日経ヘルス_ブラウザ版 – 12月 2020

The Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin continue their Handel trilogy with this recording of the last six concerti grossi of the composer’s Op. 6. Originally designed as attractive interludes to English oratorio performances, Handel’s concerti grossi soon gained fame as some of the most appealing orchestral music of the baroque era. With these pieces, written in London towards the end of his career, Handel paid tribute to the immensely popular concerti grossi of Corelli while simultaneously proving his mastery, incorporating all musical styles of his times into his work.

A famous German trance duo from the end of the ‘90s, Piet Blank and Jaspa Jones spent a good deal of their weekends in Noderney, a small German island and the oldest seaside resort in the North Sea. They would usually mix on the terrace at Milchbar, overlooking the Unesco-recognised dunes. The wild landscape inspired Blank & Jones to create a series of mixes and this year they’re serving up season 12. The compilation album sounds like a bit like a soundtrack to a northern dolce vita, kicking off with two downtempo tracks: Crosswinds and the synth-soaked track High Fly. The tracklist also includes sweet synthpop from the French group Sixtine with L’Exactitude, an extract from their album Sweet Sixteen in 2014, as well as Franco de Mulero and Osvaldo Carreira’s Spanish guitars. The record veers towards ambient music at the end, with two interventions from Copenhagen-based producer The Swan & The Lake who reveals a remix of Desire for his hosts of the day, leaving the closing track to sunset-specialist Chris Coco, a British DJ who sets the mood in the Ibizas and Italian twilights - the ideal person to take Norderney from day to night. © Smaël Bouaici/Qobuz

The Last Gig is a new live album from Adam Holzman & Brave New World. It was recorded live on March 12th, 2020 at Nublu 151 in New York City, one day before lockdown started. Featuring Gene Lake on drums, Freddy Cash jr. on bass, Ofer Assaf on sax, Jane Getter on guitar and Adam Holzman on keyboards, it is a live follow-up to Adam’s critically acclaimed recent release Truth Decay. The Last Gig might indeed be the last blazing jam before the pandemic silenced the night club scene. Check it out for a good dose of high energy jazz-rock in these strange times!

The Doors fifth studio album, Morrison Hotel, will be reissued in October for its 50th anniversary. The album was recorded in late 1969/early 1970 and released in February 1970. It’s newly remastered for this release by Bruce Botnick. The goodies are all on the bonus CD with more than an hour of unreleased recordings taken from the sessions for Morrison Hotel. Botnick says: “There are many takes, different arrangements, false starts, and insightful studio conversations between the band – who were in the studio – and producer Paul Rothchild – who was in the control room. It’s like being a fly on the wall.” The outtakes include rough versions of Morrison Hotel tracks ‘Peace Frog’ and ‘Blue Sunday’ as well as The Doors rarity ‘I Will Never Be Untrue.’ The bonus CD also features the band jamming on cover versions of the Motown classic ‘Money (That’s What I Want)’ and B.B. King’s’ ‘Rock Me’.