How would it feel to take a drive along the Mediterranean, blues skies, sunshine, the car top down, hair blowing in the breeze and your love beside you? This album is the music for those precious moments of living deep and well. Vibes, guitars, sax, piano, strings, whimsical female scatting, jazz undertones throughout and a sweet nostalgia for the best of times in our lives.
Sophisticated, urban and chic, you can just flow into this jazzy lounge album. While some tracks are slower and are like the reflections of sunlight on water by the pool, (Dappled Sealight and Liquid Reflections), with a heartwarming, contemplative, afternoon mood to them, Rive Gauche, Riviera Drive, Smok-a-Mocha have a very chic French cafe feel to them. Ocean Lilt, Pretty Sunshine and Beach Chic reverberate with Bossa Nova warmth. Love today but in the time of Eastman colour!
Moving Inward is an album that explores both the classical and jazzy sides of Ambient by shifting the focus of its musical content from the typical static sonorities, as well as the emphasis on sound design found in pure Ambient, to a more harmonically dynamic and melodic Downtempo that draws inspiration from traditional sources without neglecting the creative innovations of forward thinking contemporary music.
The result is a delightful collection of relatively short pieces that add a catchy element to the sought after unobtrusive quality of Ambient that opens up a fresh and exquisite sonic space where past and future not only coexist, but enrich each other.
Encompassing the very essence of the universe, Quantum
Milkshake's "Determination" is the platform for you to experience
the awe-inspiring, incomprehensible alluring patterns of the cosmos.
Through pumping cathartic grooves and the unimaginable pleasures
of our intricate luscious soundscapes, this compression of the
universe into one fantastic gesture explodes through the speakers of
your sound system. Compositions from front man, Fabian Acuña, are
brought to life not just for pushing the boundaries of what music can
offer but for you to fully engage and vividly experience the vivacity of
boundless imagination through wild dance.
The group's unique voice has been recognized by sources such as "a
sound that is undeniably galactic", "[a] jaw-droppingly impressive
production" and consisting of "highly intelligent compositions".
Description:
A fantastic classical violin and lute duo interpreting Baroque composers
The term "Stylus Phantasticus" first arises in "Musurgia Universalis" (1650); Athanasius Kirchner's work about harmony in music. It is a style of both composing and performing instrumental music which derives from phantasiren or "the art of improvising". "Stylus Phantasticus" represents a form of liberty in the composition of instrumental music. The style does not confine the composer's imagination or force it to abide by strict rules. This way of writing instrumental music can be difficult to define using common structures and forms of the early 17th century. In this case, the composer's will to write down and structure their ideas was a natural conveyance of a highly elaborate improvisatory performance practice. Johann Mattheson writes about this contemporary performing style: "The Stylus Phantasticus is sometimes agitated, sometimes hesitant, sometimes one- and sometimes many-voiced; often also shortly after the beat: without rhythm; but not without the intention to please, to rush nor to amaze."
For our CD, we have selected works representative of this genre not only for their obvious virtuosity, but also for their subtlety. The liberty within the style leads us through fantastically quick passages and also to moments of hesitation and silence. The juxtaposition of intense and frantic passages with the hesitant and tardy holds a particularly human charm.
Often interspersed amongst the quasi-improvisational passages of music, in both Giovanni Buonaventura Viviani and Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi Mealli, are ground-basses providing occasional respite in the form of a repeating and reliable ostinato bass-line.
Nicola Matteis exhibited the eccentricity of the "Stylus Phantasticus" in his personality as well as his compositions. He was praised for his eloquent, expressive style by his contemporary Roger North. We can imagine his way of playing by studying his Passaggio Rotto.
Biagio Marini subtitles his Sonata Quarta "Per sonar con due Corde" which suggests that using double stops on the violin was extraordinary for the time in Italy. We see the same effect as commonplace in Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber's violin works; as he often writes multi-voiced chords and in scordatura (alternate tuning systems).
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber's Darstellung im Tempel (The Presentation) is the fourth sonata in the cycle of the famous 15 mystery sonatas describing the lives of Jesus and Maria. This sonata is a set of variations composed over a ground bass.The fourth sonata belongs to the "Joyful Mysteries" and the eight bar ostinato bass as the musical foundation builds a heartfelt theme. The "Rosenkranzsonaten" are a monument in the 17th Century works written for violin, not only for the fact that each sonata is written for a differently tuned violin but for the heavy narrative imbued in each of these sonatas.
We have tried to symbolize the equality and intimacy offered in this fantastic music by recording and producing it ourselves in the atmospheric surroundings of Glasgow Cathedral.
