Tag Archives: 1980s

Spanish pop/rock music group Semen Up burst into Galicia’s picture in the first ’80s with sexual-related lyrics along with a dance-pop design many similar rings made popular within a motion called the Spanish fresh influx. In 1985, Semen Up’s debut recording, Lo Estas Haciendo Muy Bien, premiered, accompanied by a …

Ozone was formed in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, in 1977 by 3 former members from the funk music group the Efforts, Benny Wallace, Jimmy Stewart and Charles Glenn. This trio recruited Thomas Bumpass, William Light, Ray Woodard, Greg Hargrove and Paul Hines to provide them instrumental and vocal support. The group …

Small Risk was the definitive Washington, D.C., hardcore punk music group, setting the design for the straight-edge punk motion of the first ’80s. Led by vocalist Ian MacKaye, the music group was staunchly unbiased and fiercely sober. Through their music, the group turned down alcohol and drugs, espoused anti-establishment politics, …

Glaswegian pianist Malcolm Fisher was the initial French Impressionist — musically otherwise with regards to painting — when he 1st dreamed up the thought of a jazz/Tin Pan Alley-informed group in 1981. He was helped with this objective via the Postcard label — neighbor/label owner Alan Horne recommended a compilation …

Founded in 1984, Out of nowhere was devised as a car to feature a few of Blue Note’s best young jazz talents. Their repertoire emphasized hard bop-oriented originals that prolonged the Blue Notice legacy from the 1960s. The initial lineup of OOTB contains trumpeter Michael Philip Mossman, altoist Kenny Garrett, …

Many acts in the first ’50s were rooted in jump blues and not-quite-yet rock & roll, most of them played out and documented in LA, and many of these released records on the present day label. The obscure Oscar McLollie & His Honey Jumpers in shape all those requirements, though …

Though short-lived, the Romans brought collectively a number of the even more interesting musicians within the LA underground rock scene who created a prescient mixture of post-punk artiness, instrumental rock stylings, as well as the dusty loneliness of country music. The Romans 1st came collectively in the first ’80s as …

The Essential oil Tasters were a trio from Milwaukee who played somewhat bizarre, cutting-edge jazz-rock, armed with saxophone, drums, bass, and organ. Maybe even more listenable than additional bands of this sort, the Essential oil Tasters released a self-titled recording on Thermidor in 1982.

Similar in heart and geography to Der Program, Palais Schaumburg was a German post-punk/electronic-pop music group which has since become referred to as the starting pad for the profession of cult amount Holger Hiller. The Hamburg-based music group debuted in 1981 with Das One Kabinett, a six-song EP on ZickZack. …

A 1987 concept work, with a number of name jazz music artists getting together to get a good-natured blowing session. Mike Brecker, Lew Soloff, and Nelson Rangell had been featured stars. The discharge did sufficiently to merit a follow-up in 1989, People Only…. As well. Rangell was up to speed …