Estrategia Lo Capto! – Gran Bola De Nieve Label: Burka For Everybody – BFE 007 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: Spain Released: 2011 Style: Surf, Art Rock, Punk
Posthumous reissue from one of the best albums lately released in Spain, originally only available in CD through B-Core. The Valencian trio grinded discordant punk DIY 70’s, surf, and guided Massacre, Skeleton Crew or the first Pell Mell through the Rock’n’roll way. Guitars which sound in between Fred Frith and Man Or Astro Man?, with poisoning strokes, Caribbean imposted punk that seems faked by criminals and Asirian pre-historic library punks.
George Fenton – The Company Of Wolves (Vinyl, LP, Album) Label: Cold Spring – CSR299LP Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, 180g Country: UK Released: 2021 Style: Modern Classical, Soundtrack
Out of print for over 35 years, the official soundtrack to the cult 1984 film by Neil Jordan is finally available once again on vinyl format. The surreal and effective film – a true gem of British Gothic fantasy horror – has an equally atmospheric, breathtakingly beautiful, surreal and unsettling soundtrack, scored by George Fenton.
The film itself, directed by Neil Jordan (The Crying Game, Breakfast On Pluto), and based on the screenplay by Angela Carter and Neil Jordan, is a modern allegorical adaptation of the classic Grimm fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood, symbolising sexual awakening, duality and liberation. The stellar cast features Sarah Patterson, Angela Lansbury, Stephen Rea, David Warner, and Danielle Dax.
«There is a sense of awe and enchanted wonder encaptured in its fairy tale sound, swooping with cascading violins and dark mysterious undercurrents that bubble below the surface… The score flows effortlessly between its light and dark moments. Most importantly, moments of beauty are not lost to the sense of suspense and drama. Indeed, light always needs its companion of shadow, as the film suggests in the sexual awakening of the pure untainted innocence that is Rosaleen. This score perfectly demonstrates the beauty of the juxtaposition between the sounds of youth and the temptation of desire» (L. Hammond)
«The film largely takes place in the dream world so I made this the home base for the orchestra. To a large extent the scoring in this area is conventional, perhaps a little impressionistic and hopefully reflects a curious but endearing world. This left me free to invent sounds for the stories within the dream world. I wanted to use a mixture of electronics and ‘live’ instruments, and after some experimenting, arrived at a line-up of three bass flutes, Pan Pipes, violins, one, two or three solo double basses, percussion and Synclavier II synthesizer» (George Fenton, 1984)
Oscar-nominated / Emmy & BAFTA-winning composer George Fenton has created stunning scores for major films and television such as: Gandhi, Dangerous Liaisons, The Wind That Shakes The Barley, Frozen Planet and countless others over the last 40 years.
Ltd LP on 180g vinyl.
Track listing:
A1. The Message And Main Theme A2. Rosaleen’s First Dream A3. The Village Wedding A4. The Return Of The Groom A5, The Forest And The Huntsman’s Theme A6. The Wedding Party B1. The Boy And The Devil B2. One Sunday Afternoon… B3. The Promise And Transformation B4. Arriving At Granny’s Cottage B5. The Wolfgirl B6. Liberation
The Moon And The Nightspirit – Aether Label: Auerbach Tonträger – AB 102 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Translucent Violet Country: Germany Released: 19 Jun 2020 Style: Folk, World
Throughout its 17 years of existence, Hungarian duo The Moon And The Nightspirit not once failed to enthrall lovers of mythical folk music. With traces of paganism and tribalism, the pair has existed in its very own fairytale world throughout six albums and countless intense live shows on international stages – but now, it was time for them to readjust their approach.
Speaking of their new full-length «Aether» as a «milestone in the history of the band», guitarist and lyricist Mihály refers to a surprising stylistic recalibration during songwriting – for whereas so far, singer Ágnes’ voice has been front and center, the two-piece now perfectly balances the female and male sides of its musical entity.
Consequently, The Moon And The Nightspirit are as flamboyant as they have ever been. As forerunners of a new generation of heavenly folk music that takes its cues from Dead Can Dance as much as its immediate surroundings, they filter their time-honored mixture of richly layered sounds, shamanistic chants and multiple instruments from different periods through masculine powers, maintaining both their graceful delicacy and peerless inventiveness.
With added focus on harsh vocals, «Aether» seems not only impeccably executed – arranged with the group’s fabled passion and virtuosity – but also makes good on the promise of «Metanoia»: If its predecessor rekindled an inner flame, we are now faced with a glaring fire that lights our way on «a journey through the Gateless Gates to the source of creation to find the Divine essence of the soul, to remember our Great Cosmic Unity and oneness …”
Tracklist:
1. Aether 2. Kaputlan Kapukon Át 3. Égi Messzeségek 4. A Szárny 5. Logos 6. A Mindenség Hívása 7. Asha
