To celebrate 20 years of Dulce Pontes´ musical career the Portuguese singer presents her new double album „Momentos“ that captures some of her most impressing moments on stages all over the world combined with new studio recordings. The first CD is dedicated to Portugal while the second CD focusses more on the international aspects of Dulce Pontes career with spectacular duets with José Carr... more
In the ‘00s, David Sylvian produced two of his strongest and most solitary statements, Blemish and Manafon. But those records don’t tell the whole story. In the same period, Sylvian created a more playful body of work: a series of collaborations and side projects with leading talents of pop and improv, electronic and contemporary classical music. The best of these recordings are gathered here on Sleepwalkers, meticulously sequenced and remixed: the fruits of one-off meetings and lifelong partnerships, they jump from bliss to intrigue, romance to sensuality, as arch experiments lead into the lushest pop. more
This collection features the expanded audio taken from the original concert recordings used for the band’s Deja VROOOM DVD. The 1995 world tour was the first undertaken by the re-formed double trio lineup in the wake of the release of THRAK. 15 years on from the concerts, the benefits of perspective confirm what many fans suspected at the time; namely that this incarnation of King Crimson was a classic live lineup - no mean feat given some of its predecessors. more
Live at Coventry Cathedral is one of those genuine musical rarities, an album drawn from a largely improvised performance that has the potential to resonate with, and impact upon, an audience far wider than one would normally associate with such music. Of course the very term “improvised” is laden with expectations – not all of them positive ones – so it’s also worth mentioning that words like “melodic”, “atmospheric”, “rhythmic” can equally be applied to the music. Fripp provides solo runs that most guitarists could only dream of conjuring, while Travis demonstrates the kind of incisive lyricism on flute or soprano sax that makes him such a substantial presence in both jazz and rock settings. It’s no surprise that both of these musicians can improvise successfully; such an approach is at the heart of their solo, group and collaborative efforts. What is remarkable is that this is not the result of an established duo who have played together for years, but of a far more occasional basis of operation - a mere handful of performances to date. more
Loane sings and what really has to be said is that it’s some kind of absurd miracle. Because you only have to listen to her to understand that it’s not simply a job, it’s a vocation, and it’s her way of breathing. Loane is anchored to life, moored on an island that happens to look like a piano. A piano as ship. A piano as mirror. And always: a living piano. The history of Loane will be written on the piano, an instrument that knows how to age. Because wood and ebony never die, and Loane always embraces anything with the power to regenerate itself. As a child, Loane played one or two hours each day on her desert island piano. Later, at the conservatory where she studied, she refused to do what everyone else was doing. She was supposed to play Chopin; fine, then, she would play one of her own compositions. And there were a few things that Loane, even as a stubborn teenager, was certain of. Music would tell her how to understand the world, would let her invent a world for herself, as if this were the most exciting thing you could do. more
