Ain´t Nothin' But … The Blues Company
€18.99*
Blues Company
Blues
Format:
CD
They have been on the stage for over 38 years, have performed on more than 4,000 occasions in 14 countries and have released more than 26 albums – these figures highlight the impressive achievements of the Blues Company and demonstrate that the musicians gathered around the mastermind Todor Todorovic have had an enormous influence on the blues in Germany. However, far more impressive than the statistics is the manner in which Todorovic, known by everyone simply as “Tosho”, celebrates the blues with his buddies on stage. Tosho lets the guitar fly with his pieces that bubble with elegance, while his unmistakeable voice gives the songs their distinctive expression.
The Blues Company has always been open-minded to new techniques. They were among the audiophile pioneers, who in the late 1980s brought out the first blues CDs, and later the first SACDs and 5.1 surround recordings - so we were the second Blues band in the world. But one thing was still missing in our releases: a live in the studio recording with an audience.
The trick with a Silent Concert is that visitors, unlike at normal concerts, do not appreciate the music through a PA, but through headphones. Thus, they are able to receive perfect stereo sound anywhere in the room and can even adjust the volume themselves. However, only a relatively small circle of people can experience this concert enjoyment. For technical reasons, the number of listeners is limited to a maximum of 100.
The auditorium was equipped with sofas, chairs, beanbag chairs and floor lamps, and the band did not play on a stage, but rather dispersed in the audience. The sound engineer was able to create an individual in-ear monitor mix at the highest tonal level for each of the musicians involved as well as for the stereo mix for the audience.
This culminated in the Blues Company presenting itself at ist very best: with crisp Chicago blues and gentle ballads, with crackling guitar solos and a blasting brass section, with many rock and soul additions, and with highlights from concerts past.
The audio recording literally vibrates with vivacity. For the band, as well as for the audience, this was a great, exciting, unforgettable experiment.
Ain't Givin' Up
€18.99*
Blues Company
Blues
Format:
CD
With more than 40 years on the move for the blues, the Blues Company is one of the pioneers of the German Blues-Scene and one of the oldest still active German bands ever.
Various high-profile awards such as 'Jazz Award', ‘Award of the German Record Critics' for several productions, 'Blues Louis' and the 'Lifetime Award' (BiG - Blues in Germany) for Todor 'Tosho' Todorovic are testifying the quality of this combo.
Regularly their albums are selected by the high-end faction in the hi-fi area to impressively demonstrate the brilliance and performance of the finest speakers and the finest amplifier technology.
Ain’t Givin' Up consists of eight stylistically diversified own compositions as well as three cover versions. A new masterpiece of German Blues art.
Canton Reference Check - Vol. 1
€29.99*
Various
Pop International
Format:
U-HQCD
It’s the sound that makes the music. Experience the perfection of the best music. With pieces full of depth. There’s no compromise when it comes to what excites Canton.
We all have one passion in common – music. Not just any music, but the very best music. Songs that inspire us. Sounds that make us close our eyes and forget the world around us. Canton has put together a compilation of 12 favorites - each one has its very own nuances. Discover the mid-tones. These 12 pieces are a journey of discovery for your ears and thus put all speakers through their paces.
In order to bring the sound quality closer to the quality of the master, this recording is pressed onto an Ultimate HiQuality CD (UHQCD). The high-quality Mediabook rounds up the package.
• Ultimate HiQuality CD (UHQCD)
Cocktails & Guitars
€6.99*
A Tasty Sound Collection
Pop International
Format:
CD
A good cocktail is like life itself: Sometimes sweet, sometimes sour, sometimes fizzy, never flat, hot or ice-cold and occasionally simply stunning
It is high-time to enjoy cocktails with the right music and not with the same old dull background muzak. The Cocktails & Guitars collection contains 17 blues tracks which are the perfect sound for any cocktail party – 74 minutes of music as powerful as the drinks on offer. With fantastic cover versions of famous songs such as “Fly Like An Eagle” or “Isn’t She Lovely”
In addition to music to match the mood, aficionados will also appreciate the wealth of information on the history and tradition of cocktails as well as useful tips and recipes for every occasion. The collections are packaged in an attractive high-quality slip-case
Der in-akustik Soundcheck
€11.00*
Various
Pop International
Format:
CD
Soundcheck for the perfect cable.
Which cable is suitable for your requirements? This CD helps you to choose the right one. Because the cable has a huge impact on the sound of your hi-fi system. This CD contains a collection of superior recordings from the in-akustik sales repertoire representing all the different sound characteristics. You can enjoy exquisite music and the superior sound of your hi-fi system, once you have found the right cable.
