Outer Spaces - Gazing Globe - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Casting his mind back over twenty years to his first rudimentary experiments with sampling using his father's old cassette recorder, Jens Lekman recalls an instinct to create music that would set him far apart from his Swedish pop peers InchAll my friends were playing in these bass-guitar-drum bands,Inch he says. InchI'm going to sound like Scott Walker. But I'm going to do it in my bedroom.Inch Works of sweeping, maximalist, orchestral wonder sung in a sumptuous tenor, weaving lifts from obscure flea market vinyl records, telling burningly romantic and mordantly funny true-life tales from the sleepy-shadowy suburbs of Gothenburg, Lekman's early songs come from a different time and place an era when the internet was young, limitless and disruptive, sample culture was turning music inside out, and anything felt possible. After initially finding an audience through peer-to-peer file sharing sites, Lekman signed to Secretly Canadian Records in 2003, and went on to a slew of cherished material, including three cult limited-edition EPs - Maple Leaves, Rocky Dennis and Julie - later collected on the 2005 compilation album Oh You're So Silent Jens. His DIY fantasias found their fullest and most celebrated form in 2007 on his second proper album, the exquisite Night Falls Over Kortedala - Lekman's self-professed Inchdream record.Inch It went to number one in Sweden and was later hailed as one of the 200 best albums of the 2000s by Pitchfork, as well as one of the top 100 albums of the 21st century so far by The Guardian. Now, both Oh You're So Silent Jens and Night Falls Over Kortedala no longer exist in their original forms. Oh You're So Silent Jens enigmatically disappeared in 2011; Night Falls Over Kortedala followed suit in early 2022. Lekman's impulse for giving old music fresh life and context has led him to remake the records under new names, each delicately positi

Pioneering rock/world beat/fusion band Santana has sold 20 million albums, garnering many now classic hit singles along the way. Their original Greatest Hits album (from 1974) only covered their first 5 years. Now comes a Best of set that contains hit songs and fan favorites spanning the band's entire 30-year Columbia career. 16 tracks including InchEvil Ways,Inch InchOye Como Va,Inch InchBlack Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen,Inch InchHold On,Inch InchAll I Ever WantedInch and more, all remastered for stunning sound quality.

From the liner notes InchIngenious use of echo, artificial reverberation and electronic alterations gives the music in this category a weird, spooky futuristic, 'out of this world' quality, well-suited to super-natural happenings of any kind. Piano, drums and electronic instruments are used to achieve the strange atmosphere and spatial sounds.Inch Vaclav Nelhybel crafts a supernatural world, describing nebulae, meteors, star clusters and craters on Mars with sounds natural and manipulated to tell the story of cosmic space.