Various Artists - Their Sympathetic Majesties Request, Vol. 2 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Fresh off of their 2020 offering Adult Themes, El Michels Affair is back with a new full-length . Titled Yeti Season, this newest album has everything we've come to expect from EMA's patented cinematic style of instrumental soul music. Where Adult Themes inspired a soundtrack to an imaginary film, Yeti Season brings us to a different place in time-with new inspirations. Taken with Turkish-styled funk and an almost Mumbai-esque take on soul, El Michels Affair offers us a different kind of drama and imagination with Yeti Season. If you've been following along, this shouldn't be viewed as too far a departure for El Michels Affair. The first single off of Yeti Season showed their hand back in 2018. A double-sided banger, that brought the musical textures to the fore that dominate this record. The first song, titled InchUnathi,Inch is fully realized with the beautifully haunting-yet-hopeful vocals of Piya Malik, formerly of 79.5. Singing in Hindi, Piya's ethereal voice is telling us to work and strive together toward progress. Even if you don't understand her language, you can still hear the urgency of purpose, creating a lasting vibe that sits on top of it all. Leon Michels explains that Piya had a vital influence on this record InchWhen Piya started singing in Hindi, she had a different voice, a different tone. I knew we had to do something together.Inch And so Piya appears on three other songs on Yeti Season InchZaharila,Inch InchMurkit Gem,Inch and InchDhuaan.Inch Each providing particular signatures to the album. InchZaharilaInch is a building and changing love song punctuated by blaring trumpets, driving drums, and Piya's pleading lyrics. While the more upbeat InchMurkit GemInch opens with a fuzzed out, Wu-Tang-esque baseline that buoys Piya's stylings. The psychedelic guitar and Piya's changing tones and textures singing about an all-consuming love are what pus

The second volume of Bridge Nine's retrospective. This disc covers all of the vinyl only B9 releases from 2000-2005 in one package with new artwork. 28 songs in all, this record serves as a great introduction to modern day hardcore for some, and fills in all the final cracks in the collection for others.

When the first Spaniards arrived at Tzintzuntzín, the ancient Tarascan capital, they were entertained, so the worthy Spanish chroniclers of the 16th century tell us, with an all-night fiesta of dances and songs 'sad enough to have risen from hell.' And no wonder! It was no time for gaiety, for a dire fate already had befallen the Aztec capital a few hundred miles away. The pale-face 'guests' had come on a mission of peace. Four hundred years have passed since that fateful time. Again in 1965 the Tarascans were invaded by foreigners this time, however, they were friendly ones, in search of music... Henrietta Yurchenco.