Great Ballads
€548.99*
Reference Sound Edition
Pop International
Format:
Mastertape 38 cm/s
Welcome to the world of impeccable sound, the “IN-AKUSTIK REFERENCE SOUND EDITION”.
This Mastertape Selection from in-akustik has been assembled with a love of musical detail.
RESO Mastering, the high definition mastering procedure, provides significant acoustic improvements in transparency, dynamics, bass reproduction and depth differentiation. The music is gaining more atmosphere and emotion.
The transfer to „Master Selection“ tapes „Recording The Masters SM 468“ is done by calibrated and professionally maintained studio tape machines Studer A 80 (38 cm/sec) and Telefunken M 15/21 (19 cm/sec) directly from the original master. Each tape is produced directly and without any detour.
Haute couture for the ears, real master quality.
Variants from €29.99*
Great Guitar Tunes
€42.99*
Reference Sound Edition
Pop International
Format:
LP Audiophil
Welcome to the world of impeccable sound, the IN-AKUSTIK REFERENCE SOUND EDITION. This time the theme is: GREAT GUITAR TUNES. Excellent guitarists with exceptional performances are giving the ears a treat.
This remarkable sound carrier from in-akustik has been assembled with a love of musical detail. 15 tracks featuring great musicians are forming a seamless and exceptional sound and listening experience.
RESO Mastering, the high definition mastering procedure, provides significant acoustic improvements in transparency, dynamics, bass reproduction and depth differentiation. The music is gaining more atmosphere and emotion.
To best transmit this musical experience, the Direct Metal Mastercut (DMM) technique is employed and 180 gram pure Vinyl (Virgin Vinyl) is used for the sound carrier.
Variants from €24.99*
Great Men Of Song
€42.99*
Reference Sound Edition
Pop International
Format:
LP Audiophil
Welcome to the world of impeccable sound, the IN-AKUSTIK REFERENCE SOUND EDITION. This time the theme is: GREAT MEN OF SONG.
This remarkable sound carrier from in-akustik has been assembled with a love of musical detail. 16 tracks featuring great male singers are forming a seamless and exceptional sound and listening experience.
RESO Mastering, the high definition mastering procedure, provides significant acoustic improvements in transparency, dynamics, bass reproduction and depth differentiation. The music is gaining more atmosphere and emotion.
To best transmit this musical experience, the Direct Metal Mastercut (DMM) technique is employed and 180 gram pure Vinyl (Virgin Vinyl) is used for the sound carrier.
Variants from €24.99*
Great Voices, Vol. III
€42.99*
Reference Sound Edition
Pop International
Format:
LP Audiophil
Welcome to the world of impeccable sound, the IN-AKUSTIK REFERENCE SOUND EDITION. This time the theme is: GREAT VOICES, VOL. III.
This remarkable sound carrier from in-akustik has been assembled with a love of musical detail. 16 tracks featuring Great Voices are forming a seamless and exceptional sound and listening experience.
RESO Mastering, the high definition mastering procedure, provides significant acoustic improvements in transparency, dynamics, bass reproduction and depth differentiation. The music is gaining more atmosphere and emotion.
To best transmit this musical experience, the Direct Metal Mastercut (DMM) technique is employed and 180 gram pure Vinyl (Virgin Vinyl) is used for the sound carrier.
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Hot And Ready To Serve
€10.00*
Blues Company
Blues
Format:
CD
This band is hot. Very hot.
That is quite something. After all, the Blues Company from Osnabrück, Germany is not a bunch of wild youngsters, but a team of seasoned men with a lot of experience and know-how: Blues Company simply stands for the longest-lived and most successful blues band in Germany.
After their 2005 coup "The Quiet Side Of Blues Company", where Todorovic and Titre gave their beloved Fender guitars a breather, it's now "Back To The Roots":
On Hot And Ready To Serve, Toscho & Co. are back what they have always been known and appreciated for: powerful, modern, guitar-driven blues is served here. As the cover art clearly indicates, this music is a ‘gumbo’, a New Orleans stew, highly nutritious and spicy with all sorts of ingredients that grow and thrive in the blues' great garden. Driving 50s rhythm & blues and boogaloo stand alongside funky music, profound ballads and Tosho's tribute to the great Freddie King.
The American film producer and screenwriter Ian Gurvitz, who has already won several awards, knocked on the door of the Blues Company and its record company in autumn 2006: he wanted the song "Blue And Lonesome" from the album "Keepin' The Blues Alive" as the title motif for his film ' LA Blues'. At least that makes it clear: The Blues Company is an international company with an internationally successful product.
