Lux

More pervasive than a virus, anxiety and urgency has spread across our physical and virtual landscapes. The air of the present moment find parallels on the newest body of work by Son Lux: Tomorrows, a long-format album to be released in three volumes over the course of a year. On Tomorrows, Ryan Lott, Rafiq Bhatia, and Ian Chang train their sights on volatile principles: imbalance, disruption, collision, redefinition. But for all of its instability, Tomorrows’ exploration of breaking points and sustained frictional places is ultimately in service of something rewarding and necessary: the act of questioning, challenging, tearing down and actively rebuilding one’s own identity.

L’Ensemble Beatus, spécialiste de musique ancienne, nous invite à un voyage aux sources du chant sacré d’Orient et d’Occident sur le thème de la lumière. Partant du répertoire grégorien aquitain (répertoire de l’abbaye de Saint-Martial de Limoges), il nous conduit vers des temps encore plus anciens où, avec le chant vieux-romain et ambrosien, les traditions des églises grecques et latines cohabitaient et dialoguaient. Un dialogue qu’actualise l’Ensemble Beatus avec la participation d’un chantre byzantin (Liban) et qu’il élargit aussi à d’autres cultures avec un chanteur de tradition perse.

Do you realize that all these Meade Lux Lewis records almost didn't happen? After making his one three-minute side for the Paramount label in December of 1927, Lewis went back to driving a cab in Chicago. And his record didn't sell. So that could have been the end of the story. But in November of 1935 John Hammond looked him up and begged him to get back on the scene. And so began a remarkable career. This chronological survey of Meade's earliest work is delightful. Each successive version of the "Honky Tonk Train Blues" is sharper, more polished. There's always something bubbling away under the surface of the Meade. Everything he played came out slightly wicked. This man played a lot of piano in bars. Nobody could play like this who hadn't come up in an environment like Chicago during the 1920s…

This 2 CD collection brings together the entire 1980’s recorded output of synth pop pioneers, Fiat Lux. The original “Hired History” album – and indeed all of the bonus tracks – are appearing on CD for the very first time.