JD SOUTHER:
'NATURAL HISTORY'
eONE MUSIC:
RELEASE DATE: MONDAY 8TH AUGUST 2011

Natural History, the new album from legendary
songwriter and musician JD Souther, will be
released on Monday 8th August 2011 on the eOne
Music label.

Widely recognised as one of the principle architects
of the Southern California country-rock sound.

JD Souther played a key role in the formation of The Eagles, co-writing many
of their hit songs.

Natural History features new versions of eleven songs either written or co-written
by JD including Faithless Love, Prisoner In Disguise, New Kid In Town, and
You're Only Lonely.

Beyond his fundamental work with The Eagles, JD Souther has collaborated with
countless world-renowned musicians including Linda Ronstadt, Crosby, Stills &
Nash, Bonnie Raitt, Warren Zevon, Don Henley, Hugh Masekela,
The Dixie Chicks, India Arie, Roy Orbison, George Strait, Brian Wilson
and Trisha Yearwood.

In 2009, he was presented with The Golden Note Award at the 47th Annual
ASCAP Country Music Awards.

In celebration of the release of Natural History, JD Souther will embark on
some UK dates later this year.


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JOHN HIATT:
'DIRTY JEANS AND MUDSLIDE HYMNS'
NEW WEST RECORDS: NW6206
RELEASE DATE: MONDAY 15th AUGUST 2011

...his best since Crossing Muddy Waters in 2000-4 stars
- The Times

Four Stars - Uncut

...delivers with a gnarled pride across the board!
- The Scotsman

With the twentieth album of a nigh-on forty year career, John Hiatt has certainly
picked his moment to deliver one of his finest.

Dirty Jeans And Mudslide Hymns is nothing less than a masterpiece, combining
Hiatt's aknowledged bare-knuckled lyrical honesty to some of his most incisive,
melody-laden musical frameworks.

Look no further than the opening track, Damn This Town, where Hiatt casts
himself as a fifty-eight year old guy who is still living with his mother - and boy
is he angry about it.

Elsewhere, he offers up a tender Country Waltz ballad Till I Get My Lovin Back,
one of his most charming confections, and in Adios To California, Hiatt presses
hard on the wistful pedal.

Using his road band of Kenny Blevins (drums) Doug Lancio (guitars) and Patrick
O'Hearn (bass), and produced with awesome power and range by Kevin Shirley
(who has worked similar magic for Aerosmith, Joe Bonamassa and Silverchair).

Dirty Jeans And Mudslide Hymns is a vivid restatement of Hiatt's way with
words and melody, and a grasp of stylistic variety, illustrating that, unlike the
US economy, Hiatt's creative bank balance is very healthy indeed.

John Hiatt is available for phone interviews in support of this mighty, mighty release.

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GRAHAM PARKER:
'80'S REVERB RULES OK (LIVE AT LIMFJORDS FESTIVAL 1986)
FLOATING WORLD RECORDS: FLOATM6106
RELEASE DATE: MONDAY 5th SEPTEMBER 2011

British-born, US resident Graham Parker reaches back
into his archive of live recordings to pull out another
chesnut.

This time the only known recordings of his band
The Fact, featuring Brinsley Schwarz (lead guitar),
Andrew Bodnar (bass) and Jimmy Copley (drums),
recorded live at the Limfjords Festival in Denmark in
August 1986.

The recording features an on-fire Parker, delivering a punchy, fourteen-song set
from an era in Parker's career that amounts to his own Dark Ages.

He was signed then to the Atlantic Records label, for whom he cut an album which
they declined to release.

The frustration of the situation is exorcised by Graham Parker in a splenetic
and razor-edged performance that the Danish audience clearly enjoyed!

Graham Parker is available for phone and email interviews in support of this
release.


