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The McCully Workshop album, I nfinity  was released at the end of last year and now the first single, post album release, has been chosen from the tracks, and it will be issued this week. The track is a Tully McCully composition called Tainted . It is best described as a Moody Blues inspired, rock ballad. Tully also does the lead vocals. There were two songs issued that pre-date the album release. LP versions of these are on the new album. (c) iTunes (no music preview until release date). Tainted is a dreamy fantasy, sparsely produced, with lead vocal set against a bluesy electric guitar. It is unlike most of the songs for which the band are known. Perhaps their debut single,  Why can't it Rain (charted 17/7/70),   is the closest comparison. The music in our heads was tainted, played by the few, we lost the life we knew. Link to track -  Tainted single. Press release  - Tin Can Discs - 4/3/20

In the last nine months or so the Tin Can Discs label has facilitated the release of rock albums by Cape Town rockers, Falling Mirror and McCully Workshop . Both records are released through LTE Distribution as digital only offerings. (c) Spotify - All nine tracks are available for streaming and download.(on iTunes) The first of the two to go out was the final album by Falling Mirror. Guitarist, Allan Faull actually passed away in the studio during the recording and the project went on ice until producer Tully McCully decided that despite the setback, the record should be released. He called in singer and composer, Nielen Mirror (Nielen Marais) and finished the tracks that he could. Although only nine tracks made it to the final release stage, they are perhaps the most cohesive collection that the band have recorded in their thirty odd year career. Though more associated with the electric guitar, Allan features on acoustic guitar on many of the songs. The album was preceded...

In the last quarter we have made two interesting African projects available on all digital platforms for the respective producers. The first is the debut album, titled  Songs of Greetings, Healing and Heritage , by Mantombi Matotiyana. A novel occurrence is the fact that this is her solo recording debut, for a lady of over eighty years of age. She has recorded before on the albums of Dizu Plaatjies and his group Amampondo, as well as performed with them, but not as a solo performer. The album was produced by Prof. Mike Blake in conjunction with the Stellenbosch University Music Dept. on the AOI Edition label. Matotiyana with her Umrhube. (c) Aryan Kaganof 201 8 Mantombi Matotiyana is a master bow player having learned the uhadi (sometimes known as the long woman's bow), the umrhube (the mouth bow of her tribe, the Xhosa people) and the isitolotolo (the jaw's or jews mouth harp), from her forbears. She also learned the traditional songs a...

Updated 11/4/22 LTE Music Distribution   is a Music Distribution firm managed by service provider, Lee Thorp Entertainment.  Model -   As music distributor our model is to provide a low cost service to producers and labels who can do most of the marketing and preparation work themselves, utilizing our experience and contacts and systems to get their music to the different markets. Digital/Physical We offer a full digital distribution service for a flat percentage of all revenue we manage to be part of securing. Here are the basics. 1 -  No fixed costs on each release, no storage costs, no encoding or metadata management costs as well as a free full data service for your royalty accounting and trend data for marketing use. 2 - No long term contracts on catalogue repertoire unless required, rather with fixed term licenses on individual songs. However we reserve a limited option to one new song in the case of a new act from producers. 3 - If you don't have a ...

Great news. Producer, Terence McCullagh, who produced most of Lesley Rae Dowling's hits has been working on the old master tapes of her recordings.  A re-issue album featuring the singer's classic songs is planned for later this year. Lesley is something of an enigma in the South African (SA) entertainment scene. Critics hailed the release of her debut recordings in 1981, as a ground breaking moment in SA pop music history. She had a meteoric rise in media profile and then disappeared from the business after four albums. More of that story later. Some of the multitrack tapes from the original recording sessions have deteriorated beyond rescue but fortunately this is not the case with all of them. It is still possible to restore parts of the missing or damaged sequences, with the aid of digital technology employed in current music production. Lesley Rae Dowling circa 1984 (c) Songwrights  The first re-issue will be Lesley's classic song, The Spaniard, which Ter...

Wow. When I was given a pre-release copy of the music at a jazz expo last year, I was not quite sure that the work of four good looking French boys was going to be my bag. Funny how we have programmed ourselves to expect certain images for serious jazz artists. The photo accompanying the music was not what I thought a jazz quartet would look like. (c) Critical Quartet Experience 2019 Well how wrong could I be? Four young French jazz musicians who can really play, compose and look good. It's funk, jazz and fusion, sometimes with a retro feel, but these guys rock! Their debut release, titled Mental Distortion , is out tomorrow on all digital platforms. There are 6 tracks on the digital package. All original. I have a feeling we are going to hear more from these guys. Some links for your entertainment - https://music.apple.com/es/album/mental-distortion-ep/1489141653?l=en https://www.facebook.com/CriticalQuartetExperience/ The band is called, Critical Quartet Exper...

RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT - The Franco-Ontarian singer, Janie Renee, pays homage to her roots, through releasing a series of singles in advance of the forthcoming world wide release of an album in 2020. So far she has issued five singles. The songs are specially arranged and performed by Janie Renee. She selected the repertoire from songs that represent a part of eastern Canada's French culturally influenced songwriting, that are staples from her youth. Janie is the arranger, producer and singer. Interestingly, each song has a charming stop motion style clip to accompany it, that is directed by the artist herself. Here a links to the clips - Coulson PM La Tension Tu me manques Viens Nous Voir Seul an Centre Ville Janie has used her jazz quartet to record all the tracks thus keeping a musical continuity for the forthcoming record. Here music links to the releases to date - Le Tension Seul an Centre-Ville Tu me manques Viens Nous Voir Coulson PM Link t...