Sam Records: Sound of Nyc 1975-83/ Various - Sam Records Anthology: The Sound Of New York City 1975-1983 / VariousThree CD set. This is the story of the one the great disco labels, a legendary label who were at the forefront of a genre during it fruition and creative peak. Sam Weiss started SAM Records in Long Island City, New York in 1975. Sam and his brother Hy were no strangers to the music business having been in the industry since the mid 50s running labels Old Town and Parody Records. During the mid 1970s Disco took New York by storm and emerged into a

Berg on mallets and percussion and Richard Garcia on keyboards

This selection of his songs are performed by soprano Agnieszka Niewiadomska and pianist Szymon Blaszynski

limber and fluid but knotted with strange frictions

Horsebait Sabotage5

the band's debut album Of Existential Distortion uniquely captures the desolate vastness of the volcanic wastelands like only Icelanders can

lush strings and imaginative sound effects

the Munchener Kammerorchester and Bach Collegium in Munich

Ancient Rome

the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks - under some of it's most influential conductors

the overall mood of the collection is imbued with the feelings of love and longing which are key-signatures of Romanticism (German or Russian)

and metaphysical dimensions

This release launches an important new APR series devoted to the French Piano School