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![The Ventures - Ventures in Space (1963) [2006, Japan, TOCP-67949]](https://pixhost.icu/avaxhome/50/72/00177250_medium.jpeg)
Few listeners need to dig deeper than a greatest hits collection for The Ventures, but this early effort is an arguable exception. The group embellished their trademark sleek guitar instrumentals with creepy, then-futuristic production effects, sounding at times like a mix of surf music and the incidental music to Star Trek. The ghostly, theremin-like sounds on several tracks are actually produced by top session player Red Rhodes on steel guitar…
…A warmblooded danish-jewish diva in a sensual declaration of love to her former Palestinian lover. A band consisting of anything but lost folk musicians escaping over the fence in an intoxicating stream of surfrock, ska and hints to serbian farmer-rock, played as if it were a slivovitz-affected day on the marketplace in Guca…
![Anthem - Hunting Time (1989) [2010, Japan SHM-CD, KICS-91176]](https://pixhost.icu/avaxhome/cb/71/001771cb_medium.jpeg)
This is the second album release by the incarnation of Anthem with Yukio Morikawa on vocals. By this time Yukio Morikawa was a welcome and suitable replacement for Eizo Sakamoto, and his confident (to say the least) vocal delivery indicates that he was comfortable in the recording of this album…
Chieli Minucci is the leader of the Grammy-nominated contemporary jazz group Special EFX, which formed in 1982. Minucci & Special EFX have recorded a combined 25 CDs, 8 of those being solo releases. In addition Minucci has recorded and performed with top pop artists such as Celine Dion, Lionel Richie, Jennifer Lopez, Jewel, Mark Anthony, Jessica Simpson, Anastasia and others.
What makes rock legend? The roar of the music, the screams of the crowd or simply the charisma esuded by a rare band of brothers who have the remarkable capability to rock the world. All of these answers, and many more, can be applied to Led Zeppelin, the true masters of such eternal rock classics as Stairway To Heaven and Whole Lotta Love…
![The Ventures - Let's Go! (1963) [2004, Japan, TOCP-67402]](https://pixhost.icu/avaxhome/86/70/00177086_medium.jpeg)
Fans of this group will want to know about the cover art, in this case a photo of a blonde tossing her hair around. Is she supposed to be Southern? That would tie in with what seems to be the theme of the "More Memphis" subtitle of this disc. But actually there is no such theme or subtitle, just a style of typesetting that is done in such a way that most people will look and comment, "Oh, this is one where they do their Memphis concept." …