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Mr. ROBBY VALENTINE is ready to release his new 2018 album soon, and this is the right time to revisit the Dutch genius hard to find side of his discography, many of these rarities only released in Japan.Let’s go now with most of his ’90s CD singles, including non album tracks / exclusive B-sides. Among these singles there’s uber rarities...
Multi-talented Dutch phenomenon ROBBY VALENTINE will present his new studio album ‘The Alliance’ soon, but alongside there’s also 3 more releases; ‘Pride & Heart (The Magic Infinity Demos)’, ‘Bizarro World (The Piano Versions)’, and the reissue of his previous effort “Bizarro World 2018“, this one already available. At the time of the original release of “Bizarro World”, it was already...
Universal Music Japan has started this year a curious but more than welcomed campaign: the reissue of long time out of print albums from their catalog titled ‘HR/HM 1000‘, that meaning Hard Rock / Heavy Metal at the price of 1000 Yen = about 9,5 USD.Into these series, appear the 2 more celebrated (out of print) albums by talent Dutch...
Really interesting albums to be released this Summer… and beyond. Let’s check some advanced singles. HEARTS ON FIRE is a new awesome AOR band formed in 2017 by guitarist Jean Funes (Sound Of Eternity), and with the help of drummer Joel Mejia (Codigo Eterno) they begun to work in new songs ideas and sketches. Soon many well known names joined...
Universal Music Japan has started this year a curious but more than welcomed campaign: the reissue of long time out of print albums from their catalog titled ‘HR/HM 1000‘, that meaning Hard Rock / Heavy Metal at the price of 1000 Yen = about 9,5 USD.And it’s curious because these series focus on the ‘commercially less successful’ albums from each...
Spring is here, and new singles from upcoming released appear to our delight.British melodic rock wonders VEGA will release their fifth studio album, ‘Only Human’, on May 11th via Frontiers Music. The band self-produced the record, but teamed up with legendary Canadian musician and producer Harry Hess (Harem Scarem) for the mixing and mastering to bring their fans another gem...
To support his comeback to touring, some years ago Robby VALENTINE put out “Androgrenius“, a two CD release subtitled ‘Past’ and ‘Future’. The past decade, after a break Robby Valentine returned with the album The Most Beautiful Pain, a very diverse record. Still heavily influenced by Queen but also many different other styles of music even including the theme to...
To support his comeback to touring, some years ago Robby VALENTINE put out “Androgrenius“, a two CD release subtitled ‘Past’ and ‘Future’. The past decade, after a break Robby Valentine returned with the album The Most Beautiful Pain, a very diverse record. Still heavily influenced by Queen but also many different other styles of music even including the theme to...
One of you requested a refresh of this album, and deserves it truly as despite of being recently released, it’s out of print. “ANIDAY” is the self-titled debut by this Dutch band, and what makes it stand out is that the mighty Robby Valentine is all over it.Robby Valentine produces it, he plays pretty much everything on it and has...
* Only few weeks after the release of his celebrated comeback, Dutch phenomenon ROBBY VALENTINE is presenting new material, the “Black Rain EP“.This is what years ago was called maxi-single, featuring the cut “Black Rain” (Album Version) plus its Radio Edit and a very different take of the song on the ‘Acoustic Version”.As plus we have an extended version of...
* Multi-talented Dutch phenomenon ROBBY VALENTINE have ready his 10th studio album “Bizarro World” which has been made via an online direct-to-fan system similar to PledgeMusic. Those who have sponsored the release are receiving their CD today (at least, when you live in The Netherlands). The album will be available at regular retailers soon.Meanwhile, Robby has released the single “You’re...
* It’s well known the admiration of the mighty Dutch ROBBY VALENTINE for UK’s legends Queen and the late Freddie Mercury. On Nov. 5th, 2011, Valentine performed at the ‘Queen Fanclub Day’ in Koningshof Theater, Maassluis, NL. For this occasion he recorded an entire album of Queen covers titled “Valentine – A Tribute To Queen”, of course, produced by himself.The...
