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Jacula ("La reine des vampires") 116 n° de 1971 à 1980 voir la suite de ses aventures dans Vampirissimo et Super-diabolique
La jeune Jacula Velenska est mordue par un vampire peu après l'enterrement de sa mère et, devenue vampire à son tour, va parcourir le monde pour étancher sa soif de sang frais. La Reine des vampires est accompagnée de son amant vampire Charles Verdier et de son serviteur Wolf.

The prolific Domenico Alberti squeezed a surprising number of works out of a short and eventful life, achieving fame across Western Europe, particularly for the so-called ‘Alberti bass’, an arpeggiated style of left-hand keyboard playing. Yet his presentday reputation does not equal these heights, his fame largely limited today to his Eight Sonatas. This recording puts this to rights, showcasing Alberti as a composer who deserves to be remembered for centuries to come, as a musical poet possessed of remarkable invention and imagination. Alberti’s compositions display the simplicity and sensitivity of Clementi, the vigour of Mozart and, in the briefest of moments, an almost Schubertian or Chopinesque pre-Romanticism. His keyboard compositions are generally individual movements or twopart toccatas or sonatas, the whole full of melodic echoes and intentional reworkings, which form intriguing bridges between the pieces. The three distinct periods in the composer’s output of keyboard music are mirrored here by the use of organ, fortepiano and harpsichord (all of which Alberti would have had to hand in his day) – corresponding also to the period practice of ‘playing on all manner of instruments’, with individual pieces often not tied down to a specific instrument. This combination adds a talented keyboardist and international award-winner Manuel Tomadin who has a particular interest in Renaissance and Baroque music and historical organs. He brings all of his expertise to bear on this superb album. This 4 album set contains the complete keyboard music by Domenico Alberti, a First Recording.

Il corposo carteggio bilaterale fra Federico De Roberto e la nobildonna Ernesta Valle Ribera, ribattezzata Renata (perché "rinata" all'amore) o Nuccia (diminutivo di "femminuccia"), copre un lungo arco di tempo in un intricato, pertinace intreccio di temi intimi e letterari. Un'ardente storia d'amore che ci rivela aspetti ignorati dell'austero e schivo autore de "I Viceré" e insieme della vita mondana, sociale, culturale dei due poli fra cui si snoda, Milano e Catania, dalla fine dell'Ottocento ai primi del Novecento…

"Anticlockwise" is one of those few albums where power meets melody. Produced and mixed by Bob Gramm and Lorenzo Deho' (Time Machine) "Anticlockwise" features aggressive guitars, easy-to-listen vocal lines and, above all, massive drum work. Songs composed in an extremely mature way gather in an excellent album that one could hardly detect as a debut work. Properly arranged and rich of "catchy" riffs, this album offers the listener an incredibly wide range of sounds and musical situations. Sudden keyboard breaks ease the pressure generated by hammering combinations between guitars and drums, linked by appropriate bass lines.