In the 1970s she ran her own record label, Halcyon, which issued albums by noted jazz pianists.
At a time when the record industry's collapse has forced those labels still in business to take fewer risks, this small North Side label perseveres in issuing albums that might otherwise never be heard.
Moreland's decision to sign with an independent label known for issuing albums by underground bands like the Cocteau Twins and the Pixies seems like an acknowledgment of his punk-rock youth — a deliberate and willful disregard for expectations.
Flying to West Africa, northern Latin America, and the Caribbean looking for rare records to create re-issue albums with great aesthetics and brief histories of your favorite periods in musical history is a pretty sweet job.
Flying to West Africa, Northern Latin America and the Caribbean to discover rare records, with the view to create re-issue albums with great aesthetics and brief histories of your favourite periods in musical history sounds like a pretty good job right?
In a 1988 article, art and photography historian Ellen Handy described A. Farsari & Co. as having become "well-known for issuing albums of landscape views in great quantity, but without regard for print quality and delicacy of hand-colouring".
Saxophonists Joe Lovano and Rudresh Mahanthappa both issued albums inspired by Charlie Parker in recent years, but rather than attempting to replicate Bird's sound, the records endeavored to build upon his legacy by filtering his work through their voices.
Now, as is often the way with this most prolific and spontaneous of rockers, he's made a record about the experience – a single-issue album which, Neil being Neil, gets sidetracked occasionally into rants about whatever drifts across his radar.
"Burning Up" was the still-to-be issued album's second single, released in the US on March 9 , 1983 and later issued in some countries as a double A-side single with "Physical Attraction".
