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CD/DVD Releases: New Releases / Distributions From Musea September / October

Posted on Monday, October 14 @ 20:03:50 UTC by nightowl

The folks at Musea have the following titles now available, some Musea Records releases, others distributions by other labels, starting with: Amnesiac Quartet - Tribute To Radiohead Vol 2 - Established in 2006 by Sébastien Paindestre, Amnesiac Quartet is the only group dedicated solely to the music of Radiohead. Apart from being one of the most influential and renowned bands today, Thom Yorke's group achieved, not intentionnally, to build a bridge between the so-called popular music and Seventies' Progressive rock. It was obvious then, for young jazz musicians inspired by the latter, to pay their own tribute. All used to big stages and the jazz French music scene, those four talented musicians are (or were) members of Rigolus, Jean-Louis or Surnatural Orchestra, like drummer Antoine Paganotti (Magma). Halfway between jazz and Progressive rock, the perform a music all at once strong, refined and organic music...

Astrovoyager - ElectrOpera - Act 02 - Modulations - Astrovoyager, aka keyboardist Philippe Fagnoni, is always looking for new sensations in music and sound. This young, original musician attempts to deal, in a very personal style, with themes that are on the border between music dedicated to the image and relaxation music. His art is both like the great masters, like Vangelis or Jean-Michel Jarre, as well as some of the most renowned composers of film music, such as Hans Zimmer and Eric Serra.

Using synthesizers as the only driver, Astrovoyager develops Impressionist music, mixing themes, symphonic tapestries and electronic tracks. To avoid the pitfalls of usual electronic music, he develops real melodies, alternating intimate orchestrations and rhythmically chiseled compositions. Published on the Dreaming label, the second album Temporal Gravitation² (2006) plunges the listener in the middle of deep and mesmerizing layers, blending delicate synthetic harmonies and dynamic rhythms. These fifteen instrumental tracks manage to detach the listener from all material contingencies, resulting in the spatial and musical journey to the heart of the Temporal Gravitation for nearly 45 minutes. One sometimes thinks the world of The Universal Migrator Part One - The Dream Sequencer (Ayreon), which is no small compliment!

After an epic in the heart of Temporal Gravitation² the Traveler Astral now invites us to another journey in a unique world. Philippe Fagnoni, atypical musician and innovative artist, offers his new multimedia appointment, this time around Symphotronic Lunation. Here his synthesizers and electronic keyboards are now mixed with the instruments of a full band: perfect mix to create his own musical signature cocktail, combining wealth and simplicity. A musical short film, directed by Eric Parisi, photographed by Bruce Pierson and book set by Stéphane Monbel has been specially created to dress this music. An adventure to hear and watch for while taking the plunge into the world of dreams: an invitation to relax.

Astrovoygers next multimedia project brings new musical horizons while staying true to what has been his strength: a big sound, now complemented by visual avant-garde choreography. In other words, here is a musical album out of the common, a mature work! ElectrOpera, which takes a new step in the exploration of sound and Astrovoyager pushes the experience later in the unexpected. A real electro-acoustic opera in four acts where baroque rubs the abstract. In 2012, discover ElectrOpera - Act 01 - Pulsations now in 2013, ElectrOpéra 2013 - Act02 - Modulation, which was released by Musea in September.

Adouk Boucan - Blanche - Adouk Boucan is a twenty-year-old composer and producer from Bordeaux. In a cold and broken groove, Blanche (Musea Parallèle, 2013) tells a terrible love story: that of the daughter of the Moon, who came down to earth out of boredom and in order to discover imaginary metropoles inhabited by disturbing characters. One of them is to become her lover. Anachronistic and contradictory, the world she enters mixes double-basses and machines, yesteryear swing and nocturnal, tribal or icy sounds. Not to be missed!

Mongol - Doppler 444 - A superb Japanese re-issue situated at the very end of creative fusion and Zeuhl: the long final piece is remarkable, thanks to the fact that its influences, like Weidorje, Magma, Art Zoyd and Univers Zero, can be heard one after another with power and strength.




