ABBA album preview

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added: 30 Jan 2012 // by: VVN Music 

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ABBA fans are about to hear the first "new" music from the group since the Thank You For the Music box set in 1994 with the release of a rare and previously unreleased piece.

From A Twinkling Star To A Passing Angel was a medley of demos recorded but not used on the final Abba album The Visitors in 1981.

A remastered version of the album was released in 1997 and contained extra tracks but not this one. The new Deluxe edition of The Visitors is scheduled for April 23, 2012.

Abba recorded The Visitors between March 16 and November 14, 1981 and released the album on November 30, 1981.

The album was the very first CD pressed at Polygram's CD plant in Europe.

Since the original 1981 album release, The Visitors has been reissued three times, first in 1997, then 2001 and again in 2005 as part of The Complete Studio Recordings.

For the record, Abba never officially broke-up but their last appearance together was on the British TV program The Late, Late Breakfast Show on December 11, 1982. Throughout 1983 and 1984, Anna and Frida still talked about another Abba album but it never happened.

The four members have only been seen together twice since the British TV show, once in 1986 and again for the Mamma Mia movie premiere in Sweden in 2008.

Track List:

CD

Original Album
The Visitors
Head Over Heels
When All Is Said And Done
Soldiers
I Let The Music Speak
One Of Us
Two For The Price Of One
Slipping Through My Fingers
Like An Angel Passing Through My Room
Bonus Tracks
Should I Laugh Or Cry
I Am The City
You Owe Me One
Cassandra
Under Attack
The Day Before You Came
Previously Unreleased Bonus Track
From A Twinkling Star To A Passing Angel (demos)

DVD

Two For The Price Of One (Dick Cavett Meets ABBA)
Slipping Through My Fingers (Dick Cavett Meets ABBA)
When All Is Said And Done (Original Promo Clip)
ABBA In London, November 1982 (The Late Late Breakfast Show, BBC)
ABBA In Stockholm, November 1982 (Nöjesmaskinen, SVT)
The Visitors TV commercial I (UK)
The Visitors TV commercial II (Australia)
The Singles ' The First Ten Years TV commercial I (UK)
The Singles ' The First Ten Years TV commercial II (Australia)
International Sleeve Gallery

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Ladyhawke release album preview

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added: 19 Jan 2012 // by: Marco Gandolfi

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LADYHAWKE releases her new single 'Black, White & Blue' on 19 February 2012 on Modular through Island Records. The track is taken from her new album 'Anxiety' due out on 19 March 2012.

'Black, White & Blue' is written and produced by Ladyhawke, aka Pip Brown, alongside long time collaborator Pascal Gabriel. Ladyhawke also played lead guitar, bass and drums on the single as well as performing vocal duties.

The single will be released digitally via all standard retailers and features remixes from Nile Delta, Punks Jump Up and The Big Pink. Fans will be able to hear the track for the first time on Zane Lowe's radio 1 show as 'Hottest Track In The World' on January 23rd.

'Black, White & Blue' is released 19 February and 'Anxiety' is on 19 March.

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Meat Loaf album preview 'Hell in a Handbasket'

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added: 19 Jan 2012 // by: VVN Music 

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Meat Loaf will finally see the release of his album Hell in a Handbasket in the U.S. on March 13 via Legacy. The album has been out in most other parts of the world for a number of months.

Performing with Meat Loaf on Hell In A Handbasket is The Neverland Express, his long-time backing ensemble, featuring John Miceli (drums, percussion), Patti Russo (lead and backing vocals), Paul Crook (electric and acoustic guitars), Randy Flowers (electric and acoustic guitars, vocals), David Luther (saxophone, vocals), Justin Avery (piano, organ, keyboard, vocals), and Danny Miranda (electric and upright bass).

Guesting on the album are Chuck D, Patti Russo (his regular female vocalist) and three of his teammates from last year's Celebrity Apprentice, John Rich, Mark McGrath and Lil John.

"Hell In A Handbasket is the most personal record I've ever made," said Meat Loaf. "It's really the first record I've ever put out about how I feel about life and how I feel about what's going on at the moment." The album, produced by Paul Crook, is an expression of life's metaphors, driven by excellent musicianship, and of course, the passionate vocals of Meat Loaf. "Making this album was a great experience," said Meat Loaf, "and I hope my fans enjoy hearing it as much as I did making it."

Track List:

All of Me
Fall From Grace
The Giving Tree
Blue Sky/Mad Mad World/The Good God is a Woman and She Don't Like Ugly (special appearance by Chuck D)
Party of One
Live or Die
California Dreamin' (duet with Patti Russo)
Another Day
40 Days
Our Love and Our Souls (duet with Patti Russo)
Stand in the Storm (special guest appearances from John Rich, Lil Jon and Mark McGrath)
Blue Sky

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Paul McCartney 'Kisses On the Bottom' album preview

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added: 10 Jan 2012 // by: VVN Music 

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As has been widely reported, Paul McCartney has recorded an album of mostly standard pop songs that he remembers from his childhood and which influenced him musically. Kisses on the Bottom will be out February 7 in the U.S. (February 6 in the rest of the world) through Hear Music in both a standard and deluxe edition.

The album was produced by Tommy LiPuma and Diana Krall and includes Krall's band along with guest appearances form Eric Clapton and Stevie Wonder.

McCartney said of the song selection,"When I kind of got into songwriting, I realized how well structured these songs were and I think I took a lot of my lessons from them. I always thought artists like Fred Astaire were very cool. Writers like Harold Arlen, Cole Porter, all of those guys - I just thought the songs were magical. And then, as I got to be a songwriter I thought it's beautiful, the way they made those songs."

The recording process for the album also reminded McCartney of his days with the Beatles. "It was very spontaneous, kind of organic, which then reminded me of the way we'd work with The Beatles. We'd bring a song in, kick it around, when we found a way to do it we'd say 'Okay, let's do a take now' and by the time everyone kind of had an idea of what they were doing, we'd learnt the song. So that's what we did, we did the take live in the studio."

...and as for that title, it's actually a line from the opening song, I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter.

Track List:

I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter (Fred Ahlert & Joe Young)
Home (When Shadows Fall) (Jeff Clarkson, Peter van Steeden, Harry Clarkson)
It's Only A Paper Moon (Harold Arlen, E.Y. Harburg, Billy Rose)
More I Cannot Wish You (Frank Loesser)
The Glory Of Love (Billy Hill)
We Three (My Echo, My Shadow And Me) (Sammy Mysels, Dick Robertson, Nelson Cogane)
Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer)
My Valentine (Paul McCartney)
Always (Irving Berlin)
My Very Good Friend The Milkman (Harold Spina, Johnny Burke)
Bye Bye Blackbird (Ray Henderson, Mort Dixon)
Get Yourself Another Fool (Haywood Henry, Tucker)
The Inch Worm (Frank Loesser)
Only Our Hearts (Paul McCartney)

The Deluxe Edition of the album adds the following two songs:

Baby's Request (Paul McCartney)
My One And Only Love (Guy Wood, Robert Mellin)

Artist: Paul McCartney
Title: Kisses on the Bottom
Release Date: February 7, 2011
Label: Hear Music
Format(s): CD, DD (Standard & Deluxe Editions)

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