Big Sleep: Moonlight Days 1994 + Everything Falls Into Place 1992

 

BIG SLEEP is an alternative rock/pop band currently based in Salonica, Greece. Founded in 1992, so far 5 full albums have been released. It’s very difficult to be involved in the independent music scene

and not have heard, at least in passing, Big Sleep’s Looking for a Girl with a Washing Machine. It’s a song that was a hit in Greece in the ’90s and stands there, proud, even today in DJ sets, radio shows, and even in commercials. Stefan Schwerdtfeger, in addition to being the founder of Big Sleep, has been, among other things, a local musical hero in the area where he grew up (just outside Munich), a friend of the late musician Nikki Sudden, and a member of the live band Blue.
                           

                                                         
Stefan Schwerdtfeger, singer and composer, grew up in the United States. Later, he moved to

Germany, where he started "BIG SLEEP". Their first album, titled "Everything Falls Into Place", quickly became a huge success in Greece, with the single "Looking For A Girl With A Washing-Machine" being played to this day (!) on the radio and various entertainment venues. In 1994, the next CD "Moonlit Days" was released, recorded in Southwest France, paving the way for appearances in Ireland, the Netherlands, Italy and France. 
                          

Soon, he performed and recorded with various musicians, such as Nikki Sudden, Phil Shoenfelt and

Terry Lee Hale. In 1995, he moved to Greece, where he continues to work, write and create with great success. Since then he has recorded two more albums, "Thermaikos" (1999) and "With God And Her Sisters" (2003) produced by Chris Eckman from Walkabouts. This was followed by appearances on all the major stages of Greece, together with his new band, "BIG SLEEP electric".
                            

LINE - UP

Vocals, Guitar, Piano, Harmonica – Stefan Schwerdtfeger
Drums – August T. Günther
Bass – Oliver Latka
Written-By – Stefan Schwerdtfeger (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11, 2-1 to 2-12)    

BIG SLEEP - MOONLIGHT DAYS 1994 + EVERYTHING FALLS INTO PLACE  1992

                                     

    

Big Sleep – Moonlit Days / Everything Falls Into Place
Label: Soul Sister – SS 102/103
Format: 2CD, Album, Remastered, Compilation
Country: Greece
Released: 1999
Genre: Rock
Style: Alternative Rock, Indie Rock

MOONLIGHT DAYS 1994

                          

 

TRACKS 

                       

 

01. Ship   3:00
Alto Saxophone – Hendrik Lehmann
Soprano Saxophone – Frank Loef
Voice [2nd] – August T. Günther
Voice [Low 2nd] – Oliver Latka    
02. Ozone Summers   4:40
Electric Guitar [Echo] – Lars Kurz
Shaker – Freddy Setz
Voice [2nd] – August T. Günther, Oliver Latka    
03. Moonlit Days   3:04
Co-producer – Ulrich Bassenge
Piano – H.C. Mylla
Tambourine – Freddy Setz    
04. Songs Of The Incomplete   6:39
Voice [Low 2nd] – Oliver Latka    
05. Below Us Bigger Buildings   3:31
Piano [High Notes] – H.C. Mylla    
06. Clouds   3:14
Alto Saxophone – Hendrik Lehmann    
07. Home   1:25
Baglama [Bouzouki] – Ulrich Bassenge    
08. Curse To The Wind    4:19
09. Big Blue Wall    3:07
10. Crying For Barbara   3:02
Piano – H.C. Mylla
Tambourine – Freddy Setz
Voice [Low 2nd] – Oliver Latka    
11. Driving Song   4:47
Flute – Frank Loef
Piano – H.C. Mylla    
12. Where The Rivers End   12:51
Voice [Low 2nd] – Oliver Latka
Written-By – Nikki Sudden
    

Flac Size: 373 MB

All songs written by Stefan Schwerdtfeger; except “Where The Rivers End" (Nikki Sudden)
Produced by Stefan Schwerdtfeger
Co-produced & engineered by h.c. mylla
Stefan Schwerdtfeger: vocals, guitar, piano, harmonica
Oliver Latka: bass
August T. Günther: drums 

EVERYTHIG FALLS INTO PLACE 1992
                                  

TRACKS 

                     

