Bela Hamvas

'Throw Down Your Heart: The Complete Africa Sessions' also includes a DVD of the acclaimed documentary film Throw Down Your Heart, with commentary from Fleck and his brother, director Sascha Paladino, along with 14 bonus performances and the 3x GRAMMY®-winning albums Tales from the Acoustic Planet, Vol. 3 - Africa Sessions and Africa Sessions Part 2: Unreleased Tracks. Through its stunning location footage, enthusiastic jam sessions, and hauntingly beautiful music, director Sascha Paladino's multi-award-winning Throw Down Your Heart captured a collection of the world's greatest musicians demonstrating how music transcends languages, cultures and continents. This is the first time it will be available as a complete set. Its release is timed to coincide with the 50th Anniversary of Rounder Records.

As well as their famous Frankenstein and Dracula series of films, Universal also shot a number of one-off horror titles during the height of their horror sucesses in the 1930s and 1940s, this set brings together five of those starring their unique and distinctive leading man, Bela Lugosi. In four of the films he is also joined by frequent screen sparring partner, Boris Karloff.
The films range from the original and exciting Invisible Ray (1936) to the missed opportunities of Horror/Gangster fusion in Black Friday (1940). The Edgar Allan Poe based stories range from decent Black Cat (1934) to the average Raven (1935) and the dull Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932).

o be sure, the new all-star trio of Béla Fleck, harpist Edmar Castañeda and drummer Antonio Sánchez features instrumentation that might safely be called uncommon.

The extraordinary Hungarian director Béla Tarr is one of the world's most original and acclaimed contemporary filmmakers. In a body of work concerned with metaphysical explorations of the human condition, he has created an uncompromising, innovative and utterly engrossing cinematic world.

Champions of contemporary music, the Quatuor Béla and Noémi Boutin have teamed up with the French-Argentinian composer Daniel D'Adamo to create Sur vestiges. The quintet for two cellos was conceived as a sort of preamble to Schubert's dusky Quintet in C major and its powerful lyricism. Around the tragic themes of a young woman and water, Daniel D'Adamo has sought 'to compose as someone gathering up the vestiges of a forgotten work, observing and recycling them with the constraints of his own time period.' The Quatuor Béla depicts the motionless water, a mirror for the beauty of a young woman intoxicated by her own reflection, portrayed by Noémi Boutin's cello.

The extraordinary Hungarian director Béla Tarr is one of the world's most original and acclaimed contemporary filmmakers. In a body of work concerned with metaphysical explorations of the human condition, he has created an uncompromising, innovative and utterly engrossing cinematic world.