Helium Bricks is a mix of originals and remixes. These are our favorite works that had been developed over the past several years. The pieces range various genres, yet throughout the album, you may recognize a fondness for danceable grooves with other worldly voices and euphonic sounds.
In the mid-1800s, the Melodrama phenomenon exploded throughout Europe: wide-ranging stories and music, and strong elaborations of complex dramas or funny or sentimental plots, with an intense nationalistic value (the Nation States were born).
Alongside this great and important musical production, in Italy, the phenomenon Canzone developed. These works are strongly concentrated on catchiness, not linked to complex stories, but to moments of life, to fleeting sensations and - above all - short pieces to be used outside the great theaters.
Similarly the Lied developed in Germany: we would say it is the German sister of the Italian song, with the following particular characteristics:
1 it was playable in the salons of the nobility and the bourgeoisie,
2 it was often instrumental, because that way, no singers were needed and so it could be performed by instruments, with accompaniment.
George Goltermann, was a cellist (as well as director of the Frankfurt Opera) who dedicated his production to this musical genre. Namely, he wrote small emotional pieces that aren't linked to any complex stories. Instead, they speak of moments, poems, paintings, memories.
Vito Paternoster orchestrated Goltermann's pieces, adapted to the most modern language, and arranged them to sound as though they were a single piece, as if they they described a journey through poems, memories and fragments of life.
An interpretation of music from the film 'Why Isn't There Nothing?' - known as 'You Don't Want To Know' in the USA
Dir. M. Powell
Screenplay A. Mackendrick
1961
Charlie secretly likes to dress up as a woman. Most of the time he spends
in his bedroom, but occasionally he goes down to the beach to talk about life
with his friend Emerson the taxi driver.
Charlie's dad thinks there's something very off with his son
and how close he is to his mum and why he hasn't left home yet.
One evening Charlie's dad breaks into his son's bedroom where they fight.
Charlie's dad falls, bangs his head on the dressing table and dies.
Charlie buries the body in the back garden and later, dressed in his favourite frock,
has tea and cucumber sandwiches in the posh room with his mum.
Charlie - Herbert Lom
Charlie's mum - Dandy Nichols
Charlie's dad - John Mills
Emerson - Cecil Parker
Valerie Gardens - drums and percussion
Barry Jones - bass and guitar
Antoine Noir - keyboards
produced by Dudley Serious
artwork by Catherine Beta Jones
all songs by K.B. Jones
recorded at the Parmahamacy Bexhill on Sea England
purveyors of fine mind altering meats for three generations
Description:
an introspective mix of acoustic guitar based songs
Released July of 2022, Shadow is the latest collection of songs from singer-songwriter Russ Hopkins. Performed in his unique warm folk-rock-americana style, Russ sings songs about love, angst, loss, despair, redemption, innocence and longing with an at times haunting voice. The tracks are arranged around acoustic guitars, mostly. Musical guests Jerry Palmer and Steve Amedee help Hopkins create a diverse yet unified thematic ambience and feel. "Great songs on the subject of shadow!… the shadow knows!" John Magnie
