Habitat

Argentinian outfit Habitat, which first and foremost is the creative vehicle of composer and multi-instrumentalist Aldo Pinelli. "Tratando De Respirar En La Furia" is Spanish for "Trying To Breath Amidsts The Fury", and by listening to what Habitat have achieved in this fourth release you can tell that the final result was more than just an attempt - it turned out to be a real accomplishment of composition, musicality and sonic transparency. "Tratando De Respirar En La Furia" is, all in all, a beautiful example of symphonic prog imagination from South American lands and the manifesto for Hábitat's maturity as a progressive rock voice it its own terms.

A collection of forgotten fragments, abandoned ideas, loops, alternate takes and outtakes. Recorded in 2006, mixed and arranged in 2019.
If you can picture the very furthest, coldest, darkest part of Norway, that’s where Mind over MIDI resides. If you want to get an idea of what it’s like there, and can do without the frostbite, then this is the perfect solution. Helge Tømmervåg produces sweeping, icy synthscapes, with digital snowflakes since 1995.

Although Man On Fire was officially introduced to the world through the release of their critically acclaimed self-titled debut CD in 1998, it was their sophomore effort, "The Undefined Design" which took the modern progressive rock community by storm. This release also featured special guest David Ragsdale (Kansas, Smashing Pumpkins) on violin. In 2005 Man on Fire released the concept CD, "Habitat" based around the lives and experiences of the inhabitants of a single urban city block. The CD featured Adrian Belew (King Crimson) as primary guitarist, along with a return by David Ragsdale on violin. "Habitat" would become the band’s best-selling release, as well as their most critically acclaimed…

A remastered, special edition of the 2005 record Our New Orleans will be released for the first time on vinyl on January 29, 2021. The two-LP set, also available then digitally, includes five previously unreleased tracks: “Do You Know What It Means,” by Davell Crawford; “Let's Work Together,” by Buckwheat Zydeco and Ry Cooder; “Crescent City Serenade,” by Dr. Michael White; “Walking By the River,” by Dr. John; and “Do You Know What It Means,” by The Wardell Quezergue Orchestra featuring Donald Harrison.

This is a good selection of motets because it hardly duplicates the last two such discs. On Orlando Consort’s collection of Josquin’s motets ( Fanfare 34:1), only Read more is heard, and none of them are on David Skinner’s more varied disc (33:1). It follows another Josquin disc by Cordes (35:6), though it was recorded a year later, a fine offering that unfortunately had to compete with an excellent recording of a Mass in Peter Phillips’s ongoing series.