Francesca Brown - Stolen Land and Broken Dreams - VINYL LP

This album is a journey through seventeenth-century Rome, the rough and magnificent city where Caravaggio and Stradella lived. Strict counterpoint and learned polyphony in the lute and keyboard pieces by Kapsberger, Pasquini and Frescobaldi mingle with light dances and popular songs for guitar. Improvisation is the feature linking both sound-worlds the high culture of church chapels and noble palaces, and the lore of streets and taverns. A careful study of the original sources guided our choices as to instruments and interpretation. According to historically informed practice, the celebrated Antidotum Tarantulæ and further early specimens of tarantella, as written down by the Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher, are played on bagpipes, drums and guitars. While on their first album 'Alfabeto Falso' I Bassifondi refreshed the image of the Baroque guitar and it's harmonic extravaganzas, with 'Roma 600' the ensemble brings the music of seventeenth century Rome back to life with inspired and imaginative improvisation. Soprano Emoke Barath and violinist Enrico Onofri are the distinguished guest artists who join I Bassifondi in this new adventure.

Pieta Brown - One and All [VINYL LP] date 02/08/2011

Vinyl LP pressing including . 2018 from the acclaimed singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Phillips' stellar songcraft and peerless melodic sensibility meet with the on-edge urgency of living in dangerously volatile times on this follow-up to 2016's acclaimed The Narrows. The Grant Lee Buffalo frontman continues his rise as a solo artist as his excellent trio plays (largely live in the studio) InchWalk in Circles,Inch InchUnruly Mobs,Inch InchKing of Catastrophes,Inch InchSomething's Gotta Give,Inch InchScared Stiff,Inch InchThe WildernessInch and more. Inspired by Inchthe things that eat away in the late hours,Inch Phillips invests the insight, nuance and wit in a riveting dissection of today's fraught social landscape. Recorded over four days at Sound Emporium in Nashville, the 12-track set was produced by Phillips (guitar, vocals, keyboards) and cut largely live in the studio as a trio with Jerry Roe (drums) and Lex Price (bass). Mixed by Tucker Martine (My Morning Jacket, The Decemberists) and engineered by Mike Stankiewicz, the album delivers it's poetic truths in Phillips' peerless melodic sensibilities, relayed via vocal performances that balance intensity and vulnerability.