Verlaine or the Music of Words-Music Inspired by P - Music & Poetry - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

B. Maderna - Verlaine Lyrics [COMPACT DISCS] date 08/06/2002

Hirundo Maris has constantly explored new musical worlds and forms of expression since it was founded in 2009 under the direction of Arianna Savall and Petter Udland Johansen. They are now taking a completely different path with this new project for the tag Fuga Libera, which is devoted to a great and wonderful song tradition, the nineteenth- and twentieth-century art song, featuring composers such as Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Fauré, Debussy, Mompou, Toldrà, García Lorca, de Falla and Grieg - all of whom were so significant for this chamber music genre. InchThe love of poetry and music that we (Arianna Savall and Petter Udland Johansen) share is something that we invariably explore in all our projects with Hirundo Maris. It was very important for us to do this in our own personal way, and to bring to the music our own personal sound and love. That is why we arranged all of the music anew so that it would integrate with the musical universe of Hirundo Maris. You will hear a great love and respect for this music made by these fantastic composers in the spirit of Hirundo Maris, with music coming from the sunny Mediterranean and reaching to frosty Scandinavia.Inch

In an article for The Guardian titled 'Belgium's 'Popcorn the last underground music scene in Europe' musician and writer, Bob Stanley wrote 'the purity of Belgian Popcorn is it's very impurity. R&B, Broadway numbers, tangos, Phil Spector-Esque girl groups, and loungey instrumentals, they are all constituent parts of a rare, and still largely undiscovered scene. It won't stay that way forever.' Sadly the trademark InchPopcornInch dance style (that reminds me in more than one way of the American InchShagInch dance and culture still so popular in Carolina) stayed pretty much in Belgium. Everywhere else, the British InchvisionInch of the Popcorn genre and dance seem to be the most popular version around the World (just like all the other similar genres I mentioned) and not the original and Belgian Popcorn. In the current InchinternationalInch version of Popcorn (mainly focused on the gritty R&B side of the genre) the minor key seems to be almost mandatory and slower Northen Soul dance moves replaced the original hand dance that was actually a slower version of InchclassicInch 1950s rock and roll dancing. On the other hand, this created a new InchbuzzInch that seems to appeal to younger generations, while in Belgium the Popcorn crowd is mostly composed of people over 40. For strange that it seems only a few compilations of American and other R&B and pop music in the Belgian Popcorn style (also known as InchOldies PopcornInch) have been released to this day. Before this series (of 3 volumes) none of them focused on blues (even if lotta songs included here are already regarded by many as InchclassicsInch of the genre) so I decided to change that. That with a truckload of boss platters straight from his old record box. This second helping of boss InchPopcorn BluesInch tracks anthology features more great tunes. Dig it!