G. Love - Fixin To Die - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Vinyl LP pressing. 2013 . Cian Nugent is a guitar player from Dublin, Ireland whose music combines personal passions, such as suburban/coastal blues, traditional music, 1960s & '70s singer/songwriters, psychedelic rock, jazz ambitions and 20th century composition. Born with the Caul is his first full length with 4 piece-band the Cosmos and follows his critically acclaimed 2011 solo effort Doubles. Like that album, Caul is comprised of a few expansive, developed pieces (three, to be exact).

As a cellist, you inevitably come across Astor Piazzolla's Grand Tango, his only original composition for cello and piano. I was immediately enchanted. Some time later, I travelled to Caracas for concerts with the Simon Bolivar Orchestra and met the famous composer Federico Ruiz. He was immediately prepared to arrange Piazzolla's InchAdios NoninoInch for cello and piano for me. Each subsequent tango drew me deeper and deeper into this cosmos. From this idea of combining South American temperament with European depth and my classical conception of sound, the CD programme Pasion Tango for cello and piano was finally created. The programme was enthusiastically received in live concerts in many countries, from Europe, Japan and China to North and South America. The next step was a logical continuation to play tangos with the cello again, but with a classical orchestra instead of the piano, in order to explore the tonal and emotional potential of this repertoire even more deeply - the result is Pasion Tango - el Gran. Friedrich Kleinhapl

The best of the last great blues singers. 20 tracks including InchPachman Farm BluesInch, InchFixin' to Die BluesInch and InchShake Em DownInch.