Fatma Said - El Nour - VINYL LP

Vinyl LP pressing. 2022 album from Egyptian soprano Fatma Said. Joined by the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo under Sascha Goetzel, the vision string quartet and more, Said sings numbers like I Could Have Danced All Night from Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady and Irving Berlin's Cheek to Cheek alongside opera hits like Meine Lippen sie Kussen so heiss from Franz Léhar's Giuditta.

RESTLESS SPIRIT's third album, InchAfterimageInch, embodies the East Coast trio's aim of never wanting to sound exactly like before. Long Island deep-fried guitars meet pounding rhythms and emotionally raw vocals. Where the predecessor InchBlood of the Old GodsInch (2021) sometimes ushered the listener into twisted complexity, InchAfterimageInch delivers short, sharp shocks that hit straight home. Lyrically, InchAfterimageInch is driven by tragedy and personal loss. Singer and guitarist Paul Aloisio has put his heart and soul into the album. InchAfterimageInch might well be read as a cautionary tale. Embarking on their musical journey very early in life, RESTLESS SPIRIT's core of Aloisio and bassist Marc Morello met the summer before Kindergarten and grew up discovering music side by side. Channelling influences like BLACK SABBATH, TYPE O NEGATIVE and THE SWORD and incorporating aggressive modern metal, unabashed stoner-doom pummelling, energetic changes and stirring, earnest vocals, their band was finally christened RESTLESS SPIRIT in 2019. Their debut full-length InchLord of the New DepressionInch (2019) fit equally well into the stoner, doom, and sludge moulds, while on InchBlood of the Old GodsInch, the three-piece developed a more varied, melodic approach with added complexity. On the live front, the Long Island band has undertaken several tours in support of InchBlood of the Old GodsInch and shared stages with the likes of CROWBAR, THE OBSESSED, and CANNIBAL CORPSE. With InchAfterimageInch, RESTLESS SPIRIT deliver a massive punch to the gut that actually feels damn great once the initial pain subsides.

Vinyl LP pressing. Includes . Inspired by the classical poems of Arab women, Medieval Femme invokes a daydream through the metaphor of an Islamic garden, at the border between depression and desire, where the present temporarily dissolves, leaving only past and future. Mixing neon drones and the faint outlines of Arabesque melody, Medieval Femme reveals a fully-realized, dreamlike setting, shaded with colour and subtle friction. Conveying a thematic state of melancholic longing, Fatima seeks to transport the listener to a place of reverie and desolation, to rejoice in celestial sorrow. Medieval Femme takes instrumentation from music of the Middle Ages, recast in a futuristic setting; soft-synth lutes, organs and pipes reverberate in space while gauzy pulses ripple in response. Fatima's vocals of repeated, mantra-like phrases are sometimes pitched and altered, drawing out increasingly intense peaks, angelic choruses and yearning incantations