Alex Anthony Faide - Particles Of The Infinite - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Produced by Ian Anderson and Terry Ellis, Jethro Tull's fourth studio album was released in March 1971, and saw a major breakthrough for Jethro Tull across the globe. The band had settled on the lineup of Ian Anderson on flute and vocals, Clive Bunker on drums, Martin Barre on guitar, John Evan on piano and organ, and now joined by Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond on bass. This audio Blu-ray features new Atmos, 5.1 and stereo remixes by Steven Wilson. Also included is the 1974 Quadraphonic audio. The album features the classics 'Cross-Eyed Mary', 'Locomotive Breath', and the title track, 'Aqualung', plus a number of outtakes and bonus tracks from the original recording sessions.

The last volume of our series of Gade recordings based on the new critical edition of his complete oeuvre, once again includes chamber works with a long and complicated history of composition inasmuch as Gade often submitted his earlier works to later revisions - as was the case with his String Quartet No. 1 and String Quintet op. 8. He composed the latter work between his second and third symphonies and around the same time as the cantata Comala. The results clearly show that he wrote the quintet at a time when he had not yet abandoned the national Romantic ideas of his young years, even though he was already in Leipzig. On the one hand, the quintet is not based on any sort of programmatic or textual background. On the other hand, Gade had not yet assimilated the Classical-Romantic style including the independence from the Classical sonata form that would so clearly be reflected in his last chamber works. His Fantasy Pieces op. 43 and elegant character pieces are all more or less designed in a complex song form - however, with a texture that in almost all cases consists of a leading melody part in the clarinet and an accompaniment in the piano.

Digipak. Every mother has a unique story. One thing is true for every mother, though There's no deadline quite like a pregnancy. Award-winning Toronto singer-songwriter Abigail Lapell was pregnant with her first child when she booked studio time on Vancouver Island to make an album about motherhood. The nine songs on Shadow Child Inch one for each month of gestation Inch had to be ready before then, and her return flight was booked on the last day she could safely fly in her third trimester. Working with producer Colin Stewart (Dan Mangan, Black Mountain), Lapell finished her songs in the studio and on rural walks beside the Pacific Ocean. She enlisted some of her favourite singers, all British Columbians, all mothers Frazey Ford, Jill Barber, Pharis Romero. They're all people with unique, distinctive voices, she says, which is what I'm drawn to. Musically, Lapell was looking for a stark, acoustic sound, as opposed to 2024's Juno Award-nominated Anniversary (recorded in Niagara with Great Lake Swimmers' Tony Dekker) and 2022's acclaimed Stolen Time (recorded in Montreal with Howard Bilerman, featuring E Street Band saxophonist Jake Clemons).Lapell's road to motherhood was fraught, involving years of IVF and a 2023 miscarriage Inch that she experienced on stage while on tour. (She finished her set.) Her son was born in November 2024. The song cycle of Shadow Child covers joy and loss, using metaphors from Maritime tragedy, little cannibals, reproductive health, acquiring language, and lives altered by the arrival of a newborn. The title track refers to ultrasound imaging of a liminal person that doesn't quite exist yet, says Lapell. Their status is ontologically blurry.Shadow Child arrives May 8 Inch Mother's Day weekend - on CD, Digital, and Lavender vinyl LP. Singles Hazel, Shadow Child, and So Long roll out starting in January.