Empress of a Thousand Sky

U.S. Cinematic outfit Whatitdo Archive Group returns to explore the worlds of Mid-Century Exotica and Library Music with “Palace of a Thousand Sounds,” out on May 5th.

A Night Of A Thousand Vampires’ is a recording of a one-off show in October 2019 from The Damned, in which the punk trailblazers performed tracks from throughout their four-decade career at London’s Palladium Theatre, in the company of The Hammer House Of Horror and the cast of ‘The Circus Of Horrors’. The show also marked the final performance of drummer Pinch, who had played with the band for more than twenty years.

Gran Torino is a young italian band, originating from the Verona area. The foursome came to life just before the New Millenium, aiming at covering the classics from Led Zeppelin or Deep Purple. After a decade practising, Gran Torino felt it was time for composing its own music. "GranTorinoProg" (2011) features complex instrumental music, still melodic though. It was followed by "Fate Of A Thousand Worlds" (Musea, 2013). This second effort proves to be really exciting, displaying over-the-top Progressive rock, with influences ranging from Jethro Tull (Without flute) or Kansas (Without violin), to Liquid Tension Experiment.

When the New York Philharmonic fired conductor Artur Rodzinski in 1946, Leopold Stokowski saw an opportunity – he had long desired the post of principal conductor in New York and went to work trying to obtain it. From 1947 to 1950, Stokowski made himself available to New York on an on-call basis, conducting children’s concerts, fill in concerts for other conductors, anything that New York would assign to him, remaining visible until the long process of choosing a music director was finished. Alas, it became clear by early 1950 that Stokowski was not going to be New York’s choice for the position, awarded instead to Dimitri Mitropoulos.

Friedemann - Echoes Of A Shattered Sky (2012) {Biber 76841 Digital Download}
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Jazz / Contemporary Instrumental Music / Nu-Jazz / Guitar

In the beginning there was the shattered sky. A window – slammed shut. The glass – broken. The view outside – obscured. Inside: destruction. The end. While scenes like these evoke some terrible drama, they are part of our lives. They occur in our individual biographies as well as in the world as a whole. Everywhere. All the time. Guitarist / composer Friedemann Witecka found an impressive account of sky-shattering on a national scale while reading »Stasiland« by the Australian writer Anna Funder. In this book, published 2003, he discovered the phrase: »pieces of a shattered sky«. The collaps of his own sky occurred in 2010. It was the end which marked the beginning of a new album entitled »Echoes Of A Shattered Sky«.