NEW MUSIC FRIDAY | Al Jarreau, Leisure Process, Kate & Anna McGarrigle and The Specials

This collection covers Al's career from his 1975 debut album ‘We Got By’ right up to the 1994 ‘Tenderness’ release, and features such Smash Hits as ‘We're In This Love Together’, ‘Mornin'‘, ‘Boogie Down’, ‘So Good’ & ‘Moonlighting’ which this package features the extended remix plus many more.

From soulful declarations of romantic love to scintillating jazz improvisations and funky dance grooves, the 50 tracks in this compilation pay tribute to a virtuosic vocalist who, at the peak of his popularity in the 70s and 80s, enriched pop music by introducing a stylish jazz sophistication.

• This package is an absolute essential in any music collection featuring two of the finest folk albums ever recorded.

• These two albums appear together for the first time on one CD.

• The McGarrigle Sisters, Kate and Anna, were an iconic duo unique in the folk/country music world whose harmonies were second to none.

• A comprehensive overview of the short-lived cult ‘80s synth-pop band Leisure Process (International).

• Collecting together all the A&B-sides of their four 7- inch and 12-inch singles for the very first time on CD.

• Plus the demos and sessions of all the hitherto unheard vault tracks that were in consideration for producing for the bands shelved 1983 album ‘Remarkable People With Interesting Lives’.

THE COMPLETE BIOGRAPHY, INCLUDING 30,000 NEW WORDS COVERING THE POST-REUNION PERIOD.
FIRST HAND QUOTES FROM BAND MEMBERS AND OTHERS INVOLVED WITH THE SPECIALS.
INSIGHTFUL TRACK-BY-TRACK COMMENTARIES.
COMPLETE DISCOGRAPHY AND GIGOGRAPHY.

• Extensive seven-CD box set following the career of English singer-songwriter Thea Gilmore.

• Covering her recordings from 2008 to 2015.

• With sleeve notes by Record Collector’s Daryl Easlea describing the making of this collection of albums, housed in a box this is the perfect staring point for anyone interested in her career.

• 3CD + multi-region DVD clamshell box set anthology featuring all the recordings by the Progressive Rock Gracious! between 1970-1971.