# albums

artist: Mike Wall
albumname: Passage
sku: wall-passage
upc: 876809006464
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=257915698&s=143444
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description:
The music of Passage emerged from working in conjunction with massage therapists, with the specific intent of incorporating the healing power of sound and music to provide a total relaxation experience for the listener.

Passage is a wonderful mix of acoustic and electronic instruments, including: acoustic and electric guitars, Native American flutes, Tibetan and crystal singing bowls, various chimes and bells, synthesizers and samplers. Prepare for your journey.

PASSAGE is 62 minutes, symbolic of a journey within a journey. You may listen in any order, but this is how the journey proceeds for me:

DAWN OF LIGHT: A perfect day starts with a perfect Dawn... new beginnings with the first step, a heart open to transformation. Dawn of Light invites us to stop, breathe, and let our breath's rhythm match the flow of the soundscape. Prepare for the journey within.

POINT LOBOS: Spend the day on the rich, diverse coastline of Point Lobos, near Monterey, California. Natural cadences of wind, surf and ocean air, with sea birds, harbor seals, otters, and distant humpbacks, create a deep calm, offering boundless space for inspiration and hope. The ocean washes away our stress, and heals.

IN THE NOW: Journey deeply into the present as chimes and a Tibetan singing bowl erase time. Each breath in and out cleanses and renews us.

INNER PEACE: End with the Beginning. The genesis of this, the first piece composed for Passage, was the Winter Solstice of 2005. With the first brush strokes during the shortest days of the year, it gives thanks and optimistically looks to spring's rising Light.

Follow your Heart. Dream. Create. Realize Transformation.

Peace to you on your Journey,
Mike Wall


artist: Minstrel Spirit
albumname: Enter The Woods
sku: spirit-woods
upc: 876809003944
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=257804627&s=143444
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artist: Misericordia
albumname: Passion, Pestilence and Polyphony
sku: misericordia-passion
upc: 876809008024
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/passion-pestilence-polyphony/id378184283
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description:
Music and song from the dark and troubled fourteenth century. From the rhythmic drive of bagpipes, hurdy gurdy and percussion to haunting three part polyphony via solo voice accompanied by gothic harp, this recording includes complex instrumental istampitas, love songs by Guillaume de Machaut and music from England, France and Italy. Performances are informed by medieval practice but occasionally artistic licence is allowed free expression, such as the long hurdy gurdy and dulcimer introduction to De' poni amor a me, adding to the distinctive style of the band.


artist: Modinski
albumname: Choose
sku: modinski-choose
upc: 847646004036
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description:
Electronic, melodic, uptempo, punchy are some words to describe the debut album of this Belgian based producer Modinski. Electronic music is in fact the key word. It is also the big love of the producer. Some tracks are food for the dancefloor, other tracks are inspiring and some others are just dreamy. Just choose a track and you'll love it!


artist: Mogilalia
albumname: 33
sku: mogilalia-33
upc: 847646010242
also:
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description:
This album was recorded with Russian poet Vladimir Ladan, who reads his poems to piano music. The music was recorded with an electronic piano, to envelop the readings in an ambient atmosphere and melancholic jazzy moods. When he turned 33, Vladimir Ladan,the author of the poems, decided to give this collection of poems a red thread by ordering them in a way that tells the tale of his life on our planet. The age of 33 is called the "Age of Christ" in Russian. And for the author, it had a symbolic meaning. His poems touch upon eternal questions, such as: Life, Death, Love.


artist: Mogilalia
albumname: Drops from the Sky
sku: mogilalia-dropsfromthesky
upc: 847646009918
also:
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description:
Mogilalia's album "Drops fom the Sky" is an ambient album consisting of tracks played by classic guitar. It features expansive and deep sounds with influences of classical music, jazz, blues and experimental music.


artist: Mogilalia
albumname: I drop a shadow to this World
sku: mogilalia-dropshadow
upc: 847646003831
also:
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description:
I drop a shadow to this world will take you on a fascinating journey with two friends: the piano and the flute. You will experience a conversation between two abstract creatures who lead you through the album.

This music was created to make something out of the world's meditative feelings, tranquility in ambience and piano passages like sea waves are gently laid on the beach shore.


artist: Mogilalia
albumname: Flowers are Growing Through
sku: mogilalia-flowers
upc: 847646004265
also:
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description:
Mogilalia's Flowers are growing through is a modern classic ambient album with some abstract melancholic piano lines. The track nobody to no one is synth-based ambient with pulsating lines.


artist: Mogilalia
albumname: If People Could Fly
sku: mogilalia-ifpeoplecould
upc: 847646004210
also:
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description:
Mogilalia's album If people could fly is an experimental ambient album. All instruments, most notably drums and synth, were played and recorded live. The first track of this album "if people could fly, they would flown away" takes listeners on an ambient journey and projects the feeling of a strange flight in a dark dream, or of flying under the mountains and seas - sometimes faster, sometimes hovering in slow motion.

The second track "we have split the atom" sounds just like that fairy factory you saw in your dreams.


artist: Mogilalia
albumname: Lights are Burning, a Ghost is Dancing
sku: mogilalia-lightsburning
upc: 847646004326
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description:
A modern classic ambient record, with ghost-like piano passages which appear and then are lose themselves in a whisper.


artist: Mogilalia
albumname: My Old Black Radio Sings the Blues
sku: mogilalia-myoldblack
upc: 847646004340
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description:
Mogilalia's album My old black radio sings the blues is ambient music played on an electronic piano which sounds like an old broken radio which astronauts have lost in space.


artist: Mogilalia
albumname: Poems
sku: mogilalia-poems
upc: 847646009925
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description:
This album features an electronic piano that melds into ambient atmosphere and melancholic jazzy moods. All of the 33 short tracks were inspired by poems of Russian poet Vladimir Ladan; each of the track being like a soundtrack to one of his poems.


artist: Mogilalia
albumname: Sometimes City Knows
sku: mogilalia-sometimescity
upc: 847646001950
also:
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description:
This album is a mix between dark jazz and experimental, ambient music. All musical parts - drums, bass guitar, piano - were improvised and recorded by Dmitry Dolgov. Get ready for long and slow dark jazz music tracks that create a mystic atmosphere and perfectly mirror the feeling of loneliness you get when walking around a small town just before twilight.


artist: Mogilalia
albumname: Train to Midnight
sku: mogilalia-traintomidnight
upc: 847646009901
also:
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description:
Mogilalia's album "Train to Midnight" indulges you in ambient music with dark jazz and neoclassical influences. It features electronic piano, acoustic guitar, bass guitar and drum machine. All instruments, except for the drums, were recorded live.


artist: Mogilalia
albumname: Waves of Freedom Have Bored the Sea
sku: mogilalia-wavesfreedom
upc: 847646004333
also:
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description:
A modern ambient classic, played only on the piano, with a deep atmospheric sound. Like waves of the Sea, rising up to only be lost on the shore sand.


artist: Moh Alileche
albumname: Humanity Is Falling Apart
sku: malileche-fallingapart
upc: 847646011072
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description:
Humanity is Falling Apart, was entirely recorded at Sami Studio in Algeria in 2019 and contains 9 songs including: 2 instrumentals, 2 songs sung in English, 1 song sung in Arabic, French, Tamazight & English, a Happy Birthday song, a prelude and 2 other songs in Tamazight. Instrumentation: Guitar, mandol, bass, banjo, violin, piano, hand drums, drum kit, bendir, flutes, ullulation, vocals and back up vocals.

The new CD showcases some of Moh's most heartfelt songwriting yet. "A Salute to the Women of Kabylia" pays homage to the courage, determination, and beauty of the charismatic Berber women, who still wear the traditional outfits, and keep Kabyle culture alive. They're the educators who transmit so much of our tradition to new generations.

"I was Only Nineteen" is a deeply personal track, sung in English, that celebrates Moh's friendship with legendary North African singer/songwriter/activist Lounes Matoub, and recalls a trip the two took together from Algeria to France in the late '70s. The memory of Matoub looms large over this record - a prolific, passionate spokesman for the Amazigh/Berber people, who used his music as a platform for his activism. Matoub was assassinated for his outspoken music in 1998, at the age of 42.


artist: Moh Alileche
albumname: In Memory of a Hero
sku: malileche-hero
upc: 876809009120
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description:
All songs on this album are sang in the ancient native North African language, Tamazight, incorporating the use of instruments common to that region, namely the mondol, bendir, banjo and flutes. Alileche's music highlights the need for conscientious resistance to authoritarian regimes that undermine human rights. Many themes on this album focus upon the importance of Love, Freedom, Truth, and Justice, in order to be triumphant over human suffering. Alileche (pronounced "ali-LESH") blends his soulful, emotionally charged, passionate voice to hypnotic rhythms, captivating melodies, and entrancing beats.


artist: Moh Alileche
albumname: When the Dust Settles
sku: malileche-whenthedust
upc: 847646004746
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description:
With the soul and spirit of Algeria's mountainous region of Kabylia, Moh Alileche has been promoting Amazigh (Berber) culture since the early nineties from West Coast. This release finds him more politically engaged and musically forceful than ever.

Alileche brings rock 'n' roll energy and commitment to his traditional ensemble. Track after track, Alileche's silken voice bears the raspy edge of hard experience and hard-earned moral authority as he addresses deep matters of invasion, repression, human love and the tumultuous changes sweeping North Africa. "It started in Tunisia" he sings in one trenchant track.


artist: Mojo Radio
albumname: Mojo Radio
sku: mojoradio-mojoradio
upc: 847646006412
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description:
Mojo Radio went in to the studio to try to create an album the same way their musical influences did. That is, LIVE and full of passion. They weren't worried about polishing every note as long as they captured the emotion and energy of the song. This album does that by being a product of what can happen when you record a band "live" in the studio. Tracks weren't recorded one at a time, but together with all the members playing at the same time. Just like the great bands of yesterday did it. Mojo Radio feels this produces a more organic and original result.

The songs on the self titled album are varied. The album kicks off with a blues based harmonica instrumental (WELCOME), but soon leads to catchy up beat rocker (HIGH HORSE). There are heavy tracks like THROW YOUR HAT IN THE RING, and also slower songs like DREAMING. All of these center around the blues influences and rock legends of the 1970s. Mojo Radio's goal was to make an album influenced by the past but right up to date.


artist: Mokhov
albumname: Afterglow Reverie
sku: mokhov-afterglowreverie
upc: 847646010433
also:
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description:
The most uplifting melodic dreamy dance music. These 6 tunes sound like a mix of Orbital, Underworld, The Field, and Jon Hopkins. If you like that style of energizing and joyful electronic dance/house music, this album is for you.


artist: Mokhov
albumname: Euphoric Magic
sku: mokhov-euphoricmagic
upc: 847646007907
also:
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description:
An uplifting, energizing, melodic, and emotionally-hitting electronic album. These 10 instrumental electronic tunes sound like Bonobo + Royksopp. With some Four Tet and Boards of Canada thrown in. If you like that style of electronic/instrumental hip-hop/downtempo music, this album is for you.


artist: Mokhov
albumname: Future Hope
sku: mokhov-futurehope
upc: 847646006764
also:
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description:
Uplifting electronic music, these ten instrumental electronic tunes sound like Four Tet + Boards of Canada. With some Bonobo and Royksopp thrown in. Uplifting, energizing, melodic, and emotionally-hitting. If you like that style of electronic/instrumental hip-hop/downtempo music, this album is for you.


artist: Mokhov
albumname: Halcyon Days
sku: mokhov-halcyondays
upc: 847646001257
also:
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description:
Halcyon Days is the debut album of Mokhov, the world's most mobile electronic musician. The 10 electronic tunes are a cross between Aphex Twin and Four Tet, with some Boards of Canada and DJ Shadow thrown in. If you like that style of IDM/instrumental hip-hop/downtempo music, this album is for you.


artist: Mokhov
albumname: Jupiter Melodies
sku: mokhov-jupitermelodies
upc: 847646004296
also:
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description:
This album features 6 uplifting and catchy electronic dance tunes. Made using only sounds from a Jupiter-6 analog synth, they sound like a cross between Daft Punk and Aphex Twin. With its energizing and joyful electronic vibes, Mokhov's new album, Jupiter Melodies, is made for everyone who loves dance/disco/house music.


artist: Mokhov
albumname: Magic Times
sku: mokhov-magictimes
upc: 847646005040
also:
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description:
Possibly one of the best uplifting electronic albums. Ambitious and arrogant, yes.
But why not aim big? Sounds like Four Tet + Boards of Canada.


artist: Mokhov
albumname: Massive Love
sku: mokhov-massivelove
upc: 876809002930
also:
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description:
Mokhov's new album, Massive Love, features uplifting dance music that will make the hearts of anyone passionate about eclectic mixes of dance/disco/house music beat faster. All sounds were created with just one synth: Massive. Sounding somewhat like a fusion of Todd Terje, Lindstrøm, Fatima Yamaha and Metro Area, these 6 tunes will make you yearn for more, bringing their uplifting, energizing, joyful, and catchy vibes to your home, business, project or earphones.


artist: Mokhov
albumname: Perfect Dream
sku: mokhov-perfectdream
upc: 847646003398
also:
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description:
Like Mokhov's debut album Halcyon Days, these 10 electronic tunes are like a cross between Aphex Twin and Four Tet. With some Boards of Canada and DJ Shadow thrown in. If you like that style of IDM/instrumental hip-hop/downtempo music, this album is for you.

Mokhov's Perfect Dream could be one of the best sophomore electronic albums of all time. (Ambitious? Arrogant? Sure, but why not aim big?)


artist: Mokhov
albumname: Solace Embrace
sku: mokhov-solace
upc: 847646009260
also:
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description:
Possibly one of the best uplifting electronic albums. These 10 instrumental electronic tunes sound like Bonobo + Royksopp. With some Four Tet and Boards of Canada thrown in. Uplifting, energizing, melodic, and emotionally-hitting. If you like that style of electronic/instrumental hip-hop/downtempo music, this album is for you.


artist: Mokhov
albumname: Sun Bloom
sku: mokhov-sunbloom
upc: 847646010440
also:
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description:
The most uplifting melodic dreamy cosmic dance music. These 6 tunes sound like a mix of Todd Terje, Orbital, Daft Punk, and Underworld. If you like that style of energizing and joyful electronic dance/disco/house music, this album is for you.


artist: Monoide
albumname: Zeitpunkt
sku: monoide-zeitpunkt
upc: 876809001421
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=257915071&s=143444
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artist: Monom
albumname: Around the World
sku: monom-aroundtheworld
upc: 847646009406
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description:
Around The World is the 14th solo album from Slovenian music producer and multimedia artist Stana Spegel aka Monom. This album is for the people who like rhythmic groovy music, but don't want to listen to the same samples and same ideas again and again.

This time, Monom introduces ethnic elements into his electronic music and delivers to you some hot chillout and house music blended with a lot of ethnic percussion and instruments from around the world to create stylish and elegant tracks for you and your projects.

New sounds, new mixtures, new blend.
The world is full of instruments and sounds, it's time to listen to them!


artist: Monom
albumname: Deep
sku: monom-deep
upc: 847646009413
also:
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description:
Monom takes you Deep. In this album, he introduces you to a mixing style of deep and minimal techno music combined with the melodic end of house music. Elements of the house 'sound' such as realistic jazz sounds and booming kick drums are replaced with elements from techno such as shorter, deeper, darker kicks, smaller, quicker hi-hats, noisier snares and more synthetic or acid sounding synth melodies, including raw electronic noises from distorted sawtooth and square wave oscillators.

Let's dance with happy feet and some deep thoughts on your mind.


artist: Monom
albumname: Electric Forest
sku: monom-electricforest
upc: 847646009987
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description:
The LP "Electric Forest" is an eclectic musical journey through the various electronic genres - from chillout to melodic techno, with a touch of jazz and cinematic music. Wide pad sounds mix with laid-back glitch beats, lots of catchy melody lines and the effects of nature and create unique complex electric forest soundscapes.

Monom's 18th studio album tells the stories of the interconnections and exchanges of energetic imagination between forest conifer trees and humans.

Composed, performed and produced by Stanislav Spegel


artist: Monom
albumname: Forest Tales
sku: monom-foresttales
upc: 847646001578
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description:
Ten amazing music stories about ten incredible trees. Monom's 17th studio album tells the stories of the interconnections and exchanges of energetic imagination between forest trees and humans. Vibrations of the ten most common deciduous trees in Europe and North America are accompanied with the mixture of natural sounds of forests and chilled but playful music compositions.


artist: Monom
albumname: Green Transformer
sku: monom-greentransformer
upc: 847646010464
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description:
The album "Green Transformer" is a carbon-free transformation of industrial noises into music. In order to create the soundtrack for the multimedia project and album, music producer and composer Monom captured industrial noises at a nearby coal mine and thermal power plant. Since only "green" electricity generated by his own solar power plant was used, the music on the album is a unique mash-up of modulated industrial electro-mechanical sounds that are fundamental components of urban rhythms, harmonies and melodies.


artist: Monom
albumname: Minestrone
sku: monom-minestrone
upc: 847646009635
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description:
Electronic music is more than just techno, house or dance! In their album, Minestrone, Monom is taking us on a journey through different genres. Ranging from Chillout to Funk and even Jazz influences, each single track leads to new and interesting discoveries. The ingredients are as simple (and tasty) as it gets - and the result is definitely going to make you yearn for more.
MINESTRONE by MONOM (recipe)
2 cans of Chillout
1 tube of Funk
3 grains of Breakbeat
2 cups of Rock and roll
3 tablespoons of Hip-hop
8 drops of Blues
3 dessertspoon of Etno
2 cloves of Classical Crossover
4 teaspoons of Jazz
A pinch of Improvisation
A hint of Pop


artist: Monom
albumname: Velenje Remixed
sku: monom-velenjeremix
upc: 876809000677
also:
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description:
Velenje is a town like no other in Slovenia (Central Europe). It was built in just a decade during 1950-1960 as a concept for healthy living in a new socialist society. The best Slovenian architects of that time were hired for the job. Besides that, Velenje is also known as an incubator of excellent musicians and composers. Many of them study, work and live all over the globe. Because of that, accomplished music producer and composer Stane Spegel (Monom) from Velenje decided to do a remix album of 12 compositions of those fine artists who work in the fields of urban musical genres (jazz, hip-hop, electronic music, funk). Most of the songs are instrumental, but there are a few tunes with lyrics in exotic Slovenian language, too.


artist: Monte Casino
albumname: Ol Jed's a Millionaire
sku: montecasino-oljedmill
upc: 847646003756
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description:
Ol' Jed's A Millionaire - Catchy hard rock with big production values.

"Torsos And Good Times" revealed that Monte Casino could rock hard and raw, but also showcased a few radio-friendly pop tunes. "Ol' Jed's A Millionaire" reconciles these two asthetics and gives the new songs a bigger, guitar-driven production, but with soaring pop choruses and layered vocals. The lead song, "All I Need" has been a featured download on Rock Band 2 for Xbox.


artist: Monte Casino
albumname: Torsos and Good Times
sku: montecasino-torsos
upc: 847646003688
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description:
Monte Casino plays a unique brand of rock that includes nods to such various subgenres as grunge, punk, metal, and pop, with special attention to catchy hooks and harmonies.

Torsos And Good Times delights the listener by bucking the trend of creating a predictable style for an entire album, deftly weaving through 30 years of rock goodness while still managing to be both original and accessible.

Recording and Mixed in San Francisco's Faultline Studios (Michael Franti, Neal Schon), the album has already made waves in the community, particularly the single, "High", which has been played on 107.7 The Bone's "Local Licks" program.


artist: Mountain Mirrors
albumname: Asylum Acres
sku: mountain-asylumacres
upc: 847646005255
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description:
Asylum Acres is sort of a concept album about places you'd visit in dreams, out of body experiences, astral projection etc. Not a "musical novel", but more like a collection of horror/suspense short stories (think Poe, Lovecraft or Stephen King) - laced with mystical and organic sound. These songs are as dark as they are strangely uplifting.

Jeff Sanders - vocals, guitars, synths, field recording
Steve Riley - drums and percussion
Kurt Baumer - violins
Dave DeMarco - bass guitars, baritone guitar on "Asylum Acres"
Bass on "Spell" by Phil Rohr

Recorded and engineered by Sanders, DeMarco, Baumer and Riley
Mixed by Johnny Geib at 10X10 Studios
Mastered by Timothy Stollenwerk at Stereophonic Mastering
Cover Artwork by Richey Beckett

This album is dedicated in loving memory to Bertha Y. Boucher. I miss you, Memere.


artist: Mountain Mirrors
albumname: The Immortal Deadbeats EP
sku: mountain-deadbeatsep
upc: 876809009786
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description:
For this 4-song EP, inspired by "Sgt. Pepper's", Jeff wrote the music as fictitious prog rock masterminds "The Immortal Deadbeats".

Mountain Mirrors began in a voodoo-riddled mountainside catacomb in the year 2004. There, in the pitch-black darkness, fugitive Jeff Sanders experienced a life-changing vision quest...full of beautiful demonic sirens, three-breasted cyclops oracles and small, cuddly animals.

Tripping balls from an evil concoction of sensory deprivation and menacing curse vibrations, the Sandman carved the lyrics and music that would become the foundation for the first MM album, 2004's Lunar Ecstasy into those filthy stone walls.

Jeff has released two more albums since then, and in the winter of 2008 he returned to that evil mountainside to work on a fourth.

With the help of deviant musical masterminds Per Ulfhielm and Magnus "Trummange" Brandell of Odd Grooves fame, this would prove to be no ordinary EP. Like a perfect storm of epic proportions, it would become...

The Immortal Deadbeats EP.


artist: Mountain Mirrors
albumname: Dreadnought
sku: mountain-dreadnought
upc: 876809006310
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=276034755&s=143444
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description:
There were once certain bands and performers like Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, and even Nick Drake who really knew the art of beautiful brooding, and if you're a fan of their more eerie and atmospheric stuff, then you simply must check out Mountain Mirrors' latest album, Dreadnought. Darkly melodic and profound, it settles on you like a mist on an early November morning. Says Metal Storm Magazine, "This music is really beautiful, catchy and really deep."


artist: Mountain Mirrors
albumname: Lunar Ecstasy
sku: mountain-lunar
upc: 876809004552
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=6203668&s=143444
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description:
If Nick Drake had regularly gone camping with the guys from Pink Floyd and Black Sabbath, he might have put out albums like those of Mountain Mirrors?the psych folk/rock project of multi-instrumentalist Jeff Sanders. Sanders has a melodic yet mesmerizing style, and fearlessly explores subject matter both dark and spiritual...all with a big, cosmic,out-of-doors feeling. Lunar Ecstasy was named album of the month by both IndieSoundz and StonedGods and the "Afterlife" track was chosen by Indie Music Beat Magazine for their annual 101 Great New Music Tracks CD.


artist: Mountain Mirrors
albumname: Mountain Mirrors
sku: mountain-mountain
upc: 876809004569
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=152398835&s=143444
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description:
Murat Batmaz of Sea of Tranquility described Mountain Mirrors as the most "beautifully grey" melodies he'd ever heard. The forlorn, contemplative "Stay Evil" kicks things off, followed by the darkly mellow shanty of "The Demon's Eye"?one of the strongest tracks on the album. One thing that's great about Mountain Mirrors is that its shadowy references aren't just some sort of aesthetic choice?they're the genuine vocabulary of an artist who is struggling hard for some sort of truth and inner peace. "Alone In A Crowd" is another standout. It's like "Comfortably Numb" on Lithium. "Deploribus Unum" is great too?autumnal and melancholy and yet not without its own peculiar comforts.


artist: Mountain Sounds
albumname: Mountain Sounds
sku: mountsounds-mountsounds
upc: 847646006306
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description:
Recorded in an out-of-use orphanage in the mountains of Guatemala, Mountain Sounds is an entirely self-produced, indie-in-the-truest-sense-of-the-word recording project comprised of two friends coming together from separate parts of the world to realize a shared vision of rock and roll music.

The album is a testament not only to the importance and scarcity of true creative chemistry, but also to the need to make art regardless of the obstacles in the way. All of us were born to create; it's as natural as breath, as necessary as food, and comforting as sleep. We grew up drawing pictures, singing songs, staging plays - but we kept growing, and we found ourselves working in banks, managing retail shops, selling insurance. The only singing we do now is in cars piddling along in rush hour traffic.

'Mountain Sounds' is a step away from what we've become and back towards who we were. Six years removed from their last collaborative recording project, Portland, Oregon's Tim Hoyt and Guatemala's own Franc Castillejos came together to make something vital and new in the only place they could: a vacant orphanage in the mountains of Central America.

Former band mates separated for years by arbitrary ideas like nationalities, immigration laws, and time zones (not to mention several thousand very real miles), Hoyt and Castillejos found themselves discouraged and sputtering after years apart; drifting ever farther from the life they loved, ever closer to a life neither of them wanted. On the verge of acquiescence, they chose instead something altogether different: a last-ditch attempt to be who they used to be.

After a summer spent recording and trading demos separately, Tim quit his insurance job and left his home in Portland, Oregon, relocating to Franc's family's property on a secluded patch of land in the Cordillera Alux mountain range west of Guatemala City. The two set up shop in an old, out-of-use orphanage on the grounds, transforming the space into a functioning studio using what limited resources they could find.

For three months they lived and breathed nothing but their music, taking breaks only for meals, even sleeping in the makeshift studio. The long, cold rainy season ensured that they spent almost every waking moment in that space, working without interruption. Their seclusion provided extraordinary focus; their extreme limitations, an opportunity to try everything differently.

After three months, they emerged with twelve songs that showcased their distinct voice; songwriting defined by complex catchiness, minor chord melancholy, and sparse, deliberate arrangements. Franc's lyrics embody his unique perspective as a man caught in the middle, a Guatemalan who spent a decade in America, who thinks in Spanish but writes in English, who loves his home and his country but longs for his friends in a land he's not permitted to visit.

Nothing about 'Mountain Sounds' was easy or without risk. Nothing was normal: not where it was made, or how. Not how its creators reunited after years apart, putting their entire lives on hold to pursue something they hadn't done together in ages. But concepts like "easy," "safe," and "normal" don't matter very much when you're doing what you were born to do. And with 'Mountain Sounds,' Franc and Tim are finally back where they always should have been.


artist: Mountain Sounds
albumname: Mountain Sounds (instrumental)
sku: mountsounds-mountsoundsinst
upc: 847646006313
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description:
Recorded in an out-of-use orphanage in the mountains of Guatemala, Mountain Sounds is an entirely self-produced, indie-in-the-truest-sense-of-the-word recording project comprised of two friends coming together from separate parts of the world to realize a shared vision of rock and roll music.

The album is a testament not only to the importance and scarcity of true creative chemistry, but also to the need to make art regardless of the obstacles in the way. All of us were born to create; it's as natural as breath, as necessary as food, and comforting as sleep. We grew up drawing pictures, singing songs, staging plays - but we kept growing, and we found ourselves working in banks, managing retail shops, selling insurance. The only singing we do now is in cars piddling along in rush hour traffic.

'Mountain Sounds' is a step away from what we've become and back towards who we were. Six years removed from their last collaborative recording project, Portland, Oregon's Tim Hoyt and Guatemala's own Franc Castillejos came together to make something vital and new in the only place they could: a vacant orphanage in the mountains of Central America.

Former band mates separated for years by arbitrary ideas like nationalities, immigration laws, and time zones (not to mention several thousand very real miles), Hoyt and Castillejos found themselves discouraged and sputtering after years apart; drifting ever farther from the life they loved, ever closer to a life neither of them wanted. On the verge of acquiescence, they chose instead something altogether different: a last-ditch attempt to be who they used to be.

After a summer spent recording and trading demos separately, Tim quit his insurance job and left his home in Portland, Oregon, relocating to Franc's family's property on a secluded patch of land in the Cordillera Alux mountain range west of Guatemala City. The two set up shop in an old, out-of-use orphanage on the grounds, transforming the space into a functioning studio using what limited resources they could find.

For three months they lived and breathed nothing but their music, taking breaks only for meals, even sleeping in the makeshift studio. The long, cold rainy season ensured that they spent almost every waking moment in that space, working without interruption. Their seclusion provided extraordinary focus; their extreme limitations, an opportunity to try everything differently.

After three months, they emerged with twelve songs that showcased their distinct voice; songwriting defined by complex catchiness, minor chord melancholy, and sparse, deliberate arrangements.

Nothing about 'Mountain Sounds' was easy or without risk. Nothing was normal: not where it was made, or how. Not how its creators reunited after years apart, putting their entire lives on hold to pursue something they hadn't done together in ages. But concepts like "easy," "safe," and "normal" don't matter very much when you're doing what you were born to do. And with 'Mountain Sounds,' Franc and Tim are finally back where they always should have been.


artist: mr Epic
albumname: Sideways
sku: mrepic-sideways
upc: 876809001414
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=257915135&s=143444
also:
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description:
You'd hardly know that Sideways is Seattle native Mr. Epic's debut album. Highly literate beats, sampling, and turntablism blend with whispery, jazz inflected melodies to form an atmospheric, sultry album of huge appeal. Epic has a way with sonic textures that give his work a lot of character and soul, and he's also quite obviously a master of mood -favoring urbane, nocturnal soundscapes laced with muted trumpets, smoky beats, and echoing water droplets. It's electric, eclectic noir at it's finest.


artist: Mr Gelatine
albumname: Electroluv
sku: gelatine-electroluv
upc: 876809001407
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=257915136&s=143444
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artist: Mr Gelatine
albumname: Under the Same Sun
sku: gelatine-underthesamesun
upc: 847646008768
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description:
Mr.Gelatine's second album, "Under the Same Sun" includes vocal tracks written with Monogatari. Newer stripped down electronic tracks retain the warm analog feel of the 2006 "Electroluv" album.

The release of this album marks a new beginning... better described as a re-awakening for Mr.Gelatine, who's been making music under "The Black Machines" guise, focussing on live performance dance oor tracks.

In terms of live performance Mr.Gelatine uses Elektron machines when performing live, having moved away from the computer music setup for now.... tbc


artist: MRDC
albumname: Infomusication
sku: mrdc-infomusic
upc: 876809009380
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/infomusication/id440766594
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description:
5 Years had passed since an MRDC release. I had been working on and off on a new album idea for 3 years after a 2 year break. I was busy writing for Television as one of the songwriters for the hit show "Ghost Whisper" and felt I had returned to my roots that started me out with "Timecode" reusing ideas and tracks as I went along recording album #3. I wanted to call it "Living Rooms" and the idea was an album of songs you'd listen to in your living space. Much more groove orientated laid back kinda vibes. I also wanted to play more guitar this time.

As time went on we were past the middle of the "Bush Years" and I became fascinated by all the conspiracy theories and videos on You Tube. Living up North in Canada being on the outside looking in there was quite allot to get caught up in. It seemed as though the movie "Wag the Dog" was coming to life and I thought well if John Mayer's lyrics "And when you trust your television what you get is what you got, cause when they own the information, oh they can bend it all they want" are on the radio after all the political songs before "Waiting on the World to Change" maybe musicians can still use the power of music to tell the people what's really going on. So I came up with the Idea to call my project "Infomusication" that stands for information and education delivered by music.

