Rat-Zinger - Alegoria Del Mal - VINYL LP

Rat-Zinger - Bala Per Capita [VINYL LP] Spain - Import date 03/08/2024

As a jazz guitarist with a background in architecture, Matthias Ockert gets ideas for his works from the art of interior design, transferring spatial structures to music. A student of Wolfgang Rihm and Hanspeter Kyburz, Ockert combines a distorted electric guitar with flute and violin, and places succinctly rhythmic passages next to synthetic sound surfaces. On this portrait from Wergo, Ockert's music combines contemporary ensemble music, jazz music and electronic composition. The majority of the works released here are new productions recorded at the Centre for Art and Media Technology (ZKM) in Karlsruhe and are world premiere recordings.

Mägo de Oz, this time, brings us the story of a witch on Halloween night. An album with songs that retain their 100% Mägo DNA, but with a more modern sound. There are very Celtic songs, other very fun ones that evoke nostalgia for songs of yesteryear, and others with prose bordering on poetry. The music shows us a very mature Mägo with very recognizable and catchy melodies, where Celtic music and metal coexist to create full and dynamic songs, all led by a nuanced voice and the signature register of singer Rafa Blas, who embraces the classic sound of the Madrid band, giving it a previously unknown flavor. In short, Halloween, witches, cemeteries, violins, and bagpipes in a musical coven from the best and oldest Folk Metal band, who never cease to surprise us with each of their albums.