Steve Drewett - Kujenga Society - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

2013 collaboration between Basque Country based musicians Miguel A. Garcia, no-input mixer and oscillators, and John Imbernon, guitar and effects pedal. Their encounters are always collisions of love and violence in the path of the desired ignorance. The two musicians fuse powerful oscillation fields with discordant guitar to form a work of slow, meticulous chaos. Metaphysical inflections in the crest of the forgot. The sound of thunder. Anekkyy is the landscape of America, swallowed by our souls. The vacuum in the rocks, the silences in the last waterfall, the magma overwhelming when they hatch the eagles, the loneliness of man-made desert.

Revered for his Hammond organ work, soul-jazz grooves, and his three-decade career leading The James Taylor Quartet, maestro keyboard player James Taylor releases his first album of classical works. His long association with Acid Jazz Records continues, as the tag also steps into the classical world for the very first time. Recorded solo on a Steinway grand piano, Taylor performs some of his favorite pieces from the classical cannon, with familiar tunes alongside lesser-known works on this beautiful, atmospheric recording. His interpretations show a deep love of classical music. Always one to evolve, just as the James Taylor Quartet introduced Herbie Hancock to the indie scene of the late '80s, Taylor in turn introduces his audience to a new repertoire, with a remarkable, fresh and modern solo classical piano album. Album Tracks 1. Hasse Polonaise in G Major, BWV 130 2. Beethoven Leichte Sonate (1st Movement from Sonata No. 20, Op. 49) 3. Beethoven Leichte Sonate (2nd Movement from Sonata No. 20, Op. 49) 4. Bach Solfeggio in C minor, H.220 5. Beethoven Sonate Pathetique (2nd Movement from Sonata No. 8) 6. Bach Gavotte (French Suite No. 5 in G Major) 7. Mozart Allegro (1st Movement from Sonata No. 16 in C Major, KV 545 8. Scarlatti Allegretto (4th Movement from Sonata E minor, K. 81) 9. Beethoven Moonlight Sonata (1st Movement from Sonata No. 14 Op. 27)

There's a lyric burnt into InchAbandonInch - the slow, searing scorch of an opening track that begins Sprints' gargantuan second album All That is Over - that cuts to the core of the incendiary Dublin quartet right now InchI don't grow old / I grow unrecognisableInch.Not only does it kick the door down to a record that wrestles with the horrors outside and the strengths within, fighting for the necessity of art and hope and love amidst an incomprehensible world on fire, it also winks at Sprints' own thrilling trajectory. Having underlined their status as one of the UK and Ireland's most exciting breakthrough bands with their universally-acclaimed 2024 debut Letter to Self, vocalist and guitarist Karla Chubb, bassist Sam McCann, drummer Jack Callan and new guitarist Zac Stephenson return for their second act as an evolved entity stronger, sharper and fully assured.InchI think we came out of 2024 as quite literally different people and a completely different band to how we entered it,Inch says Karla. InchThere was a lot of growing and a lot of work on myself, and in the background we did a lot of work as friends and on being there for each other as a band. Letter to Self was so riddled with self-consciousness and a need to prove myself in a very male-dominated industry that really held me back in a lot of ways. And now, on this album, I could not give less of a F**k.InchThe groundwork that Sprints laid down with their debut marked them out as a musical triple-threat in the alternative landscape a visceral live band capable of selling out increasingly sizeable tours, earning five star reviews (NME, DIY and more) and an Irish Choice Music Prize nod, while landing themselves on BBC Radio One. Throughout 2024 alone, they toured the UK, Europe and America twice, ending the year with a celebratory, sold-out show at London's O2 Forum Kentish Town. All That is Over lays out