Third Ear Band - New Forecasts from the Third Ear Almanac - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The choral music of Galina Grigorjeva - born in Simferopol in Ukraine in 1962 and based in Tallinn, in Estonia, since 1994 - is deeply rooted in the traditions of the Orthodox Church and in ancient Russian and Slavonic folklore. Although clearly by a contemporary composer, her works have a timeless, even hypnotic, quality that seems to reach back through the ages. She has been working with the Estonian National Male Choir - one of the finest in a country full of choirs - for some years now, and some of the works here were composed or arranged specifically for this recording. Album Tracks 1. Nox Vitae for Male-Voice Choir (2006-8) 2. Diptych for Male-Voice Choir (2011) 3. God Is the Lord for Cello and Male-Voice Choir (2014) 4. Prayer for Cello and Male-Voice Choir (2005/2014) 5. Agnus Dei for Male-Voice Choir (2022) 6. In Paradisum for Male-Voice Choir (2012/2014)

Album Tracks 1. Sonatae Tam Aris Quam Aulis Servientes Sonata I a Otto 2. Sonatae Tam Aris Quam Aulis Servientes Sonata II a Sei 3. Sonatae Tam Aris Quam Aulis Servientes Sonata III a Sei 4. Sonatae Tam Aris Quam Aulis Servientes Sonata Iv04 a Cinque 5. Sonatae Tam Aris Quam Aulis Servientes Sonata V a Sei 6. Sonatae Tam Aris Quam Aulis Servientes Sonata VI a Cinque 7. Sonatae Tam Aris Quam Aulis Servientes Sonata VII a Cinque 8. Sonatae Tam Aris Quam Aulis Servientes Sonata VIII a Cinque 9. Sonatae Tam Aris Quam Aulis Servientes Sonata IX a Cinque 10. Sonatae Tam Aris Quam Aulis Servientes Sonata X a Cinque 11. Sonatae Tam Aris Quam Aulis Servientes Sonata XI a Cinque 12. Sonatae Tam Aris Quam Aulis Servientes Sonata XII a Otto

CD reissue. The Third Ear Band came out of the artistic milieu surrounding the legendary Free School in the London of the late 1960s. They fused traditional and early music with a psychedelic sensibility, and - amongst other things - they produced the soundtrack to Roman Polanski's notoriously nasty version of Shakespeare's MacBeth. They appeared at the Rolling Stones' free concert in Hyde Park in July 1969 and the Isle of Wight festival a month later two impressively high profile gigs for such a determinedly esoteric band. It is impossible to think of something like that happening these days, mores the pity. The band split up in the early 1970s, but reformed (to everyone's surprise) in the late 80s when, one would have thought, the culture of rampant consumerism under Margaret Thatcher was even less conducive to their weird experimentation than had been the early 1970s. This record was released in 1993 and highlights include InchDance With DolphinsInch, the very English folk-sounding ten-minute InchWater Into WineInch and the tribal InchPsychedelic Trance DanceInch. Line-up Mick Carter - guitar, Glen Sweeney - percussion, Neil Black - violin and Lyn Dobson - synthesizer, flute & vocal. Some interesting sounds, no doubt. Album Tracks 1. Sirocco Song 2. Midnight Drums 3. Spell of the Voodoo 4. Dances with Dolphins 5. Water Into Wine 6. Alchemical Raja 7. Psychedelic Trance Dance 8. Raja of the Wind (1991 Bonus Track)