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There are two artists with this name: 1. Lisa Maxwell is an American jazz vocalist. 2. A concoction of noise, aggression, rock, humour, “gruff anthems”, upbeat music, downbeat music, true stories and total fabrications: rock songwriter/musician Lisa Maxwell’s debut longplayer, Select Vacancy. Produced by Jamie Durrant and Lisa Maxwell, the album’s title track and opener is packed with energy and intense melancholy. Rampant guitars are fronted by Lisa's vitriolic snarl on Anna and the ferocious I Know. But it’s not always just about rock guitar: dulcimer, Wurlitzer piano and 'fly spray can' slide on Not So Easy, subsonic bass and...

Maxwell kam 1973 in Brooklyn, New York, zur Welt. Sein Vater, der aus Puerto Rico stammt, starb bei einem Flugzeugabsturz, als Maxwell drei Jahre alt war. Seine ersten musikalischen Erfahrungen machte er bereits früh als Sänger in einer baptistischen Kirche. Mit 17 begann er eigene Lieder zu schreiben. 1994, mit 21, bekam er einen Plattenvertrag bei Columbia Records. Gemeinsam mit Songschreiber Leon Ware und Gitarristen Wah Wah Watson nahm er noch im selben Jahr sein Debütalbum Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite auf, das allerdings zwei Jahre auf seine Veröffentlichung warten musste, da die Plattenfirma einen Erfolg bezweifelte. Die zweite Single Ascension...

Raised in New York, Maxwell won a scholarship to Juillard in the late 1930s. He performed as a classical harpist with the National Symphony Orchestra and gave recitals in a number of major cities prior to joining the Coast Guard in World War II. In the Coast Guard, Maxwell played in a touring band led by Rudy Vallee, and Vallee encouraged him to write for the band and gave him featured spotlights in their performances. This whetted his appetite, and after his discharge, Maxwell went into commercial work, performing and arranging for radio and television and appearing in hotels and...

The Maxwell Implosion is Torsten Heller, a German DJ who fuses lounge, jazz, bossa nova, and soundtracks of the '60s and '70s. Before recording his own work, the record connoisseur had stints on the turntables in Japan, the United States, Moscow, Barcelona, and Rome. The Maxwell Implosion has played shows with Dimitri From Paris, the Brand New Heavies, Towa Tei, and the Cardigans, while remix work has included Pizzicato Five and Kenickie. His debut record, Small Circle of Friends, features contributions from like-minded artists such as Laila France, Nicola Conte, and Montefiori Cocktail. .

ANTHONY NICHOLSON aka Miquifaye Anthony Nicholson's compositions are an expression of a profound and original sound that leaves an indelible impact on DJs and music lovers alike. At an early age , Anthony Nicholson's introduction to the music of artist like Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson, Miles Davis , Steely Dan, and Lonnie Liston Smith built a solid musical foundation that developed into a discriminating taste in the music he collected, and later played. Dance Music pioneers were in the midst of defining what we now call "house music". It was around this time when Anthony began to develop...