The King of The Ring

This album consists of material that she is, mostly, the songwriter, that makes echoes to the music and spirit of Nina Simone, Thelonious Monk and Janis Joplin. Recorded in studio in live conditions, Soulblazz favors warmth of acoustic instruments. The twelve songs successful highlight the spirituality of the soul, the intensity of blues and jazz aesthetics for which the singer injected energy roots rock.

Prior to the release of The Power to Believe (2003), King Crimson issued this disc in two distinct forms. In Asian territories it was christened Shoganai (2002) - which literally translates as "it could not be helped" or there is no way of doing, or nothing can be done. In the rest of the world, it was released as Happy with What You Have to Be Happy With (2002). While P.J. Crook's inventive artwork is perceptibly different, the audio contents are the same. Featured within is King Crimson's inaugural incarnation of the 21st century with Adrian Belew (guitar/vocals), Robert Fripp (guitar), Trey Gunn (Warr guitar/rubber bass/fretless Warr guitar), and Pat Mastelotto (drums/percussion) all providing their respective input…

The set includes 17th and 18th century arias and songs from England by Purcell, Handel and Green, French art-songs by Debussy and Fauré, as well as canciones by Spanish composers including Enrique Granados and Joaquín Turina.

Marco Ceccato and Anna Fontana are well-known performers on the international baroque circuit and familiar faces thanks to their recordings for Outhere labels Alpha, Arcana and Zig-Zag Territoires (including Marco's 2015 Diapason d'or Award winning recording of Boccherini with Accademia Ottoboni). Now they have come together to tackle the two revolutionary works for piano and cello composed by Ludwig van Beethoven in 1796 and dedicated to King Frederick William II of Prussia. Their interpretative approach deepens our understanding of the final years of that century when a young Beethoven, a child of the 18th century, was grappling with one of his most extraordinary stylistic innovations. These two expert performers have set out to reconstruct historically reliable versions of the works, linking Beethoven’s revolutionary harmonic solutions with the 18th-century stylistic features that were still in vogue, from phrasings to Beethoven’s meticulously notated articulations.