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ROBIN TROWER:
'20TH CENTURY BLUES' 'ANOTHER DAYS BLUES' 'WHAT LIES BENEATH'
REPERTOIRE RECORDS: REP 5245, 5244
RELEASE DATE: MONDAY 5th SEPTEMBER 2011

Robin Trower, one of the most justly-acclaimed of
British Rock music's elder statesmen and Repertoire
Records UK Ltd are to release three of his finest
albums - 20th Century Blues, What Lies Beneath and
Another Days Blues on Monday 5th September
2011.

The unassuming Robin Trower has, over forty-odd years since his departure from
Procal Harum, assembled an incredible body of work.

His music has never attempted to make concessions to commercial demands, and
his improvisational skill have constantly re-set the bar in terms of blues-soaked
inspirational and intensity.

Never abashed about crediting the late Jimi Hendrix as one of his main influences,
Robin remains one of the most talented musicians that the UK has ever produced.

All three releases have been expertly remastared and contain booklets with
authoritative and extensive liner notes written by respected author and journalist
Chris Welch.

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www.repertoirerecords.com

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JACKIE LEVEN & MICHAEL COSGRAVE:
'WAYSIDE SHRINES AND THE CODE OF THE TRAVELLING MAN'
COOKING VINYL: COOKCD 547
RELEASE DATE: MONDAY 12th SEPTEMBER 2011

Jackie Leven and Michael Cosgrave recorded
Wayside Shrines... in Michael's home studio.

Michael is a world class multi-instrumentalist and best
Jackie's, which makes Wayside Shrines... a
much more powerfully focussed body of work.




Over the years, they have noticed that while staying in hotels in Germany there
are displays of art and flowers that you don't see anywhere else in the world.

These displays are shrines indeed pagan shrines where pagan Germany peeps
through the otherwise highly ordered way of life in this most unusual of Western
countries.

The songs on this release were nearly all written in German hotel rooms while on
tour.

Wayside Shrines And The Code Of The Travelling Man is possibly the most
Levenesque of his offerings, since his first album - The Mystery Of Love Is
Greater Than The Mystery Of Death.

Certainly, this most confident of songwriters has never been in finer voice - says
Jackie: Everybody needs a code to live and die by. My life is built around hotel
rooms and the rigours of touring. A day off in Goethe 87', my favourite Berlin
hotel, is an example of the sort of environment where I do my best thinking. When
I'm lucky, it's the thought of the heart that shines through in the songs that come
forth - these songs are the code of the travelling man.



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www.jackieleven.co.uk

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MERRY CLAYTON:
'KEEP YOUR EYE ON THE SPARROW'
REPERTOIRE RECORDS: REP 5178
RELEASE DATE: MONDAY 12th SEPTEMBER 2011

When Disco meets Soul, the result is pure magic and it's
the kind of exhilarating performance Merry Clayton
delivers on this well produced and diverse album.

First released in 1975, Keep Your Eye On The Sparrow
showcases the different aspects of Merry Clayton's
style on a variety of songs.

Exhilarating performances form the great American sould diva with backing supplied
from top session musicians - Steve Gadd (drums), Hugh McCracken and David
Spinozza (guitars) - this superb album from on of America's class act soul divas.

Keep Your Eye On The Sparrow is released on the Repertoire UK label on
Monday 12th September 2011.

The title track Keep Your Eye On The Sparrow was the theme tune from the
popular seventies TV cop series Baretta amd amongst the other highlights, Merry
also performs Bob Dylan's Rainy Day Women in a New Orleans funky style and digs into Country Rock with the ballad Room 205.

Other highlights are an emotional How'd I Know (That Love Would Slip Away)
and the disco stomper One More Ride.

This digipack release has been expertly re-mastered and comes complete with
authoritative and extensive liner notes by respected author and journalist Chris
Welch.

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www.repertoirerecords.com

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RICK DANKO:
'LIVE AT THE IRON HORSE', 'LIVE AT THE TIN ANGEL', 'LIVE AT UNCLE WILLY'S'
FLOATING WORLD RECORDS: FLOATM 6100, 6098 & FLOATD 6099
RELEASE DATE: MONDAY 12th SEPTEMBER 2011

The late Rick Danko was the bass-playing and
vocalising of The Band, of course, and his untimely
death just a few weeks before the end of the twentieth
century drew a veil over the career of a truly magisterial
figure in North American roots music.



