Jul I'm Sorry

This album is marked by the interaction between John Lee Hooker and his guitar-playing cousin Earl. Earl, who succumbed to illness in 1970, was a fine bluesman in his own right, possessing a formidable slide technique. Many are unaware that the two often performed together, and the band that accompanies John Lee here also backed Earl frequently. The opening cut, then, a slow 12-bar number called "The Hookers" is not about ladies of the evening, but rather about the gentlemen in question.
Heard here less than a year before his death, Earl still sounds frisky and versatile, often utilizing a funky wah-wah style without ever descending into the psychedelic excesses that plagued so many late-'60s electric blues albums…

Estonian composer Arvo Pärt is almost exclusively associated with his later works. Born in 1935, his early music was very much ‘avant-garde’ in style. In the 1970s, he increasingly found his inspiration in medieval religious music, both western and eastern European. This first transpired in his Für Alina for piano. It features the telling low tempo and two layer structure which were to become trademarks of his later works.

Macht euch bereit! Nach zwei Jahren Vorbereitung setzen Santiano mit ihrem neuen Album den nächsten Meilenstein: Und zwar mitten Im Auge des Sturms. Deutschlands erfolgreichste Band steht seit ihrer Gründung für Mannschaftsgeist und den Glauben an höhere Ziele. Auf dem vierten Studio Album loten Santiano die Grenzen ihrer Welt aus: Seite an Seite mit den großen Entdeckern und Abenteurern der Geschichte stoßen die Männer aus dem Norden dabei ohne Scheu bis in die Tiefen der Meere vor.

Kurt Weill - Ensemble Modern - Berlin im Licht
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 244 MB | Full Artwork: 14 MB | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Largo Records # LARGO 5114 | Country/Year: Germany 1990
Genre: Classical | Style: Vocal, Lieder, Early 20th Century

"The founding of the Ensemble Modern (EM) in 1980 as an initiative of students of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie pursued the goal of supporting New Music and giving it appropriate performances. Since 1985 the EM, which is democratically organised, has been resident in Frankfurt am Main. It is among the world’s leading ensembles for Contemporary Music…"

Kurt Weill - Ensemble Modern - Berlin im Licht
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 244 MB | Full Artwork: 14 MB | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Largo Records # LARGO 5114 | Country/Year: Germany 1990
Genre: Classical | Style: Vocal, Lieder, Early 20th Century

"The founding of the Ensemble Modern (EM) in 1980 as an initiative of students of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie pursued the goal of supporting New Music and giving it appropriate performances. Since 1985 the EM, which is democratically organised, has been resident in Frankfurt am Main. It is among the world’s leading ensembles for Contemporary Music…"

Featuring some of the finest avant-garde jazz players from Germany and beyond, the United Jazz + Rock Ensemble began life as a loose studio aggregation assembled for a youth-oriented German television show in 1975. Hoping for a contemporary balance between rock and jazz, producer Werner Schretzmeier called upon pianist Wolfgang Dauner, the former leader of Et Cetera, an avant-garde jazz group Schretzmeier had managed until their breakup in 1972. Initially recruiting musicians from his home base of Stuttgart (then a hotbed of avant-garde jazz), Dauner put together a rotating cast of musicians that were at first dubbed the Eleven and a Half Ensemble (after the program's airtime); this group featured guitarist Volker Kriegel (who shared writing and arranging duties with Dauner), drummer Jon Hiseman, trumpeter Ack Van Rooyen, and trombonist Albert Mangelsdorff…