Aryan Peste Noire

On February 24 1711, the curtain at the Haymarket theater went up for 'Rinaldo,' the first opera George Frideric Handel produced for London. It had a libretto by Giacomo Rossi, based on a somewhat mangled outline of Tasso's epic poem of the Crusades, 'Gerusalemme Liberata,' which had been prepared by impresario Aaron Hill with the aim of allowing for as many special machinery effects as possible. Handel clearly wanted to impress London, for his sparkling music contained liberal borrowings from some of his best recent scores. While many changes and cuts were made up to the time of Handel1s final revision in 1731, this recording attempts as much as possible to return to the version that would have been heard in the first London production.

Cacamba - Dito Cujo
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 303 MB | Full Artwork: 45 MB | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Acoustic Music Records, Rough Trade # 319.1460.2 | Country/Year: Germany 2011
Genre: World Music, Jazz | Style: South America, Brazil, Acoustic Music

…Bei Caçamba verschmelzen brasilianische Musiktradition, zeitgenössische südamerikanische Moderne und Anleihen aus dem nordamerikanischen Jazz zu einem ganz eigenständigen Stil. Dabei umspielen sich die beiden Gitarrenvirtuosen mit interessanten harmonischen Wendungen, wundervollen Akkorden, Melodielinien und reichen Verzierungen. Mit ihrer ganz eigenen Formen- und Klangsprache lässt dieses Ensemble ‚Dito Cujo‘ erstrahlen. Ein Debütwerk mit der Vorfreude auf mehr: denn aus dieser erfrischenden Quelle wird Caçamba bestimmt noch lange schöpfen.

Anatol Vieru (8 June 1926 – 1998) was a music theoretician, influential pedagogue, and a leading Romanian composer of the 20th century. A pupil of Aram Khachaturian, he composed seven symphonies, eight string quartets, numerous concertos, and much chamber music. He also wrote three operas: Iona (1976), Praznicul Calicilor (1981), and Telegrame, Tema si Variatiuni (1983). He was awarded Herder Prize in 1986.

Jean-Pierre Louveton, aka JPL, is the leader of Progressive Rock bands Nemo and Wolfspring. "Le Livre Blanc" is his seventh solo album since 2002. Two of his Nemo band mates, Guillaume Fontaine on piano and drummer Jean-Baptiste Itier help round out the guest list, together with drummer Ludovic Moro, bassist Sebastien Delestienne and vocalists Steph Honde and Lazuli's Dominique Leonetti. Truth is Louveton handles most of the instrumentation, namely all the guitars, bass, vocals, keyboards, programming and percussion. He is a tremendous player both in the acoustic and electric realm, carving out quite a reputation, in the course of his Nemo and solo career…