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Downloadcode / gatefold cover. As you are listen to “Confidence In The Future” today, it quickly becomes clear what kind of worlds must have collided here. A stunning amalgamation of aural treats, created by making subtle compromises between Pop, Jazz, Rock and Folk, that exists in every single track across-the-board. Due to its stylistic complexity “Confidence In The Future” is an album that is somehow never really able to settle on any one taste, inevitably opening up new dimensions to the listener. Imagine how this was in 1980. Especially in Berlin's commercial music scene. And especially when the involved musicians treated the project after its completion, more like a matter of personal importance than a career move. And for Hirsch, Spinning Motion's initiator, all of this seemed to be fulfilling enough. Prophetically the record is named after the most significant song of the eight-piece collection “Confidence In The Future”. 35 years on the title finds the verification it deserves. It unleashes its bottled power no sooner than the day, Jazzanova member and Notes On A Journey co-founder, Stefan Leisering finds the record in a crate at the flea market on the Strasse des 17. Juni. Like a bottle of Château Lafitte-Rothschild unearthed after 35 years, forgotten about in an abandoned cellar, do we get to experience the quiet composure and savage intensity of a treasure brought to light. It takes Leisering another ten years to comprehend what kind of music historical treasure has been hiding in his record collection. He acquired “Confidence In The Future” sometime in the early noughties and only by re-listening to this oddity one day in 2010 or 2011 did everything finally click into place. A lost gem of Berlin Pop history, one that could almost never have happened. Compositions so ahead of their time that you can only understand and classify them today properly. There's a sense of inadvertent (and therefore unaffected) ingeniousness in songs like “Devotion To You”, “Prisoner Of Life” and “Playground Of Burial-Funds” that you have to live in the 21st Century to appreciate fully. Each of the eight tracks (maybe apart from the instrumental closer “Elegy”) has some sort of melancholy, introverted reflectiveness, and yet still always something conciliatory. Manfred Tappert's voice lends his lyrics, written by him, but preconceived by Hirsch, something utterly personal, intimate even. Every single song, particularly within the framework of the oeuvre, tells a story, and due to this intimacy, and the adventurous arrangements touches you deeply. No matter the time or place. To add to all of this, this incomparable record has also an entirely different facet, which only becomes apparent with today's perspective. The title track, “Confidence In The Future”, and “Answer My Questions” remind one eerily of Kings Of Convenience, and the cosy “Naze” resembles Turin Brakes. So evidently that you'll find yourself, while listening, in a quaint retro-retro-loop, the musical equivalent of a time paradox. But this is exactly the beauty of music. Music doesn't abide by the rules of time and space as we do, and therefore each listen to each piece of music is unique and purely based on the context of the listening. And every once in a while times have to change just so music can find a new determination and new listeners. Confidence in the future ultimately means: Good music is patient, outlives everything and will sooner or much, much later find its destination. NOTES ON A JOURNEY is looking eagerly forward to finally celebrating the first proper release of Spinning Motion's “Confidence In The Future” Record Label: Notes On A Journey Style: Jazz/World

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180 GRAM - INSERT - PRODUCED BY JACKSON BROWNE Excitable Boy is the third album by Warren Zevon, released in 1978. It includes the top 40 success "Werewolves of London", featuring Mick Fleetwood on drums and John McVie on bass. The album brought Warren to commercial attention and remains the best-selling album of his career. The tracks "Excitable Boy" and "Werewolves of London" were considered macabrely humorous by some critics. The historical "Veracruz" dramatizes the United States occupation of Veracruz, and likewise "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner" is a fictionalization of a mercenary in Africa. "Lawyers, Guns and Money" is a tongue-in-cheek take on Cold War paranoia. In addition, there are two ballads about life and relationships ("Accidentally Like a Martyr" and "Tenderness on the Block"), as well as a dance tune ("Nighttime in the Switching Yard"). Additional musicians included in the album's creation are band members Jorge Calderón on vocals, Danny "Kootch" Kortchmar on percussion and guitar, and Russ Kunkel on drums. Among others, also Jackson Browne, Jeff Porcaro, Linda Ronstadt and Waddy Wachtel are featured as session musicians. Record Label: Music On Vinyl Style: Rock

Breathless beautiful self destructive and pissed off and endless charming heart broken as allways Becky from Arizona sings the Blues and Trashes the Garage like no one else, or like no other girl in the Blues Business, this is not Man Power this is not girl power its just plane Becky Lee and her uncontrollable Drunkfoot BECKY LEE and her No Man Band was on tour in Germany Late 2014 and made a Stop at YEA YEA YEA Studios in Hamburg Germany to record 4 songs for voodoo rhythm records, here you can have a pleassure to listen 2 of the 4 songs Record Label: Voodoo Rhythm Style: Garage Rock

2nd album from the Norwegian gutter punk masters. After the success of their debut album "Anti World Music" in 2013 (which Norway's biggest paper VG called nothing less than "one of the best ever") the music has if anything become even harder. The band has teamed up with Ivar Nikolaisen from the Christian rock band Silver on the microphone. And the man who objectively is one of the most charismatic front men in the nation, fits like a fist in anus on this album. Zugly and co are in other words, still rock solid on unsteady group. Record Label: Fysisk Format Style: Punk/Hardcore

Record Label: Inverse Style: Alternative Rock

Fire Records are proud to release this comprehensive collection of one of the label's flagship bands from the early years. Brings together their LPs 'Foxheads Stalk This Land', 'Headache Rhetoric', and 'Forever, Until Victory! The Singles Collection'. Close Lobsters stormed up the indie charts with their unique melodic jangle pop and skewed world-view. By the release of their first full length "Foxheads Stalk This Land" they were finding early backing from all of the music papers, as well as Rolling Stone and American college radio. Global touring and a more aggressive stance, lyrically and musically, would make the follow up "Headache Rhetoric" a bigger success. Record Label: Fire Records Style: Independent