Art Pepper - StardustCD edition includes six bonus tracks. Producer John Snyder had always wanted to record Pepper and booked him into a week at the Village Vanguard in New York. At the time, Pepper was under contract to Contemporary Records and label head, Les Koenig, decided he would record the gigs, quashing any notion Snyder had of doing the same. However, Art promised Snyder that he'd record an album for Snyder's label, Artists House, at some point down the road.

and among Satie's collaborators were some of the leading names of the art world at the time

but the Louisiana melting pot added it's own spice to the gumbo

and Magnus Öström drums

and the boy learns about the power of love and the meaning of becoming a man

Hurry Up And Wait

/ Brown/ Combs/ West/ Dalal - Pipa Potluck - Lutes Around the World

Volume 1 collects some of the greatest unknown and lost Heavy Metal tracks

in their earlier incarnations as The Rock'n'Rollers and The Leen Teens

After curating an epic tribute album by 26 rock and electronic artists (Tradi-Mods vs Rockers: Alternative Takes on Congotronics)

which - as Orff himself said - "is accentuated and visualized by the music" and the spectator and hearer thereby enlightened

world music and Celtic influence

With no advance warning