Alison Moyet - Key - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Ever wondered where the worlds of progressive bluegrass music and microtonal synthesis might intersect? The EZRA ensemble is game to answer the question on their adventurous second album, Earth to EZRA. Convening in an intimate studio in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts, the core quartet - composer and multi-instrumentalist Jesse Jones (guitars and vocals), Jacob Jolliff (mandolin), Max Allard (banjo) and Craig Butterfield (double bass) - teamed up with musical polymath Mark Stewart and keyboardist Xak Bjerken to craft a complex recording that is by turns whimsical, uplifting, haunting and otherworldly. And you can dance to it.More succinctly, Elizabeth Ogonek describes the project, in her liner notes for the CD package, as Incha wild, surreal, and totally joyful album - a 'cycle' to be listened to from beginning to end.Inch The sonic beast at the center of Earth to EZRA is a microtonal organ designed by David Rothenberg and built by synthesizer pioneer Robert Moog in the mid 1960s. The 478-key instrument divides the octave into 31 equal parts, but was never actually functional until 2023, when electronic music scholar and instrument builder Travis Johns began the meticulous process of making the organ playable. Album Tracks 1. Improv 1 2. Kinesin 3. Hexal 4. Red Haired Laser Boy 5. Nostalgique 6. Mask 7. Improv 2 8. Don't Wait Up 9. Impromptu 10. Improv 3 11. Awaiting 12. Fauxmenco

2017 sees pop legend Alison Moyet return with her second studio album on Cooking Vinyl, which is also her second collaboration with producer Guy Sigsworth. Other finds Alison at the top of her game - making exactly the music she wants to at this moment in time. This is intelligent, adventurous electronic pop that's defined by Sigsworth's signature soundscapes. Despite Alison's professing of age, the music bursts with clarity, vitality and freshness, whether in the zingy InchLover Go,Inch chic laid-back soundtrack-style InchThe English U,Inch InchBeautiful Gun'sInch nod to her rock and roll roots, the icy Germanic arpeggios of InchReassuring PinchesInch or ambient, spoken-word poem InchApril 10th.Inch The hauntingly fragile and sparsely presented title track InchOther,Inch serves as the album's hypnotizing lead single. Album Tracks 1. I Germinate 2. Lover, Go 3. The English U 4. The Rarest Birds 5. Beautiful Gun 6. Reassuring Pinches 7. April 10th 8. Other 9. Happy Giddy 10. Alive

A ten-track highlights live album available on vinyl for the very first time. Recorded during the critically-acclaimed 'The Other Tour' in 2017 and released as limited-edition, 180g heavyweight black vinyl with gatefold sleeve and printed inner bag including an excerpt from Alison Moyet's self-penned tour diary. Includes 'The English U', 'The Rarest Birds', 'Whispering Your Name', 'All Cried Out', and many more. Album Tracks 1. I Germinate 2. Wishing You Were Here 3. Ski 4. The English U 5. Only You 6. Beautiful Gun 7. The Sharpest Corner (Hollow) 8. All Cried Out 9. The Man in the Wings 10. Other 11. The Rarest Birds 12. Right As Rain 13. Whispering Your Name