It's well documented that Danko wasn't in great shape physically towards the
end of his life, but these recordings show that his voice and musicianship was
still top drawer.

These intimate live recordings, from various locales and dates, show that Rick
Danko was a warm and entertaining soloist, and some of the performances here
can't help but be loaded with an added poignancy and charm.

The voice may occasionally crack in the upper register, but that just adds to the
beautiful melancholy vibe that pervades these frequently lovely archive in-concert
recordings.


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JANIS IAN:
'BEST OF JANIS IAN'
EDSEL REORDS:
RELEASE DATE: MONDAY 19TH SEPTEMBER 2011

The irrepressible Ms Ian will be in London from Monday
19th through to Thursday 22nd September (inclusive)
for promotional work, interviews, TV and radio sessions
in advance of her October - November UK tour, and
to celebrate the release of The Best Of Janis Ian -
released on Monday 19th September 2011.

Janis Ian, one of America's most durable, thoughtful of singer-songwriters, makes
a very rare visit to these shores in October 2011 for an extensive UK tour (details
and tour dates on our Current Indiscretions page).

The tour is presaged by the release of a double CD plus a twelve track DVD
(filmed in 1979 in Japan and Australia) Best Of Janis Ian set on the Edsel Records
label.

This release is the first British career-spanning retrospective of this most gifted
and perceptive of writers and performers - across its generous thirty-one tracks
are her breakthrough hit, Society's Child, as well as her remarkable 1975 classic
At Seventeen.

Also included are such wonderful items as Jesse, Stars and Fly Too High, her
1979 hit collaboration with Giorgio Moroder.

On her Autumn 2011 tour, Janis will be performing selections from the album and
all points of her four and a half decade career.

The concert Janis Ian manages to be thought-provoking, humorous and charming
- as well as showing her underrated guitar-playing skills, which once drew
compliments from none other than the late Chet Atkins - no mean string-bender
himself, of course.



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www.janisian.com

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JIMMY LEE & THE EDGE OF CHAOS ORCHESTRA:
'THE RAGAMUFFIN'
SELF RELEASED: 5029385989361
RELEASE DATE: MONDAY 19TH SEPTEMBER 2011

The Edge Of Chaos Orchestra is a musical project
helmed by one Jimmy Lee, a much-travelled and
seasoned singer and songwriter who has lived the kind
of life that would make for a scarcely-believable movie

Jimmy Lee in conjunction with his Orchestra, release
their debut album The Ragamuffin, on his own label.



The Ragamuffin is a varied collection of self-composed songs that are at times
unabashedly sentimental, yet played with an honesty and simplicity that is both
engaging and engrossing.

Drawing on a musical palette that incorporates traditional Irish, Folk, Country and
Bluesy styles, Lee is capable of delivering memorable, well-crafted and beautifully
-played songs with a voice that is as warming as malt whiskey.

Lucy Cartwright inhabits similar terrain to the music of The Furey Brothers, whilst
the evocative instrumental The Empty Room has been used as music in a film
commissioned by The South Downs National Park. Mellow the music might be,
but Absolution swings mightly too, where Lee allows his American roots music
influence to bubble to the surface.

The album has already received positive responses and much airplay on the likes of
of the BBC Radio Scotland's Iain Anderson show and on BBC Radio Wales too.

It's not cutting-edge Folk, but for those who like the art of simple story-telling in song,
it has moments of real beauty.

Jimmy Lee is available for interviews and promotional work in support of this
release.

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www.edgeofchaosorchestra.co.uk

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J21:
'BEYOND THE HOLOGRAPHIC VEIL'
FLOATING WORLD RECORDS:
RELEASE DATE: MONDAY 19TH SEPTEMBER 2011

Floating World Records are inordinately proud to
present Beyond The Holographic Veil, a dazzling and
diverse new album from the fertile imagination of
Spanish-born guitarist J21.

