Saint Just

Hugh Sinclair stars as Simon Templar in this thrilling double feature of The Saint. In The Saint's Vacation, Templar is puzzled by an innocent-looking music box. Surrounding it is a legacy of robbery, torture and murder. As The Saint explores sinister places in the dead of night, he learns the box contains the key to a valuable code sought by ruthless thieves.
When a crook develops a conscience and tries to expose his cohorts, they murder him at Templar's doorstep in The Saint Meets the Tiger. The Saint trails the mystery to a remote English village where small-town manners cover up a hotbed of intrigue and a bloodthirsty band of gold smugglers.

Saint Etienne's previous album, 2021's I've Been Trying To Tell You, was a master class in vibes. The band's ingenious use of layered, reconfigured samples and hazy, gloriously imprecise sonics evoked a warm sense of nostalgia for the post-rave chillout rooms of a pre-Internet dreamworld. That album's ethereality also had a sort of closing-reel drama in its cinematic approach to tone and mood; it would have been for a movie that left you wistful but happy.

Saint Etienne's previous album, 2021's I've Been Trying To Tell You, was a master class in vibes. The band's ingenious use of layered, reconfigured samples and hazy, gloriously imprecise sonics evoked a warm sense of nostalgia for the post-rave chillout rooms of a pre-Internet dreamworld. That album's ethereality also had a sort of closing-reel drama in its cinematic approach to tone and mood; it would have been for a movie that left you wistful but happy.

It's always a good thing when a new recording fills a hole in the catalogue, and this all-Saint-Saëns chamber programme from seasoned collaborators Renaud Capuçon, Bertrand Chamayou and Edgar Moreau is one of those. Firstly because, while there already exists a generous smattering of readings of the first violin and cello sonatas from a range of top names, they tend not to be paired with each other. Plus, they've never been paired with the magnificent Piano Trio No. 2, which itself has been much less recorded. Add the fact that here we have not just three of France's finest artists, but among them the pianist who carried off Gramophone's “2019 Recording of the Year” precisely for his Saint-Saëns (recording of Concertos Nos. 2 & 5), and there's a whole host of reasons why this album deserves your full attention.

Doppio CD che include brani storici e rarità tratte da dischi solo promozionali. Brani nuovi inediti, brani live mai pubblicati e realtà inserite nella storia di PROGRESSIVAMENTE ITALIA. Un concentrato di rock progressive italiano con i Fholks, Banco del Mutuo Soccorso, Area, Metamorfosi, Carnascialia, Agorà, Balletto di Bronzo, Murple, Gianni Leone, Osanna, Virtual Drema, Saint Just Again, Ezra Winston e molti altri.

Doppio CD che include brani storici e rarità tratte da dischi solo promozionali. Brani nuovi inediti, brani live mai pubblicati e realtà inserite nella storia di PROGRESSIVAMENTE ITALIA. Un concentrato di rock progressive italiano con i Fholks, Banco del Mutuo Soccorso, Area, Metamorfosi, Carnascialia, Agorà, Balletto di Bronzo, Murple, Gianni Leone, Osanna, Virtual Drema, Saint Just Again, Ezra Winston e molti altri.