Stephen Salters - Averno - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Double LP vinyl. Pinning down the precise sound of Alt-J is an impossibility. Undeniably addictive, frequently danceable, Alt-J defies easy definition. The band uses 2,000 years' worth of musical traditions to pump out chart-eating albums. InchThis Is All YoursInch was released in 2014 and samples musical styles ranging from chanting monks to rock to soul to new age to dub step to choral to folk...and it works in a perfect blend! It is an impressive mix from a bunch of guys who met not all that long ago at Leeds University in the U.K. The album peaked at #4 on the Billboard 200 chart with production help from Charlie Andrew. It's most popular numbers are InchEvery Other Freckle,Inch InchLeft Hand FreeInch and InchHunger of the Pine.Inch The 2 LP album set offers the best possible sound. Atlantic Records. Album Tracks 1. Intro 2. Arrival in Nara 3. Nara 4. Every Other Freckle 5. Left Hand Free 6. Garden of England - Interlude 7. Choice Kingdom 8. Hunger of the Pine 9. Warm Foothills 10. The Gospel of John Hurt 11. Pusher 12. Bloodflood Pt. II 13. Leaving Nara

Songs for Stephen represents a nearly three-decade collaboration between esteemed composer Elena Ruehr and celebrated baritone Stephen Salter's. Elena describes the time Incha handsome and charismatic young man approached me after a premiere of one of my compositions at Boston University. He asked me to write him a song cycle for his debut recital with the Bank of Boston's Celebrity Series. I told him to send me a recording of his singing and I'd think about it. The first note I heard Stephen sing sent a bolt of energy down my spine this was the singer I had always wanted to write for!InchStephen reciprocates, InchWhat a once-in-a-lifetime collaboration has landed in my life both professionally and personally with Elena. From my first personal musical envelopment of her first song ever written for me, I truly fell in love with her creations for me, and thus we began this truly special and unique journey.InchElena evocatively sets some of America's most notable poets, including Cuban-American and National Humanities Medal recipient Richard Blanco who read his own work at the second inauguration of President Barack Obama, himself a subject of Five Men in Guggenheim Fellow Elizabeth Alexander's encapsulation of two centuries' worth of multiple African-Americans experiences. Leading light of the Harlem Renaissance Langston Hughes and feminist-activist Adrienne Rich lend their lyrics to poetry for children, both dark and light. The addition of the four-minute bonbon Lied, set to texts by Rainer Maria Rilke, is a reference to Elena's Germanic ancestry as well as the first song, by Schubert, that Elena heard Stephen sing.As with all of their collaborations over the years, Songs for Stephen brings Elena's evocative music to effervescent life by the baritone's sumptuous voice. Album Tracks 1. Five Men~I. Blue Prelude 2. Five Men~II. Waiting for Cinque 3. Five Men~II

Canada's Preoccupations return to the post-punk, post-pandemic world with Arrangements. Their 4th studio album finds them restoring their roots with the singular, guitar driven, dissonant yet anthemic washes of intricate noise that has brought them international acclaim since their basement beginnings. For lovers of all things Bowie, Branca, Spacemen 3 and MBV, progressive punk, jangle rock and mangled goth. Arrangements sees Preoccupations finally and confidently inhabiting the dystopia that they have been carefully creating from their musical genesis. They are in a room with taped up windows, except for a tiny pinprick of light beaming from the otherworld onto the far wall, upside down and blurred, it's recognizable enough to fill you with warm familiarity and nostalgia of unknown origins. Album Tracks 1. Fix Bayonets! 2. Ricochet 3. Death of Melody 4. Slowly 5. Advisor 6. Recalibrate 7. Tearing Up the Grass