M Craft - Blood Moon - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Michael Ende - Ophelias Schattentheater [COMPACT DISCS] date 11/29/2001

On their fourth album, InchSonic MoonsInch, Sweden's Domkraft set forth on a voyage into the inner cosmos, riding their fuzz-driven, psychedelic riff-doom through the galactic psyche and into alternate metaphysical realities, all in search of escape, respite, and . Domkraft generally stay true to their musical course on the new effort, but the Nordic trio has audibly matured and sharpened their writing as well. The trademark towering doom anthems remain, but with an ever so slight shift toward heavy rock through small tweaks and nuances. Domkraft formed when singer and bassist Martin Wegeland, guitarist Martin Widholm, and drummer Anders Dahlgren bonded over a mutual love of bands such as SPACEMEN 3, MONSTER MAGNET, SLEEP, and HAWKWIND. Drawing from the heaviest of their combined influences, they crafted a sound that blends towering dirges, mind-bending psychedelia, and hypnotic minimalism, as embodied by Domkraft's monolithic 2016 debut album InchThe End of Electricity,Inch the crushing 2018 follow-up InchFloodInch, and their acclaimed and massively amplified third full-length InchSeedsInch (2021). With InchSonic MoonsInch, Domkraft blast through the escape hatch to the emotionally charged inner spaces of the mind, soaring through fantastic new solar systems toward unexplored musical planets. Now is the perfect time to embark on the intergalactic journey with them!

Among the few who know his music, Francis George Scott (1880-1958), a son of the Scottish Borders, is admired for having written some of the best art-songs by any British composer. In this first recording of any of his piano music, a handful of lyrical early pieces contrast with the 58 Bartokian miniatures that constitute Scott's Intuitions - brief but atmospheric distillations of Scottish song, dance and landscape - and a set of virtuoso transcriptions of eight Scott songs by Ronald Stevenson (1928-2015), the major Scottish pianist-composer of the past century.