A Great Big Pile of Leaves - Pono - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Soul singer and record producer Ben E. King was perhaps b est known for his international hit InchStand By MeInch and as one of the principal lead singers of The Drifters - notably singing the lead vocals of one of their biggest global hit singles InchSave The Last Dance For MeInch. The Masters Collection brings together 28 of Ben E. King's finest recordings, highlights include InchSupernatural Thing PT 1Inch, InchStreet ToughInch, InchDream LoverInch, InchWhat A Difference A Day MadeInch, InchTower Of StrengthInch, InchMoon RiverInch, InchSpanish HarlemInch... there are just too many great tracks to mention. His music has been covered by many contemporary artists of today and it continues to inspire musicians the world over and will do for generations to come.

Every Last Leaf' is an album about life and the emotions that come along with it the good, the bad, and everything in between. It's a metaphor for the circle of life; as one leaf dies and falls off the tree, it becomes part of the Earth, feeding the very roots that gave it life and creating new life in the process. We are all infinitely unique beings, but we all share the same emotions and challenges at our core. We did our best to reflect that human experience on this record.

Sometimes, the best place to begin is at the end. If you really want to dig deep into Illusory Walls, the fourth album by The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die, it definitely helps to do that. That's because epic closer InchFewer AfraidInch-all 19 minutes, 44 seconds of it-doesn't just revisit the themes and ideas on the ten songs that precede it, but also offers a self-aware summary of the Connecticut band's entire history. It's the conclusion of all the stories within the record as well as a nod to all the lives that helped make them-little glimpses of everything that's come before, on both a micro, immediate level, and a more universal one. InchThat song is a higher level look at my whole life and the whole world,Inch explains vocalist/guitarist David F. Bello, Inchas well as the album, our band and our discography. It places the band in the context of the rest of the world, as if we're listening to everything that came before. It touches on all the themes of the previous songs, but there are also callbacks to songs from earlier in our career. But in this song, they're the object, not the subject-I'm talking about a world in which these things happen, not talking about these things happening.InchDue to the coronavirus pandemic, the band-completed by Steven K. Buttery (drums and percussion), Joshua Cyr (bass/vocals) and Katie Dvorak (vocals/synth)-had nothing but time to realize the full extent of their musical and thematic aspirations. And so, four years on from lauded third album Always Foreign, they were able to make what is undoubtedly the band's most ambitious and epic record to date. Written and recorded remotely-a first for the band-Illusory Walls takes on the weight of human existence while it's buckling under the pressure of today's near-dystopian society. Personal anxieties and political struggles collide with a series of portentous