I\'m A Badass Caption: I can haz links, style or anything that is valid markup :)

CD/DVD Releases: Musea Rains Down More Releases For April

Posted on Monday, April 23 @ 23:00:00 UTC by nightowl

Musea Records has several more titles, either out on their own label or distributions from other labels now available. On the Musea label itself is Coffee In Neukölln by Barock Project: Barock Project is the name of an Italian Progressive rock band, made of young but very experienced musicians. They are led by keyboardist virtuoso Luca Zabbini, who composed a concerto for piano and saxophone, a true sign of excellent musical abilities! Their project is described by themselves, "To spread the finest and perfect structure of classic music (mainly baroque music) with a rock style, and a little bit of jazz harmony, all supported by a pop song structure."

Misteriosevoci, published in the year 2007 on the Musea label, fits this sentence well. Here are eleven symphonic songs, with dominating keyboards but also fine guitar parts, without mentioning a powerful rhythm section and a good singer, expressive but not too much. The influences of Emerson, Lake & Palmer is quite evident, especially in the opening track, but Barock Project has found a true identity of its own, based on strong melodies, and keyboards parts full of sensibility. A very mature work, modern and full of promises!

During the composition process for its third album, Barock Project took the time to have a drink in one of Berlin's most famous quarters, to discuss the ravages made by history to this city divided for so long. The result of this happened to be an opus aptly titled Coffee In Neukölln (Musea, 2012). Musically speaking, the listener will find himself at home, even if the symphonic side seems to slightly overcome the usual rock structure. And there's surely nothing to complain here!

Also on offer: Robert Fripp, Andrew Keeling, David Singleton & Metropole Orkest - The Wine Of Silence - Orchestral Soundscapes: Robert Fripp is a guitarist and composer. Best known as co-founder of the group King Crimson, and his outstanding work with artists such as David Bowie, Brian Eno, Peter Gabriel and David Sylvian, he is one of the most innovative and consistently challenging musicians of his generation. The Wine Of Silence is the first album to feature orchestral arrangements of the guitarist's solo Soundscapes work. Since the early Nineties, the guitarist has utilised the latest in looping technology and digital effects to create a gradually unfolding, highly textured, expansive and overtly orchestral music. In 2003, UK based composer Andrew Keeling completed work on a series of detailed orchestral arrangements of pieces taken from Robert Fripp's solo performances which had been painstakingly transcribed by Bert Lams (The California Guitar Trio). Receiving their live premiere in the Netherlands by The Metropole Orkest under the baton of Jan Stulen in 2003, the results evoke the works of Part, Gorecki, Taverner and others in the "holy minimalist" school of composition. Andrew Keeling's sensitive and often startling orchestrations emphasise the reverie, passion and contemplation which is at the heart of the Soundscapes.

The Wine Of Silence captures the spirit of the original performances reflecting the guitarist's rich musicality. It encompasses passages of yearning melody, dramatic choral sequences and beautiful string motifs. While sometimes sombre and elegiac, Robert Fripp's music radiates a sense of hope, affirmation and resolution. With the tapes of the original The Metropole Orkest performance subsequently treated by David Singleton, co-producer of all Soundscapes recordings to date, The Wine Of Silence forms a sublime and often moving collection of contemporary orchestral music.

Marc Buronfosse Sounds Quartet - Marc Buronfosse Sounds Quartet: There is in the music of Marc Buronfosse Sounds Quartet the cosmetics of combat. We find this need for unity in face to face, hand to hand, that of a discipline of any libertarian where each individual is responsible for others. A unit that has its vitality in the commitment and motivation in combat duty and within it leads. Face The Music is not only a graffiti left there as a poetry of the moment in the city ​​inflamed. This is anathema. It is a struggle as intense and intimate that can sometimes take the paths of sweetness. This is a journey where the musician struggle against both by itself to better body to the other, grappling to one of the few things about tangible remaining in this world that moves too fast, its own musicality. This music, whether lyrical or gaunt, compact or exuberant, fiery or calm, it must embody at that the windmill. Both the engine and only reality, both its purpose and what the eroding, if it does not take sufficiently prepared. Face to face again ... [roughly, translated by Google -ed.]

Face The Music is what each musician should do before reaching the highest point of his musicality. An essential approach of his own artistic identity is, according to Hannah Arendt a responsibility without judgement or prejdice that is open to all of music's possibilities.

Filiamotsa Soufflant Rhodes - Filiamotsa Soufflant Rhodes: The duo of drums and violin, Filiamotsa, expanded this year to a three musicians formula called Filiamotsa Soufflant Rhodes. The violin recalls the sensuous bass of PJ Harvey or Dalek, blended with the original theatrics and a second violin in the vein of a Jimi Hendrix crossed with Oistrahk.

Plus you will find these Unicorn Records titles: Arz - Turn Of The Tide, Direction - Va, Antoine Fafard - Solus Operandi, Jellyfiche - Symbiose, Secret Society Of Starfish - Dark Reflections From The Water's Edge.

And these from Gonzo Distribution: Morgen Agren, Henry Kaiser & Trey Gunn - Invisible Rays, Troy Donockley - Messages - A Colleciton Of Music 1998-2011, Galahad - Battle Scars, Genre Peak - Redux, Gran Torino - GranTorinoProg, Trey Gunn & Pat Mastelotto - Tu, Annie Haslam, Louis Clark & The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Still Life, Chris Judge-Smith - The Climber - A Songstory By... and Orfeas - A Songstory By..., Phil Miller - Split Second, Chris Thompson - Night, Rick Wakeman & The English Rock Ensemble - In The Nick Of Time - Live In 2003, Wally - Montpellier, W.O.F. - Search The Truth and these in the Lost Broadcasts DVD series: Chuck Berry - The Lost Broadcasts, Curved Air - The Lost Broadcasts, Iron Butterfly - The Lost Broadcasts, Richie Havens - The Lost Broadcasts, John Mayall - The Lost Broadcasts, and Spooky Tooth - The Lost Broadcasts

[Source: Musea Records]

Posted in Album Release News