Cotton Mill Machinery Calculations

The gigantic fresco of history and these tiny moments of life combine to form a tracery of memory. It is on this incongruity that the performer’s art rests. Composers’ revolutions have been as much personal as political. In this recording, David Kadouch demonstrates that music is a human paradox that demonstrates this phenomenon in both the infinitely small and the infinitely large.

If you like Showband music you will love this offering. It is the usual cross section of chart hits of the time covered by various showbands as well as Irish country songs.

While he is considered to be the greatest English intellectual of the 19th century, Mill (1806–1873) is often reduced to a set of parochial engagements with his "utilitarianism." In this authoritatively comprehensive analysis of Mill’s lifelong explication of the "liberal culture" spawned by the Industrial Revolution, Loyola professor of business ethics Capaldi presents a probing account of the personal, social and environmental influences on Mill and his relationship to major intellectual precursors and contemporaries. Interspersed with a series of close readings of his mostly political essays and reviews, Mill’s life is cast from a diverse quilt of perspectives, including schoolfriends Coleridge and Carlyle, which reveal the pluralistic character Victorian England.

Irish music is enjoyed by people around the world, whether or not they or their ancestors hailed from The Emerald Isle. This new release is an entertaining and varied album of Irish songs and instrumentals, presented and compiled by Tara, a well-known name in Irish music. Tara Music has been regarded for many years as one of the leading traditional Irish music recording companies. They have a reputation for finding Ireland’s unknown traditional music stars and bringing them into the limelight. The artists they have utilized to compile this album, Martin Byrne, Christy Delaney, Alan McBride, George Ormiston, and Leo Reid, are all experts in their field. The booklet contains lyrics and chords for each and every song.

North and South is a wonderful blend of social comment on the dramatic changes in society brought about by the industrial revolution and a compelling love story.

Emmy award-winning composer Michael Price returns with Tender Symmetry, his second album with Erased Tapes.