Biber / Hammerle - Biber & Biber - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The time had come, Angel Olsen realized in the fading summer of 2018, to take her new songs out of the house. Olsen's 2016 marvel, My Woman, had been a career break through, but it catalyzed a period of personal tumult, too a painful breakup, an uneasy recovery, an inadequate reckoning. At home in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains, Olsen penned songs that finally grappled with these troubles, particularly love-how forever is too much to promise, how relationships can lock us into static versions of ourselves, how you can go through hell just to make someone else happy. These heartsore explorations shape WholeNew Mess, Olsen's first solo album since her 2012 debut and an emotional portrait so intimate and vulnerable you can hear her find meaning in these crises in real-time. At least nine of the eleven songs on Whole New Mess should sound familiar to anyone who has heard All Mirrors, Olsen's grand 2019 masterpiece that earned high honors on prestigious year-end lists and glossy spreads in stylish magazines. InchLark,Inch InchSummer,InchChanceInch-they are all here, at least in some skeletal form and with slightly different titles. But these are not the demos for All Mirrors. Instead, Whole New Mess is it's own record with it's own immovable mood, with Olsen working through her open wounds and raw nerves with just a few guitars and some microphones, isolated in a century-old church in the Pacific Northwest. If the lavish orchestral arrangements and cinematic scope of AllMirrors are the sound of Olsen preparing her scars for the wider world to see, Whole NewMess is the sound of her first figuring out their shape, making sense for herself of these injuries. Considered alongside All Mirrors, Whole New Mess is a poignant and pointed reminder that songs are more than mere collections of words, chords, and even melodies. They are webs of moods and moments and ideas, qual

Take a journey back to the '60s, with 'The Hits Album - '60s Car Songs', a 3CD set featuring 67 timeless hits from a decade when travel might have been a little slower, but the Pop charts moved at a blistering pace, with bumper-to-bumper new and exciting hits, as far as the eye can see. Whichever way you turn, you're going to find a fabulous No. 1 single from the likes of Cilla Black ('Anyone Who Had a Heart'), Elvis Presley ('Can't Help Falling in Love'), Louis Armstrong ('What a Wonderful World'), Marmalade ('Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da'), Marvin Gaye ('I Heard It Through the Grapevine'), Sonny & Cher ('I Got You Babe'), The Love Affair ('Everlasting Love'), The Walker Brothers ('The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore'), and Tom Jones ('It's Not Unusual'). And you won't have far to travel before you come across a US chart topper too, including Bobby Vee ('Take Good Care of My Baby'), Four Tops ('I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)'), Percy Sledge ('When a Man Loves a Woman'), Simon & Garfunkel ('Mrs. Robinson'), and The Temptations ('My Girl'). Whether your next journey takes you up and down the country on the A1, or across the wide open spaces on Route 66, 'The Hits Album - '60s Car Songs' is the perfect nostalgia-filled travelling companion.

Biber / Schwanthaler Trompetenconsort - L'arte Della Trombetta [COMPACT DISCS] date 07/10/2015