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Six years on from their Sein release East German prog traditionalists Polis return with Weltklang, an album where the band’s desire to sound like a vintage 70s prog rock behemoth knows few bounds. Having spent those intervening years not just writing and recording the eight tracks presented here, Polis have dedicated themselves to building a retro studio crammed with analogue equipment and old recording desks. And all this in order to fulfil the dream of not just sounding like a band from their favoured era, but actually feeling as though they have somehow just arrived from that time. Cleverly, however, Peter Gabriel’s Real World studio was utilised to mix and master the results, leaving a pleasing feel that Weltklang is a 70s album that’s just had the most sumptuous of remasters!

The cantatas in this volume all date from Johann Sebastian Bach's second year of office as Thomaskantor in Leipzig. The series of chorale cantatas, which breaks off in early 1725, forms an almost complete yearly cycle which derives an exceptional unity of style and content from its debt to established Lutheran hymnody. Almost all the cantatas contain the first and last verse of a hymn, the other verses being paraphrased in recitatives and arias. Practically any selection of the chorale cantatas will display the unusually rich variety of form and colour that is one of their most distinctive features.

For more than two decades, Xavier Naidoo has thrilled audiences with his unique voice and virtuoso musicality. Thanks to his versatility and curiosity, he always reveals new musical facets - now with his probably most personal album, which will be released on November 24, 2017 under the title "Für Dich.". The seventh studio album is a homage to life, hope and love.

After the multi-award-winning album "Bach - Luther Cantatas", the Chorus Musicus Köln, the Das Neue Orchester and Christoph Spering offer us these excellent recordings of Bach's cantatas, including "O Eternity, You Word of Thunder, BWV 20", centerpiece of this album where gravitate cantatas BWV 93, 3, 10, 116, 124, to form an amazing and very interesting ensemble.