James Pellerite - Awakenings - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Dear Cats and Kittens, dig this cool array of killer black Rock and Roll from the InchGolden AgeInch of American music. So many similar projects were devoted through the years to white rock and rollers (even the most obscure and unknown) and very little to the people that not only InchoriginatedInch this music and played it long before white musicians started to fool around with it. They also continued to play it when black Rhythm and Blues music was suddenly re-named InchRock and RollInch to appeal to a wider white audience in segregated America and became a multi-racial genre in the mid-1950s. Some tunes are pretty well-known but the vast majority are not. I'm pretty sure you have never heard a lot of the tracks included here - even if a lot of them were pretty popular in the 1950s among both black and white Rock and Roll fans. Most of the artists in this new collection were actually household names in the InchRock and Roll WorldInch of the 50s and early 60s. I sure hope this new series of 10 complimentary volumes will finally set things straight. Dig it!

Chamber music breaks exciting new ground with these three works by leading American composers. Aaron Jay Kernis' beautiful Two Awakenings and a Double Lullaby is a touching song cycle for the unusual combination of soprano, violin, guitar and piano.

The Flatlands Are Your Friend is the sophomore LP from Philadelphia's Young Statues. The band's third is their most intriguing one to date From the album's opener ?Natives? until the record stops, there is an alluring, haunting and hazy ambience that makes Flatlands sound as if it is an audible dream. The intense introspection found on the band's earlier releases is taken to new, darker places by vocalist/guitarist Carmen Cirignano, whose ability to lyrically navigate inner turmoil makes him one of the most captivating young songwriters in the modern indie scene.