+ Remain in Light + The band disappears, its place taken by some kind of hydra-headed polyrhythmic fusion beast
The Talking Heads' fourth album is really really freaking good. `Nuff said.
Okay, maybe not. Here's what you should know: Remain In Light sees the Heads (with longtime producer Brian Eno in tow) creating some of the most intricate, colorful, original, and downright stunning soundscapes in the ...
Australian ambient rock outfit Not Drowning Waving's first full-length album was an extraordinary achievement of musical iconoclasm in the intellectually and spiritually impoverished milieu of Australian music in the 1980s. Adventurous and experimental, it managed to combine haunting, instrumental ...
+ Good Tavener + A nice variety of Tavener's works
The works on this disc are some of John Tavener's most haunting offerings yet, and there is a fine range of pieces covered. All of them have one thing in common- namely, a 'cello part performed outstandingly well by Steven Isserlis. The title work, "Svyati", is calm and moving, and the 'dialogue' ...
+ Under-rated "transitional" album + We need a vinyl re-issue + We are young despite the years, or, Michael Stipe Sings! + Puts the "rock" in "jangle-rock"
arvo part is my favourite contemporary composer, the one who is able to express the most, with the minimun of notes and instruments. less is more. this cd have his best pieces, fratres for violin and piano, spiegel im spiegel, and silentium...i strongly recomind this cd for anyone who loves music
+ Faure: Requiem; Messe basse; Cantique de Jean Racine + Excellently performed, but I find this version of the requiem a little flat + A true masterpiece
John Tavener is a rare creature - he is a composer known and admired by Western audiences who has as a primary focus and influence his Eastern Orthodox tradition and liturgy. The very title of this CD, Ikons, gives one the sense that these are pictures or images in sound. Icons are objects that ...
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