Since debuting on European stages some years back, this American in London has won many fans especially on the Continent. Her harsh but soulful „blues mutations“ have been compared with the work of Tom Waits and Captain Beefheart. The songs on „Living In Dreams“ again have been hard won from personal experience, from the dark void of loss, illness and a past remembered. Along with multi-instrumentalists Ray Majors and David Coulter, this amazing singer and performer again conjures up an inspired musical universe of shimmering intensity. Drawing from blues, folk, classic jazz and avant rock, Sandy Dillon’s one-of-a-kind voice hijacks listeners’ imagination and leads into a twilight world, where intense emotion is turned into captivating music that knows no boundaries of genre.

An intense black & white retro artwork and another deeply exciting collection of songs from Holly Cole. Performed with a large ensemble of top-notch jazz players from New York, directed by Greg Cohen with arrangements by Gil Goldstein and recorded live in the studio. A superlative singer on top of her game, coming up with fascinating interpretations of hand-picked song classics – from Irving Berlin to A.C. Jobim. Final proof that this voice belongs with the very best: intense and thrilling, sensual and sensitive. Jazz noir à la Cole.

Bluesman Guy Davis & The High Flying’ Rockets (Nerak Roth Patterson, E-Gitarre; Mark Murphy, Bass) in a spirited and inspired performance from July 2003. Recorded on a hot summer-night at Radio Bremen concert hall, this is New Acoustic Blues at its very best. As one of the most prolific and popular practitioners of the genre, Guy Davis infuses classic repertoire with contemporary spirit and a lot of soul - from Robert Johnson to Bob Dylan.

An American music legend in a historical 1993 solo performance recorded at Bremen’s Packhaus-Theater. The great Dave Van Ronk was more than just a folksinger in his lifetime. An integral part of the Greenwich Village bohème since the early fifties, he was a one-of-a-kind raconteur and an artist who sang and played in the true spirit of vintage jazz. This recording presents the pure essence of Dave Van Ronk, Musician, NYC, USA. A special glimpse into the mind of a man who was very much in touch with music’s past.