Magnatune: five albums

This week's 5 new albums:

  • Aryeh Frankfurter and Lisa Lynne: Weaving Worlds - World
    Two Worlds, One Music

  • Kalabi: Edible Arrangements - Electronica
    chillout music for late nights and early mornings

  • Liquid Rainbow: Landscapes and Treasures - Electro Rock
    a melting pot of classic, pop and rock sounds with modern-dub influences

  • Vito Paternoster: The Chinese Four Seasons and the Korean Four Seasons - Classical
    cellist extraordinaire

  • Processor: Surface - Electronica
    industrial acid house.

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Description:industrial acid house.
Genre:Electronica
Artist:Processor
Album:Surface

The album Surface is a mix of house and modern electro, from Summer feeling in "Soulmate" to autumn darkness in "Series". This is the surface of an ordinary Swedish man ;0)

Also including singles such as Automan, Just and Soulmate that have been playing on Swedish National Radio.



Description:cellist extraordinaire
Genre:Classical
Artist:Vito Paternoster
Album:The Chinese Four Seasons and the Korean Four Seasons

In 2005, the great Italian composer Francesco D'Avalos, in his book "La Crisi dell'Occidente e la presenza della Storia" (The meaning of the Twentieth century through the evolution of music - edited by the Bietti publishing house) remembers his favorite pupil: "Vito Paternoster wrote beautiful music of a rare originality. I remember Inzaffirìo and The Bread.... he had such a deep knowledge of traditional harmony that he could use it in all its expressive potentialities whilst still respecting its strictest rules."

The language that he possessed in all its potential becomes a game of manipulation, overlapping and connecting distant references, alluding to ancient times, distant places and leading to a joyful nostalgia.

It is not a rejection of the present, but an attempt to overcome it.

His musical language draws equally from elements of Vivaldi to Jazz styles, from Bach to Pop music, from Strauss to Folk music.

The strong coupling of national popular melodies however is very far from its nineteenth-century practice aimed to create and improve national identities for the early Nation States. On the contrary: the idea of national culture, and everything that is related with localisms, is removed from its original function becoming, with a slight irony, a pretext to create some elegant music language games. The popular themes are adapted to trans-national and universal contexts, and the local musical colors are confined to the realm of memory, of a glorious but mythical past, distant in time and space. It is a way to enrich the present with some hope.

Full liner notes are available for download to members.



Description:a melting pot of classic, pop and rock sounds with modern-dub influences
Genre:Electro Rock
Artist:Liquid Rainbow
Album:Landscapes and Treasures

Music Fragments from rock to dub

Lose yourself in the different dimensions of music, Landscapes and Treasures is structured around the themes of Love, Friendship, Nature, Space travelling and the fun of three people that make music to communicate at higher level.

The songs of the album are small windows on different state of reality or alternative futures and come from a melting pot of life experiences and explorations, the band took a different approach to the music for this album re-recording and expanding old demos and refreshing the sound for "Ambient Spaces" and "Should and Frequencies". Some tracks were recorded at the Magic Garden Studio, others in a special session recorded on the italian Alps.

Stefano Contini and Francesco Allegro performed as multi-instrumentalists with special contributions by long time band friends, Stefano Truini ("The Unseen Power") and Piero Marchesi from Entheogenic Sound Explorers (beats for "Love not Fear" and "Dreams from an Alternative Future). Roberto Beretta played most of the guitar parts with his Liquid Rainbow touch.

You will be surrounded by the trees and travelling at the speed of light, you will find yourself walking under the stars and enjoying the nature around you and suddenly you will be looking at the landscapes of an alternative world on a parallel universe

Welcome to a Place beyond the clouds.

The Album is dedicated to our beloved mascot "Geppa", the great dog and Friend who was always in the studio with us during our jamming and recording since and before the beginning of the adventure called "Liquid Rainbow" (you can hear her voice in some of our new tunes), for sure now she found her special place in another dimension but here on Planet Earth we will always miss her.

Liquid Rainbow are:

Stefano Contini (aka Dubmaster Conte): Bass, Production, Arrangements, Beat-programming, Percussions, Keyboard, Sampler, Synths, Fx's and Dubs

Francesco Allegro (aka Frank Wizard): Vocals, Backing Vocals, Lyrics, Arrangements, Keyboard, Sampler, Synths, Acoustic Guitar, Slide Guitar, Beat-programming, Tambourine

Roberto Beretta (aka Roby_b): Electric guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Banjo, Bass on "Colorful mountains"

A very special thanks to Marta, Geppa, Re Nee, Families and Friends.

Dedicated to Geppa.



Description:chillout music for late nights and early mornings
Genre:Electronica
Artist:Kalabi
Album:Edible Arrangements

Old school hip hop beats, deep dubby bass and blissed out ambience all mixed up and served chilled. Written and recorded in a week during a particularly gloomy Northern England winter, but perfect to listen to on a Summer's evening.



Description:Two Worlds, One Music
Genre:World
Artist:Aryeh Frankfurter and Lisa Lynne
Album:Weaving Worlds

The finest in acoustic, instrumental, world music. Celtic Harp, Swedish Nyckelharpa, World Flutes, Ukranian Bandora and more, artfully performed by Internationally renowned recording artists Aryeh Frankfurter, Lisa Lynne and George Tortorelli. This deep and gentle music will uplift and nourish the soul.