Scanner - An Ascent - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The Homeland of Electricity, the second album for the DiN imprint by British Electronic Musician Scanner sees Rimbaud utilizing a different toolset from his first album, An Ascent (DiN63), released in July 2020. Here he focuses in on several Elektron instruments such as the Analog Four, Analog Rhythm and Digitakt. Whilst his debut album was forged live in his studio during the start of the global pandemic here Rimbaud was after a lighter, more optimistic tone. As Rimbaud puts it 'this album feels like a sound polaroid of this exact moment in time, capturing our times in atmospheric sound works, where light will be found again, even in the midst of struggle'. Album Tracks 1. You and Me 2. Air in the Air 3. Another Aircraft 4. Grain, Letting Go 5. Beginning of An Unknown Century 6. Artemovsk 7. At Last It Moves Into Silence 8. Heaven Research Unlimited 9. Acentria 10. Traces Upon Traces

Dmitri Shostakovich's long-lost Impromptu for Viola and Piano, Op. 33, recently unearthed in the Moscow State Archives, receives here it's world-premiere recording on Matthew Lipman's Ascent, the acclaimed young American violist's solo debut album, featuring, in the artist's words, Inchmusic enraptured by flights of fantasy.Inch Recipient of a 2015 Avery Fisher Career Grant, Lipman has created an album of uplifting and spiritually transcendent works for viola and piano, dedicated to his late mother. Hailed by The New York Times for his Inchrich tone and elegant phrasing,Inch Lipman is heard in the world-premiere recording of Clarice Assad's fantasy piece, Metamorfose, which the violist commissioned. It's a poignant commentary on grief and acceptance. Robert Schumann's Fairy Tale Pictures is dreamlike and fanciful. York Bowen's richly expressive Phantasy draws on the Russian Romantic tradition. Garth Knox's free-flying Fuga libre transfigures Bach-like fugal fragments through modern, coloristic performance techniques. The album's finale is the first-ever recording on viola of Hollywood composer Franz Waxman's popular violin showpiece, Carmen Fantasie. England's The Telegraph praised Lipman as Inchgifted with poise and a warmth of timbreInch for his recording of Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante with violinist Rachel Barton Pine, the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, and Sir Neville Marriner (Avie), which topped the Billboard classical chart. Lipman's collaborator on Ascent is pianist Henry Kramer, winner of the Second Prize at the 2016 Queen Elisabeth competition and top prizes at the 2015 Honens International Piano Competition and 2011 Montreal International Music Competition. His first commercial recording, dedicated to Liszt oratorio transcriptions, was recently released on Naxos.

Album Tracks 1. Immer 2. Ne Travaillez Jamais 3. Strassen 4. Cool 5. Jetzt 6. Aldimarkt 7. Einfach 8. Jack Your Body to the Beat 9. Moi, Je Veux 10. Photos 11. Schanze 12. Untitled Track