Kaiser Chiefs - Kaiser Chiefs' Easy Eighth Album - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Super Furry Animals upcoming early years compilation, Precreation Percolation, due to be released on May 1st 2026 via Strangetown Records, bringing out-of-print rarities to vinyl for the first time in three decades, plus unheard tracks including the Rhys Ifans-sung track 'Pocket Sam'. The vinyl version of this includes compiles the tracks from their two earliest EPs, originally released by legendary Welsh indie tag Ankst, whilst the 22 track CD features further unreleased and unheard bonus tracks from the era. Album Tracks 1. Organ Yn Dy Geg 2. Fix Idris 3. Crys Ti 4. Blerwytirhwng? 5. Pam V? 6. God! Show Me Magic 7. Sali Mali 8. Focus Pocus / Debiel

The most comprehensive set ever compiled of instrumental music by Respighi, featuring classic scores such as The Pines of Rome alongside hidden treasures of chamber music. All modern recordings made by native Italian musicians between 2009 and 2015 both an ideal starting and destination point for anyone looking to explore the vibrantly coloured musical world of Respighi. Italy's landscape and history supplied Ottorino Respighi with a deep and seemingly inexhaustible well of inspiration and material on which to draw. Works as superficially diverse as the elegantly neoclassical Ancient Airs and Dances, and the opulently orchestrated extravaganza of the Roman trilogy, are united by Respighi's care for his native heritage, and his curation of it as a living object. He is, in this sense, no less centrally an Italian composer than those of his colleagues dedicated to continuing the opera tradition, from Bellini to Puccini. Yet there is so much more to Respighi than those two collections. There is the hour-long Sinfonia Drammatica which finds Respighi at his most Straussian. There is the pulsating and neoclassical Toccata for piano and orchestra, the contrasting delicacy of the orchestral triptych after paintings of Botticelli, the withdrawn beauty of his Church Windows sequence, and a sequence of concertante works for violin and orchestra, none of which fit neatly into the 'romantic concerto' template. Perhaps the least known and most intriguing work in his orchestral output is his dark and brooding Metamorphoseon, commissioned by Serge Koussevitzky in 1930 and thus long predating Richard Strauss's postwar elegy of (almost) the same name. The piano and chamber works of Respighi illuminate complementary aspects of his identity, such as his feeling for long-breathed melody and drama in the violin sonatas, and the deft turns of phrase in his student-era piano pieces. When the

Yellow Transparent Vinyl. Formed in Leeds in 2000, Kaiser Chiefs are one of the leading bands of their generation. Fronted by the charismatic Ricky Wilson with Simon Rix on bass, Andrew 'Whitey' White on guitar, Nick 'Peanut' Baines on keyboards and drummer Vijay Mistry, the band have had a string of anthemic hits such as 'Oh My God', 'I Predict A Riot', 'Everyday I Love You Less and Less',  'Never Miss A Beat' and 'Hole In My Soul'  On March 8 2024 they will their 8th studio album named 'Kaiser Chiefs' Easy Eighth Album', including their hit single 'How 2 Dance'. The album is co-written and produced by Amir Amor (Ed Sheeran, Sam Smith) and Nile Rodgers (Chiq). On this album, the band delves into innovative sonic avenues while preserving the iconic 'Kaiser Chiefs' essence. Album Tracks 1. Feeling Alright 2. Beautiful Girl 3. How 2 Dance 4. The Job Centre Shuffle (FT. Hak Baker) 5. Burning in Flames 6. Reasons to Stay Alive 7. Sentimental Love Songs 8. Jealousy 9. Noel Groove 10. The Lads