Keystone Chamber Players - Five in the Sun - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Nasum returns with a revitalized version of their landmark Relapse debut Inhale/Exhale entitled Inhaled/Exhaled/Revived. Nearly 30 years on, Inhale/Exhale is as vital as ever. Highlighted as Inchone of the cornerstones of the international Grindcore scene in the early years of the 21st centuryInch by Decibel Magazine, Inhale/Exhale's influence made waves not only across the Swedish underground, but has since broken through Grindcore, Metal and Crust music as a whole. Featuring re-imagined cover art under the direction of Nasum's founding member and songwriter Anders Jakobson, Inhaled/Exhaled/Revived is presented as an expanded 2LP collection. This new version of the album features remixes and a remaster from the legendary Dan Swano, as well as unreleased tracks from the same album recording session!

This twelfth in the Toccata Classics exploration of the music of Ferenc Farkas (1905-2000) once again puts his chamber music with flute in the spotlight - here with an oboe chaser. As with previous albums in this series, the music highlights the characteristics that make Farkas' music so appealing catchy tunes, transparent textures, buoyant rhythms, a fondness for Baroque forms and a taste for the folk-music of his native Hungary that marks him out as a true successor to Bartók and Kodály. The works in this recording are all reworkings - by Farkas or the two soloists here - of music first written for different forces and now taking on a new lease of life.

Sunny Five with Tim Berne, David Torn, Marc Ducret, Devin Hoff and Ches Smith brings together five of the most prominent voices on the New York jazz scene. This group pursues a creative vision that explores the juxtaposition of pure acoustic sonic elements and the integration of electric/electronic sound-generation. InchWe hear Tim Berne's saxophone - rectilinear, concise, insistent - interacting/intoning with and through the deeply textural sound worlds of David Torn's electric/electronic guitar playing, coupled with or countered by guitarist Marc Ducret's incisive, essentialist virtuosity. There are tensions present that seem unresolvable and made more so by the fathoming sonorities of Devin Hoff's bass and the metric pliability of Ches Smith's approach to the drums and electronics... There are moments in the music where it may be impossible to tell who's doing what... and by what meansInch writes Brandon Ross in the liners, calling this record InchKinetic, mysterious, cinematic and heroic.