The tone of the album changed and the idea for "Living Rooms" was kinda dropped although some of the tracks are still there. I used public domain recordings of JFK speeches because when I listened to what he was saying it amazed me that nothing has really changed since he spoke. Most of the snippets I used are from mixed speeches to reorganize the message into the song, but the things he was talking about are unchanged. As with my first 2 albums I write, play, record, program all the tracks. A true solo effort with more guitar, bigger bass and real drums mixed with all the things I had learned while dabbling in "Electronica" left me wondering "What the heck do I call this?" I never really felt that MRDC fit in any one genre before. I had said that my music was more like a sound painting on an electronic canvas. I never considered myself an Electronic or Electronica artist and neither did the purists. So I've come up with my own genre and I call it "Synthetic". To me this refers to music created independently with the use of a computer as the "Hub". It is created by someone that plays or programs all the instruments creating a Hybrid or "Synthetic" type of music that sounds as though it was made by a performing group of musicians and a producer using modern techniques to add to the sound. But its just one guy having fun. Hope you enjoy it and I invite anyone like me that makes music this way to join me and call their music "Synthetic too.


artist: MRDC
albumname: Plethora
sku: mrdc-plethora
upc: 876809009366
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description:
The idea I had for Plethora was to create a "Plethora of Sound". I wanted to do something much faster, more electronic, more experimental. On the track "Angel" I used singing software mixed with pre recorded vocal samples. "Holly" is my daughter and I kind of ended up finishing the track for her, she was just 2 at the time and the center of my world. Some of the tracks go as fast as 140bpm. Some of the experimental things I played with were morphing sounds from track to track with filters and other things to make the tracks grow and move between real instruments and synthetic. I got carried away and actually had about 5 more tracks I intended to put on it but eventually you just have to say "DONE" and I released 10 tracks as on my first album.


artist: MRDC
albumname: Radio
sku: mrdc-radio
upc: 847646003992
also:
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description:
MRDC experiments across genres in this album, with (among other things) 3 songs with female hiphopish singer Skulastic, ambient samples, electro/classical touches. A refreshing foray into new sounds...


artist: MRDC
albumname: Timecode
sku: mrdc-timecode
upc: 876809009373
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description:
Timecode was the first album and the birth of the MRDC sound that came out of a group of songs and Ideas I had recorded for all the media productions I had worked on. My friends had heard some of the things I was working on and suggested I release an album of songs and put them on the Internet. So I started remixing and restructuring the tracks I liked. When I was finished I presented my album ideas to a few friends via mp3.com and it kinda took off from there. A couple years later I stumbled on Magnatune and with the opportunity to change a couple things that bugged me I officially released Timecode with its new cover art and remix and fix of a few tracks. With Timecode and my subsequent releases my approach has always been "Whatever Works" I'm not a vocalist or lyricist so I use and edit samples to say the things I want that I can't with just the music tracks. I play or program all the instruments and tracks always.


artist: Mundi
albumname: Apple Howling
sku: mundi-applehowling
upc: 847646009154
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description:
This winter-themed album, with its moments of depth and whimsy, offers listeners space for reflection, and rhythms to dance to. Medieval pieces such as Saltarello from Italy, sit comfortably next to composer Darrel Mayers's ancient-sounding originals, all brought to life by a lively ensemble of violins, cellos, Spanish guitars and orchestral bass and miscellaneous percussion (including hedge clippers and flower pots on 'Clippers'!)


artist: Mundi
albumname: The Book and the Flower
sku: mundi-bookflower
upc: 847646009161
also:
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description:
Listeners will find a sense of celebration in the lively Greek dance rhythms of 'Funeral Games,' a time for reflection in 'Stories from the Tree,' and a sense of ceremony in the medieval processional 'Dum Pater Familias.'

Fresh from their first tour of Spain in 2006, Mundi (based in Austin, Texas) entered the studio with their strings, drums and harmonium to create an album of contrasts.

At the time of the album's release, Mundi was hailed by the Austin American Statesman as '...among the most intoxicating inventions this music-mad city has distilled.'


artist: Mundi
albumname: My House is the Sky
sku: mundi-myhouse
upc: 847646007860
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description:
To enter the world of My House is the Sky is to enter a place of lyrical French horns, strings, Spanish guitars and drums. This is our fourth album, and while we continue to step back in time and connect with more ancient sounds, we also worked on crafting a more defined rock sound on some of the tracks. Also we felt it important to make it an album of contrasts, offering a sense of journey and exploration for listeners.

There are the big sounds of 'The Gathering' and 'Sandansko Horo,' a little bit of comedy with 'The Bespectacled Bears Waltz,' and 'A Cup of Tea with Santiago,' and we finish the album with 'To Morocco with the Stars,' with desert winds, an Arabic oud, a typewriter and folk bass guitar that we bought during a visit to that country while on tour in Spain.


artist: Music for a Winter's Eve
albumname: Bringing Light to the Darkness
sku: wintersever-lightdarkness
upc: 847646002827
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description:
Traditional, Renaissance and Medieval song and dance to celebrate midwinter and the changing of the seasons. Bringing light to the darkness: Music for a Winter's Eve.


artist: Music Inside
albumname: Outside Forces
sku: musicinside-forces
upc: 876809007225
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/outside-forces/id299928534
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description:
John writes: I wanted to get up and dance about when I heard this submission come in, and then I found out that one of the two members of this band is a founding and former member of the famous pop group "Men Without Hats". So this is what pop stars sound like when they grow up!


artist: Music Inside
albumname: Silicon Sandwich
sku: musicinside-silicon
upc: 876809008130
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description:
This album will make you dance, close your eyes and scratch your head at times. With the pulsating beat of "No Time", the haunting atmosphere of "It Feels Like This", the love story of a robot and a spoon in "Curved Side Of The Spoon", and the hunting man-eaters in "Cannibals", just to name a few tracks.

SILICON SANDWICH is a digital musical trip of a different kind.

Yes, you can have your SILICON SANDWICH anyway you like it!


artist: Music Inside
albumname: Silicon Sandwich (Instrumentals)
sku: musicinside-siliconinst
upc: 876809009540
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description:
With the Silicon Sandwich album, Music Inside opens doors to 10 new different electronic worlds.

This album will make you dance, close your eyes and scratch your head at times. With the pulsating beat of "No Time", the haunting atmosphere of "It Feels Like This", the love story of a robot and a spoon in "Curved Side Of The Spoon", and the hunting man-eaters in "Cannibals", just to name a few tracks.

Silicon Sandwich is a digital musical trip of a different kind.

Yes, you can have your silicon sandwich anyway you like it!


artist: Music of the Spheres
albumname: Musical Evolution
sku: spheres-evolution
upc: 876809008185
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/musical-evolution/id400984197
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description:
"Musical Evolution" explores the language of Baroque music from its wild beginnings through the development of more formal structures still in use today. The wild improvisatory violin sonatas of the 1660's used richly colorful and dissonant harmonies and an unrestricted form, which allowed for an extremely wide range of expressive possibilities and experimentation that sound strange to our ears today. Throughout the 1700's, the sonata gradually morphed and crystallized into the symmetrical form exemplified by Georg Frieric Handel, Arcangelo Corelli and Antonio Vivaldi, who created the first harmonic and structural expectations which still govern our responses today.


artist: Music of the Spheres
albumname: The Fantastics
sku: spheres-fantastics
upc: 876809001377
itunes: NONE
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artist: Music of the Spheres
albumname: Music of the Spheres
sku: spheres-spheres
upc: 876809001384
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=257916196&s=143444
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description:
Playing with bewitching prowess, violinist Jeanne Johnson gives an absolutely dazzling performance on Music of the Spheres and is supported by the stately and graceful playing of Baroque cellist Joanna Blendulf and harpsichordist Yuko Tanaka. Johnson has both amazing techcnial skill and artistic flair, and she plays music with a refreshing sense of gusto and joy. In fact, this entire album could be used as a response to anyone who finds classical music too academic, aloof, or intimidating. Stunningly effusive.


artist: Music of the Spheres
albumname: Toujours l'Amour
sku: spheres-toujoursamour
upc: 847646005675
also:
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description:
Toujours l'Amour will tickle your fancy with a bouquet of French Baroque musical delights, both familiar and new, from the courts of the Sun King and Louis XV. Music of the Spheres presents a collection of sweet confections for Baroque violin, viola da gamba and harpsichord, including the popular favorite Sonnerie de Sainte Genevieve du Mont de Paris by Marin Marais, depicting the ringing of church bells.

Bask in works from the court of Sun King Louis XIV, including a violin sonata by elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre and a dance suite of colorful character movements by court composer Jean-Fery Rebel.

We hope you will delight in each truffle you take out of the box - some are sweet marzipan, some bittersweet chocolate, and some have surprise centers and may be new treats you've never tasted before!

Recorded by John Buckman for ToneGnome Recordings


artist: Musica Franca
albumname: Boismortier - Sonatas for Two Bassoons and Continuo
sku: franca-boismortier
upc: 876809004408
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=257943720&s=143444
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description:
An ideal blend of soothing and energizing qualities, this good natured, mid-tempo baroque music has the power to get your day flowing in exactly the right direction. The Boismortier sonatas are treated with infinite subtlety and feline grace-played by Musica Franca with the virtuosity his work demands. With their infinite variations and nuances, this interpretation reveals the skills that allowed Joseph Bodin de Boismortier to become one of the first composers to succeed without a patron...able to make his living entirely by writing new works of music.


artist: Musica Franca
albumname: Corrette - Le Phenix - Les Delices de la Solitude
sku: franca-corrette
upc: 876809004392
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=257805353&s=143444
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description:
Musica Franca easily captures the playful, inventive spirit of Michel Corrette's compositions, with many of the movements displaying the all-or-nothing passion that characterized much of his work. Their interpretations have been described as "light and transparent" and "wonderfully weightless," and we at Magnatune find the bright, warm tones to be especially perfect during morning hours.


artist: Musica Pacifica
albumname: Dancing in the Isles
sku: mpacifica-dancing
upc: 876809009335
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description:
Some of America's most dynamic Baroque performers present a mix of virtuoso chamber pieces and their own arrangements of traditional tunes from Scotland, Ireland, and England - from toe-tapping Celtic reels and jigs to melancholy instrumental ballads and English country dances.

The popular spirit of the British Isles strongly infused the works by some of the master composers of the time also presented here, including the touching and vivid Sonata on Scots Tunes by James Oswald and a brilliant variation set on another Scots tune by Francesco Maria Veracini. Other highlights include Henry Purcell's sublime Three Parts on a Ground, a set of dances from the English court masque, and a cheeky sonata by Matthew Locke.

Musica Pacifica brings their customary high energy, superb musicianship, and powerful communicative powers to this catchy and unusual program.

Judith Linsenberg, recorders and whistle
Elizabeth Blumenstock and Robert Mealy, baroque violins
David Morris, baroque 'cello, viola da gamba
Charles Sherman, harpsichord
Charles Weaver, theorbo, baroque guitar
Peter Maund, percussion


artist: Musical Mandalas
albumname: Morphogenesis
sku: musicalmandalas-morphogenesis
upc: 847646010457
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description:
Morphogenesis features rich, sustained synths and electric guitars with additional layers of guitar and piano motifs that play off one another with grace and care. In this album, composer Michael J. Goldberg, invokes a mysterious and dark sense of atmosphere, while simultaneously offering a sense of hope, longing, and peace. Saturated with reverb, sustains, swells, and riffs, Morphogenesis has a bittersweet, haunting, and lovelorn feel. Furthermore, minimalist yet layered style of this album exemplifies the unique style and sounds of Musical Mandalas.


artist: Mutandina
albumname: Mutandina
sku: mutandina-1
upc: 876809003661
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=257805568&s=143444
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artist: Mutandina
albumname: Pidiendo Pista
sku: mutandina-pista
upc: 847646002223
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description:
Mutandina, the Argentinian band led by Mato Ruiz (guitar and voice), presents their second album Pidiendo Pista. The concept of Mutandina's new album follows the previous sonorous concept tied to a mixture of musical styles but more orientated towards rock.

You can listen to a notable ripeness in the concept of the sound and the composition of the songs. In the tracks it is possible to find rock, funk, reggae, Latin, electronica, in the song format, form and duration. The lyrics approach daily life matters, almost always from an optimistic, but not ingenuous vision.


artist: My Equinox Divine
albumname: Of Glitters and Zen
sku: equinoxdivine-glittersandzen
upc: 847646010730
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description:
The concept of the album is based on the path of discovering the Universe and the eternal search for truth, the complexities of relationships and the desire to go beyond the ordinary. The artists were never comfortable being stuck in one genre. Leaving electro pop as the leading genre, the musicians experimented with the sound. Almost all songs are made using a Korg Electribe analogue synthesizer to get that dark synth sound. Synthetic sounds are perfectly balanced with live bass, guitars and atmospheric vocals. The album consists of ten songs. The opening song is an 80s-inspired synth-pop track, while the others sound more like blends of electro pop, dream pop and alternative.


artist: My Woshin Mashin
albumname: Evil Must Die
sku: washinmash-evilmustdie
upc: 847646005644
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description:
"Evil Must Die" is a great album if you're looking for something new, fun and fresh in electronic music. Created and delivered by My Woshin Mashin, an unconventionally artistic German-Russian three-piece act, these tunes are far from any common stereotypes and cliches of the modern pop scene.

Some songs are sure to make you dance, some will put a smile on your face (or maybe tears), some will make you wanna-go-crash-something-right-now. So, now or never - here they come! Bibi, Hugo, Wolfgang and their electro-punk-trip-pop monster, "Evil Must Die"!


artist: Myles Cochran
albumname: Marginal Street
sku: myles-marginal
upc: 876809001360
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=257805822&s=143444
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description:
Relaxed, moody, dark and slow, this is a singer/songwriter album for rainy fall days. Beautiful, understated piano lines interplay with simple, single notes on an acoustic guitar.


artist: Mystified
albumname: Dark Rites of Mesmer
sku: mystified-darkrites
upc: 876809009687
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/dark-rites-of-mesmer/id423029221
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description:
"Dark Rites Of Mesmer" is deep and hypnotic. It is a beautiful kind of music, with washes of background drones that entrance and looped sequences adding texture. It presents a continuous interplay between immediate and distant, allowing the listener to cycle mentally between these layers. Three pieces were written with Yogic meditation specifically in mind. One was inspired by internet cyber comic "Manmachine". The longest piece, "Critical Dark", is a mid-length journey into ominous moods and tones.


artist: Mystified
albumname: Hellwaste
sku: mystified-hellwaste
upc: 876809006877
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/hellwaste/id336048772
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description:
"Hellwaste" is a drone essay on Hell-- as a place, a concept, and an atmosphere. Deep tones and swirling voices connote an underground setting. Strange brass sounds and drumbeats tell you you are in the lair of the Efreeti. This release is less didactic and more exploratory than many artworks concerning Hell, and is meant to be enjoyed, rather than understood.


artist: Mystified
albumname: Hellwaste Revisited
sku: mystified-hellwasterev
upc: 876809007539
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/hellwaste-revisited/id336078877
also:
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description:
"Hellwaste Revisited" takes another look at the drones from "Hellwaste", adding rhythmic and melodic components. The release is drone set to techno/electronica. Now "Hellwaste" is an essay on drone you can dance to, or simply chill out with headphones. Early listeners have been very enthusiastic about this one-- it is bound to be popular.


artist: Mystified
albumname: Narcotic Basement
sku: mystified-narcotic
upc: 876809006716
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/narcotic-basement/id336076649
also:
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description:
"Narcotic Basement" is perhaps the smoothest amongst Mystified's recent releases. Diverse and interesting sound sources are used, including synthetic drones, unusual field recordings, shortwave sounds and more. A listener to the "Narcotic Basement" album remarked that he "couldn't stop listening". Thomas hopes that many people will share in this experience.


artist: Mystified
albumname: A Pale But Lasting Hope
sku: mystified-palehope
upc: 876809009113
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/a-pale-but-lasting-hope/id409595191
also:
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description:
Pieces range from the lively and effervescent to the dark and droney. Running throughout the release is the notion of wide-open spaces - spaces as dictated by sound, as described by tone clusters and layered sounds.

If Eno's "On Land" was an album about landscapes, so, too, is "A Pale But Distant Hope". Mystified is especially pleased with the incredible mastering job by Robert Rich and hopes listeners will give his work a listen.

"A Pale But Lasting Hope" is a full-length ambient album created by the band Mystified and mastered by ambient guru Robert Rich.


artist: Mystified
albumname: Skywatchers
sku: mystified-skywatchers
upc: 876809007867
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/skywatchers/id336076883
also:
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description:
"Skywatchers" is Mystified's big hit drone ambient album from 2008. Its theme is deep space, and its music is dark and wide open as the night sky. Dedicated to those who watch the skies for meaning.


artist: Mystified
albumname: Spheric
sku: mystified-spheric
upc: 876809006983
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/spheric/id369478322
also:
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description:
"Spheric" is an ambient and drone release that is all about the most important sphere-- the Earth. The ambient portions are very melodic and changeable, and are often accompanied by world rhythms. Tension is maintained, yet there are moments of serenity. Mystified hopes listeners will notice the many shifting layers of sound in the songs from "Spheric".


artist: Mystified
albumname: Detective Tension
sku: mystified-tension
upc: 876809005139
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/detective-tension/id369505002
also:
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description:
Beats, drones and progressions work in tandem to create a surprising variety of songs. Pieces are hooky and memorable, and definitely suggest a more palatable side of "Mystified". "Detective Tension" is a foray into cool melodic electronica and is a collection of pieces from 2009/2010: some meant for vinyl or other releases but never put out, others crafted specifically for this release.


artist: Nathan Mathes
albumname: American Whitecaps
sku: nmathes-amwhitecaps
upc: 847646000496
also:
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description:
American Whitecaps can best be described as an indie-folk album. It was recorded by one man in his basement studio in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The instrument sounds are organic and real, recorded in a real room. The lyrics are poetic and allusive. The vocal melodies are original, but seem somewhat familiar. American Whitecaps is an album not so much meant to convey thoughts, but to convey emotion.


artist: Nathan Mathes
albumname: Bellwether, Arbutus
sku: nmathes-bellweatherarbutus
upc: 847646007396
also:
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description:
Bellwether. Arbutus is an atmospheric indie folk rock album featuring memorable melodies and layers of harmony. The album is both dense and minimal: there are stripped down instrumental tracks peppered between complex, percussive laden vocal tracks. There is a wonderful confluence between the complex instrumentation and layered, reverb drenched vocals. As an entire album, Bellwether. Arbutus moves and drifts. It changes mood and invites the listener along on a ride through highs and lows, relaxation and excitement.


artist: Nathan Mathes
albumname: Recs
sku: nmathes-recs
upc: 847646007365
also:
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description:
Recs is contemporary stripped down indie folk at its best. All the songs on Recs were written and recorded in less than two months. The songs are minimal, raw, honest, and emotional. For Recs, Mathes traded in the layered vocal and instrumental sounds of his previous efforts for stripped down intimacy. Though the lyrics may be allusive, the emotion is undeniable. Recs is an album about struggle and starting over, an album about giving in at times, but never giving up.


artist: Nathan Mathes
albumname: Roselawn
sku: nmathes-roselawn
upc: 847646002339
also:
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description:
Roselawn can best be described as a folk-pop album. Each song on Roselawn is built around an acoustic guitar, with small electronic and atmospheric splashes thrown in.

Lyrically, Roselawn is an album about the highs and lows of being in love, about wanting to be a better person for the one you love, about appreciating the small, good things in life, and about taking nothing for granted.

Mathes has drawn clear inspiration from his love for his wife and a newly realized contentment with his life. Roselawn was recorded by Mathes in his basement studio in Green Bay, Wisconsin. His wife, Jane, provides vocals and percussion on several tracks.


artist: Neurobic
albumname: Disco Drama
sku: neurobic-discodrame
upc: 847646009598
also:
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description:
Neurobic is the culmination of the varied talents of two experienced and diverse music producers along with the vocal talents of Sara J.

Neurobic is mainly oriented to vocal-led urban pop dance music. Blending the sounds and feelings of the 80's with contemporary electronic music, Neurobic guarantees a stunningly memorable dance sound experience.

Every song on Discodrama brings its own story, but most of them are talking about the common feelings that we have all felt at least once in a lifetime, if not most of the time. How it is when you feel trapped in your body, in your mind, relationship, environment, or in any situation uncommon to our perceptions of how our life should be. Discodrama brings sweet danceable melodies spiced up with a bit of life-story drama.

Sometimes you can't change the universe, sometimes you can't even change yourself, but you can still dance. So, do it.


artist: Nick Kingsley
albumname: Close Up
sku: nickking-closeup
upc: 847646001011
also:
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description:
The album Close Up is a collection of powerful, emotive, electronic compositions. Half of the album focusing on the driving force of Drum n Bass and Techno mixed with melodic and harmonic ideas to create a full, hard hitting experience. The other half an investigation into the more delicate and ambient side of electronica. This is an album for those wanting to experience an original approach into modern electronica and drum and bass.


artist: Nigel Martin
albumname: Guitar Music
sku: nigelmartin-guitarmusic
upc: 847646005866
also:
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description:
Guitar Music features a blend of technical guitar wizardry and traditional slide techniques whilst retaining strong melodic direction with clear song structures. Nigel's vast array of influences include Joe Satriani, Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Derek Trucks, Paul Gilbert, Django Reinhardt and John Scofield.

The album features a strong blues/rock influence although some might say there are also elements of progressive rock and fusion. The instrumental nature of the music means it is not just suitable for the casual rock guitar fan but also those wishing to use music to paint pictures in their minds and connect music with moving image or those who just appreciate a collection of styles presented in an exciting way.

This collection of songs were composed, recorded and produced by Nigel between 2008 and 2013 with all instruments being handled by the man himself with a support from Robert Cochrane who provides drums on five of the eleven tracks - 3, 6, 8, 9 and 10.


artist: Nigel Martin
albumname: Guitar Music II
sku: nigelmartin-guitarmusic2
upc: 847646010259
also:
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description:
Guitar Music II is comprised of six rock instrumental tracks and is the follow-up to Guitar Music. The album features up-beat driving guitar tracks such as the opener Sacred Ground and Tornado Alley but also showcases laid-back and more intimate moments as in Logical Love. The album was composed and produced during a three-year immersion in blues music research as part of a PhD project and as such there is a strong blues influence to each of the songs heard here resulting in a very direct sound. When producing this set I wasn't merely satisfied with recording music that sounded good but I aimed to incorporate at least one outstanding moment in each song. I hope you enjoy these tracks as much as I do.


artist: Nigel Martin
albumname: Hands Up
sku: nigelmartin-handsup
upc: 847646011188
also:
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description:
Hands Up is Dr. Nigel Martin's latest album release and features seven full-length instrumental tracks that are the culmination of writing over a period of roughly two years. This album showcases a jazzier and more experimental sound compared to previous releases and is influenced by a range of artists including Steely Dan, Pink Floyd, John Scofield and Joe Satriani. The opening track Thinking Space incorporates an irregular time signature and spacey pitch-altering effects with a jazzy bass groove. Three of a Kind combines funky bass playing with an uplifting guitar-driven chorus. Heatwave showcases a strong blues-rock sound with gospel influences and hummable melodies. The fourth track Reverie is a laid-back instrumental built upon Latin Jazz sounds and clean electric guitar harmonies. Feelings in Ink is a memorable, emotive and uplifting rock ballad played finger style and followed by the experimental First Contact with its delay effects and tape-based reverse sounds. Finally the album closer and jazz-rock track Groove Injection builds to a climatic guitar solo and features highly characteristic and vocal-esque melodies in the chorus section.


artist: Nightfall Project
albumname: Underworld
sku: nightfall-underworld
upc: 847646000823
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/underworld/id440897659
also:
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description:
Underworld describes a musical journey through all layers of time. It is a sound creation in co-operation with Mother Nature and connects influences from many different cultures in the world. Underworld has been created through different styles and sounds, organic and electronic. Listen to Sleepers Awaken (featuring Credo Muttwa) and experience the awakening of consciousness, or enjoy songs like Underworld where you will be taken on a journey through Earth's secret history. All the songs are inspired by mother Earth and the universal language of Love.


artist: Ninety Pounds of Ugly
albumname: Richmond Motel Room 3
sku: npou-richmondmotel
upc: 847646000557
also:
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description:
"Country malcontents" band Ninety Pounds Of Ugly are hung up on the heart, cracking wise, burning bridges and losing control, all with the brazen, belittling charm of a jaded barfly's liquored up loose tongue, on Richmond Motel Room #3. The rockabilly thump of Out of Your League struts like the sequel to Loretta Lynn's You Ain't Woman Enough, while Tain't One, Tain't the Other is the best Dolly song you've never heard."
Steve Baylin - Ottawa XPress


artist: Noise HiFi
albumname: Red Distortion
sku: noisehifi-distortion
upc: 876809008581
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/red-distortion/id383184045
also:
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description:
Red Distortion is a dark journey through European silver mines and closed industries. The sound of this album is very dark, glitchy and scary, with noisy drones and ambient textures.

The main idea for Red Distortion was to create a heavy ambient attitude with some dub influences, combined with scary atmospheres and raw, beautiful minimalism. Those 4 tracks are all improvised with a small amount of overdubs. Inspired by industrial bands like Throbbing Gristle, Mokira, Sigillum S and Lustmord, Noise Hifi's debut album Red Distortion will redefine the world of Dark Ambient and Industrial music.

All the sounds on this album are based around the Swedish software Reason and Logic pro, except for the analogue synthesizer Sequential circuits Pro One The Fender Precision Bass and the Roland RE 201 Space Echo.


artist: Norine Braun
albumname: and the Mood Swings
sku: braun-and
upc: 876809001346
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=6239544&s=143444
also:
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description:
If you like bluesy rock with a little lounge and a whole lotta heart you'll love Norine Braun and the Mood Swings. It's a bluesy romp with a few surprises! Recorded live on the web, it captures the essence of her live act and was produced by Norine in association with her band and mixed by James Bowers.

Norine Braun and the Mood Swings cd won the 2003 "CD of the Year Awards" at kweevak.com. They were presented as one of the Top-50 CDs sent to the website kweevak.com in the 2002 calendar year. In the opinion of the judges these CDs represented the best submissions received for the year in terms of musical quality, production and overall theme!

The dazzling and dynamic line up on the cd are Bill Waldron on drums, Roger Skinner on keys, Rick Law on bass and Mark McKenzie on lead guitar and harmony vocals.

Norine's repertoire ranges from ethereal, reflective moods to sizzling bluesy rock that test the limit of popular music.


artist: Norine Braun
albumname: Crow
sku: braun-crow
upc: 876809001339
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=6239499&s=143444
also:
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description:
Jazz influences combined with a willing mix of the esoteric, metaphysical, folk and soft rock make Crow an eclectic companion.

Crow is a gentle, soothing departure into dreamland and the eclectic soundscapes defy the typical pop album sound.

"Crow is a vivid and compelling creation. It is refreshing when music creates thought. Crow does just that, it makes you think, feel and visualize. This CD leaves you satisfied and wondering what next?"
www.stonewallsociety.com

"Crow is an intriguing selection of 13 songs containing sounds as diverse as alternative rock, folk, blues, synthesizer new age and world music...those who like minimal and eclectic music with a wide range and metaphysical focus will enjoy this album very much."
Amanda Fisher - www.rambles.net


artist: Norine Braun
albumname: Miles to Go
sku: braun-miles
upc: 876809001322
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=6239456&s=143444
also:
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description:
Wild fluctuations you could swear its jazz then Braun whips out a bluesy guitar romp and then slips into a melodic rootsy rock even a little goth rock.

Reviews:
"Miles to Go is a stunner of an album, chock full of vivid imagery, great songwriting and performance talent..."
Heidi Drockelman Indie-Music.com

"An elastic soprano easily accommodating a bass popping funk rock workout or a spacey blues tinged folkrock song."
Tom Heyman listen.com

"Her strong, jazz inflected vocal presence. This woman sounds like she could sing Shakespeare. In a smoky nightclub. With a bad case of strep throat..."
Annie Lin GoGirlsMusic.com


artist: Norine Braun
albumname: Modern Anguish
sku: braun-modern
upc: 876809001315
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=6239411&s=143444
also:
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description:
Genreblending blues, folkrock, pop this eclectic songwriter showcases her diversity of styles.

Norine Braun's repertoire ranges from ethereal, reflective moods to sizzling bluesy rock that test the limit of popular music. She is inspired by the struggle to find meaning in the human experience. Her lyrics, although provocative, do not lose touch with her whimsical nature.

Reviews:
"An elastic soprano easily accommodating a bass popping funk rock workout or a spacey blues tinged folkrock song."
Tom Heyman listen.com

"Talented Canadian Singer-Songwriter. First rate."
Acoustic Guitar Connections guthriethomasstrings.com

The song Dancing Sea from Modern Anguish is featured on the tv series Wings Over Canada. The song Watching Shadows is used in the David Kopp film Internicine.


artist: Norine Braun
albumname: Now and Zen
sku: braun-nowzen
upc: 876809001308
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=6239590&s=143444
also:
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description:
Ambient soul pop with elements of hip hop, jazz and a dash of punk mix it up and flow on this spirited ascension.

Norine Braun, Canada's Queen of Eclectic Pop, Adds Another Flawless Jewel To Her Crown With "Now and Zen"

Norine Braun's music has always existed on its own terms, falling into that titillating, refreshingly original space to the left of "trendy," craftily sidestepping the all-too-easily-dismissed stigma often applied to the "female singer/songwriter," and freewheeling unhindered around the rigid shackles of "genre."

Along with savvy producer and multi-instrumentalist James Bowers, Braun has accumulated an extraordinary discography of unpretentious, personal songs anchored by her sweet, confident voice and genteel composition. Together, the pair crafts tuneful, friendly songs with subtle but effective arrangements, dynamic and graceful and memorable.

Now, Braun is back with her fifth CD, Now and Zen, and on these fourteen tracks Braun shows an even greater depth and maturity. Now and Zen expands on her penchant for jazzed up, funk-tinged pop, and shows this gifted songstress taking bold steps on her soulful journey into self-exploration. The torch song, "Move the Clouds," is evocative and inspirational, anchored by easy lounge piano and a melody as delicate as flower petals. The groovy "J'en Suis Desolee" showcases Braun's confident rap, surprising and rocking with an edgy explosion of homegirl verve.

Artsy and intellectual, tuneful and savvy, Norine Braun will zing to the heart of any listener.


artist: Nova Casa
albumname: Leclair - Blow - Matteis - Brescianello
sku: novacasa-leclair
upc: 876809006211
itunes: NONE
also:
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description:
A surpassingly warm sound characterizes Nova Casa's performances of baroque chamber music, and here it lights up the compositions of Jean Marie Leclair, Nicola Matteis, Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello, and John Blow. This ensemble plays exclusively on period instruments with deep respect for historical performance style, and the results are elegant, authentic, and inherently charming. We're especially happy for the inclusion of Nicola Matteis' work on this album. Matteis is credited with changing the English taste for violin playing from the conservative French style to a newer, Italian one and Nova Casa's performance of his "Suite in d" perfectly reflects this more expressive approach.


artist: Nova Express
albumname: Gimme Some
sku: novaexpress-gimme
upc: 876809001292
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=257805934&s=143444
also:
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description:
Powerful and melodic, fast rock-n-roll from New York City! Born and bred in New York's Lower East Side, Nova Express' creative song writing force is generated by founding members Mike Dee-Bass and Vocals (New York) and Eric Robel-Drums (Baltimore, MD).

Based on the concept of bringing together fast high-energy punk with the twin guitar assault of Motor City Rock-n-Roll. Supported by long-time member David Acampora-Rhythm guitar (L.A.),and more recently Mike Dimmit (gtrs) bringing in high caliber guitar work, the result is pure rock and roll: fast and ferocious, hard, heavy and loud.

To date, NE have been featured on a variety of national and international Indie labels such as Devil Doll, TeePee/Victory, Rue Morgue, Vicious Kitten, Myrmecoleo ,Lollipop and now Magnatune! An upcoming Reptilian Records comp featuring Nova Express covering a Dead Boys song is also slated.

Being well reviewed from such magazines as Carbon 14, Punk ! magazine, L.A. Weekly, Screech Magazine and Toxic Flyer have helped gather the attention Nova Express has gained to pull off packed shows wherever they play. Sal Canzonieri of Electric Frankenstein says "Nova Express is the best of the new breed of Rock-n-Rollers." NE has toured up and down the east and west coast in such cities as NY, Philadelphia, Baltimore, DC, Columbus,OH, LA, SF, and SD with other bands such as: Candy Snatchers, Electric Frankenstein, Zeke, The Bullys, Street Walkin' Cheetahs, Texas Terri and The Black Halos. All with great audience reception. 11 songs, recorded at the famous LoHo Studios in New Yorks' Lower East Side by Engineer Joe Hogan, is the result of the bands' best to date entitled "Gimme Some".


artist: Nuform
albumname: Lymph
sku: nuform-lymph
upc: 847646005873
also:
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description:
The album title express the real entity of the album, it is the lymph of the artist.

