Living Theatre

Theatre of Fate by the South American metal band Viper is perhaps one of the most overlooked albums in metal, if there ever was an essential album from the vaults, well then, this is it. Featuring a pre-Angra Andre Matos on vocals, and the Passarell brothers on guitar and bass, the definitive Viper lineup is rounded off by Felipe Machado on guitar and Renato Graccia on drums.The music found on Theatre of Fate can best be described as melodic speed metal with a hard edge to it not unlike that of an Iron Maiden, early Testament hybrid.Andre’s vocals are superb like always, this man is a blueprint for aspiring singers and while he hits the soaring notes on here, he doesn’t do the “squeaks” that a lot of people accuse him of so that’s good. The songs themselves are simply amazing, no filler, none whatsoever and there’s only two real complaints I have. One, the production is kinda flat but since this came out in 1991 that’s expected, and two, THIS ALBUM IS WAY TOO SHORT!Less than thirty five minutes!

Do we really need another live double CD by the Allman Brothers Band? Oh yeah. In fact, when they play this well, we need them in droves. This collection marks the second time the Allman Brothers have issued music from their storied shows at the Beacon Theater in New York. The first, Peakin' at the Beacon, was issued in 2000 with Dickey Betts and Derek Trucks in the lineup. Betts had not yet been fired and Warren Haynes was yet to return to the fold. While Betts is a singular voice and is one of the pillars of the ABB's sound, this new version of the band with Trucks and Haynes manning the guitars has gelled into a formidable unit; in fact, they are something spectacular.

Theatre of Voices, Paul Hillier - Stories: Berio And Friends
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 254 MB | Full Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Harmonia Mundi USA # HMU 807527 | Country/Year: Europe 2011
Genre: Classical | Style: Contemporary, Experimental

This collection of works for unaccompanied voices is bookended by works by singer Cathy Berberian and composer Luciano Berio, who were once married to each other. John Cage's Story is a movement of his percussion quartet Living Room Music, while Young Turtle Asymmetries is by Cage's pupil Jackson Mac Low and Roger Marsh's Not a Soul But Ourselves is set to a text by James Joyce. Usually done solo, Berberian's Stripsody, with its score consisting solely of cartoons, is sung here by a trio and must be heard to be believed.

The old philosopher Don Alfonso enrages his two friends, the officers Ferrando and Guglielmo, with his claim that their fiancées will sooner or later be unfaithful to them - like all women. He proposes a wager, which the two friends accept. They swear on their honour as soldiers that they will prove him wrong and that Dorabella and Fiordiligi are not like “all women”. The immaculately restored eighteenth-century Court Theatre at the country residence of the Swedish Royal Family is the ideal home for period opera. Ever since Drottningholm Court Theatre was rediscovered in the 1920s, it has served as a living memorial to the fabulous extravagance of courtly entertainment and provided the wherewithal for the recreation of the spectacular scenic transformations of the seventeenth and eighteenth century operatic repertoire.