Vautrin Vautrin The Thief (1943)

A native of Sofia, Bulgaria, Velinova has lived and performed in major US and Canadian cities. During her years in New York City, Velinova explored the avant-garde jazz music scene and formed the group `Ensemble Gergana.' The eclectic band released a CD of entirely improvised music showcasing Velinova's poetry, unique improvisational vocal skills and adventurous artistry. Velinova holds a Master's Degree in Jazz & Contemporary-Classical Voice Performance from the Longy School of Music in Boston, undergraduate studies in Vocal Jazz from the Musician's Institute in Los Angeles and a diploma in classical guitar from the National Music School in Bulgaria. In addition to her solo career she is well known for her entrepreneur work as a concert producer, vocal coach and vocal workshops facilitator. From 2006- 2013 Velinova led the vocal wing of the Jazz Department at the Victoria Conservatory of Music in Canada in the position of Head-Vocal Jazz Instructor and Vocal Jazz Ensemble Conductor.

Digitally remastered and expanded two CD edition of the Prog band's 2008 album. The last few years have seen the Pineapple Thief truly emerge onto a higher stage… bigger and better tours, triumphant festival slots, recording at Peter Gabriel's Real World studios, artwork designed by Storm Thorgerson and new management all give the sense of an act destined for greater things. In association with the Kscope fifth anniversary celebrations, this edition of 2008's Tightly Unwound - the first ever album release on Kscope - has been newly re-mastered and remixed by 360 in London. It will also now feature a bonus disc with tracks from the Dawn Raids EPs plus and acoustic version of 'Shoot First'.

Remixed & Remastered. The Pineapple Thief have often been slated for taking a heavy amount of influence from Porcupine Tree, another British prog band operating around the same time, however a little research reveals that Bruce Soord (Thief's lead vocalist and songwriter) was entirely unaware of Porcupine Tree until Steven Wilson contacted him in question of how similar their sounds were (the two became friends and Wilson helped bring the band onto the Kscope label, a huge step up from Cyclops). This album then, is a natural progression for the band and is what they had been working towards all that time since their inception in 1999…

This re-release of "10 Stories Down" has been beautifully remixed and remastered by the band's mastermind Bruce Soord. Featuring the "8 Days Later" album.
The main influences continue to be Radiohead and modern-day Porcupine Tree, with the use of analog key sounds and atmospheric guitar playing against repetitive downer lyrics.

With Your Wilderness, Bruce Soord's the Pineapple Thief shift their musical focus away from their exploration of polished rock so evident on 2012's All the Wars and 2014's Magnolia, and back toward contemporary prog…

For this, his seventh soundtrack for director Peter Greenaway, Nyman deftly orchestrates a mix of strings, horns, and voices to produce another of his fetching and romantic minimalist backdrops. The opening "Memorial" is the highlight of the lot and drives along with stuttering saxophones, an insistent string arrangement, elegiac brass solos, and the soaring vocals of soprano Sarah Leonard (Leonard would be featured on a large part of the Prospero's Books soundtrack). The piece was originally inspired by a 1985 Belgian soccer match tragedy, in which 39 Italian fans were killed. Nyman utilized a death march in his earlier Greenaway collaboration, Drowning by Numbers, and revives the scheme to great effect here for what would become the main theme of The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover. Nyman contrasts the piece's climatic quality with two relatively sedate yet brooding numbers.