Lydia Laurenson

Merlin is back in force this time with singer and composer Lydia Delay. They have together written a new opus titled 'Infinity'. After his stunning debut album 'Magic Potion' released in 2015 on Altar Records, Slobodan met Lydia and they teamed up in the studio to record ravishing vocals and melodies together. Lydia's incredibly smooth voice and compositions compliments Merlin's skills in a perfect way. An enigmatic, complex and deep album that tells a unique story of its own. A bright diamond added into Altar Records catalog.

Recordings such as this superb one serve to remind us that though we may think we know the output of the major composers, there are still treasures to be discovered. Works for individual instruments find their way into recital programs but often lie in shadow of the 'big works' for the concert.

Altar Records is very happy to release Lydia's first solo album! Lydia is a Serbian producer, composer, vocalist, songwriter and pianist. Lydia graduated piano on Academy Of Fine Arts (Belgrade, Serbia). Her biggest hobby was composing film and classical music and a very first piano piece she wrote was at the age of 6. She is a big fan of electronic music: Trance (Vocal Trance), Psychedelic trance, Progressive, Chill-out. After performing as a pianist for many years, Lydia found herself as a producer, composer and a DJ in electronic music and also as a vocalist and songwriter. She collaborated with many artists from Trance music scene and she is active as a producer and a DJ, since 2017. Lydia's role model in electronic music was Robert Miles with his inspiring piano melodies and massive beats…

…The First Sonata dates from 1895, shortly after the First Symphony, and basks securely in the warm A major which the later Sinfonia espansiva was to spend much of its time trying to recapture. Lydia Mordkovitch gives it the full romantic treatment, and it took me a couple of rehearings (with a slight reduction of volume level) to feel at ease with her big, gushing tone, vehement selfassertion and impulsive rubato.