David Munyon - Code Name: Painter - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

An unreleased David Munyon album recorded in a Nashville Studio in 1994. It includes one never released composition and the original prototype of nine songs that would be later re-recorded for future albums. No less than a treasure trove displaying prime Munyon in all it's glory!

Dmitri Shostakovich was only 17 years old when he completed his piano studies in Petrograd. In the same year he published his first piano trio, nonetheless already as Opus 8. The Trio Alba juxtaposes this youthful work with the Trio Op. 67 from 1944, and with Bedrich Smetana's Piano Trio Op. 15 expands the worthwhile view of the chamber music of the Slavic cultural region. Smetana's music is Slavic the Furiant, a lively Bohemian dance, characterizes two of the three movements. The work has a sad background - Smetana's daughter died shortly before, only four years old. The trio is dedicated to her memory, lamenting phrases and groans express the pain. Wide soloistic passages convey the impression of great loneliness. And sonorous beauty. Shostakovich's Trio op. 67 also commemorates a deceased person; the composer's deep consternation over the sudden death of a friend is expressed not only in a sensitive letter to the widow. Like a heart-rending lament, the strings play fortissimo con sordino shortly before the end - a fascinating sound effect that goes through marrow and bone. The Trio Alba is unreservedly engaged in the depths of these states of the soul. And also the rapturousness of a young love, which permeates Shostakovich's first trio, finds adequate expression with the three Austrians.

2014 expanded edition reissue of Canadian singer/song writer David Wiffen's 1971 self titled album, originally released on Fantasy Records. The album is a showcase for David's rich baritone voice & his world weary, laid back songs. Standout tracks include the classic 'Driving Wheel' covered by Tom Rush, the Byrds, the Jayhawks, Roger McGuinn and the Cowboy Junkies among many others, plus the openly confessional 'More Often Than Not' & 'I've Got a Ticket'. a underground folk/chamber pop classic reissued on CD by Water with 4 unreleased bonus tracks. The bonus tracks are courtesy of Ian McLeish, Mouse hole Music NLC. The bonus tracks were edited and re-mastered by David Sampson, Mr. Stereo Productions. The liner notes are by Ian McLeish, adapted from an article by Nick Warburton and conversations with David Wiffen, Harvey Glatt and Sandy Crawley. In a 8-Panel booklet.