Old, New, Borrowed But Blues
€18.99*
Blues Company
Blues
Format:
CD
As everyone knows, Germany has various capital cities: Berlin is clearly the tourist capital, Frankfurt is the financial capital, Munich regards itself as the secret capital, Bonn still as the former capital, Stuttgart as the car capital and Mainz as the wine capital. However, there is also a blues capital and that’s called – Osnabrück. There’s no denying it: according to semi-official estimates, there are 2.4 electric guitars and 1.7 harmonicas for every resident in Osnabrück.
An obvious question: how did it come about that Osnabrück is so blues-oriented? Some say, it could be the weather – because the summer there always presents itself like the cold and rainy summer of 2016 in the other parts of the country. However, the most plausible reason appears to be the fact that for the last 40 years the guitarist, song-writer and singer Tosho Todorovic has been active in Osnabrück with his Blues Company – perhaps the most varied, definitely the longest lasting, German blues formation, that has excited, encouraged and influenced countless other musicians during these same 40 years.
In 2016, Todor ‘Tosho’ Todorovic received the first Lifetime Award ever presented at the BiG-Blues-Award for his achievements in blues music in Germany.
The Blues Company celebrated the band’s 40th birthday with a special concert in the SWR Funkhaus in Mainz. Old, New, Borrowed but Blues – the theme of the evening quickly became the title of the album. They thrilled the audience with a set-list consisting of ‘old’ Blues Company titles, new and previously unreleased songs composed by Tosho Todorovic and ‘borrowed’ tracks, i.e. cover versions.
The Company were supported by the Soul Sistaz Seda Devran and Maria Nicolaides on vocals as well as by the Fabulous BC Horns Uwe Nolopp and Volker Winck.
Musicians:
Todor ‘Tosho’ Todorovic - Guitar, Lead Vocals
Mike Titre - Guitar, Slide Guitar, Harp
Arnold Ogrodnik – Bass, Keys
Florian Schaube - Drums
Uwe Nolopp – Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Euphonium
Volker Winck - Sax, Clarinet
Seda Devran - Backing Vocals, Percussion
Maria Nicolaides - Backing Vocals, Percussion
Reference Soundcheck
€42.99*
Reference Sound Edition
Pop International
Format:
LP Audiophil
Welcome to the world of impeccable sound, the IN-AKUSTIK REFERENCE SOUND EDITION. This time the theme is: REFERENCE SOUNDCHECK.
Which cable is suitable for your requirements? This HQCD helps you to choose the right one. Because the right cable has a huge impact on the sound of your hi-fi system. A collection of superior recordings representing all the different sound characteristics. How does the voice come across, how does the acoustic or electric bass sound alike, does the bass manage the drums, which listening impression is coming up listening to Tuba or Trumpet, are spatial depth and Dynamics correct?
This remarkable sound carrier from in-akustik has been assembled with a love of musical detail. 14 tracks featuring great musicians are forming a seamless and exceptional sound and listening experience. RESO Mastering, the high definition mastering procedure, provides significant acoustic improvements in transparency, dynamics, bass reproduction and depth differentiation. The music is gaining more atmosphere and emotion.
To best transmit this musical experience, the Direct Metal Mastercut (DMM) technique is employed and 180 gram pure Vinyl (Virgin Vinyl) is used for the sound carrier.
You can enjoy exquisite music and the superior sound of your hi-fi system, once you have found the right cable.
Variants from €24.99*
Songs With No Words
€14.98*
Blues Company
Blues
Format:
CD
This compilation is an album of instrumentals only. 15 ‘songs without words’ from the last 30 years of the band, reflecting its various line-ups, with Tosho Todorovic Mike Titré being the only two constant band members over all these years.
Take The Stage
€42.99*
Blues Company
Blues
Format:
LP Audiophil
Recorded live at the Bowers & Wilkins Rhythm’n’Blues Festival in Halle, Germany Take The Stage features the XXL line-up of the Blues Company surrounding the band leader Todor 'Tosho' Todorovic.
Asked about studio vs. live album Todor 'Tosho Todorovic' expresses his more than 40 years of stage experience: If we as a Blues Company do have the choice between a live or a studio album, we will always opt for a live album, as our music lives from the interaction of the band members. The Blues Company is first and foremost a live band. The stage is our living room. Live recordings have more energy, are authentic and unadulterated and document the musical condition of the band on this special evening.
And then there are those 'magic moments'. There are moments and entire concerts that make you float on cloud nine. The stage sound sounds fantastic. The audience motivates you to perform at your very best. The band grooves without ending. If a live concert is also recorded, you are the happiest person on earth. And that gig in Halle had several of these magic moments.
