La Dysfonction Ostéopathique

These albums aims to provide a selection of some of the most representative classic of world music, as well as a selection of recent successes, universalized in version "World". This denomination, we have baptized for the occasion as "La Musica De Los Dioses" (The Music of the Gods), provides a spectrum of influences, whose origins are in the most remote places on earth. Sounds, percussion and voices of the Amazon jungles, islands of Borneo and Indonesia or multiple regions of Africa converge here with influences from very different cultures and current rates.

It's been over 10 years since the last edition, this new volume of "La Musica De Los Dioses" subtitled "Requiem" find fourteen original pieces that try to provide a spectrum of influences whose origins come from the most remote places on the planet. Chill flamenco, the mystical sound, the Eastern atmospheres and Classic, Chill Out and Ambient. They combine to offer an album with unique identity of its kind. Sounds and influences combine to create a timeless atmosphere, where ethnic and electronic sounds offer a whole multi-cultural sound spectrum. On this occasion La Musica De Los Dioses offers sounds, percussions and voices of the Amazon forest, the tropical islands and Indonesia or multiple regions of Africa, Gregorian chants, sounds with "Alma" converge here with the influences of very different cultures and current rates. Each of the pieces is a marvel of harmony and instrumentation with eternal stories of love and passion.

1694: the first French opera composed by a woman is premiered at the Academie royale de musique. The fateful destiny of the Greek lovers, driven to blindness and horror by the gods: Cephalus will kill Procris, whom he believes to be unfaithful, and himself… A virtuoso harpsichordist much appreciated by Louis XIV, Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre chose to become a composer at a time when such freedom was virtually unheard of for a woman. Her gamble paid off, with six performances and the admiration of posterity: this flamboyant work has finally been brought back to the public by Reinoud van Mechelen.

Quatrième de couverture : Le 31 juillet 1914, Jean Jaurès qui, depuis une quinzaine d’années, est la voix et la figure du socialisme français, est assassiné. Voilà longtemps qu’il dénonce le « capitalisme qui porte en lui la guerre comme la nuée porte l’orage ».
Jaurès est le seul, avec un réalisme visionnaire, à décrire les conséquences de cette politique que dictent les nationalismes, les intérêts et les rivalités impériales. …

Three Venetian contemporaries named Antonio - one, Vivaldi, achieved world fame with his concerti. But who has heard of Antonio Lotti and Caldara today? In their time, they were famous composers beyond the borders of Venice, and yet some of their music has lain dormant in archives for over three hundred years. Now selected alto cantatas by Lotti as well as oratorio introductions and an "Ave Regina" by Caldara may reawaken attention: paired with the "Nisi Dominus", RV 608, and two rousing concerti by Vivaldi, the baroque orchestra la festa musicale and the internationally acclaimed countertenor Alex Potter present an album full of virtuoso and touching musical treasures by the three Antonios from the Canal Grande.

En 1915, Adrienne Monnier inaugure au 7, rue de l'Odéon une librairie-bibliothèque de prêt d'un genre nouveau, La Maison des Amis des Livres, appelée à devenir le rendez-vous favori du Tout-Paris littéraire, d'Aragon à Walter Benjamin, d'André Gide à Nathalie Sarraute. En 1921, Sylvia Beach installe en face, au n° 12, une boutique fondée deux ans plus tôt sur le même modèle, Shakespeare and Company, dont les habitués ont pour noms Gertrude Stein, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Marianne Moore, Ernest Hemingway, Djuna Barnes…

Une relecture de 2.500 ans d'histoire, d'Alexandre le Grand aux luttes géopolitiques du XXIe siècle, qui replace la région des routes de la soie, des rives orientales de la mer Méditerranée jusqu'à la mer Noire et l'Himalaya, au coeur de l'histoire. …