Adia Victoria - A Southern Gothic - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Red-leather-clad and pitchfork-wielding in a playful nod to Grant Wood's celebrated 1930 painting, Mattiel (Mattiel Brown & Jonah Swilley) proffer songs that ponder the everyday American of the 2020s, with an album tasting more like home than ever before. Georgia Gothic was shaped by time spent on the road touring for the first 2 albums and it's this newfound sense of intimacy that enabled their writing - not as separate musicians - but as one creative entity.

Archie Shepp - The House I Live In [SUPER-AUDIO CD] date 01/01/2017

With InchIl tabarroInch Puccini wrote the first part of his projected opera triptych, with which he ultimately intended to parody and reverse Wagner's Ring tetralogy by stringing together three completely incoherent short stories. Once more, for Il tabarro the composer virtually emigrated to France, to which he had already made declarations of love with La Bohème and Manon Lescaut. This affinity is now mirrored more clearly than in these two operas in the music of The Cloak, which emanates French, well-nigh Impressionist perfume. Bertrand de Billy knows how to make the score come alive with a fantastic cast on his side. World famous tenor Johan Botha was on the top of his career at the making of this album, and the results of the entire ensemble together are historically beautiful.