A thoughtful and inventive, beautifully-packaged set that also features guest
performances by the likes of ex original Mother Of Invention keyboard ace Don
Preston, David Bowie allumni Mike Garson (the guy who provided the incredible,
atonal and innovative piano solo on Aladdin Sane), and guitarist Reeves Gabrels,
as well as the like of Scott Thunes (formerly of Frank Zappa's 1980's band and
Wayne Kramer of the MC5).

Beyond The Holographic Veil is an incrediably absorbing listen that creates a kind
of alternate universe of the imagination.

Boasting some incrediable musicianship and a dazzling variety of contrasting styles,
this release is nonetheless a highly accessible and very listenable creation that is
utterly unlike any other record you're likely to hear this year.

To accurately describe or pigeonhole it's contents is somewhat futile; it's a
challenging collection that actually accords the listener a modicum of imagination
and intelligence, although it's by no means as lofty as its conceptual theme might
suggest. Make up your own mind!

J21and various members involved in this project are available for interview in
connection with this release.


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www.fwrecords.co.uk

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SHAKATAK:
'ACROSS THE WORLD'
SECRET RECORDS: SECCD 035
RELEASE DATE: MONDAY 26TH SEPTEMBER 2011

The great British Jazz-Funk dance floor fillers Shakatak
make a superb return to the recording fray by way of
a brand new album entitled Across The World, released
on the Secret Records label on Monday 26th
September 2011.

Across The World comprises of twelve band originals, plus a fine interpretation
of Trouble, the Coldplay classic.

Shakatak comprise of founder members Bill Sharpe (keyboards) and the
inimitable vocals of Jill Saward, who are joined by drummer Roger Odell and
bassist George Anderson.

Tracks such as Love Holds The Key and Across The World show that the cool,
light but funky Shakatak sound is still present and correct. Plus on the instrumental
tracks Waterfall, Funktional and Trouble Itself, the bands' peerless musicianship
shines through.

Shakatak came out of the fertile British Jazz-Funk scene of the early 1980's,
alongside the likes of Level 42 and Light Of The World, and found much chart
success in that decade with the likes of smash hit singles such as Night Birds,
Down On The Street and Easier Said Than Done.

The band were never the darlings of the music critics, but their easy-going dance funk
nonetheless proved very popular with the record buying public.

Bill Sharpe and Roger Odell are available for interviews in support of Across
The World.

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www.secretrecordslimited.com

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CURVED AIR:
'AIR CUT', 'AIRBORNE', 'LIVE', 'AIR CONDITIONING', 'SECOND ALBUM',
'PHANTASMAGORIA', 'LOVECHILD', 'MIDNIGHT WIRE'
REPERTOIRE RECORDS:
RELEASE DATE: MONDAY 26TH SEPTEMBER 2011

The still-ravishing Sonja Kristina, leading light of
Curved Air, was Prog Rock's poster girl of the early
1970's, combining an assertive sexuality and
independent female presence in a very male-dominated
scene.

Together with violin virtuoso Daryl Way, Curved Air proved to be a major concert
attraction in the student union and post-hippy underground of the time, and
Repertoire Records are proud to present all of their 1970's recordings to the world,
with crisply remastered sound and sleeve notes with contributions from the band
themselves.

Sonja remains an active artist - indeed Curved Air are once more an extremely
popular live attraction.

In the meantime, these albums are a vivid reminder of an innovative and exciting
British Prog Rock phenomenon.

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www.repertoirerecords.com

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GENESIS:
'FROM GENESIS TO REVELATION'
REPERTOIRE RECORDS:
RELEASE DATE: MONDAY 26TH SEPTEMBER 2011

Back in the late 1960's, a bunch of Charterhouse school
students, including Peter Gabriel, Tony Banks, Mike
Rutherford and Anthony Phillips, under the group
sobriquet Genesis, recorded their debut album From
Genesis To Revelation.





