Reubke - Sonata on the 94th Psalm in C Min - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

With the mindset of crafting a debut album conceived out of desire, raised by collaborative muscle-memory, and kept beating, by the sacred-heart of emotional-spirit, The Lounge Society's Tired of Liberty is a stunningly ubiquitous snapshot of instrumental meltdown, and timeless adolescence. Recorded over two weeks in November of 2021, the band were keen to uphold the manipulated elasticity of a recorded event, thus the majority of the eleven tracks were written either just before, or during those fortnight sessions. A rarity for most bands, The Lounge Society functions best as a collective entity. With no core-leader, everything from the sources of inspiration to the lyrics themselves, is handled collaboratively. Far from a documentation of disenfranchised youth, Tired of Liberty seeks to overthrow with striking articulation. Whether it's personal growth, banded maturity, or a hearty combination of the two, Tired of Liberty is an expertly captured documentation of four young-adults, at the baptism of their cultural-ignition.

This is the third and final instalment of the Well-Tempered Consort series (5 Diapasons, Gramophone Editor's Choice, BBC Music Magazine Chamber Choice). In this programme devised by it's director Laurence Dreyfus, the viol consort Phantasm continues to shine new light on the fugues from Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier interspersed with some of the composer's most harmonically adventurous experiments from the Clavierübung III. This polyphonic feast also includes two works from the Inventions and Sinfonias as well as the Fantasia in G major BWV 572, or Pièce d'orgue as it is sometimes called, which boasts an extraordinary closing pedal point. A fitting end to a remarkable journey!

Bhagavan Das's new CD, Mother Light is the culmination of a life long offering to the Lotus Feet of the Divine Light.