The tracks explore many music genres, each one produced based on the feeling of the moment. There are chillout tracks, to express the beautiful intimate moments, where each one of us needs a corner to relax, other tracks reveal the dreams, the hopes hidden sometimes inside us.

A beautiful listening pleasure, for lovers of instrumental music and not. Let the music flow in your body like the lymph that feeds, protects and helps your human being. Anyone could be attracted by the tracks, there are melodic content, groovy beats, beautiful sounds, many musical influences from a variety of genres, perfectly mixed together to express the essence of this album. Have a listen, probably you will be caught.

Lymph is the first album release on Magnatune by Nuform, a musical project by Italian producer Simone Mencarelli.


artist: Numa
albumname: Numa
sku: numa-numa
upc: 847646008119
also:
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description:
Numa's debut self titled album fuses together honest and memorable songwriting with a brazen intensity that will leave fans of hard rock appreciating the contrast of beauty against hard hitting rhythms.

Having quickly solidified their reputation as one of the premiere live acts in the Mid-Atlantic region, this dynamic quartet has managed to create an groove based hard rock sound that is truly arena ready. Songs like "Riptide" showcase memorable classic rock inspired riffs while the choruses to "Like a Bruise" and "Bad Reflection" will be swimming around in your head for days after your first listen.


artist: Numa
albumname: Numa (instrumental)
sku: numa-numainst
upc: 847646008126
also:
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description:
Welcome to the instrumental version of Numa's debut self titled album. It fuses together honest and memorable songwriting with a brazen intensity that will leave fans of hard rock appreciating the contrast of beauty against hard hitting rhythms.

Having quickly solidified their reputation as one of the premiere live acts in the Mid-Atlantic region, this dynamic quartet has managed to create an groove based hard rock sound that is truly arena ready. Songs like "Riptide" showcase memorable classic rock inspired riffs while the choruses to "Like a Bruise" and "Bad Reflection" will be swimming around in your head for days after your first listen.


artist: Oberlin Consort of Viols
albumname: 5 and 6 part Fantasies of William Lawes
sku: oberlin-lawes
upc: 876809001285
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=257806101&s=143444
also:
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description:
The Oberlin Consort of Viols first formed in 1976 in Oberlin, Ohio with the intent of playing renaissance viol works in an intimate small setting, to recreate the ambience this intimate chamber music was composed for.

The Oberlin consort have performed the works of Orlando Gibbons, Henry Purcell, William Byrd Christopher Tye, John Ward and William Lawes. Since their first encounter with Lawes in 1982, the Oberlin Consort has devoted much of its energy to interpreting and performing Lawes' works, both in concert and on recordings. The Oberlin Consort have recorded the complete Fantasies of Henry Purcell, as well as a program of fantasias for viols and organ by John Jenkins and William Lawes.


artist: OGMA
albumname: You Are It (instrumental)
sku: ogma-yaiinst
upc: 847646001264
also:
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description:
Melodic, and upbeat conscious music created with positive intention to uplift, inspire, and energize the listener.

You Are It was created with the intention of being a 'musical activation piece' ... Just as certain peak experiences can evoke a positive transformation in one's life, creative expression bestows the same potential for being a catalyst for transformation and healing.

This album has been written for the entire human family, and for this very moment, right now. It is a call to arms, a musical activation, radiating vibrations of Freedom, Affirmation, Empowerment, Healing, and Love.


artist: OGMA
albumname: You Are It
sku: ogma-you
upc: 876809007669
also:
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description:
Friendly folk rock that is a deliciously melodic and energizing. Upbeat and Positive, Healing and Empowering. Affirmation and Love.

You Are It was created with the intention of being a 'musical activation piece' ... Just as certain peak experiences can evoke a positive transformation in one's life, creative expression bestows the same potential for being a catalyst for transformation and healing.

This album has been written for the entire human family, and for this very moment, right now. It is a call to arms, a musical activation, radiating vibrations of Freedom, Affirmation, Empowerment, Healing, and Love.


artist: Olexa Kabanov
albumname: Ambrelyre
sku: kabanov-ambrelyre
upc: 847646004289
also:
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description:
Kabanov's friend Satori, writes the following about his latest album Amrelyre:

"I advise you to listen to this album, because even today the hurdy-gurdy remains a unique instrument with a special sound, her voice - a great guide to the imagination and inner worlds. The history of the polyphonic wheel lyre stetches back for about a thousand years - and thus, in this music live medieval castles and roving musicians, and the air is clean, which is so lacking in our modern cities.

Not every player is able to breathe life into old instruments, let them sound bright, deeply, to sparkle and sing. Olexa Kabanov though is undoubtedly capable. He plays traditional tunes that sound as if they have not been played for hundreds of years but they are alive, close, and warm. There is such a feeling as if the melody and you yourself have gone beyond the confines of this time - and no one is getting older, nothing disappears, while the music pulls you back.

The polyphonic wheel lyre played by Olexa Kabanov has become versatile orchaestral instrument- really enriched. I think you will appreciate the depth of her voice, the grace of shades - and want to know more..."


artist: Olexa Kabanov
albumname: Breath of Times
description: New instrumental album Breath of Times from Olexa Kabanov with light and beautiful ethnic motifs.
sku: kabanov-breath
upc: 847646006108
also:
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artist: Olexa Kabanov
albumname: Dale of Muses
sku: kabanov-dalemuses
upc: 847646001851
also:
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description:
Kabanov is influenced by a wide range of musical interests, which include the European Middle Ages, Eastern tradition, and Slavic ethnic, from jazz to folk-rock and world music. The album Dale of the Muses became in effect an Ukrainian project in the field of world music and apparently, one of the first in Ukraine.

Describing this music is not easy, it has to be listened to, its the first album of its kind from Ukraine and is beautiful and amazing. It is gratifying to hear how organically the sounds meld together, for example, the lyre, the deep Ukrainian violin and the Indian percussion. Or the mandolin with the drymba. In this album you will find unexpected combinations and each of them again and again will prove that music has no borders, music is for everyone, regardless of nationality. Kabanov and his music look in this direction and in listening you will find many unexpected and hidden gems that are worth finding.

Kabanov is influenced by a wide range of musical interests, which include the European Middle Ages, Eastern tradition, and Slavic ethnic, from jazz to folk-rock and world music. The album Dale of the Muses became in effect an Ukrainian project in the field of world music and apparently, one of the first in Ukraine.


artist: Olexa Kabanov
albumname: Over the Waves
sku: kabanov-overwaves
upc: 847646004272
also:
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description:
Over the Waves, the new album from multi-instrumentalist Olexa Kabanov. The music from this album invites us on a journey to distant lands and unknown continents.

Inspired by a unique synergy between the motifs from new age, world and folk music, Kabanov brings us a fresh, new sound, breezy and uplifting. It's an easy, energetic and uplifting album. The last song "Unforgotten song" is a little heavier and draws us back down to Earth, but with a bright sadness, a beautiful empathy.


artist: Olexa Kabanov
albumname: On the Wings of the Renaissance
sku: kabanov-renaissance
upc: 847646006115
also:
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description:
On this album you will hear Ukrainian melodies and Bulgarian folk songs which have survived centuries, Indian tabla rhythms and Japanese taiko drums, medieval motifs and open ethnic vocals.

All these compositions create the feeling that the Renaissance is a kind of mood, this music leaves a unique impression, bringing the listener close into the colorful World of World music.


artist: Olexa Kabanov
albumname: Wind from the Orient
sku: kabanov-windorient
upc: 847646001844
also:
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description:
Wind from the Orient
Kabanov - touring musician, his hands are equally organically sound and antique European and Oriental and African instruments. Strings, woodwinds, percussion - it seems there is nothing on which he could not play. A professional, high quality, rich. It seems that every musician on the path of self-improvement, sooner or later meets with the musical culture of the East - and imbues in it. It is difficult to remain indifferent to this beauty. Hence, we can only let in and let it go. It seems that Olexa works out well - you will hear for yourself. Not the least role in this play and that in his arsenal - a variety of exotic instruments, the game where Kabanov looking for new approaches that weaves in his plays, East and West. But how does he do it - listen.


artist: Oliostere
albumname: Circonflexe
sku: oliostere-circonflexe
upc: 847646007587
also:
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description:
Circonflexe: cyclic claves, flexed execution, circumspect circles. The concept of this album revolves around claves, rhythmic patterns which unite the musicians and distinguish each track. Some tracks are based on a simple clave such as 1 2 3 2 or RER, while others feature complex patterns like in the introduction of 8 plus 7 for which the album artwork gives the score. Polyrhythms are particularly present throughout 2 virgule 4 and reach an interesting arpeggio step before the last theme. Triades concludes the album with a symmetric ascending and descending chord progression highlighted by a tune jointly played by 4 melodic instruments.

This album features two guests: Olivier Koundouno and YeYe Toon. Olivier Koundouno's cello dances on the interweaving background of MMM, a trance balanced between the written score and improvisations. YeYe Toon's unique scatting style is featured in Polymorphisme, a multiple time scale tune, and in Daga dit Gouda, a piece based on a scattered jungle drum line.

Bass: Marc evrard
Cello: Olivier Koundouno (4)
Drums: Lionel Feugere
Flute: Stephanie Morland
Guitar: eric Epstein
Keyboard: emile Maras
Voice: YeYe Toon (2,6)

Compositions: emile Maras, eric Epstein, Lionel Feugere, Marc evrard (7), Mathieu Feugere (1,3,6), Olivier Koundouno (4,8), Raphael Hardy (2,3,4,5), Stephanie Morland, YeYe Toon (2,6).

Mixing and recording: Louis Martin-Gallausiaux
Artwork Graphism: Vlou
Artwork Realisation: o-liostere


artist: Oliostere
albumname: S-clave
sku: oliostere-sclave
upc: 876809005115
also:
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description:
In continuation of Ô-liostére's first album Circonflexe, these tracks build on several years of collective works that are all centered around the key idea of clave-based music: a rhythm guide-pattern for poetry-fied compositions.

Paradoxically, S-Clave (esclave means slave in French) is a free album; obvious, shiny and generous, it resembles a journey between different musical spaces, in which diverse backgrounds and layers mix into something divinely unique that literally sounds like pure joy. Through the music and clave, the listener starts his own inner dance in a creative and stimulating way. A colorful and wavy album, bouncy and melodic at the same time, that reflects the real pleasure of playing together.

The first of two basic ideas underlying this album is the clavification process which allows the switch from complex un-claved rhythms to claved rhythms. This process is illustrated in the opening Countdown track where a rhythmic pattern made of decreasing lengths (7-6-5-4-3-2-1) generates both a short and groovy clave on which the improvisation is frolicking, and a long clave ("super-clave") leading to a rhythmic climax. The process of clavification is then taken upsideédown in the track J'ai Froid; the piece is entirely built on clavic changes, until the final where we find an equilibrium on a 4-time groove. Back 2 Bach, our interpretation of a Bach standard from the "Really"-Tempered Clavier, is another piece in which the clavification process is explored. We use a time signature in 4 to respect Bach's temperament but combine it with a mix of influences from other eras and rhythms, such as in the funky-groovy opening.

The second underlying idea is the enhancement of the traditional 2-3 counterpart of the afro-Brazilian clave, transforming the linear tempo itself into another clave. And by unfolding the 2-3 afro-Brazilian clave over it, we get poly-claves in Del Mundo and a meta-clave in La gnose du Gnowê with the ancient clave notation 3(2) 3(1) 3(3).

Finally, in the deepest tradition of the Clavistan's Lake region, a lovely and fixed cyclical clave builds the piece's Clavicule. This allows us to consolidate the skeleton of the album with the piece 100 personnes, a slow&-clave tribute to the always moving input-ouput of Ô-liostére musicianships and to the sub-region Titicaca Lakes. The result: a healthy body of jazzy goodness that will make you yearn for more.

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Bass: Ahmed Ossama (2-7), YéYé Toon (1)
Clave: YéYé Toon (7)
Congas: Lionel Feugère (2,4)
Drums: Lionel Feugère
Flute: Stéphanie Morland
Güiro: YéYé Toon (1)
Keyboard: Guillaume Mahenc
Voice: Guillaume Mahenc (1), Lionel Feugère (7), Stéphanie Morland (3,4), YéYé Toon (2-7)

Compositions: Ahmed Ossama (2,3,5,6), Lionel Feugère (1,2,5-7), Guilaume Mahenc (1,6,7), Johann Sebastian Bach (4), Stéphanie Morland (3,5), YéYé Toon (2).
Arrangements: Ahmed Ossama (4), Lionel Feugère (3,4), Guilaume Mahenc (2-4), Stéphanie Morland (2,4-7), YéYé Toon (3,4,6,7).

Mixing and recording: Marius Beirieu at Studio La Chaufferie (France)

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Painting: Sébastien Feugère
Photo: Ô-liostére
Totem: Dieu Gnowê
Artwork realization: Lionel Feugère & Olivier Chardin
Album note editing: Lady Poppy May Elizabeth Smith

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Producer: Culture Sans Visa https://www.culture-sans-visa.fr
Ô-liostére's website: https://oliostere.culture-sans-visa.fr
Ô-liostére's contact: mailto:oliostere@culture-sans-visa.fr


artist: One Sock Thief
albumname: Tell Them Now
sku: onesockthief-tell
upc: 847646003817
also:
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description:
"One Sock Thief'"s debut album Tell Them Now is replete with probing lyrics and orchestral flourishes, it has drawn comparisons to records from bands as varied as Keane, Depeche Mode, and Genesis.

Lyrically and musically, the album examines the balance between chaos and order, both personally and externally.

The tone for the album is set by, Neverland- a massive piano driven ode to youth and the unknown. It's straight rhythms juxtapose exquisitely with its flowing melodic lines and it is the most indicative of the sound of One Sock Thief.

People was released as a single in the same year that the album was released. Unlike the rest of their freshman offering, People was intended to be more of a dance number, introduced into their set-list to compete with the party-like atmosphere created by their companion touring bands. The rest of the sound on Tell Them Now is however, more of a listener's medium, than a dancer's delight.

Wires offers yet another perspective to the Thief's sonic palette and introduces finger picked guitars, a brass section and lighter percussion.

Consisting of a guitar-driven chorus, and the self-realizing refrain "you gotta know yourself," Shaker would prove to be the Thief's most successful track, eventually charting at number 2 on the MK (a South African music video channel) Top 10 countdown.

Man of Hope is a syncopated rock song that speaks to the madness of everyday life. It alternates between a bouncing verse and a familiar piano-laden chorus, before eventually diving into a double timed outro.

Spin is a slow tempo love dirge that is set apart by the relative absence of flowing piano lines, favoring instead a softly strummed guitar.

Honey is one of Tell Them Now's darker moments. Echoing the discordant flight patterns of bees, it is set in 5/4 meter. Lyrically, it moves along themes of alienation in the verse, before disintegrating into a flurry of melodic mayhem in the chorus and finally releasing into the relatively tranquil buzzing of bees in the outro.

Footsteps of the Angel is One Sock Thief's take on a traditional rock song, and adds a swinging groove to the their typical sound. Once again the band manages to take a relatively ordinary musical concept, inject it with unique textures, and turn it into something extraordinary.

Catastrophism offers a heaven's-eye view of earth's shifting tectonic plates, and conjures images of the chaos that is necessary to create continents. The music follows an appropriately grandiose scale and is the only song to fade out, hinting at the continuing cycle of life.

Sunday Afternoons is a perfect pop song, that reflects on carefree summer afternoons.

Tell Them Now, the track for which the album is named, is about rebirth and uses the metaphor of fire to explain destruction and new life. It makes use of an e-bow and percussion to create a different variation on the sparseness that is thematic throughout the album.


artist: Opened Paradise
albumname: Occult
sku: opened-occult
upc: 876809005993
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=277014077&s=143444
also:
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description:
The incredible, hollowed out grandeur of the songs on this album bring you straight into the darkly glorious and melodic world of Opened Paradise. Frontman Periklis E's voice is so evocative and intense that it gives Mister Peter Murphy a run for his money, while Babis on guitars and Constantinos on drums lend a dire, driving sound to the album that is the perfect counterpoint to the cavernous vocals. So strong and excellent is the overall mood of this album that we strongly recommend turning off the shuffle play for an hour in order to listen to it all the way through, the first track to the last. Dark, dramatic feelings guaranteed.


artist: Opened Paradise
albumname: Tides
sku: opened-tides
upc: 847646005217
also:
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description:
With respect to our gothic rock roots and the paths that brought us to "Occult" album, we now take a slightly different step, with the release of "Tides" EP.

Treading the roaring silence of death is never easy. Infinite astral paths unravel through the ether, to where the wary souls lust of the cities of gold, and the moon at night.

As we go through the process of making our music, we experience tiny fragments of the great journey through the tides of the inner self. A journey that may one day bring us closer to Agartha, to Xibalba...to Samarkand of our dreams.


artist: Opera Rock
albumname: Starborn
sku: operarock-starborn
upc: 847646006979
also:
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description:
Opera Rock was born to play state of the art concept-albums: '80s sound, Metal Riffs and cinematic interludes will guide you through stories that will blow your mind.

One of the most thrilling aspects of being a musician is the chance to play and interact every day with a huge number of people in a potentially endless network of knowledge and friendships. "Starborn" was conceived thanks to the sympathy, passions and mutual respect of the individual components enrolled by Marco "Mr. Faz "Fazzini (founder and bass player of the band) for the realization of his rock opera: prepare to a cinematic rock/Metal full immersion in a sci-fi world far beyond your imagination. You will SEE the music!


artist: Optimal Tunes
albumname: Sanam Chaikhet
sku: optimal-sanam
upc: 847646000502
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/sanam-chaikhet/id432555448
also:
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description:
This album showcases Optimal Tunes hallmark combination of dance beats and big textures with lively vocals and real-time musicianship. The inspiration behind the album originates from a love of traditional music of many genres coupled with the enormous possibilities provided by modern technology. This inspiration shines through the entire album despite significant variation in each track. The album was recorded at various locations in South East Asia by electronic musician Sanam Chaikhet.


artist: Orinda
albumname: Airs de Cour
sku: orinda-airs
upc: 876809001278
itunes: NONE
also:
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artist: Osamu Kitajima and Chris Mancinelli
albumname: Beyond the Circle
sku: okandcm-beyondcir
upc: 847646001028
also:
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description:
The pulse of captivating and ear-catching dance rhythms forms the foundation for these hauntingly melodic and evocative soundscapes. The compositions are expertly balanced by an intricate interlacing of ancient Japanese instruments and singing. Beyond the Circle is an uplifting statement of honed perfection. A masterful melding of the latest electronic textures with the most spiritual of Asian musical history.

This upbeat music was composed, produced and performed by Osamu Kitajima and Chris Mancinelli. It also features vocalist Nanako Mikado singing traditional Geisha songs, the expressive playing of shakuhachi master Masakazu Yoshizawa, and WILCO guitar legend Nels Cline.

These performances are woven directly into the music not as lead or solo parts, but as equal instruments integrated into the sonic fabric of each composition. Pioneers in blending the sounds of Eastern and Western cultures, the duo feels most comfortable in a synthesis of these two contrasting worlds furthering their reputation as "Pan Pacific Ambient Dance Masters".


artist: Osamu Kitajima and Chris Mancinelli
albumname: Christmas Through the Gateway
sku: okandcm-christmasgateway
upc: 876809009977
also:
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description:
For the first time in the history of the developed world, Osamu Kitajima and Chris Mancinelli have created Christmas music with a distinctly Oriental flavor. Remaining faithful to the traditional musical heritage, they have successfully built a sonic bridge traversing these two vastly contrasting worlds. Take a musical sleigh ride with the infectious beats, ambient stylings and Japanese influences of these holiday classics. It is an innovative and playful set of music that sounds both familiar and undeniably unique.


artist: Osamu Kitajima and Chris Mancinelli
albumname: Two Bridges Crossing
sku: okandcm-twobridges
upc: 847646001714
also:
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description:
Two Bridges Crossing presents a superb mix of ancient Geisha singing and supple urban beats. The project exemplifies a masterful blending of traditional Japanese instruments with exotic electronica, and "Sumo wrestling jinku" vocals layered with jazz inflected stylings. Soaring textures surround the sound, nourished from the past, the present and the future. Savor the pan-pacific blend of musical worlds as it emerges from the exceptional production style of Dr. Osamu Kitajima and Chris Mancinelli.

The duo continues to create and expand new hybrids of modern music for adventurous listeners. Spanning west to east and east to west, "Two Bridges Crossing" links two seemingly contrasting lands effortlessly. Make the crossing only if you dare to expand your listening horizons.


artist: Ostracon
albumname: Unauthorized Modifications
sku: ostracon-unauthorizedmod
upc: 847646006009
also:
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description:
On this debut electronica/jazz album from the duo Ostracon, John Keston uses custom sequencing software to convert video signals into a stream of generative melodic structures. During their performances and recording sessions Keston captures, layers, loops, arranges and processes these phrases building spontaneous compositions.

Graham O'Brien accompanies these angular, electronic structures, with dynamic drumming that flirts with the underworld. O'Brien's percussive statements firmly place the compositions into a non-linear landscape, grounded in a familiar yet impossible to categorize igneous crust.


artist: OTiS
albumname: Music Elevator
sku: otis-musicelev
upc: 847646002674
also:
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description:
It was a creative explosion from start to finish, culminating in the band's most polished recording yet. In 6 months time, the band managed to formulate their concept for the album, record all the music, design all the artwork, and shoot an incredible music video for their single "Automatic People". Their hard work and the help of many great people who believe in them brought their vision to life. With "Music Elevator," OTiS has dipped into the pool of old school flavor and resurrected the soul of the times. It's about time somebody did.

In the spring of 2011, OTiS came together at SIR Studios in New York City and broke ground on their second studio album. Four months later the band had their finished product, entitled Music Elevator.


artist: OTiS
albumname: OTiS
sku: otis-otis
upc: 847646000212
also:
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description:
This diverse album touches on bluesy rock on "All Over Again" and "American Dream," but also delivering rhythm driven reggae on "Trying to Believe," "Tin Can" and "Reconstruction." Funk and Jam fans will immediately fall into "Andelusia," "Situation Song" and "The Way It Goes."

The band breaks out of boxes even more on the Americana tinged "Die Easy" featuring Joe Trombino of Urban Sun. The "Round Table Online" wrote "It's a rarity for energy of a band to translate so strongly on a recording, yet OTiS manages to pull it off with ease."

This is OTiS' debut album, and was recorded during the better part of 2009, and was officially released in March 2010. It is produced by OTiS' bass player, Dave Lowenthal, and mastered by Butch Jones at Beathaven.


artist: Ou
albumname: Scrambled
sku: ou-scambled
upc: 847646008614
also:
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description:
Sung in Italian, Sardinian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, English and Pygmy, with a guest brass band and guest chorus, Scrambled blurs the boundaries between jazz, world music, irony, ferocity and tenderness.

1. Non C'e Niente da Lavare (There is nothing to wash) ~ a joyous romping bassline provides the foundation for this battle between logic and habit, romanticism and hilarity. Featuring solos by Andrea Pesce on piano and Amy Denio on clarinet.

2. S'Ou Abbattadu (Scrambled Eggs) ~ the egg gets down and gets funky! Performed with expanded horn section and 'preacher' Keni Cohen describing the world through the eyes of a hard-boiled egg. In English and Sardinian.

3. Nochdenada (Night of nothing) ~ a dialogue between gentle and ferocious, from anthemic jazz to the wild abandon of energetic rumba. In Spanish.

4. Destiny Sneezed ~ composed by Amy Denio and based on Mexican rhythm 'son jarocho', this whimsical song evokes the beauty of dissonance. In English.

5. Deificacao ~ featuring Ersilia on ukulele, this rhythmic piece mixes the tenderness of a lullabye with the passion of tango, and echoes of Weimar Germany. In Portuguese.

6. Gallone Bocca Larga (Big Mouth Gallon Jug) ~ commencing with the abandon of samba, then moving forward with the tick-tock of minimalism, this composition is a tribute to the deep love and respect between OU and producer Amy Denio, inspired by their wild adventures on the road. In Italian.

7. I Like You ~ featuring Denio on Jew's Harp, this piece is destined to be an underground disco classic!

8. Andiamo a Conoscerci Meglio a Parigi ~ a tender, evocative illustration about the beauty and illusion of love. Featuring Denio on clarinet. Sung in English.

9. Jengi ~ a wistful song about ups and downs transforms into mesmerizing and gorgeous trance music. Sung in Spanish and Pygmy.


artist: Ozzie Cruse
albumname: Now You've Done it
sku: ozziecruse-nowyouvedoneit
upc: 847646009789
also:
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description:
On his sophomore album 'Now You've Done It', Ozzie Cruse continues to straddle the line between composition and sample based music while paying homage to multiple influences and styles.

'Now You've Done It' contains conceptual compositions Ozzie has likened to... "a robotic assembly line" - Servo Related, "an outer space journey" - Gleaning Various Sources, and " a musical foreplay to sexy time!" - Last Time Tonight.

His mix of pop sensibilities, jazzy feel, big-beat-head-nod-ability and indie spirit come together to create another collection of interesting forays into the vibrant wilderness of a truly musical mind.


artist: Ozzie Cruse
albumname: Sellouts of Oz
sku: ozziecruse-selloutsofoz
upc: 847646009543
also:
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description:
On his debut album Sellouts of Oz, Ozzie Cruse displays a diverse foundation of musical roots. This album contains tastes of jazz, sprinkled with soul, sauteed with pop, and pounded out with big beats akin to a cookin' old jazz combo stomping out classic rock in a hot dance club.

Skirting the line between composition and sample, Ozzie manages to forge an album that's energetic and driving, funky and fun, while also remaining warmly organic and uniquely modern at its core. The tunes from Sellouts of Oz are immediately catchy and each have a life and story of their own.


artist: Pain Factor
albumname: 8 Seconds
sku: pfactor-8seconds
upc: 876809003395
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=257916395&s=143444
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artist: Panacea
albumname: Songs and Dance Music of Europe East and West
sku: panacea-songs
upc: 876809001261
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=257916812&s=143444
also:
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description:
Panacea - Songs and Dance Music of Europe East and West. The beautiful new CD by Balkan/Rom/East European/Israeli ensemble "Panacea" Exotic, beautiful, and wildly playful. Featuring hammered dulcimer, violin, percussion, accordion, haunting polyphonic vocals.


artist: Panic Ensemble
albumname: A Different Story
sku: panicensemble-differentstory
upc: 847646007631
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description:
A Different Story, Ensemble Panic's second album, contains the elements of magic and heavenly witchery that were present in their debut album, and simultaneously carries a new spirit - a strong connection to the earth, which is expressed in the fresh and colorful electric sound.

The music is driven by a rhythm section of drums, bass and electric guitar, orchestrated together with viola, accordion, piano and trumpet, creating a mixture of folk rock pop and cabaret music. The song lyrics were written by poet Karen Alkalay Gut, and deal with life conflicts, relationships, and humanity.

To deepen Panic Ensemble's new sound dimension Roy Yarkoni added Avi Belleli (Tractor's Revenge) and they produced the album. The mix smoothly completing Panic Ensemble's weave of celestial vs. corporal, was made by Richard Woodcraft, who won a Grammy for his work with Radiohead and who has worked over the years with Arctic Monkeys, Neil Young, Robbie Williams and others)in the Flexi Sound Studios in London.


artist: Panic Ensemble
albumname: Panic Ensemble
sku: panicensemble-panicensemble
upc: 847646007624
also:
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description:
This excursion blends lyrics about the complexity of life such as love, relationships, panic attacks, obsessions and more, while the music blends many styles together, such as folk, ambient, pop, jazz and cabaret, into a unique and appealing mixture of music and lyrics. Some have defined this album as an "circus of emotions".

Orchestration is based on Viola, Accordion, Trumpet, Piano, Guitar, double bass and percussion. Arrangements, melody, harmony and structure are complex at times yet the music is pleasant and catchy, very melodic and enjoyable.

The album was a big surprise when it came out in Israel, and earned many fans. Songs from the album were used also in TV, film and commercials.

Welcome to the magical journey of Panic Ensemble's first album!


artist: Paolo Pavan
albumname: Black Hand
sku: ppavan-blackhand
upc: 847646010709
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description:
Black Hand is a Creative Commons production by Paolo and Roberto Pavan: jazz compositions created over the last three years, entirely self-produced. "Black Hand" is the black hand, the soul that has always fed my musical research. It represents the hand of Afro-American musicians, expression of that free music, devoid of constrictions, mental schemes, styles and clichés, almost an escape from the prison of form.

I want to thank my Trio friends: Carmine Iuvone, Francesco Merenda, Federico Orfanò and the guests Davide Marinacci and Giacomo Tantillo, very talented musicians.

Paolo Pavan Piano Francesco Merenda & Federico Orfanò drums Carmine Iuvone Double Bass Guest: Davide Marinacci Tenor Sax Giacomo Tantillo Trumpet Recorded, mixed, mastered by Roberto Pavan Cover by Federico Bartoli all song are composed by Paolo Pavan under CC license


artist: Paolo Pavan
albumname: Lines
sku: ppavan-lines
upc: 847646009109
also:
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description:
Lines is the second album just realized by "UP" (Ubaldini-Pavan). Like the former one, this is a self-produced work and will be published under CC license. The album guides its listeners across countries and cultures, but it made with a lot of artistic freedom. The focus of this work, the recording of which took about one year, was to call to mind all the sounds, sensations, vibrations that we chance upon when walking through life, without any sort of barrier or boundaries.

Pasqualino Ubaldini - Guitar, Bouzouki, Oud, Fretless Bass
Paolo Pavan - Piano, Keyboards
Francesco Merenda - Drums
Andrea Colella - Double Bass
Davide Roberto - Percussion
Michele Villari - Clarinet
Davide Marinacci - Tenor Sax
Natalino Frija - Soprano Sax Ciaramella Abruzzese

Lines is composed by Pasqualino Ubaldini and Paolo Pavan Produced by Paolo Pavan, Roberto Pavan, Pasqualino Ubaldini


artist: Paolo Pavan
albumname: Looking for a Way Out
sku: ppavan-lookingout
upc: 847646003916
also:
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description:
Looking For A Way Out is a self-produced Jazz CD by Paolo and Roberto Pavan. Songs are played by excellent musicians from the Italian jazz scene.

The compositions are a set of ideas inspired by the repertoire of old and new American Jazz school, expanding the boundaries to reach a very personal and intimate musical discourse.

The theme of the album is improvisation. The musicians have interpreted and developed the original ideas while maintaining a good interplay, giving the work a feel of a live performance.

The album contains songs from the more classic taste, like the ballad Silent, Urban Slanging or Blue Night Dance. There are also songs more intimate and experimental, like What's Up that presents a musical structure typical of the so-called modal jazz of Miles Davis. Opposites presents, instead, a ring-form, leaving improvisation greater creative freedom. Finally there are more modern pieces such as Looking For A Way Out and Third that go more toward a landscape of musical fusion of jazz, funky grooves and Urban Jazz.


artist: Paolo Pavan
albumname: The Swing of Things
sku: ppavan-swingthings
upc: 847646008133
also:
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description:
The Swing Of Things is a collection of songs composed between 2012 and 2014 by Paolo Pavan and Davide Marinacci. Typically the sounds of jazz songs like Do It, One, Escape blend with more experimental sounds that give life to songs Funk (Open The Source), experimental Pop (Seven) and Ethnic sounds (Moja, Uolz). The quartet also experiments with these eclectic sounds with the help of some good musicians: Pasqualino Ubaldini and Davide Roberto (Italian folk music) and Giovani Amato and Fabio Sartori (exponents of the Italian jazz music).

The quartet was founded in 2000 by Paolo Pavan in collaboration with saxophonist and friend Davide Marinacci. After the first period of preparation and study led to the first quartet that reworks the classic quartets historians such as John Coltrane and Thelonious Monk. Then comes the idea for the Cd of original music. Hence the first cd "Inside" followed by "Looking For A Way Out" and the last "The Swing Of Things" released this year which is enjoying already the clamor of the international public (defined by Jamendo one of the best groups of the south of Europe). On its way the quartet meets the major clubs and Festivals of Italy.


artist: Paolo Pavan
albumname: Up
sku: ppavan-up
upc: 847646006047
also:
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description:
Up is a Jazz/World self-produced album by Pasqualino Ubaldini, Paolo and Roberto Pavan.

