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The Blue Angel

The crowning achievement of the Weimar cinema, THE BLUE ANGEL is an exquisite parable of one man's fall from respectability, and the film that catapulted Marlene Dietrich to international stardom. It is presented here in both the restored German version as well as the English-language version (shot simultaneously). Emil Jannings (The Last Laugh) stars as Professor Rath, the sexually repressed instructor of a boys' prep school. After learning of the pupils' infatuation with a local nightclub songstress, he decides to personally investigate the matter. But as soon as he enters the shadowy Blue Angel nightclub and steals one glimpse of the smoldering Lola-Lola (Dietrich), Rath is fatefully seduced by the throaty voice of the vulgar siren.

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Scrawled

Timber has quietly been releasing heartfelt, riveting barstool confession songs thick with the warmth and ease of Athens, Georgia, for the past few years. Scrawled marks Timber's third full-length album and reveals songwriter Daniel Aaron in stride, delivering a raw, playful yet honest collection blending old time traditional instrumentation with country arrangements and a loose garage-pop feel. Recorded at Aaron's home studio in Athens, Alysseum Recording, Scrawled consists of mainly first or second take performances by a rag-tag band of talented musicians clearly having a ball. The members of Timber (Aaron on guitar and vocals, Kyle Gann on banjo and mandolin, Daniel Ray on violin, Coy King on upright bass, Sarah Schindler on accordion and harmony vocals, and Eric Johnson on pedal steel) include punk and medal players, acoustic guitar slingers, vegans, activists, bartenders, line cooks and one law professor. It's a new line-up for the band, and Scrawled is truly a collaborative effort recorded at a comfortable pace with a PBR stocked refrigerator never out of arm's reach. Additional friends join the mix, including legendary Athens country crooner Dave Marr (ex-Star Room Boys), songstress Kaitlin Jones (Kaitlin Jones & The County Fair), Thayer Sarrano (Kuroma), and drummer Chris Ellenburg (ex-Southern Bitch, Tony Tidwell). And then there are the songs. A fine batch of pensive, fiery country tunes, the songs each hone in on particular points of the emotional spectrum, detailing with precision and effect feelings of distance and loss, love, loneliness, and the warmth and hurt of memory. Strong lyrics and keen wordplay tell of bartending nights, sordid affairs, postponed goodbyes, and new possibilities. Ranging from the frenzied to the sedate, Scrawled places the urgency of catchy tracks "Yeah, Well I Never Loved You Too" and "Beer Bottles and Cigarette Butts" alongside the breathtaking "Scrawled", a masterful piece featuring the vocal stylings of guests Dave Marr and Kaitlin Jones set against a playful backdrop highlighting each instrument. The record contains a certain quirkiness and timelessness channeled through Aaron's impassioned, punchy voice, reminiscent of early R.E.M. and the perfect touch of acoustic string-band grit beside it's subtle beauty. One may hear early Uncle Tupelo, Bonnie Prince Billy, and Nashville Skyline-era Dylan in Scrawled, but it's character is clearly it's own. Says Aaron: "We were really aiming for an old-time feel, without the rules and structures that form of music can sometimes demand. While we didn't want it to sound like we recorded this in the garage, we recorded it in the garage! We want listeners to feel as though they are in the room with us, to 'taste the beer', so to speak." A number of the songs on display are some of the first Aaron ever wrote. And it's a good thing he waited until he was ready to offer them properly, with the right band mates and textures. "I'm thrilled to finally have them released from captivity," he says. "hopefully it will outlast me." One close listen to this collection and you'll know the answer. These songs will be with you for a long time. Listening to Scrawled, one is struck by it's intimate nature, as if the band of friends were pickin' songs in the next room or out on the porch on a lazy day, rain or shine. You'll be grabbing a beer and tapping your feet in no time. Daniel Aaron - guitar, baritone, harmonica, tambourine, chord organ, voice Daniel Ray - violin, tambourine Kyle Gann - banjo, mandolin Coy King - upright bass, tambourine Sarah Schindler - accordion, voice Eric Johnson - pedal steel Additional singing, playing piano and waking the neighbors: Kaitlin Jones Thayer Sarrano Dave Marr Adam Onstott Chris Ellenburg Artwork by Thayer Sarrano Photo by Caycee Bradley Recorded @ Alysseum Recording in Athens, GA Mastered by Jeff Capurso & Timber hellocowboyangel@gmail.com thanks!