Quartiers Nord - One Again A Fly - Quartiers Nord, the Marseille rock band! Their all developing music has been instantly recognizable since 1977, a music made of a tasty mix between Marseille poetry, good old rock 'n' roll and oriental influences. It perfectly reflects the cosmopolitan composition of the group now consists of ten musicians . Among the founding members, we find Philippe and Alain Troïsi Chiarazzo, future Eclat members . Quartiers Nord created a musical style that has made for many imitators, starting with Zebda of Toulouse . After ten albums, the returned in top form with The International Massaliote (2003): This small masterpiece hardly contains its power, the image of "Tombé Du Camion" or "Déferlante De Maquereaux En Qu&ecedil;te De Girelles Au Large de Planier." It will be understood that humor is pervasive throughout the eleven tracks, illuminated by the banter and focus so typically Mediterranean. Immerse yourself in deep immersion in the port of Marseille! After the release of the album, we offer a DVD under evocative title: 2001 - L'Odyssée De L'Estaque (2001). Recorded on 20 May 2001 at the Theatre Odeon, the show mixes humor with happiness, energetic music and parody unlikely musical. A big event like that! ... And in 2013, Musea releases One Again A Fly, another DVD from the group, also recorded live on tour.

Siiilk - Way To Lhassa - Alchemy of a novel and creative meeting between five musicians: Gilbert Gandil and Jacques Roman from the famous band Pulsar, Richard Pick, Guillaume Antonicelli and Attilio Terlizzi. Siiilk with its album Way To Lhassa, blends music and poetry to take us from the lowlands of Flanders to the butresses of Himalaya and India. Musicals wanderings between childhood and adulthood. Way To Lhassa is a timeless opus sublimed by the sounds of mellotron, keyboards, voices ,guitars but also brasses, tampuras, Armenian duduk, and Indian santur.

Storm - Lost In Time - The Spanish band Storm was born in Seville, Andalusia, in the early 70s; performing a progressive hard rock heavily influenced by Deep Purple. Their debut album, The Storm (1974), included the song "It’s All Right," which became a single in Europe thanks to a radio show contest sponsored by the BBC, "European Pop Jury." After a 5 year hiatus, the band recorded El Día de La Tormenta. Azafrán Media - in Mexico - and Arabiand Rock - in Spain - joined forces and released a deluxe double CD including The Storm and El Día de La Tormenta, digitally remastered. Mini double LP special format. Limited, numbered edition of 1000 CDs.

Plus from Esoteric Records: David Bedford - Nurses Song With Elephants, Dave Brock - Memos And Demos, Pete Brown & Phil Ryan - Ardours Of The Lost Rake/Coals To Jerusalem, Robert Calvert - Lucky Lief ANd The Longships, Climax Blues Band - Sense Of Direction and Gold Plated, East Of Eden - Snafu and Mercator Projected, Egg - Egg and The Polite Force, Fairport Convention & Matthews Southern Comfort - Live IN Maidstone 1970 (CD + DVD), Giles-Giles-Fripp - The Cheerful Insanity Of..., Gordon Giltrap - Fear Of The Dark, Live At Oxford, Visionary, and Perilous Journey, Ginhouse - Ginhouse, Steve Hackett - The Tokyo Tapes, Hawkwind - Choose Your Masques, and Warrior On The Edge Of Time, Hear And Now - Give And Take, Alan Hull - Squire, Igginbottom - Igginbottom's Wrench, Khan - Space Shanty, Locomotive - We Are Everything You See, Henry Lowther Band - Child Song, Man - Christmas At The Patti - Man And Friends and Welsh Connection, Mountain - Go For Your Life, Bill Nelson's Orchestra Arcana - Iconography, Omnia Opera - Omnia Opera/Red Shift, John G. Perry - Sunset Wading, The Reasoning - Adventures In Neverland, T2 - It'll All Work Out In Boomland, Touch - Touch, Van Der Graaf Generator - A Grounding In Numbers, and Vanilla Fudge - Rock And Roll

And from Gonzo Distribution: Al Atkins & Paul May - Valley Of Shadows, Blodwyn Pig - Pigthology, Brainville - The Children's Crusade, Eric Burdon - The Lost Broadcasts (DVD), Robert Calvert - Blueprints From The Cellar/At The Queen Elizabeth Hall, The Creation - Power Surge, Judy Dyble - Flow And Change, Merrell Fankhauser - Rainbow Bridge Revisited, Hugh Hopper, Elton Dean, Keith Tippett & Joe Gallivan - Cruel But Fair, Jack Lancaster & Robert Lumley - Peter And The Wolf and Marscape, Jack Lancaster & Rick Van Der Linden - Wild Connections, Corky Laing & The Perfect Child - Playing God, Mister Averell - Gridlock, Pierre Moerlen's Gong - Second Wind and Breakthrough, Mark Murdock - Cymbalic Encounters, and Night - Long Distance

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