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CD/DVD Releases: Musea Records April Releases/Distribution Titles

Posted on Thursday, March 31 @ 16:00:00 UTC by nightowl

In the lastest dispatch from Musea Records, the following titles are on their release or distribution calendar for April:

Tori - Albatross: Tori is a Japanese experimental duo. Their music consists of the electronic sounds of the computer and a live recording of the drum. They want to make original and innovative music that nobody has ever made [before], and make many people to listen to it by performing around the world. As they are Japanese, they also want to adopt traditional Japanese music in their music so that any listener can feel the Japanese spirit. The theme of the album is "despair and hope." It expresses "despair" with dark tones, but they want the listners to feel "hope" with the whole album.

Exawatt - Among Different Sights: Italian prog metallers Exawatt, born in 1991, in recent years have played as support to Pain of Salvation, Vision Divine, Labyrinth, Eldritch, Novembre and more, and now come back again on the international scene with their second work, called Among Different Sights, mastered by Markus Teske (Vanden Plas, Dominici, etc.) at Bazement Studio in Hünstetten (Germany). The cover, as for the first work, Time Frames (Deadsun Records, 2006), is from Portuguese artist Augusto Peixoto. Exawatt bring the classic sound of the prog metal of the 90s: great melodies and not common technique. In this work you can also find the very beautiful voice of Cecilia Menghi, a now stable feature in the Exawatt lineup. The 10 news tracks are for fans of Kamelot, first Dream Theater and Conception but also with classical prog rock elements of the 70s. You can find a cover on the final ghost track: "Breakfast In America" from Supertramp, revised in Exawatt style.

Hemmelig Tempo - Who Put John Cage On The Guestlist?: The lab-coat dressed quasi-scientists of Norwegian improvisational sound research trio Hemmelig Tempo are known for their unique live research seminars and surrealistic experiements such as "Bird Imitation Experiment" and "Six Unlikely Duos." The album Who Put John Cage On The Guestlist? is a remarkable collage of the trio's electronic sound experiments across three years, assembled at Professor Fokuda-san's infamous Mountain Seminar at Rjukan. Science will never be the same.

ProgFest 1995 - Day One and ProgFest 1995 - Day Two: ProgFest 1995 is a long-awaited album, both by the ones who were lucky enough to be able to attend this major Progressive rock event and by the less fortunate ones who could not. With the care and attention to detail shown in the 1994 version, this double-CD includes the performances from Ars Nova, Landberk, Spock's Beard, White Willow, Solaris and Deux Ex-Machina. Mostly mixed by Jean-Pascal Boffo, this album sounds as perfect as the recordings from six of today's best Progressive rock bands deserve. The filmed version of the festival features each day on a separate DVD. "Day One" (November 9th, 1995) presents a much [more] complete set-list than [on] the audio edition: Ars Nova can be heard performing "Transi," while White Willow has twice as many titles, with the addition of "Snowfall" and "John Dee's Lament." You weren't there? Here's your second chance!

Shades Of Dawn - Graffity's Rainbow: Shades OF Dawn (vocals, guitar, keyboards, bass & drums) is a German progressive rock band from Düsseldorf. Its musicians develop some sophisticated music with elegant melodies, enlightened by muffled chords of keyboards. [I suspect they mean "muted" as in subtle perhaps - ed.] The precious vocals evoke those of Premiata Forneria Marconi, whereas the fineness of the arrangements, the airborne and Steve Hackett-like soarings on guitar, the refined lyricism of the songs, melodies often remind of post-Gabriel Genesis. The band also likes to immerge [immerse themselves?] into complex instrumental passages, with a Camel-like subtlety. Shades Of Dawn released the album The Dawn Of Time in 1998. Now on the Musea label, the groupe today presents From Dusk Till Dawn (2007). This album is basically composed of tracks dating back to 1994, reworked and enriched with additional parts, some songs of that time being rerecorded on this occasion. The result is much more than a collector's item, this is an excellent symphonic rock album. Shades Of Dawn then was influenced by Eloy, Pink Floyd, Camel and Genesis (amongst others...), including Marillion in some keyboards solos. Here is some very melodic music, often carried by a really lyrical guitar, finely played, including many dynamic and lively instrumental sequences, and very ethereal atmospheres. Before the next album, Graffity's Rainbow, you should appreciate this nice piece of pure symphonic progressive rock. [I believe this pr bit dates from before the release of Graffity, but the new one out this April is GR -ed.]

The Unlimited Trio - The Unlimited Trio: The Unlimited Trio is a Belorussian-Czech original experimental instrumental musical project whose main purpose is to not limit itself to any one style or genre. The Unlimited Trio consists of the acoustic guitar (Nikita Krein), the viola (Ilia Chernoklinov) and the accordion (Aleksandr Yasinski) - it’s a very unique instrumental mix. In pieces of The Unlimited Trio you can hear the elements of various historical eras and the elements of classical music, folk, avant-garde, ambient, rock and jazz, but the main thing is not to play the game with those styles, the main idea is to plunge deep into an inner world of human person, to understand the conditions and the situations and to transform it into music. That is what The Unlimited Trio have made on their first album – 8 different compositions, 8 different moods – bright, chaotic, kind, furious, mysterious, obsessed, sunny, rainy and strange... – how human life actually is. The Unlimited Trio – music without limits, music for You.

Of the distributed titles, first we have three titles from Expression Records, the label of Phil Manzanera, the English guitarist of Roxy Music (1971-1983) who has also recorded with Bob Dylan, Jack Bruce, Keith Richards, and Joe Satriani as well produced records for David Gilmour and Robert Wyatt, among others. The label releases both Manzanera's solo work as well as from his group 801. The titles for April are: Phil Manzanera - Diamond Head and The Music 1972-2008, a 2CD plus DVD set, and Quiet Sun - Mainstream.

From Voiceprint, Musea is distributing: Nik Kershaw - Live In Germany 1984, Roger Eno - Anatomy and Fragile, Atto IV - Shattered Lines, Trey Gunn - I'll Tell What I saw - 1993-2010, Mike Westbrook - Mama Chicago and Merrell Fankhauser - Return To Mu.

[Source: Musea Records]

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