    
01. The Whale Song    3:22
02. Looking For A Girl With A Washing - Machine    4:51
03. Oh Laura!   3:20
Electric Guitar – Robert Usamer
Voice [2nd] – August T. Günther    
04. Dr. Velvet's Magic Injection   4:54
Piano – H.C. Mylla    
05. When Vera Was Here   3:50
Accordion – H.C. Mylla
Electric Guitar – Robert Usamer
Voice [2nd] – August T. Günther    
06. You And Your Blue Shirt    4:36
07. Big Love First, Later Insecure   4:34
Edited By [Drum Loop] – Ernst Ströer    
08. Only You Can Save Me   2:58
Trumpet – Franz Hautzinger
Voice [2nd] – August T. Günther    
09. Hit The Shit   4:47
Electric Guitar – Robert Usamer    
10. I Only Eat Fruit Lately      4:31
11. Crying's For Babies   3:14
Voice [2nd] – August T. Günther    
12. Everything Falls Into Place   4:04
Sampler, Edited By [Drum Loop] – Ernst Ströer

Flac Size: 312 MB

All songs written by Stefan Schwerdtfeger.
Stefan Schwerdtfeger: all voices and instruments; except:
Robert Ulsamer: electric guitar (2; 5; 9)
Oliver Latka : bass (2; 5; 7; 8; 9; 12)
August T. Günther: drums (2; 4; 5; 7; 8; 9; 10; 12), second voice (2; 5; 8; 9; 12)
h.c. mylla: piano (4) accordeon (5)
Ernst Ströer: drum loop editing (4; 7; 10); sampler (11)
Franz Hautzinger: trumpet (8)

NOTES

                                

CD1 - Moonlit Days:
Recorded in St. Pompon in the South-West of France.
© 1994 Music Maniac Records ℗ 1999 Soulsister.
Published by Ervolksmusik / Wolfgang Dorsch.
Released in April 1994

CD2 - Everything Falls Into Place:
Recorded at various locations.
24bit remastering at Athens Mastering.
© 1992 Music Maniac Records ℗ 1999 Soulsister.
Published by Moorea Music "Edition Rimpo".
Released in May 1992.

    

The Hollies: 20 Golden Greats 1978 + Sing Dylan 2014

The Hollies originated as a duo formed by Allan Clarke and Graham Nash, who were best friends from primary school and began performing together during the skiffle craze of the late 1950s. Eventually Clarke and Nash became a vocal-and-guitar duo modelled on American duo the Everly Brothers, working as "Ricky and Dane Young"; under this name they teamed up with a local band, the Fourtones, consisting

of Pete Bocking on guitar, John 'Butch' Mepham on bass, Keith Bates on drums, and Derek Quinn on guitar. In January 1963, the Hollies performed at the Cavern Club in Liverpool, where they were seen by Parlophone assistant producer Ron Richards, who had been involved in producing the first Beatles session. Richards offered them an audition with Parlophone, but Steele did not want to be a "professional" musician and left the band in April 1963. For the audition, they brought in Tony Hicks to replace the departing Steele.
                                

Drummer Don Rathbone only lasted for a couple of singles before being replaced by Bobby Elliott, who had played with Hicks in his pre-Hollies group, the Dolphins. The lineup changes were most fortuitous:

Hicks contributed a lot to the group with his ringing guitar work and songwriting, and Elliott was one of the very finest drummers in all of pop/rock. Although their first singles were R&B covers, the Hollies were no match for the Rolling Stones (or, for that matter, the Beatles) in this department, and they sounded much more at home with pop/rock material that provided a sympathetic complement to their glittering harmonies.
                             

When the Hollies -- one of the best and most commercially successful pop/rock acts of the British Invasion -- began recording in 1963, they relied heavily upon the R&B/early rock & roll covers that provided the staple diet for countless British bands of the time. They quickly developed a more distinctive style featuring three-part harmonies (heavily influenced by the Everly Brothers), ringing guitars, and

hook-happy material, penned by both outside writers (especially future 10cc member Graham Gouldman) and themselves, eventually composing most of their repertoire on their own. They ran off an awesome series of hits in the U.K. in the '60s, making the Top 20 almost 20 times. Some of their best mid-'60s singles, like "Here I Go Again," "We're Through," and the British number one "I'm Alive," passed virtually unnoticed in the United States, where they didn't make the Top 40 until early 1966, when Graham Gouldman's "Look Through Any Window" did the trick. In 1966, Eric Haydock left the group under cloudy circumstances, replaced by Bernie Calvert. 
                             

                                   
Graham Nash was replaced in the Hollies in January 1969 by Terry Sylvester, formerly of the Escorts and the Swinging Blue Jeans. Nash's departure saw the Hollies again turn to outside writers for their single A-

sides, but the group's British chart fortunes rallied during 1969 and 1970, and they scored four consecutive UK Top 20 hits. Like Graham Nash before him, frontman Allan Clarke by 1971 was growing frustrated, and he too began clashing with producer Ron Richards over material. Clarke departed from the Hollies in December. After Clarke's return, the Hollies returned to the UK Top 30 with a song penned by Clarke: "The Day That Curly Billy Shot Down Crazy Sam McGee" (UK No. 24, 1973). 
                                 

