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All copies of the September 2024 issue of Uncut come with a free, 15-track CD – On The Highway – that showcases the wealth of great new music on offer this month, from Mercury Rev, MJ Lenderman and John Murry & Michael Timmins to Enumclaw, Harlem Gospel Travelers and Krononaut. Now dive in…

All copies of the September 2024 issue of Uncut come with a free, 15-track CD – On The Highway – that showcases the wealth of great new music on offer this month, from Mercury Rev, MJ Lenderman and John Murry & Michael Timmins to Enumclaw, Harlem Gospel Travelers and Krononaut. Now dive in…

The first compilation of solo recordings by Peter Cox - singer, co - writer, and frontman of pop duo Go West. ‘The Deep Dive – Anthology 1997 - 2024’ features 17 tracks personally selected by Peter from across his solo career including the UK Top 40 singles ‘Ain’t Gonna Cry Again’, ‘If You Walk Away’, and ‘What A Fool Believes’. Also featured are a variety of rarities and deep cuts, such as ‘You Do Something To Me’ and ‘When Will You Be Mine?’ from The Lockdown Sessions which appear on CD for the very first time. Completing the collection are two new tracks recorded for this release - ‘To Be A Man’ and ‘Love Will Lift Us Up’. An accompanying 16 page booklet features new and exclusive track - by - track liner notes. Peter will be touring the U.K. with Go West throughout summer 2024 ahead of a string of solo dates in support of ‘The Deep Dive’ beginning on the 6th of September.

The first compilation of solo recordings by Peter Cox - singer, co - writer, and frontman of pop duo Go West. ‘The Deep Dive – Anthology 1997 - 2024’ features 17 tracks personally selected by Peter from across his solo career including the UK Top 40 singles ‘Ain’t Gonna Cry Again’, ‘If You Walk Away’, and ‘What A Fool Believes’. Also featured are a variety of rarities and deep cuts, such as ‘You Do Something To Me’ and ‘When Will You Be Mine?’ from The Lockdown Sessions which appear on CD for the very first time. Completing the collection are two new tracks recorded for this release - ‘To Be A Man’ and ‘Love Will Lift Us Up’. An accompanying 16 page booklet features new and exclusive track - by - track liner notes. Peter will be touring the U.K. with Go West throughout summer 2024 ahead of a string of solo dates in support of ‘The Deep Dive’ beginning on the 6th of September.

It's always great to encounter the recording that can "crack" a composer open, making his or her music accessible to a general listening public. And it's all the better when such a recording comes from beyond the usual quarters, as, for example, with this American recording of Renaissance polyphony. Nicolas Gombert was a Flemish Renaissance composer, a successor (and possibly a student) of Josquin who entered the service of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. His music, especially in his masses, tends to present itself as a dense, unbroken flow of polyphony. Gombert is one of the composers music history students tend to slog through in hopes of getting to the good stuff. One noted Renaissance scholar used to refer to him, Adrian Willaert, and Giaches de Wert as "the Ert brothers." All that could change with this disc of Gombert motets and chansons. These works are less dense than his masses, but not by much, and they are considerably less limpid than Josquin's pieces in the same genres. But here it is the performances that clarify them. The Massachusetts ensemble Capella Alamire (the name is a pun on an aspect of an old solmization system) under director Peter Urquhart, recording in a church in Portsmouth, NH, slows the motets down slightly and addresses them with a group of eight singers – the black belt of choral singing.