Jake Allen - Deviant Motions - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The story of this record isn't all that different from a thousand others out here. Songwriter Steven Lambke (also of The Constantines) formed a scrappy band of talented friends (Daniel Romano, Shotgun Jimmie, and David Trenaman and Colleen Collins of Construction & Destruction) when their schedules allow. At the tail end of winter the band heads to a big rural house overlooking a vast body of water. Wood is burned, dogs S**t, wind howls. Meals are cooked and people sing, play instruments, and a record gets cut. Serendipity trumps bad luck. What is different on this record is the way it's stories are told, what they describe, and the undeniable joy with which they're played. It is a record full of natural imagery, domestic narratives and ragged characters trying to patch a wound of meaning on the world. This is a rock band shaking it's wet fur dry, pulling it's boot from the mud and driving another mile to the other side of some fast and reckless youth, to some place a little scarred but settled, holding very little, outside enough love to matter and the knowledge that InchThere ain't no road sign at the corner, kid. You just have to know the way.Inch

Debut album from young Nottingham singer/songwriter whose breakthrough came with the songs InchTrouble TownInch, InchCountry SongInch (as featured in the Greene King IPA TV advert) and the single InchLightning BoltInch.

Liszt devoted more than half his output to the transcription. This latter covers a vast field of compositions, from the symphonies of Beethoven to Berlioz, Bach, Lassus and his contemporaries, as well as his own works. Here Elena Rozanova brings together some of his transcriptions of lieder by Schubert, Schumann and Chopin, well-known or not so well-known, that have cradled her childhood. From these virtuoso pieces we can feel the art of Liszt, who manages to preserve the quintessence of the original works and to transcend the word, even though it is absent.