Released in July 2020, into a world that continued to be battered by heartache and confusion, Stardust awakens complex emotions. On the surface, Meredi’s solo piano music has instant appeal, born of her love of popular music, but these intricate miniatures contain hidden depths. The waltz “Annual Rings” mixes innocence and nostalgia while “Waldeinsamkeit,” a beautiful German word conjuring up the complexity of solitude, stirs the very feelings that many of us have experienced during 2020. The melancholy of “Circles in the Sky” is heightened by its pulsating ostinato, straight from the dance clubs of Berlin. “Song for Rosemarie” is a breathtaking, uplifting chorale that offers a beautiful moment of reflection before “A Final Breath” brings the album to an uncertain, open-ended rest.
Borrowing heavily from Marc Bolan's glam rock and the future shock of A Clockwork Orange, David Bowie reached back to the heavy rock of The Man Who Sold the World for The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars…
Borrowing heavily from Marc Bolan's glam rock and the future shock of A Clockwork Orange, David Bowie reached back to the heavy rock of The Man Who Sold the World for The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. Constructed as a loose concept album about an androgynous alien rock star named Ziggy Stardust, the story falls apart quickly, yet Bowie's fractured, paranoid lyrics are evocative of a decadent, decaying future, and the music echoes an apocalyptic, nuclear dread…
David Bowie - The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars (2009 Japanese exclusive limited edition 11-track digitally remastered SHM-CD album originally released in 1972 presented in mini LP-style card sleeve with mini replica lyric inner bag fold-out Japanese/English lyric sheet + obi strip).
STEELHEART — the brainchild of Miljenko Matijevic, whose powerful voice and multi-octave range is the heart and soul of the band — will release its new album, "Through Worlds Of Stardust", on September 15 via Frontiers Music Srl.
STEELHEART — the brainchild of Miljenko Matijevic, whose powerful voice and multi-octave range is the heart and soul of the band — will release its new album, "Through Worlds Of Stardust", on September 15 via Frontiers Music Srl.
Stardust is another satisfying record from Ron Carter, this one in part a tribute to the late Oscar Pettiford. Leading a quintet with Benny Golson on tenor, Joe Locke on vibes, Sir Roland Hanna on piano, and Lenny White on drums, Carter picks three choice tunes by Pettiford – the swing-to-tango "Tamalpais," the minor-key bop classic "Bohemia After Dark," and the masterfully simple "Blues in the Closet."