Judy Dyble - Darkness To Light: The Recordings 2004-2006 Remastered - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Sandy Denny - Early Home Recordings [COMPACT DISCS] date 09/27/2024

On InchThe Dead Light,Inch Fen explore the beauty that comes from destruction. Representing the vanguard of contemporary UK post black metal, the band offers it's heaviest, most direct album to date. It is the sixth full-length in a career of still less than 15 years and marks another recalibration for the three-piece that, while always prone to unconventional structures, found that the predecessor InchWinterInch (2017) was the apex in this respect. InchThis time, we took on the creative challenge to say more in less time,Inch says co-founder The Watcher. That does neither mean Fen lost their trademark sweeping melodies and atmosphere, nor does it go along with less progressive structures. If anything, the material shows the group at it's most British. InchI'm kind of old school, I love heavy metal,Inch the guitarist and singer explains regarding his more riff-oriented, straightforward approach that goes along with some more InchoutlandishInch influences, ranging from Voivod circa InchNothingfaceInch or InchAngel RatInch towards latter-day Enslaved. The result is a sound best described as Inchspectral, colder, sharperInch according to the front man, which also translated into lyrics that revolve around the search for knowledge, symbolized by our upward look to the stars. InchWhen we watch the sky, we basically travel into the past and literally see dead light - nuclear fire from exploded planets, annihilated civilisations.Inch Wiped out celestial bodies notwithstanding, with tunes like the twopartite, angular title track or the wistful 'Nebula,' which has already become a favourite among at the trio's concerts, Fen in 2019 are luminaries that could not burn brighter. InchThe Dead LightInch is available as Digipak CD, 2CD book edition (faux-leather hardcover, 18x18cm, 36 pages with preface, exclusive artwork and 3 bonus tracks) and gatefold 2LP (black and ltd. Violet).

The Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, the city's glittering new landmark, opened in January 2017. InchLight & DarkInch is the world's first recording of a solo organ recital in the Grand Hall. Featuring a range of appealing contemporary works, the album showcases the wide tonal spectrum of the Elbphilharmonie's organ. Built by the Bonn-based firm Klais, the organ is an instrument of superlatives. 4,765 pipes extend over five rows of seats, their lengths ranging from just eleven millimeters to an imposing ten meters. Thanks to the very open structure of the hall's Inchwhite skinInch around the organ, audiences can actually look inside the instrument and some of the pipes have been coated such that they can be touched without leaving any marks. The organ fits perfectly into the spectacular architecture and has a very impressive sound. InchThere's nothing this organ can't do,Inch Iveta Apkalna enthused. InchIt's warm and rich, with many beautiful fundamental tones that sound from everywhere, and from the depths. The sound embraces the audience.Inch With it's modern selection of repertoire, seemingly tailor-made for both the organist and the instrument, the album compellingly draws listeners into a fascinating world of sound. At the heart of the recording is the work that gives the album it's name - Sofia Gubaidulina's InchLight and DarknessInch, a piece of great extremes that penetrates every fiber of the body. Two composers, Aivars Kalejs and Lucija Garuta, hail from the organist's native Latvia, and the album also includes works by Leoš Janacek, Gyorgy Ligeti, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Thierry Escaich. Iveta Apkalna has made an album that brings to life the qualities of this organ with a modern and extremely diverse selection of works. Iveta Apkalna is one of the world's most famous organists and, as titular organist, knows the Elbphilharmonie instrument like no other musician.