Ripe - Bright Blues - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

RIPE / PLAY THE GAME (CD) Following the critically acclaimed Bright Blues and sold out shows across the country, Ripe are back with their new LP Play The Game produced by the legendary Joe Chiccarelli (The White Stripes, My Morning Jacket, The Front Bottoms). InchA highlight of the national festival sceneInch according to the Boston Globe, the album builds on Ripe's signature sound with soaring melodies, emotional lyrics, and blending driving pop-rock with tight horn arrangements.

Vinyl LP pressing. 2017 album from the saxophonist and multireedist. All This I Do For Glory is a reasoning and exploration of the machinations of ambition and legacy, an examination of the concepts of afterlife, and the first half of a doomed love story in the model of the Greek tragedies. With this, his first solo outing since 2013's To See More Light, Colin Stetson ventures into territory both familiar and strange. Here still, is the dogmatically stripped down approach to performance and capture (all songs recorded live with no overdubs or loops) but there is an immediacy to the album that belies a more invasive and thorough mic'ing of the various instruments being utilized and a seeming influence drawn from the early nineties electronica of artists like Aphex Twin and Autechre, evident in the more pointed role played by the instruments' many percussive elements. There are ancestries, motivic and timbral, woven through these six songs that plainly anchor them within the shared universe of his Trilogy, though the overall experience is one of extreme intimacy, the sounds and imagery more tangible and immersive than previous offerings. Engineered and mixed by Stetson himself, this album represents a decidedly independent approach across the entire creative process and finds him at the top of his game, both as a composer and instrumentalist as well as a producer.

EU edition features five bonus tracks over the U.S. pressing. Two CD collection from the Jazz legend features 38 tracks including two remixes, 'Feeling Good' (Joe Claussell Remix Radio Edit) and 'See-Line Woman' (Masters at Work Remix). Nina Simone was one of the most celebrated and thought provoking artists of the 20th century. Universal.