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Ultreya - Vergeten Snaren en Rare Fluiters: Muziek van 13de tot 18de eeuw (2005) {Studio Ultreya F11941}
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© 2005 Studio Ultreya | F 11941
Classical / Traditional / Medieval / Renaissance / Baroque

Duo Ultreya's Martina Diessner and Peter Van Wonterghem collect ancient instruments, and they also craft exact replicas based on illustrations such as Brueghel paintings. With these hurdy-gurdies, bagpipes, and other rare musical devices, the talented and versatile duo has made wonderful music for more than fifteen years. This CD offers a selection of their repertoire of medieval and folk music. You will be enchanted by the sound and colour of "Long-forgotten strings and strange flutes"!

Junior Mance - Holy Mama (1976) {Test Of Time TOT-18 rel 2008}
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© 1976, 2008 East Wind / Test Of Time Records | TOT-18
Jazz / Soul Jazz / Bop / Piano

The reissue label Test of Time has specialized in restoring a number of long unavailable LPs to print, most of which were originally recorded for the Japanese label East Wind and briefly available in the U.S. on the long defunct Inner City label. These 1976 sessions by pianist Junior Mance are typical for the era, mixing originals, standards, and a modern pop tune. Fortunately, the normally bland "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" benefits from Mance's soulful, upbeat treatment, featuring bassist Martin Rivera prominently as well as the leader.

Warning: this is not your average progressive rock album. Discus could almost be described as the Indonesian Mr. Bungle - almost. They are not that frantic in terms of style-surfing and they don't have a singer as mad as Mike Patton, but they sure match Mr. Bungle in terms of virtuosity, eclecticism, and heavy rocking. This eight-piece group (a luxury in prog rock, where there's hardly a dollar to be made for a trio), with five lead singers, hops around between heavy metal, fusion jazz, contemporary classical, symphonic progressive rock, and traditional Indonesian music, usually touching all these bases within a single ten-minute song. The vocal parts are intricate, combining male and female vocals, several singers trading the lead and occasionally joining in complex polyphonic segments…