Ruby Rushton - Legacy - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

IRONSIDE22a proudly present's the 4th studio album from the Tenderlonious led jazz quartet - Ruby Rushton. 'Ironside' is Ruby Rushton's most complete work to date and was recorded over a 2 day session at the legendary Abbey Road Studios. 'Ironside' sees the band continuing to push boundaries, and lead the way, with this new genre defying recording. The quartet's fresh, high energy sound is rooted in the spiritual concepts of John Coltrane and Yusef Lateef, paying homage to The Headhunters and Weather Report heyday, whilst still adopting influences from hip hop, Afrobeat and the UK underground culture. InchIronsideInch - meaning someone who is Inchcourageous and possessing great physical and mental strengthInch sums up the Ruby Ruston journey so far. A personal, against the odds journey, that required Tenderlonious starting a tag, 22a, back in 2013. Nobody much cared about jazz back in 2011 when the first Ruby Ruston album ('Two For Joy') was recorded, so the 22a was built, a home for friends and members of the family to music from. Fast forward to 2019 and the jazz landscape is looking a whole lot healthier. The album's title track embodies it's meaning more than any other track on the album. A highly technical, jazzy jungle mover, held down by Tim Carnegie's drums and Tenderlonious' expeditious flute solo. InchThe Return Of The HeroInch nods most explicitly to the ever-present flute hero Yusef Lateef, the prancing dance of InchEleven GrapesInch builds a locked groove perpetually upwards in spirals of dizzying frency, whilst InchTriceratops The CallerInch evokes alternating contributions from 4 Hero's sampled breaks, J-Dilla's loping beats and Lonnie Liston Smith's cosmic keys, all of which coalesce in a perfect, joyous blend. The solemn beauty of InchPrayer for GreenfellInch is a respectful and dignified memorial, befitting of the magnitude of many lives stolen a

Wym - After Moon [COMPACT DISCS] Asia - Import date 11/04/2014

Laula! Is the third album by Mike Fentross and Maarten Ornstein; following their debut duo album, Oblivion Soave and having worked with Rima Khcheich on the second album Ombre de Mon Amant, they are once again collaborating with an extraordinary singer - the Estonian mezzo-soprano Kadri Tegelmann. She is not only a superb interpreter of the Baroque music, as featured here, but she also introduced Maarten and Mike to the deep and rich tradition of Baltic vocal music with it's many folksongs, hymns and chants. Choosing the repertoire for this new album, they learned that many -if not most- Estonian folksongs are about events from the cycle of life, such as birth, marriage, lullabies, leaving and returning home, and death. These universal themes have been used in art for centuries all over the world, and they are the basis for the music on this album too. For each of the Estonian folksongs featured here they have found an equivalent from the Baroque era, and where possible paired the songs. Thus Girolamo Kapsperger's beautiful lullaby Filglio Dormi is paired with Lauliku lapsepõli, an old Estonian song about childhood memories. Elsewhere Une Sulased is carefully woven into Tarquinio Merula's monumental Canzonetta spirituale Sopra alla nanna. The lyrics of both songs are about the darker side of sleep, dreams, and nightmares. Mike and Maarten are particularly fond of the arrangement for Kurb Laulik, essentially a song about tears and crying so delicately sung by Kadri. In the background Mike and Maarten play Flow my tears by John Dowland, both as an accompaniment to Kadri and as a distant memory to Oblivion Soave, their first album on Zefir Records. Album Tracks 1. Häälerohi 2. Laula! 3. Ground 4. Ancor Che Col Partire 5. Meil Aiaäärne Tänavas 6. Noorik Lahkub Isakodunt 7. Ela Hästi 8. Figlio Dormi 9. Lauliku Lapsepõli 10. Vater Unser 11. Quare T