The Ram - Sudden Impact - 12-INCH SINGLE [12 inch Vinyl Single]

Iraqi-American trumpeter, santur player, vocalist, and composer Amir ElSaffar is a visionary and a pioneer of cross-cultural musical exploration. His six-piece Two Rivers Ensemble, formed in 2006, was among the first projects to combine jazz with Iraqi Maqams. In 2015, ElSaffar expanded the group to form the 17 member Rivers of Sound. The orchestra's 2017 Not Two (New Amsterdam) was described by the New York Times as 'an arresting debut album... full of momentum, but not in the way of a single moving thing. Instead, it seems to flow and spill across bounds' and Pitchfork Magazine called it '... a towering statement of purpose-wise to many traditions, even while it remains accessible to anyone.' With The Other Shore, Rivers of Sound's second , ElSaffar expands the group's musical palette, exploring new territories, with complex rhythmic cells and microtonal melodies melding together in rich, improvised textures created by the unique timbres of instruments and chemistry between the all-star musicians that make up this orchestra. Featured musicians include Fabrizio Cassol (alto saxophone), Nasheet Waits (drums), Miles Okazaki (guitar), Zafer Tawil (oud, percussion), Tareq Abboushi (buzuq), John Escreet (piano), and Ole Mathisen (tenor saxophone).

Ltd 300, 425gsm heavy cardboard cover, 4 pages insert, reissue 2024, Along with the new album InchLightbringerInch High Roller Records is also proud to InchForced EntryInch on vinyl. Finally! There have been rumors about a possible vinyl of InchForced EntryInch for years, so some people begand to doubt that it would ever happen. Ram's singer Oscar Carlquist explains why the publication took so long InchBecause we could not agree with our partly owned tag 'Black Path Metal Recordings'. Forces within that tag did not want to press it on vinyl for economic reasons and not sell the rights to it either. We always wanted a vinyl since we are vinyl fanatics. This time it worked out, thanks to AFM and High Roller.Inch So where is the main difference between InchForced EntryInch and InchLightbringerInch? Oscar Inch'Lightbringer' has some different dimensions to it that 'Forced Entry' did not have. It shows more facets of the sound. We try to do something different for every album and work with new concepts for every new song we make. I love both albums and I can't say that one is better than the other. I am just happy to be part of a band with such talented songwriters and musicians.Inch Ram being such a busy live act, of all the bands they have played with, which one did they like most? Oscar reflects InchI suppose you mean which bands Ram have shared stages with. That's a hard question, but Raven really blew me away when we played with them in Holland. I also loved the most recent shows we did with U.D.O, when they played 'Midnight Mover' at the soundcheck in Gävle. It gave me the goosebumbs so bad that I started to cry. U.D.O still has it, no doubt.Inch One of Ram's longterm aims is being able to live off their music InchAbsolutley, we have no intention of making this some ultra underground cellar project. Don't get me wrong I love the underground, being part of

Ltd 300, 425gsm heavy cardboard cover, 4 pages insert, reissue 2024, Well, alongside bands such as In Solitude, Portrait, Wolf or Bullet Sweden's Ram lead the pack of a new breed of fantastic Euro/Scandinavian Metal bands. They are a very busy live act, so their confidence practically growths from month to month. With their new album InchLightbringerInch out, their songwriting finesse has also increased. However, singer Oscar does not see a strong connection between Ram's growing confidence on stage and their studio work InchI really don't know if it has influenced our songwriting. Playing live is Ram in the flesh, Ram in the approriate volume. Songwriting is the spirit of Ram, the contemplative side of it all.Inch Elegantly put indeed. So where is the difference between the new album InchLightbringerInch and Ram's earlier recordings? Oscar Carlquist reflects InchWell, 'Lightbringer' is the latest Ram album, we have once again tried to push the envelope regarding our sound and traditional Heavy Metal in general. I think that it is a very diverse and interesting album. It probably differs from our other albums because this time we were more familiar with our own sound and how we work in studio. We had more experience and that gave us a bigger to work from.Inch As briefly mentioned above, with Ram, In Solitude, Portrait and a couple of others there seems to be some kind of InchNew Wave of Traditional MetalInch. Is that how Oscar sees things as well? That seems to be the case InchSure, all mentioned bands are immensly talented and involved in music for honest reasons. There is some form of small hype going on, but we don't care about that. I am sure that neither do In Solitude nor Portrait. Heavy Metal music is a lifestyle for us as it was back in the nineties when people would laugh at you for having a Dio T-shirt. Any serious artist keeps sales and trends out of h