Conte D'été

This isn't so much a new album by long-running Spanish pop/rock act La Oreja de Van Gogh as it is a demonstration of their confidence in new vocalist Leire Martínez, who joined in 2008. She had big shoes to fill, replacing original singer Amaia Montero, who'd been the face and voice of their first four albums. So after discovering Martínez on the Spanish reality show Factor X, the group released its fifth album, A las Cinco en el Astoria, with her.

Mégane Santiago, agent de la Brigade de Recherche et d’Intervention de Paris, est promue sur la plus grosse enquête en cours de la police judiciaire : l’Affaire Vladislav. Mafia russe, meurtres énigmatiques et un Parrain introuvable, sa vie va basculer lorsqu’elle rencontre Liam lors d’une intervention secrète. Qui est-il ? Quel lien a-t-il avec la mafia ? Leurs chemins se croiseront plusieurs fois, mais Mégane arrivera-t-elle à garder les pieds sur terre ? Leur histoire mettra-t-elle en danger son engagement professionnel ? Vivez une enquête policière mystérieuse, unique et passionnelle. …

Even in these circumspect times‚ the ambitious ‘Tesori di Napoli’ series continues unearthing works whose merit is one thing‚ but whose significance for future generations is a fascinating sideshow. Niccolò Jommelli‚ if not exactly a household name‚ was an established Neopolitan mid18th century ‘master’ whose reputation was founded on operatic successes in several major centres – enough to secure him a fine eulogy from Dr Burney in 1770. For the uninitiated (and knowing only the odd cantata and vespers settings‚ I count myself such)‚ the fluid tonal progression of the recitatives in Jommelli’s comic ‘intermezzo’‚ Don Trastullo‚ has da PonteMozart resonating with illuminating prescience.

Paolo Conte - Arena di verona [Live]
Italian singer/songwriters | 2 CD | All Covers | MP3 VBR ~ 226 Kbps | 187 MB
Genre: Jazz-Pop | 1h 35m 57s | 2005

Biography by Mariano Prunes
One of the most idiosyncratic, charismatic, and internationally successful Italian singer/songwriters of the past four decades, Paolo Conte created his own unique style, combining a love for jazz and music hall together with a weary yet sympathetic and humorous understanding of human foibles. Born to a well-to-do Asti (Piedmont, Italy) family in 1937, Conte began to learn the piano at an early age, together with his younger brother Giorgio Conte — who would also become a famous songwriter in his own right — at the insistence of their father, a distinguished notary but also a passionate jazz amateur. Following in the family's footsteps, Conte became a lawyer and practiced the profession until well into his thirties. Contemporaneously, he played the vibraphone in several local jazz bands.