Dipiu' E Dipiu' Stellare 03 Agosto 2017

During the late-’80s, legendary U.K. punk band The Varukers underwent an unexpected transformation as its ranks gradually split off into two separate metal-oriented acts. One such group—inspired by the excitement and energy of albums such as Metallica’s Kill ‘Em All in contrast to what was perceived as a stale and apathetic punk scene at the time—ARBITRATER, led by Varukers frontman Anthony “Rat” Martin, would proceed to self-release two full-length albums of taught, crunchy, and subtly melodic underground thrash: 1991’s Balance of Power, and 1993’s Darkened Reality…

eeming to spring out of nowhere, DREAMCAR is a collaboration between AFI lead singer Davey Havok and No Doubt members guitarist Tom Dumont, bassist Tony Kanal, and drummer Adrian Young. The story goes that, looking to try something else outside of No Doubt (with singer Gwen Stefani occupied with solo work and her duties as a judge on The Voice), Kanal invited longtime acquaintance Havok to work on new material.

Orchestra of Samples is our live project and album based on sampling recording sessions we’ve filmed with over 200 hundred musicians around the world, splicing them together to create a digital supergroup of international artists who never met but play together. Exploring a new form of collaboration, we’ve spent the last five years filming improvised recordings sessions with artists playing all manner of instruments in over twenty five countries. As well as drummers, guitarists, violinists, flutists and others, we filmed singers in Bhutan, musicians playing bagpipes made from whole goats, the futuristic sounds of the French Baschet instruments, Stereolab singer Laetitia Sadier, Motörhead original drummer Lucas Fox and Björk collaborator Henry Dagg - recording his Sharpsichord that he performed with on her Biophilia project.

Martina Edoff more and more turns out to be the leading female melodic rock queen and not only because of the former first ladies of rock LEE AARON or LITA FORD are doing slightly different stuff these days. “We Will Align“, album number three of the Swedish singer, is full of strong songwriting and amazing performance. A charismatic powerful voice and songs written by Jona Tee (H.E.A.T.) who also produced the album, and none other than Billy Sheehan (MR. BIG) plus a really good and sophisticated sound let this gem shine. You find anthems like “Turn The Pages“ or “Lay Down Your Arms“ and beautiful ballads (“Face The Mirror“) as well as several possible live killers (“Alive“ or “Set You Free“) which fit the live situation perfectly. By all means, the singer is in really good shape.

Sound and space are mutually dependant. Which works sound best in which environment? Where can the spirit and character of the music most clearly be expressed? These questions are what inspired the conductor Gerd Schaller to embark on an ambitious major project in 2007: in the impressive environment of the abbey church that once formed part of Ebrach’s Cistercian monastery in Franconia, he directed his festival orchestra, the Philharmonie Festiva, in recordings of all of Anton Bruckner’s symphonies. What is special about this Bruckner cycle is that Schaller in some cases selected less well-known, ‘interim’ versions or variants that had previously never been performed but give revealing insights into Bruckner’s compositional approach.

«Parque de María Luisa» se convierte así en el regreso de uno de los mayores genios surgidos del flamenco y la música española. El esperado nuevo capitulo en la evolución musical de Rafael Riqueni, la reinvención que no cesa. Una obra que libera el impresionismo que puede surgir desde raíz flamenca, para con ello protagonizar un camino hacia la suma belleza de lugares y vivencias que permanecían en la memoria más intima del creador.