Dew Liepaja Symphony Orchestra Mann - Orchestral Music - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The Mighty Nimbus was cleaved into existence in the summer of 2002, Erik Larson from Alabama Thunderpussy & Pete Champel (Sixty Watt Shaman) hit it off right away during a tour together in North America in hopes to germinate a new crop of sonic flora. With such influences as Crowbar, St. Vitus, Entombed and The Obsessed; The Mighty Nimbus sound is a maelstrom of downtuned thunder, venomously oozing from blown speakers. Yet, the sound is complicated with delicately layered guitar harmonies and blues based licks all the while proclaiming their demiurgic, seminal sound. Comprised of members from all across North America, The Mighty Nimbus encompasses a flux of musical styles and influences to create the archaic anthem for the downtrodden.No motherfucker can stop it. Now this band have create timeless music for future generations.The variation between Sludge, Doom & Southern chaos makes this a band a force to be reckoned with.And should appeal to fans of Black tag Society, Down, Black Sabbath & High On Fire.

This second volume of orchestral music by the Swiss composer Richard Flury (1896-1967) brings works from across his career. A suite drawn from an early Festspiel - a community pageant - opens with a march of Elgarian swagger and continues with a mix of charm and substance. Flury was a gifted violinist, and his Third Violin Concerto, written at the height of the Second World War, is virtuosic and lyrical in equal measure, it's unashamed Romanticism perhaps an escape from troubled times. The four late Caprices for violin and orchestra form a concertante serenade in all but name; and one of his very last pieces was a dark and moving tribute to a musician friend, the slow movement of a suite he did not live to finish.

Derek Scott, born in Birmingham in 1950, has an international reputation as an historian of the British music hall and other forms of light entertainment. But he is an outstanding composer in his own right, his music treading a fine line between a very English whimsy and a profoundly felt and natural response to his (often Celtic) subject matter. These works reveal a master craftsman and natural tunesmith, who manages to unite good humor, unerring technique and deep feeling in music of immediate appeal. His two symphonies - originally written for brass band - embody a return to the formal, Classical clarity of Haydn, though expressed with the satisfyingly beefy textures of the modern orchestra. He lists among his influences Shostakovich and Sibelius and, less predictably, The Beatles and The Kinks.