with a Bop!’ is a natural for us: 36 hauling rockers perfect for doing The Bop or any other dance you’re in the mood for!This one’s strongly weighted towards rockabilly classics, with mainstays that include Gene Vincent, Carl Perkins, Wanda Jackson, Brenda Lee, Jack Earls, Eddie Bond, and Al Ferrier cutting loose with one savage rocker after another. Yet some of the ...

Everyone knows the simple words and melody to Happy Birthday. But there are a great many other musical methods of conveying sincere natal day wishes. A bounty of them comprise Bear Family Records®‘ ‘Happy Birthday, Baby! – 32 (Un-) Happy Tunes For Your Birthday Party,‘ guaranteed to make any celebration more fun.Neil Sedaka’s Happy Birthday, Sweet Sixteen is a must, as are Johnny Crawford’s Cindy’s Birthday and The Tuneweavers‘ Happy, Happy Birthday Baby—but no more so than the late Jerry Lee Lewis‘ gloriously salacious Birthday ...

FeaturesThe Shindig! Writers’ Poll 2022 Our annual round‐up of the year’s highlightsin music, books, film and live showsChildren Of The Stones Inside the soundtrack of the 1977 kids’supernatural TV showThe Spencer Davis Group After Winwood: what do we do now?Prelude How the folk‐pop trio got turned onAphrodite’s Child The origins and impact of the Greek rock legends20 Questions Paul Jones’ pin‐sharp memories ofhis distinguished 60‐year careerRegularsThoughts & Words Your letters, tweets and emailsShindiggin’ What’s hot on the Shindig! turntableIt’s A ...

LYKOTONON is a digitized descent into the darker side of the human psyche. It is the probing question that hangs over all of humanity in the quietest of moments. Avant-garde, industrial/electronic black metal featuring members of Wayfarer, Stormkeep, and Blood Incantation.TRACK LISTING: 1. The Apocryphal Self2. Wrested From Solace3. Apeiron4. Psychosocratic5. The Primal Principle6. That Which Stares In Kind7. Seeing Silver In ShadowGENRE: Industrial/Electronic Black MetalBARCODE: 843563156636 ...

The new album from cult death/doom metal outfit INNUMERABLE FORMS “Philosophical Collapse”,the follow up to 2018’s “Punishment In Flesh” is a pillar of death/doom enormity unparalleled.Helmed by founder Justin DeTore (aka DFJ), “Philosophical Collapse” (which was produced by ArthurRizk) emerges as INNUMERABLE FORMS’ most triumphant work as alongside DFJ (Dream Unending,Sumerlands), guitarists Chris Ulsh (Mammoth Grinder/Power Trip/Devil Master) and Jensen Ward (Iron Lung), drummer Connor Donnegan (Genocide Pact), and bassist Doug Cho deliver an opus that coalesces the old school Finnish death ...

Sireena Records continues the rerelease on CD of the legendary SKY RECORDS catalog with four sought-after albums on 2 CDs!STRAIGHT SHOOTER was primarily the band of singer Georg Buschmann, who was born on April 8th, 1948. He had been a member of the Düsseldorf band STREETMARK since 1971, but left the band after the release of the debut album “Nordland” to found his new project STRAIGHT SHOOTER. He had in mind more “melodic hard rock” in the tradition of the British band Bad Company, ...

Sireena Records continues the rerelease on CD of the legendary SKY RECORDS catalog with foursought-after albums on 2 CDs!STRAIGHT SHOOTER was primarily the band of singer Georg Buschmann, who was born on April 8th, 1948. He had been a member of the Düsseldorf band STREETMARK since 1971, but left the band after the release of the debut album “Nordland” to found his new project STRAIGHT SHOOTER. He had in mind more “melodic hard rock” in the tradition of the British band Bad Company, ...

Two years after the acclaimed band followed in the footsteps of Captain Nemo beneath the seas with their comeback album The Mystery of Waterfalls (CD and LP Sireena Records), Nautilus return to the surface with their eighth studio album A Floating City . Based on Jules Verne’s semi-fictional travelogue “A Floating City” (1871), in which the “Great Eastern” embarks from Liverpool on the great voyage to the “New World”, Nautilus transpose the theme into the bitter reality of the present, thereby refining Nautilus on “A Floating ...

Jennifer and Win Kowa – After OCTOPUS, THE RADIO continued successfully!Jennifer, born in Frankfurt am Main, is already on stage at the age of 13. She commutes between London, her mother’s hometown, and Frankfurt am Main and becomes a founding member of prog legend OCTOPUS in 1973. With OCTOPUS she records 3 albums for Sky Records (all available on CD from Sireena Records) and stays with the band for 7 years, although several international acts try to poach Jennifer. Many journalists are enthusiastic about ...

WONDERLAND were formed in the early 1968 in Germany. The five-piece consisted of former members of THE RATTLES and THE TONICS, both Hamburg-based, and THE SUMMER SET from England. Signed by Polydor, they released three singles produced by JAMES LAST, including the oustanding hit “Moscow”. The band went on tour with The Bee GEES, THE NICE and DEEP PURPLE. Following a line-up change and internal frictions, the band finally folded in 1970, but the masterminds Achim Reichel and Frank Dostal tried to keep the flame burning as ...

The 7th studio album of the celebrated German formation THE ELECTRIC FAMILY!In 2020, the Electric Family surprised with the “nearly” concept album “Echoes Don’t Lie” and caused a stir not only in Germany. The musicians were looking forward to the concerts planned at the time, which then fell victim to the lockdown and were postponed to an uncertain future. At that time, the family only briefly licked their wounds and immediately went to work on the follow-up album. The idea of a sequel to ...

The 7th studio album of the celebrated German formation THE ELECTRIC FAMILY!In 2020, the Electric Family surprised with the “nearly” concept album “Echoes Don’t Lie” and caused a stir not only in Germany. The musicians were looking forward to the concerts planned at the time, which then fell victim to the lockdown and were postponed to an uncertain future. At that time, the family only briefly licked their wounds and immediately went to work on the follow-up album. The idea of a sequel to ...

LIMITED EDITION BLACK VINYL WITH DOUBLE SIDED INSERTOne of the most important Swedish black metal albums from the nineties re-issued!Art directions for this re-issue by Kraath.Both cd as well as vinyl versions come with different bonus track and original cover art!TRACK LISTING1. In the Still of a Northern Fullmoon2. Mörkrets tid3. Över det blodtäckta nord4. I nattens famn5. För dem mitt blod6. I skuggors dunkla sken7. Their blood in me (LP exclusive bonus track)GENRE: Black MetalBARCODE: 3663663011294 ...