Echo Vocal Ensemble

Fifth album by Leipzig based drummer, composer and band leader Eva Klesse, with featured guest musician Wolfgang Muthspiel, Klesse has assembled a strong quartet of talented German musicians, who all contribute to her striking compositions.

Michel Corboz's I dolci frutti: Venise avant Monteverdi, vol. 2 is a captivating exploration of early Venetian Baroque music.

The most beautiful jazz songs by Ann Williams, Ketty Lester, Brenda Lee and many more on one compilation!

From the rich musical scene of the early sixteenth century comes a repertoire that sings the praises of the vegetable world comprised in the vast geographic horizon stretching up from verdant meadows full of flowers to the mountain pastures where shepherds and shepherdesses playfully send back the echo of their own voices. Allusions, onomatopoeias, adages and bywords, maxims, pangs of love, games and dances to ancient tunes sprout from citations of roses, gardens, shady woods, cypresses, triumphant laurels, broad-beans and beans.

Polyphonic vocal music, with its diversity of languages, is a particularly fertile field of experimentation for today’s composers.