• DMM
• 180 Gr. Virgin Vinyl
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United Nations Of Blues
€42.99*
Blues Company
Blues
Format:
LP Audiophil
The German town of Lahnstein is well-known to Tosho Todorovic, bandleader of German-based Blues Company. Ever since the first edition of Lahnstein Blues Festival in 1981 he has performed at the local town hall repeatedly. And in 2010 he was presented with the festival’s Blues Louis Award by Tom Schroeder, the grey eminence of the festival.
But two things were different in 2022: First, it was the XXL line-up of the Blues Company that entered the stage, meaning that instead of four there were a total of nine musicians present; and secondly their set list contained songs that have been previously unreleased.
And what about the title of the album? Well, that refers to the fact that the family or personal roots of the nine musicians do not only lie in Germany, but also in former Yugoslavia, the Caribbean, Poland, Greece and Turkey.
Last, but not least this is what Todorovic has to say about the new album: ‘For me it’s rather live than in the studio because the contact to the audience is very inspiring. As opposed to the matter-of-fact atmosphere of a recording studio.’
• Direct Metal Mastering (DMM)
• 180 Gr. Audiophile Virgin Vinyl
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Whisky & Blues
€6.99*
A Tasty Sound Collection
Pop International
Format:
CD
Music, as blue(s) as whisky: Whisky is a drink of the night. It is best enjoyed in small sips, for example, in a night club. With dimmed light. And nothing goes better with whisky than the Blues. Let whisky melt on your tongue and enjoy this compilation of blues hymns related to whisky and those times that simply call for a drink – and someone that offers one (Somebody Buy Me A Drink – David Johansen). Experience how whisky can affect you (Crazy when she drinks – Lee Rocker) and how it can ease the pain of missing someone (Miss You – Cadillac Blues Band).
Enjoy the Blues for the full duration of a whisky drink – more than 56 minutes of other great tunes from artists like Kenny Neal, the Vivino Brothers or Miller Anderson.
Just enough time to sip on a single malt.
Wine & Vocals
€6.99*
A Tasty Sound Collection
Pop International
Format:
CD
Songs just like wine: Wine has an air of deliberateness. You don’t just pour it. You enjoy its colour. You take your time to enjoy it. You take it in – fully. Just like a message from a friend. Or like a song whose melody and lyrics touch you. This compilation contains songs that mirror the qualities of wine. Perfect for a beautiful summer evening on the patio, watching the sun go down, listening to music that sounds as good as wine tastes.
Selected by friends of wine and good music, this compilation contains songs for accompanying these moods, including America, Michael Schenker & Gary Barden, Rebecca Pidgeon, Sara K. or Lucy Kaplansky,just to name a few.
In the booklet you’ll find interesting facts and backround knowledge on the history and tradition of wine, and tutorial for the perfect wine tasting.
X-Ray Blues
€10.00*
Blues Company
Blues
Format:
CD
They have been on the stage for over 35 years, have performed on more than 3,500 occasions in 14 countries and have released more than 20 albums. From these impressive achievements of the Blues Company, it is apparent that the musicians around the mastermind Todor Todorovic have had an enormous influence on the blues in Germany. However, far more impressive than the statistics is the manner in which Todorovic, who is known to all simply as ‘Toscho’, celebrates the blues with his buddies on stage. Toscho lets the guitar fly with his pieces that bubble with elegance, while his unmistakeable voice gives the songs their distinctive expression.
It is not surprising that highly prestigious awards, such as ‘The German Record Critics' Award’ or ‘Blues Louis’ awarded by the SWR, grace the shelves of the Blues Company. Although, Toscho & Co may actually feel even more honoured by a completely different and very special use of their studio albums. Sound experts of the most sophisticated high-end hi-fi equipment regularly make use of the CDs of the Blues Company to be able to demonstrate the impressive brilliance and performance of their sophisticated speaker boxes and finest amplifier technology…
After an absence of 3 years from the studio, the Blues Company prove that they have not missed out on anything in their new album ‘X-Ray Blues’. 13 songs that vibrate with vitality in a mix of proven, powerful modern Chicago blues with trips into the Mississippi delta, into folk blues and funky soul blues. Numerous guests fortify the nutritious musical menu.
Although the album has quiet and temperamental moments, it is always able to carry the listener away with its intensity.
Toscho even created the cover picture. During a tour through the former Yugoslavia, he was granted permission at the airport in Belgrade to photograph his Ibanez whilst it was being scanned.