The Chi Factory unfurl lushly overgrown 4th world drones, voices and field recordings made on a greek island, naturally drifting between time-slowing beats, FM radio interference, and languid instrumentation in four parts that describe a transition from dawn to dusk.
Dedicated to the life and work of Robert Lax (1915-2000), the American poet who lived on Patmos, Greece, as a self-exiled hermit since the sixties. Jack Kerouac called Lax "one of the great original voices of our times, a Pilgrim in search of beautiful innocence"…

Goran Kajfeš is a trumpet player, composer and producer from Sweden. Member of bands Oddjob, Nacka Forum, Fire! Orchestra, Angles 9. Tropiques, Pan-Scan Ensemble and Magic Spirit Quartet. Runs his own record label Headspin Recordings. Winner of Nordic Music Prize and numerous Swedish Grammis Awards. "Into the Wild" is his second album with Tropiques.

The plot of Gounods opera La Nonne sanglante (The Bleeding Nun) is drawn from Matthew Lewiss once famous 1796 novel The Monk. The subject is a Gothic melodrama featuring warring families, two lovers, and the vengeful spectre of the Nun, to which Gounod responds with music that fuses Romanticism with the supernatural on the grandest scale. This ground-breaking production features memorable set pieces enhanced by the stark drama of the stage setting and brilliant cinematic lighting effects.

6th CD in studio for Conqueror 5 years after the last Stems. The band returns to the classical 5-piece lineup (with wind instruments), it is part of the line up Tino Nastasi on guitar (already in the 2nd and 3rd disc). "In Orbita" is a very troubled record in its writing, which started at the end of 2014 and continued until 2017, right at the beginning of the final recordings. Great classic Prog close to the classic sounds of Canterbury Sound. The band deals with the early stages of Juri Gagarin's life before the famous space mission, focusing more on the intimate aspect of his perceptions.

"The greatest songs never grow old, they just get better as a select wine."

Country music is a genre of American popular music that originated in Southern United States, in Bristol, Tennessee and Nashville. Today we are known Nashville as the 'Music City USA'. As Nashville sounds today, illustrates the presented Three CDs offer a winning blend of Americana, country and folk with a comprehensive overview of the current music scene of the American South. The total of 60 songs divided thematically lead through the highlights of the genre Americana Folk (CD1), Modern Country (CD2) and more traditional Country (CD3). The Boxset presents top talent as Kacey Musgraves, Sam Hunt and The Secret Sisters, presents current flyer as Lady Antebellum, Luke Bryan and Florida Georgia Line, stars legends such as Vince Gill, Martina McBride and Alan Jackson.

Written by a young and ambitious Chopin as self-promotional vehicle to demonstrate his performance capabilities and, to a lesser degree, his compositional skills, the two piano concertos have remained as an important part of the instrument's repertoire. Often derided for their somewhat trite orchestral parts, these concertos are nevertheless beautiful, thoroughly enjoyable works. While there are countless recordings of the piano works of Beethoven and Mozart on period instruments, this inclination has found its way to Chopin's works with less frequency. This album, produced by The Fryderyk Chopin Institute, makes use of an 1849 Erard fortepiano made in Paris, very similar to the instruments Chopin himself would have used.

This is a very compelling performance of Tchaikovsky's Op.44. Perhaps too expansive for my taste, but skilfully well played and always convincent. Postnikova and Rozhdestvensky make a good match in this music and as a great advantage, they chose the composer's original version. While she is known to many for her recordings of the complete piano output of Tchaikovsky and all five piano concertos of Prokofiev, Viktoria Postnikova has played a broad range of solo, chamber, and concerto repertory, from J.S. Bach and Haydn to Chopin, Rachmaninov, and Shostakovich. In addition, Postnikova has played less traditional fare by Busoni, Ives, and Janácek, and contemporary works by Schnittke and Boris Tishchenko.

This disc is a sequel to the Hommage à Bach release by German pianist Andreas Staier, likewise devoted to the music of Schumann. Here Staier devotes himself to Schumann's late music (from his last year or so among the sane), playing the Gesänge der Frühe, Op. 133, himself, and taking on violinist Daniel Sepec for the two violin sonatas and Schumann's arrangement of Bach's Chaconne (here "Ciaconna") from the Partita for unaccompanied violin in D minor, BWV 1004. Both players use historical instruments, Staier's 1837 Erard is the same piano that's heard on the earlier release, and it's safe to say that those who enjoyed Hommage à Bach will also find much to admire here, even though the two performances are quite different in overall effect.

Pete Townshend - Live > BAM 1993 (2003) {2CD Set Eel Pie EPR017 rel 2003}
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Recorded live at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on August 7 1993, during the acclaimed ''Psychoderelict'' tour, this double CD set features, for the first time live, the entire ''Psychoderlict'' performance as well as a selection of hits from Pete Townshend''s extensive catalogue. The recording features Pete Townshend together with a full band and actors performing in this theatrical presentation.

Art Of Complex Simplicity offers themes stamped by great melodic and instrumental beauty, with superb guitar and keyboards parts. This fresh and pastoral music remind Kebnekaise, Ragnarok or today's Camel. The band’s music has always been a clever and subtle mix of Scandinavian folk music (some melodies and rythms), and Progressive rock music. Here is one of the musicians’ best work, sophisticated and dynamic. Their music has lost nothing of its freshness and sincerity, but also now reveals a very professional talent for arrangements and playing. Beautiful melodies, nice guitar soli, ambitious musical structures: mixing influences like Camel or Pink Floyd amongst others, Kerrs Pink offers us an exceptional album, with a beautiful booklet and an excellent production.

Among all the dialogues in jazz the encounter between the acoustic guitar and the double bass might be the most intimate - and at the same time one of the rarest. Such an encounter can only succeed if a delicate, fine-tuning between the two musicians develops and their chemistry results in blind understanding. They have to be kindred spirits, creating a sort of secret fraternity. But the two musicians in question are an odd pair of brothers: one of them hasn´t even finished his thirtieth year of life, the other one looks back on five decades of contributions to jazz history…

20 Top Prog/Psych Behemoths from the UK and Europe. Seems like only yesterday (probably because it was) that the Psychic Circle label explored some of the uncharted depths of British and European psycho-prog on the first volume of Blow Your Cool. Well, here's another voyage into that dazzling star system. Once again, legendary psych musician and Psychic Circle label-head, Nick Saloman (The Bevis Frond) has pulled in tracks from the UK and across Europe, and once again, this series will thrill you with as-yet unheard treasures from the patchouli-scented vaults of freaked musical excess. You'll find a splendid UK three-piece band who only issued records on the Continent, and then you'll find another…