Dorian Records

Dorian Holley, backup singer for Michael Jackson, Rod Stewart, James Taylor, etc. Partners with his daughter Nayanna Holley, herself a veteran backup singer for Kelly Clarkson, The Weeknd, Cheryl Crow, et al, fully realizing a cross-generational musical legacy. This is the first album for the father-daughter singing tandem, a collection of favorite songs from the 70s and 80s, chosen at the height of the global pandemic to recall our ability to heal and to hope for better days ahead.

Between When Planets Explode and Joined Ends, Oliver Johnson's first and second Dorian Concept albums, the Viennese musician and producer released a few singles and EPs. Among them were the brilliantly nutty "Trilingual Dance Sexperience" and relatively restrained four-track EP Her Tears Taste Like Pears, his first work for Ninja Tune. Johnson also performed around the world, including a stretch as a keyboardist for Flying Lotus' live show. He retreated from the stage, swapped out the microKORG with which he'd been closely associated, and eventually developed new material with use of other analog synthesizers and an electric Wurlitzer piano. Less jumbled and jagged than his debut, Joined Ends is filled with spiraling melodies and softer beats that place him a lot closer to Lone than to Hudson Mohawke…

Eduardo Mata was an internationally known conductor. He conducted a wide repertoire and was particularly recognized for twentieth century music, particularly of Latin American composers. He began studying guitar when he was about eight years old. In 1953, he enrolled in the National Conservatory of Music, studying with Rodolfo Halffter and Jose Moncayo. From 1960 to 1963, he was in the composition workshop of Carlos Chavez and Julián Orbón. After winning a Koussevitzky Fellowship, he traveled to Tanglewood where he continued his studies in composition under Gunther Schuller and in conducting from Max Rudolf and Erich Leinsdorf.

Blues Pills - Lady In Gold (2016) {CD with DVD5 PAL Nuclear Blast Records 27361 34750}
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Rock / Blues Rock / Hard Rock / Neo-Psychedelia / Retro-Rock

After the stopgap Blues Pills Live in 2015, the international rock quartet returns with Lady in Gold, a proper sophomore full-length. It also marks the studio debut of drummer André Kvarnström. When the title track single was issued, some fans of the Blue Cheer-meets-Janis Joplin attack on the first album were taken aback by its embrace of rocking soul. Some even went so far as to accuse vocalist Elin Larsson of trying to emulate Adele. Evidently, they'd either forgotten – or didn't know – that Adele derived her singing style from Aretha Franklin. Larsson is a rabid Queen of Soul fan.

In some ways, the Sweet epitomized all the tacky hubris and garish silliness of the early '70s. Fusing bubblegum melodies with crunching, fuzzy guitars, the band looked a heavy metal band, but were as tame as any pop group. It was a dichotomy that served them well, as they racked up a number of hits in both the U.K. and the U.S. Most of those hits were written by Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman, a pair of British songwriters that had a way with silly, simple, and catchy hooks…

In their fifth release with Dorian Sono Luminus, REBEL explodes through the speakers with this exciting collection of Quartets and Quintets by prolific composer Georg Philip Telemann. Telemann was probably the most famous and commercially successful composer working in Germany in the first half of the eighteenth century. The consummate stylist, Telemann was always striving to write music that was up to the minute. This helped make him one of the most popular composers of his day and of ours.

I sette pezzi presentati in questo CD sono conservati in una singola collezione manoscritta datata 1725. I concerti testimoniano l'intensa raffinatezza di un genere ormai poco conosciuto: pezzi per flauto, due violini e basso continuo; una forma che mette efficacemente insieme le caratteristiche del solo sonata, trio sonata e concerto. Il manoscritto è conservato presso la biblioteca del Conservatorio di Musica di San Pietro a Maiella di Napoli.