Guillaume Tourniaire - Peery Gynt - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

2011 , the third album from this band featuring former Briefs members Steve E. Nix and Stevie Kicks. On Adventure Time, the band continue to navigate the same territory pioneered by bands like Buzzcocks, the Beat, the Jam, and the Boys. In fact, in a huge nod from that generation, Duncan Reid of the Boys wrote the song Inch77Inch and gave it to the Lepers for this album. In addition to the usual Cute Lepers formula, there are also a number of new subtle tweeks including the best saxophone use in a punk song since the Saints' InchKnow Your ProductInch on opening track InchTribute to Charlie.Inch the song itself is an ode to UK Subs frontman Charlie Harper by name and a number of other die hards in spirit. Like the last two LP's this record is an undeniable ear worm.

Guillaume Bourgogne - Lieu & Non-Lieux [COMPACT DISCS] Digipack Packaging date 01/12/2010

This world premiere recording presents four sonatas and four duos by Giovanni Battista Cirri (1724-1808), a cello virtuoso and teacher whose reputation took him across Europe - including to London, where for a time during the 1760s he was employed by members of the Royal Family, and took part in the first concert given in the English capital by the eight-year-old Mozart. By now, however, Cirri's name has been almost forgotten, save through an edition of dubious scholarship from the 1950s of a viola concerto which is in fact an arrangement of one of his London cello sonatas. His set of six cello concertos Op 14 has been recorded before now, revealing his creative gifts to be not dazzlingly original but always pleasing, and superbly conceived for his own instrument. All cellists of an adventurous disposition will accordingly be drawn to this new collection, which contains work dating from after his return to Italy in 1780, and to his native Emilia-Romagna region. The Breaking Bass ensemble has selected four of the 12 Sonate di camera, and alternated them with four of the Eight Duets for two cellos to make a satisfying contrast of genre and texture within the album. The solo parts of the sonatas bristle with technical challenges as well as attractive melodic writing, and the duos are full of lively exchange between the two instruments, revealing a far more theatrical side to the composer, with the two instruments taking on solo roles and sharing the limelight on equal terms. They were clearly designed for pedagogical use to be performed by teacher and pupil.