A beautiful set from the mighty Egberto Gismonti – as up-close and personal as you'd guess from the image on the cover! The set's a bit less wild than some of Egberto's 70s material, yet it's still a lot fuller and more jazz-based than any of his recordings for ECM too – lots of right Brazilian jazz lines, soaring out with complicated rhythms, and a really free, soulful spirit in the solos! Egberto plays a fair bit of acoustic piano, and a bit of keyboards as well – and the album also features saxes and flute from Mauro Senise, bass from Zeca Assumpcao, and drums and percussion from the enigmatic Nene.

Delivering a very interesting combination of Black Metal with some Gothic/Dark Metal elements, today we have Germany’s Freitod and their sophomore release “Regenjahre”. This journey through seven tracks and 52 minutes of brilliantly crafted music is a very unique one since the band keeps a perfect balance between harsh and aggressive Black Metal brush strokes and highly melancholic overtones creating a lush Post-Black Metal experience.

Young Italian melodic metallers Myriad Lights have signed a deal with Underground Symphony for the release of their debut album 'Mark Of Vengeance'."Mark of Vengeance" is a killer album of classic heavy metal with great guitar riffs and epic vocal lines melted in a perfect combination between power and feeling.The record takes inspiration from the rock monsters of 70s mixed with the powerful sounds of the 80s school, making an original and effective sound.

Album released in Spain in 1996 under the sponsorship of the entity Bankpyme to commemorate the 18th anniversary of commercial deployment (it was not distributed for sale), but strictly as advertising disclosure of limited diffusion. The CD, with an atypical design, brings together six songs from the soundtracks of so many outstanding films in the period 1978-1993. All topics are indisputable successes of this genre of soundtracks. Here are musicians like Vangelis, Ennio Morricone, Sam Cooke or Bruce Springsteen and splendid themes like 'Cavatina', 'Chariots of Fire', 'Pretty Woman', etc.

Mixed album of nocturnal forest psychedelic music, inspired by psytrance, techno, broken beat and beyond. Vocals in a few of the tracks gives a very deep and layered experience. Uptempo set of narrative forest dance music that was created over the year span. Spirals of shadowy textures create multifaceted subliminal language. Occasionally appearing vocals sound with a questioning, philosophical tone. Many of these tracks were created under the influence of drugs.

A dramatic cosmic saga about the distant future. The triumph of the technology should have given infinite facilities, but the human race becomes unsatisfied with things been conquered. Envy and greed erode souls of citizens of the Solar System Federation. The great scientific achievements get at the service of bad aspirations and lead to the cold war. As a result of the turmoil the real military actions break out. However, the great minds foretell an attainment into a new level, hitherto unknown to the mankind. Severe, long-lasting war should become the last frontier ahead of the opening of the new opportunities.

Album by the composer, arranger and British director Roland Shaw (1920-2008). Shaw was band director in the Royal Air Force during World War II, then went on to work for the period 1966-1971 with Decca Records and with arrangements for their own orchestrations worked and collaborated with other directors of great orchestras of the time (Ted Heath, Frank Chacksfield, Mantovani, etc.). He also made arrangements for movies and various singers and performers (Caterina Valente, The Beverly Sisters, Cliff Richard, Kenny Baker, etc.). He has been recognized for arrangements and interpretations of the songs of the James Bond film series.

Time has no meaning for the ones who are not of flesh and blood. Only the mortals build their citadels to hide away from danger, but still the darkness creeps relentless beneath their walls. The spirits of dusk dash into the strongholds, pass through the reinforced gates, fly over the deep ditches and raised bridges getting through the walls right into the private room to devour your soul. Those who try to trust the stone and carve their memories in solid rock are pathetic… For every monument someday will turn to dust.

There is no greater name in lieder composition than that of Franz Schubert, and he desperately wanted to make a name for himself as a composer of opera as well. However, his operatic efforts met only with indifference or outright failure in his lifetime - as so much of his great body of work did. After his death, much of his chamber, symphonic, and lieder works achieved masterpiece status, whereas his theatrical works remain obscure…

Chris Mullins

Arne Domnerus & Gustaf Sjökvist - Antiphone Blues
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 172 MB | Full Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: LIM K2HD 026 | Country/Year: US 2008, 1974
Genre: Jazz | Style: Bop, Saxophone Jazz

…The disc of Ame Domnerus, because he is the main actor here, is equally quieted down, contemplating. But it is enough to hear a few notes to shout from the impression: I haven’t heard for a long time such phenomenally captured space, timbres and tonal balance. Even the recording from Garbarek, made by the unequalled ECM, does not come close to the Swedish recording. Or maybe this is the result of the K2 HD mastering? Possible, quite possible. Its signature can be heard – incredibly full, analog, creamy and “dense” sound, where the treble does not act on its own, but is only an elongation of the basic tone. Incredible!…