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Ruth Copeland's second Invictus recording retains the services of Funkadelic vets Eddie Hazel, Bernie Worrell, Tiki Fulwood, and Ron Bykowski, but like the preceding Self-Portrait, I Am What I Am simply fails to jell. Without the leadership and focus of George Clinton, the music zigs and zags in too many opposing directions. Credit Copeland for ambition – the opening antiwar epic "The Medal" recalls the politicized psychedelic soul of Norman Whitfield-era Temptations classics like "Cloud Nine" and "Ball of Confusion," while "Crying Has Made Me Stronger" shifts gears completely to embrace gospel – but her reach consistently exceeds her grasp. When I Am What I Am does come together, it's impressively heady stuff. Particularly noteworthy is the deep-fried funk outing "Suburban Family Lament," which showcases Hazel's scorching guitar as well as Fulwood's much-sampled and monstrous introductory drum break.

2022 release from Nashville-based ambient composer Rich Ruth. Mixed by renowned Chicago producer/engineer John McEntire (Tortoise, The Sea and Cake, Stereolab), I Survived, It's Over features "Taken Back," in which sitar, shells, and bass are slowly joined by piercing lead guitar, synth blasts and drums as the track bursts open into psychedelic orbit. "I Survived, It's Over is a meditation on healing, confronting trauma, surrendering, and finding peace," Rich Ruth frontman Michael Ruth says. "I constantly experiment with sound until it reflects the way I am feeling and attempt to sculpt something meaningful from it."

Hurricane Ruth's 5th studio album and her debut on the Showplace label, Good Life was produced by Ben Elliott and recorded at Showplace Studios in Dover, NJ. Hurricane Ruth LaMaster is a vocal powerhouse. She earned her name because no one believed that such a large sound could come out of such a small woman!

Schubert set the poetry of over 115 writers to music. He selected poems from classical Greece, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, from eighteenth-century German authors, early Romantics, Biedermeier poets, and Heine. The Deutsche Schubert-Lied-Edition presents all Schubert's Lieder, over 700 songs, grouped according to the poets who inspired him.