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Certain Magical Index: Miracle of Endymion

Welcome to Academy City, a futuristic metropolis populated with super-powered students. As the brightest intellectual minds in the city work to complete the world's first space elevator - a towering spire capable of taking citizens into the heavens - perpetually unlucky Kamijo and nun-in training Index befriend a talented street musician named Arisa. When the beautiful singer lands a big break, her miraculous voice attracts unwanted making the songstress a target for magicians and scholars alike. As the battle between sorcery and science blasts into space, Kamijo, Index, and their allies in Academy City are rocketed to a psychedelic stadium thousands of feet above Japan in a desperate attempt to keep Arisa - and the rest of the world - safe. Science fiction and and fantasy collide in this action-packed featured film set in the shared universe of a Certain Magical Index and a Certain Scientific Railgun!

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Shaking Up the Bucket

Sweet Claudette Biography: Born in small town Heflin, Alabama, the family of Sweet Claudette (Harrell-Manning) migrated north and eventually settled in Detroit, Michigan, home of the Motor City blues. Sweet Claudette blends a potpourri of urban funk, R&B and countrified blues that entertains US audiences in Michigan, Ohio, Tennessee, Alabama and in cities of Canada such as: Burlington and Windsor, ONT. Blues Songstress, Sweet Claudette is a mistress of tastefully sassy, raw and funky urban blues and a force to be reckoned with. Her down home style is contagious and guaranteed to raise the roof! Sweet Claudette gives you blues straight up with no chaser. Her shows are family friendly and fun. She has been known to occasionally take a song up close and personal into the audience. "Sweet Claudette is a singer with a deep, sultry delivery. Although she is not a shouter, she can belt a lyric out." Blue Skunk Music ~ posted on In a Mood.blogspot.com Sweet Claudette and her blues band can also deliver some of the spunkiest, sassiest, stankiest, funky blues. "Claudette is the epitome of Detroit finger-snapping party blues, but she's also a master at the low down. " --- Mark E. Gallo, BluesByte, June 2009. Sweet Claudette is one of the best creative 'unsung' songwriters in the Midwest. Sweet Claudette's blues songs run the gamet of funky, country, jazzy, classic up-tempo and slow blues feel. "Sweet Claudette is a sultry, deep-voiced singer and songwriter ...", writes reviewer, George Fish in the February 2009, Illinois Blues Blast E-Zine. Sweet Claudette fronts a 5-6 piece bad azz band, with wonderful rich horns intertwined into her music. Dubbed Detroit's Matriarch of the Blues, Sweet Claudette has achieved local, regional, national and international status while singing the blues to fans in bars, clubs, on festivals and lounges. Sweet Claudette's music continues to make the Roots Music Airplay and other blues charts around the world during 2010-11. Sweet Claudette received an August 2010 nomination for Detroit Black Music Award. Sweet Claudette was one of many who performed in the Assembly Line Concert, which is listed in the 2008-09 Guinness Book of World Records. Influences: With several albums under her belt, this blues woman cites blues folk such as: Willie King, Etta James, Katie Webster, and Alberta Adams as some of her biggest influences. They don't just sing, they made me feel it. Thanks to all of you, Sweet Claudette continues to gain international acclaim.

