Andrew Garland - American Portraits: Garland - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Andrew Garland - On the Other Shore [COMPACT DISCS] date 07/08/2008

With InchPremière PortraitsInch Capriccio set an example for the support of young and talented artists and invite them to their première album for a worldwide audience. Melba Ramos, Puerto-Rican Soprano, studied at Pablo Casals Conservatory of Music in San Juan, capital city of her home country. She distinguished herself by winning several opera singing prizes. After being active at the Opera Studios in Cologne and in Wuppertal, she made her way as coloratura soprano to the Ensemble of the Volksoper in Vienna in 2003 to which she is still dedicated today. In parallel, numerous guest engagements led Melba Ramos to esteemed places to work at as the Komische Oper Berlin, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Staatsoper Unter den Linden and further Opera Houses in cities such as Bonn, Mannheim, Bremen, Kassel, Hamburg, Hannover, Saarbrücken, Nuremberg and many more.

Adam Green is renowned around the globe as one of music's most unique songwriters. As part of the NYC antifolk scene he made up one-half of The Moldy Peaches (alongside Kimya Dawson), who enjoyed mainstream success via the Grammy-winning, #1 Billboard Chart ranking soundtrack of the 2007 Academy Award-winning movie Juno. Aladdin is the soundtrack companion to the film Adam Green's Aladdin, a far-out take on the classic tale that Buzzfeed has called Inchthe trippiest movie ever made.Inch Much like the film, the soundtrack is conceived in Green's whimsical and charming style. With an extensive world tour booked and major press behind the film and the album, Aladdin is set to be yet another cult status notch in Adam Green's belt.