EMI
The EMI Group is a British music company comprising the major record company EMI Music –which operates several labels, based in Kensington in London, England, United Kingdom– and EMI Music Publishing, based in New York. EMI Music is one of the "big four" record companies, making it among the largest in the world. EMI has been owned by Terra Firma Capital Partners since August 2007.
Solid Gold (LP)
Original UK edition on EMI of the second album from 1981, another post-punk masterpiece possibly as influential as the first one and certainly as essential.
Songs Of The Free (LP)
Original UK edition on EMI of the great and funkier 1983 third album by one of the best and most influential post-punk bands.
Germfree Adolescents (LP)
Rare original French edition on EMI International of the exhuberant first album.
Turangalîla Symphony (2LP box)
1978 2LP box set on EMI with one of the most acclaimed recordings of the monumental 1948 masterpiece for orchestra, ondes martenot, piano and a wild array of percussion. Powerful and marvellous.
Late Works (LP)
Four superb "ritualistic" compositions from the 1960's, three for ensemble and one electronic music piece, by the extremely original Greek composer, released on EMI in the mid-1970's. With insert.
Falsi Allarmi (LP)
1983 album on EMI of Alice's highly-refined electronic pop after her collaboration with Battiato. With original innersleeve.
Il Sole Nella Pioggia (LP)
1989 album on EMI of Alice's highly-refined electronic pop produced by Francesco Messina with a host of guests such as Japan's Steve Jansen and Richard Barbieri, Jon Hassell, XTC's Dave Gregory, Paolo Fresu, Juri Camisasca and Peter Hammill. With original innersleeve.
La Voce Del Padrone (LP)
Original 1981 edition on EMI of Battiato's smash-hit album of great and unusual synth-pop. With matte sleeve and original innersleeve.
Giubbe Rosse (2LP)
1989 double live set in which besides the 80's hits Battiato revisits some pieces from his earlier experimental period from albums like Sulle Corde Di Aries and Clic. Original and only Italian edition on EMI.
Legione Straniera (LP)
Original and only 1982 edition on EMI of the classic groovy classical/synthpop album by Battiato's teacher and violin player with heavy involvement of the experimental/pop composer. Never re-issued on either vinyl or CD. With original innersleeve.
Back To The Jungle (LP)
Italian new wave finest's 1985 third LP totally converted to dance music, released on EMI in 1985.
Movies
Original 1979 UK edition on EMI of Holger Czukay's first solo album after Can, featuring all other members of the band.
Musica De Camara
** Original copies of this obscure electro acoustic marvel from Mexico. Few copies available, unplayed ** Musica De Camera it's an interdisciplinary creative group formed by Angel Cosmos (writer, multidisciplinary author), Juan José Diaz Infante (photographer and designer) and Arturo Márquez (composer and musician). Created in Mexico in March 1984, it has already presented several concerts, being the world premiere of its first eight works -among them, five of those included in this disc-, one o…
Scaling New Horizons with Guitar
* Newly remastered, limited edition pressing * Brij Bhushan Kabra was one of the Indian musicians who heard the steel guitar’s siren call, but his vision went beyond adapting Hawaiian sounds to popular music. Instead, he saw the instrument’s potential for playing ragas. To pursue this dream, Kabra began studying with Ali Akbar Khan, whose fretless sarod offered a sonic example for Kabra to emulate with his lap-slide guitar. Kabra’s instrument was a Gibson Super 400, modified with a drone string…
The Magic of Music - Guitar and Tabla
* Newly remastered, limited edition pressing * Brij Bhushan Kabra was one of the Indian musicians who heard the steel guitar’s siren call, but his vision went beyond adapting Hawaiian sounds to popular music. Instead, he saw the instrument’s potential for playing ragas. To pursue this dream, Kabra began studying with Ali Akbar Khan, whose fretless sarod offered a sonic example for Kabra to emulate with his lap-slide guitar. Kabra’s instrument was a Gibson Super 400, modified with a drone string…
Lure of the Desert
* Newly remastered, limited edition pressing * In the 1920s, Tau Moe (pronounced mo-ay), a Hawaiian musician, arrived in India and introduced Hawaiian music to the Sub Continent. After settling in Calcutta in the early 1940’s, Moe and his family performed, taught and introduced Hawaiian music by building and selling guitars to the local musicians. Indian filmmakers and composers quickly fell under the spell of these instruments and sounds and made them suitable for playing ragas— the melodic p…
Ambient 2 The Plateaux Of Mirror
The second in Brian Eno's ambient series, The Plateaux of Mirrors fuses the fragile piano melodies of Harold Budd and the atmospheric electronics of Eno to create a lovely, evocative work. In sharp contrast to the exaggerated pieces found on his debut, The Pavilion of Dreams, this record finds Budd delivering sharp shards of piano notes pregnant with meaning and minimal in the best sense of the word. Eno's unobtrusive electronics add a resonance and atmosphere that draw from the ambient textures…
Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
Continuing the twisted pop explorations of Here Come the Warm Jets, Brian Eno's follow up album, Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy), is more subdued and cerebral, and a bit darker when he does cut loose, but it's no less thrilling once the music reveals itself. It's a loose concept album about espionage, the Chinese Communist revolution, and dream associations, with the more stream-of-consciousness lyrics beginning to resemble the sorts of random connections made in dream states. Eno's richly l…
Ieri Oggi Domani (Original Soundtrack)
Original soundtrack from the film directed by Vittorio De Sica in 1963.