Sin Yeyoung - Talking To Myself - incl. 40pg Booklet - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Vladimir Kostadinovic compares his experience during the September 5, 2024 session in New York's Samurai Studios that gestated this tour de force - titled Iris for his daughter, then 8 years old - to the pressure of competing in the Olympic Games. InchYou have only one chance, Inch says the 44-year-old Vienna-based drummer. InchEverybody believes in you. Don't mess up now. We had one rehearsal. I come from a small place in Europe where we don't have that many opportunities to play NBA games with players-musicians of this capacity. You play a tour for one week, two weeks maximum, and then you have to wait a month. These musicians are challenged every single day. They grab you and you are safe.Inch Towards dealing with the pressure, Kostadinovic absorbed and executed sage advice from tenor titan George Garzone, his Inchsecond musical father.Inch InchGeorge told me 'Take a risk. Jump from the cliff and swim. You can think when you're rehearsing or composing. But when you arrive on stage or in the studio, that's it - let's go!'Inch He rises to the occasion with a gold medal performance, deploying his formidable drumset skills towards ensemble imperatives with savoir faire and panache that NBA superstar Nikolai Jokic, a fellow Serbian, might appreciate. Kostadinovic traces the back story to May 2023, when he propelled the late trumpeter Jim Rotondi's Over Here [Criss-1417], a lovely quintet recital with tenor saxophonist Rick Margitza, pianist Danny Grissett, and bassist Josh Ginsburg, all American expats with whom he'd shared bandstands over the previous decade-plus. In the liner notes, Rotondi (who assumed his position as Professor of Trumpet at the University of Graz in 2010, a year after Kostadinovic graduated with a Masters from that same conservatory) stated his appreciation of Kostadinovic's exhaustive assimilation of hardcore jazz drum vocabulary as practiced by h

Astrel K is Rhys Edwards of Ulrika Spacek. Astrel K's debut single 'You Could If You Can' was released via Duophonic Super 45s - a tag which has a history of releasing limited edition abstract releases from Stereolab, Broadcast & Yo La Tengo. 500 copies of the 7Inch were made, hand stamped and numbered, quickly selling out in selected record shops. Following the loss of KEN, a shared house in which Ulrika Spacek band members lived and worked from, Edwards relocated to Stockholm, Sweden where he began making music on his own InchAt this time, I didn't really know anyone in Stockholm so kinda retreated into making music just by myself. The album title definitely reflects this period; I was on my own making music and sometimes nothing would be happening and sometimes there would be little sparks of ideas that could keep me goingInch Edwards would spend nights writing and recording in a shared rehearsal space producing music rich with layers and texture, synonymous with the work of Ulrika Spacek but with perhaps a greater focus on the art of 'song writing'. Tracks with verse's and chorus's are surrounded by instrumental interludes; inspired by old library music and compositions for film as well as being reminiscent of bands such as Broadcast. The album doesn't sound like one made in either London or Stockholm, rather somewhere in the nether region. Written pre pandemic but mixed in the past year, the music led Edwards to finding like minded musicians from the Stockholm music scene InchThough I'm now glad I can say I wrote an album by myself, I was definitely confronted with my own musical strengths and weaknesses. Sometimes when you have an A/B decision you want some perspective and you'd be in the studio, turn around and no one is there. It really made me curious to bring in more people into the fold, not to compromise any original vision or anything, but to have other

RONIN 2 unfolds with keen storytelling and sparkling immediacy, pairing harmonic color with lyric-rich songwriting. Crafted with care and built for replay value. Expect soulful leads and forward momentum, with goosebump drops that linger long after the last note. A compelling listen for fans who crave song-first perspectives and emotive pull.