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Legend of the Free

Artist: Carrie Armitage Album: The Legend of the Free Review by Matt Warnock Rating: 4 Stars (out of 5) The term singer-songwriter often brings to mind a lone artist, sitting in the corner of a pub or café strumming open chords on their guitar as they sing laid-back songs to crowds of loyal listeners. Artists such as Joni Mitchell and Neil Young have come to define the genre with their copious releases over the years, but it's artists such as Carrie Armitage that are working overtime to redefine the genre and propel it into the 21st century. Armitage's 2010 release The Legend of the Free is an intelligently written and creatively arranged collection of tunes in the singer songwriter genre while destroying any preconceived notions of what a singer songwriter should be. Her use of ambient beats, a la This Mortal Coil but not as depressing, combined with extended vocal techniques and spoken word help lift this album above the fold and place it into a category all it's own. Songs such as "Beautiful Blue" showcase Armitage's wide vocal range as she uses her upper register to build climax after climax during the song's chorus and verse section, though using section labels such as chorus, verse and bridge might not be appropriate for this record. Armitage's music seemingly floats in the realm between formal song writing and the through composed. Her songs don't fit into the typical cookie cutter formulas of today's radio friendly pop tracks, but they aren't completely through composed either. Each tune features enough repetition for listeners to grab onto, while at the same time constantly introducing new sections and material throughout, a difficult task for any songwriter to accomplish. Besides possessing an incredible vocal range and tone, Armitage uses an interesting collection of syllables on songs such as "An Eye to the Sky" to gain the maximum emotional effect out of her performances. Mixing hard syllables, with her favorites beginning with the letter D, and open vocal sounds helps Armitage broaden her vocal effects beyond traditional words and phrases. Though her music shouldn't draw a direct comparison to a singer like Bjork, it is moments like this that at least raise a temporary connection between the Canadian songstress and the Icelandic composer. Each song on the album is carefully written and arranged in a manner that reflects Armitage's identity as an artist, without allowing songs to become strenuous on the listener's attention span. Moving between keyboards, acoustic piano, guitar, electronic drums and multiple layers of vocals, she is able to make each new track musically and lyrically distinct without losing the personal touch that enables each track to be identified as part of a larger whole. With all of the layering, electronic work and vocal dynamics soaking the album's twelve tracks, one of the most surprising and captivating songs is the acoustic piano-vocal duo "Looking Out on the World." Featuring a harmonic dynamic that weaves between major and minor, with Armitage's vocal line following as she sings over the major section and speaks over the minor, middle section, the song is a nice sidestep from the more heavily arranged songs on the album. There are even moments on the album, "Peace, Hope, Trust, Love" for example, where she reaches back and draws out a keyboard sound that conjures up memories of Pink Floyd's 1977 album Animals, showcasing the singers' wide range of influences. This lack of discrimination in it's use of form, influences or musical textures is one of the reasons why the album is so successful. Too often ambient records become monotonous after a few minutes, but this is not the case with The Legend of the Free. It weaves in and out of many different genres, styles and tonal characters while at the same time staying true to the composer's musical voice and intent. Review by Matt Warnock '...a stylistically consistent vision, a pop grandeur that veers into theatrical territory...' '....her message: to enlighten and enlist her listeners to promote love, compassion and eco/peace activism. She delivers her worthy message....' 