Kid Francescoli - Sunset Blue - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

No Sun is the fifth studio album by singer, songwriter, producer and scholar Ramona Gonzalez PKA Nite Jewel. After the critical acclaim of Real High (2017), Gonzalez began her PhD in Musicology at UCLA in 2018. At the same time, her twelve year marriage and creative partnership with Grammy Award-winning producer Cole M.G.N. dissolved, leaving her homeless and adrift. Though in a state of grief, her studies renewed her focus. Working with only a Moog sequencer and keyboard, Gonzalez improvised along to rhythmic grooves while singing in hushed undertones, which she then meticulously produced into a collection of intimate off-pop masterpieces. No Sun manifests a future out of songs of sorrow, as a part of Gonzalez's quest to reclaim her subjectivity. Occupying a liminal space between Arthur Russellas whispered intimacies, Tirzahas R&B poeticism, and Kraftwerkas rigid electronics, No Sun traverses new soundscapes through the eyes of an uncompromising female auteur.1. Anymore2. Before I Go3. Show Me What You're Made Of4. To Feel It5. #14 6. No Escape7. This Time8. When There Is No Sun

The artists write InchOn this recording, we open up the complete original music set for the voice in Franz Schubert's InchWinter JourneyInch to the two wind instruments oboe and bassoon. We play Winterreise from an inner conviction - it draws us in and will not let us go. After we had played some of these Lieder at home for the first time, we could not resist them. We were seized by the ambition to arrange this setting with oboe, bassoon and piano, and make it as intensive and expressive a version of Winterreise as we could. We set out to show that the two instruments breathe, even sing, just as naturally as the human voice. The poetry of Wilhelm Müller should on no account be dismissed or disregarded for that reason. On the contrary, we rely on the subconscious recall of the sung words - by us and by our listeners - in order to bring out convincingly in instrumental sound the ideas inseparably associated by Franz Schubert with Wilhelm Müller's poetic narrative. We were carried away by the euphoria of making this music, by the gloomy, despairing mood full of yearning and desire. Where such an emotional journey can lead is evident only when one has lived it every step of the way. We all belong to one family and yet in the past we had very little opportunity to make music together. Each one of us was harnessed to their own career path and it was seldom possible for us to come together as a group. The worldwide Corona crisis has suddenly jerked us to a kind of Inchemergency stopInch. That has allowed us to grow together again as a family, not just physically but artistically too.Inch

A recording in St. Bartholomew's Church, Orford (Suffolk, Great Britain), 11-13 March, 19-20 April 1993. Some versions include a 50-p. booklet with lyrics in four languages.