A Moving Sound - Little Universe - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Various Artists - Les Ecrans Sonores [COMPACT DISCS] date 10/20/2000

Chad R. Matheny has been releasing eccentric, lyrically-denseunderground pop music since 1998, often under the name EmperorX. After training in physics, philosophy, and music composition,Matheny paused academic work and spent much of the past twodecades crossing the world on buses and bullet trains to make musicat locations ranging from a small but packed symphony hall inPortugal to an emtpy trade fair dome in northern Lebanon to literally-underground metal bars across Ukraine.He often tours alone with a guitar and synth, but sometime sharesbills with fellow travelers including Ratboys, The Hotelier, The Worldis a Beautiful Place and I Am No Longer Afraid to Die, Foxing, AJJ, TheFront Bottoms, and Xiu Xiu.He produced the new Brian Sella album Well I Mean, co-produced theSub Pop album Bits by jangle punk legends Oxford Collapse alongsideEric Topalski of Don Caballero and Storm & Stress, and composedvideo soundtrack music for non-profit organizations including PlannedParenthood and SEIU. In 2011 and 2012, Matheny's ambient workKeeling Curve was used in a multimedia installation by photographerJoel Sternfeld that was featured in a retrospective exhibition atMuseum Folkwang.

Andreas Pevernage (1542/3-1591) is best remembered today as the choirmaster of Antwerp Cathedral and as the composer of several picture motets that are now classified as masterpieces of Flemish culture. Whilst Pevernage spent his entire professional career in Flanders, which may well have contributed to his music being less well known today, he was nonetheless considered as the equal of Orlandus Lassus, Clemens non Papa and Giaches de Wert during his lifetime the quality of his music is in no wise inferior to the works of his more famous contemporaries. Pevernage adopted the innovations of the Italian madrigal and also breathed new life into the chansons of the Low Countries. This selection of works, mostly for five parts, is an invitation to discover his stylistic and creative diversity.