Mean Mistreater - Razor Wire - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Mean Mistreater - Do Or Die / The US American band's 2nd album blends relentless riffs with powerful vocals. Classic heavy metal - nostalgic and fresh at the same time. / New York City's own return with it's darkest, heaviest offering to date!Hot on the heels of their debut album, MEAN MISTREATER return with their second full-length, Do or Die. The songwriting is largely unchanged on Do or Die - classic metal melded with hard rock, with foremost influences being Warlock, Chastain, and early W.A.S.P. - but MEAN MISTREATER's execution is off the charts here. Urgent, passionate, like street-walking cheetahs with hearts full of napalm.

18 tracks from 'Mr. And Mrs. Swing' with the big band 1938.

Grammy Award-winner Alex Klein, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's principal oboe emeritus, and pianist Phillip Bush perform works by composers from both sides of the Atlantic who were caught up in or deeply moved by 20th-century political turmoil. The Brazilian-born oboe virtuoso's passionate project, with it's underlying appeal for tolerance, encompasses works by Czech, German, British, American, and Brazilian composers. Much of the music evinces a calm lyricism and melodious beauty that belie the composers' difficult circumstances. Some were exiled from their native countries, others despaired of impending war. One, Pavel Haas, died in Auschwitz. Paul Hindemith's 1938 Sonata for Oboe and Piano, written in Swiss exile, is said to represent happier days in his native Germany. Pavel Haas's Suite for Oboe and Piano, composed at the outset of Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, shares the complex musical language of his teacher, Leoš Janácek. William Bolcom's ultimately hopeful Aubade - for the Continuation of Life, written amid early 1980s fears of nuclear war, forges a fragile coexistence between cello and piano. Benjamin Britten's Temporal Variations, written on the eve of World War II, expresses the composer's anti-militarism. José Siqueira wrote his tuneful Three Etudes for Oboe with Piano Accompaniment shortly before fleeing Brazil's military dictatorship. Klement Slavický's professional musical career had been derailed by the Czech Communist regime by the time he wrote his virtuosic Suite for Oboe and Piano.