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Jan Wouter re-ssues - Open up your Eyes - album

Mountain Records will Open up your eyes on the 8th of March  2024. Here a short press release - This is Jan Wouter's first solo album, a creative adventure where the road to a new style of his music unfolds. It is a beautiful atmospheric guitar album with influences of North African Rai music and western pop music and jazz.   (c) Songwrights Publishers The album was developed in the late 90's, Jan Wouter not only played guitar, sung and composed the songs, he also did the programming and production on one of the first old Atari computers with midi and Cubase music software.    About Jan Wouter Oostenrijk He is a virtuoso guitar player. Jan Wouter Oostenrijk (JWO) completed his professional Jazz guitar studies at the conservatory of Amsterdam (1995) and got an award for his contribution to the Dutch live music with Moroccan formation Railand.    Over the past 25 years he has proven, not only with the Sharqi Blues album, but also with his other albums, to be one of
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McCully Workshop announce new single "All the Gingerbread Men"

A new single is all set for release on the Mountain Records label. Here is the press release from the band. ------ McCully Workshop - Tully and Mike McCully, Rupert Mellor, Richard Black and Gordon Mackay - are excited to announce their new single ‘ All the Gingerbread Men’ . The track is a classic McCully Workshop rock song, featuring energetic guitars, rich melodic layering and a powerful chorus. Lyrically it draws from fantasy imagery and tells the story of a king in a castle, a wizard and an enchanted army of blood-thirsty gingerbread men. “The song came to me in a dream, and when I woke up all I could remember was the line 'all the gingerbread men in the water’” says Tully (lead vocals and bass). “For me it felt allegorical about people who are rich and famous being envied by those who are not. So it became this sort of dark fairy tale about jealousy and revenge.” There is some moral ambiguity though, and it’s not entirely clear who is right or wrong. “For me the

Press release - Niki Daly

 Rest in Preace Niki  > https://leethorpentertainment.blogspot.com/2024/01/daly-rip-it-is-with-sadness-that-we.html  Earlier release >  https://ltedistportal.blogspot.com/2020/11/cult-sa-album-by-niki-daly.html

Press release - Lewis Pragasam

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End of music carrier distribution in South Africa - Press Release

 Our flagship label, Mountain Records has finally ceased sales of physical product being distributed in southern Africa. For our many different artists it is the end of a long history of selling music on physical formats in the territory. Future releases and the current catalogue will be available in digital distribution and a small quantity of CDs and LPs that are still in our Hamburg warehouse will be available in Germany, essentially on mail order. There will be some exceptions where Vinyl and possibly CD might be used on new releases as well. In 1980 a division of EMI UK, EMI South Africa (SA) took on the label through their CCP Records department, releasing the debut releases of our Cape Town based projects. These included Dave Nissen , the first artist to be on Mountain Records and the debut album of David Kramer . These were followed by amongst others, Robin Auld and Z-Astaire, Edi Niederlander, Amampondo, Robbie Jansen   - well over a hundred albums (and even more singles) by

Jasper's Acolytes - new EP

📌 Producer Terence McCullagh's side project of analog acoustic only recordings known as Jasper's Acolytes, have their second collection of songs released on the 3rd of November 2023. The collection is titled My Name is Carnival . (c) Songwrights   Once again there are five songs, four of which are chosen from the 1970s and 80s pop/folk scene and one composition of his own (Only Rivers) in a similar style.       Links to video - https://youtu.be/Ljra1Gzfaqg?si=29I2qR5N2gK2ZAdl      Links to music - https://orcd.co/v4erzop  

String Quartets and Piano Quintet from Michael Blake

On the 16th of October 2023 Michael Blake will release his album of string quartet compositions. We will paste the press release from the label below .