On the 4th of April 2024 we reissue Robin Auld's debut album for Mountain Records. Titled Z-Astaire, the name that was subsequently taken on by his backing band. (c) Songwrights Publishers First issued in 1984 this mini-album contained only songs written by Auld and the album established him as a pop songwriter in his home country of South Africa (SA). Recorded in Cape Town by producer Kevin Shirley, Z-Astaire was the first album to feature the line-up of Robin Auld on lead vocals and guitar, Murray Anderson on keyboards, Michael Bush on drums and Robert Hack on bass. The band went on to have multiple top ten hits produced by Shirley for Mountain Records in mid eighties South Africa. The first album has a variety of influences, from the west coast rock of "Going Down" and "Baby you been good", to the art rock sound of "Violent stairs" and "Cleaning up my act" which became a live staple. The latter will be the pl
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