Releases – November 2023

Indie pop/rockers Ex Norwegian’s 14th album serves up eleven sun‐drenched, irreverent rock anthems perfect for those bright day radio rotations and today’s edgy streaming playlists. Tracks like “Real Bad Bunny” and “Scalers Blues” blend irresistible melodic twists that turn quirky lyrics into clever hooks, epitomizing what great pop music should sound like. While songs such as “Short On The Wire” and “Send Nudes” radiate a full band sound, the album reveals its secret: it’s an impressive solo endeavour via Roger Houdaille. The playful lyric from “Extra” ...

Tony Martin is an English heavy metal vocalist best known for his time fronting Black Sabbath,initially from 1987 to 1991 and again from 1993 to 1996. Martin was the band’s second longest servingvocalist after Ozzy Osbourne. Black Sabbath’s «Eternal Idol» and «Headless Cross» are among the bestknown albums featuring Tony Martin, as well as «Scream», his second solo album from 2005. The newalbum will feature Danny Needham (Venom), Magnus Rosen (HammerFall), Scott McClellan, whohelped co-write the album, Greg Smith, who performed with Alice Cooper, Rainbow, ...

SOLD OUT • On the occasion of Hank Williams’ 100th birthday (September 17, 2023), Bear Family Records® dedicates a CD album to one of the greatest icons of U.S. music history, featuring recordings of his idols and some of the best cover versions of his immortal songs.• • 33 tunes from 1939 – 1969 show what Hank Williams was inspired by – later recordings prove his enormous influence on the international music scene.• • Famous country music colleagues include Johnny Cash, Marty Robbins, ...

SOLD OUT • In the CD series ‘On The Dancefloor With …’ featuring the best danceable music, Bear Family Records® here deals with those songs that are accompanied by a percussive finger snap.• • Everybody knows Fever, the umpteen times covered cool anthem. We offer Peggy Lee’s great version – and that’s just one example.• • Without giving too much away, the album delivers irresistible grooves and songs by Joe Henderson, the Coasters, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Bill Haley, Dean Reed, Pat Morrissey and even B.B ...

SOLD OUT • Autumn. Halloween. Horror. Bear Family Records© presents a CD compilation all about creepy-crawlies: ‘Beware! Insects and Spiders’!• • With 28 recordings from 1937 to 1966 around ‘the big creepy crawlies’ the horror comes alive!• • Spanning genres, we hear famous artists such as Lionel Hampton, Chubby Checker and Brook Benton as well as lesser-known tunes, some on CD for the first time.• • Some instrumentals, a song by Belgian singer Freddy Sunders and an early recording featuring Jimi Hendrix are among ...

• Wayne Cochran (1939 – 2017) from Georgia, also called ‘The White Knight of Soul’, is remembered for his white pompadour hairstyle and the brilliant Last Kiss that he wrote.• • Bear Family Records® comprehensively chronicles the most creative period of his career with this double CD, from his beginnings as a young rocker and teen idol to his magnificent recordings as a compelling soul singer.• • We present all the recordings from 1959 to 1966 including his rare recordings released on local labels ...

DOOM JAZZ II: Deception continues the epic story of the DOOM JAZZ saga, with Jamie Saft and Bobby Previte trading the slow, sensual lines of DOOM JAZZ I for a more active, muscular sound. Side One, “The New Friend” and “Everyone is Aware” uses a vintage Yamaha organ to create an atmosphere of mystery and space. Side Two, “Deception” moves into different territory, Saft’s distorted Hammond Organ sailing over Previte’s active, commanding tom toms in a blues based jam of wild ferocity and intense foreboding. The plot ...

DOOM JAZZ II: Deception continues the epic story of the DOOM JAZZ saga, with Jamie Saft and Bobby Previte trading the slow, sensual lines of DOOM JAZZ I for a more active, muscular sound. Side One, “The New Friend” and “Everyone is Aware” uses a vintage Yamaha organ to create an atmosphere of mystery and space. Side Two, “Deception” moves into different territory, Saft’s distorted Hammond Organ sailing over Previte’s active, commanding tom toms in a blues based jam of wild ferocity and intense foreboding. The plot ...

Briefcases exchanged against a grey brutalist skyline. A nameless man wiretaps a phone call while tape spools silently whirl. A stolen dossier slides across a pub table.‘The Cortina Protocol’ is the sound of these images. Recorded in three days to tape at The Cowshed Studios in North London in early 2021 the album wiretaps the colder veins of 60s and 70s crime soundtracks, weaving tense cinematic atmospheres, hypnotic kraut-isms, and swirling psychedelic funk. Initially influenced by the widescreen aesthetics of Roy Budd, Heliocentrics, John Cameron, ...

The Kotiomkin band was born from a great passion for 60s-70s-80s Italian genre cinema, a series of movies characterized by aesthetically innovative approach, in complete opposition to the mainstream and to more or less politicized intellectual cinema of the time.The duo devote himself to the creation of instrumental soundtracks for non-existent movies, with invented plots featured in the liner notes, having as a reference the classic soundtracks of the time but revisiting them with the violence of the most modern stoner, pushing the boundaries of ...

The Kotiomkin band was born from a great passion for 60s-70s-80s Italian genre cinema, a series of movies characterized by aesthetically innovative approach, in complete opposition to the mainstream and to more or less politicized intellectual cinema of the time.The duo devote himself to the creation of instrumental soundtracks for non-existent movies, with invented plots featured in the liner notes, having as a reference the classic soundtracks of the time but revisiting them with the violence of the most modern stoner, pushing the boundaries of ...

SOLD OUT Pressing of 250Original Midlands post-punks Cult Figures return with third album Between Us And Heaven, comprising twelve tracks that illustrate the seismic changes both within the band and the world atlarge since 2021’s critically acclaimed Deritend.The album sees original guitarist Jon Hodgson, bassist Lee McFadden and drummer Stuart Hiltonjoined by new members Fraser Gillespie (lead vocals) and Steve May (guitar), as well as contributions from co-founding singer Gary Jones, who tragically lost his life in 2022, and to whose memory ...

SOLD OUT Pressing of 250Original Midlands post-punks Cult Figures return with third album Between Us And Heaven,comprising twelve tracks that illustrate the seismic changes both within the band and the world atlarge since 2021’s critically acclaimed Deritend.The album sees original guitarist Jon Hodgson, bassist Lee McFadden and drummer Stuart Hiltonjoined by new members Fraser Gillespie (lead vocals) and Steve May (guitar), as well ascontributions from co-founding singer Gary Jones, who tragically lost his life in 2022, and to whosememory the ...

SOLD OUT Pressing of 100An album of electronic soundscapes from an imagined score inspired by scenes from the bestsellingnovel ‘Piranesi’ by Susanna Clarke. After reading and re-reading ‘Piranesi’, the album was writtenand recorded in Willie G’s studio in the East Anglian fens – the project was started during the firstCovid lockdown and reflects the deep sense of isolation that prevailed for many people during thatperiod. The eight tracks depict specific locations and events in the novel and were conceived as ...

Ephemeral, a trio formed in Germany in 2019, paints a sonic world based on vivid, heartfelt and timeless progressive dark‐folk, lyrically inspired by English literature from various centuries as well as by reflections on human longing, growth and the cyclical nature of life, in which every ending gives rise to a new beginning.Each song of “Into Being”, the band’s debut full‐length, deals with the shedding of one’s old skin for a new one, following the path toward the unknown and the beauty of letting ...