The album tells a journey through the sounds and colors of the World. Among the compositions, there are typical music styles from various ethnic traditions. "Savarnah", a samba feeling; "Ballata del Felipe" is a rumba; "Adkezin" is a flamenco with an Arabic influenced style; "A Man At The Clock" and "Promenade" with a Manouche/ragtime styles, are inspired by Harold Lloyd's film (Safety Last); "Black Trees" and "Five Special Blues" are typical blues ballads; "Saltimbanco" is a Tango feeling; "Pioggia" and "Fado" are fragments of inspired music.

Among the ethnic instruments used in the creation of the album are: Oud, Kazoo, traditional percussion, Hammond Organ and accordion.

Pasqualino Ubaldini was born in Rome in 1965. Has studied guitar with Maurizio Lazzaro, Fabio Mariani and Stefano Micarelli. He plays acoustic/electric guitars and typical instruments like the Oud, Saz, Bouzuki, Mandolino and Fado guitars. He collaborates with various Italian folk bands and has recorded many albums as a composer and musician.

The songs on this album were composed by Paolo Pavan and Pasqualino Ubaldini in 2013.


artist: Paolo Pavan
albumname: Velvet Face
sku: ppavan-velvetface
upc: 847646001967
also:
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description:
Velvet Face is a sing-song that I listened to in my neighbourhood when I was a child. this album is a collection of ideas thrown out this year and wants to be an attempt to create electronic music mixed with acoustics. Since mine is a predominantly improvisational nature, I used electronics as a basis for unravelling my improvisations. A special thanks goes to Pasqualino Ubaldino who with his guitar on tracks 6 and 7 has made an essential contribution to this realization.

Velvet Face
produced by Paolo and Roberto Pavan
composed by Paolo Pavan
piano, synths, drum programming, arrangments Paolo and Roberto Pavan
guitars Pasqualino Ubaldini
sax Davide Marinacci
additional drum programming Marco Niccoli


artist: Park St Trio
albumname: Goodnight, Daylight
sku: parksttrio-goodnightdaylight
upc: 847646002759
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description:
In their debut album, Park St. Trio captures the sounds of traditional melodic jazz, while maintaining a modern flare. The album takes you through a series of memorable melodies and rhythms. The addition of Stan Muncy on vibraphone, makes the trio becomes a quartet and soulfully produces a sound which is sure to entice your ears. Pay close attention to the title track, which is a lullaby written for drummer, Steve Slaters, son. As well as the heavy blues in, Dopey's Walk and super melodies on Doctor's Doctrine and Quilt on the Grass.

Enjoy!


artist: Park St Trio
albumname: 3 Plus 5
sku: parksttrio-threeplusfive
upc: 847646005279
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description:
3 Plus 5 is an adventure album, a blend of modern-leaning jazz. The songwriting reflects the band's evolution and range of musical interest, moving the listener along a spectrum of sounds from fun and whimsical to reflective and moody.

Like Goodnight Daylight, the first Park St. Trio album, 3 Plus 5 was recorded to 1-inch tape with no overdubs and no "fixing" of notes - on this album, what you hear is what they played. In the studio the band did three takes per song and selected their favorite one. The trio has five extra players join them in bringing to life this musical conception.

The Trio:
Jason Countryman - Guitar
Matt Roads - Bass
Steve Slater - Drums

The Guests:
Dave Eshelman - Trombone
Jesse Micek - Piano
Stan Muncy - Vibes, Xylophone
Geordie Frazer - Sax, Clarinet
Andy Wilke - Trumpet


artist: Paul Avgerinos
albumname: Law of Attraction
sku: avgerinos-attraction
upc: 876809008895
description:
Grammy nominated and award winning, Paul Avgerinos returns with a musical tour through the "Law of Attraction", the New Age philosophy taught by Esther and Jerry Hicks in their best selling books and popularized in 'The Secret'. With nine world-class guest artists, Avgerinos offers a rich tapestry: at once delicate and powerful, helping the listener align with their higher self.

Blending New Age, Ambient, and World musical styles with Middle Eastern and Indian music, "Law of Attraction" is modeled on Paul's album "Garden of Delight", which won a "Best World Album award" and was an "Echoes CD of the Month".

"Seeing in Technicolor, feeling goosebumps and a slowly spreading pleasant warmth... what's this feeling? It's the music of Paul Avgerinos."
Kate Russell - New Age Journal

"Paul's compositions are soul-stirring and can evoke deep meditative states. I recommend his music to anyone who loves spiritual music."
Pramod K. Uday - India


artist: Paul Avgerinos
albumname: Balancing Spheres
sku: avgerinos-balancing
upc: 876809001254
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=257916932&s=143444
description:
Come take a soaring, intimate journey of fantasy and reflection, traveling from the outer reaches of the universe back home to the inner comforts of the heart, exploring other realms, awakening the Body, Mind and Soul.

Night Illusions, Day Dreams...At night we dream, traveling to other realms. In day we practice living, awakening the Body and the Mind. Two parts to the whole reality. Two moments of surrender. Ascend from stillness up to the seat of love where we see the universe through the eyes of contentment. Vast star systems undulate in perfect order and reveal the real beauty of the cosmos. Why not the human soul?


artist: Paul Avgerinos
albumname: Bliss
sku: avgerinos-bliss
upc: 847646001776
description:
Bliss - designed especially for relaxation, massage, meditation, and all the holistic arts, Bliss flows for 75 minutes of graceful soothing serenity.

Like Liquid Mind and Deuter, Bliss is a deeply expansive space of unconditional peaceful love. Without obvious melodies, bass and drums, Bliss helps you to release resistance and open more fully to your own inner natural state of Bliss.

In the rich soil of Peace
grows the Sacred flower of Grace
Breathe Deeply
its aroma
is Your Bliss

"Grammy Nominated, Avgerinos is one of the Giants of New Age Ambience..."
- All Music Guide

Paul Avgerinos ~ Bass Violin, 12 String Guitar, Keyboards, Sound Design

Carrie Grossman ~ Angelic Diva of AH and OM

Special Gratitude to Carrie Grossman for helping me to envision and encouraging me to make this album. Thank you Carrie! Please visit her at www.thelightinside.org

Bliss has won Best Relaxation / Meditation Album for 2011 from Zone Music Awards!


artist: Paul Avgerinos
albumname: Gnosis
sku: avgerinos-gnosis
upc: 876809005016
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=164146061&s=143444
description:
A glowing, watercolor wash of angelic choirs and ancient Greek chants, longtime Magnatune favorite Paul Avgerinos' new album is based on the Gnostic tradition and wisdom of ancient Greek mystery societies, and also features perfectly integrated sounds of tabla, oud, sarangi, and cello. Allmusic.com named Avgerinos "one of the giants of ambient music," and the stellar sound design on this new release makes apparent how he earned the title. Gnosis is luminous and relaxing. Standout tracks include the mellow "Journey To Now" and the subtly futuristic title track, "Gnosis." Full album art included with download purchase.


artist: Paul Avgerinos
albumname: Love
sku: avgerinos-love
upc: 876809000318
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/love/id327678570
description:
Blissful Lullabies celebrating our highest vibration - LOVE

Grammy nominated award winning composer Paul Avgerinos delivers his most intimate work to date. A temple of sound in honor of Love. A sacred space of deep blissful contentment. The fertile soil of peaceful grace where we are able to feel and free to be our true nature . . . LOVE

Paul's last effort, Garden of Delight, was Top Ten on New Age Radio for Three Months, CD of the Month on Echoes, Featured on Hearts of Space and won the New Age Reporter award for Best World Album. GNOSIS and MAYA also won NAR Awards and all Three of Paul's last albums were Top Ten on the radio charts.

LOVE is Album # 10 from Paul Avgerinos, whose music is heard around the world on radio, TV and film.

"Grammy nominated, Avgerinos is one of the giants of Ambient music " - all music guide


artist: Paul Avgerinos
albumname: Lovers
sku: avgerinos-lovers
upc: 847646004159
description:
Sensual and rich, like fine dark chocolate, Lovers weaves a magical tapestry of tender textures and exquisite rhythmic pulsations, caressing your body, heart and soul. Building on the success of his award winning albums Bliss and Love, Paul Avgerinos offers Lovers with a universal archetypal theme: Love until you and the beloved become one.


artist: Paul Avgerinos
albumname: Maya - The Great Katun
sku: avgerinos-maya
upc: 876809001247
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=86601978&s=143444
description:
A powerful portrayal of an ancient Mayan ritual, this deliciously cryptic music consists of sacred words chanted over ceremonial percussion and atmospheric electronic sounds that draw forth shadows from other realms.
Linda Kohanov

Sacred Earth Tones - Welcome the spirit of this most ancient and elegant Mayan ritual. The soft chant of the sacred words will soon draw forth light and shadows from other realms in a ceremony that reverberates rich with devotion and the renewal of life.


artist: Paul Avgerinos
albumname: Muse of the Round Sky
sku: avgerinos-muse
upc: 876809001230
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=40811626&s=143444
description:
Vibrant with the elemental beauty of the Greek islands, flowing with the bardic song, dancing with the ancient rhythms, Muse of the Round Sky journeys to the heartland of Western civilization to find a resonance for today.

These richly impressionistic soundscapes were inspired by Avgerinos's ancestral homeland of Greece. Guest artists include guitarist Brian Keane and Omar Faruk Tekbilek, who plays Middle Eastern flutes. The composer's dense synthesizer textures and dreamy electronic effects make the album feel like one long, luscious mirage.

One of the deepest, most moving works since Peter Gabriel's Last Temptation of Christ. Bewitching compositions. Reach [es] back through the aeons. The mix of ancient acoustic, and cutting edge digital instruments create [s] a timeless quality. A journey of discovery to mystical places, encountering magical characters. A discovery of self and of history.
Synthesis

Sure to fuel the imagination with its richly impressionistic soundscapes. Hot desert winds seem to blow through selections featuring Omar Faruk. Brian Keane contributes elegant acoustic guitar, and soprano saxophonist Marion Meadows wails like an ecstaic dervish. Dense synthesizer textures and dreamy electronic effects...make Muse of the Round Sky feel lke one long luscious mirage.
Linda Kohanov, New Age Journal


artist: Paul Avgerinos
albumname: Phos Hilaron
sku: avgerinos-phos
upc: 876809003777
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=69808959&s=143444
description:
Phos Hilaron is a deeply devotional Ambient Soundscape with hymns nearly 2000 years old - we chant blissful peace in this perfect moment.

Phos Hilaron ( foss hill-a-ron ) "Gracious Blessed Gladdening Light", is one of the oldest known Christian hymns, and was sung in the catacombs in the Second Century. Saint Justin the Martyr cites the text of the hymn around 150 in his dialogue with Trypho. The "Lamp-lighting hymn" was described by Saint Basil around the year 365 as a hymn used centuries before him. Saint Athenogenes and ten disciples sang the Phos Hilaron in joy amidst the flames of martyrdom at Sebaste under the Emperor Diocletian in the year 305.

Although it pre-dated the Byzantium, it is referred to as "Byzantine" since the hymn was used in the Byzantine vespers liturgy. It is clearly Greek in its musical form and composition while it has a text that is Jewish in origin and conforms to the Jewish calendar in which the day ends and begins at sunset.

Phos Hilaron is still sung in Greek Orthodox churches. It did not become part of the Western tradition until around 1700 and is now included in the Anglican Hymnal. The earliest English translation was made in 1675. Translations following the line scheme of the original Greek were made by John Keble in 1834 and by Robert Bridges, poet laureate of England, in 1890.

The version on this album is from the 1982 Hymnal of the Episcopal Church.


artist: Paul Avgerinos
albumname: Sky Of Grace
sku: avgerinos-skygrace
upc: 876809001223
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=40811529&s=143444
description:
Sky of Grace is sophisticated and sensuous sound design, an architectural landscape sculpted with world beat percussion, guitars, violins, cellos - pulsing with the power of 200 voice choirs. Healing and uplifting, expansive with the infinity of mind - The Sky of Grace.

I find myself... looking up ~ The sky is always different, full of wonder, beauty and magic. Healing Light and Love flow in all directions. Both metaphor and reality, the sky is the essence of life ~ Light.

We are fed by compassion and joy, the balm of ecstasy. Endlessly we are filled, openings to the S K Y o f G R A C E...

Reviews
This new music drifts higher into a universe of ethereal sound-clouds, rather than the sunlit Mediterranean of the earlier album. Even when Sky of Grace has rhythm and percussion, it remains all contemplative, filled with a mood of mystical reverie. Avgerinos shows his competence as a composer and arranger on this album. He is a master of sound textures, especially with strings. He has some of the best people in the field playing for him : David Darling on cello and Brian Keane on guitars. Avgerinos himself plays both the bowed string bass and the electric fretless bass; his playing of these unforgiving instruments is so expressive that it sounds almost like a singing voice. Avgerinos' jazz harmonies, slowed down to an ambient pace, are very much his own - his style is easily recognizable. He also uses a sighing, crooning "choir" of electronically multiplied voices, who sing in better tune than any real human choir - a chorus of cyber-angels perhaps. These guide us through many tracks filled with sensuous languor and mystical yearning, such as the opening "Angel Breath" or "Graceful", later in the album. On other tracks such as "The Calling" or "Dance of Life", slow percussion and distant-reverbed guitar notes add a slightly harder quality. Track 8, "My Father's Prayer", is an imaginative interpretation of the sound and mood of Byzantine chant (Avgerinos is of Greek descent, thus his father would probably have prayed Eastern Orthodox prayers) in which the cyber-chorus keeps on low, repeated chant notes without singing identifiable Greek words or Byzantine melodies. It's a moving, serious piece, coming in the midst of an album which can honestly be called "New Age".

This album is a joy to listen to - hearing it brings a sense of release from cares and comfort for the weary soul. It does not try to push some "message" of facile "world consciousness" or "personal growth" on the listener. It gently weaves along with it's mood of cosmic warmth and a very welcome sense of wonder, twined together with crystal sound-sparkles and strands of singing strings.
Hannah Shapero - Wind and Wire


artist: Paul Avgerinos
albumname: Words Touch
sku: avgerinos-words
upc: 876809001216
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=30689596&s=143444
description:
Words Touch, is a subtle and delicate tapestry of gentle melodies and exquisite sound design. Featuring the soaring EWI (Electronic Wind Instrument) of Kevin Braheny, The masterful guitar of Brian Keane, the unique guitar work of Jeff Pearce, and the fabulous Cello of David Darling, Words Touch is perfect for Massage, Meditation, Relaxation and Contemplation.This album has a steady, even and deep flow, designed to nurture profound states of consciousness.


artist: Paul Beier
albumname: Barbara Strozzi - Diporti di Euterpe
sku: beier-bstrozzi
upc: 876809009571
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/barbara-strozzi-diporti-di/id422946217
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description:
Barbara Strozzi occupies an important position in the history of European music as one of the finest women composers of the Italian Baroque.

Born in the Venice of Claudio Monteverdi in 1619, her natural father was probably the artist and poet Giulio Strozzi, her mother one of his faithful servants. Barbara's musical talents were developed early; as a teenager she was already at the center of attention performing at the weekly gathering of Venetian artists and literati, the Accademia dei Unisoni, who met at Strozzi's palazzo.

She published her first book of songs in 1644, explaining that it is "the first work that I, as a woman, all too daringly bring to the light of day." In the preface, she gives credit to Francesco Cavalli, student and collaborator of Monteverdi, as her teacher. The works recorded here by soprano Emanuella Galli and Galatea come from her seventh publication of 1659 entitled Diporti di Euterpe, or "The Pleasures of Euterpe." In this work, Strozzi, at the height of her artistic powers, collaborates with some of the most important poets of the period to create works which are musically innovative and dramatically expressive as well as being exceedingly beautiful.


artist: Paul Beier
albumname: Adam Falckenhagen and Sylvius Leopold Weiss, Opere Per Liuto
sku: beier-falckenhagen
upc: 847646005798
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description:
It is a pleasure to see the rerelease of Paul Beier's first effort on the Baroque Lute, recorded in a small church in Switzerland nearly twenty years ago. He had originally planned a program that included the works presented here, plus the suite in E minor by Bach, but after editing we found that the total time of the recording was over 90 minutes, and so sacrificed the Bach suite to be able to release the CD (which can hold no more than 80 minutes worth of music).

Somewhere, in some now forgotten tape archive, lurks that E minor suite, completely edited but never released! (later re-recorded for an all Bach album.) One of the pieces for this program is the remarkable "Prelude nel quale sono contenuti tutti i Tuoni Musicali," which means "Prelude, which contains all of the Musical Keys." The title sounds a bit funny (it's in antique Italian), because the word "Tuoni" also means "thunder", so it sounds as if there will be lot of musical thunder here, and, in fact, this turns out to be quite true! The style of the music is very much in keeping with the latest musical currents of the 1740's, and you can hear that Falckenhagen's music has much in common with that of the most radical and innovative composer of the period, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, both in its propensity for cyclical and improvisatory forms and in the development of the Empfindsamer Stil.

Beier has paired this with a long, late work by Silvius Leopold Weiss found in the Glinka manuscript in Moscow. While this work is probably nearly contemporary with that of Falckenhagen, it is another world, musically. It comes at the end of the long, distinguished and prolific career of one of the finest lutenists who ever lived. And even though Weiss's musical style is rather old-fashioned compared with that of his pupil Falckenhagen, in this D major suite one can nevertheless detect that the old hand was not entirely immune to new ways of musical thinking, especially in the Courant and the final Minuet.

This album, when it was first released by Stradivarius, had many great reviews in CD magazines of the time, and it was even chosen as "Le Disque Du Mois" (January 1998) in the French magazine Repertoire, featuring on its cover. I hope it finds favor at its new home with Magnatune!


artist: Paul Beier
albumname: Michelagnolo Galilei
sku: beier-galilei
upc: 876809001193
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=257808453&s=143444
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description:
Michelangelo Galilei, brother of Galileo and son of Vincenzo, was a lutenist and composer, and he was as revolutionary in his chosen field as his more famous brother. The six sonatas and one passamezzo-saltarello pair included on this album contain passages of bizarre dissonance whose impact in their own time, noted lutenist and annotator Paul Beier, is difficult for modern listeners to appreciate.

These sonatas have the relaxed, reflective, fantasy-like structure common in instrumental music of the early seventeenth century, but after a variety of expressive figures have been explored, along comes a really pungent harmonic clash. Beier describes Galilei's struggles with publishers who concluded that he must have made notation mistakes, and he manages to set up the dissonances in such a way that they retain something of their impact: his playing is deliberate and discursive, treating the exploration of the various lute figures as almost scientific in its exploration of all the possibilities. He does not linger over the dissonances, for they are not like those of Gesualdo madrigals; they are merely aspects of musical language to be illustrated and incorporated into rhetorical statements.
James Manheim


artist: Paul Beier
albumname: I Cavalieri del Liuto - The Knights of the Lute
sku: beier-knights
upc: 876809008284
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/i-cavalieri-del-liuto-the/id378239637
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description:
Originally it was thought that there was one "Knight of the Lute", Lorenzino Romanus, Il Cavaliere del Liuto, Eques Romanus. After new discoveries and an up-to-date biography of "The Knights of the Lute" by Mariagrazia Carlone, published in the Journal of the American Lute Society, we now know that there were two. Lorenzino Tracetti, servant of Cardinal Ippolito II d'Este until 1572, and the pious Vincenzo Pinti, resident at the palace of the Vatican Vice-chancellor under Cardinals Alessandro Farnese and Montalto (Alessandro Peretti), until his death in 1608.

As for attributing the music, it would be very hard, if not impossible, to tell which of the works recorded here were by Tracetti and which may have been by Pinti. Neither of these composers, it seems, was ever involved directly in the publication or dissemination of their works.

While the ambiguity between the two Roman knights is still maintained, the only revision that seems necessary is to the title: no longer singular, it now celebrates "The Knights of the Lute."


artist: Paul Beier
albumname: Simone Molinaro
sku: beier-molinaro
upc: 876809001186
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=257808661&s=143444
also:
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description:
Simone Molinaro (ca. 1570 - 1634), was one of the greatest lute composers of the late Renaissance in Italy. The focus of this album is on his lute book "Intavolatura di liuto", published 1599 in Venice. It contains examples of his fantasias, dance music and intabulations of vocal works performed by Paul Beier.


artist: Paul Beier
albumname: Alessandro Piccinini
sku: beier-piccinini
upc: 876809001209
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=257808444&s=143444
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artist: Paul Berget
albumname: JS Bach on the Lute
sku: berget-jsbach
upc: 876809005467
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=267132685&s=143444
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description:
Relaxed yet refined, Paul Berget's latest release is an informed selection of Johann Sebastian Bach pieces, two of which were originally composed for the cello but which sound excellent on the lute. We love the warm timbre, subtle phrasing, and great clarity of line on this album. Particularly lovely is Paul's interpretation of BWV 996, the only piece here that Bach originally composed for lute, which Paul plays on a ten course renaissance lute in g minor. His interpretations also bring fresh tenderness to such recognizable pieces as the Prelude of BWV 1007.


artist: Paul Berget
albumname: The Siena Manuscript on renaissance lute
sku: berget-sienalute
upc: 876809001179
itunes: NONE
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description:
These sixteen pieces are from an important anonymous lute manuscript from the 16th century and are from anonymous composer(s). Each piece is a Recercar which in Italian means "to seek out".

The style is typical of lute compositions of the 16th century.


artist: Paul Berget
albumname: The Siena Manuscript on steel string guitar
sku: berget-sienasteel
upc: 876809001162
itunes: NONE
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description:
This recording is a rendition of lute music played on a modern acoustic guitar. In modern times the guitar enjoys popularity not unlike the popularity of the lute in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In fact, guitarists now use tablature for music notation similar to their 16th century counterparts.


artist: Paul Berget
albumname: SL Weiss on 11 Strings
sku: berget-weiss11
upc: 876809003388
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=257946201&s=143444
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description:
"Silvius Leopold Weiss (1685-1750) was one of the greatest musicians of his day. His music in modern times remains relatively unknown because his instrument, the baroque lute, became largely extinct by 1760. I have recorded this on an 11 string classical guitar tuned exactly as an 11 course baroque lute. All the nuances of the composer's intentions have been preserved."

The 11 string guitar was designed in 2002 by Terry Schumacher and built by Kenny Hill.


artist: Paul Boehnke
albumname: Bach and His Teachers
sku: pboehnke-bachteachers
upc: 847646008577
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description:
Bach and His Teachers is an engaging collection of solo harpsichord works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Dietrich Buxtehude, Johann Adam Reincken, and Georg Bohm.

From Bach's well-loved Italian Concerto and Toccata in D to lesser known works by the generation of musicians who came before, this album shows the influences on one of history's greatest composers. Performed with Baroque performance practices and unequal temperament on a copy of an instrument of one of JS Bach's favorite builders (Mietke), this music lives and breathes as if it were composed today. Get a glimpse of Bach and of his musical experiences growing up.


artist: Pavlova Wind Quintet
albumname: New arrangements for wind quintet
sku: pavlova-presents
upc: 876809002442
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description:
Notes on the pices

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George Butterworth (1885-1916) arr. Lisa Portus: The Banks of Green Willow

George Butterworth is probably the best-known English composer who was killed during the First World War. Fearing that he would not survive it and endlessly self-critical, he destroyed any of his works that he thought inferior before he went away to fight. His fame rests mainly on three works: his settings of Houseman's poem A Shropshire Lad, an orchestral rhapsody with the same title, and his orchestral 'idyll' The Banks of Green Willow, written in 1913. Butterworth started composing very early, taking his first music lessons from his mother. While at Eton he wrote a number of pieces that were performed in school concerts there. He then went on to study at Trinity College, Oxford, where he met the pioneer English folk song collector Cecil Sharp and the composer Ralph Vaughan-Williams, with whom he later went around the English countryside noting down (occasionally using an Edison phonograph) folk songs that they thought were in danger of being forgotten. At Oxford he also met there the future conductor Adrian Boult, whose first professional engagement in 1914 involved conducting the premiere of The Banks of Green Willow. Butterworth was a keen folk dancer, eventually becoming a professional Morris dancer. He went on to teach music at Radley College, a well-known school a few miles south of Oxford, where there is a superb memorial to him in engraved glass. He joined up with the British army at the outbreak of World War 1 in 1914 and won the Military Cross during the early part of the Battle of the Somme in July 1916. On 5th August, the next month, he was killed by sniper fire at the age of 31. His body was immediately buried by his platoon in a make-shift grave, but has not been recovered since. His commanding officer was surprised to find out that he had been a very promising composer, saying of him: 'He was a brilliant musician in times of peace, and an equally brilliant soldier in times of stress'.

The two songs used in The Banks of Green Willow were collected in Sussex in 1907. The second is called 'Green Bushes' (or 'Lost Lady Found') and was used by Vaughan-Williams and Percy Grainger in later works, while the main song, which gives the piece its title, has grim words somewhat at odds with the overall English idyllic sound-world of the work. The story goes that a farmer's daughter falls in love with a sea captain. She becomes pregnant by him and decides to run away to sea after stealing money from her parents. She gives birth on board the ship, but there are difficulties with no help at hand. Knowing that she is going to die she asks her lover to bind a napkin around her head and throw her and her child overboard. Rather shockingly, he agrees. He then sings a lament for his 'true love, whom I once loved so dearly, and who shall be buried on the banks of green willow'. The work is now considered an anthem to all 'Unknown Soldiers' of the War.
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Edward Elgar (1857-1934) arr. John Newhill: Three miniatures
I Chanson de Matin
II La Capricieuse
III Salut d'Amour

As a composer, Elgar was a comparative late developer. If he had died at the age that Butterworth (and Schubert) did he would barely warrant a mention in dictionaries of music. It was not until he was in his forties that he achieved fame with larger scale works like the Enigma Variations (1899) and the oratorio The Dream of Gerontius (1900). Up to this time he was a composer of charming miniatures such as these, all originally for violin and piano. Chanson de Matin was probably written in 1889 or 1890 but was not published till 1899, serving as a companion piece to Chanson de Nuit published two years before. The orchestration of these two pieces in 1901 helped their popularity enormously. Chanson de Matin has a particularly fresh and enchanting melody, which, while not as profound as the Chanson de Nuit, endeared itself quickly to audiences and makes its adaptation to wind instruments very fitting.

The title of La Capricieuse, composed for violin and piano in 1891, refers to a girl or woman who is moody, inconstant or whimsical, reflected in the flighty main theme and the ultra-romantic middle section. As Elgar was a trained violinist (and had originally wanted to be a concert artist) the piece was contrived to fall very much under the fingers - perhaps rather less so for wind-players despite John Newhill's arranging skills.

Salut d'Amour was composed in 1888 as an engagement present for his future wife, Caroline Alice Roberts, and originally had a German title (Liebesgruss - Love's Greeting). It was dedicated 'To Carice', a contraction of her first two names, which name was given to their daughter. Elgar made three versions of this piece: for solo piano, violin and piano, and for orchestra. It shows Elgar at his most tender and, like the Chanson de Matin, lends itself very easily to performance on wind instruments.
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Edward Grieg (1843-1907) arr. Christopher Britton: Wedding Day at Troldhaugen

In the second half of the 19th century European classical music was heavily dominated by Germany. It was therefore quite natural for the Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg to study in the musical center of Leipzig. He impressed Liszt (who taught there), and later Tchaikovsky (who was on a visit to the city) with his ability to compose music of substantial emotional content that had an immediately discernible Norwegian flavor. While he was one of many nationalist composers of the time (such as Dvorak, Sibelius, and later, Bartok and Vaughan-Williams), he always remained outward-looking and considered his music European rather than narrowly Scandinavian. He was an early example of an artist taking a political/moral stance: he refused to visit France in 1899 for a concert tour in protest against the anti-Semitism exhibited in connection with the case against Captain Dreyfus. While his Piano Concerto in A minor and the Peer Gynt Suite remain endearingly popular, it is perhaps in his miniature pieces for piano that Grieg is most effective, particularly in the 66 Lyric Pieces for piano published in ten volumes. One of the best-known ones is in Book 8: Wedding Day at Troldhaugen, written in 1896 to celebrate his 25th wedding anniversary. Troldhaugen ('Troll Mound') was the house that Grieg had built for himself just outside Bergen, and which now houses a museum to his memory. The opening section is exuberant and joyful, and depicts the arrival of the guests who are offering congratulations and best wishes. The middle section is calmer and more reflective and contains some of Grieg's most beautiful music. The imitative calling cries out for the sonorities of different instruments that the medium of the wind quintet naturally provides.
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André Caplet (1878-1925) arr. Christopher Britton: Rêverie

André Caplet is best known today as a close associate of Debussy, whose works he orchestrated and conducted. He was a highly original composer in his own right, however, winning the Prix de Rome in 1901 (beating Ravel!). He wrote mainly for voice (songs and choral works), but also for orchestra and for chamber groups, including Rêverie and Petite Valse for flute and piano, the first of which is here recorded for the first time in an arrangement for wind quintet. Written in 1897, the Rêverie displays advanced Debussy-style harmonies. The outer sections have a yearning, almost brooding quality, while the slower middle section is more positive and with ravishing impressionistic key changes similar to Debussy's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune. Caplet served as a soldier in the First World War, but was gassed and died of the resulting injury to his lungs a few years afterwards.
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Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) arr. Christopher Britton: Five Preludes
No. 1 in F# major
No. 2 in A minor
No. 3 in Dϗ7; major
No. 4 in F# major
No. 5 in D major

Gloucester-born Ivor Gurney displayed exceptional talents as a musician in his youth, going on to study at the Royal College of Music under Charles Villiers Stanford, the teacher of Vaughan-Williams, Frank Bridge and Arthur Bliss amongst others. He was declared the 'biggest of them all' by Stanford, but also 'unteachable' because of his volatile personality and deep mood swings, which plagued him all his life and led to him spending the last 15 years of his life in a mental hospital. He is now remembered however as one of the great WW1 poets, with much of his poetry written while he was a soldier at the front. He was wounded and gassed in 1917 and invalided out of the war. While his poetry is celebrated, his musical compositions (songs, orchestral pieces, chamber music) have received less attention, with nearly two-thirds of them being unpublished and unrecorded. His piano preludes, here arranged for wind quintet, were written in 1919 and 1920, in a rich, late-Romantic style, quite untouched by either the current vogue for folk music or the acerbic style of the modern neo-Classical composers. They are delicate miniatures, full of tenderness and redolent of Schumann, yet somehow still as English as Elgar.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovksy (1840-1893) arr. Christopher Britton: Three pieces from 'The Seasons'
June - 'Barcarolle'
November - 'Troïka'
December - 'Christmas'

Tchaikovsky was called 'the most Russian of all composers' by Stravinsky. Though he was not an avowed musical nationalist, unlike the members of the 'Five' (such as Rimsky-Korsakov and Borodin), his music expresses the yearning and overwhelming sadness of the Russian spirit even in music which is overtly cheerful.

In 1875 Tchaikovsky was commissioned to write a series of 12 piano pieces for a monthly musical magazine called Nouvellist that was published in St Petersburg. Each edition during 1876 featured a new piece appropriate to the time of year. The editor supplied each of them with a subtitle and a short poem (January features one by Pushkin, no less!). The resulting suite was published as opus 37a The Seasons. The most popular ones are June and November (the latter was a favorite encore of Rachmaninov). At the time of their composition Tchaikovsky's 1st Piano Concerto had just been given its first performance, and he was working on the ballet Swan Lake. There have been many arrangements of these pieces, especially June, both for orchestra and for diverse solo instruments. Tchaikovsky was not mainly a piano composer but tended to think orchestrally, thus making the task of transcribing for wind quintet relatively easy. When playing his piano pieces you are constantly aware of allusions to orchestral sonorities. June reminds one slightly of Mendelssohn's Venetian Gondola pieces in his Songs without Words, November features jingling sleigh bells, while December is a salon waltz much in the style of his grand ballet ones.

