Carolyn Wonderland - TEMPTING FATE - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Red hot guitar heroine, lap steel virtuoso, whip-smart songwriter and fire-breathing singer has been recording critically acclaimed albums and touring the world for nearly 25 years, playing her original, bluesified, cosmic country soul music, mixed with heavy does of Tex-Mex and riff-fueled rock 'n' roll. The album's 12 tracks (including 10 new Wonderland originals or co-writes) deliver the blues' honest truth in vividly detailed, infectious songs, all shot through with Wonderland's stinging fretwork and full-throated vocals.

Yellow Vinyl. In dark and difficult times, the music of Barney Listerand Kojo Degraft-Johnson lifts us up. As Mrcy, the productionand vocal duo are confronting the many crises of modern lifewith a fresh sound full of punchy instrumentation, envelopingorchestration and lyrical honesty. On their latest project,VOLUME 2, Barney and Kojo deliver emotive music that surprisesas much as it comforts, referencing timeless sounds as much asa sense of the cutting edge. Channeling soulful vocal melodyalongside afrobeat polyrhythms, jazz soloing and driving,distorted grooves, tracks like InchManInch address the challenges ofmodern masculinity, while standout number InchFearInch drives amessage that encourages us to fight the terror we might feelabout the state of the world with optimism. Following theacclaimed of their 2024 debut project VOLUME 1, whichsaw the duo nominated as Rising Stars at the Rolling StoneAwards and named as one of DIY's Class of 2025, Mrcy returnswith vital music that addresses the complexities of being alivetoday. InchWe're trying to extinguish fear with optimism and worrywith love,Inch Barney says. InchVOLUME 2 breaks the mould to presenta bigger picture of who we are - something with angst, surprisesand more guts. The main feeling of the project is that the worldis fucked but let's dance through it.Inch

Back in April 2014 at Carnegie's Zankel Hall, Augustin Hadelich's performance of David Lang's 'mystery sonatas' was praised by the New York Times as a riveting display of Inchmagisterial poise and serene control.Inch That same magic penetrates this starkly beautiful recording of the work, played by Hadelich on the exquisite 1723 Inchex-KiesewetterInch Stradivari, on loan to him by it's current owners since 2011. Lang based his 'mystery sonatas' on the famous pieces by Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, but with a modern twist. InchI decided to make my own virtuosic pieces about my most intimate, most spiritual thoughts,Inch he explains, Inch[but] mine are not about Jesus, and the violin is not retuned between movements. I did keep one of Biber's distinctions. He divides Jesus's life into three phases-the joyous, the sorrowful, and the glorious. The central pieces of my mystery sonatas are called 'joy, sorrow,' and 'glory,' but these are all quiet, internal, reflective states of being.Inch