Balcarova,Stepanka / Concept Art Orchestra - Grown-Up Christmas - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Landmark Debut Established Punk and Glam Foundations New York Dolls Explodes with Raucous, Swaggering Rock 'n' Roll, Includes 'Personality Crisis' and 'Trash'Hear the 1973 Record Rolling Stone Named the 301st Greatest Album of All Time in Audiophile Sound for the First Time Mobile Fidelity's 180g 45RPM 2LP Set Reveals Brilliance of Todd Rundgren's ProductionThe extroverted blend of attitude, energy, and ostentatiousness that spills from the New York Dolls' self-titled debut can be seen in full view on the album cover. Depicting the quintet in it's hallmark flash-and-trash apparel and in drag appearance, the 1973 record scared away a considerable amount of potential listeners while capturing the attention of a sizable audience that recognized the band for what it was pioneers who helped develop the punk and glam rock movements. New York Dolls make obvious their grasp of alienation, deviance, displacement, and suburban disaffection - as well as their capacity to play hanging-by-a-thread boogie, Brill Building-inspired pop, and strut-n-swagger sleaze. Their effort possesses traits many of it's harsher descendants would overlook joyfulness and melody, topped with a knack for knowing how and where to take a song inside of three-and-a-half minutes.Sourced from the original master tapes and pressed at Fidelity Record Pressing in California, Mobile Fidelity's numbered-edition 180g 45RPM 2LP set marks the first time the group's career-making statement is available in audiophile sound. It benefits from the extra groove space afforded by this reissue as well as the keen production overseen by Todd Rundgren, who captured what went down at New York City's Record Plant with an astute blend of live-on-the-floor feel, raw authenticity, and professional acumen. On this collectible version, you can hear those facets as well as key details, dynamics, and textures with previously una

On her new album; trumpetist and composer Štepánka Balcarová; the recipient of the Andel Award for the best jazz album of 2022; delves deep into human emotions. She quotes her recent experience of becoming a mother as her main source of inspiration InchCertain emotions receive a totally new dimension with motherhood. I used to think I knew what it meant to be angry or indignant; for example; and was able to rationalize such emotions; draw relevant consequences and thus come to term with them. With children; however; one often finds oneself in situations that don't allow for such distancing. This immediacy affects both negative and positive emotions. I've come to see them in an entirely new light.Inch In the eight compositions comprised in her new album; Štepánka represents eight basic human emotions; as they have been defined by American psychologist Robert Plutchik joy; trust; fear; surprise; sadness; disgust; anger and anticipation. A concert programme based on the concept of Emotions was premiered in 2022. Štepánka Balcarová recorded the album with a Czech-Polish quartet featuring Nikola Kolodziejczyk (piano); Jaromír Honzák (double bass) and Grzegorz Maslowski (drums). The same line-up also collaborated with her on the album Life and Hapiness of Julian Tuwim (Animal Music 2017) and the live album Štestí (Happiness; Radioservis 2022) which includes orchestral versions of the repertoire for which Štepánka Balcarová received the Andel Award. Album Tracks 1. Trust 2. Anticipation 3. Surprise 4. Anger 5. Fear 6. Disgust 7. Joy 8. Sadness

Album Tracks 1. V Nocn Magnet a Strelec (Christmas Magnet and Archer) 2. V Nocn Rosicka (Christmas Morning Dew) 3. Sonata a 4 in D Major 4. Usni, Usni, CTN Poup Tko (Fall Asleep, Fall Asleep, Venerable Ro) 5. K Jeziskovi, Mil Ckovi (To Little Jesus, Beloved) 6. Sonatella Quinta a 5 7. V Nocni Kolibka (Christmas Cradle) 8. Paduan a 5 9. Spanil Z Archy Holubicky (Delightful Doves of the Ark) 10. Kdyz Veskeren Svet Byl Pops N (When the Whole World Was Described) 11. Sonata a 4 in G Major 12. Poslys, O Kresfan (Listen, O Christian) 13. V Nocn Roztomilost (Christmas Delight) 14. Sonatella Quarta a 5 15. Zav Tej K N M, D Te Mil (Visit Us, O Lovely Child)