La Controversia - Vision Divina - VINYL LP

1629 was a remarkable year for new music in Venice. Heinrich Schutz, came to the city to learn of the latest music from Claudio Monteverdi and his contemporaries, publishing the seminal first volume of his 'Symphoniae Sacrae' during his visit. With the publication of further landmark collections from Dario Castello, Alessandro Grandi and Biagio Marini, this particular year provided a key moment in the development of the Italian Baroque style. Acclaimed period ensemble The Gonzaga Band makes it's Resonus debut with a fascinating programme of works from this period that chart the journey through this incredible year for music. The Gonzaga Band was formed by cornettist Jamie Savan in 1997, with a mission to explore the intimate relationship between vocal and instrumental performance practice in the early Modern period. The ensemble takes it's name from the ducal family of Mantua the Gonzagas were powerful and influential patrons of the arts in the late Renaissance, who employed Claudio Monteverdi as their maestro della musica at the turn of the seventeenth century. Monteverdi wrote some of his most innovative music for the Gonzagas his third, fouth and fifth books of madrigals, the operas Orfeo and Arianna, and the Vespers of 1610. Album Tracks 1. Sonata Terza 2. Exulta, Filia Sion 3. Canzon Prima, Per Quattro Violini, Ò Cornetti 4. Paratum Cor Meum 5. Sonata Per L'organo, Violino, Ò Cornetto 6. Regina Caeli 7. Corrente Detta la Granda 8. Plaudite, Cantate 9. Capriccio, Che Due Violini, Sonano Quatto Parti 10. Congratulamini Mihi 11. Maria Virgo 12. Salva Me, Salutaris Hostia 13. Lilia Convallium 14. Corrente Detta la Priula 15. Sonata Senza Cadenza 16. Exultavit Cor Meum 17. Sonata Decima Settima, in Ecco

LP limited to 500 copies on 180g vinyl (300 clear blue & black, 200 black) with printed inner sleeve and free album CD in card wallet. LPs picked randomly. Evaporate, the fourth album from Scottish duo Midas Fall (Elizabeth Heaton and Rowan Burn), is a visceral display of ferocious beauty. Recorded in Argyll, Scotland, the album shimmers with a dark, gothic grace, delicate and brutal in equal measure. The title-track sweeps through tidal waves of Elizabeth Heaton's towering vocals atop progressive post-rock landscapes both menacing and affirming, whilst the cinematic build of Lapsing and the heavenly crush of final track Howling at the Clouds pull vigorously at the heart. In Sunny Landscapes is a magical, magnificently radiant world of it's own, elegantly bringing it's title to life. Extremely emotive and vivid, Evaporate is a deeply beautiful record from the desperate, savage cacophony of Bruise Pusher to the elegant ascension of Sword to Shield it conjures stunning soundscapes at every turn.01. Bruise Pusher 02. Evaporate 03. Soveraine 04. Glue 05. Sword to Shield 06. Dust and Bone 07. Awake 08. In Sunny Landscapes 09. Lapsing 10. Howling at the Clouds

Double colored vinyl LP pressing in gatefold jacket. Beggars Arkive is excited to reissue the classic Freeez album Southern Freeez along with new works by John Rocca. Freeez were a legendary group from London, known as one of the UK's main jazz-funk bands of the early 1980s'aka Brit funk. Led by John Rocca, Freeez consisted of various musicians, originally with Rocca and others including Andy Stennett (keyboards), Peter Maas (bass guitar) and Paul Morgan. Their debut album Southern Freeez was released in 1981 and contains the hit song 'Southern Freeez' which included guest vocals by Ingrid Mansfield Allman. John Rocca initially released the album it on his own tag Pink Rythm before being signed to Beggars Banquet. Album Tracks 1. Southern Freeez 2. Mariposa (Butterfly) 3. Caribbean Winter 4. Easy on the Onions 5. Sunset 6. Flying High 7. Southern Freeez 8. Rollerchase 9. First Love 10. Finale 11. Variations on a Theeem 12. Southern Freeez 20+20 13. Feeel the Music 14. Simple Breeez 15. My Name Is Love (Part 1) 16. My Name Is Love (Part 2) (Jam) 17. Slow Down (Ordinary Dawn) 18. Rain