Hue Hue

KEEN HUE-Ogre King LP (Criminal Response-1985) Despite the oddly Americanized opening track “The Doctor’s Crying”, KEEN HUE’s Ogre King album quickly settles down into that magical territory of traditional Swedish metal like 220 Volt, Heavy Load, Glory Bell’s Band, Madison and Highway Chile, with the LPs second track “Fighting” ranking as one of the true classics of Euro-metal…

Alongside Wet Wet Wet, Texas, and Deacon Blue, blue-eyed soul pop siblings Hue & Cry were one of the most successful acts to emerge from the Scottish music scene that dominated the charts in the late '80s. The duo from Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire decided to start making music together in 1983, when Pat Kane was about to graduate from university and brother Greg was still at school. After releasing their first single, "Here Comes Everybody," through the small Glasgow label Stampede in 1984, they signed to Virgin Records subsidiary Circa.

The visual and aural arts have likely been interconnected since the beginning of human artistic expression. Artists in both mediums utilize similar terminology to describe techniques, processes and aesthetics in their work. Keyboardist/composer Dov Manski and visual artist Erin Parsch began a partnership to explore the ways in which musical performance and painting can communicate. The Hue of Silence is their astounding multimedia project that shows some of their discoveries, centered around their response to color.

After two recordings devoted to the harpsichord pieces of Savoyard composer Pancrace Royer, Christophe Rousset, this time conducting, turns to the composer's orchestral suites. Taken from Royer's operatic works and (with the exception of a live version of Pyrrhus) never previously recorded, these choreographic pieces reveal a new facet of the composer. The brilliance and virtuosity of his harpsichord compositions are well known; here we discover his gift for refinement and lyricism. These dances show Royer's singular sense of harmony and fine use of orchestral contrasts, as well as an almost whimsical rhetoric of the unexpected. Some of his best-known pieces, including the famous "March of the Scythians" from Zaïde, are to be heard here in their orchestral form. This recording will undoubtedly further the rediscovery of this iconoclastic composer, whose very personal style and innate sense of drama are given striking depth and relief here under the baton of Christophe Rousset.

The band was formed in the summer of 2014 when bass player Kent Jansson, wanted to form a band with the intention of writing and performing original songs. The guitarist Thomas Hansson was asked to join and within a year the lineup was complete with singer Lars-Åke Nilsson and Keyboardist Peter Östling and later also joined drummer Peter Ytterberg. The music can best be described as Melodic Hardrock/AOR with influences of western parts of Sweden.

Third album by one of Sweden’s finest Melodic Rock bands! / Feat. Members of Keen Hue, Six Feet Under and Eternal Of Sweden / For fans of: Newman, Elevener, Universe Infinity, Creye. STORMBURST was formed in July 2014 with the intention to make high quality Melodic Hardrock music without any compromises, whatsoever. No more covers so to speak, just all original song material. Bass player Kent Jansson (Six Feet Under, Keen Hue, Steam) and guitarist Thomas Hansson (Steam, Coastline) started out with singer Lars-Åke "Plåtis" Nilsson (Keen Hue) and to achieve the special sound they were looking for.