Inside Is

The Ministry of Inside Things, includes Chuck van Zyl on synths and Art Cohen on guitar. Their music has been inspired by the Berlin-School of cosmic spacemusic and influenced by everything from sci-fi themes to nuclear fission to chillout room abstractions.
MoIT enjoys the live environment and uses it to further explore and invent their musical stylings. The ultimate goal is to create in the mind of the listener a sense of movement through space along the arc of a dynamic contour. Owing much to improvisation, each original performance traverses many sonic terrains…

From the Inside was hardly Alice Cooper's best-selling or most accessible album. An intensely personal account of his recovery from substance abuse, it tends to be one of his most abstract efforts and lacks the immediacy of Billion Dollar Babies, Welcome to My Nightmare, or Alice Cooper Goes to Hell. There are no rock anthems here à la "School's Out" or "18" and no celebrations of shock value like "I Love the Dead" or "The Black Widow." Instead, the singer honestly documents the way he confronted his demons and emerged victorious. Sometimes, this introspective effort is too self-indulgent and intellectual for its own good, but at its best as on "How You Gonna See Me Now", From the Inside is as riveting as it in inspiring.

From the Inside is Poco's most unusual record, and one the band – especially founder Richie Furay, whose songs were sort of pushed into the background – finally didn't like all that much. But it was a very good one anyway, produced in Memphis by guitar legend Steve Cropper and featuring the group generating a leaner, more stripped-down, somewhat bluesier sound. The harmonies are less radiant and the guitars more subdued, and the spirits also a little more low-key than usual.

Violette Sounds started in 2013 as a project of drummer Karl Henneberg. The CD "Feelin' Inside“ is the successful outcome of 2 years of work on this project. Thanks to the input and musicality of Uwe Bottcher (bass/ violin), Matthias Vogel (electric guitar), Gero Korner (Hammond organ/ electric piano) and Hilde Akam (voice/ texts) as well as to the more modest but substantial contributions of several other musicians, Karl Henneberg’s song concepts and mostly own compositions were not simply transposed into sounds and rhythms according to his ideas but were moreover musically and compositionally enhanced and expanded. The variety of songs and styles presented on this CD expresses his musical preferences, influences undergone in his younger years, and offer a good range of moods and atmospheres - to the effect of "feelin' inside“.