New Releases for January 2012
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- Please note that all prices are UK Sterling
Stanley Clarke - Time Exposure/Find Out!/Hideaway
- Three albums from 1984, ’85 and ’86 from master bassist Clarke
- ‘Time Exposure’ has Jeff Beck and George Duke among the supporting musicians
- Clarke is still continuing to tour and record
- Digitally remastered and slipcased, and with new notes
- Also available on BGO Records:
BGOCD923 Modern Man/I Wanna Play For You;
BGOCD924 Rocks, Pebbles And Sand/Let Me Know You;
BGOCD931 The Clarke/Duke Project Vols. I, II & III (with George Duke)
Al di Meola - Tour De Force – “Live”/Scenario
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From 1982 and 1983 come guitarist Di Meola’s last two albums for Sony
- ‘Scenario’ features such luminaries as Phil Collins, Jan Hammer and Bill Bruford
- In recent years Di Meola has left behind fusion and moved towards Latin and World Music
- Digitally remastered and slipcased, and with new notes
- Also available on BGO Records:
BGOCD879 Cielo e Terra/Soaring Through A Dream/Tirami Su;
BGOCD926 Elegant Gypsy/Casino;
BGOCD927 Splendido Hotel/Electric Rendevous
Ike & Tina Turner - Delilah’s Power/Airwaves
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Two late 1970s albums from the hardworking duo
- ‘Airwaves’ features nearly all Ike Turner originals whilst ‘Delilah’s Power’ is a mixture of Tine Turner compositions plus covers such as ‘I Want To Take You Higher’ and ‘Sugar Sugar’
- Digitally remastered and slipcased, and with new notes
- Also available on BGO Records:
BGOCD942 Come Together/Nuff Said;
BGOCD996 Workin’ Together/Let Me Touch Your Mind
The Showstoppers - The Best Of
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Philadelphia quartet The Showstoppers burst into the UK charts with their storming ‘Ain’t Nothing But A Houseparty’ on the fledgling Beacon Records label, reaching No.11
- All the tracks in this package are the subsequent follow-ups and b-sides that Beacon released during the next two years or so, some of which were produced by Biddu
- Though they were not hits, the songs have more than stood the test of time and deserve to be reissued (here on CD for the first time) as they are classic big British soul
- Digitally remastered and slipcased, and with new notes
Dan Fogelberg - Twin Sons Of Different Mothers/Phoenix
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Two US Top 10 albums from the late Dan Fogelberg, first released in 1978 and 1979
- This package includes US Top 10 hits ‘Longer’ and ‘The Power Of Gold’
- The collaboration with flautist Tim Weisberg was very successful both commercially and critically, and one they would repeat
- Digitally remastered and slipcased, and with new notes
- Also available on BGO Records:
BGOCD709 Home Free/Souvenirs;
BGOCD764 Captured Angel/Nether Lands
Michael Murphey - Blue Sky – Night Thunder/Swans Against The Sun
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‘Wildfire’ was a US Top 3 hit in 1975 from country singer/songwriter Murphey
- These two albums made the US Top 50 with ‘Blue Sky – Night Thunder’ in the charts for 38 weeks. ‘Carolina In The Pines’ from this package was also a Top 30 hit
- In recent years Murphey has concentrated on recording cowboy songs
- Digitally remastered and slipcased, and with new notes