Here are the epigrams for the three pieces presented here:

June: 'Let us go to the shore; there the waves will kiss our feet. With mysterious sadness the stars will shine down upon us.' (Alexei Pleshcheyev)
November: 'In your loneliness do not look at the road, and do not rush out after the troika.
Suppress at once and forever the fear of longing in your heart'. (Nicolai Nekrasov)
December: 'Once upon a Christmas night the girls were telling fortunes: Taking their slippers off their feet and throwing them out of the gate.' (Vassily Zhukovsky)
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Lionel Sainsbury (1958-) arr. by the composer: Two Cuban Dances
I - Allegretto
II - Comodo

This is an arrangement made especially for the Pavlova Quintet by the English composer Lionel Sainsbury of his two piano pieces dating from 1991. Sainsbury's music has been described by the press as "striking", "passionate", "ethereal", "beautifully crafted" and full of "beautiful musical ideas". Born in Wiltshire, England, he started to play the piano at an early age, and soon began to compose his own music. He studied privately and at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, where he won the major prizes for composition, and while still a student was also awarded the UK's prestigious Mendelssohn Scholarship at the age of 21. He has written large-scale works for piano (he himself is a virtuoso pianist), often in a Latin-American idiom, as well as a violin concerto (recorded in 2002 by Lorraine McAslan and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra) and a cello concerto (recorded in 2012 by Raphael Wallfisch and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra).

The languid Cuban Dance no. 2 was also arranged by the composer for violin and piano, and is featured on violinist Tasmin Little's CD of virtuoso encore pieces, 'Tchaikovskiana', released on EMI Classics for Pleasure in September 2003. It has become a frequent encore piece for the violinist, Tasmin having performed it all over the world since premiering it in 1992. The work has also recently been recorded by the Royal Ballet Sinfonia in London in the composer's own orchestration. His expert version for wind quintet of both dances is notable for the rich orchestral sonorities he creates from the medium.
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Arranger's note (Chris Britton):
This album features not just my own arrangements but also the work of three other performing musicians. Lisa Portus is a bassoonist who has now compiled an impressive list of fine arrangements of the most diverse repertoire. The Pavlova Quintet has often played clarinettist John Newhill's arrangements with great enjoyment, especially his Christmas Carol suite and these lovely Elgar transcriptions. Lionel Sainsbury brings a wealth of experience of composing for orchestra to this, his first (and very successful) foray into arrangement for wind quintet of his own music.

Transcribing music from one medium to another is somewhat like translating poetry and raises the same issues. The explorer Gertrude Bell, who was active in the Middle East in the early part of the 20th century, among many other accomplishments translated ancient Persian poetry, and went about it in an unusual fashion. Rather than trying to translate the original faithfully she decided to recompose the poetry in English but offering the same 'message'. Often while re-thinking piano music into the medium of the wind quintet I am confronted with the problem of how literal I should be with the transition. Choosing which pieces to work on is perhaps the most important step, and I have mostly been inspired by playing piano works that seem to lend themselves to this very different sonority. A good sense of melody and line is essential, and the more contrapuntal the texture the better. The piano is basically a percussion instrument (at least according to Stravinsky) while the wind quintet consists of five very individual sonorities geared more to sustained melody. The differences of tonal quality between the double-reed oboe and bassoon, the single-reed clarinet, the French horn (a member of the orchestral brass section) and, very much out on a limb, the soft-toned flute, make blending very difficult. But it can be put to positive use by offering a contrast of timbre where the original piano music is a little repetitive, as in, for example, Tchaikovsky's 'June', where I consciously gave the solo line to different instruments to create variety, sending in the process the bassoon up to top C in the style of the opening solo in Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring! Other issues that arise are the question of whether one should keep to the original key or not. Increasingly now I am prepared to transpose a piece in order to achieve the same effect in the new medium. What is convenient for piano may not be suitable for wind instruments, even though the modern instruments are technically entirely chromatic. In the Gurney Preludes for example, I have changed the key of the two preludes in F# major to more friendly ones for wind instruments. I also often enjoy putting something 'extra' into my arrangements that is not in the original, such as the replacement of the somewhat formulaic rising arpeggiated chords to a climax at the end of the central faster section of Tchaikovsky's June with upward rushing scales/arpeggios in diverse rhythms played by the wind instruments, thus giving a more 'chaotic' feel, culminating in a piercing top C# on the flute!

As an arranger it is very helpful to be an active member of a wind quintet. It then becomes easy to pick up what is problematical on an instrument that one doesn't play oneself, and indeed what sounds great on that particular instrument. For example double or triple tonguing for quick-fire articulation is fine on the flute and the horn, but on the oboe, clarinet or bassoon - forget it! I enjoy making a transcription fit the individual players of my group. I am often thinking of Barbara's excellent technical agility on the clarinet, especially on the high E flat one, her own particular specialty. With her eminently flexible tone she is also able to melt into the background, so that I can be confident of giving her accompanying passages to play, even occasionally bass notes, given the deep range of the instrument. I have often given to the oboe the main melody (even nobly giving it up in the opening of the Caplet where it was originally for flute!) thinking of Carolyn's lovely phrasing and tone. I have often been inspired by Jenny's mellow and rich horn sound to give her suitable solos, but I know that she is also able to blend splendidly with the other instruments so I can confidently use the horn to enrich harmonies. Simon, with his peerless tone and intonation, always seems to enjoy challenges on the bassoon, so I give him parts that occasionally use virtually the entire range of the instrument (sometimes in the same bar!), and I am aware (as he is) that so many arrangers only give the main melody to the bassoon when it is in the company of a higher instrument doubling it! As an ex-bassoonist myself I am very much with the LLBB (League for the Liberation of the Bassoon from the Bass-line!)

Regarding the nitty-gritty of arranging there is the problem of how much one should dictate and set out in detail markings such as dynamics and articulation. I believe it is important to think of the natural characteristics of each instrument in these areas. The oboe and bassoon are louder at the bottom than at the top of their range while the flute is the opposite. Slurring may be difficult over large leaps and such markings may have to be changed from the original. Tempi may need to be modified to be playable on wind instruments. Breath points may need to be marked explicitly. It is tempting to be over-directional in markings though, especially if the arranger has strong opinions about interpretation, but I also feel it is important to give individual players of different groups some opportunity to formulate their own interpretation. Clarity in the parts is a prime consideration, so I try to avoid excessive dynamic and articulation markings that could get in the way of efficient reading.

I hope that all the arrangements on this disc will both give pleasure and, in the case of familiar works, give some new insight into the music when translated into the colorful medium of the wind quintet.

Christopher Britton, August 2017


artist: Peggy Duquesnel
albumname: Lovely Skies
sku: pduquesnel-lovelyskies
upc: 847646003985
also:
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description:
These pop/jazz instrumentals by Peggy Duquesnel create moods and pictures in your mind. The songs range from ballads to medium tempos and feature an ensemble of piano, bass, drums, guitar and woodwinds.

"February 11th" sets a romantic and reflective mood with the opening piano introduction followed by an intimate performance of the ensemble which includes soprano sax, bass and drums.

"Back on the Freeway" is a driving blues with a shuffle beat featuring the piano, saxophone and guitar that puts you in the mood of enjoying an enjoyable drive in your favorite car.

"Building Dreams" is a light ballad featuring the flute, guitar and piano and builds energy as the song progresses, giving a feeling of your dreams come to fulfillment.

"Decisions" has a smooth jazz groove with a light R and B feel in the bass and drums and features the piano, tenor saxophone and guitar. It sets the mood for making positive decisions and seeing the bright side of life.

"Forever in Your Arms" has a medium R and B groove and features the guitar, piano, Hammond B-3 and saxophone. The chorus has an uplifting bounce that makes you want to dance with your loved one.

"Greatest Miracle" is a lovely ballad featuring the piano, guitar, soprano saxophone and flute. It has a peaceful lullaby feeling.

"Lovely Skies" is a pretty ballad with soprano sax, guitar, flute and piano with lovely cymbal colors in sections. You can picture looking at skies laced with fluffy clouds as the sun rises into a picturesque new day.

"Turn to Me" has a light and uplifting latin and calypso feel featuring the guitar, flute and tenor saxophone and marimba. This song suits your favorite tropical beach scene.


artist: Peggy Duquesnel
albumname: Old Friends
sku: pduquesnel-oldfriends
upc: 847646004128
also:
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description:
Peggy Duquesnel's album Old Friends is an exquisite and unique collection of eight original instrumental jazz compositions by pianist/composer Peggy Duquesnel performed by a stellar jazz quartet featuring John Patitucci/Bass, Bob Harsen/Drums and Albert Wing/Sax.

Duquesnel's compositions take you on a musical journey that encompasses styles and memories of colleagues and mentors she has met along the way. "Waltz for Diana" was composed for Diana Krall; Trottin' for Terry Trotter; "Kiwi Friend" for Alan Broadbent; "Carmen" for Carmen Rodgers; "Wingin' It" for Albert Wing; "Old Friends" for a plethora of fine musicians in her life. Other influences on Duquesnel's writing and playing are artists such as Bill Evans, Chick Corea, Joe Sample, Keith Jarrett and McCoy Tyner.

"Duquesnel's album is a beautifully melodic and rhythmic mix of traditional, classic jazz."
Jazz Connections

"Peggy is not only a captivating songwriter but she's a fine pianist too. There is a Bill Evans quality to her playing and her harmonies."
Jazz Programmer WRST-FM

"Duquesnel displayed inventive improvisation...as well as compositional smarts, tearing off glistening runs, flirting with dissonance and leaving provocative moments of empty space at off-beat moments."
L.A. Times Calendar"


artist: Pellingmans' Saraband
albumname: Division-Musick
sku: pellingmans-division
upc: 847646003305
also:
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description:
The art of 'dividing' upon a ground bass, or playing 'divisions', was the Elizabethan and seventeenth-century equivalent of our modern jazz tradition.

Skilled musicians, both amateur and professional, would improvise over a repeated chord progression (the 'ground'), or play variations on a popular tune of the day, often with astonishing inventiveness and virtuosity.

This recording explores some of the many composed, and therefore surviving, examples of this art. Lute solos alongside divisions played on treble, tenor and bass viols with improvised lute accompaniments make for a rich palette of aural colours and a vibrant and virtuosic recreation of sixteenth and seventeenth-century music making in England.

Division-Musick is also available as a physical CD for purchase.


artist: Petar Alargic
albumname: Ambitronika L1
sku: palargic-ambitronika
upc: 876809008932
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/ambitronika-l1/id409592781
also:
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description:
An Original Soundtrack of a voyage through your own Ambi(valence).

Vividly textured conjunction of vibrant, mood swinging dynamics, glitched pulsations and levitation-inspiring soundscapes.

A journey that will lead you fully across diameters of your mindset, embracing the opposites, merging the poles.

A soundtrack synchronized only to images depicted by your imagination, invoked by your state of mind.


artist: Petar Alargic
albumname: Bleeding Black Old Sun
sku: palargic-bleedingsun
upc: 847646006382
also:
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description:
The third in a row of abstract ambient soundscapes, a complementing counterpart to its prequel, A Touch Of White. Bleeding Black Old Sun: a soundtrack to the end of the world.

Photo credit:
Pioforsky flickr.com/photos/pioforsky


artist: Petar Alargic
albumname: Masstronika
sku: palargic-masstronika
upc: 847646004654
also:
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description:
This music was created to explore electronic instrument's potential to induce thick, heavy and texture layered aural landscapes, ranging from one extreme to the other, dense polyrhythmics to meditative ambient moments, dynamics driven and glitch/syncopated voyage thoroughly reinforced by contemporary prog-rhythm section, Masstronika represents a one step further into authors exploration of the sonic spectrum, and brings you into one completely new and intriguing territory.


artist: Petar Alargic
albumname: Solstice
sku: palargic-solstice
upc: 876809001476
also:
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description:
Solstice is the title of the 4th installment in the series of abstract ambient soundscapes,launched with the release of Portraying The Yellow Sun (2013). A sound image which captures the aural perspective from the furthest point imaginable.
Stillness...
Not moving or in motion...
Free from disturbance, agitation, or any commotion...
Photo credit:
Edén Ochoa Iniesta aka Pioforsky
flickr.com/photos/pioforsky


artist: Petar Alargic
albumname: A Touch of White
sku: palargic-touchwhite
upc: 847646005972
also:
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description:
A continuation of the series of abstract ambient soundscapes, which took birth with the release of "Portraying The Yellow Sun" (August, 2013; Magnatune), the series' opening piece which climbed the author's modus operandi up to a completely new territory and consequently raised the bar of authenticity to a whole different level. "A Touch Of White" sustains further, evolves, and here it is to provide another whole new experience.

Coverart based on photography of Maria Jose Candela www.flickr.com/photos/atraesalosrelampagos


artist: Petar Alargic
albumname: Classient Vinyl L1
sku: palargic-vinyl
upc: 876809008949
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/classient-vinyl-l1/id432571453
also:
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description:
"Classient Vinyl L1" is an invoking voyage of modern Classical endeavors meeting Ambient textures, enriched with the everlasting true-vintage delicacy of Vinyl. Layering ambient soundscapes, nurtured by a contemporary stringed palette; crossing the landscapes of sentiment-depicted introspective planes, and taking the listener further and further, yet, simultaneously, closer than imaginable, to the world of its Own.

Check out the promo video on YouTube.


artist: Petar Alargic
albumname: Portraying the Yellow Sun
sku: palargic-yellowsun
upc: 847646005460
also:
palargic-touchwhite palargic-bleedingsun rapoon-cidar rildrim-dreamedrules rrich-illum oliostere-circonflexe rildrim-ecosystems dini-ontogeny mogilalia-myoldblack rrich-alien1 dini-sunearth carilive-wabisabi dammersonv-overnight dac-red fitch-celocity dac-within arphaus-green roe-etcetera version-versions robertotto-placehope

description:
A touch of the sun, translated into a long format, ambient masterpiece...

Abstract soundscape...
First in the series...
Alive and breathing, constantly evolving, movement of the aural stimuli...
Limited only by the indefinite...

Album cover art courtesy of NASA.


artist: Petr Venkrbec
albumname: Alone
sku: petrvenkrbec-alone
upc: 876809003401
also:
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description:
The electro jazz album by Czech saxophone and clarinet player Petr Venkrbec brings a collection of short, distinctive pieces which combine brilliant woodwind playing with original electronic arrangements. This series of short compositions can evoke chapters of your life or make you feel like you're being led through a process of solving a hard problem or, on the other hand, you can just choose to enjoy the abstract qualities of the music. Some pieces may sound a little rough, however, the music never stops supplying you with positive energy.


artist: Phantom Pop
albumname: Phantom Pop
sku: phantompop-phantompop
upc: 847646008157
also:
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description:
Phantom Pop is a 5 piece instrumental band from Brooklyn, NY. The group combines elements of funk, soul, and R? with the improvisation of jazz to create their own sound.

Originally formed by Dave Lowenthal to create an album, it was quickly realized that there was something special going on. The band consists of Dave Lowenthal on electric bass, Josh Schusterman on drums, Haruka Yabuno on keyboards, Matt Giella on trumpet, and Atsushi Ouchi on saxophone.


artist: Phebe Craig and Katherine Westine
albumname: Beside Themselves
sku: kat-beside
upc: 876809001100
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=257918965&s=143444
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Rome, 1709. What happened after the great contest? Most lovers of harpsichord lore are familiar with the famous meeting of George Frideric Handel and Domenico Scarlatti where their host, Cardinal Ottoboni, set them to a contest of skill on both harpsichord and organ. When the guests had sufficiently recovered from this audiofest, they generally found Scarlatti to excel on the harpsichord, while Handel was the clear winner on the organ. The two musicians instantly developed a mutual esteem, and their friendship lasted throughout Handel's residence in Rome.

Did the two keyboard virtuosi ever get together long enough to tune two harpsichords to each other (not for the faint-hearted) and play duets? Or were they condemned always to the polarities of the harpsichordist; that is, the lofty, but lonely, prominence of the soloist, or the supportive, self-effacing role of the continuo player? History (like our news media) tends to concentrate on incidents charged with dramatic conflict, so we must become historical novelists to picture happy afternoons with Handel and Scarlatti entertaining a few choice friends and patrons with the bristling excitement that can only be generated by two harpsichords exchanging tunes.

Napa Valley, California, 1993. Enter Katherine Westine and Phebe Craig, beside themselves with a shared vision to breathe new life into a genre both delicate and robust. Phebe Craig and Katherine Westine not only recreate old treasures, but also apply their baroque sensibilities to the works of modern composers. Armed with two Italian and two French harpsichords, Westine and Craig explore the acoustics of a converted 19th century winery (complete with bats). On this recording you will hear the Italian harpsichords for the music of J.S. Bach and Scott Joplin, and the French harpsichords for the remaining selections. The astute listener will quickly notice the distinct character of each instrument, a property of harpsichords which, in contrast to modern keyboard instruments, provides enormous satisfaction to the connoisseur. The musical selections. In 1789, Charles Burney wrote that Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710-1784) 'was the best organist in Germany, in style, fancy and knowledge of harmony...particularly in the use of pedals.' Apparently W.F. Bach was not widely recognized as a composer in his own time, but his surviving music demonstrates a unique personality. This son of the great J.S. Bach seemed to enjoy straddling the esthetic fence between baroque and rococo, especially in the Concerto in F Major for Two Harpsichords. The first movement is a fine example of early classical sonata form, while the second and third movements make a comfortable return to baroque concerto style.

Absorption of local color into formal music is also a feature of Antonio Soler (1729-1783), in the tradition of his teacher, Domenico Scarlatti. Soler wrote six concerti for two organs 'for the diversion' of his young pupil, 'the most Serene Infante Don Gabriel de Borbon,' favorite son of Carlos III. It is likely that these concerti were written for performance on two small, similar organs which stood in the little theater at El Escorial. The Concierto II heard on this recording is saturated with Spanish flavor (saffron, pimiento, sangria, sherry) and the listener can easily discern a Spanish guitar style in the energetic plucking of the two harpsichords. Impressionable listeners might detect the fragrance of a rose on a sultry evening.

A master of the French baroque style, Francois Couperin (1668-1733) shared the enthusiasm of his contemporaries for the folk dance tunes and rhythms associated with bagpipe and hurdy-gurdy music. Numerous stage productions of this period feature musetes complete with singing, dancing, and orchestra enhanced by specialized instruments. With his Musetes de Choisi et de Taverni, Couperin reaches back to his family roots and refashions folk music from the towns of Choisi and Taverny to chamber music for the court of Louis XIV, the Sun King.

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) was frequently inspired to create extravagantly tuneful works for multiple harpsichords, occasionally transforming music from other sources to endow them with new expression on plucked keyboards. J. S. Bach's concerti were often performed at Zimmermann's coffee house in Leipzig, often with the participation of his sons Carl Philipp Emanuel and Wilhelm Friedemann. (We are not aware of any scholarly studies associating the high energy of the Bach family concerti with the influence of coffee.) The Concerto in C Major for Two Harpsichords is an outstanding example of the mature baroque concerto; while conforming to a standard three-movement concerto structure, its polyphonic richness goes far beyond the formulas of a mere occasional concerto.

With the Stoptime Rag of Scott Joplin (1868-1917). Westine and Craig present a significant historical event: the first interactive harpsichord CD. In the original publication of this charming dance, the composer annotated the downbeats with the word 'Stamp' to indicate that this piece is not complete without some percussive footwork. Gentle listener, kindly stamp one of your feet with your heel to propel this tuneful ditty on its way. Improvised toe-tapping may be added to taste.


artist: Phil Rey
albumname: Hellzauber
sku: philrey-hellzauber
upc: 847646002636
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description:
The music of Hellzauber (a video game) was created in 2010. In a world that is between Predator (the movie) and Unreal Tournament III (video game), the sounds are modern and classical, electronic and epic, perfectly illustrating the sound world of this maximum security prison, located on the edge of the galaxy.


artist: Phil Rey
albumname: Legends of the Dark Ages
sku: philrey-legends
upc: 847646001998
also:
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description:
A set of high-impact Dramatic, Classical, and Tribal film score music. This album is a compilation of music for video games, movies, trailers, and unreleased tracks, created during 2010. These pieces are grouped around common themes: mystery and fantasy, which take us into a universe of wizards, castles, knights and epic adventures of imaginary worlds.


artist: Phil Rey
albumname: Wars of the Dark Worlds
sku: philrey-wardark
upc: 847646002643
also:
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description:
This musical journey takes us into the world of battles from the Dark Ages to the present and even the future. The crash of armies clashing, naval and air battles, all the warlike fury from real worlds or imagined is collected here. This album is a compilation of music for video games, movies, trailers, and unreleased tracks, created during 2010.


artist: Piotr Janeczek
albumname: Ambient and Cinematic Soundscapes
sku: piotrjaneczek-ambientsoundscapes
upc: 847646006610
also:
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description:
Calm and mysterious Ambient / New Age soundscapes, ethereal atmospheres, infinite landscapes and fantastic inner worlds. By subjecting into luminous energy flowing along with the music from this album, you will find the Peace and Harmony, Joy and Innocence, Bliss and Happiness... and you'll find infinite stillness.

Amazing compilation of background music for relaxation, meditation, healing and sleep.


artist: Plunkett
albumname: 14 Days
sku: plunkett-days
upc: 876809005436
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=279089768&s=143444
also:
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description:
Not only were we honored to get the submission of 14 Days from Ian and Lara Plunkett, a world-class singer-songwriter team that decided they were fed up with the music industry a few years ago. Wow, the album itself is such a treat. Warm, melodic, and artfully crafted songs are in the best tradition of British Folk-Rock...a lovely cross between Nick Drake and Syd Barrett. The overall feel here is acoustic, but with more sophisticated arrangements and deeper musicianship than most work in this genre. Standout tracks include the starry-eyed "Picture" as well as "The River," "Up A Hill" and "Breathe." A highly poignant and engaging album.


artist: Poeticall Musicke
albumname: Armato Il Cor
sku: poeticallmusi-armato
upc: 847646003954
also:
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This album encompasses a major contrast of Italian works spanning over a century.

The ecstatic highs and depressing lows of feeling, and the reality of love, are all pursued in this album of works by Giulio Caccini, Arcangelo Corelli, (and a bonus piece from Claudio Monteverdi). Emotive songs by Caccini and gorgeous trio-sonatas by Corelli provide the backbone to this disc.


artist: Poeticall Musicke
albumname: Awake My Lyre
sku: poeticallmusi-awakelyre
upc: 847646005187
also:
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description:
A stunning album of renaissance songs from John Playford's book 'Choice Ayres, Songs, and Dialogues' from 1676-1684 expressing desperate love, varieties of anguish, and a measure of drunkenness, accompanied by theorbo and bass viol.


artist: Poeticall Musicke
albumname: Canarios I
sku: poeticallmusi-canariosone
upc: 847646003923
also:
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description:
This triple disc set of works by William Byrd and Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger is a treasure-trove of rarely performed pieces. Solo organ and theorbo music intertwined with spontaneously improvised preludes and occasional ground-bass-duets. The albums provide a rare insight into the similarities between the Italian and English styles at the turn of the seventeenth century. Poeticall Musicke present the first volume here of three.


artist: Poeticall Musicke
albumname: Canarios III
sku: poeticallmusi-canariosthree
upc: 847646003947
also:
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description:
This triple disc set of works by William Byrd and Johann Hieronymus Kapsberger is a treasure-trove of rarely performed late Renaissance / early Baroque pieces.

Solo organ and theorbo music intertwined with spontaneously improvised preludes and occasional ground-bass-duets. The albums provide a rare insight into the similarities between the Italian and English styles at the turn of the seventeenth century.


artist: Poeticall Musicke
albumname: Canarios II
sku: poeticallmusi-canariostwo
upc: 847646003930
also:
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description:
This triple disc set of works by William Byrd and Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger is a treasure-trove of rarely performed pieces. Solo organ and theorbo music intertwined with spontaneously improvised preludes and occasional ground-bass-duets.

This album provides a rare insight into the similarities between the Italian and English styles at the turn of the seventeenth century.


artist: Poeticall Musicke
albumname: Farewell I
sku: poeticallmusi-farewellone
upc: 847646005163
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description:
A mosaic of early music, drawing on early folk, Irish, and Scottish music, in other words, the roots of British early classical music.

A collection of some of the most beautiful tunes ever written, by Turlough O'Carolan, arranged exquisitely for baroque violin, recorder, harp, and guitar, alongside spinet virginal, bass viol, and lirone. Also includes songs from Scotland and Ireland by Robert Burns and others.


artist: Poeticall Musicke
albumname: Farewell II
sku: poeticallmusi-farewelltwo
upc: 847646005170
also:
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description:
A collection of some of the most beautiful early music songs ever written, by Turlough O'Carolan, arranged exquisitely for baroque violin, recorder, harp, and guitar, alongside spinet virginal, bass viol, and lirone. Also includes songs from Scotland and Ireland by Robert Burns and others.


artist: Poeticall Musicke
albumname: Instant Fires
sku: poeticallmusi-instantfires
upc: 847646005446
also:
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description:
Two devastatingly dazzling and delightful sonatas for solo and double violins by Fontana straddle Claudio Monteverdi's splendid though rather disturbing Ballo about 'ungrateful' women.


artist: Poeticall Musicke
albumname: Majestie
sku: poeticallmusi-majestie
upc: 847646008034
also:
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description:
Leccons de Tenebres, literally 'lessons of darkness', are perhaps the most mystical and alluring pieces that have survived the mid-Baroque. When performed in church during Holy Week, the Tenebrae service uses the text from the Lamentations of Jeremiah and applies it allegorically to three days of mourning for Christ between his crucifixion and resurrection. However, Lecons de Tenebres were much more private and intimate constructions, often being performed in Louis XIV's rooms at Versailles before being aired in his chapel. One particularly famous anecdote features de Lalande's fifteen-year- old daughter performing the Lecons de Tenebres for the King in his living room; she went on to become the talk of Paris.

A contemporary of Lully and Francois Couperin, de Lalande was born in Paris in 1657 and, in addition to teaching music to the daughters of Louis XIV, was director of the chapel royal from 1714 until 1726 when he died in Versailles. Couperin was also born in Paris and was originally taught music by his father Charles. He had a productive and successful musical career which gained him two titles: firstly in 1693 he succeeded his organ teacher Thomelin and became 'Organiste du Roi'; then in 1717 he was also bestowed a composer's title 'Ordinaire de la musique de la chambre du Roi'. He died in 1733.

Lecons de Tenebres follow a unique form with Latin verses written predominantly in a controlled French recitative and air style, sometimes interspersed with Hebrew letters creating melismatic and almost instrumental moments in the vocal part.

"The French in their airs aim at the soft, the easie, the flowing, and coherent: the whole air is of the same tone, or if sometimes they venture to vary it, they do it with so many preparations, they so qualifie it, that still the air seems to be as natural and consistent as if they had attempted no change at all; there is nothing bold and adventurous in it; it's all equal and of a piece. ... The French would think themselves undone, if they offended in the least against the rules; they flatter, tickle, and court the ear, and are still doubtful of success, tho' ev'ry thing be done with an exact regularity."

Fran? Raguenet 'Comparison between the French and Italian Music and Operas' (1702)

Most settings of the Lecons are scored for solo voice and basso continuo, though there are many examples (including Couperin's third published Lecon) that do not follow that trend. Sadly we only have three surviving Lecons, of an original nine (three for each day of mourning), from both de Lalande and Couperin. Although sometimes harmonically indulgent, the music itself is meditative and introspective, offering a highly intimate and enlightening experience.

"Sometimes we meet with a swelling, to which the first notes of the thoroughbass jar so harshly, as the ear is highly offended with it; but the bass, continuing to play on, returns at last to the swelling with such beautiful intervals, that we quickly discover the composer's design in the choice of those dischords, was to give the hearer a more true and perfect relish of the ravishing notes that on a sudden restore the whole harmony.

Let a Frenchman be set to sing one of these dissonances, and he'll want courage enough to support it with the resolution wherewith it must be sustain'd to make it succeed; his ear, being accustom'd to the most soft and natural intervals, is startled at such irregularity; he trembles and is in a sweat whilst he attempts to sing it."

Jean Laurent le Cerf de La Vieville 'Good Taste in Music' (1704)

Music performed perhaps more often than the Lecons de Tenebres in Louis XIV's court included regular chamber concerts. Court composers like Couperin would write music especially for such occasions: he and his colleagues would perform a concert there every Sunday. Couperin tells us in his preface that the Concerts Royaux were specifically written for these concerts. The suites were composed between the period 1714-15 and then published in 1722 with a preface from Couperin that confirmed the versatility of these pieces: he writes 'They are suitable not only for the harpsichord, but also the violin, the flute, the oboe, the viol, and the bassoon.'

Couperin then supplemented this published collection in 1724 with another set of suites called Les Gou?ts Reuunis ou Nouveaux Councerts ('The Reunited [French and Italian] Styles or New Concerts').

Alex McCartney, February 2014


artist: Poeticall Musicke
albumname: Masquerade
sku: poeticallmusi-masquerade
upc: 847646005194
also:
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description:
John Blow's marvellously scintillating and exciting music for the masque Venus and Adonis for violins, viola, and continuo, laced with nobly beautiful songs by Henry Purcell.


artist: Poeticall Musicke
albumname: Poeticall Musicke Live
sku: poeticallmusi-pmlive
upc: 847646003961
also:
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description:
Poeticall Musicke Live is a collection of Early Music live recordings made during our 2011/12 season in various venues in London. The album includes music by John Blow, Henry Purcell, Armand-Louis Couperin and Jean-Baptiste Lully.


artist: Poeticall Musicke
albumname: Salutation
sku: poeticallmusi-salutation
upc: 847646008041
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Together, Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber von Bibern (1644 - 1704) and Johann Jakob Walther (1650 - 1717) are possibly the most significant composer-violinists of the late 17th century. Both wrote music for a virtuoso technique including the extensive use of doublestops and arpeggios, their works also display a wealth of formal compositional devices.

All the known facts of Walther's life and activity are from the Musikalischen Lexikon (a dictionary from 1732) by Johann Gottfried Walther (Johann Sebastian Bach's cousin). J.J. Walther was born in Witterda bei Erfurt. Between 1670 and 1674 he is said to have been employed as a violinist in the orchestra of Cosimo III of the Medicis in Florence. From 1674 he was concertmaster at the court of Dresden. After the death of his patron, John George II, in 1680 he became the Italian secretary at the elector's court in Mainz, where he would remain until his death.

Biber was born in the small Bohemian town of Wartenberg, Biber worked at Graz before he illegally left his Kremsier employer (Prince-Bishop Carl- Liechtenstein-Castelcorno) and settled in Salzburg. He remained there for the rest of his life, publishing much of his music but apparently seldom, if ever, giving concert tours.

Dieterich Buxtehude (1637/39 - 1707) was a Danish-German organist and composer. His organ works represent a central part of the standard modern organ repertoire. He composed in a wide variety of vocal and instrumental idioms; his style strongly influenced many composers, including Johann Sebastian Bach. Buxtehude's last post, from 1668, was at the Marienkirche, Lubeck which had two organs, a large one for big services and a small one for devotionals and funerals. There he succeeded Franz Tunder and (following in the footsteps of his predecessor) married Tunder's daughter Anna Margarethe in 1668 - it was a common practice! Buxtehude and Anna Margarethe had seven daughters who were all baptized at the Marienkirche.


artist: Pranavibes
albumname: Explorations
sku: pranavibes-explorations
upc: 847646009697
also:
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description:
Explorations album is structured around the theme of physical and spiritual travel. For two years, Pranavibes has been working on creating new songs. The band explored new sounds. And while staying true to instrumental music, it did so with pretty strange instruments: didgeridoo, jew's harp, guitar, musical saw, cajon, darbuka, etc.

So Pranavibes continues on this musical journey, merging folk influences, African rhythms, tribal world music, rock and drum and bass. The result: a soft, natural ethno trance.


artist: prettyhowtown
albumname: helium
sku: prettyhowtown-helium
upc: 847646007778
also:
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description:
In helium, prettyhowtown (San Diego area performer John Noble) weaves a more contemplative web. Created entirely on a custom-built modular synthesizer and played live, these are "smaller" works: quietly intense, and truly ambient. As a performer, John is pleased when people react to his music at live shows by using it as a background for conversation, quiet thinking, or even sleeping-this last is a very high form of applause for an ambient live set! Helium is music for a tranquil evening.


artist: prettyhowtown
albumname: hydrogen alpha
sku: prettyhowtown-hydrogenalpha
upc: 847646007983
also:
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description:
Starting with a nostalgic beats-infused drive into the sunset with westbound, prettyhowtown careens right off the cliff into a deep canyon of ambient delights. The impossible shapes of the devil's fork, drowsy mariachis' microtonal riffs in domingo se puede, and thundering swells in fiery the angels fell were all made with a small modular synthesizer built by the artist.

