Crossbreed General Fibrosis

Debut for a band whose members are well-known on the avant-prog and RIO music scene in France and abroad. Volapük and Metamorphosis are the projects from which come Takumi Fukushima (violin, vocals), Guillaume Saurel (cello, vocals), Christoph Pajer (violin, vocals), Jan Kavan (cello), Richard Deutsch (guitar, vocals, mixing), Martin Alacam (guitar) and Guigou Chenevier (drums). Chenevier was founder not only of Volapük but also of Etron Fou Leloublan and Les Batterries. The "General Dream" including through 2 violins, 2 guitars and 2 cellos opens onto vast and uncharted musical horizons, ranging from chamber-rock to Rock In Opposition. In September 2015, Reve General's debut album was released by the Milano (IT) based label Altrock. The album was recorded live on stage during a 3-day residency at Le Brise Glace in Annecy. Each member delivered at least one composition for the current repertoire presented on the album.

Charles Ives - Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3 / General William Booth enters into Heaven
Dallas Symphony Orchestra / Andrew Litton
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 276 MB | Full Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Hyperion # SACDA67525 | Country/Year: UK 2006
Genre: Classical | Style: Modernism

…The European influence in these works seems to me very clear, and Ives manages to absorb this idiom and at the same time be forward looking and original.
As with the companion disc, Litton seems to me a conductor fully inmersed in Ives complex world of sound. His Dallas orchestra is quite excellent, and the recordings are faultless.

Hopkins (The Witchfinder General) was released by Lee Dorrian’s doom metal band Cathedral in 1996 on a 5-track E.P. Formed in Coventry, England in 1989 from ex-members of Napalm Death (Dorrian) and Acid Reign (guitarist, Gaz Jennings), the band sought to ditch the punk and death metal directions their previous bands were heading in and explore slower, ‘doomier’ sounds, being influenced by the likes of Black Sabbath and Pentagram.