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Celebrating our 66th release, Fading Ways is happy to introduce you to one of Portugal's up-and-coming revelations. The country is presently a hotbed of English-language musical talent, with several artists (Mazgani being first rank in this "new generation" of Portuguese singers) hoping to break out onto the international scene - see X-Wife, Rita Redshoes, The Legendary Tigerman, and the fabulous Dead Combo for examples. Known internationally for its Fado (aka Portuguese Blues), Fading Ways founder Neil Leyton feels that it is about time it becomes known for its living stars rather than the long-deceased Amalia. And so, without further ado about Portugal:

Shahryar Mazgani counts Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan and Nick Cave as some of his influences and started singing fairly late in his 30-some years (similarly to Cohen, actually). He has recorded a very well received debut album, Song of the new Heart, prior to pursuing a rawer sound for the follow-up EP Tell the People: through famed radio DJ Henrique Amaro, he was introduced to Dead Combo's Pedro Goncalves, who produced the Tell the People EP and also the second album, to be released in 2010. Thus, "Tell the People" was released in Portugal in June via OptimusDiscos (free downloads at www.optimusdiscos.com ) and Fading Ways has now re-packaged the EP along with five tracks from the debut album and an unreleased demo for Mazgani's first international release.

"Ladies and Gentlemen introducing Mazgani" will thus be out via FW Finland, distributed via Playground for Finland and Scandinavia, Sonic RendezVous in the BeNeLux, and later on Scratch Distribution for Canada.

For further information, please visit www.mazgani.com

Happy new year!

The Fading Ways group of labels and the FW Music Store welcomes you to 2009! 

Kicking off the year with Neil Leyton's Metacognitive Apperceptions album (exclusive to FW Music Store for mailorder and Amie Street for downloads), Fading Ways is hereby proud to announce our release schedule for this year:

January brings The Banshee to the FW territories of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland via Alive Distribution, the BeNeLux via Sonic RendezVous and the UK via Cargo Records and the FW Music Store. The Banshee's second album consolidates their position as one of Europe's best up-and-coming indie-electro-rock outfits.

 Banshee tour dates:

05/02 Innsbruck (A) - Bierstindl
06/02 Salzburg (A) - Yeah! Club @ Rockhouse
09/02 Chemnitz (GER) - Subway to Peter
10/02 Berlin (GER) - Intersoup
11/02 Hannover (GER) - Faust
12/02 Dortmund (GER) - tba
13/02 Geldern (GER) - Seven
14/02 Osnabruck (GER) - Unikeller
18/02 Gent (BEL) - Cafè Video
20/02 Liege (BEL) - Le Tipi
21/02 La Louviere (BEL) - La Taverne du Theatre

The rest of the year will see brand new releases from Turku Romantic Movement (FW Finland), Red Orkestra (FW Canada) and Neil Leyton, whose long-in-gestation Elite Nylon project promises to finally see the light of day in September.

However, before that, at the end of April, FW Finland is also set to issue the debut 7" single by The Point , a Nicke Andersson / Neil Leyton side project. The single will feature three tracks, "Give it a try", "Party of fools", and the Jook cover "Aggravation Place".

THE POINT - Give it a try 7" is now available on pre-order with an end of April release date. Please email This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it for instructions on how to pre-order!

We wish all indie labels and indie artists around the world a great 2009! Here's to the fans of real music...