Cold Specks - Fool's Paradise - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

2020 . On Entre nous, Jill Barber reaches a new level of intimacy with the French language. An unabashed Francophile, it all began at the Montreal Jazz Festival over a decade ago she surprised her audience with a French translation of one of her songs, and the room exploded into applause and a chorus of bravos. Québec was charmed. In response, Jill was inspired to record her debut French album, interpretations of classics from Piaf to Gainsbourg on 2011's Chansons. In a bold move for an Anglophone, Barber now releases Entre Nous (2020), her first collection of original French songs, written with Francophone collaborator Maia Davies and produced by Montreal born, NYC based, Gus Van Go.

Cold Specks - Neuroplasticity [COMPACT DISCS] Canada - Import date 09/02/2014

With eight albums on dB Productions since 2005, guitarist Mårten Falk is one of the most recorded artists on this tag. His solo albums have been internationally praised, not least by Classical Guitar Magazine. This time his wife, soprano Ingrid Falk, joins him, as well as Åsa Karlberg and the Swedish Soloist Prize winner Per Gross (recorder) in 20th and 21st Century music by some of Sweden's most celebrated woman composers. They range from Sweden's grand old lady Carin Malmlöf-Forssling (1916-2005) to young Andrea Tarrodi (born 1981), whose string quartets won Sweden's most prestigious music award in 2018, the Swedish Grammis Award (InchClassical Album of the Year). Swedish guitarist Mårten Falk studied at the Conservatory of the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris under Alberto Ponce. He has toured across Europe, Asia, and North America, and collaborates with composers from all over the world.