Diederik Wissels - Tender Is the Night - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Diederik Wissels - Pasarela [COMPACT DISCS] date 01/26/2018

The life of Nicolas Chédeville (1705-1782) covers exactly the golden age of the hurdy-gurdy and the musette, the French baroque bagpipe. His time witnessed an 'art of living' that reveled playfully in the idealization of nature as a mirror of ancient Arcady, and his works contributed to the soundscape of his time, one that portrayed this idyllic milieu in operatic dramas whose heroes were constantly questing for the past. In 1739 he published Les Saisons amusantes, concertos by Antonio Vivaldi arranged for bagpipes and hurdy-gurdies. These transcriptions of concertos from Cimento dell armonia e dell'inventione include arrangements for the hurdy-gurdy of three concertos from the Four Seasons. The same year Chedeville made further bucolic arrangements of another three Vivaldi concertos from the same set, calling them Les Plaisirs de l'Ete, La Moisson, and Les Plaisirs de la Saint-Martin (a version of Vivaldi's Il Piacere). Tobie Miller, a star virtuoso of the hurdy-gurdy whose first recording for Ricercar was heaped with critical praise, tackles this repertoire with infectious spontaneity.

The Moonlandingz debut album Interplanetary Class Classics was filled with sticky pop songs that offered solace and punishment in the months following both the Brexit vote and Trump's first victory. They conspired with Yoko Ono, Sean Ono Lennon, Rebecca Taylor, Phil Oakey and the Cowboy from The Village People to make one of the great albums of 2017, and we needed it. Seven long years later, The Moonlandingz - Adrian Flanagan, Dean Honer and Lias Saoudi (Fat White Family) - have finally returned when we need them most. No Rocket Required features collaborations from Iggy Pop, Nadine Shah, Jessica Winter, and Ewen Bremner. The ten tracks deliver something cosmic on a human scale, reminding us we will always need to organize, fight, collaborate, connect and dance. Album Tracks 1. Some People's Music 2. The Sign of a Man 3. Roustabout 4. The Insects Have Been Shat on 5. It's Where I'm from 6. All Out of Pop 7. Yama Yama 8. Give Me More 9. Stink Foot 10. The Krack Drought Suite (PTS 1-3)