'Armitage smoothly transverses musical genres. Her work combines elements of Ambient, Progressive Rock, Jazz, Classical and Pop.' Music Connection Magazine Los Angeles Artist: Carrie Armitage Album: The Legend of the Free Review by Alex Henderson Rating: 3 Stars (out of 5) Carrie Armitage is not a newcomer to the music world. Her first album, In Search of Simplicity, came out in 1996, and this Canadian singer/songwriter's 14 years of recording have demonstrated that she is hard to pigeonhole. Stylistically, Armitage's vocal-oriented recordings are comparable to Enya, Tori Amos, Lisa Gerrard (of Dead Can Dance fame), Beth Orton and Kate Bush. But Armitage, who plays piano and keyboards in addition to singing, producing and composing, has also recorded as an instrumentalist, offering ambient electronica exclusively on some of her previous albums. So where does Armitage's 2010 release, The Legend of the Free, fit in? This vocal-oriented outing is probably best described as adult alternative pop-rock with elements of ambient, new age, world music, classical, jazz and even R&B. Although The Legend of the Free is by no means an R&B or straight-ahead jazz album in the strict sense, some of Armitage's vocal phrasing does show some R&B and jazz influence, especially when she gets into wordless performances and hits the higher notes. Armitage has obviously absorbed some R&B and jazz along the way. In fact, her father was a jazz pianist/big band leader, and her mother was a jazz vocalist who sang in her father's band. So even though Armitage is stylistically closer to Enya, Bush, and Amos than Erykah Badu or Jill Scott, that exposure to jazz and R&B has added a touch of funkiness to her work. Being exposed to a wide variety of music along the way has clearly worked to Armitage's creative advantage, and one of the impressive things about The Legend of the Free is her ability to incorporate all of those different influences without ever sounding unfocused or confused. The Legend of the Free never fails in focus, and shows how much Armitage has grown and developed as an artist since In Search of Simplicity. Although In Search of Simplicity was generally likable and had it's moments, it was uneven. The Legend of the Free, in contrast, is a more consistent and confident-sounding album. Armitage has long favored an ethereal approach, and her knack for ethereal melodies and harmonies is quite appropriate given the new age imagery that is plentiful on lush offerings such as "Peace Hope Trust Love," "Looking Out on the World," "This Special Place" and "An Eye to the Sky." Most singer/songwriter albums stick to romantic themes, but on The Legend of the Free Armitage opts to sing about nature, ecology and the environment. Her environmental concerns make their presence felt on "A Warning Heeded: Lights in the Water," "Commonality" and "Progress." which asserts that technological or industrial "advancement" isn't really a step forward when it is harmful to the planet. One non-female artist who has been cited as an influence on Armitage is Peter Gabriel. He isn't as obvious or as prominent an influence as the previously mentioned ladies, but Gabriel's touch is present nonetheless, especially in the way Armitage incorporates elements of world music. Gabriel, too, like Armitage, has addressed environmental subjects, although Armitage's lyrics are much more overtly new age-minded. Looking at The Legend of the Free from strictly a commercial standpoint, as opposed to an artistic/creative standpoint, the album probably would have had more mainstream appeal if Armitage had included some romantic lyrics along with all the new age subject matter. But even if one isn't heavily into the new age ideology, The Legend of the Free is still enjoyable on a melodic level, a harmonic level and a rhythmic level. This solid effort demonst

