Encore Records

Airbourne

No Guts No Glory

NO GUTS. NO GLORY. cranks out all cylinders firing and makes you want to chug a beer straight down your throat and punch the air as though it’d touched your wife inappropriately.

Inspired by the likes of Judas Priest, Thin Lizzy, Angel City, Rose Tattoo, AC/DC and Motorhead, Airbourne have been waving the rock and roll flag for Australia since 2003, and in the process, winning fans and awards, like the one they took home in 2008 from the Metal Hammer Golden Gods, where the band’s album Runnin’ Wild was named the year’s Best Debut Album.

Ben Harper

Live at the Montreal International Jazz Festival

Deluxe CD/DVD live release from the singer/songwriter and his band Relentless7 recorded during the Montreal International Jazz Festival in the summer of 2009.

The songs from White Lies For Dark Times sound off with both the vast musical depth and experience of Harper while commanding the pure urgency and intensity of a new band fighting for it’s life.

Gorillaz

Plastic Beach

Deluxe CD/DVD edition includes a bonus DVD that contains a 45 minute documentary on the ‘making of’ the album hosted by Murdoc but featuring creators Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett.

Long awaited 2010 album from the genre-defying animated musical collective.

Five years on from the release of Demon Days, Murdoc Niccals and Co. return with Plastic Beach.

The band have taken up residence, recording on a secret floating island deep in the South Pacific, a plastic beach HQ, made up of the detritus, debris and washed up remnants of humanity.

This plastic beach is the furthest point from any landmass on earth; the most deserted spot on the planet.

As the world’s biggest animated band, Gorillaz formed in 1998, and have since sold 12 million copies over two albums!

Jason Collett

Rat A Tat Tat

Rat A Tat Tat was recorded in the summer and fall of 2009, largely on the east side of Toronto at Ill Eagle, Carlin Nicholson and Mike O’Brien of Zeus’ studio.

Zeus, Collett’s long time backing band contributed throughout both releases along with a bevy of guests. Rat a Tat Tat is Jason Collett at his most playful, robust and revelatory.

A true marvel.

Broken Bells

S/T

2010 debut album from this duo featuring James Mercer (The Shins) and Brian Burton (AKA Danger Mouse).

The album features 10 melodically seductive and psychologically provocative songs co-written and performed by Mercer and Burton.

The album features Mercer on vocals, guitars and bass while Burton plays organ, drums, piano, synths and bass.

The pair play all the instruments on the album with the exception of a full string section arranged by Daniele Luppi.

Peter Hammill

In The Passionkirche

In 1991 Peter Hammill released the album Fall Of The House Of Usher.

The album has never been performed live in its entirety but Hammill performed an edited suite of songs from the album during solo concerts in 1991 and 1992.

One such concert took place at The Passionkirche in Berlin in April 1992 and this DVD captures that performance.

Hammill also performs a number of songs from his solo career drawing on material from previous albums including “The Future Now,” “I Will Find You,” “Patient,” as well as the Van Der Graaf Generator song “My Room.”

Mick Taylor Band

Tokyo Concert

Unlike his ex- Rolling Stones buddies, Mick Taylor never associated fame with talent nor celebrity with artistic merit.

His aristocratic attitude and manners obscured the fact that he was the only authentic working class guitar hero of the bunch - largely responsible for the unmistakable Stones’ rugged musical elegance.

This is more obvious than ever in Taylor’s 2009 Tokyo concert. Superbly backed by Max Middleton, Jeff Allen, Kuma Harada and Denny Newman, Mick revisits in grand style his now classic repertoire as well as tunes of Muddy Waters, Bob Dylan and others.

Shining

VI - Klagopsalmer

The new Shining album is finally out !

By all accounts on of their strongest and most extreme releases to date !

Jimi Hendrix

Elecric Ladyland / Axix: Bold as Love / Are you Experienced / First Rays

Deluxe digitally remastered CD/DVD edition of these classic albums from the Rock guitar legend.

This edition is housed in a lavish six-panel digipak with 36 page booklet including detailed session info, liner notes, photos and memorabilia.

The DVDs contain an exclusive “making of” mini documentary.

Jimi Hendrix

Valleys of Neptune

2010 release from the legendary Rock guitarist containing 12 previously unreleased studio recordings.

Ten of these recordings were made between February and May 1969 as the Jimi Hendrix Experience set out to create their sequel to the groundbreaking 1968 double album Electric Ladyland. Features ‘Valleys Of Neptune,’ one of the most sought after of all of Hendrix’s commercially unavailable recordings.

Includes exciting 1969 arrangements of classic signature songs ‘Red House’, ‘Fire’ and ‘Stone Free’. Also includes unheard studio versions of Hendrix’s inspired interpretations of ‘Bleeding Heart’ by Elmore James and Cream’s ‘Sunshine Of Your Love’.

Mixed by Eddie Kramer, the engineer for all of Hendrix’s albums throughout the guitarist’s lifetime.