Little Envy - Little Envy - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Soaring past the 30-year mark as a band, Japan's Envy returns with their 9th studio album, Eunoia. Packed with an abyssal emotional depth and an increasingly eclectic (and seemingly inexhaustible) well of ideas, Eunoia is Envy's most efficiently impactful album of their unbelievably lengthy career. A major personnel shift in 2018 threatened the very existence of Envy, but it instead inspired enormous growth and reinvigorated the band on their second album together with this new line-up. As founding member and songwriter, Nobukata Kawai, explains InchThe concept of creating the album was to honestly face our own powerlessness. Searching for a little hope, and recording the emotions gained from daily life in a diary-like manner. Even without explaining the songs, Tetsu's lyrics were wonderful and added depth to the piece. It has been six years since the member line-up changed, and the good relationship of trust has been strongly reflected in the work.Inch Envy are an underground institution that has literally inspired entire sub-genres of music. Their creative and cultural influence in undeniable, and their legacy was cemented long ago. The fact that they're still breaking new ground more than three decades in is a testament to the unique and extraordinary power and pull of Envy, and Eunoia emits that power and pull with the natural weight and wonder of a total eclipse.

This is a very important for lovers of 20th century music, featuring the major solo piano works of one of America's most revered composers, and includes all of Copland's major piano works. Pianist Raymond Clarke is one of Britain's leading exponents of modern music. He has recorded 5 other CDs for our Divine Art, Diversions and Athene labels, featuring highly acclaimed performances of outstanding modern masterpieces.

Envy - Atheist's Cornea [COMPACT DISCS] date 07/10/2015