Irish singer/songwriter Perry Blake releases Songs of Praise – his first new album in 13 years. The stunning record is released on UK label Moochin’ About / PIAS on 19thJuly 2019. The LP features 11 new compositions, features a cover of So Many Things – a track Perry wrote for French icon Françoise Hardy’s gold-selling…
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Twelve years separate Canyon Songs (2007) from Songs Of Praise. The most attentive had spotted Modern Love, an electro pop album recorded with the Electro Sensitive Behavior duo in 2015. Still, we loved the work of Perry Blake, who distilled the same trembling fascinations as David Sylvian or Bowie. The heat of the crooner with…
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Released later this month on Moochin’ About – Strange Times Live is a live recording of The Chameleons classic 3rd album recorded in 1986 on Geffen Records… The Chameleons have had influences on many artists including The Flaming Lips, The Killers, Interpol, The Editors, Slowdive, The National, The Verve, Moby and Oasis… Strange Time especially seems…
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Moochin’ About is very proud to announce the release of Strange Times Live! by ChameleonsVox… Strange Times was The Chameleons classic 3rd album and originally released in 1986 on the Geffen label and was praised by the critics who reviewed it. Melody Maker called it “a marvellous departure” from their previous work and “a wonderful record”. described…
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This limited 10 ” released for the first time ever, in conjunction with Record Store Day 2019 – see’s Chet Bakers solo trumpet score to Enzo Nasso surrealist short film, from 1963 which also featured Baker… The B-side features 4 tracks from the Piero Umiliani score Intrigo a Los Angeles… which features Chet Baker in his…
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Released for the first time on vinyl, in conjunction with Record Store Day 2019, Moochin’ About/PIAS is very proud to present David Amram’s innovative score to John Frankeneimer’s cult classic – The Manchurian Candidate … This groundbreaking score features jazz legends – Paul Horn, Harold Land, Jack Nimitz, Carmel Jones & Joe Gordon… (cat number…
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Negro Folklore from Texas State Prisons, is an album recorded in 1964 by folklorist Bruce Jackson. The LP features work songs, blues, spirituals, preaching and toasts (recited poems) performed by a group of inmates in the Lone Star State’s then-segregated agricultural prison farms. The recordings on this album were made in Texas prison farms in July 1964….
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Taken from the critically acclaimed Moochin’ About release ‘Music From The Welsh Mines’ by The Rhos Male Voice Choir – the track Llef is used on the new Carling Noise Valley advert… (about 3mins 26 in..!) NOISE VALLEY ADVERT The Carling “Made Local” initiative forms part of a wider “Putting the Great Back into Great…
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Have Yourself a Soulful Little Christmas is an album of Christmas music by guitarist Kenny Burrell and possibly one of the greatest Christmas albums of all time…. the album was recorded in 1966 and features some Christmas classics, played in the stylish and classy Burrell way…. Burrell was born in Detroit, Michigan. Both his…
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The mesmerising and moving, Music From The Welsh Mines finally gets its re-release on CD, this very special recording by one of Wales’ foremost choirs will be accompanied for the first time with a bonus disc Songs Of Peace & Goodwill – a collection of Christmas carols record in 1958, one year after the original album which has…
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