Westbound Train - Transitions - VINYL LP

Blue Vinyl Reissue. Turin Brakes celebrate the 20th Anniversary of thier second album, Ether Song. This long out of print album has been repressed for the first time since 2003 in a limited double LP blue vinyl.

There are many biographies of Robert Schumann, but none that gives a real voice to his music - and the life and the music of this great Romantic composer were connected in a particularly subtle way. This new in the successful series of BR-KLASSIK audio biographies contains approximately 150 excerpts from Schumann's works; carefully interwoven into his life story, they give voice to his inner world. The mysterious Inchinner voiceInch that Schumann noted down in the score of his Humoreske op. 20 thus becomes the motto of this audio biography. InchUnknown songs I had never heard flowed through my heart - songs that sounded to me like ghostly voices.Inch It was this passage from ETA Hoffmann's Kreisleriana that inspired Schumann to write his own Kreisleriana op 16. In February 1854, the composer himself heard such voices - and this marked the start of a journey that would culminate in the mental asylum. Schumann's Inchinner voiceInch thus represents not only his romantic sensitivity but also his fragile and volatile psyche. Of course, this ten-part audio biography also devotes a lot of room to the relationship between Robert and Clara - probably the greatest Inchromantic novelInch of music history. Nothing is exaggerated, however; it is all based on the original sources, which are dramatic and touching enough in themselves. Outstanding actors including Udo Wachtveitl (narrator), Matthias Brandt (Schumann) and Brigitte Hobmeier (Clara) contribute, alongside further narrators, to all the fascinating sounds and colours of this audio biography. Performers such as John Eliot Gardiner, Eric Le Sage and Christian Gerhaher guarantee the highest quality in the musical excerpts, which also feature several rarities. The audio biography is rounded off by a new live recording of the InchSpring SymphonyInch with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, conducted by Mariss Ja

In November 2022, Westbound Train surprised fans with the of Dedication, their first album since 2009's InchCome And Get ItInch. They may have taken 13 years between albums, but the group sounds better than ever across these twelve tracks, and their signature soulful ska sound somehow manages to be both timely and timeless all at once. While Dedication is chock full of newly penned numbers as strong as any in the band's catalog, longtime fans will recognize InchRoom To BreatheInch, an updated version of a tune from their 2005 debut. Initially only available digitally, the music is now coming to vinyl with updated artwork and a lyric insert, just in time for their long awaited return to the stage.