Arman / Blechblaserensemble / Buchner - Meister Der Renaissance - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Famed New York violinist Raoul Poliakin is highly regarded as a conductor of popular orchestral music. As a violinist, arranger, conductor, he has appeared on countless albums, including those of Frank Sinatra, Antonio Carlos Jobim and Wes Montgomery, to name a few. On this classic 1960 audiophile recording, the Music of Richard Rodgers / the Music of Harold Arlen, Poliakin's imaginative reinterpretations of major American standard songs results in a unique listening experience. In addition to Poliakin's authoritative conducting, the striking attractiveness of these arrangements are underlined by the flawless quality of sound, made possible by techniques developed by master engineers working at the beginning of the stereo era. For this album Poliakin conducts a 54-man orchestra and a 20-voice choir. All selections have been newly remastered.

Instinct. We all know what it is, but are hard pressed to acknowledge just how it guides us. Instinct subtly defines our identities, despite our attempts to defy it. The Endless Shimmering, the fifth album by Belfast, Northern Ireland quartet And So I Watch You from Afar, is the sound of a band operating on it's purest instincts. Every individual is an algorithm of prior lives and experience acting as it's own sovereign entity. Every band is itself a combined algorithm of those instincts, driven by unconscious will to replicate itself in the world as if it were flesh and blood like the people who embody it. The Endless Shimmering is visceral and expressive decidedly alive and purely instinctual; not conceptualized or postured. It's ASIWYFA guitarists Rory Friers and Niall Kennedy, bassist Johnathan Adger and drummer Chris Wee manifest as a being beyond itself. InchA Slow Unfolding Of WingsInch serves as the first taster of what to expect from the new album. Combining a few slower, more contemplative yet complex melodies alongside passages of pure, blistering riffs and thunderous percussion, it shows off the raw energy that they aimed to instill into the whole of The Endless Shimmering.

Schutz / Praetorius / Monteverdi / Arman - Schutz & Venice [COMPACT DISCS] date 07/17/1995