All tracks were performed live using only the facilities of the instrument itself and recorded directly to stereo. They are presented without editing.


artist: prettyhowtown
albumname: hydrogen beta
sku: prettyhowtown-hydrogenbeta
upc: 847646007990
also:
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description:
An evolution of a modular synthesizer patch that resulted in another track recorded on the same day ("hydrogen beta (original version)", which appears on the album helium), hydrogen beta is a moment of suspended time: neither departing nor arriving, but simply existing.

This remarkable performance was recorded live in one take and captured just as you hear it: without editing.


artist: Processor
albumname: Behave
sku: processor-behave
upc: 847646001448
also:
processor-real processor-insomnia mokhov-afterglowreverie woodrowgerber-beings woodrowgerber-xo sterling-spaceflight mokhov-euphoricmagic sterling-paradox ehren-lines artemis-ofthisdirt artemis-undone ehren-crywolf stanislav-chillin icicle-theorems therapture-garden therapture-rush

description:
Processor's album Behave is northern European electro dance music. It sounds like Trentemoller/Royksopp/Chemicalbrothers but with a little more edge.

Just behave and listen ;0)


artist: Processor
albumname: Game
sku: processor-game
upc: 847646009826
also:
mokhov-sunbloom superdirt-opus2 mokhov-afterglowreverie 1kub-midnight liquidrainbow-theredep redskylullaby-algorithmicsoul loveamp-shellshock woodrowgerber-beings marcoshbolanos-chasingtime loveamp-criticalmass fuzzit-quazijazz monom-velenjeremix 4oresight-moretimethanever vate-volk rompaey-easternexpressions5 woodrowgerber-liquiddata lehtmojoe-hindsight 4oresight-endofsummer ppavan-velvetface monom-deep

description:
The album Game is inspired by the book series "red rising" by Pierce Brown and influenced by cyberpunk culture. Be ready for ambient and hard "Tron legacy" electro with a touch of Swedish darkness.


artist: Processor
albumname: My Industry
sku: processor-industry
upc: 876809005856
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=267135378&s=143444
also:
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description:
"Amazing BIG sound," says Breakbeat Paradise and boy are they right. Rock hard rhythms and darkly glorious vocals make for an awesomely un-small album of fantastic industrial house! We especially love the title track and "Greed" is a fantastically taut assault too. Check it out!


artist: Processor
albumname: Insomnia
sku: processor-insomnia
upc: 876809001063
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=257946295&s=143444
also:
processor-real processor-behave sterling-spaceflight vate-volt sterling-paradox conwayhambone-hbone vate-umbra artemis-undone 4oresight-lessismore 4oresight-moretimethanever artemis-ofthisdirt monom-velenjeremix psycliq-rnt therapture-garden therapture-rush mokhov-afterglowreverie mokhov-sunbloom smerkulov-distinctselection ehren-crywolf


artist: Processor
albumname: The M Edition
sku: processor-medition
upc: 847646004463
also:
processor-behave processor-insomnia sterling-sterling therapture-garden therapture-mania birdy-alter superdirt-opus2 mokhov-afterglowreverie mokhov-sunbloom windcheater-rarh sterling-beyhuman insoba-lightscience thursday-whenthefall christosanestopoulos-wishyoucouldstay beatunder-intro artemis-gravity lehtmojoe-aisle 4oresight-lessismore 4oresight-moretimethanever otis-otis

description:
The "M" stands for Movie...
Among the first songs on this album such as "Work" "Sluggerboy" "Momentum"....
Inspired from "John Carpenters movie creations in the mid-eighties"
We have made a soundtrack with no film...
Now why would we do that?
-Because we love it :-)
Also including two singles such as "That tone" chip tune meets processor and "your friend" weird and catchy...
Hope you enjoy
Johan/Processor


artist: Processor
albumname: Are you for real
sku: processor-real
upc: 876809004071
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=257809514&s=143444
also:
processor-behave processor-insomnia sterling-spaceflight sterling-paradox artemis-undone 4oresight-lessismore 4oresight-moretimethanever ehren-lines mokhov-euphoricmagic artemis-ofthisdirt smerkulov-thebridge psycliq-rnt therapture-garden therapture-rush mokhov-afterglowreverie vate-vitam vate-volt


artist: Processor
albumname: Surface
sku: processor-surface
upc: 847646007952
also:
processor-real processor-medition mokhov-euphoricmagic alforest-alforest gelatine-underthesamesun monom-minestrone mokhov-sunbloom lehtmojoe-aisle therapture-mania therapture-tenraptures lehtmojoe-hindsight smerkulov-airbibrations artemis-gravity mot-waiting icicle-theorems francoiscouture-downtownride 4oresight-lessismore

description:
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.


artist: Professor Armchair
albumname: Too Much Mustard
sku: armchair-octopants
upc: 876809003272
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=257809559&s=143444
also:
estrem-egrieg estrem-estremlawson paternoster-inzaffirio shira-castle tmatsuishi-preludes paternoster-violoncelloromantico dufay-cancionero ruiz-imported hadidian-reflections ilic-sparkling poeticallmusi-canariostwo kat-beside tmatsuishi-duets hadidian-dolce sforster-beethovenfive shira-dayofjoy chambure-valderrabano berkman-calabash scottcok-sonatas spheres-spheres

description:
This music at its best evokes happiness of a by-gone era. Circuses and carousels and calliopes, oh my! To some they may appear to be pandering, even kitsch. But the truth is they reflect the optimism, the innocence and the fun-loving of our great grandparents.


artist: Psychetropic
albumname: China radio sunshine
sku: psychetropic-china
upc: 876809001056
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=257810034&s=143444
also:
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artist: Psycliq
albumname: The Cure for Chaos Theory
sku: psycliq-chaostheory
upc: 847646006757
also:
psycliq-mathemagician psycliq-halt seismic-afterburner monom-velenjeremix dixiecannon-catchthewind mojoradio-mojoradio 4oresight-oveanviews rildrim-across indchoice-makechoice fur-devastate monom-deep properauthorities-psa fielding-lightfields dpkaufman-valleybellow icicle-silence dac-sea icicle-resonance conwayhambone-hbone fielding-distant

description:
For every theory, there is a cure.

Boston-based independent electronic rock artist Psycliq has returned once again with an incredibly diverse and powerful album, "The Cure for Chaos Theory". Four years in the making, this seventeen track album contains over an hour of new, original music and is the most ambitious work from Psycliq to date. While focusing on electronic elements more than ever before, the project encompasses a number of different genres, as has come to be expected from this artist, and the production quality is the highest to date.

Somewhat of a concept album without the overtones of a pretentious drama club, "The Cure for Chaos Theory" brings the listener on a journey of emotions and places like none other. From the driving energy of opening track "The Theory", through the cacophonous racket of "The Chaos", to the final placid strains of "The Cure" (punctuated with real HAM radio recordings received from a NASA engineer), this album has much to show you if you're willing to come along for the ride. The three-piece suite "It's Meant To Be" is spread throughout the album, offering instrumental punctuation to the process. "Her Ice-Lit Walk" paints a haunting contrast of calm and chaos, while "Rewire" offers a stuttering technological jump. "Perilous Opportunity" and "Snowrunner" both explode with walls of audio, while the plaintive "Sad, I Could Have Made You Queen Of The Seas" paints a picture of acquiescent regret. And for the first time ever, "Brushwork" features a stellar guest vocal performance by the immensely talented Jon Wiltzen.

Psycliq has upped the ante with this project, and there's no telling where this artist can go from here.

Awesome extra album material available if you download the artwork in this album.


artist: Psycliq
albumname: halt
sku: psycliq-halt
upc: 876809005153
also:
psycliq-chaostheory psycliq-mathemagician indchoice-makechoice monom-velenjeremix jonswift-travelog doublethink-dawn seismic-highroller redskylullaby-vosd elecfrank-sicksongs kettleblack-bullfrog liamkins-reasonsoftly redskylullaby-burst rildrim-lonely elecfrank-timenow mokhov-halcyondays 4oresight-oveanviews arphaus-green townmonster-julsept selfdelusion-happiness

description:
The second release from electronic rock one-man-band "Psycliq", Halt is a study in flow and interconnections that speaks well without resorting to words. Written, recorded, and produced entirely by Justin Richer in a home studio.

The album opens with a straight-forward rock riff in "Every Morning Orange and Blue", a song that could easily be the soundtrack to a triathlete's morning workout routine. The three-part "Resonance Suite" is spread across the album and features different aspects built on the same harmonic foundation. The ambient anthem "Adore" is an intricate electronic piece that weaves back and forth across the depths of space. "Negative Space" on the other hand is a rhythmic experiment that questions what happens to us at the very edge of those depths. "This Town Loves You, This Town Will Destroy You" is another fast-paced rock number that is first driven by a guitar and then by a piano. The mellower "Everglow" is a song complex in its simplicity. Recorded using only a single guitar dubbed five times over, it has a surprising depth of interplay in its parts. Finally, "Every Evening Crimson Resound" brings a solemn end to this album, calling to mind feelings of wandering alone at dusk along empty city sidewalks.


artist: Psycliq
albumname: The Mathemagician's Riddle
sku: psycliq-mathemagician
upc: 876809007232
also:
psycliq-chaostheory psycliq-rnt monom-velenjeremix monom-foresttales mokhov-halcyondays 4oresight-oveanviews marcoshbolanos-chasingtime dixiecannon-catchthewind mokhov-perfectdream conwayhambone-folkrattleroll icicle-senescence oliostere-sclave redskylullaby-algorithmicsoul mountain-deadbeatsep conwayhambone-hbone redskylullaby-vosd superdirt-opus2 4oresight-endofsummer dixiecannon-highlandsunrise

description:
The first release from Psycliq, an intrepid one-man project, this EP is a collection of diverse songs. Produced entirely in a home studio, this project is the first of what will hopefully be many endeavors.

The opener, "Burn Bright", is a heroic electronic rock anthem whose driving rhythm, according to one listener, "makes you want to jump out a window and save the world". This follows directly into the hectic "Two Pennies For the Ferryman". The instrumental "Caverns" weaves its way through an underworld of sonic landscapes, a journey of musical discovery. The oddly interlocking "Clockwork Apprentice" is built on a set of randomized arpeggiations that somehow combine to create a cohesive whole.


artist: Psycliq
albumname: House of the Rising Sun
sku: psycliq-risingsun
upc: 847646001868
also:
psycliq-mathemagician psycliq-rnt funkinchely-realdealmusic liamkins-reasonsoftly redskylullaby-burst 4oresight-oveanviews jonswift-travelog mikegoudreau-looksunshine townmonster-julsept twilightarchive-ritual conwayhambone-folkrattleroll andrewjohn-berlincalls msoutheron-msoutheron schweyen-future funkinchely-riseandfall monom-deep redskylullaby-ampm wickedboy-chemistry robertotto-tauceti monom-velenjeremix

description:
Independent electronic band "Psycliq" returns to put a new twist on an old classic, House of the Rising Sun. Originally a folk blues ballad, the song came to notoriety in the 1960's when British rock group "The Animals" released their now iconic rendition of it to worldwide acclaim. It has since been picked up by many different artists, but none have put quite the unique spin on it that "Psycliq" has.

What started as a simple exercise to cover a single song quickly spiraled into a complicated project of four very distinct remixes, each capturing different aspects of the material. Incorporating more moving parts than any Psycliq recording to date, the steady groove of the original mix quickly gives way to a cacophonous barrage of audio bliss, taking you along on the bluesman's sad tale of warning and woe. The Amped Up Blender mix cranks up the drums and guitars to eleven and never looks back. The Transistor Party Stomp mix somehow manages to add even more layers on top of the already full palette, and its driving rhythm makes no apologies for its pace. At the other end of the rail line, the Organ Donor mix strips everything away again to its raw essentials.


artist: Psycliq
albumname: Results Not Typical
sku: psycliq-rnt
upc: 876809006402
also:
psycliq-mathemagician psycliq-halt monom-velenjeremix llatb-punkinst 4oresight-oveanviews conwayhambone-folkrattleroll monom-aroundtheworld liamkins-reasonsoftly redskylullaby-burst conwayhambone-hbone redskylullaby-vosd 4oresight-endofsummer mmcguill-sleepmode ewallace-immortal rildrim-across terracottablue-spectra madeofwood-birdstate mojoradio-mojoradio andrewjohn-berlincalls

description:
Results Not Typical is the third album from Psycliq, a one-person outfit from the Boston area that usually produces a unique mix that can generally be described as electronic rock. This album, however, is quite different from the normal fare. The jazz, blues, and classical elements that underlie the usual Psycliq music are brought to the fore in the artist's most ambitious project to date.

The sonic landscape ranges from the majestic "Those Born of Kings" into the contemplative "Another Empty Hour In Every Day"; from the lonely blues rock of "Dustwood" to the brash groove of "Setting Out"; from the sly jazz of the "Incognito Shuffle" to the complex layers of "Mettle"; this album manages all of these diverse styles and more with aplomb and grace.

This may not sound like the usual Psycliq fare, but be assured that the roots are still there, pulsing with every ounce of life and energy you would expect. Expectations and formulas may be left at the door, thank you.

All songs and instrumentation are once again the sole work of Justin Richer, the unique mind behind this unique band.


artist: Psycliq
albumname: Seraph
sku: psycliq-seraph
upc: 847646009666
also:
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description:
Six ambient instrumentals reach out from a deep soul and spread through a soundscape of dreams and visions. Each journey is six minutes long, taking you to a different time and space. This journey is your own, and yet you are not alone. There are many paths, and yet there is only the path you take.

Walk with us, dream with us. Follow the Seraph's call.

You don't know what you're worth.
You're worth more than you know.


artist: Putinki Church Choir
albumname: In thy Dormition thou didst not forsake the World, (O Theotokos)
sku: putinki-dormition
upc: 876809009649
also:
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description:
In Thy Dormition consists of selected chants, performed during the service devoted to celebration of the Assumption of the Holy Mother of God. This feast day is hallowed by the Russian Orthodox church on the 28th of August according to the julian calendar.

The recording is comprised both of ancient Orthodox monastery chants, as well as of part songs by secular composers, written for the church and performed by the Moscow Putinki church choir. It represents an example of how a group of professional and amateur singers are able to lead the listener to understanding of what the prayer for the Orthodox Christian is.


artist: Quantum Milkshake
albumname: Determination
sku: quantummilkshake-determination
upc: 876809005634
also:
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description:
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".


artist: Radhamohan and Savitri
albumname: Earth, the Kirtan planet
sku: radhamohan-earth
upc: 847646003701
also:
hanschristian-youaremusic lisalynne-secretsongs tmatsuishi-duets lisalynne-elfintribe fernwood-arcadia hanschristian-hiddentreasures panacea-songs hadidian-reflections yumi-beginning magnacomp-world angelight-tantraone aryehfrankfurter-harpersbrew angelight-zenstation mediva-vivamediva aryehfrankfurter-twistingrope hadidian-garden magnacomp-relaxclass dini-sunearth rejuvenescence-dreamscapes

description:
Radhamohan and Savitri bring us meditative, yet uplifting and all acoustic kirtan with a fusion of musical expressions all the way from India, Egypt and Middle East to ancient vibes of South and North America.

Flowing rhythms, etherial flute melodies, Savitri's enchanting singing of mantras and top quality production make this an unique listening experience. Whether listening to it softly in meditation or loudly while singing and dancing along with it, it will make your heart sing!


artist: Ralph Rousseau Meulenbroeks
albumname: Confluentes
sku: meulenbroeks-confluentes
upc: 847646007488
also:
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description:
Viola da gamba music from 1553 to the present day:

"With this recording I wanted to go back to my original fascination with the 6- or 7-stringed bass viol. Ever since I first heard the instrument in the early 1990's, I knew that this was the sound that I wanted and I have devoted the bigger part of my professional life to it. The solo sound of the instrument especially has always inspired me to no end.

The recording venue was easily selected and actually sparked the recording: the beautiful chapel of a St. Francis' Convent in my home town of Utrecht. The brethren, some of whom I have known for many years now, have cooperated in every possible way. I have prayed with them many times in this chapel and it is a rare privilege to have been given the opportunity to make this recording in this sacred place.

The music has more or less selected itself: I wanted to start with some of the very early viola da gamba music by Diego Ortiz and end with some pieces that contemporary composers have dedicated to me. And the centuries in between are covered by the music of much-loved viol composers as Carl Friedrich Abel, Tobias Hume, Antoine Forqueray, Johannes Schenck, and of course Marin Marais. It all flowed together naturally: confluentes.

The recording process was very, very simple: my good friend Fritz de With set up his video and audio equipment and I played every piece a few times. Afterwards, we just picked what we considered to be the best version. Again: without any editing. Everything you hear is exactly the way it was played. A rare occurrence these days!

I gave everything I have in this process, and this is it. I can only hope you like it."

Ralph Rousseau Meulenbroeks, October 2014.

Cover art photograph of Ralph courtesy of Jan Baks


artist: Rapoon
albumname: Cidar
sku: rapoon-cidar
upc: 876809001049
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=257810035&s=143444
also:
rapoon-kirghiz1 rapoon-kirghiz2 rrich-temple rrich-alien2 palargic-bleedingsun roe-etcetera palargic-yellowsun dac-red dac-within raycarldaye-rem mogilalia-myoldblack robcosh-aphelion raycarldaye-echoesaether tilopa-turkishauch brain-hyphen roe-invitroone tramo-eight indidginus-circadiem tilopa-pictures


artist: Rapoon
albumname: Disappeared
sku: rapoon-disappeared
upc: 876809001452
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/disappeared/id369508163
also:
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description:
This album is a continuation of recurring themes that have been interwoven into the entire recorded output of Rapoon (now almost 20 years and 40 odd albums). Oblique and transitory the little stories and spoken words form connections across time and space. This is about those who disappear in strange circumstances and those who just disappear. The passage of time and change. Ghosts from the past and ghosts from the future.


artist: Rapoon
albumname: Easterly 6 or 7
sku: rapoon-easterly
upc: 876809001032
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=257947688&s=143444
also:
rapoon-cidar rapoon-kirghiz1 rrich-alien2 rrich-ylang tilopa-turkishauch tilopa-pictures mogilalia-myoldblack janover-nowcenter palargic-bleedingsun janover-evolutions raycarldaye-echoesaether swivel-deep satori-rainsleep mogilalia-dropshadow jeremymoyer-bicyclestories dac-spctr dini-ontogeny ilic-sweets arphaus-green


artist: Rapoon
albumname: Fallen Gods
sku: rapoon-fallen
upc: 876809001025
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=257948415&s=143444
also:
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artist: Rapoon
albumname: The Kirghiz Light - CD 1
sku: rapoon-kirghiz1
upc: 876809001018
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=257920209&s=143444
also:
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artist: Rapoon
albumname: The Kirghiz Light - CD 2
sku: rapoon-kirghiz2
upc: 876809001001
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=257920472&s=143444
also:
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artist: Rapoon
albumname: Psi-transient
sku: rapoon-psitransient
upc: 847646007006
also:
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description:
Brief moments of seemingly grasping something previously hidden from view.
Snow melting on a deserted concrete platform at a station with no name in an urban wasteland.
White trees, limbs outstretched as if barring the way into the deeper woods and the darkness.
Bone sentinels.
A faint memory of once knowing and now forgotten.
Elusive and dreamlike the ghosts return.


artist: Rapoon
albumname: What do you suppose
sku: rapoon-suppose
upc: 876809000974
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=257920595&s=143444
also:
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artist: Rapoon
albumname: Tin of Drum
sku: rapoon-tindrum
upc: 876809000998
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=257920478&s=143444
also:
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artist: Rapoon
albumname: Vernal Crossing
sku: rapoon-vernal
upc: 876809000981
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=257920584&s=143444
also:
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artist: Rapoon
albumname: To West and Blue
sku: rapoon-westandblue
upc: 847646007013
also:
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description:
To West and Blue, these pieces are about the area I grew up in in the UK.
A peninsula of land which stuck out into the Solway Firth.
Surrounded by the sea when the tide was in and surrounded by endless mudflats when the tide was out.
When the water covered the ground the line between the sea and the sky was almost non-existent. A diaphanous boundary.
The sea came in from the West where the huge skies hung without end in a vault of blue.


artist: Ras Tilo
albumname: Ras Tilo and Friends - Creative Commons
sku: rastilo-rastiloandfriends
upc: 847646003527
also:
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description:
"Ras Tilo and Friends - Creative Commons" is the first full-produced album from Ras Tilo. Based on five riddims composed and recorded in Ireland and Germany, this multi-cultural album wants to show the power and the diversity of common creativity, including eight featuring artists on seventeen tracks (originals and remixes). Furthermore, this album is an homage to the "Creative Commons" license and philosophy. Enjoying it you may hear reggae, dub, hip hop, freestyle lyrics and world music, where each artist is bringing his own style, his own language and his own groove in a free and creative way - for more than one hour of music!


artist: Ray Carl Daye
albumname: Echoes from the Aether
sku: raycarldaye-echoesaether
upc: 847646004487
also:
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description:
On this album, Ray Carl Daye weaves a hypnotic spell of textures and tone. Like the Earth's upper atmosphere, the music is pure, floating, weightless, frictionless - both static and slowly evolving.

Echoes From the Aether is music for an Earth in transition, the echoes being signals of change and aether referring to the Earth's upper atmosphere. This is ambient soundscapes and installation music with minimal, slowly shifting synth patterns, perfect for background ambience.


artist: Ray Carl Daye
albumname: Spectral Navigator
sku: raycarldaye-navigator
upc: 876809006914
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/spectral-navigator/id336046580
also:
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description:
These quiet minimal pieces are inspired by the music of Brian Eno's early ambient work. Shimmering soundscapes, ethereal and soothing, these "light" ambient pieces create an excellent atmosphere for relaxing or for use as background ambience.


artist: Ray Carl Daye
albumname: Rapid Ear Movement
sku: raycarldaye-rem
upc: 847646004166
also:
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description:
Rapid Ear Movement, the second Magnatune release by Ray Carl Daye, is a diverse collection of electronic/ambient instrumentals full of emotion and creativity. The compositions range from the energetic, sequence-driven minimalism of "Endless Departure" and "Dervish Moon" to the radiant, melodic riff of "Aqua Lit". Other notable tracks are the sentimental, gentle meditation of "Quiet Remergence"; the glittering soundtrack-inspired "Elusian Spring" and cinematic atmosphere of "The Illuminated Earth". In all, "Rapid Ear Movement" presents fourteen short soundtracks for an imagined cinema.


artist: Ray Montford
albumname: The Early Sessions
sku: raymontford-earlysessions
upc: 847646002919
also:
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description:
A fingerstyle solo acoustic album with minimal accompaniment. Recorded direct-to-DAT in 1991, it features a pristine sound, with no overdubs or editing.

This record features unplugged versions of May It Begin, One Witness, Ice House and Appalachia. As I was nearing the end of a recovery from an injury in 2004, I needed something musical to do and decided to release this on CD... something I'd been itching to do ever since CDs took over the world. This is a good one for acoustic guitar lovers.


artist: Ray Montford
albumname: A Fragile Balance
sku: raymontford-fragile
upc: 847646002926
also:
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description:
Critically-acclaimed Canadian guitarist-composer, Ray Montford, unveils his sixth album, a fragile balance, his most cinematic to date. Inspired by a series of unforeseen events, this is a soulful exploration of life's journeys, highlighted by Montford's buttery blues/rock electric tones and deft acoustic fingerstyle work.

Beginning with the haunting melody of Honour This Land, the album builds to a peak of orchestration in the epic When Darkness Takes Flight, propelled by powerful drumming and a gorgeous cello arrangement. Dynamically recorded with sparse arrangements and great sonics, the result is a cohesive tale of a mature artist. This is instrumental music that commands to be heard - at a healthy volume - offering a depth that will reveal new insights with each listen.


artist: Ray Montford
albumname: Many Roads
sku: raymontford-manyroads
upc: 847646002933
also:
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description:
Many Roads is a guitar-driven journey and an emotional tour-de-force. Partly recorded in a tiny cottage in the Canadian backwoods in the middle of winter... then later with a bunch of great musicians in Toronto. I love the rootsy way in which we approached this record; many performances were captured live-off-the-floor.

Special thanks and gratitude to Paradigm Speakers for sponsoring this recording.

"He has a gift for grand musical moments that retain their intimacy... an atmospheric, emotional road well worth travelling."
Steve Baylin


artist: Ray Montford
albumname: One Step Closer
sku: raymontford-onestep
upc: 847646002940
also:
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description:
This record is mostly acoustic-guitar-based with a small amount of electric guitar as well.

The album is quite intimate with dashes of world textures from tabla and gorgeous middle-eastern singing on the song "Take Me With You".


artist: Ray Montford
albumname: Shed Your Skin
sku: raymontford-shedyour
upc: 847646002964
also:
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description:
Shed Your Skin is multi-layered and musically diverse and features a good deal of instrumentation and world percussion. It has been widely embraced by audiophiles fo its sonic textures and dimensionality.

"shed your skin is a brilliant record... incredible playing... singular musical voice ... and one of the best recorded guitar records I've heard in my life!"
- Will Ackerman from Windham Hill Records


artist: Ray Montford
albumname: Vintage is Now
sku: raymontford-vintageisnow
upc: 847646007372
also:
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description:
There is something to be said about someone having the courage to release an instrumental album in 2012, and looking to make a dent in the pop-drenched landscape of the music world.

Ray Montford, the virtuoso guitarist and Canada's own aficionado of the 6 string, has done just that and done it with great style, grace, and conviction.

His 11 track and sixth studio album Vintage Is Now is as beautiful a collection of guitar lead compositions as it is raw and uninhibited. Picture a journey on a magic carpet ride over a turbulent and roaring sea while laying on pillows of silk and down, flying through the white capped waves. Opium dreams you say? Montford knows exactly how to evoke these grandiose visions with his flawless playing and keep you in a state of unencumbered sensory bliss the whole way through.

Could Ray Montford be Canada's own Jeff Beck? With this gift of an album where so many emotions are touched on throughout, one has to think he may just be carving out his own path as a guitarist and letting his playing do the talking. Perhaps no one could ever fill the shoes of the guitar gods of the past but it doesn't seem that Ray has set out to achieve this shadow goal. His playing is unique, honest, and still enthusiastic which is rare these days as instrumentals go. His love for the guitar shines through the music which in essence keeps you, as the listener, so connected to his playing. Ray's songs become the canvas of ones imagination and boldly paint a vision where voice and lyrics have no place over the roar of one man and his guitar.


artist: Rebel Rebel
albumname: Explode Into Space
sku: rebel-explode
upc: 876809004415
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=257920622&s=143444
also:
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description:
L.A.-based band Rebel Rebel is known for its insanely fun, high energy live show and has been known to give their fans "glamtasms" from the relentless insistence on entertainment and riff-heavy rock. Explode Into Space was produced by Brian Kehew, known for his work with The Ramones, Alice Cooper, Henry Rollins, and Air. Tracks "Artificial Kid" and "Venus Plux X' are especially swaggery and good. Bonus tracks in Spanish!


artist: Red Sky Lullaby
albumname: Algorithmic Soul
sku: redskylullaby-algorithmicsoul
upc: 876809009250
also:
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description:
Algorithmic Soul blends mellow electronics, acoustics and eclectic styles from funk to electronica, ambient to jazz. Each track develops organically and in unpredictable ways. Layers of synths, piano, sax and vocals flow together over groove-soaked drums. Red Sky Lullaby delivers another slice of soulfully-rendered, chilled electronica.


artist: Red Sky Lullaby
albumname: Am Pm
sku: redskylullaby-ampm
upc: 847646002384
also:
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description:
Soulful and melodic electronica taking you back to the days when music had a side A and a side B. am pm is a heady blend of dark and light, electronic and acoustic, the minimal and the complex.

Red Sky Morning - wakes from a slumber with punchy beats and bass then travels on through glitched out dub landscapes, dipping in to occasional pools of ambience, bluesgrass, jazz and chilled out trance.

Red Sky Night - takes you on to close your eyes blissout territory where waves of synths and samples break over orchestral elements, pianos and guitars. Feet up, headphones on, lights out and enjoy the day.


artist: Red Sky Lullaby
albumname: Burst
sku: redskylullaby-burst
upc: 847646007044
also:
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description:
Burst is an album brimming with beats and soundscapes.

For this third album Red Sky Lullaby dips into a myriad of styles to create a unique blend of Electronica, Beats, Glitch, Dub Roots and Jazz. The tracks refuse to cave to repetitiveness and the album as a whole evolves from style to style in unexpected ways culminating in the jazzy electronic grooves of the final track Peace Out.


artist: Red Sky Lullaby
albumname: Echolalia
sku: redskylullaby-echolalia
upc: 876809003524
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/echolalia/id369507937
also:
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description:
Echolalia is a laid back mix of electronic and acoustic elements. Piano, double bass and orchestral sounds blend with hip hop beats, dub basslines, glitched out samples and analog synths to take you on a chilled melodic journey.


artist: Red Sky Lullaby
albumname: Very Own Special Day
sku: redskylullaby-vosd
upc: 847646009611
also:
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description:
Red Sky Lullaby's 4th album features Electronica, Glitch and Ambient styles intertwined with Modern Classical harmonic arrangements to infuse emotion into every track. There is a greater focus on melody, harmony and a complex minimalism than on the previous more beat laden excursions of the album "Burst".

18 months in the making, the new album blends analog synths and samplism with warmer textures and sounds from real acoustic instruments in real spaces. Very Own Special Day is electronic music with a human soul.


artist: Rejuvenescence
albumname: Dreamscapes
sku: rejuvenescence-dreamscapes
upc: 876809005917
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=277013619&s=143444
also:
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description:
The ultimate background album, Dreamscapes by Magnatune artist Tom Lewis (aka Rejuvenescence) evokes everything that is tranquil and soothing in New Age music, yet keeps things subtly spicy with intelligent rhythms and alluring sitar. Rich in detail and featuring superlative arrangements, we love the walking rhythms and oh-so-mellow grooves of Dreamscapes, many of which are inlaid with gorgeous field recordings from the natural world.


artist: Reza Manzoori
albumname: Reza Nation
sku: reza-nation
upc: 876809006686
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/reza-nation/id336070966
also:
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description:
Reza writes about his latest album, "Reza Nation...well, as a departure from my first album ReStrung I wanted to have more guitars layered and textured (like a harp). I still wanted to keep the essence of the first album by keeping the content simple while doubling up on the guitars. I wanted to keep the songs personal yet far reaching. Arbol...a great example...three chord song with no distinct melody other than the one emerging from the chords (the high voice) grouped with nylon/steel/12 string guitars playing both pick and finger-style guitar.

Reza Nation was an amazing learning process."


artist: Reza Manzoori
albumname: ReStrung
sku: reza-restrung
upc: 876809000967
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=257920752&s=143444
also:
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description:
Reza's album "ReStrung" is a collection of original songs that he has been "re-creating" for the past ten years. He has been heard to call them practice pieces.

"On most of the songs on "ReStrung" what you hear, minus the percussion, is one guitar track. So all these songs can be performed as solos. However, they would all work nicely as duets, or even trios and quartets."


artist: Richard MacKenzie
albumname: Il Rossetto, Domenico Bianchini's Lute Book (1546)
sku: rmackenzie-bianchini
upc: 847646004470
also:
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description:
Domenico Bianchini (c1510-c1576) was born into a family of famous Venetian mosaic artists, and, judging by his nickname, 'Il Rossetto', he must have possessed a head of striking red hair, similar to the famous Venetian composer of the early 18th century, Antonio Vivaldi.

