Descending 2012

The career of Swedish progressive rockers Beardfish has been steadily gaining in momentum throughout the 2000s, and, notwithstanding small inconveniences like record label bankruptcies, widespread recognition could finally be at hand via 2012's consistently daring and ever unpredictable The Void. The band's seventh album sculpts its genre- and time-bending material with no care for conventional compositional rules nor even chronological synchronicity (as usual), which makes it that much more remarkable that songs should prove so immediately appealing throughout, arguably like never before…

The career of Swedish progressive rockers Beardfish has been steadily gaining in momentum throughout the 2000s, and, notwithstanding small inconveniences like record label bankruptcies, widespread recognition could finally be at hand via 2012's consistently daring and ever unpredictable The Void. The band's seventh album sculpts its genre- and time-bending material with no care for conventional compositional rules nor even chronological synchronicity (as usual), which makes it that much more remarkable that songs should prove so immediately appealing throughout, arguably like never before…

In the opening funeral movement, the rich and rock solid sound of the orchestra is quite ear-catching. To borrow some critic's word, it is 'beefy', a quality that is hard to find in Asian orchestras. Based on this and previous CD releases that feature Chung/SPO, it is clear that under maestro Chung's leadership the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra has grown into a world class ensemble with the unique sonority and high discipleship.

Descender is an Thrash Metal band from Zagreb, Croatia. This is their first album Descending into Chaos

The band from Westerwald, Germany started eight years ago and looks back on two full-length records and a few split discs. And eventhough the band is fairly new they had to go through two line-up changes already. In 2012 drummer Oli and guitarist Florian needed to be replaced. The band found with Thomas (d) and Sascha (g) two new members that are in the meantime fully integrated. "Perpetual decending into nothingness" benefits from this and became an evil piece of death metal. "Perpetual descending into nothingness" is a clear statement that the German death metal scene is very much alive. I like the album and I could imagine that the band can reach also some fans that aren't that much into death metal. It's worth to listen to the album.

Antoine Dauvergne - Hercule Mourant [2CD] (2012) {Aparte}
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Classical / Opera / Baroque

Following on the international success of their recording of Lully's Bellerophon, Christophe Rousset and his ensemble Les Talens Lyriques present Hercule mourant (Hercules Dying) - an undiscovered operatic treasure by Antoine Dauvergne. When Francoeur and Rebel took over as directors of the Academie Royale de Musique (the Paris Opéra) in 1757, they decided to promote some of the new generation of composers. Among them was Dauvergne, who appears to have enjoyed great favor at that time. Premiered in 1762, Hercule mourant was a success, receiving eighteen performances.