Morio Agata - Norimono Zukan50 years ago singer songwriter Morio Agata released his debut single, Sekishoku Ereji (Red Elegy), an emotive, shuffling piano ballad that (shockingly) sold half a million copies in Japan. While he would never have another Top 40 hit, Agata would spend the next half century issuing a series of idiosyncratic, experimental pop albums. Arguably the biggest left turn of his early career came in 1979, when legendary Vanity Records paired him with major

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which this release can only help

The same source provides the Millie Jackson LP track 'If That Don't Turn You On'

which was produced by Harry Wayne Casey and Richard Finch

are ahead of works of both eras in many respects

Revelación translates to English as revelation

The Sharps (Look At Me)

cellist John Kneiling and pianist Mescal Wilson perform a selection of Music for Cello by Otto Luening

A portrait of Paris and Parisians shot during May 1962-"the first springtime of peace" for France since before World War II-LE JOLI MAI is a film with several thousand actors including a poet

The clavichord and the hammerclavier

He is now widely acknowledged as one of the most talented Russian pianists of his generationa

and also at many of Sinatra's parties and in particular at one where the guests included Ronald and Nancy Reagan