"During an intensive phase of radical changes and new beginnings in 2018/2019/2020 a wish grow in me to record the songs from “Contact Myself” anew for the 20th anniversary of this album. It would be live and minimalistic – exactly like how I wrote them in my kitchen in Hamburg back then. Stockfisch was the only label I considered for this project

The new addition to the Stockfisch Records stable is an old hand in the business: Ian Smith - an excellent guitarist, singer and songwriter with Scottish roots from the “Keadue Strand” in Donegal/Ireland, as mentioned in the song of the same name.

He’s been in the business - and on the road -  for over 30 years, and the new album “Last Call” marks his first production for the Northeim sound-specialists as a Super-Audio CD.

The album "Pearl Diver" (2004) marked the beginning of an extremely fruitful cooperation between the American song poet David Roth and Günter Pauler from Stockfisch Records. Talking about his first encounter with the Chicago singer/songwriter David Roth, Pauler said at that time: "I was impressed by how he takes up vastly different topics with a self-confident intuition and turns them into works of art".

In 1979 Chris Jones and Charlie Carr came together to record some of their own songs
along with a few traditional pieces. The tapes of this recording lay hidden in the Stockfisch
archive for 40 years, only to resurface again in 2019. Stockfisch Records is glad to release
the results of this collaboration as the third album in its "Analog Pearls" series.

Available as SACD, LP and digital download.

Stockfisch Records is happy to present this 40-year-old recording of Craig Hadden &
Charlie Carr recreating some of their favourite songs from the 1950s. Originally pressed
on vinyl in very small numbers in 1980, this rare recording has now been transferred from
the original reel-to-reel master and is being re-released in three formats.

Available as SACD, LP and digital download.

Allan Taylor: "Over the last few years it has been gratifying to know that so many people are interested in our vinyl releases. Perhaps it’s not surprising, as the quality of the production is, as always, excellent, and a testament to the skill of our team. I have chosen these particular tracks mainly because I know that those of you who play the vinyl records usually play them on superb sound systems, and therefore appreciate the quality.

1 Strangler
2 Devil's Need
3 The Medication Show
4 Like My Enemy
5 The Thief
6 Sometimes Home
7 Trees
8 Out There
9 Waiting For The Rain
10 Falling Down
11 Colder
12 Liberty

"Let's be honest. Live albums are often bland; the songs pale versions of lavish studio
originals. This one is different. The texan songwriter and her sideman turned into groove
masters during this concert in June 2002. Her 4-string and his steelstring/reso push songs
such as ALL YOUR LOVE unresistably forward. And Sara coos, screams and squeaks in
real hi-end sound. Great." CD-Tipps, RTL II-TEXT, 17 June 2003

Chris Jones visited Stockfisch Records for the first time in 1982, recording his first album "No Looking Back". The vinyl renaissance of our days makes it possible: "No Looking Back" is published again in 2017 as a vinyl record. (DMM-Mastering, 180g edition)

Musicians on "No Looking Back":

Chris Jones - vocals, guitars, bass / Oss Rentz & Ulrike Frank - backing vocals / Wojtek Bolimowski - violin / John Heinrich - pedal steel / Hennes Essers - blues harp / Pele Reinnarth - bass / Hans-Jörg Maucksch - fretless bass

Love, loss, self-pity, recognising chances and taking them - or not, almost mystical nature experiences, life-changing encounters, art and artists, environmental protection, human rights: it is truly a broad, moving and very current spectrum of themes which Irish singer-songwriter Brian Flanagan has worked through in the eleven tracks of his first Stockfisch album.