The best parties are never planned. When friends spontaneously drop by with other people in tow, that you don ́t even know, but will have learned to love by the end of the evening. And everyone contributes to the buffet: a popular classic dish, an unfamiliar delicacy, or a surprising specialty that makes you gasp: `What on earth is that?` with delight. The mood of De-Phazz ́s 17th studio album, with which the band is celebrating it ́s 25th anniversary, is similarly relaxed and joyful. Host and sample scientist Pit Baumgartnern shares Quincy Jones ́ attitude: “When you bring together what does not go together, you can only win.” He combines gritty rock vocals with a church choir, an alphorn (traditional alpine horn) with Ethno-Jazz, enhances new tunes with fragments of retro-sound- elements, thus enabling the exceptional voices to shine even brighter. “Pure moments of joy” are those when the various musical elements intertwine, and Baumgartner realizes: This works!
Monstereophonic (Theaterror vs. Demonarchy) is the eighth studio album by the Finnish hard rock band Lordi, that was released on 16 September 2016. While the first half of the album includes classic Lordi-style hard rock / heavy metal songs, the second half of the album, Demonarchy, is conceptual and includes 6 or more minute songs. The band announced that the members' new costumes will be split in half, representing two sides of the album.
Music of England's greatest composer was a speciality of Alfred Deller. His artistry was particularly well suited to Purcell and Deller's role in establishing the greatness of this music cannot be exaggerated.
This collection includes iconic performances of solo vocal works with groundbreaking recordings of operas, sacred and theatrical works in which Deller performs and conducts. Being at the forefront of the re-birth of the early music movement, he naturally attracted many of the other supreme artists of the time, all of whom went on to become great figures in their own right.
Although the pop music of the 1970s is often unfairly maligned, this four-disc set shows that the decade brought, if nothing else, tremendous variety to the pop charts. Highlights, although every track was a hit, include the O'Jays' "Love Train," Bill Withers' "Lean on Me," Billy Paul's "Me and Mrs. Jones," and Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side," among many others.
Showmen were a Naples band important in RPI history as well as rock and roll. The first incarnation dates to 1966 and included in its line-up Elio d'Anna, who would go on to form the RPI powerhouse Osanna…