Joanie Sommers - Johnny Get Angry - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

When an artist sets out to build a universe it is often overwhelming and is lost in translation as they try to captivate their fans with rich visuals and concept around the music. The challenges that come with the concept are juxtaposed with the opportunity to create something truly impactful for the project. Nisemono showcases Ginger Root combining all the aspects of his work to extend the music into a new world. The phrase loosely translates to Inchfraud or fakeInch, and is yet another part of the universe. The EP sets out to immerse the listeners in a world fully crafted by Lew. Nisemono tells the story of Ginger Root's role in delivering the latest project for the biggest star in Japan, Kimiko Takeguchi. He is called in to help craft her vision and bring the music to life ahead of her American debut. The project brings an immense amount of pressure to the artist's career as it is meant to introduce her to the rest of the world. When Takeguchi is set to make her debut in America she decides to walk away from it all after dealing with the pressure of her career. In that moment her management needs to do anything they can to deliver an artist in America, and see Ginger Root as the perfect alternative who is standing side stage at the late night performance. Ginger Root is thrust into the spotlight and becomes a star. Nisemono tells the story of his fraudulent rise to fame and equally quick fall. The story echoes some of the sentiments Ginger Root experienced in the past year as they saw their music flirt with virality and the new influx of fans that came with the EP, City Slicker. Ginger Root's universe is not one dimensional, and rather than just being consumed like a normal EP the listener is expected to become a viewer. The visual universe of Nisemono is highly stylized, and the project is meant to invoke the feelings of the Japanese Inchidol eraInch that came in

Our Collectors' Choice Music reissues of Joanie's work focused mostly on her pop side, but these 1962 recordings from the Navy Swings radio show find her in a very snazzy jazzy mode, with backing by Shelly Manne & His Men and the Bobby Troup Sextet! Includes I'll Close My Eyes; Cherokee; I'm in Love; Detour Ahead; This Heart of Mine; a Second Chance, and 14 more.

On her first chamber music album for Berlin Classics, saxophonist Asya Fateyeva looks back to the glory days of her instrument in the Twenties of the last century the sax was the voice of modern salon music and an equal partner to the other instruments of the classical chamber ensemble Even as it enjoyed it's heyday dark clouds were gathering on the horizon This is an album that occupies the territory between danceable urban rhythms cultural ostracism and groundbreaking developments in music. InchI am totally fascinated by the different ways in which composers use music to talk their own language and express their own world view You almost have the feeling that there must be a few centuries separating them Adolf Busch, Paul Hindemith and Anton Webern treat the saxophone as a sonic medium, virtually as a means to an end Erwin Schulhoff, Kurt Weill and Ernst Krenek employ it essentially to express the zeitgeist and to voice the bitterness the sarcasm and the ambivalent attitude towards life and death that marked the 1920s. Her chamber music partners in crime are Emma Yoon and Florian Donderer on violin Yuko Hara on viola cellist Tanja Tetzlaff, Stepan Simonian at the piano and Shirley Brill playing clarinet. InchThe great thing about a chamber recording is that it's very intimate We are all in equilibrium we all play an equal part in the proceedings It's not as if I do my thing as a soloist and they are my accompaniment Each musician and each personality is very important.Inch