Running a label sounds cool, right? Releasing good music and maybe make a little money as well. Canadian Wally Salem got the first part right, when he founded The Beautiful Music in 2004, focusing on power pop and New Wave in all their guises. As a fan first and a business man second, he put out over 60 releases since then.
He built a carefully crafted catalog that can keep listeners entertained for days on end. As an introduction the free sampler Lost In An Imaginary World is a gateway drug to the full albums, plus it features quite a few previously unreleased tracks. Few people will have be familiar with bands like Tender Engines, who contributed an ace cover of Edward Ball's Love Is Blue, or Roy Moller, whose self-depricating song Byres Road Saturday about his busking adventures in Glasgow set the tone for his Playing Songs No One's Listening To album.
Lost In An Imaginary World is available as free download. Full notes here.
Tracks:- Dot Dash - Airwaves
- Theatre Royal – Down South With The Chameleons
- The Yellow Melodies – Follow The Sun
- The Milestone Band – Starting Over Again
- Hiro, Rie and Yoshito – Kismit
- Super 8 – Wichita Limeman
- Tender Engines – Love Is Blue
- Marc Elston – The Worst Year Of My Life
- The Names – Kissing In The Dark
- Lisa Mychols And Super 8 – Flying Close To The Sun
- Emma Sounds – Part Time Punks
- Robert Rotifer – Red With Purple Flashes
- Roy Moller – Byres Road Saturday
- Armstrong – Cosmos World
- The Black Watch Featuring Julie Schulte – Julie
- Royal Ottawa – Carcosa
- Lovejoy – Someone To Share My Life With
- Honeybourne – Beautiful Progress
- Skytone – All Night
- Rachel Love – Far Away
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