Major Parkinson - Night At The Library - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Major Parkinson announces their long-awaited return with the new album Valesa - Chapter I Velvet Prison, releasing on CD, vinyl, cassette and all streaming platforms on October 7, 2022. The ever-evolving seven-piece has emerged from the primordial darkness of 2017's Blackbox, into a neon haze of progressive synthpop/rock. Having chased the ever-elusive Ghost of Pop music from the early days of their eponymous debut album to the present, the band has always thrived within a melodic core - often clad under a shroud of progressive experimentation. On Valesa - Chapter I, the shackles are off, the curtain pulled back, as their compositions extrapolate with new focus and invention. Not necessarily less intricate, but definitely more pop. The album features 17 meticulously crafted songs that explore new sonic territories, set to the political backdrop of the 1980s as they tap into the Zeitgeist of a period in human history that proved tantamount in shaping our world. From the halls of an abandoned American high school to the wine-stained head of Gorbachev - the album evokes an all-encompassing feeling of uneasy nostalgia, like humanity collectively looking back in time with a pair of cracked, rose-tinted glasses. InchSynth anthems set in a disco of nuclear anxiety. Inch, says vocalist Jon Ivar Kollbotn. InchIn this day and age, life is passing before our eyes before we can grasp anything at all, and we become spectators in our own lives. Like confused, geriatric visitors in a wax museum. As time passes by, the past is becoming brighter and nostalgia is growing bigger. InchWeaving between nostalgia and failed revolutions, this album is a completely unique star in the soundtrack of 2022, offering you something that has rarely been done in any field of music. 01. Goodbye Blue Monday02. Behind the Next Door03. Saturday Night04. Ride in the Whirlwind05. Live Forever06. Sadlands0

Zoltán Kodály's later years were dominated by a series of choral works but his early reputation centered upon chamber music, notably two string quartets, a Cello Sonata (8.553160) and the two masterpieces heard on this recording. The Duo for Violin and Cello, Op. 7 combines Classical form with folk influence, while the Sonata for Solo Cello, Op. 8, with it's expanded harmonies and tone colours, is one of the greatest solo cello works since Bach's Cello Suites. György Ligeti continued the Hungarian lineage with his Sonata for Solo Cello, a succinct but pivotal work in his compositional development. Gabriel Schwabe has established himself among the leading cellists of his generation. He is a laureate of numerous national and international competitions, including the Grand Prix Emanuel Feuermann and the Concours Rostropovich in Paris. In 2009, he won the prestigious Pierre Fournier Award in London. He is a regular guest at festivals such as the Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival, the Kronberg Academy Festival and the Amsterdam Biennale, and has performed with artists including Isabelle Faust, Christian Tetzlaff, Lars Vogt, Kirill Gerstein and Jonathan Gilad.

Mickey Gilley is a man who has more than paid his dues; this year he will attain his half-century, and for the better part of that time, he has been playing Country Music. Arguably, his famous (sometimes infamous) cousin - Jerry Lee Lewis - is one of the few survivors of the rock 'n' rolling fifties and sixties. But Gilley is more than a mere survivor. His stature has grown over the years into the full-rounded Star he is today.