Rock /
Rock And Roll Exibition
2005 release ** ""Rock N’ Roll Exhibition" is a completely new and unique album in the career of Demetrio Stratos, Mauro Pagani and Paolo Tofani and also for the Cramps label: it is a live tribute to the origins of rock’n’roll.""
Rock' 80
2002 release ** "An oddity in Cramps production was the release in 1980 of a series of singles by seven Italian new-wave bands (Dirty Actions, Kandeggina Gang, Kaos Rock, Skiantos, Take Four Doses, Windopen, X-Rated) called "Rock 80". Most singles ca…
Bluesman
2002 release ** "Second solo album by the Roman blues guitarist, released in 1979, a year after his debut. Songs of his own composition, alternating with some covers, such as "Baby please don't go", by Muddy Waters, and "Bottle up and go", by John Le…
Arbeit Macht Frei
2014 release ** "Appearing as it did in 1973, Area's debut album must have sounded to the average Italian pop critics like the end of the world. Issued on the Cramps label, the album highlighted Area's early sound, which featured overt folk melodies,…
Jetzt Komme Ich
2008 release ** "Viele Bunte Autos were formed in mid 1981 in Vienna and remain, until this very day, one of the most loved bands of the Austrian underground. Herbert Molin (now owner of Vienna's leading electronic music club Rhiz), Fritz Ostermayer …
Kesämaa
2003 release ** "Pekka Streng's music was fundamentally far from rock or pop; his intimate and reflective songs were more reminiscent of folk, vocals and often even children's music (Tove Jansson was one of Streng's great idols). Love Records' brilli…
Chaleur Humaine
2021 release ** "Uman’s Chaleur Humaine, the debut album from the French duo of musicians and siblings Danielle and Didier Jean, resurfaces for the first time since its original release in 1992. While history, both private and public, is scattered wi…
Few Traces
2018 release ** "Few Traces surveys a near decade of Mark Renners scarcely released and unreleased material from 1982 to 1990, embracing and evoking the timelessness of his artistic statement: a wordless translation of the individuals musical experie…
SuperFunk3.
2002 release ** Featuring: The Showmen Inc, Johnny King And Fatback Band, Renaldo Domino, Wally Cox And Nate Branch, Preston Love, Everyday People Unlimited, Camille Bob, Lil' Buck, Chet Ivey, Dave Hamilton, Count Yates And The Rhythm Crusaders, TKOS…
Naked City
1990 release ** "Naked City was formed a year and a half ago to give Zorn a focused vehicle for his omnivorous compositions and rearrangements. Taking its name from the gritty pulp TV show ("There are eight million stories in the ..."), this collecti…
Sea Shanties
2010 release ** "With the Misunderstood, Tony Hill co-wrote epochal psych-rock anthems like "Children of the Sun"; however, while High Tide's sound has roots in the peace-and-love era, the band was also in tune with the post-psychedelic comedown at t…
My Story...
2007 release ** "Vinc Project is primarily the work of Vincent Zermatten (Vinc for short) of Switzerland. His regular job is guitarist in the band Ever Since, who apparently are one of the three million metal bands in Europe. But My Story has very li…
Silver Monk Time - A Tribute To The Monks
2006 release ** "Unlike many tribute projects that fall flat due to those involved being either overawed or ignorant of the original material, Silver Monk Time succeeds because the participants have taken the group´s primitive rock surge as a templat…
All That May Do My Rhyme
2017 release ** "His mind may be fried, but Roky's vocal talents are relatively intact on this mid-1990s effort, which turns out be one of his more subdued, folkier outings. (About half of the tracks, however, are actually remixes of sessions from th…
Covering For Solace
2009 release ** "Covering for Solace, a debut album of a Königsberg-based band Sunset Wings, is a widely opened window to the world of neo-folk music. Inspired by pearls of English romantic poetry together with traditional ballads of the British isl…
Heimkunft
2010 release ** "Svalbard’s debut full-length album is titled Heimkunft, German for “homecoming.” Beginning with the three minute instrumental track “Zeitwende,” Svalbard offers us a glimpse of their earlier sounds. Initially reserved, the song soon …
Action, please!
2008 release ** "If many indie bands, for at least a year now, look to the German area and the Eighties as their only point of inspiration, Kobenhavn Store pushes higher, going towards Scandinavia, towards the ice and the pure and rarefied atmospher…
Kalutaliksuak
2007 release ** "Kalutaliksuak was one of the first weird, ethno-psychedelic and proto-space rock bands in Russia. They took their name from the Ice goddess of the Eskimos and operated during the first half of the 90’s, but never released any officia…