EMI are excited to announce the release of a 40th anniversary edition of David Bowie’s truly groundbreaking and hugely influential album, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars.
Originally released through RCA Victor on 6th June 1972, Ziggy Stardust was David Bowie’s fifth album, co-produced by Bowie and Ken Scott. Incredibly, the album was written whilst Bowie was recording 1971’s Hunky Dory album, with recording beginning a couple of months before that album’s release. It was recorded at Trident Studios, London between 8th November 1971 and 4th February 1972, with the line up: Mick Ronson (guitar, piano, backing vocals, string arrangements), Trevor Bolder (bass), Mick Woodmansey (drums), Rick Wakeman (keyboards) and backing vocals on ‘It Ain’t Easy’ by Dana Gillespie. As well as performing vocals, Bowie also played acoustic guitar, saxophone and harpsichord on the album and was involved in the arrangements too.
The album eventually peaked at #5 on the UK Album Chart on 22nd July having entered the chart at #15 on 1st July. Key to the album’s rise in the UK were the two TV performances of “Starman” on Granada TV’s Lift Off With Ayshea and nationally on the BBC’s Top Of The Pops. The album’s influence is immeasurable – it converted legions of fans, becoming the zeitgeist and a major influence on the next generation, particular those who were involved in the punk movement – musicians, artists, designers – and the subsequent re-birth of rock and pop.
Famously Bowie killed Ziggy at his peak at London’s Hammersmith Odeon, on July 3rd, 1973, though Ziggy Stardust’s influence was to redefine popular culture forever: pop music was never the same again.
This 40th anniversary edition has been remastered by original Trident Studios engineer Ray Staff (at London’s Air Studios). It will be available on CD and a special, limited edition format of vinyl featuring the new 2012 remaster with a 5.1 mix and high resolution audio on DVD – the DVD features previously unreleased 5.1 and stereo bonus 2003 Ken Scott mixes of Moonage Daydream (instrumental), The Supermen, Velvet Goldmine and Sweet Head.
Mannequin and Sacred Bones are honoured to join their forces to offer you one of the best UK New Wave reissue from the 80's. UV PØP were an early 80’s post-punk group from the South Yorkshire region of England. Their sound was regionally bleak and they used staccato, angular guitars lines, with vocals ranged from spoken repeated mantras to whispered and shouted political poetics. An excerpt from the album’s liner notes penned by JP Shea helps explain the political climate during which this album was recorded: “In the 1980s there was nothing to smile about; nothing to smile for.
The person whom some called wrongly the iron lady brought vengeful spiteful selfishness and a narrow-minded out- look into all our lives. Instead of love and respect there was: a three-day week, Miners strike, and The Falklands War. The sound of UV PØP has always been a sophisticated blend of sadness; with morose North Country sense and a humorous confrontational sensibility.
So, you might ask why ‘No Songs Tomorrow’? There is the answer. UV PØP and John White were as certain as anybody there was a strong possibility there might not be anything left with which to make a tomorrow….The fight back, the resistance came in the miners’ strike, on the streets of north Ireland and in the sovereignty of popular culture. And, there was plenty of that in Yorkshire and particularly in the southernmost parts of that region. Working class poets had not all died with the Victorians.
The Rough Trade charts for one week in 1982 tell a very interesting story. Alongside acts of the caliber of Sisters of Mercy, Robert Wyatt, Sex Gang Children and Virgin Prunes are UV PØP, their place well-earned.”
Here's the timing of the festival you can't miss : Rewind
FRIDAY 06.04.2012
Doors: 16h
16h30 – ERATO
17h30 – SCHMUTZ
18h35 – DEPARTMENT S
19h45 – CASSANDRA COMPLEX
21h00 – THE BEAUTY OF GEMINA
22h25 – CHAMELEONS VOX
23h50 – CLAN OF XYMOX
01h15 – PROJECT PITCHFORK
+ after-party till 05h with DJ BERND (Shadowplay)
+ DJ CHESKO (Der Klinke) in between
SATURDAY 07.04.2012
Doors: 16h
16h30 – THE JUGGERNAUTS
17h25 – RADICAL G
18h30 – SIGUE SIGUE SPUTNIK
19h40 – ABSOLUTE BODY CONTROL
21h05 – CRASH COURSE IN SCIENCE
22h20 – THE NEON JUDGEMENT
23h45 – COVENANT
01h20 – D.A.F.
+ after-party till 05h with DJ PATRICK CODENYS (FRONT 242)
+ DJ ?? in between
Rewind is counting down for this indoor festival at the beautiful concert hall VOORUIT !
An amazing line-up, 8 great bands each day, don’t miss it !
Rewind welcomse already 13 different nationalities … Some people are coming from Brazil, Sweden, Norway … especially for these ‘2 days of dark pleasure’.
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Presale Friday 06.04.2012 = 30 euro
Presale Saturday 07.04.2012 = 35 euro
Combi-ticket 06+07.04.2012 = 60 euro
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Live Happenings Part IV
Tracklist:
- I Can See Now
- American Dreaming
- Sanvean
- Rakim
There‘s not a lot of artists who had such an important influence on todays ambient music like the outstanding piano player and composer Harold Budd. Albums like his classical „Pavilion of Dreams“ or his cooperations with Brian Eno like „The Pearl“ are well known to many electronic and Ambient musicians and listeners of the last decades. Especially the two fellow musicians Martin Juhls (aka Marsen Jules) and Rafael Anton Irisarri (aka The Sight Below) were often talking about the influence that Budd‘s music had on them and how much respect and admiration they had for him and his work. Out of this came the idea of paying respect to Budd in some way, to give something back to him. „Lost in the Humming Air“ is the result of this thought in form of a musical tribute and it‘s a big honor to release this in the 50th year of Mr. Budd‘s career as a composer.
All artists who contributed in this release donated their tracks. The profit of this CD will go to a charity project chosen by Harold Budd.
released 09 April 2012
oktaf.bandcamp.com/album/lost-in-the-humming-air-music-inspired-by-harold-budd
