Seshen - Cyan - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

364 Album Tracks 1. Distant Heart 2. Right Here 3. Spectacle 4. Other Spaces 5. Already Gone 6. Flames & Figures 7. Waiting for You 8. Firewalker 9. Fallen Skies 10. Periphery 11. Time?S Up 12. All I Know 13. Colors Collide

The 'École de Paris' was a group of composers from Central and Eastern Europe who made the French capital their home in the 1920s and '30s. One of their number was the Romanian Marcel Mihalovici, born in Bucharest in 1898 and based in Paris from 1919 until his death in 1985 - one of the most significant of twentieth-century composers who has yet to receive the recognition he deserves. This first album dedicated to his piano music traces his stylistic evolution, the early blend of French insouciance, echoes of eastern European folk-music and Neo-Classical contrapuntal clarity gradually taking a tougher turn and blending Bartók and Bach. It ends with a monumental passacaglia for the left hand alone, one of the most daunting summits of the piano literature. Album Tracks 1. Sonatine, Op. 11 (1922-23) 2. Quatre Caprices, Op. 29 (1928) 3. Ricercari, Op. 46 (1941) 4. Quatre Pastorales, Op. 62 (1950) 5. Sonate, Op. 90 (1964) 6. Passacaille (Pour la Main Gauche), Op. 105 (1975)

As the principal collaborator alongside Jason Swinscoe in the Cinematic Orchestra, Phil France is responsible for some of the most heartrendingly beautiful music created in recent times. Co-writing, arranging and producing on the Cinematic Orchestra albums including Everyday, Man with the Movie Camera, Ma Fleur and also the triple award winning soundtrack for the Crimson Wing nature documentary, France's skills have always extended beyond his bass-lines. Now living in Manchester, he initially made the move back to his native Yorkshire a couple of years ago after some time in London, where he set to work teaching himself the finer details of programming and began work on the Swimmer. Deeply emotive and epic in scale, it draws it's influences from the great second wave of film composers including John Carpenter and Vangelis, as well as minimalist composers such as Steve Reich and Philip Glass. France's skill, in this album, as well as his work with the Cinematic Orchestra, is in soundtracking human emotion - it is full of heartbreak and recovery, strength, honesty and frailty, it is meditative and hopeful. 4 Star reviews in Mojo, Q, Q oline, Louder Than War, Music OMH, Uncut, Loud & Quiet, Crack. Album Tracks 1. The Swimmer 2. Transition 3. Kubrick 4. Joy of Brass 5. London Park Hotel 6. December 7. Animator