J.Davey - Beauty In Distortion / Land Of The Lost - CASSETTES

Eighteen years after it's original , J*Davey's landmark debut double album The Beauty in Distortion / The Land of the Lost is being pressed on vinyl for the first time. The project marks a significant moment in the duo's catalog, a record that quietly shaped the conversation around experimental R&B, alternative, new wave, and Avant-garde Black music in the mid-2000s and has never stopped circulating amount collectors, producers, and serious music heads since. J*Davey is the Los Angeles-based duo of vocalist Jack Davey and producer D'LEAU, widely cited as pioneers of dark R&B and alternative, new wave R&B, whose 2008 double EP is frequently referenced as a foundational work in the development of progressive R&B, predating the genre's mainstream recognition and influencing a generation of artists. The duo gained early recognition through MySpace in the mid-2000, reaching influential figures including Prince and BBC broadcaster Giles Peterson. PopMatters described the album's approach as mixing genres also at once - Inchlike having two or three songs playing simultaneouslyInch - with the beauty described as abundant anchored by standout tracks including InchDivisions of JoyInch and InchMr MisterInch, which they called Inchthe funkiest tune this side of Prince's vault.Inch SPIN called D'LEAU's production Inchundulating tunes that coax rather than grabInchwhile Jack Davey was described as blowing Inchbarbed-wire kisses with a post-coital sigh.Inch RapReviews put it plainly J*Davey's the truth. The group defines genres.Inch Available on 2XLP vinyl as well as on CD and double cassette.

Eighteen years after it's original , J*Davey's landmark debut double album The Beauty in Distortion / The Land of the Lost is being pressed on vinyl for the first time. The project marks a significant moment in the duo's catalog, a record that quietly shaped the conversation around experimental R&B, alternative, new wave, and Avant-garde Black music in the mid-2000s and has never stopped circulating amount collectors, producers, and serious music heads since. J*Davey is the Los Angeles-based duo of vocalist Jack Davey and producer D'LEAU, widely cited as pioneers of dark R&B and alternative, new wave R&B, whose 2008 double EP is frequently referenced as a foundational work in the development of progressive R&B, predating the genre's mainstream recognition and influencing a generation of artists. The duo gained early recognition through MySpace in the mid-2000, reaching influential figures including Prince and BBC broadcaster Giles Peterson. PopMatters described the album's approach as mixing genres also at once - Inchlike having two or three songs playing simultaneouslyInch - with the beauty described as abundant anchored by standout tracks including InchDivisions of JoyInch and InchMr MisterInch, which they called Inchthe funkiest tune this side of Prince's vault.Inch SPIN called D'LEAU's production Inchundulating tunes that coax rather than grabInchwhile Jack Davey was described as blowing Inchbarbed-wire kisses with a post-coital sigh.Inch RapReviews put it plainly J*Davey's the truth. The group defines genres.Inch Available on 2XLP vinyl as well as on CD and double cassette.

SOMM Recordings is pleased to announce the fourth volume in Leon McCawley's much praised series of Franz Joseph Haydn's Piano Sonatas. Six Sonatas spanning the years 1766-80 are featured the earliest the miniature First Sonata in G major, the latest the E flat major Sonata No. 51, while Robert Matthew-Walker's fascinating booklet note charts how deftly Haydn balanced the expectations of others and his own creative ambition. InchIntended more to entertain than engage the intellectInch, the fleet, divertimento-like First Sonata seems to anticipate the pedagogical leanings of Bartók's Mikrokosmos more than a century and half later. With it's unabashed galant style, the D major-led Sonata No. 30 is 'Papa' Haydn at his most quicksilver brilliant and delightful, while Sonata No. 35, in A flat major - Incha masterpiece of piano writingInch - displays striking characteristics of early Romanticism. Composed with the enhanced voice of the then newly available fortepiano in mind, sibling Sonatas Nos. 48 (C major) and 49 (C sharp minor) maintain a winning Classical poise even as one surprise after another see Haydn pushing the sonata form in new and unexpected directions. Volume I (SOMMCD 0162) received a coveted Diapason d'Or from Diapason magazine, which enthused InchWhat a range in his interpretation and how many layers of gradation! McCawley ties these together in a special quality of inflexions which make their point with great intelligibility and sensitivityInch. BBC Music Magazine declared Volume II (SOMMCD 0602) Inchshould stand high on any listInch of quality recordings of Haydn, adding Inchthe sparkle of McCawley's touch is instantly apparentInch. Of Volume III (SOMMCD 0624) Gramophone hailed McCawley as Incha thoughtful, keenly intelligent artist in peak form... [Haydn's] piano works an inexhaustible source of artistic riches. Inch