Easily their most profoundly sophisticated work to date, Pelagial is a true sonic journey written, recorded, mixed and to-be-performed-live as one single 53-minute piece of music. The concept of the album is made evident in its title, Pelagial. Listeners are quite literally submersed as they journey with the band, beginning at the surface of the ocean and plunging through all five pelagic depth zones: epipelagic, mesopelagic, bathyalpelagic, abyssopelagic, and hadopelagic. Said Spin Magazine: “The sixth album from German post-metal doombringers THE OCEAN is huge… In the course of the record, tender piano interludes get stomped on by Mastodon-shaped footprints, lush strings work next to bulldozing double-kick work, and, at the end, the submarine crashes at Melvins tempos.”Mixed and mastered by Jens Bogren (Opeth, Katatonia, Witchcraft) at Fascination Street Studios in Örebrö, Sweden, Pelagial will be released as a double CD, which includes a vocal and an instrumental version of the album

The 14th Sodom studio album finds them introducing new drummer Makka and coming out with a super-powerful Waldemar Sorychta-produced album that is one of the finest they've done since the early '90s! Tom Angelripper himself describes this album as "hard-as-nails contemporary without ignoring our tried-and-tested old-school attitude." This limited digipak edition adds bonus tracks ""Waterboarding" and "Splitting the Atom"

Owain Arwel Hughes conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in a tribute to his father Arwel Hughes, the Welsh composer and radio broadcaster. A student of Vaughan Williams and Gustav Holst among others, Hughes early on began to work for the BBC and had limited opportunity to compose. This CD brings together most of his oeuvre for orchestra, from Anatiomaros (1943) to the 'legend' Owain Glyndwr (1979).

Utrecht Te Deum and Jubilate is a sacred choral composition in two parts, written by George Frideric Handel to celebrate the Treaty of Utrecht, which established the Peace of Utrecht in 1713, ending the War of the Spanish Succession. The combination of a Te Deum and Jubilate, the Psalm 100, follows earlier models. The official premiere of the work on English texts was on 13 July 1713 in a service in St Paul's Cathedral in London.

Rod Stewart may have begun his career as a respected singer, yet that critical respect eroded as he got older, as he became more concerned with stardom and adult contemporary songcraft than the rock music that launched him. While he has recorded some terrible albums – and he would admit that freely – Stewart was once rock & roll's best interpretive singer as well as an accomplished songwriter, creating a raw combination of folk, rock, blues, and country that sounded like no other folk-rock or country-rock material. Instead of finding the folk in rock, he found how folk rocked like hell on its own. After Stewart became successful, he began to lose the rootsier elements of his music, yet he remained a superb singer, even as he abandoned his own artistic path in favor of following pop trends.

Pianist Bill O'Connell's Triple Play (Savant, 2008) turned traditional notions of piano trio instrumentation on their head, and this album is a logical outgrowth and expansion of that particular project. While that outing had a consistent three man line-up that married O'Connell's piano with conga drummer/percussionist Richie Flores' engaging rhythm work and the fine flute playing of Dave Valentin, Triple Play Plus Three uses Valentin's spot as a revolving hot seat. The flautist returns for three numbers, including a mellow alto flute feature ("Lake Road") and an energetic romp dedicated to the great Eddie Palmieri ("Mr. E.P."), but elsewhere, his position is assumed by two equally elite Latin jazz musicians.

Tom Ovans is a Nashville-based, Boston-raised street rocker and song poet who is comfortable playing folk, blues, and hard-driving rock. His vocal style is eerily similar to that of Bob Dylan, with the power of Joe Ely…

Doug Johns, definitely not one to disappoint with any of his releases, has remarkably done it yet again with his latest release of BLOMP! With a great cast of musicians, pockets full of grooves with everything from jazz, jazz funk, and even a taste of smooth jazz, this release showcases Doug’s never-ending talent and amazing songwriting that never ceases to amaze. The musicians joining Doug for his latest release including returning artitsts Kenny Anderson on horns, Oz Noy on guitar, Otmaro Ruiz on keys, and newcomer JSimms on drums. All of these guys meld together like one unit and make this a release not to be missed.

üNN is the solo project of Frank Rückert. He is a music & video producer and also performs live as a VJ in clubs and at festivals. Frank: "…üNN stems from the name of my studio, which is called '184.8 üNN', as when i'm working on music and visuals in my studio my brain is exactly 184.8 metres above mean sea level…"

Arnold Schoenberg - Orchesterwerke
Manuela Uhl / Beethoven Orchester Bonn / Stefan Blunier
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 234 MB | Full Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: MDG "Gold" # 937 1584-6 | Country/Year: Germany 2009
Genre: Classical | Style: Early 20th Century

What a program! On his first recording as the conductor of the Beethoven Orchestra of Bonn, Stefan Blunier offers us a look at four important phases in the life of the composer Arnold Schönberg. The selection ranges from the late-romantic Notturno through the Orchestral Songs op. 8 to the atonal Orchestral Pieces op. 16 and the highly romantic transcription of the Prelude and Fugue BWV 552 by Johann Sebastian Bach. Premiere Performance Schönberg’s Notturno for harp, solo violin, and string orchestra was long regarded as lost…