Roger Matura & the Niss Puk Band - Times Are Gonna Get Harder - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Fatboy Wilson and Old Viejo Bones is a new project from acclaimed Brooklyn folk and blues musicians Samoa Wilson and Ernesto Gomez. Their self titled debut album features five brand new original songs as well as inventive interpretations of a wide range of folk songs. Samoa Wilson is widely regarded as one of the best blues, jazz, and folk singers in New York City. The New York Times calls her singing Inchsweet, effortless, old-timeyInch and Nat Hentoff has called her style Inchthe essence of unaffected musical storytelling.Inch Wilson grew up with music in her family, and began singing jug band music, early jazz and blues with her uncle Jim Kweskin at a young age. Ernesto Gomez, originally from Union City, NJ, has been writing songs and playing blues harmonica and guitar for a number of years with his band the Brotherhood of the Jug Band Blues. His influences are broad and include Cuban, Mexican, and rap music along side classic blues sources. Gomez was schooled by the late blues great Carolina Slim and Down Home Radio has called him Inchan authentic blues manInch. Fatboy Wilson and Old Viejo Bones seamlessly blends the original and the traditional. The down home traditional songs speak easily to the listener, and their original songs present a strong realization of contemporary songwriting in a traditional style.

Fatur - Strafatur [COMPACT DISCS] Italy - Import date 06/09/2017

Kurt Sanderling (1912-2011), born in Prussia, fled Germany for the USSR on the invitation of his Jewish relatives living there, to seek artistic and personal refuge from the Nazi regime. He remained in the Soviet Union until 1960, working as assistant conductor and sharing concerts with the legendary Yevgeny Mravinsky, chief conductor of the Leningrad Philharmonic. In 1960, he moved to East Berlin to become music director of the Berlin Symphony Orchestra (1960-1977) and the Dresden Staatskapelle (1964-1967) and started conducting around Europe, Japan, the US, and in the UK forming a close rapport with the New Philharmonia (later Philharmonia) in 1972. He developed a strong personal relationship with Shostakovich, which began in 1943 and which lasted for decades. Shostakovich's Symphony No.10, written in 1953 following the death of Stalin, is regarded by many as his greatest work. The composer said of it, 'I wrote it right after Stalin's death and no one has yet guessed what the symphony is about. It's about Stalin and the Stalin years. The second part of the Scherzo is a musical portrait of Stalin.' The short filler is a performance of Balakirev's Islamey, directed by Kirill Kondrashin (1914-1981), one of Russia's greatest conductors and a close friend of Shostakovich who recorded the entire cycle of the composer's symphonies with the Moscow Philharmonic.