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Exotica

Deluxe Limited Edition of PDM's 2021 'Exotica' album features 2 x Purple Vinyl, 2 x Printed Inner Sleeves in Embossed Gatefold Sleeve with A2 Poster! Includes the full 'Exotica' album plus 3 bonus tracks: 'In The Dark' with Sophie and the Giants, 'Rise' featuring Tasita D'Mour, and 'Twisted Mind' featuring Agnes.His sophomore album 'Exotica' pays homage to the 80s and the plethora of artists that inspired him to create and set him on the path of becoming the internationally acclaimed producer he is today. The album boasts all the elements of his heartfelt favorites throughout the decade - the synth pop from the UK, Italo disco styles of Moroder, Milan & Munich, the funk of Prince, the R&B electro soul of Luther Vandross & Jam & Lewis, to influences from George Michael, and Quincy Jones. So ingrained in his musical identity, Purple Disco Machine's artist name is a deliberate collage of the colour of his 80's funk hero Prince and the uplifting fun dance beat of Gloria Estefan's Miami Sound Machine.The album encompasses all the grooves, signature guitar licks, and funky basslines that are synonymous with a Purple Disco Machine record, whilst having moments of light and shade inviting you further into his universe. Having already released a handful of singles from the LP, including the Sophie and the Giants collab 'Hypnotized', 'Fireworks' feat. Moss Kena & The Knocks, 'Playbox', and more recently 'Dopamine' feat. Eyelar, Purple Disco Machine has quickly gained a mammoth international following eager to hear more. 'Hypnotized' became an anthem the world over, having been streamed over 275 million times across platforms, whilst going triple Platinum in Italy, Poland and Switzerland, with the carefree stylings of 'Fireworks' quickly following suit with over 80 million streams to date, whilst dominating airwaves across Europe hitting #5 on the overall chart, and #1 across Italy and Germany. Further skyrocketing up the Shazam Charts, the single went to #1 in Germany, and #3 across Italy, Denmark, and Austria to become another certified hit for Purple Disco Machine.The album opens with 'Can't Get Enough' featuring Australian songstress Sahara Beck, and for all his fans across Europe, is the perfect follow on from 'Hypnotized'- hitting all the same feels as the breakout single. Teaming up with long term collaborator Lorenz Rhodes once again for the release of 'At The Disko', the duo have created an instant and lively dance floor heater, incorporating the vocoder as they did previously on 'Music In You', and breaking into some seriously heaving piano chords and claps to keep that energy all the way through. 'Don't Stop' is a return to his more traditional club leaning records, likewise, title single 'Exotica feat. Mind Enterprises', and the 'Body Funk Part 2' vibes of 'Playbox' which has been represented in video as a truly incredible cosmic journey. Also sitting on that club tip is 'Loneliness', his track with cult underground Italian producer Francesca Lombardo, which oozes a patient charisma throughout. Taking time to slow things down on 'I Remember', Tino has collaborated with Elderbrook, who has become one of the most iconic singers in the electronic space in recent years - his transcendent vocals shining through, with soaring synths, and harmonic vocal effects, creating a heavenly slice of melancholy disco. Following through with another mellow jam is the album closer 'Wanna Feel Like A Lover feat Ed Mac', which is a true amalgamation of 80s flair even boasting the decade's trademark sax solo! Moving further outside his contemporary disco template, Tino has teamed up with Ukrainian / English duo Bloom Twins on 'Opposite of Crazy' coloring their unique blend of alt dark synth pop, with quirky and boisterous squalls of Prince-esque guitar throughout. Energy, soul, and pure fierceness shines through from the very first note of the anthemic 'Hands To The Sky' featuring the outstanding vocal talents of Fiorious and House Gospel Choir, and last but not least is the collaboration with Brooklyn disco hipsters Pink Flamingo Rhythm Revue, the uber funky 'Money Money' incorporates the slickest of all vocal lines reminiscent of the sassiest best of Big Apple boogie.Now boasting over 1 billion streams across his catalogue to date, and over 10 million monthly listeners on Spotify, Purple Disco Machine continues to live up to the hype of #2 Beatport Artist of All Time. With a succession of notable remixes for Dua Lipa, Mark Ronson, Foals, Calvin Harris, Fatboy Slim, Sir Elton John, Royal Blood, Lady Gaga & Ariana Grande, Duke Dumont, and Diplo & SIDEPIECE, coupled with his continuous stream of original hit singles over the past four years, Purple Disco Machine's influence on the global dance music scene will be felt for generations to come.Tracklisting:A1. Can't Get Enough (feat. Sahara Beck)A2. At The Disko (feat. Lorenz Rhode)A3. Fireworks (feat. Moss Kena & The Knocks)A4. Don't StopA5. Dopamine (feat. Eyelar)B1. I Remember (feat. Elderbrook)B2. Opposite of Crazy (feat. Bloom Twins)B3. Hypnotized (feat. Sophie and the Giants)B4. Loneliness (feat. Francesca Lombardo)C1. Hands to the Sky (Feat. Fiorious & House Gospel Choir)C2. Money Money (feat Pink Flamingo Rhythm Revue)C3. PlayboxC4. Exotica (feat. Mind Enterprises)D1. Wanna Feel Like A Lover (feat. Ed Mac)D2. Twisted Mind (feat. Agnes) *BONUS TRACK*D3. Rise (feat. Tasita D'Mour) *BONUS TRACK*D4. In The Dark (feat. Sophie and the Giants) *BONUS TRACK*

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