In the forty-odd years since it was released (March 1969), the album has resurfaced
from time to time to remind the world of what the band sounded like in the days
before they morphed into the fully-fledged British Prog Rock band that produced the
likes of Nursery Cryme and The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway, and a full decade
before they reinvented themselves as a top-seilling singles act.

The ages of the band members at the time ranged from sixteen to eighteen, and
although it carries but few hints of what they would become, From Genesis
nonetheless affords a fascinating insight into the very early days of a British Rock
institution.

Original guitarist Anthony Phillips is available for interview to talk about the album,
his tenure in Genesis and his own enthralling solo career.



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CHRIS SPEDDING:
'PEARLS'
REPERTOIRE RECORDS: REP 1144
RELEASE DATE: MONDAY 26TH SEPTEMBER 2011

Chris Spedding, guitarist by appointment to the likes
of Bryan Ferry, Roxy Music, Jack Bruce, Paul
McCartney and literally scores of others in a career that
has endured for nearly half a century, is to release a
brand new solo album, entitled Pearls, on the
Repertoire Records label on Monday 26th
September 2011.




Comprising thirteen Spedding originals, the album is an entertaining and enthralling
journey through the man's muse that carries with it echoes of all aspects of
Spedding's life in music.

This absorbing musical journey incorporates the moody, echo-laden
Drippin's, through to the amiable skiffle that is the albums closer, Flat Top Floogie.
The Train And The River will bring back distant memories of Spedding's tenure
with Pete Brown's Battered Ornaments in its appealing Jazz structures, whilst our
guitar hero gets to dust off his bottleneck for the below-the-Dixie-Line stomper,
Louisiana Blues, and Air Guitar Woogie carries with it a whiff of 60's British beat
Boom musical shapes.

Truly, there are many more Pearls to be revealed throughout a collection that
artfully shuffles its' stylistic pack. The title track also shows that Spedding has
learned a few vocal tricks in his time too.

Chris Spedding is all too happy to talk about Pearls, his life and times and being
the guitar-playing Womble (you may have saw him in that role at this years
Glastonbury Festival).

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BEGGARS OPERA:
'LOSE A LIFE', 'CLOSE TO MY HEART'
REPERTOIRE RECORDS:
RELEASE DATE: MONDAY 26TH SEPTEMBER 2011

Legendary Scottish rock band Beggars Opera released
a spate of classic albums in the early 1970's.

After fading from the live gigging scene founder
member Ricky Gardner began to suffer from illness
which also prevented any further recordings.

However, in 2007, the guitarist and his wife, keyboard player and vocalist Virginia
Scott, released Close To My Heart, an album that had taken them ten years to
compose and record. Together with drummer Tom Gardiner they devised
this twelve track set of performances that heralded a Beggars Opera come back.

Close To My Heart focuses on tightly constructed songs and vocals with
atmospheric shades, punctuated by hard guitar riffs and Mellotron in a style
comparable to Pink Floyd and Hawkwind space age moods.

Loose A Life is a brand new concept album from Beggars Opera on the subject
of living with Electrical Sensitivity, a condition that affects may people and one
that Ricky suffers and champions further awareness and investigation.

Ricky together with his wife Virginia, produce electrifying performances on this
thought provoking, fascinating, high voltage concept album.

Ricky Gardner is interviewed by respected author and journalist Chris Welch for
the exclusive detailed liner notes in the booklet that accompanies this release.


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INDIAN SUMMER:
'INDIAN SUMMER'
REPERTOIRE RECORDS:
RELEASE DATE: MONDAY 26TH SEPTEMBER 2011

When it comes to highly collectable Prog Rock albums,
then Indian Summer's self titled release is among the
most wanted.

Now available on Repertoire in Digisleeve format, this
is the collectors' version of this 1971 Prog Rock gem.




Fans around the world have long sought to find rare copies of their one and only
record first released in 1971 and now available once more on a Repertoire CD, it
brings back the sound of a group that has been compared to many contemporary
UK acts, from Beggars Opera to Deep Purple and Caravan.

