J.a. Hasse - Sand Dancer - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

J.a. Hasse - Requiem in C [COMPACT DISCS] date 05/31/2011

Like a black wind rising off peatlands long left to silence, Ireland's Coscradh unearth their second album Carving The Causeway To The Otherworld, wrenching up the bog-roads of the dead through dread sorcery. An invocation of deep-rooted heritage and ancient mysticism the album resurrects the six-thousand-year-old oaken pathways raised by warring tribes under the cold eye of the druid, toward the realm beyond life, and conjuring these vanished labors with the memory of violence itself.Channeling the druid as both astronomer and war-seer, Coscradh invokes Mars as the god whose red light demands sacrifice, revealing Gaelic warriors hollowing themselves into vessels and letting the fury of Goac enter and devour them for battle. Guitars flare and burn like meteors knifing the horizon, letting loose riffs rusted with ancestral power. The blistering percussive onslaught crashes like hooves on dead earth as the band's savage ferocity erupts like a war-cry cast into the heavens, crowned in ruinous splendor. Coscradh fully inhabits this domain between worlds, breathing into their work the fury and spiritual force of a people who carved truths into land, sky and grave.A communion of druidic science and blood, ritual aggression and linguistic resurrection, Carving The Causeway To The Otherworld compels a celestial reckoning where fate itself is flung upon the altar. Like gods that ride the firmament, Coscradh's cold cruel radiance falls upon all who hear it. The record is a cosmic execution, binding together the bygone causeways, war gods, stone idols and star-born forces that the druids sought to harness. A vision of the night sky as a living battlement of omens, for those who would hark to the old wrathful spirits.

Laura Schmid, born in Stuttgart in 1989, began her recorder studies in Carsten Eckert's youth class at the Trossingen University of Music in 2007. In 2009 she continued to study with Carsten Eckert as part of her undergraduate course at Bern University of the Arts (HKB), graduating with distinction in this as well as in her postgraduate education degree at HKB with Michael Form. She also successfully completed the Master's degree in Specialized Music Performance (soloist diploma) in 2016, earning the distinction InchExcellentInch. The programme selected for her production 'Il Postiglione' contains some particularly precious pearls of chamber music for recorder. These are original works and arrangements, in keeping with the musical use of the late Baroque period. All three composers on this for ARS PRODUKTION were closely associated with the musical life at the Saxon court in Dresden.