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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 sin...

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