This Coventry based group features Bob Jackson's emotive vocals and soulful
Hammond organ, supported by a first rate line up with Colin williams (guitar),
Malcolm Harker (bass) and Paul Hooper (drums).

Together they storm through 8 tracks, including the stirring God Is The Dog and
such cleverly crafted titles as Emotions Of Men, Black Sunshine and From The
Film Of The Same Name.

It's a shame that the group had only a brief existence, but here is the proof they
deserved a longer season and top billing.

This album is an essential CD for all Prog collectors.


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RAW MATERIAL:
'TIME IS'
REPERTOIRE RECORDS:
RELEASE DATE: MONDAY 26TH SEPTEMBER 2011

Raw Material, an inventive young British group,
released two fine albums in the early 1970's.

Time Is, the bands second album, was originally
released on the RCA's progressive Neon label, has
long been hailed as a much sought after collectors item.




Time Is features a mix of hard guitars and sax riffs which are contrasted with
mellower acoustic ballad material such as Miracle Worker and Religion. There
are six ear-catching tracks on this excellent CD that includes the extended works
Insolent Lady and Sun God.

Featuring Colin Catt (vocals), Dave Green (guitar), Michael Fletcher (sax & flute),
Phil Gunn (bass) and Paul Young (drums). Raw Material broke up shortly after
the album was originally released, but Time Is serves as a timely reminder of
a group with enormous potential that remains highly esteemed amongst Prog Rock
fans.

A rare recording now released on CD in Digipack format and has been expertly
re-mastered. It comes complete with authoritative and extensive liner notes by
respected author and journalist Chris Welch.


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DULCIMER:
'AND I TURNED AS I HAD TURNED AS A BOY'
REPERTOIRE RECORDS:
RELEASE DATE: MONDAY 26TH SEPTEMBER 2011

Now available for the first time on the Repertoire
Records label and released on Monday 26th
September 2011 - Dulcimer's debut album, produced
by Larry Page (manager to both The Kinks and
The Troggs) and entitled And I Turned As I Had
Turned As A Boy - is the most collectable version on the
market of this very rare 1971 album.




Turn on, tune up and drop into the wonderful world of Dulcimer, one of the most
delightful progressive folk rock groups ever to pluck strings. This unusual British
outfit had its roots in the late Sixties folk scene but soon evolved into a more
challenging outfit.

Formed by Dulcimer player Peter Hodge and guitarist Dave Eaves and supported
by bassist Jem North, they play a variety of other instruments, creating a
haunting mix of sounds and melodies.

The music ranges from folk inspired original compositions to lengthier, more
ambitious arrangements and critics have long raved over its fantasy lyrics and
melodic themes.

As part of the movement that produced such groups as Renaissance and The
Amazine Blondel, Dulcimer are fondly remembered and revered by new
generations of prog rock aficionados.

A rare recording now released on CD in Digipack format, and has been expertly
re-mastered. It comes complete with authorative and extensive liner notes by
respected author and journalist Chris Welch.


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RUMPLESTILTSKIN:
'BLACK MAGICIAN'
REPERTOIRE REORDS:
RELEASE DATE: MONDAY 26TH SEPTEMBER 2011

An incredibly rare second album by Rumplestiltskin
entitled Black Magician, an unusual progressive rock
studio project, originally put together by producer
Shel Talmy in 1972, is now available on the Repertoire
Records label and will be released in the UK on
Monday 26th September 2011.

Featuring an all star ast of the top session players of the day, this album has a
strong magical theme and is an example of how seasoned professionals
responded to the musical challenges of the early 1970's.

Comprising of nine songs, Black Magician includes a rare bonus cut in their cover
of Karl Denver's hit Wimoweh, and such timelessly strong originals as Lord Of
The Heaven And The Earth, Can't You Feel It and I Am The Last Man.

Rumplestiltskin's Clem Cattini is interviewed by respected author and journalist
Chris Welch for the exclusive liner notes in the booklet which is all tastefully
re-housed in a Digisleeve format.


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