Deraps - Deraps - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Album Tracks 1. Rather Be Dead 2. Coup D'etat 3. Hook, Line and Sinker 4. Return to the Closet 5. Life Support Addiction 6. It's Not O.K... 7. Crusader of Hopelessness 8. Worthless Is the Freedom Bought... 9. This Trust Will Kill Again 10. Beauty 11. Last Minute Pointer 12. Slayer

A Product of the '80sInchProductInch(1982) was the sequel to InchBlock To BlockInch, the breakthrough album by Andrej Nebb, Ola Snortheim and Jørn Christensen. Like it's predecessor, InchProductInch was produced by John Leckie and de Press. Both albums are now being re-released by Apollon Records on vinyl and CD. What is it about these two records? They still sound like nothing else from the Norwegian music scene. Both albums were on par with anything from the wider world, and this in a time were international New Wave and Post Punk classics were being released on an almost weekly basis. They encapsulate the sound of an entire era and may mirror the contemporary zeitgeist of it's time so brilliantly that we still see ourselves in them.If it's predecessor was the party before the proverbial bomb goes off, their sophomore album was the sound of the seconds leading up to the explosion. It sounds exciting and full of vitality-and fascinatingly dangerous. Like a Polish-Norwegian Joy Division from the underground of some forsaken city. Just listen to the intensity of songs like InchThe Fatal DayInch, InchPassagesInch, InchIn A Crowded RoomInch, and the title cut1. The Fatal Day2. In a Position to Know3. Passages4. In a Crowded Room5. Signals6. Product7. Other Man's Sin8. Heaven9. Total Corruption10. Swienty Pokoj Album Tracks 1. The Fatal Day 2. In a Position to Know 3. Passages 4. In a Crowded Room 5. Signals 6. Product 7. Another Man's Sin 8. Heaven 9. Total Corruption 10. Swiety Pokój

There's an aura of mystery that surrounds the music of Leone Sinigaglia, and yet in his time he was esteemed and supported by the finest musicians of the period, from Dvorák (with whom he studied in Bohemia, and who was responsible for nurturing his interest in folk music) to Nikisch, from Mahler to Furtwängler, from Toscanini to Kreisler. As pianist Massimiliano Génot explains in his liner notes, Sinigaglia was very much a victim of historical circumstance, his Viennese base causing him to suffer after Italy's withdrawal from the Triple Alliance, following the outbreak of the First World War, and the subsequent demise of German culture; he also had to contend with rising anti-Semitism, not to mention the fact that Italian taste of the time was oriented towards opera an singing rather than instrumental and chamber music, his two preferred genres. And yet Sinigaglia's inspiration was profoundly lyrical, with a propensity for melodic writing - one of the best examples is his 'swansong', the second movement of the Violin Sonata Op.44, which features on this album. And Sinigaglia was not without his triumphs his Piedmontese Dances Op.31 for orchestra, performed in 250 cities before 1922, rivalled in popularity the dances by Brahms and Dvorák; and he scored a great success with the Overture Le Baruffe Chiozzotte, whose brio, strength and comic vitality characterize the brilliant four-hand reduction found on this recording. Convinced of what he describes as 'the manifest injustice of an historical judgment that has condemned Sinigaglia for too long to oblivion', Massimiliano Génot has, together with his sister, violinist Alessandra, aimed to bring the composer's cause to the attention of modern listeners, uniting Sinigaglia's entire piano works and presenting them alongside other musical gems and transcriptions as detailed above. Both natives of Turin, the composer's home