In 1974 they scored what was to be their last major new US and UK hit single with the Albert Hammond/

Mike Hazlewood-composed love song "The Air That I Breathe" (previously recorded by Hammond and by Phil Everly on his 1973 solo album, Star Spangled Springer), which reached No. 2 in the UK and Australiaand made the Top 10 in the US. In 2010, the Hollies were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The band members inducted were Allan Clarke, Graham Nash, Tony Hicks, Eric Haydock, Bobby Elliott, Bernie Calvert, and Terry Sylvester. 
                                       

THE HOLLIES - 20 GOLDEN GREATS 1978 

                                   

 

The Hollies - 20 Golden Greats
Label: EMI – 7 46238 2, EMI – 7462382
Format: CD, Compilation, Remastered
Country: Australasia
Released:    
Genre: Rock, Pop
Style: Pop Rock
                                                     

TRACKS

                                 

01. The Air That I Breathe   4:12
Written-By – Hammond-Hazlewood    
02. Carrie Anne   2:56
Written-By – Clarke-Hicks-Nash    
03. Bus Stop   2:56
Written-By – Gouldman    
04. Listen To Me   2:39
Written-By – Hazzard    
05. Look Through Any Window   2:18
Written-By – Silverman, Gouldman    
06. I Can't Let Go   2:27
Written-By – Gorgoni, Taylor    
07. Long Cool Woman In A Black Dress   3:18
Producer – Ron Richards, The Hollies
Written-By – Clarke, Cook, Greenaway    
08. Here I Go Again   2:21
Written-By – Westlake, Shuman
09. I Can't Tell The Bottom From The Top   3:51
Written-By – Flett, Fletcher
10. I'm Alive   2:26
Written-By – Ballard Jnr    
11. Yes I Will   3:32
Written-By – Goffin, Titelman    
12. Stay   2:13
Written-By – Williams    
13. Sorry Suzanne   3:00
Written-By – Stephens, Macaulay    
14. Gasoline Alley Bred   3:55
Written-By – Cook, Greenaway, Macaulay    
15. We're Through   2:16
Written-By – Ransford    
16. Jennifer Eccles   2:56
Written-By – Clarke, Nash    
17. Stop Stop Stop   2:51
Written-By – Clarke-Hicks-Nash    
18. On A Carousel   3:14
Written-By – Clarke-Hicks-Nash    
19. Just One Look   2:29
Written-By – Payne, Carroll
20. He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother   4:20
Written-By – Russell, Scott
    

Flac Size: 363 MB

THE HOLLIES - HOLLIES - SING DYLAN  (EXPANDED EDITION) 2014

                          

The Hollies – Sing Dylan
Label: Parlophone – WPCR-15445
Series: British Beat 50th Paper Sleeve Collection
Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Remastered    
Released: Jan 22, 2014
Genre: Rock, Pop, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Harmonica Blues, Beat, Rockabilly, Honky Tonk, Vocal
                                     

TRACKS

                         

01. When The Ship Comes In    2:41
02. I'll Be Your Baby Tonight    3:26
03. I Want You    2:12
04. Wheels On Fire    2:53
05. I Shall Be Released    3:25
06. Blowin' In The Wind    4:09
07. Quit Your Low Down Ways    2:42
08. Just Like A Woman    4:04
09. The Times They Are A Chagin'    3:16
10. All I Really Want To Do    2:37
11. My Back Pages    2:58
12. Mighty Quinn    2:27

BONUS SECTION

13. Blowin' In The Wind - Nash Version; 1993 Remastered Version 4:09  
14. Stop Stop Stop (Live at Lewisham Odeon)   2:50
15. Look Through Any Window (Live at Lewisham Odeon)   2:31    
16. The Times They Are A Changin' (Live At Lewisham Odeon)   3:20
17. On A Carousel (Live At Lewisham Odeon)   3:17    
18. King Midas In Reverse (Live At Lewisham Odeon)   3:29    
19. Butterfly (Live At Lewisham Odeon)   3:13    
20. Jennifer Eccles (Live At Lewisham Odeon)   2:43    
21. Carrie Anne (Live At Lewisham Odeon)   2:57
22. Blowin' In The Wind (Live In Germany)   2:32

NOTES

Written By – Bob Dylan (tracks: 1-12, 13, 16, 22)

Flac Size: 457 MB