Encore Records

Kronos Quartet With Alim & Fargana Qas

Music of Central Asia - Vol. 8

A bold collaboration between America’s premier ne…w music quartet, Azerbaijan’s best-loved traditional singer, and the leading Afghan rubâb player of his generation.

Featured works include Homayun Sakhi’s luminous “Rainbow,” for string quartet, rubâb, tabla, and Central Asian percussion, and spirited arrangements of Azerbaijani songs performed by Kronos Quartet and the Alim Qasimov Ensemble.

CD plus DVD.

Blur

No Distance Left to Run

2010 double DVD pressing.

Filmed throughout the band’s 2009 rehearsals and acclaimed summer tour, No Distance Left To Run finds all four members of Blur together for the first time in nine years.

With previously unseen archive material alongside new interviews and reportage, the film recounts the highs and lows of a very British band from the late ‘80s to their headline return at Glastonbury and Hyde Park.

The result is a musing on Englishness and identity and a portrait of friendship and resolution.

The second DVD features their live perfomance at Hyde Park in the summer of 2009.

The Weakerthans

Live at the Burton Cummings Theatre

Live album - both formats include a dvd !

The Weakerthans come from Winnipeg, Manitoba, the geographic center of North America.

Having built a fanatical fanbase touring through the US and Canada, the Weakerthans finally offer a permanent record of one of their fantastic live shows, recorded on the tour for their triumphant 2007 release Reunion Tour.

With an expanded line up that includes trumpet, violin and female vocals, the Weakerthans run through songs from all four of their albums, in front of an adoring hometown audience, singing along with every lingering word.

Various

T.A.M.I. Show

It’s the greatest, grooviest, wildest, most exciting beat blast ever to pound the screen!

Filmed just eight months after The Beatles appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, THE T.A.M.I. SHOW introduced Rock ‘n’ Soul youth culture to America in the first concert movie of the Rock era.

One of the rarest and most sought-after performance films from its time, the 1964 concert event featured future Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Famers The Rolling Stones, James Brown, Chuck Berry, The Beach Boys, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson And The Miracles, The Supremes and many other American and British Invasion hitmakers in their prime.

This legendary film has never been available on DVD and hasn’t been seen in its entirety since it originally appeared in theaters in 1964.

Mastered from a new High Definition transfer and uncut, this complete version features the Beach Boys’ performances that were removed following the film’s initial theatrical run.

The show was filmed at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, October 29, 1964.

Dropkick Murphys

Live On Lansdowne, Boston

2010 live release from the Celtic Punk/Hardcore outfit.

Recorded over six nights and seven shows in March 2009 this live set puts the band’s hot ticket live show experience in your own home.

Available as a CD/DVD combo or on LP !

Frank Zappa

200 Motels

Finally !  The long-awaited official release of Zappa’s classic film on DVD

Fully authorized by the estate.

White Stripes

Under Great White Northern Skies

The first ever live album from Detroit’s WHITE STRIPES, recorded in Canada!

Available on LP or a CD/DVD set.

In the summer of 2007, shortly after the release of their 6th album ‘Icky Thump’, embarked on an ambitious journey across Canada. The plan was to play a show in every province and territory in Canada, from B.C. to Newfoundland to Nunavut.

“Having never done a tour of Canada, Meg and I thought it was high time to go whole hog, from the ocean to the permafrost” says Jack White. “We wanted to play out of the way towns that don’t usually get shows - the shows are better, it’s better for the people, it’s a better experience, it’s way more unique, something interesting is going to happen - hopefully”.

What the album does best is document one of the biggest bands in the world, playing to local crowds in small towns.

Some of these towns were so small that many of the locals had no idea who The White Stripes were - they just knew something big was going on in their town.
This forced a band that had been together for a decade to go back to a place reminiscent of the first shows they ever played together.

Peter Hammill

In The Passionkirche

In 1991 Peter Hammill released the album Fall Of The House Of Usher.

The album has never been performed live in its entirety but Hammill performed an edited suite of songs from the album during solo concerts in 1991 and 1992.

One such concert took place at The Passionkirche in Berlin in April 1992 and this DVD captures that performance.

Hammill also performs a number of songs from his solo career drawing on material from previous albums including “The Future Now,” “I Will Find You,” “Patient,” as well as the Van Der Graaf Generator song “My Room.”

Mick Taylor Band

Tokyo Concert

Unlike his ex- Rolling Stones buddies, Mick Taylor never associated fame with talent nor celebrity with artistic merit.

His aristocratic attitude and manners obscured the fact that he was the only authentic working class guitar hero of the bunch - largely responsible for the unmistakable Stones’ rugged musical elegance.

This is more obvious than ever in Taylor’s 2009 Tokyo concert. Superbly backed by Max Middleton, Jeff Allen, Kuma Harada and Denny Newman, Mick revisits in grand style his now classic repertoire as well as tunes of Muddy Waters, Bob Dylan and others.

Jimi Hendrix

Elecric Ladyland / Axis: Bold as Love / Are you Experienced / First Rays

Deluxe digitally remastered CD/DVD edition of these classic albums from the Rock guitar legend.

This edition is housed in a lavish six-panel digipak with 36 page booklet including detailed session info, liner notes, photos and memorabilia.

The DVDs contain an exclusive “making of” mini documentary.

The Vinyl is 180g with gatefold sleeves.