Netherbird - The Grander Voyage - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Francis Poulenc is not an easy composer to relate to. Not the man himself perhaps- though possibly that too- but his music. It is somehow dated. Here is a composer who produced his best works, all more or less completely tonal, at a time when Arnold Schoenberg was writing twelve-tone music and Poulenc's countrymen Oliver Messiaen and Pierre Boulez were into innovative rhythms, scales and techniques to lift the music out of the realm of subjective emotionalism. This features three concertos by Francis Poulenc. The Concerto for Organ, Strings and Timpani (1938) is considered to be the most popular and, perhaps, the most serious. The Piano Concerto (1949), a light concerto a wellspring of musical ideas, more or less brutally juxtaposed. The Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra (1932) lies perhaps somewhere between these two.

2017 . Three years after Ironbird's successful debut album Black Mountain, the band is back with their second and self-titled effort. It contains eight airy songs filled with variation and '70s feel. Heavy guitar riffs, soaring and melodic vocals, hard-hitting and pounding drums and groovy basslines are the key elements of the record.

Double vinyl LP pressing. Celebrating 20 years of the Tennant / Lowe (Pet Shop Boys) soundtrack and the 100 year anniversary of the Soviet Union silent film 'Battleship Potemkin' with a new on vinyl for the very first time.