Cobra Skulls - Bringing the War Home - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Cobra Skulls - Agitations [COMPACT DISCS] date 09/27/2011

The solistenensemble stimmkunst, founded in 2003 for the widely-acclaimed concert cycle InchBach vokalInch at the Stiftskirche Stuttgart, presents vocal music composed by Kay Johannsen. Johannsen - Kantor of the Stiftskirche, an organist with a busy international career, passionate improviser, enquiring choral and orchestral conductor, and composer with a fine feeling for sound and rhythm - wrote the pieces between 2001 and 2018. The varied program includes compositions for different unaccompanied choral scorings, plus works for solo, choir and instrumental accompaniment. Kay Johannsen studied in Freiburg and Boston as a scholarship holder of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes and the Bruno Walter Memorial Foundation (New York). Since 1994 he has been kantor at the Stiftskirche in Stuttgart, director of the weekly Stunde der Kirchenmusik, of the Stuttgarter Kantorei, the solistenensemble stimmkunst, the Stiftsphilharmonie, the ensemble Stiftsbarock Stuttgart and of the concert series Bach vokal 2011-2021.

North Carolina-based ensemble Chatham County Line will return with their eighth studio album this spring titled Sharing The Covers. The album is, at it's core, a tribute to those whom Chatham County Line hold dear, and a chance for the group to perform modern and traditional classics in the bluegrass-style they're known for best. On the 13-track collection, CCL takes the familiar and adds a touch of originality to create a wholly new and inventive roster of covers by Tom Petty, Alton Delmore, John Lennon, The Louvin Brothers, Beck, James Hunter, and more.