Black Heaven - Negativ

Genre: Rock/Pop.
Style: Gothic Dancefloor. Similar Artists: In Strict Confidence, Haujoubb, Wumpscut. Recording Year: Scanner, 2008.

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Ataraxia - Kremasta Nera (2007) / Nosce Te Ipsum (2008) / Llyr (2010) (Limited Edition).

Genre: Classical/Folk.
Style: Neo-clasical, Medieval
Similar Artists: Eden, Dead Can Dance, Stoa.
Recording Year: Ark Records, 2007.

This album is a cosmic chant inspired by the lights and shadows of an extinguished civilization, a lost world which eclipsed with its secrets. A mix of acoustic sounds, strings, electronic and eastern percussions with deep evocative vocals.

Kremasta Nera

 

Recording Year: Twilight Records, 2008.


 

Ataraxia is an Italian neoclassical band who combine modern technology with archaic instrumentation over various media. They describe their music as a cross "between sacred and profane, ethereal and neo-classical, contemporary and early music". They make researches into the European legends crossing the Greek and Latin myths. Their lyrics are written in many ancient and contemporary languages. Many of their performances take place in locations the band believes to possess specific spiritual qualities. Since the beginning of the group in the late 1980s, they have released more than 20 original LPs.

Nosce Te Ipsum

Recording Year: Prikosnovénie, 2010. 

Three years after the last studio Album Kremasta Nera, ATARAXIA are back with a marvellous new album on Prikosnovenie. Llyr (Lyra) is the name of the instrument of the bards and the Greek lyrical poets; a sacred musical instrument visually inspired by the grace and nobleness of the swans.

ATARAXIA, on this voyage, played the following instruments: classical, folk and 12-string guitars, chitarra battente, keyboards, flutes, sitar, gamelan, daf, frame drums, santoor, tablas, zard and bells. Female vocals are sometimes accompanied by male vocals. 

This album is a new story inspired by pagan myths, feminine celebrations of Mother Nature and celtic traditions. ATARAXIA and charismatic singer Francesca Nicoli have created their very own, incomparable genre of music: a cosmogenic dark folk praying for beauty.

Llyr

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Van Morrison - Keep it simple

Genere: Folk Rock, Contemporary Rock, Celtic Rock.

Similar Artists: J.J. Cale, Jackson Brown, Them.

Recording Year: Lost Highway Records, 2008.

Keep It Simple is a mantra for Van Morrison, as he stripped his music down to the bare basics years ago and then comfortably rode that groove, comprised in equal parts of blues, soul, jazz, and country. Van has been riding this groove so long that it's hard to pinpoint exactly when he settled into it, but looking back, things started to shift in the mid-'90s, as understated R&B rhythms took precedence and he started to punctuate them with country songs (or in the case of Pay the Devil, an entire LP of country tunes). Despite his new label Lost Highway's insistence that the fact this is his first album of all-original material since 1999's Back on Top, Keep It Simple doesn't feel all that different than the records since 1999, either in its feel or in structure, nor does it help that Van's songs play with older tunes, both in their lyrics and their very titles ("That's Entrainment," of course, but "Don't Go to Nightclubs" is a winning spin on "Don't Get Around Much Anymore"). Familiarity can breed contempt — and there's no denying that there is no figure as stubborn in popular music than Van Morrison, so it'd be easy for the cynical to assume that his refusal to change is a mere spiteful act, just as it would be easy for some listeners to think all his albums sound the same, because they kind of do — but familiarity can also deepen the music, which is the case with Morrison. This is lived-in, soulful music, the kind that can only be made after years of playing the classics, and if that doesn't quite make for a compelling album, it does make for a comforting one. It's as easy to slip into this album as it is a warm bath, as Van's cantankerous rumblings only surface (quite slyly) on the closing "Behind the Ritual," where he scats "blah blah blah" on the corner, suggesting that whatever he's singing doesn't really matter — and, in a way, he may be right, as the lyrics, the songs even, don't matter as much as the overall sound on Keep It Simple, which is as pure a groove album as he's ever made. There are no surprises, but when you do something this well, there doesn't need to be.

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Ray Charles - Immortal Classics

Género: Soul, Early R&B, Jazz Blues

Artistas similares: Mickey Baker, Quincy Jones, Aretha Franklin

Año de grabación: Multimusic, 2008.


Nacido en Albany, Georgia, Ray Charles perdió la vista durante su infancia por un glaucoma. Fue autodidacta del piano, pero también recibió clases de música en braille en la "St Augustine School", un centro para invidentes. Paralelamente, tuvo que ganarse la vida como músico, cuando fallecieron sus padres. A finales de la década de los cuarenta, Ray Charles consigue colocar un disco en las listas de su país, y en 1951 obtiene su primer Top Ten, gracias a "Baby let me hold your hand" en 1951. Fue criticado por cantar canciones gospel con letras populares, aunque hay una gran tradición al poner letras religiosas a canciones y viceversa.

Falleció a la edad de 73 años, el 10 de junio de 2004 en su casa de California. Sus restos se encuentran en el Cementerio Inglewood Park de Los Angeles.

Born in Albany, Georgia, Ray Charles lost his view during childhood by a glaucoma. He was self-taught of the piano, but also received classes of music in braille in " St Augustine School", a center for blinds. He had to gain life like musician, when their parents passed away. At the end of the Forties, Ray Charles is able to put a disc in the lists of his country, and in 1951 he obtains his first Top Ten, thanks to " Baby let me hold your hand" in 1951. He was criticized to sing Gospel songs with popular letters, although there is a great tradition when putting religious letters to songs and vice versa.

He passed away at the age of 73 years, the 10 of June of 2004 in his house of California. Their rest are in the Inglewood Cemetery Park of Los Angeles.

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Anders Manga - Best of

Género /Gender: Tecno, Gothic, Rock

Artistas similares / Similar Artist: Jimmy Alcorn, Grant Siedle, Silent Mind

Año de grabación / Recording year: Recopilación Independiente, 2008.


Track list:

1. Glamour
2. The Source
3. We won't stay dead
4. There will be blood
5. At dawn they sleep
6. Bloodleting on the kiss
7. Burn
8. Heart of black
9. Solitary heaven
10. Apple
11. Beautiful
12. Science fiction
13. Tolerate
14. The only
15. The shrine
16. Welcome to the horror show
17. Empire of the sun
18. Here
19. Shiver
20. X's & the eyes





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