Bianchini's "Intabolatura de Lauto" (Venice, 1546), of which this recording features the entire book, was his sole publication. Intabolatura was a great success, being reprinted in its entirety at least three times, 11 of its works even being reprinted in Nuremberg by Hans Gerle, 1552. The book itself is a perfect exemplar of the Venetian lute book of the mid-16th century, featuring intabulations of scared and secular vocal music, a selection of polyphonic recercari, and a selection of dances, including dances local to Venice, such as the 'Santo erculano'. The music itself is complex, beautiful, at times reflective, and at times flamboyant. The book presents a veritable feast of European lute music.

The music was performed on a Renaissance Lute by James Marriage (2004) after Hans Frei (c1550), strung entirely in old Aquila nylgut. The disc was recorded fairly intimately and with little editing so as to produce a fresh and candid sound, suited to the intimacy and immediacy of the music. It is the first in a series of recordings by Richard MacKenzie focusing on the repertoire of lutes and early guitars. (Produced and engineered by Richard MacKenzie. Recorded at St. Margaret's Church, Binsey).

'Highly recommended.... an excellent debut recording and makes a very good case for Bianchini's music: if you want Bianchini this is the one to have. MacKenzie plays strongly and rhythmically, and it is heartening to hear the fast embellishments and cadential passages played cleanly and in tempo, something we associate with Paul O'Dette. It has the rhythmic drive and excitement of a live recital and very good recorded sound.'
Lute News, 04/13


artist: Richard MacKenzie
albumname: The Parisian Delight
sku: rmackenzie-parisiandelight
upc: 847646006832
also:
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description:
Albert de Rippe (c1500-1551) was one of the most famous lutenists of his generation. In service to Francis I, his annual salary was double that of any other lutenist. His surviving works exhibit a complexity previously unidentified in lute music. Albert's pupil, Guillaume Morlaye (c1510-1558), was responsible for the posthumous publication of most of Albert's surviving output, and was also a composer of outstanding quality in his own right. In August 1551 Adrian Le Roy (c1520-1598) and his cousin Robert Ballard (c1525-1588) founded the fertile printing firm of "Le Roy and Ballard", obtaining a royal privilege from Henry II to publish music. The fruits of that partnership form the core of the musical selection that comprises this album, featuring preludes, fantasies, dances, chansons, motets and grounds.

The works themselves are multifaceted, attractive, at times meditative, and at times ostentatious. The cross-section of works presented here perfectly sum up the Parisian chordophonic culture of the mid-16th century.

The music was performed upon a Renaissance Lute built by James Marriage (2004) after Hans Frei (c1550), and upon a Renaissance Guitar built by Paul Baker (2003) of his own design. The album was recorded fairly intimately and with little editing so as to produce a fresh and candid sound, suited to the intimacy and immediacy of the music. It is the second in a series of recordings by Richard MacKenzie focusing on the repertoire of lutes and early guitars. (Produced and engineered by Richard MacKenzie. Recorded at the Church of St. Lawrence, Heanor).

Reviews:
"MacKenzie plays throughout with effortless ease... The chordal versions are played crisply with a steady beat and a strong sense of rhythm; the rapid diminutions executed with almost breathtaking virtuosity... These [fantasias] are performed with great sensitivity, the contrapuntal lines clearly delineated with subtle variations in timbre and dynamic... MacKenzie obviously loves this music and can't help but play it in a way which makes the listener love it too."
Lute News, 10/14 (The Lute Society)

"The sound is clear and sweet, the playing is impeccable."
Nostalgia Newsletter, 10/14 (Lute and Early Guitar Society Japan)

"Richard MacKenzie... [is] one of the rising stars of the British lute scene... It is a very accomplished recording; the lutenist consistently attaining the beautiful bell-like tone, sweet and clear, that devotees of Renaissance lute (and four-course) guitar aim for, and the musicianship is confident throughout... Let's hope for more like this."
Early Music Today Magazine, March-May 2015 (Rhinegold Publishing)

Full liner notes are available with the artwork pdf.


artist: Richard MacKenzie
albumname: Tombeaux - A secular requiem
sku: rmackenzie-tombeaux
upc: 876809003449
also:
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description:
Tombeaux - A secular requiem for my father

This recording stands in memory to my late father. It is the first recording to focus on the rarely surveyed lute tombeaux repertoire of 17th-century France: examining its stylistic predecessors, application to alternative plucked instruments and its circulation. The recording is presented across a range of plucked instruments: baroque lute, renaissance lute, baroque guitar and theorbo.

The tombeau (translated as tomb) was a secular genre of instrumental music dedicated to a deceased person. They were usually written in the form of a Pavane or Allemande and presented in dark, usually barréd keys: C Minor being the most common on plucked instruments. The recording presents beautiful solemn examples of this profound repertoire, as well as works that break the conventional mould in, sometimes, the most surprising ways! A good deal of variety is included and the works provide great catharsis for mourners across the ages: for those who live and have ever lost.

Works are featured by composers including Francis Pilkington, Anthony Holborne, Jacques de Gallot, Ennemond Gaultier le vieux, Denis Gaultier, François Dufault, Francesco Corbetta, Robert de Visée, François Campion, Gallot d'Irelande, Georg Gebel and Tobias Hume.

Recorded in St. Bartholomew's Church, Otford.

"There is remarkable variety in this music and MacKenzie has crafted a pleasing and engrossing whole. Meditative and beautiful without too much overt sadness, and an elegant sense of melancholy. The disc is dedicated to MacKenzie's late father, and I can think of no finer tribute."
**** Planet Hugill, January 2018

"We appreciate in this recording the beautiful resonances, the beautiful sound, especially in the middle and low registers, beautiful phrasing, in short: an elegant and dignified interpretation."
Société Française de Luth, January 2018

"A profound and meditative beauty, not sadness or sorrow, characterises this lovely and fascinating recording... [An] excellent CD by young multi-instrumentalist Richard MacKenzie." ****
Early Music Today Magazine, December-February 2018 (Rhinegold Publishing)


artist: Rildrim
albumname: Across The Night
sku: rildrim-across
upc: 876809008253
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/across-the-night/id399882981
also:
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description:
With soft, sweet subtlety, the journey begins: a discovery of dissonant harmonies, ethereal beats, a fluidity of mystery, basked in romanticism. Composed and produced between May and August of 2009, Rildrim's "Across the night" is poetry in motion. Captivate the senses as the purity of nature's timbre paints a vision of soulful serenity on a canvas of Night's sky.

Get swept away by tracks like "Dead sun" and explore the continuum of hypnotic expressions and infinite grooves that symbolize enlightenment, abundance and peace. Traverse the invisible bridge between two worlds, as the whole of intricate pieces in their completeness reveal a fusion of metaphorical interpretations of the divine - of another world and in another space in time. Rildrim's total art meets total tranquility across the night.


artist: Rildrim
albumname: Breathing Beauty
sku: rildrim-breathing
upc: 847646000526
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/breathing-beauty/id440562811
also:
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description:
Breathing beauty is a musical tribute to nature as a source of inspiration and a perfect model to follow regarding creativity. The album was composed between July 2007 and April 2008 and is composed of six tracks of sublime beauty and peace in an attempt to recreate the mood of natural environments and the eloquent yet subtle expression of nature.


artist: Rildrim
albumname: Dreamed Rules
sku: rildrim-dreamedrules
upc: 847646001615
also:
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description:
Considered by many as Rildrim's masterpiece to date, Dreamed Rules is an album that takes Rildrim's music a step forward. The consistency of the album is prodigious, featuring a marvelous coherence of style throughout the five tracks that compose it. The balance between the different sonic elements is somewhat exquisite, showing very wide ranged sonic palettes that span from subtle textures, delicate pads and soft spacial fx to slightly groovy basses and complex percussive structures. A piece of musical art so expressive, genuine and beautiful that makes the listener's mind wander across a vast universe of sonic imprints only limited by dreamed rules.


artist: Rildrim
albumname: Ecosystems
sku: rildrim-ecosystems
upc: 847646008713
also:
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description:
"Ecosystems" is an album of pure electronic Ambient with a very organic edge that combines musical elements with sampled field recordings of natural environments.

This album is an attempt at showcasing the most delicate and intricate aspects of electronic music through advanced sound design techniques whose aim is to emulate the sonic richness of natural ecosystems through electronic means in combination with melodic and harmonic elements influenced by impressionism, classical and world music.

The result is a very evocative, meditative and poetic music with a strong visual quality to it. Perfect to create subtle, relaxing and intimate musical backgrounds as well as emotive, stimulating and vivid ambiances.


artist: Rildrim
albumname: Fractal Universe
sku: rildrim-fracuniv
upc: 847646000977
also:
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description:
At the beginning of the development of this abum, the concept behind it was merely the cosmos and its ancient relation to music, but at the later stages of its creation the idea of the fractal as an object or quantity that displays self-similarity on all scales was added and merged with the original idea to turn it into the concept of fractal universe, which is one of the several theories used to explain the nature of the cosmos.

The music is very atmospheric and ethereal, full of ambient pads, synthetic textures, subtle grooves and deep basses with a poetic and descriptive quality that evokes vivid cosmic scenes through complex sonic structures and harmonies.

The album is composed out of five tracks of approximately ten minutes each one and its very recommendable for meditation, recreational purposes or just as a background for a relaxing or intimate environment. This album, Rildrim's fourth, was composed and produced between January 1 of 2010 and April 10 of 2011.


artist: Rildrim
albumname: The Lonely Wizard
sku: rildrim-lonely
upc: 847646000694
also:
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description:
The Lonely Wizard is Rildrim's debut album. Composed in 2007, it set the foundations of Rildrim's work in its quest of the syntactical nature of music, the mystery of creation and the amazing relationships between hierarchical elements within a personal universe of peaceful and seductive sonic imprints. This work is a metaphor about the power of creativity as a way of personal development and empowerment intended to reach a state of strength, peace and balance in a world dominated by a repressive and limiting culture that condition us to follow repetitive and unthinking behaviors in order to keep a established social status.


artist: Rildrim
albumname: Moving Inward
sku: rildrim-movinginward
upc: 876809005108
also:
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description:
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.


artist: Rildrim
albumname: Poetry of the Unnamed
sku: rildrim-poetryun
upc: 847646002254
also:
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description:
Composed and recorded during the second half of 2011, Poetry of the Unnamed is an album conceptually based on the idea of music as a kind of poetry capable of expressing, describing and depicting feelings, sensations and ideas in a way that language is not able to.

Through the use of a unique universe of sonic imprints and an endless vocabulary of rhythmic and harmonic symbols based on a much less functional syntax only bound to a poetic and dramatic will, the musical discourse is able to soar there where no other artistic discipline can even dream of reaching. With the mastery of that homogeneous mass of floating and evolving sound that is becoming Rildrim's unmistakable mark, this album tells us about things for which there still are no words.


artist: Rildrim
albumname: Synthetic Dream
sku: rildrim-syntheticdream
upc: 847646004852
also:
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description:
Synthetic Dream is an album of pure electronic ambient where less is more; where subtlety thrives across a comprehensive showcase of the most delicate, smooth and beautiful side of electronic music. Its ever present textures, evolving pads and morphing atmospheres wrapping up the intermittent streams of synthetic melodies and alien like sound effects act like the cohesive feature that gives the entire album an unequivocal character while opening the already vast and profound world of Rildrim's sound to new uncharted territories of sublime peace and exotic beauty.


artist: Rimi Basu
albumname: Crossing Over
sku: rimi-crossingover
upc: 876809000417
also:
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artist: Rimi Basu
albumname: The Unveiling
sku: rimi-theunveiling
upc: 847646009772
also:
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description:
Indian-American artist Rimi Basu's EP, The Unveiling, is a melding of two distinct cultures: the old-world sound of India mixed with American Pop sensibilities and soundscapes. From the soothing Surmayee to the foot-stomping Maahiya, the album highlights her range and versatility as a singer.

The Huffington Post says about this album: "Though humble in tone, Rimi's ethereal voice is romantically powerful, whisking the listener off to a foreign place that is neither real nor fictional, but an elegant blend of both. Behind the evocative tale her music tells is a story of talent, intelligence and determination".


artist: Riot Kings
albumname: Riot Kings
sku: riotkings-riotkings
upc: 847646003404
also:
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description:
The Riot Kings' self-titled album starts with a massive hard-hitting punch and doesn't let up the whole way through. "Death Valley" kicks off this masterful production with a slight Rob Zombie vibe and then vocalist Kent Johannesen lets loose with the vocals. He sounds a bit like the singer from Systematic, a rather good band that never got the acclaim it should have. His voice is strong, the musicianship is solid, and the opening track is an excellent introduction into the world of Riot Kings.

"Save Me" starts with a guitar riff that positively screams. The rhythm of this piece is headbanging material all the way. The rest of the band falls into place behind that killer guitar and the vocals in this track are rather diverse, coupling rock with a bit of rap. Kent pulls it off exceedingly well. "Save Me" is a wonderful creation of various different influences such as Soundgarden and perhaps a touch of Pantera.

"Killing Time" gives us a dose of some serious funk. This piece leaves the listener with no doubt whatsoever that Riot Kings mean business. Crossing multiple genres, "Killing Time" graces us with funk, punk, and rock'n'roll. The instrumentation is phenomenal, the vibe is brazen and bold, and the listener gets a very clear idea that this is a band capable of transcending musical boundaries.

"Killing Time" fades out slowly and takes us gently into "The Past", which features some fantastic piano work. The listener may be lulled into a false sense of reverie, perhaps thinking that this is going to be a love song, or maybe a slow ballad. Nope. "The Past" is just as hard as the rest of them, and now the bass player gets to show what he's made of. The bass line is what carries this tune and Faith No More comes to mind, especially when the vocals kick in and Kent belts out his lyrics with a Mike Patton-esque delivery. The distortion used on the vocals adds a twisted touch to this song that is perfect.

Moving right along, "Hypocrisy" begins with a synthesizer and a spacey sort of riff that is a new twist on this journey. They quickly revert back to the norm of heavy guitar, strong vocals, and tight musicianship all around. However, while this piece isn't that different from the rest of the album, there is certainly a darker vibe to this track and Kent's vocals bring to mind Vinnie Dombroski of Sponge. He really expands his range in this song and the listener may have more appreciation for what a fantastic job this band does to deliver their music to the masses.

"Holy Christian Bible Rocket" is another Funk Rock number that gets the feet tapping and the head banging. It starts off with out-of-this-world sound effects before Kent steps in with his unique way of delivering rock music with a rap touch. He can scream one minute and rap the next and he does both equally well. "Lift Off" is a continuation of "Holy Christian Bible Rocket". There is funk to this track as well, more so than any of the other tracks, and Riot Kings once more prove that their diversity and talent is unmatched. "Lift Off" is an extremely short tune and it is the perfect compliment to the preceding track.

"Guillotine" begins with sound effects suggesting Nine Inch Nails, but that is where any semblance ends. Once the music starts and Kent begins to sing, the vibe is punk all the way, but there seems to be a slight Metallica influence in the guitar work. Riot Kings have mastered the art of combining so many different genres and influences that punk coupled with Metallica should surprise no one, although it should make listeners aware of the sheer breadth of talent that this quartet possesses. "Guillotine" is an excellent example of the culmination of the musical experience that is evident within this band.

Riot Kings obviously have the talent, skills and experience to go far with their artistic endeavors. Not a band that is easily overlooked or forgotten, they will be around for quite some time, keeping the rockers of the world happy.

- Review by Rhonda Readence


artist: Rob Cosh
albumname: Aphelion
sku: robcosh-aphelion
upc: 847646008256
also:
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description:
Earth's darkest hour inspires it's greatest achievement - but will it be enough?

Aphelion is an EP of 4 tracks - each inspired by a part of story set not too far in Earth's future. This is the first in a series of EP releases which will further this dark chapter in humanity's future.

1. Root Cause - Earth and its citizens find themselves at the end of the end game. Quickly declining fresh water supplies necessitated the development of nano-tech that could be used with plant root systems to aggressively seek out and better manage existing groundwater. Food supplies are in desperately short supply and plant-based food supplies are under serious threat. Countries suspend AI regulations and oversight in the hopes that this tech can help extend and improve the planet's ability to produce food.

At first it appears to be wildly successful.
Then it all goes horribly wrong?

2. The Lottery - Deepest fears realized - the AI has gone offline - and whether or not sentience is at play - the net result is that the super-enhanced root systems of hybridized plants around the world have all but locked down groundwater supplies. Surface plants have died off. Root system development below ground is happening at an astounding rate - far beyond comprehension. Inside of a year it is clear there will be no further plant based foods possible. Riots have broken out across the planet as water supplies disappear, believed to be consumed at impossible rates by the super-root-nano-Ai systems.

Essentially - this is the end-game. We tinkered, we lost. Escape from the planet is humanity's only hope. An international consortium of scientists, government representatives and industry leaders is hastily formed to plan humanity's one possible escape - a journey into space.

Soon after - The Lottery takes place. Who of the 16 billion persons will go? Those who do not face certain death. Those who do - unknown. Families, communities, cities and countries - torn apart by a choice that only 50,000 Travellers must make.

3. Build - The construction project to end them all - every country on Earth represented in the fullest and most comprehensive display of cooperation in history. Resources are delivered and used without money changing hands. Tasked with creating a spaceship that can be self-sufficient indefinitely, where dozens or hundreds of generations of humanity can survive while the search for habitable planets continues is without doubt the single biggest technological project ever undertaken. Without any need for money to change hands, without borders in the way - the speed of this development is staggering. Time is running out - parts of the planet are dying off - riots have turned many urban areas around the world into absolute chaos as people without drinking water and food become animalistic in their quest for survival on a dying planet. The 50,000 who are to fly are kept in a heavily fortified town for the duration of the construction and commensurate training that must be completed to ensure the safe operation of this immense spaceship. Crew selection is ongoing via personality profiling and practical skills demonstration - physical training is ongoing for all other lottery winners - and slowly the weak are being weeded out and replaced with other strong humans.

4. Interstellar - It's a bittersweet day when APHELION departs Earth orbit, leaving behind billions of people who will not survive the coming year. There will be no coming back. Bittersweet for the 50,000 on board this craft will never see the surface of another planet. They won't even get far enough to encounter possible other planets. Potential solar systems are generations away at best - and it could be hundreds of years before anything remotely potential shows up. It could be thousands.

APHELION is all we've got. This is her story.

Rob Cosh - modular, synthesizer, production, mixing
Scott Pinkerton - piano, synthesizer, arrangement


artist: Rob Cosh
albumname: Ponder
sku: robcosh-ponder
upc: 847646007020
also:
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description:
Quieter moments, reflection, natural environments, a good book, a pulling listen. A continuing project to uncover the eddies of subtlety and unhurried expression, Cosh's new album, "PONDER", slowly meanders down the old trail in the woods - no rush, no agenda. Stopping here and there to take it all in, to pendulum between the whole and parts, letting pieces that fit together do so, and then taking them apart again to see if others might do so better.

PONDER is two albums in one... evocative and down-tempo describe the first half... Edgeless enough to not grab your attention too strongly from the book you are engrossed in while sipping tea. The second half is decidedly ambient, and almost entirely beatless, setting the imagination adrift, anticipating its return after letting it become witness - to itself, it's environment, its presence.

These two sides of Cosh's peaceful creative output are executed with skill and achieve a sense of space and curiosity which does not fail in drawing the listener deeply inside. Whether its staring out the window, on a couch in a dimly lit room, greeting the morning with coffee and sunlight, or even delighting in the details with headphones on, in the dark.... Take a couple of hours and just drift.


artist: Rob Costlow
albumname: Reconstruction
sku: costlow-reconstruction
upc: 876809006600
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/reconstruction/id288929411
also:
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description:
Universal and contemporary piano melodies. Themes on the album range from my awesome baby girl, interesting travel, falling in love (an updated song I composed for my wife before we were engaged), to dealing with strife.


artist: Rob Costlow
albumname: Sophomore Jinx
sku: costlow-sophomore
upc: 876809000950
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=76818890&s=143444
also:
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description:
Universal and contemporary piano melodies. Sophomore Jinx is my first professional recording effort. This album is about second chances, hopes, dreams, and following my passion.

Music lovers of all ages will be transported to a less complicated, more relaxed world with Costlow's collection of original piano melodies that showcase the talent and universal reach of his passionate and raw sound. Even though Costlow's music is often placed with certain genres, his style is neither new age, classical or jazz. Costlow simply delivers independent, sincere and contemporary music to which listeners can easily relate.


artist: Rob Costlow
albumname: Woods of Chaos
sku: costlow-woods
upc: 876809003593
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=77670000&s=143444
also:
costlow-reconstruction costlow-sophomore magnacomp-sxsw jheimbaecher-pianocolors pduquesnel-oldfriends raymontford-earlysessions magnacomp-dinner dkrasnoukhov-fairypeace paternoster-bachsolo hazelmain-soonerlater paternoster-inzaffirio andygabrys-constant mmtobolowska-enchanten aciacca-driemoty kpolitzer-labyrinth modica-water tmatsuishi-bachsonatas tuskle-piano barrysulkin-isleofelba hadidian-reflections

description:
On Woods of Chaos Rob Costlow takes contemporary solo piano light years beyond typical new age sentimentality and instead delivers soothing yet complex album that is welcome in any personal collection. A reflective, cleanly elegant work to which you'll return again and again.


artist: Robert F Trucios
albumname: From the Lobby of the Cooper Arms
sku: trucios-cooperarms
upc: 876809007249
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/from-lobby-cooper-arms-long-beach/id287271012
also:
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artist: Robert Otto
albumname: Ambient Nights
sku: robertotto-ambientnights
upc: 847646008409
also:
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description:
Ethereal ambient drifts, atmospheric drones, synthesizer pads and strings, accompanied by roaming electric piano themes combine to take you on an Ambient Electronic Space Music journey through the night under a canopy of stars from sunset to sunrise.

Played in order, the album tracks feature shifting and evolving themes as sunset fades into lingering twilight, the constellations, aurora and planets appear, and eventually the zodiacal light anticipates the coming dawn and sunrise.


artist: Robert Otto
albumname: Cerulean Blue
sku: robertotto-ceruleanblue
upc: 847646008416
also:
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description:
Drifting chords, swirling synthesizer textures and roaming piano send you on a relaxing Ambient Electronic Music journey through shades of blue.


artist: Robert Otto
albumname: Into the Unknown
sku: robertotto-intounknown
upc: 847646008454
also:
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description:
Into the Unknown is somewhat of a departure from my prior works as I explore incorporating arpeggios, rhythmic and melodic elements with a few nods to the Berlin School style of electronic music.

This album does contain tracks similar to my prior ambient works while also incorporating rhythmic or other elements. As always, my main goal with each track is to create a soundscape that captures a place, mood or event. Into the Unknown is also a themed album telling the story of an epic-type adventure from departure to return home.


artist: Robert Otto
albumname: Kuiper Belt Encounter
sku: robertotto-kuiperencounter
upc: 847646008478
also:
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description:
This track was created to commemorate the New Horizons Pluto Flyby. In this track I tried to capture the feeling of the spacecraft's journey to the frozen outer reaches of our solar system.


artist: Robert Otto
albumname: Lux Aeterna
sku: robertotto-luxaeterna
upc: 847646008447
also:
robertotto-ceruleanblue robertotto-pausebetween mogilalia-myoldblack ion-synchronicity rildrim-ecosystems hectormukomol-immersion vasilyboykov-relaxation4elements vasilyboykov-quietude mogilalia-ifpeoplecould ion-future palargic-solstice mokhov-solace snowsleep-openwindow rildrim-across psycliq-seraph sambodhiprem-mirrorofthesun dac-nocturnalmusic snowsleep-noisesaroundus hectormukomol-unexploredworld fitch-celocity

description:
This album was intended to have a spiritual feel to it. Rich synthesizer sounds, ethereal ambient drifts, atmospheric drones, and strings, along with roaming piano take you on an Ambient Electronic Music journey.


artist: Robert Otto
albumname: The Pause Between Moments
sku: robertotto-pausebetween
upc: 847646008430
also:
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description:
Rich synthesizer sounds, ethereal ambient drifts, atmospheric drones, and strings, along with roaming piano take you on an Ambient Electronic Music exploration of The Pause Between Moments.


artist: Robert Otto
albumname: A Place of Hope
sku: robertotto-placehope
upc: 847646008461
also:
robertotto-kuiperencounter mogilalia-ifpeoplecould windpearl-iloveyouabit modica-myheartisacastle mokhov-solace windpearl-motherearth robertotto-ambientnights solarcycle-devotion funkinchely-realdealmusic loveamp-criticalmass ion-synchronicity sambodhiprem-rosewatermoon rildrim-movinginward loveamp-codewordname psycliq-seraph wahl-playingwithsilence monom-velenjeremix sambodhiprem-onehourbirdsong mogilalia-sometimescity

description:
I created this track as a contribution to the Saving Cecil's Pride project built around stopping poachers and saving wildlife. In this track I wanted to capture the feeling of Africa and hope for the future of wildlife there.


artist: Robert Otto
albumname: Tau Ceti
sku: robertotto-tauceti
upc: 847646008423
also:
robertotto-pausebetween robertotto-intounknown rildrim-ecosystems ion-synchronicity hectormukomol-immersion mogilalia-sometimescity mogilalia-dropshadow ion-future snowsleep-noisesaroundus vasilyboykov-relaxation4elements hawkshaw-ice palargic-solstice rildrim-across hectormukomol-unexploredworld euchmad-lightoff vasilyboykov-mysticalspirit windpearl-iloveyouabit windpearl-motherearth

description:
Powerful bass and roaming electric piano themes accompanied by ethereal ambient drifts, atmospheric drones, synthesizer pads and strings combine to take you on an Ambient Electronic Space Music journey to Tau Ceti. Played in order, the album tracks feature shifting and evolving themes as you depart Earth for orbit, and continue through a wormhole to make a faster than light trip to your final destination of Tau Ceti.


artist: Robert Rich
albumname: Alien Zoology CD1 - Live Archive Vol 4
sku: rrich-alien1
upc: 876809007782
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/alien-zoology-live-at-morrison/id313987155
also:
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description:
Live Archive Volume 4: A wide-ranging planetarium concert that opens with modular analog sequences and moves into pieces from Outpost, Bestiary and '90s Fathom-era material.


artist: Robert Rich
albumname: Alien Zoology CD2 - Live Archive Vol 4
sku: rrich-alien2
upc: 876809007799
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/alien-zoology-live-at-morrison/id313987155
also:
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description:
Live Archive Volume 4: A wide-ranging planetarium concert that opens with modular analog sequences and moves into pieces from Outpost, Bestiary and '90s Fathom-era material.


artist: Robert Rich
albumname: Music from Atlas Dei
sku: rrich-atlasdei
upc: 847646001059
also:
rrich-echo rrich-open rildrim-syntheticdream rildrim-poetryun mogilalia-myoldblack raycarldaye-echoesaether satori-subcon fitch-celocity roe-etcetera mogilalia-dropshadow rapoon-cidar roe-invitroone rapoon-kirghiz1 satori-medmusic raycarldaye-rem hawkshaw-ice droptrio-cezanne

description:
Atlas Dei is a feature length graphic film by Daniel Colvin, with 90 minutes of surround music by Robert Rich. Music from Atlas Dei offers an auditory window upon Atlas Dei, focusing on new compositions recorded specifically for the film. The older compositions here have been re-worked for the film from previous releases: edited, layered, remixed and augmented. The music from Atlas Dei that does not appear on this album more closely resembles previously released versions.


artist: Robert Rich
albumname: Below Zero
sku: rrich-below
upc: 876809005771
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=160238421&s=143444
also:
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description:
One of Rich's best albums and an amazing one in which to get lost, Below Zero is darker than some of his other works and has a vast sense of scale--there are massive surrealist soundscapes, clouds of shifting metallic overtones, and sinuous sound threads running throughout. It also represents a significant technical achievement; Rich's sound design includes phase vocoding and granular synthesis, as well as open-loop feedback networks, and chaotic electro-acoustic systems. Somehow all this technology and melancholy come together to create an intense beauty that permeates Rich's singular sonic universe. Really, there are few albums that approach this level.


artist: Robert Rich
albumname: Bestiary
sku: rrich-bestiary
upc: 876809005733
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=199886180&s=143444
also:
rrich-echo rrich-open rildrim-syntheticdream rapoon-westandblue rapoon-kirghiz1 roe-etcetera rildrim-poetryun roe-invitroone fitch-celocity satori-subcon palargic-bleedingsun fitch-amb2 dac-mech satori-medmusic snowsleep-openwindow mystified-darkrites dac-red

description:
Medieval bestiaries depicted strange and mysterious creatures, allegories from distant new lands filled with wonders. This musical bestiary maps a perplexing mindscape--shape-shifting organisms are created in sound. Like the liquid forms that populate the paintings of Yves Tanguy or Joan Miro, each sonic creature on this album takes on the qualities of a living thing; yet each is also ultimately ephemeral. Rhythmic, energetic, bizarre, and very glurpy, Bestiary gets its amazing mutated electronic textures from the MOTM analog modular synthesizer and Rich's generally superlative sound design. It's also peppered with twisted contributions from Forrest Fang, Andrew McGowan, and Haroun Serang.


artist: Robert Rich
albumname: Calling Down The Sky
sku: rrich-calling
upc: 876809005764
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=17296929&s=143444
also:
rrich-echo rrich-bestiary rildrim-syntheticdream fitch-celocity rildrim-across rapoon-cidar rapoon-westandblue satori-subcon indidginus-circadiem satori-golden snowsleep-openwindow dini-ontogeny mogilalia-myoldblack dini-sunearth fitch-amb jesus-traces mogilalia-wavesfreedom artemis-auralei

description:
This 74 minute live recording features an entirely improvised concert in Denver, Colorado that took place on Saturday July 26, 2003 in front of an intimate audience that came prepared for anything. With a thunderstorm forming outside and breaking to a peak in mid-concert, Rich's improvisation directly refers to the weather. Broodingly beautiful, electric, alive...


artist: Robert Rich
albumname: Cowell Theater CD1 - Live Archive Vol 5
sku: rrich-cowell1
upc: 876809007805
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/live-at-cowell-theater-san-francisco/id313838112
also:
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description:
Live Archive Volume 5: One of the more melodic concerts in the series, opening with piano and guitar improvisations, then moving into tracks from Bestiary and other rhythmic pieces from the last decade.


artist: Robert Rich
albumname: Cowell Theater CD2 - Live Archive Vol 5
sku: rrich-cowell2
upc: 876809007812
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/live-at-cowell-theater-san-francisco/id313838112
also:
rrich-cowell1 rrich-ici1 rildrim-syntheticdream rildrim-fracuniv rapoon-kirghiz2 rapoon-disappeared satori-golden dini-bliss satori-medmusic dac-mech raycarldaye-echoesaether dini-ontogeny tilopa-kyotaku tilopa-unravelling roe-etcetera roe-invitroone hawkshaw-ice

description:
Live Archive Volume 5: One of the more melodic concerts in the series, opening with piano and guitar improvisations, then moving into tracks from Bestiary and other rhythmic pieces from the last decade.


artist: Robert Rich
albumname: Due Acque - Live Archive Vol 2
sku: rrich-due
upc: 876809007768
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/due-acque-live-in-umbria-italy-april/id313684912
also:
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description:
Live Archive Volume 2: A deep ambient journey performed at a private concert in Italy for fans of Robert's slowest and most introspective music.

I performed this improvised journey for a private audience in Umbria, Italy in 2000. The timbre of the concert slightly resembled my music during the era of Trances and Drones and Inner Landscapes, but with some of the tools that allow the thicker harmonic excursions such as on Calling Down the Sky. This very special event contained a focused warm energy that resonated for days.

