Aqua Velvet - Hey Everybody, Let's Fall In Love, Vol. 1 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Carly Pearce's highly anticipated fourth studio album, hummingbird, marks Pearce's debut as a co-producer and fully represents her new musical chapter - one of forward motion. Following the success of her last studio album, 29 Written In Stone, Pearce leans in to her authentic country sound encompassed by the symbolism of the hummingbird which represents the album's themes of growth, humility, understanding, playfulness, and optimism.

Always About Love's opening track J'ay pris amours a ma devise (I have chosen love as my device) is the motto for the album with songs about longing and happiness, sadness and saying farewell. BRISK and Amaryllis Dieltiens have created a programme with music from various different styles and periods on these timeless themes. The poetry is the starting point for the various sections. The instrumental pieces are also all connected to this content, and could be listened to as instrumental poetry, as songs without words. Alongside 16th and 17th century music from England, France and Germany, the sound of more recent times should not be lacking on this album. The quartet has arranged versions by Cecil Sharp and Benjamin Britten of the English folksong O Waly Waly. InchLove is handsome, love is kindInch, but love may fade away like the morning dew. Dawn is also used as a metaphor for the beloved in Max Knigge's Ochtendbede, based on a sonnet by Jacques Perk. Hans Koolmees has written two songs about earthly and heavenly love, based on texts by the medieval mystic Hadewijch and the modern Flemish poet Eva Cox, and finally Walther Stuhlmacher has composed a wordless farewell. However different these worlds may seem, it is always all about love!

In his new series of concept albums, electronic music producer Samuel van Dijk moves from an evolutionary to a cosmological scale. Starting from dry land filled with light and streams, to the constantly changing surfaces of the oceans, into a frozen and murky underwater world, and finally up to the arrival in an interstellar space and the cosmos. With this concept, Multicast Dynamics explores organic and aqueous worlds in a dreamlike and spiritual appearance. Aquatic System is the second installment of the series, written and composed in two remote geographical places Finland and Fuerteventura. Inspired by the complexity of water, it's movement, inhabitants, and hidden energy, the album was assembled mainly using synthesizers and processed field recordings of the ponds, streams, lakes, and oceans of the different locations.