Browse by Label: POLYDOR (GERMANY)

Artist:	THOMAS, PETER
Title:	OST Edgar Wallace/Jerry Cotton
Label:	POLYDOR (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	POLY 17096

Reissue of this 1967 soundtrack. "The rediscovery of Peter Thomas is one of the happiest results of the renewed interest in space age pop and exotica. Like Esquivel, Thomas was always known to a few ultra-hip fans, but went unnoticed by labels, listeners, and pop historians, and it's only thanks to the pioneering work of a handful of champions at tiny labels that we can now recognize and celebrate his wonderful music. Here is a selection of soundtracks he made for the Edgar Wallace and Jerry Cotton movies in the 60's."

Artist:	HOLLIS, MARK
Title:
Label:	POLYDOR (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	POLY 537688

Debut solo album from the former leader of the Talk Talk, released in 1998, 7 years after their decline. An intense, emotional draining collection of songs intimately produced with piano/guitar/harmonium/bassoon/clarinet backings -- this is the lo-key orchestral pop masterwork that many thought couldn't be made any more. Damaged, moody, and produced with a post-Feldman attention to small sounds, this is a completely moving album. "Deceptively simple acoustic surfaces shimmer with all manner of spring-loaded detail, choked and wrenched vocal performances, miniature symphonies of wind instruments and references to the recording process itself."--The Wire.

Artist:	FAIRPORT CONVENTION
Title:	Fairport Convention
Label:	POLYDOR (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	POLY 68291CD

2003 release, remastered reissue of the 1968 debut album including four bonus tracks, "Suzanne", "If I Had A Ribbon Bow", "Morning Glory", "Reno, Nevada". (Reissued at the in synch with the Island Remasters series, but this first Fairport's album was originally issued on Polydor, not Island). Includes sleevenotes by co-founder Ashley Hutchings. 16 tracks. Recorded in Nov. 1967, produced by Joe Boyd. Featuring a pre-Sandy Denny line up of: Ian MacDonald (lead vocals, jews harp), Judy Dyble (lead vocals, electric & acoustic autoharps, recorder, piano), Richard Thompson (vocals, lead, electric & acoustic guitars, mandolin), Simon Nicol (vocals, 12 & 6 string electric & acoustic guitars), Tyger Hutchings (bass guitar, jug; Martin Lamble (percussion, violin). "When you think of Fairport it's usually as a rural bunch getting it together in a country cottage. But it's as a fully-fledged house band of the Summer of Love that they first hit the national consciousness. As key members of Joe Boyd's UFO/Middle Earth club axis they were often seen as an anglicised Jefferson Airplane. While the twin vocal talents of Ian Matthews and Judy Dyble (who went on to be associated with Robert Fripp's earliest incarnation of King Crimson) mirrored Slick and Kantner, the closest they came to the West Coast vibe on their eponymous debut was the slinky jazz shuffle 'It's Alright Ma, It's Only Witchcraft' (with its line about the sound they'd found 'down Frisco way'). What's actually occurring on this first disc is a young band of extraordinary diversity combining the cream of contemporary singer songwriters (Dylan, Mitchell et al. Fairport were always a great covers band) with trad jazz, folk and psychedelia. What is amazing is how Richard Thompson's guitar is already a potent weapon in such young hands." -- Chris Jones/BBC.

Artist:	SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES
Title:	Downside Up: B Sides And Rarities
Label:	POLYDOR (GERMANY)
Format:	4CD BOX
Price:	$65.00
Catalog #:	POLY 21823CD

55 tracks on 4 CD's, 34 of them for the first time, including the Thorn EP. Includes a 76-page booklet with an introduction by Siouxsie and full track annotation by all 3 band members. Full lyrics for all B-sides printed for the first time with sleevenotes by Mark Paytress. "Siouxsie Sioux first came to our attention in 1976 as a Sex Pistols acolyte who was standing behind the band during the notorious interview with Bill Grundy on the Today programme. Yet with hindsight, her work doesn't seem to belong to punk at all. Her debut album didn't appear until 1978, by which time untutored three chord thrashing was beginning to appear passé. Instead, with the Banshees she helped invent a form of post-punk discord full of daring rhythmic and sonic experimentation that was as influential as it is underrated. Downside Up features 55 tracks spread across four discs, some of which have not previously appeared on CD. The result is a collection that constitutes an alternative history far more revealing than a greatest hits package, for here is a group that never filled B-sides with inferior throwaway tracks. Rather they saw them as an outlet for some their most radical and challenging work. Standouts include the spiky 'Drop Dead/Celebration', the sinister 'Eve White/Eve Black' and the chopped up industrial funk of 'Tattoo', tracks that prove that the Banshees stand proudly alongside PIL, Gang Of Four and The Fall as the most audacious and uncompromising musical adventurers of the post-punk era." --Nigel Williamson.

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