Fairport Convention - Fairport Convention - 180gm VinylLimited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. From a bunch of school friends setting out to be 'the British Jefferson Airplane', over the course of their first quartet of releases, the group metamorphosed into the leading exponents of British folk rock. In the way American folk and blues had looked back to gospel songs and spirituals, Fairport mined a seam a traditional English folk song, and then combined them with rock rhythms to create something ground breaking

Nordic Rhapsody is bookended by two Norwegian composers

an ensemble made up of musicians from all over Italy and directed by Gianna Fratta

Past and present love collides

and even a knife tip of avant-garde pioneers TOOL

It rocks hard with the best of them

In the face of injustice

The groups included on this compilation imclude The Versailles

Standing in stark contrast to the electro-hedonism of Righton's work with Klaxons

we knew we had found something special

the Baja Sessions record is Chris Isaak's sixth studio album

and is considered Field Music's first true concept album

Way You Move 6