Jags Klimax | en

There are two bands called Klimax: a Finnish hardcore/punk band, and a Cuban timba band led by Giraldo Piloto. Giraldo Piloto's Klimax is one of the most sophisticated and original of Cuba's major timba bands. Descended from a line of famous Cuban musicians and composers, Piloto has been omnipresent throughout the first decade of timba history as a drummer, a songwriter and an arranger. He was a founding member of the first timba band, NG La Banda. He wrote La Charanga Habanera's first big hit "Me Sube la Fiebre" and several others. When Issac Delgado left NG to form his...

The Jags, a mod revival fueled new wave/power pop band, was formed in 1978 by the Yorkshire-based songwriting team of Nick Watkinson (vocals) and John Alder (guitar), with Steve Prudence (bass) and Alex Baird (drums). In July 1978, they signed to Island Records and released a promising four-track EP. Their 1980 debut LP, 'Evening Standards', included a highly derivative though memorable single called "Back of My Hand", which had reached the U.K. Top 40 the previous fall. Breaking through into the rock mainstream in a big way, the band seemed set for success, even performing on 'Top of the Pops'....

Marilies Jagsch is an Austrian singer/songwriter who happened not to use a pseudonym, stratagem, or any charming monikers, but her music is somewhat fashioned in a similar style (she sings about grave digger and ghosts too) that of two other landlocked country's talents (Gustav, Soap & Skin), though Marilies tends to do her blood and tears (horror and terror, thank God it's not Alice in Wonderland gone bad) somewhere else, happily reside in the folky acoustic-vein. Putting to use some unusual chords, the minor mode, and some artistic expressions of anything gothic, limited to merely daytime mourning, she is as...