Garron Park

The Gesualdo Six and director Owain Park (also the group's bass) have expanded their mission quite a bit beyond performances of music by their namesake, recording Renaissance polyphony from various countries. Their precise, close-up sound is instantly appealing and arguably more emotionally involving than the classic cathedral choir recordings of repertory like that on this 2021 release. A specific aspect of Josquin's legacy is explored here: music of the composers who worked after Josquin at the court of the Este family in Ferrara. The program begins with a motet by Ockeghem, possibly Josquin's teacher, and the inspiration for Josquin's magnificent ode Nymphes des bois, memorializing Ockeghem.

Blackwater Park's sole album "Dirt Box" with Murphy Blend's Andreas Scholtz on bass is a very up-tempo and dynamic work with catchy tunes, hard edged guitars, strong vocals by English singer Mike Routledge and - on a few tracks - completed with organ play, especially in the opening track. Rock critics classified the album as hard rock with prog leanings or as a heavy rock proto metal album in the vein of Trapeze and Black Sabbath. Not too progressive, not too kraut, an one off almost classic and for that - surprisingly - with a Beatles cover "For No One". Don't miss this legendary album of one of early nineteen-seventies best bands from West Berlin. CD and LP are remastered from the original master tape with band story by original member Andreas Scholtz and completed with unseen and rare photos.