Angelic Upstarts - Albums 1979-1982 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Anton Diabelli became immortal through Beethoven's InchDiabelli VariationsInch. But the busy composer, arranger, and music manager could also do it the other way round his InchPot-Pourri from Beethoven's most popular worksInch may seem sacrilegious to some admirers of the titan today. When it was written in 1817, he met a huge demand. Helen Dabringhaus and Negin Habibi present this extraordinary treat together with other works by Diabelli for flute and guitar - a gallant entertaining music at it's best! Diabelli uses only short snippets of Beethoven for his InchPot-PourriInch, jumping extremely nimbly from the 4th Symphony to the Piano Sonata op. 28, from it's slow movement to the Trio, from there seamlessly to the Spring Sonata, then to the 2nd Symphony, to Piano Trio op. 1 No 3 and back to 4th Symphony. What makes one dizzy in the description turns out to be either a cheerful guessing game when listening - or simply a distinctive reverence with depth. Diabelli's commercial success as a is closely linked to Rossini's breakthrough in Vienna. And so it is not surprising that among his countless arrangements are also arrangements from Rossini operas. Dabringhaus and Habibi have chosen the overtures to InchThe Thieving MagpieInch and InchThe BarberInch - both still box-office hits today and also extremely attractive in the instrumentation for flute and guitar. Just listen to the famous drum rolls served up with a twinkle in the eye... Diabelli's feel for the public's taste is also evident in the two cheerful serenade compositions, which seem to have been written just for the flutist. Habibi's lively and sensitive guitar playing provides the lively alternation between dance-like and arioso parts, on whose secure base Helen Dabringhaus can revel in finely graduated sounds and constantly changing expressions.

Vinyl LP pressing. In 2008, Aaron Dessner sent Justin Vernon an instrumental sketch of a song called InchBig Red MachineInch for the 2009 compilation Dark Was The Night. This was before they had met in person. Justin wrote a song to it, interpreting the InchBig Red MachineInch title as a heart. Ten years of friendship later, there are ten more songs. Each song includes a large number of collaborators via the PEOPLE and the record was produced by Justin and Aaron with longtime collaborator Brad Cook and engineered by Jonathan Low primarily at Aaron's studio Long Pond in Upper Hudson Valley, NY. PEOPLE is a steadily growing group of international artists who have come together to create and share their work freely, with each other and everyone. It was born out of a wish to establish an independent and nurturing space in which to make work (generally around music) that is collaborative, spontaneous and expressive in nature and where all unnecessary distractions or obstacles that get in the way are removed. PEOPLE is for the benefit and development of the artists involved and just as importantly, for those who would like to access and enjoy the output. It is as much about the process of making work and showing all that openly, as the final outcome.

Four CD clamshell box set featuring all of Sham 69's releases between 1978 and 1980, their most commercially and critically successful period. Disc 1 is debut LP 'Tell Us The Truth' which hit No. 25 in the UK National Chart in March 1978. Amongst the bonus tracks are the singles 'I Don't Wanna' and 'Borstal Breakout'. The second disc is the No. 27 charting 'That's Life Street Opera' album which includes the hit singles 'Angels With Dirty Faces' (No. 19) and 'Hurry Up Harry' (No. 10) plus bonus track 'If The Kids Are United' (No. 9). Disc 3 is 'The Adventures Of Hersham Boys' which reached No. 8 in late 1979. The title track gave the band a No. 6 hit single. The final disc is 1980's 'The Game' which includes the hit single 'Tell The Children'. The booklet comes with detailed liner notes by Vive La Rock journalist Phil Singleton.