Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis - The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis - VINYL LP

Thrash, prog, power, black, death, pure heavy metal and everything else your metal heart desires, all rolled into one album, is what Manticora is all about. The band, who started out in 1997 (nine albums ago) as a power metal outfit, has transformed and thereby developed their own unique style of heavy metal. They are a melting pot of everything you want to hear as a genuine metal fan. Welcome to InchMyceliumInch. After their grandiose, critically acclaimed, two-album concept from 2018/2020, plus a 334-page novel (written by the band's singer Lars F. Larsen) which the albums were based on, the Danes have Inchscaled downInch a bit and written another majestic concept album. This time only spanning a total running time of 48-minutes. InchMyceliumInch, the new opus, is less symphonic and takes an angrier, more raw approach, with aggression as it's main focus. Album Tracks 1. Winter Solstice 2. Necropolitans 3. Demonday 4. Angel of the Spring 5. Golem Sapiens 6. Mycelium 7. Beast of the Fall 8. Equinox 9. Mementopolis 10. Día de los Muertos

Apple Cores is the latest full-length album from New York tenor saxophonist James Brandon Lewis, Inchone of the fiercest sounds in jazz todayInch (The Guardian) with a Inchpenchant for unbound explorationInch (Pitchfork). Informed by the rhythms and textures of hip-hop and funk while remaining rooted in jazz, Apple Cores was recorded with Chad Taylor (drums/mbira) and Josh Werner (bass/guitar) over the course of two intense, entirely improvised sessions. The album takes it's name and intention from the column that poet and jazz theorist Amiri Baraka wrote for DownBeat in the 1960s. In addition to Baraka, the influence of another jazz giant looms mightily over Apple Cores trumpeter and multi-instrumentalist, Don Cherry. In a testament to Cherry's influence over the music that the trio is playing, Lewis designed each song title as a cryptogram of sorts, making subtle references to Cherry's life and music. Apple Cores further cements Lewis as one of the provocative and prolific musical voices of his generation. It follows his breakthrough with JazzTimes' Album of the Year Jesup Wagon (2021), a dreamlike mosaic of gospel, folk-blues, and catcalling brass bands inspired by inventor George Washington Carver, and Eye Of I (2023), his joyous and exploratory debut for ANTI-. Album Tracks 1. Apple Cores #1 2. Prince Eugene 3. Five Spots to Caravan 4. Of Mind and Feeling 5. Apple Cores #2 6. Remember Brooklyn & Moki 7. Broken Shadows 8. D.C. Got Pocket 9. Apple Cores #3 10. Don't Forget Jayne 11. Exactly, Our Music *Track 6 & 7 Swapped on LP Sequencing

For Closure - Cliffside Serenades [VINYL LP] Ltd Ed date 11/08/2024