Cris Potter

There used to be a conventional wisdom that the music of Schumann's last years is not up to much, presumably on account of his mental illness. Perhaps the centrepiece of this prejudice is the fact that his 1853 Violin Concerto was rejected by Joachim, to whom it was dedicated, and was not included in the "complete" Schumann edition compiled by Brahms. It was not released to the public until 1934.

Since the early nineties, Tricky Cris is a driving force of Nu Dub and Dancehall Reggae in Germany. In 1995 the Frankfurt based DJ and producer co-founded the well acclaimed "Serious Dropout" project, which subsequently released three various artists compilations including acts from Germany, USA, the UK and Jamaica. 1998 saw the release of his first solo 12inch "Sound Surgery" on Elektrolux, which presented four bass-loaded tracks incorporating elements from Dub, Downtempo and Dancehall. It‘s successor "Favourite Feeling" came out in 1999 and added components like Dub-House and Drum & Bass to the mixture already introduced…

The transition between the Renaissance and the Baroque eras did not mark one sudden change of forms or styles, nor did it signal the end of what Claudio Monteverdi called the prima pratica, or the primary practice of Renaissance polyphony. However, a new emphasis on powerful emotional expressions became a central feature of what he dubbed the seconda pratica, which came to the fore with the development of opera, most notably in Monteverdi's L'Orfeo in 1607. Composers paid special attention to the innovations in the music of Venice, which eventually spread throughout Europe in the 17th and early 18th centuries, and such figures as Monteverdi, Antonio Lotti, and Antonio Caldara, long associated with the city, became exemplars of the new Venetian style, in both secular and sacred music.