Antony Zee Nutshell

Identity is the only album by Zee, a short-lived side project of Pink Floyd keyboardist Rick Wright, a duo partnership consisting of Wright and Dave Harris of New Romantic outfit Fashion, released in 1984. Wright later stated that he felt Identity was an "experimental mistake" that should never have been released. The album was written and produced by Wright and Harris and all the lyrics were penned by Harris…

David Antony Clark is a New Zealand ambient / new age composer, born in Dunedin and currently living in Wellington. David Antony Clark is a new kind of explorer, his spirit of adventure guided not by sextant and compass, but by the instruments and charts of the composer and the faint footprints of his forebears.

Semele was first presented in London in 1744; it was billed as an oratorio for murky reasons, but indeed it is operatic. I believe that this is the third recording of the work: John Eliot Gardiner’s (on Erato) is severely cut, and although much of the singing is good, it can’t compare with John Nelson’s complete, gorgeous performance (on DG) played on modern instruments. This latter is a lithe, brilliant show with Kathleen Battle in her greatest recording as the vain, self-destructive Semele and Marilyn Horne and Samuel Ramey close to magnificent, with tenor John Aler an elegant if slightly underpowered Jupiter.

Great discovery, an unknown AOR pearl from the 80's released on a gold CD in typical Long Island Rock Classic tradition. This is in the early Diving for Pearls, Rick Springfield, Bryan Adams AOR style. Long Island Records Rock Classic Series. Limited and numbered to 2000 copies only. Fantastic canadian AOR/Melodic Rock stuff. If you're into Survivor/Stan Meissner, you'd love this one. Just listen to timeless hits like "I'll Be Waiting" or "Safe At Last".