My performance rig was very minimal for this concert. I carried what little gear I could on the airplane to Italy. I had flutes, steel guitar, one keyboard, looping delay. I borrowed a synth and mixer from Gigi. Energy mattered most here. The listeners and I shaped the journey together. I think this document of that journey conveys something special.


artist: Robert Rich
albumname: Echo of Small Things
sku: rrich-echo
upc: 876809005757
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=75779089&s=143444
also:
rrich-atlasdei rrich-trances1 rildrim-syntheticdream rildrim-ecosystems rapoon-psitransient rapoon-westandblue raycarldaye-echoesaether satori-subcon satori-golden fitch-celocity mogilalia-myoldblack dac-nocturnalmusic hanschristian-rumiinst snowsleep-openwindow snowsleep-noisesaroundus monom-deep monom-minestrone indidginus-circadiem

description:
"Echo of Small Things takes Rich's talent for crafting evocative atmospheric ambient tone poems to an almost dizzying level. The integration of assorted environmental sounds--someone walking, the happy gurgling of a baby, nocturnal creatures, rain, wind and thunder--with constantly evolving layers of assorted electro organic musical elements is so flawless, so perfect, and so involving that I always found myself entirely absorbed in the recording." --Wind and Wire


artist: Robert Rich
albumname: Electric Ladder
sku: rrich-eleclad
upc: 847646001035
also:
rrich-bestiary rrich-atlasdei rildrim-syntheticdream rildrim-ecosystems fitch-celocity rapoon-westandblue rapoon-kirghiz1 fitch-amb satori-relaxation roe-invitrotwo satori-subcon hube-hube beatunder-intro dac-mech roe-etcetera skin-angels tokyo-tokyoinst snowsleep-openwindow

description:
On his album, Electric Ladder, Robert Rich finds a new voice for the vibrant interlocking melodies that characterized his works such as Numena, Geometry and Gaudii. With its seemless blend of analog modular synthesizers and acoustic tonalities, Electric Ladder weaves a hypnotic spell - lush, ecstatic and seductive; while its shimmering geometric lines grow more sharply etched with the clarity of justly tuned instruments and the intelligence that pervades Rich's compositional vocabulary.


artist: Robert Rich
albumname: Ici et Maintenant CD1 - Live Archive Vol 1
sku: rrich-ici1
upc: 876809007744
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/ici-et-maintenant-live-in-paris/id313838967
also:
rrich-ici2 rrich-cowell1 rapoon-disappeared roe-etcetera rildrim-syntheticdream rapoon-suppose satori-medmusic monom-velenjeremix raycarldaye-echoesaether satori-chakras tilopa-kyotaku dini-bliss dini-sunearth rildrim-poetryun roe-invitroone dac-red dac-within monom-deep raycarldaye-rem ryoutasato-eternalflame

description:
Live Archive Volume 1: From Robert's early Geometry and Rainforest period, with hours of previously unreleased music. Melodic sequencers with swift patterned keyboard improvisation, melting down into slow looping textures and flutes.

On the 20th anniversary of this radio concert in Paris, I can distance myself to reflect a bit on my attempts at expressing the ineffable with limited skills, limited gear, sleep deprived, functioning on adrenaline. I hear it as a bit of historical anomaly. I can hear those moments that transcend the tools and circumstance, but remain framed within the context of a concert built from necessity. When I try to separate myself from memories of making this music, I realize that much of the second set, and moments of the first, retain some timeless qualities that I still crave. The remainder may only be interesting historically. I hope that listeners might feel some energy from the moments of discovery hidden in this archive, dated though it may sound at times.


artist: Robert Rich
albumname: Ici et Maintenant CD2 - Live Archive Vol 1
sku: rrich-ici2
upc: 876809007751
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/ici-et-maintenant-live-in-paris/id313838967
also:
rrich-ici1 rrich-cowell1 rapoon-disappeared roe-etcetera rapoon-suppose satori-medmusic rildrim-syntheticdream mogilalia-myoldblack tilopa-kyotaku raycarldaye-echoesaether satori-chakras dini-bliss rildrim-poetryun dac-red roe-invitroone dac-within dini-aprilthirteenth monom-velenjeremix raycarldaye-rem tilopa-unravelling

description:
Live Archive Volume 1: From Robert's early Geometry and Rainforest period, with hours of previously unreleased music. Melodic sequencers with swift patterned keyboard improvisation, melting down into slow looping textures and flutes.

On the 20th anniversary of this radio concert in Paris, I can distance myself to reflect a bit on my attempts at expressing the ineffable with limited skills, limited gear, sleep deprived, functioning on adrenaline. I hear it as a bit of historical anomaly. I can hear those moments that transcend the tools and circumstance, but remain framed within the context of a concert built from necessity. When I try to separate myself from memories of making this music, I realize that much of the second set, and moments of the first, retain some timeless qualities that I still crave. The remainder may only be interesting historically. I hope that listeners might feel some energy from the moments of discovery hidden in this archive, dated though it may sound at times.


artist: Robert Rich
albumname: Illumination
sku: rrich-illum
upc: 847646001042
also:
rrich-echo rrich-ylang rildrim-lonely rildrim-syntheticdream satori-subcon fitch-celocity dac-mech rapoon-cidar dini-sunearth satori-healingearth rapoon-vernal dac-within palargic-bleedingsun dini-ontogeny mogilalia-myoldblack robcosh-aphelion hferre-journeysend roe-etcetera palargic-yellowsun

description:
This album is published as a companion piece to Michael Somoroff's art installation Illumination. The music was originally created for the famed Rothko Chapel, on the occasion of the installation's move to The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, CT as the audio track to Somoroff's Illumination, a multimedia installation at BravinLee Programs in Chelsea, N.Y.C. during the summer of 2007.

Featuring seven musical poems, Illumination will take you on a journey beyond your senses. Push through the Curtain of reality amid a pure harmonic series of high frequency sounds to a world of inner reflection, Point, Line, Plane depicts cosmic clouds of primal resonance, the abstract and mathematical, Plato's Cave, whispers in a multitude of tongues, sonic sign languages of the internal dialogue of pure consciousness, and finally Temple, the sound of a spiritual architectural space of No-thingness. Rich's subtle musical interpretation of Illumination embraces the sacred rituals and spaces of all, capturing the universal essence of our post-modern culture. It is a meditation piece for the mind and the body.


artist: Robert Rich
albumname: Lumin - Live Archive Vol 6
sku: rrich-lumin
upc: 876809007829
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/lumin-live-at-camerawork-march/id313837397
also:
rrich-mycosphere rrich-cowell1 tilopa-kyotaku rapoon-cidar rapoon-kirghiz1 rildrim-syntheticdream dini-bliss roe-etcetera dac-within roe-invitroone satori-medmusic tilopa-pictures dini-ontogeny rildrim-poetryun palargic-bleedingsun satori-chakras dac-red raycarldaye-echoesaether

description:
Live Archive Volume 6: A shimmering improvisatory sound environment, where harmonics blur into waves of pure abstraction, performed live with multiple projections of films by Paul Clipson.

Paul's films are difficult to describe. They shimmer and vibrate. They are both abstract and figurative at the same time. The camera moves slowly while the light moves quickly, burning and flashing brightly at times from the saturated grainy/smooth surface, to remind the viewer that the film itself has become the canvas, as the reflections of projected light act directly upon the retina.

During this performance I ventured into the chaotic realm of live feedback loops, using delays and modulation to build up clouds of re-circulating texture. This technique creates sonic structures that resemble slow arcs, growing and collapsing like organisms, or like melting glaciers. An implied harmonic cloud hovers at the edge of dissonance, much like the reflecting beams of color glancing from the films' vibrating multiple projections. The air is energized by the resonance of sound and light.


artist: Robert Rich
albumname: Mycosphere - Live Archive Vol 7
sku: rrich-mycosphere
upc: 876809007836
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/mycosphere-live-on-kfjc-may-31-2008/id313837655
also:
rrich-trances1 rrich-lumin tilopa-kyotaku rapoon-cidar rapoon-kirghiz1 dac-red dac-mech rildrim-syntheticdream dini-ontogeny mogilalia-myoldblack palargic-bleedingsun dini-bliss rildrim-poetryun roe-etcetera durand-vibaircol roe-invitroone monom-deep mogilalia-wavesfreedom satori-medmusic

description:
Live Archive Volume 7: A radio performance for Day of Drone, where Robert explores the slow depths with abstract organic soundscapes and glurp.

Robert feels especially good about this improvisation, and decided to name it Mycosphere because it reminded him of the slow inexorable growth of mycelia, the web-like carpet of fungus that pervades the forest floor, feeding the forest by breaking down dead organic material into simpler nutrients that plants can use. That fungal metaphor didn't specifically inspire this music; but rather, the music reminded him of those images while listening back later.

The feedback loop is now complete.


artist: Robert Rich
albumname: Nest
sku: rrich-nest
upc: 847646004142
also:
rrich-bestiary rrich-echo rildrim-syntheticdream rildrim-poetryun satori-medmusic raycarldaye-echoesaether mystified-darkrites satori-subcon palargic-bleedingsun dac-mech brain-hyphen dini-ontogeny rapoon-kirghiz1 rapoon-westandblue dini-bliss raycarldaye-rem

description:
Like much of my music, Nest also explores tuning systems, including just intonation. Over time I have become more relaxed about tuning, shifting where the instruments sound most natural. Nest navigates towards harmonic intervals when piano is absent, toward equal temperament when piano dominates, searching for a certain fragile balance.

Nest represents unfinished business for me. It's an album that might have come from my childhood, from a hidden quiet place. I rarely make such calm music. Nest folds inward like a nurturing cushion; yet it never sits motionless, it evolves toward a kernel of revelation with slow searching energy.

Nest began with recordings from the eastern Australian bush, when I was on tour in February 2012. I often incorporate natural sounds into my music, but this music wanted to live entirely in outdoor soundscapes, surrounded by a subdued yet palpable sense of life. This texture resembles my earliest releases like Suanyata, Trances and Drones, where the natural world integrates completely with the music.

I approach these juxtapositions of music and nature recordings with caution, as they risk sounding trite. For me, the combination works best when the music retains an attentive, submissive quality. For an album like this, I remove so much material during creation that I struggle to leave any music at all. Each note serves primarily to outline its own absence, to create an illusion of silence.


artist: Robert Rich
albumname: Open Window
sku: rrich-open
upc: 876809005740
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=160237636&s=143444
also:
rrich-bestiary rrich-atlasdei rildrim-syntheticdream rildrim-poetryun fitch-celocity raycarldaye-echoesaether rapoon-suppose satori-subcon rapoon-kirghiz2 fitch-amb2 palargic-bleedingsun dini-ontogeny tilopa-kyotaku dini-bliss roe-etcetera raycarldaye-navigator

description:
While better known for his electronic textures, Robert Rich often includes piano solos during his live concerts, and Open Window documents his improvisational approach to acoustic piano, with influences ranging from Alan Hovhannes and Erik Satie to Terry Riley and Keith Jarrett. Rich recorded Open Window on his own 1925 vintage A.B. Chase baby grand, an instrument with a more intimate sound than a full-size concert piano. Over a period of two months, he kept a daily schedule of piano improvisation, with microphones set up to record at all times. The pieces selected here reflect special moments during this concentrated period. These were the moments when effort vanished, and the music seemed to write itself. Magical.


artist: Robert Rich
albumname: Shamballa - Live Archive Vol 3
sku: rrich-shamballa
upc: 876809007775
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/shamballa-live-in-costa-mesa-ca/id313837398
also:
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description:
Live Archive Volume 3: A dynamic live concert from the era of Humidity, blending moments of pure sonic improvisation with melodic pieces from the Fathom-era catalog.


artist: Robert Rich
albumname: Temple of the Invisible
sku: rrich-temple
upc: 876809005818
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=17296901&s=143444
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description:
Temple of the Invisible finds Robert Rich at his most organic, eschewing the trappings of modernity or stylistic boundaries. Using only simple acoustic instruments, Rich crafts a document from a distant time and place, a lost culture with musical underpinnings that reach from Java to North Africa, from Medieval Europe to the Tibetan Plateau. "A music-scape that oozes with primitive life, as if pulsing from the swamp itself. . . A time traveller searching for the aperture that looks back to Eden." San Francisco Chronicle


artist: Robert Rich
albumname: Trances-Drones CD1
sku: rrich-trances1
upc: 876809005788
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=81627514&s=143444
also:
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description:
On this essential album Robert Rich reprises the "sleep concert" format that made him famous, so the music is both wonderfully relaxing and perpetually fascinating. There's a lot going on in this material--layer after layer of swirling textures and tones. It's so mesmerizing, in fact, that you'll find yourself startled if one of the pieces is interrupted prematurely: Rich has a talent for finding the mind's natural rhythms, which means that the music naturally steers you toward a mysterious and deeply satisfying state of equilibrium. CD 1 features the trances side of the Trances-Drones dyad.


artist: Robert Rich
albumname: Trances-Drones CD2
sku: rrich-trances2
upc: 876809005825
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=81627514&s=143444
also:
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description:
On this essential album Robert Rich reprises the "sleep concert" format that made him famous, so the music is both wonderfully relaxing and perpetually fascinating. There's a lot going on in this material--layer after layer of swirling textures and tones. It's so mesmerizing, in fact, that you'll find yourself startled if one of the pieces is interrupted prematurely: Rich has a talent for finding the mind's natural rhythms, which means that the music naturally steers you toward a mysterious and deeply satisfying state of equilibrium. CD 2 features the drones side of the Trances-Drones dyad.


artist: Robert Rich
albumname: Ylang
sku: rrich-ylang
upc: 847646001066
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description:
Robert Rich's Ylang seductively blends Rich's expressive steel guitar, shimmering organic electronics and yearning flute melodies with influences as diverse as south Indian Karnatic music, pulsing minimalism (Steve Reich, Terry Riley) and introspective jazz (Bill Evans, Miles Davis); while its deconstructed drums and blurry guitar feedback might feel at home with Sigur Ros or Bark Psychosis.

Rich enlists help for this undertaking from a circle of trusted musician friends. The rhythmic scaffolding for the album comes from two very different drummers. Ricky Carter adds his intelligent sparse drumming, fluid with syncopation but complex in meter. These rhythms could be a slow tempo homage to Jaki Leibzeit from Can. Post-processing transforms them into rubbery chuffing abstractions. The other rhythmic foundation comes from the Karnatic mrdungam playing of Sakthivel Muruganandhan, which also wanders into Rich's sonic blender, shifting from time-stretched blurs into organic live duets with bansuri master Sunilkumar Sankarapillai.

Lilting in and out of this heady atmosphere of South Indian music and minimalist space jazz, the voice of art-pop virtuoso Emily Bezar adds a feminine intelligence to several pieces, and subtle melodic guitar additions from Haroun Serang augment Rich's soaring lap steel feedback. With acoustic bass from Paul Olguin and string additions from Forrest Fang and Magnatune artist, Hans Christian, the sonic texture warms to a glowing woody earthiness. Rich's audiophile production and delicate sound design glue the textures together into a seductive and inviting mossy nest. From these disparate elements, Ylang forms a sonic entity unto itself.

"A flowering tree that grows in South Asia, Ylang Ylang's fragrance seems to embody elements of shadow and light, eros and gnosis, earth and sky. Like that haunting scent, something keeps calling me from a distance, fugitive on a transient breeze". - RR


artist: Robert Scott King
albumname: Life Amongst the Static
sku: rsking-lifeamongstat
upc: 847646002162
also:
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description:
On his latest recording "Life Amongst the Static," this native Californian evokes a range of influences that surpass what's typically found under the litany of genre labels. His lyrics are introspective and self-effacing, yet also biting and sarcastic at times as illustrated in "Obligatory Love Song," which treats the well-worn topic of love in a way that would make Graham Parker and Paul Westerberg just a little bit proud. Never losing site of the power of an inspirational lyric coupled with a guitar hook, this latest collection of 11 songs suggests what a band would sound like if you blended elements of Snow Patrol, the Doves and Travis - and maybe seasoned it all with a little bit of The Bravery and perhaps a dash of Elbow.

Produced by Irish expatriate Lynne Earls (who has worked with a range of artists - including k.d. lang, Rooney, Emily Wells and Billy Idol), "Life Amongst the Static" is a collection of intoxicating soundscapes with plenty of lyrical soul-searching.


artist: Robert Scott King
albumname: Life Like Fiction
sku: rsking-lifelikefict
upc: 847646002445
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description:
This album shows a writing style which embraces the best of Brit-Rock influences, and the DIY ethos of American Indie Rock.

This is one of those recordings where there's something delectable to satisfy a variety of tastes, from brooding rock - to edgy Pop - to Alt-Folk. Features a range of talented supportive players, that make bands and artists such as American Music Club, Beck, Everest, Govt. Mule, k.d. lang, and Warren Zevon - sound so damn good.


artist: Robin Grey
albumname: From The Ground Up
sku: robin-groundup
upc: 847646011126
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description:
Released on July 19, 2017, my fifth album, From The Ground Up, includes the widest range of musical guests and collaborators to date with fifteen musicians over the eleven tracks.

Songs written and recorded over the course of the last decade all made it on to the record, including two songs co-written with Tim Graham and two traditional folk songs. It's also the first time I've handed lead vocal duties over to others, as I loved the tracks so much as they sung them.

In time honoured tradition for me, I also took the opportunity to re-record two of my older songs which I felt needed a new lease of life.

Hymn For Her Candy Parfitt - Backing vocals Robin Grey - Vocals, guitars, percussion and bass

From The Ground Up Iain Macleod - Banjo Joe Allen - Drums Ben Oliver - Piano Amy Bowles - Bass Basia Bartz - Violin Robin Grey - Vocals and guitar Jonny Cole - Engineering

Leave It In The Ground Tim Graham - Guitar Robin Grey - Vocals, double bass and brass

Hackney Gentrification Song Caitlin Roberts - Accordion Chris Veneable - Backing vocals Naomi Wilkins - Backing vocals Emma Dyer - Clarinet Robin Grey - Vocals and mandolin

Pat Do This Pat Do That Tim Graham - Vocals and guitar Chance Kellner - Backing vocals and percussion Naomi Wilkins - Backing Vocals Robin Grey - Bass, ukulele Jimmy Friend - Engineering

Woodman, Spare That Tree Tim Graham - Guitar and backing vocals Chance Kellner - Violin and backing vocals Naomi Wilkins - Flute and backing vocals Robin Grey - Vocals, uke, bass, percussion and harmonium

The Ballad Of Hawkwood Flora Curzon - Violin Naomi Wilkins - Flute and backing vocals Adam Rees - Banjo Robin Grey - Vocals, bass and ukulele

Ghost Around Candy Parfitt - Backing vocals Robin Grey - Vocals, guitar, harmonium and double bass

Underneath The Skin Robin Grey - vocals, body percussion and guitars

Woodman interlude Chance Kellner - Violin Naomi Wilkins - Flute Robin Grey - Harmonium

Adieu Sweet Lovely Nancy Chance Kellner - Vocals Naomi Wilkins - Backing vocals and flute Tim Graham - Guitar Clarissa Carlyon - Cello Robin Grey - Bass


artist: Robin Grey
albumname: Only the Missile
sku: robin-missile
upc: 876809003517
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description:
A symphony of guitar, banjo, charango, ukulele and various children's percussion toys and keyboards. Only the Missile was inspired by Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Ani Difranco and Eminem. Robin Grey's debut album was recorded in a small white room with a blue door around 2007-08 largely by accident, with a few friends helping with the colouring in.

"Robin Grey has a lovely fresh approach to the folk genre. A honeyed yet clear voice and his lyrics are arresting. A real treasure."
- The Londonist

"Robin Grey will not need to do too much to prove himself an incendiary artist in the world of folk music. There is literature in his words and his calmly exquisite mannerisms seem to bring you back to a simpler time and place."
- Fensepost

"Bluesy and folky, really bloody good."
- Song by Toad


artist: Robin Grey
albumname: More Than Today
sku: robin-morethan
upc: 847646007068
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description:
Expect beautifully crafted nu-folk songs coloured in with guitar, violin, accordion and male/female harmonies.

More Than Today is Robin's fourth studio album and three years in the making. It sees him reach a new levels of musical confidence and creativity.

"Robin Grey has a lovely fresh approach to the folk genre. A honeyed yet clear voice and his lyrics are arresting. A real treasure."
- The Londonist

"Robin Grey will not need to do too much to prove himself an incendiary artist in the world of folk music. There is literature in his words and his calmly exquisite mannerisms seem to bring you back to a simpler time and place."
- Fensepost


artist: Robin Grey
albumname: The Nearest Door
sku: robin-nearestd
upc: 847646002148
also:
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description:
London's finest breath of fresh air has returned to us once again.

The Nearest Door is folk troubadour Robin Grey's third album following gently on the heels of his critically acclaimed previous releases.

Slightly less cheeky but perhaps better crafted then his previous works; The Nearest Door features lush instrumentation from jazz-improv harp virtuoso Tori Handsley and the brilliant Polish violinist Basia Bartz as well as a host of other new musical friends.

"There is literature in his words and his calmly exquisite mannerisms seem to bring you back to a simpler time and place."
- Fensepost


artist: Robin Grey
albumname: Silent footsteps
sku: robin-silent
upc: 876809003166
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description:
A symphony of guitar, banjo, charango, ukulele and various children's percussion toys and keyboards. It's not quite folk, though, as the music is more complicated, feeling more like a get-together of musicians who have known each other their whole life: no longer seeking to impress, they settle into their grooves and just let the vibe emerge and flow.

This album presents instrumental versions of songs from Robin Grey's two previous albums: "Strangers With Shoes" and "Only the Missile".


artist: Robin Grey
albumname: Strangers With Shoes
sku: robin-stranger
upc: 876809003050
also:
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description:
Robin Grey writes beautifully ironic, poetic-based tracks for the story-lover in all of us. His voice and attitude harkens back to Bob Dylan, with the masterful lyrics and deadpan delivery. It's not quite folk, though, as the music is more complicated, feeling more like a get-together of musicians who have known each other their whole life: no longer seeking to impress, they settle into their grooves and just let the vibe emerge and flow.


artist: Robin Stine
albumname: Daydream
sku: robinstine-daydream
upc: 876809007638
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/daydream/id288817869
also:
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description:
Her debut album Daydream is a sleek collection of a dozen original jazzy, bluesy numbers that immediately sound like comfortable standards. The melancholy title track "Daydream", the only co-write on the album, was written with Chris Whiteman at the University of Miami. The album's other originals were written over a six-month period while Robin rebuilt her home in the wake of Hurricane Ivan. "These songs are very personal. They were gifts from 'the muses' of genuine emotion, faith and hope-and they're my gift to the world."

Her opening track "Don't I Know" is a playful tune about finding happiness within, which according to Robin is "Something that most people struggle with in life, but the only way to enjoy it." The album also features the bittersweet tune "Half My Heart", a song she wrote about being separated from the one you love, while the flirty "Sweet Blossom" is about love's anticipation. "Never Say Goodbye" is a sultry tune where Robin conveys by her own admission, "Life can be more fun if you let yourself be naughty sometimes."


artist: Rocket City Riot
albumname: Saturday Night Angels
sku: rocketcity-angels
upc: 876809007966
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description:
More melodic and diverse than their previous albums, RCR carve out a niche blending Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters and AC/DC. Still, mostly a hard rockin' album you'll tap your foot to. For some slower tracks, check out "All my life", "Into the Night" and "Feel the Same" for tracks your racoon-eyeliner, hard-rock-oriented girlfriend will want you to play to her while cuddling on the sofa.


artist: Rocket City Riot
albumname: We Name the Guilty Men (10th Anniversary Redux)
sku: rocketcity-guilty
upc: 876809001131
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description:
Snotty punk rock reminiscent of the Sex Pistols. This album is a re-imagining of RCR's first record, We Name the Guilty Men, originally released in 1999 by Twenty Stone Blatt Records. Immediately after the record's release, the band recorded a slew of demos that eventually made their way to the collection named Middle Age Suicide, in 2001 (also available at Magnatune). The band always wanted to take the best of these two recordings and lay the songs down right.

This 10th-anniversary redux of We Name the Guilty Men is just that, raw and vital rock and roll from the end of the century that shakes your teeth and taps your feet. You will hear roots that go way down to NYC of 1977 and beyond with songs about love, death and drinking, the holy trinity of punk rock. Indeed, this is not the kind of music that RCR makes anymore, so get it while the getting is good.


artist: Rocket City Riot
albumname: Middle Age Suicide
sku: rocketcity-middle
upc: 876809000943
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjectsY/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=257810784&s=143444
also:
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artist: Rocket City Riot
albumname: Last Of The Pleasure Seekers
sku: rocketcity-pleasure
upc: 876809005481
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=264466498&s=143444
also:
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description:
Hooray for good old-fashioned butt-shaking rock-and-roll! Last of the Pleasure Seekers is a satisfying fistful of new tracks by Rocket City Riot. lead vocalist John Mark King has a voice that dares you to sit still while Dave Seiden does his thing (and does it very well) on lead guitar. "All The Way Down" is a tasty piece of high energy hookiness that already makes us long for summertime, and "From This Day" has a graduation day wistfulness about it that'll make you feel all misty...in a rockin', AC/DC kind of way of course. Includes a sexy acoustic version of Rocket City Riot's "Cut Me Out," available only on Magnatune. "Get a copy, or the terrorists win," says WFMU's Bill Kelly.


artist: Rocket City Riot
albumname: Pop Killer
sku: rocketcity-pop
upc: 876809000936
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=257811052&s=143444
also:
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artist: Rocket City Riot
albumname: Saturday Night Angels (Instrumental Bonus Track Version)
sku: rocketcity-snai
upc: 876809001643
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description:
A radical shift in style and direction, this record is the result of Alan Slimak's return to the band on drums and a more refined and immediate approach to songwriting. The music is loud, but delicate, and each song is an entire world of its own. From the catchy opener, "Feel the Same" to the epic closer, "Into the Night," it is clear that this collection of songs is unlike anything the band has ever recorded.

The drums were recorded by Mark Reiter of the Daycare Swindlers at a warehouse in Northern Virginia. Everything else was recorded by RCR at their own private studio. Mark Reiter also mastered the record. The artwork was created by Gregor Koerting of SPECTERY.

This Magnatune-only instrumental version of the record was designed specifically for music licensing and contains three previously unreleased tracks.


artist: Rocket City Riot
albumname: We Name the Guilty Men (Instrumental Version)
sku: rocketcity-wntgmi
upc: 876809003784
also:
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description:
Snotty punk rock reminiscent of the Sex Pistols. This album is the instrumental version of their 2009 re-imagining of RCR's first record, We Name the Guilty Men, originally released in 1999 by Twenty Stone Blatt Records. Immediately after the record's release, the band recorded a slew of demos that eventually made their way to the collection named Middle Age Suicide, in 2001 (also available at Magnatune). The band always wanted to take the best of these two recordings and lay the songs down right.

This 10th-anniversary redux of We Name the Guilty Men is just that, raw and vital rock and roll from the end of the century that shakes your teeth and taps your feet. You will hear roots that go way down to NYC of 1977 and beyond with songs about love, death and drinking, the holy trinity of punk rock. Indeed, this is not the kind of music that RCR makes anymore, so get it while the getting is good.


artist: Roe
albumname: Et Cetera
sku: roe-etcetera
upc: 847646006375
also:
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description:
Et cetera is an album focusing on distance, solitude and death. It's inspired by surrealism and by the aim to "resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and realty".

L'Enigma Dell'Ora takes its title from a metaphysical painting by Giorgio De Chirico, and it's filled with an obsessive sense of ineluctability.

Vostok (East) is a Russian geophysical base in the Antarctic Australian territory. 89606 is the code number of the base. It represents icy loneliness and distance.

She Walks In Beauty brings the title of Byron's poem, and it's a tribute to the sweetness and melancholy of love.


artist: Roe
albumname: In Vitro I
sku: roe-invitroone
upc: 847646006252
also:
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description:
"In vitro I and II" are compositions created from different moments from the past few years. They were gathered in order to search for a sound that can reach beyond the usual genres new age, ambient or electronic, with the pseudospiritual-relaxing stereotypes that this kind of music often brings.

With these albums I mean to adventure into the realms of deep psyche, touching the mental strings buried somewhere inside of all of us.


artist: Roe
albumname: In Vitro II
sku: roe-invitrotwo
upc: 847646006368
also:
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description:
In Vitro I and In Vitro II are compositions created from different moments from the past few years. They were gathered in order to search for a sound that can reach beyond the usual genres new age, ambient or electronic, with the pseudospiritual-relaxing stereotypes that this kind of music often brings.

With these albums I mean to adventure into the realms of deep psyche, touching the mental strings buried somewhere inside of all of us.


artist: Roots of Rebellion
albumname: The Looking Glass
sku: rootsrebel-looking
upc: 876809000929
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=257810981&s=143444
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artist: Roots of Rebellion
albumname: Surfacing
sku: rootsrebel-surfacing
upc: 876809005283
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=257823266&s=143444
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description:
Roots of Rebellion has been a busy, busy band. In the past couple of years, these guys?some of whom were not old enough to drive when the band formed in 2001?have not only played such legendary venues as The Stone Pony, CBGBs, and the Starland Ballroom, they opened for veteran prog rockers Kings X, won out over 198 other groups in a New York City area battle of the bands, organized several benefit shows for Katrina and tsunami victims, were nominated "Best Young Band" in the Asbury Music Awards, and in their copious spare time, recorded the excellent Surfacing, a full length melodic hard rock album featuring the incredible "Declaration" track?a powerful anthem to living as your authentic self. The entire album bristles with messages about the importance of honesty and self-empowerment, in fact. frontman John Penola's voice is passionate, angry, undeceived, crystal clear: get back to your roots, he seems to be saying on this album. We hear you John! Other standouts include "Messenger" and "I Am."


artist: Rossignol
albumname: La Domna Ditz - Songs of the Trobairitz
sku: rossignol-domnaditz
upc: 876809009038
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/la-domna-ditz-songs-trobairitz/id411996269
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description:
Tumbling and fluid, at times virtuosic, at times earthy: I love the troubadour repertoire. Clear. Expressive. However, the lyrics give little emotional range to women. In the traditional (male-authored) courtly love songs a lady is virtuous, demanding, and unattainable: a figure in a stained glass window or a paper cut-out. But women also contributed to this literature, and in their own songs they take on more life. They are powerful, they are powerless. They are lusty, neurotic, and comically vain. They grieve, they (possibly?) court other women.

All but one of the melodies for these songs have been lost. Where I can I have borrowed melodies from other troubadour songs. More often, I have written my own settings in the style of that time and place. The vielle accompaniment is improvised, a balance of that evening's inspiration and many hours of making music together.

- Robin Snyder, singer with Rossignol and on the album "Lenten is Come" with Briddes Roune.


artist: Rougge
albumname: Fragments
sku: rougge-fragments
upc: 847646001974
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description:
The Two Hundred Twenty strings of a piano, the Two strings of a voice... a set of strings vibrating solo.

Bright red tones. On stage, an ethereal piano. The silence. The sound reddens. Slowly. Soft whispers. An airy Voice without words. Without sentences. A voice that targets a pure emotional state.

"When a musician talks about his work it's always delicate but necessary. Necessary because it involves choice and artistic preferences which are not clearly recognisable from a few extracts. My music is meant to be purified, naked, intimate, on the basis only of a piano and a voice.

Is it introversion of classical music? Or rather physical expressiveness more rock or even contemporary? I do not know. I only aim to show resonant and raw emotion, literally meaningless. As a result, I sing with no text, no sentences, no words. Everything here is pure sensation. That is my pleasure, with the hope it can be yours."

Guitarist by trade, Rougge first performed in different pop-rock bands before discovering that the piano was in fact to be his instrument. This revelation, which took him to Britain, was without doubt the crucial turning point which made his music sound the way it does today. His voice and his instrument from then on focused on each other and are never going to stop creating and influencing each other. The singing lost any other meaning in order to rediscover the simple pleasure of instrumental improvisations. No texts, sentences nor words. From then on only the emotion produced by the raw sound mattered. The piano part is destructurised, it looks for the murmur, the breath, the cry which this deeply moving voice suggests. From this duality, this particular innovative, supernatural and captivating music was born.

Is it introversion of classical music? Or physical expressiveness more rock or even contemporary? Everyone needs to make up their own mind. His first album Fragments recorded and mixed both in France and England certainly carries his own identity, one which should be discovered.


artist: Ruben van Rompaey
albumname: Djembolale - Fills and Drills
sku: rompaey-djembolale1
upc: 876809007645
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/djembolale-fills-and-drills/id346384686
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artist: Ruben van Rompaey
albumname: Djembolale - Grooves and Moves
sku: rompaey-djembolale2
upc: 876809007652
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/djembolale-grooves-and-moves/id346383306
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