Astrid Munday - Beauty In The Ordinary - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

As an inimitable vocalist, clever lyricist, deft producer, and inventive creator, Tones and I stretches the scope of pop music with unpredictable and undeniable anthems of her own design. Since exploding onto the global scene in 2019 as a busker from the Mornington Peninsula, Australia, she has smashed records, garnered multiple awards, sold out tours, surpassed 10 billion streams and reached multi-platinum heights around the world. Her breakout InchDance MonkeyInch went 6x platinum in the United States, became the most Shazamed song ever, and minted her as Inchthe first female artist to reach 2 billion streams on Spotify with one song,Inch all while consistently holding a spot in the InchTop 10 Most-Streamed Songs of All-Time on Spotify.Inch Her 2019 EP, The Kids Are Coming, crashed the Top 30 of the Billboard 200 and is certified Gold. Meanwhile, Tones and I's full-length debut, Welcome To The Madhouse, toppled the Australian Albums Chart at #1 in 2021. Among five career ARIA Awards, InchCloudy DayInch closed out 2022 as ARIA's InchSong of the Year.Inch Beyond selling out shows on multiple continents, she has delivered stunning performances on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, TODAY, Jimmy Kimmel LIVE!, Good Morning America, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and many more. Along the way, she has also collaborated with Macklemore, blackbear, Jonas Blue, Sam Feldt and BIA, in addition to contributing music to NETFLIX's True Spirit and the blockbuster sequel Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom. Taking the helm, she personally shapes her vision by not only writing and performing, but also producing and directing visuals. Tones and I is a creative force and never stops pushing forward

Commenting on the album, Tones and I shared 'Beautifully Ordinary' is my sophomore album. There was never a theme or tone I aspired to. Each song is a different story, meant for it's own moment. Some songs have been inspired by the same life experience, but through a different perspective. Mostly the album presents itself as whatever the listener takes from it. There's an undertone of loneliness, heartbreak, desperation, fear, vulnerability, and triumph (but not too much). The brightest songs have the saddest stories. Nostalgia seems to be a constant theme throughout the album, although it was never intentional. Subconsciously, I think the past is just something that really controls the person I am today - as I'm sure it does for a lot of us'.

The Enea Baroque Orchestra, founded by the mezzo-soprano Francesca Ascioti in 2018, is currently regarded as the best Roman Baroque authority because of the high quality of it's musicians. On this album the ensemble turns to Johann Adolf Hasse's masterpiece, the Neapolitan Baroque opera Enea in Caonia (Aeneas in Chaonia), a genuine gem within the genre of the serenata. The libretto was inspired by Book III of Vergil's Aeneid, the most famous epic poem in Latin literature. It was very fortunate that Hasse and Aeneas Inchcrossed pathsInch in Italy, for both of them a new adoptive home, and breathed new life into this work. It was from Italy, where Hasse composed this work at the young age of twenty-seven, that he went on to become one of the most popular and most sought-after opera composers of his times - not only in Italy but throughout Europe. We have obtained the services of the excellent Italian violin virtuoso and conductor Stefano Montanari as our principal conductor, and he will also lead this first complete recording of Enea in Caonia.