Robinson Crusoe / The Mystery of Dead Man's Isle / Lindbergh's Flight and ReturnRobinson Crusoe The Mystery of Dead Man's Isle Lindbergh's Flight and Return

- Adam Shulman's festive release on Cellar music takes a clutch of well-loved Christmas melodies and reflects them through the lens of a 70s funk/fusion group

From the liner notes

singer and songwriter Joe Melson is introduced with two contrasting songs

In the original liner notes

Many well-known New Orleans musicians were members of this brass band over it's long and successful career - Manuel Paul

and accompanied by the whimsically named B'Rock

Andrea Molteni presents two further works in a haunting neoclassical vein: a 'Canonic Sonata' based on Paganini's Capricci for solo violin

Charles Big - Fuck You

great control and timbre

His dark R&B takes influence from melancholic artists such as Lana Del Rey and Frank Ocean

The label also made important recordings with Tom Scott (featured on Thiele's own 'Head Start')

serious and just about anywhere in-between and could literally talk for hours without losing a single member of his audience