The Meters - Cabbage Alley - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Brittney Wright - The Beginning [COMPACT DISCS] date 08/24/2010

Expanded two CD set. Influenced by the likes of Saint Vitus, Candlemass, Pentagram, Witchfinder General, Trouble, and (old) Black Sabbath, the roots of Dawn of Winter stretch back to the very early '90s, and their dream of playing pure and honest doom metal has not waned or changed in the slightest since then. A string of demo releases and an EP eventually led to the debut album In the Valley of Tears in 1998. This long out of print album is now re-released by I Hate as a deluxe digipak. Disc 1 features the full-length, In the Valley of Tears. Disc 2 consists of recordings never before released on CD including the pre-album demo tape In Servitude to Destiny (1996), and the two 12Inch EP's, Slow Is the Suffering (2001) and The Skull of the Sorcerer (2012). Almost two hours' worth of superbly crafted and passionately expressed doom metal from the German underground! No frills, no fads, no gimmicks, no asinine image! This is true doom the way it's meant to sound. A formula enduring in the hearts of real genre fans until the end of days.

2017 . Sometimes it is just a matter of timing and proximity that makes attractive collaborations possible. For years, singer/songwriter Rebecca Martin knew that she wanted to work with pianist/vocalist/composer Guillermo Klein. Klein's recent relocation to upstate New York, where Martin had made her home, made the opportunity of making music together possible. The beautiful results of their work can be heard on The Upstate Project. Martin is well known for her elegant songwriting and performance, commingling jazz and folk music. Aside from her solo work, she has regularly collaborated with a coterie of celebrated musicians, including Kurt Rosenwinkel, Paul Motian and Tillery, the celebrated vocal trio featuring Becca Stevens and Gretchen Parlato. Always community minded, Martin has become an advocate of sorts for collaboration in her musical and social endeavors, most notably in her adopted home of Kingston, New York. For his part, Klein has become a celebrated songwriter and composer, utilizing elements of jazz, modern classical, rock and Argentinean folkloric music. He had spent more than a decade living outside of the United States, both in Spain and Argentina, before returning and settling in Beacon, New York, a short distance from Martin.