The Skygreen Leopards - Life and Love In Sparrow's Meadow - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Mix of pop melodies, minimal country truisms, jingle-jangling Californianism, and angular folk. Lyrically and conceptually, the duo continue down their twisted path after five full-lengths and an EP in their five year history. The ghosts of girl-beauties, whispering trees, swimming-hole cousins, crippled horses, and human-faced animal-saints all join the dizzying parade. Album Tracks 1. Disciples of California 2. Places West of Shawnapee 3. Sally Orchid 4. Egyptian Circus 5. Marching Band 6. William & the Sacred Hammer 7. Golden Pilgrim 8. Jesus Was Californian 9. I Remember Sally Orchid 10. Silvery Branches 11. Hollow Tree

The first new album in three years by this San Francisco group finds them in peak form. A perfect summer jam for the party hogs and mystics out there still searching for the soundtrack to their annual awakening. Look for them on tour in late summer. RIYL Vetiver, Fleet Foxes, the Papercuts. LP contains a digital download coupon for free MP3s of the full album. Album Tracks 1. Johnny's Theme 2. Margery 3. Dixie Cups in the Dead Grass 4. SGL's, Et Al 5. Can Go Back 6. Goodnight Anna 7. Jehovah Will Never Come 8. Gorgeous Johnny 9. Inland Towns 10. Nine Car Train for Fremont 11. Robber's Lace 12. If Our Love Fails 13. Paid By the Hour

Already in ancient times people played with the proximity of love and war. Thus the goddess of love Venus deceives her husband Vulcanus with the god of war Mars, and the Roman poet Ovid writes in his Amores the winged word InchMilitat omnis amansInch (Every lover is a soldier in war). These conditions were also reflected musically in modern times, when the masters of the 16th century emphasized sometimes more the warlike, sometimes more the amorous playfulness of love in their works. In it's latest album for COVIELLO, the Ensemble thélème also unfolds a fascinating panorama of musical states of mind of past times. The ensemble thélème specializes in the performance of early music. thélème, founded in 2013 by Artistic Director, Jean-Christophe Groffe, is largely made up of musicians who graduated from the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. The name of the ensemble refers to the utopia described by François Rabelais at the end of his novel Gargantua. Thélème is a hexagonal five-story Renaissance chateau built with precious materials. At Thélème, there is no outer wall, no clock. What is the point of worrying what time it is when we are not dependent on time, when we decide ourselves when we will get up, eat, work, or dedicate ourselves to the pleasure of conversation? The name alone says it all the Greek InchtheloInch means InchI wantInch, so thélème can be translated as Inchfree willInch. Album Tracks 1. L;E Chant de L'alouette 2. J'ay Dict, J'ay Faict 3. Au Joly Jeu Du Pousse Avant 4. Fuyons Tous D'amour Le Jeu 5. Est-Cs Mars Et Courante de Mar 6. Le Chant Du Rossignol 7. Premiere Fantasie 8. Ô Voix, Ô de Nos Voix 9. Prelude 10. Ô Mal D'aymer 11. Pavane Le Baraille 12. « Arm', Arm' » - la Guerre 13. Puisque Les Ans N'ont Qu'un Printemps