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Grand Motets Für Die Louvre Kapelle
Dumont died before adapting his "Grands Motets" to the forces of Versailles. The Ensemble Pierre Robert rids these motets of Ballards clumsy arrangements, thus unfolding a superb limpid counterpoint.- Shop: odax
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Midsummer
Recorded in 2010 at Townend Studios (Berlin), Klangwolke (Berlin), OrBeat-Studios (Berlin), Eastgate-Studios (Vienna) Track 1 and 5 produced by Quaeschning/Heidemann Track 2 by Beator Track 3 by Quaeschning/Djirre Track 4, 6 and 8 by Beator/Quaeschning Track 7 by Quaeschning Thorsten Quaeschning - Synthesizer, Piano, Memotron, Guitar, Vocoder, Vocals, Boomwhakers, Percussion, Stones Sascha Beator - Synthesizer Kai Hanuschka - Drums, Vocals, Percussion Djirre - Guitar, Vocals, Vocoder Juergen Heidemann - Singing Stones, Stones, Vocals, Boomwhakers David See - Stones Nadine Gomez - Violin, Vocals Picture Palace Music is an electronic music band from Berlin, Germany, the city where serious electronic music was born. Thorsten 'Q' Quaeschning, keyboardplayer in Tangerine Dream, is head of the project. The main idea of the group that was founded in 2003 is to reproduce the musical dynamic and experiments of old live accompaniment for silent movies and to give them a modern soundtrack with nowadays-technical options. This shows that the old silent movies are not mouldy: they are timeless and fascinating! The music is inspired by more than eighty years old silent movies. Take a deep trip into a mystical world of sounds! Picture Palace Music already has quite a number of releases out, some only available as download but also some on the Manikin electronic music label from Berlin. 'Midsummer' is the first one that was released on Groove Unlimited. The theme behind the album is 'music for sound divers and baptism-ceremonies'. The band is celebrating a wonderful summer sun-worshipping the solstice and the associated famous white nights and blue hours. Vuvuzelas (remember those from the Word Championship soccer?) as an essential part of this particular summer will be heard as well as the beautiful noise of sound-stones. So join the band having a trip through the whole gamut of emotions regarding/reflecting this eventful year - 2010. And a band it is. Apart from Thorsten 'Q' the band consists of Sacha Beator (keyboards, who also does a lot of composing), Djirre and Stephen Mortimer on guitars, Vincent Novak on drums and Juergen Heidemann on various instruments and sounds. Of course, with a man like 'Q' in the band, a comparison can be made with the music of Tangerine Dream. But Picture Palace Music is more than that: melodically, lively, rocky and even at some cases progressive ('Q' is a fan of progrock and alternative rockmusic which can be heard throughout the album). With 'Chill Crystal Zone' the album already starts in a progressive way with fierce guitars and drums. But on many occasions the band takes a rest, like in the atmospheric 'Midsummer's Morning' in which we hear 'Q''s Memotronflutes and 'Drowning Someone's Sorrow Into The Ocean, part I' (a great title!). He also plays a fine steelguitar: that can be heard in 'Seduction Crossing' and even sings, like in 'Midsummer's Night'. The texts are by William Shakespeare and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Picture Palace Music creates music that is a perfect mix between electronic music, rock and prog and therefore may attract a diversity of music lovers. And also live, like on the 'E-Live festival' in 2010 they proved they are a rising force in EM. Press Information It's quite difficult to describe the music of Picture Palace Music so much that she's so disparate. Since the release of Somnambulistic Tunes in 2007, Thorsten Quaeschning's group doesn't stop amazing by an impressive variety of styles and tones. Midsummer, their 1st album on Groove Unlimited was revealed during the E-Live2010 festival during a hectic concert that totally amazed the audience. And with good cause! Beyond a hymn to summer, it's solstice, the sun and it's worshippers, Midsummer embraces big synth rock and keeps an attentive ear to rustles o bluish nights, there where festivities of a world of excitement cross the parallelism of dualistic universes of Picture Palace Music. Chill Crystal Zone reminds us above all that the leader of PPM is also behind the keyboards of Tangerine Dream. Midsummer's introductory track starts with a slightly fluty synth dandling on a fine sequential line which waves such a prismatic rivulet on a cozy bed of twinkling arpeggios and guitar notes scrolling in loops. The rhythm is nervous, crossing the wriggling guitar of The Edge (U2) as well as naive and tremulous sequences of Dream from the Rockoon years. A feverish guitar of which riffs are fading behind floating vocalizes shapes a strange melody gnawed by a latent madness. The pace is increasing with more sustained percussions and crystalline chords which waddle innocently before the guitar becomes more mordant and that an avalanche of percussions tumbles with crash, dividing Chill Crystal Zone between a soft melody and an astounding musical fury that PPM had already flooded us with Damsel Dive and Help Murder Help which we find on Fairy Marsh Districts. Moreover, Midsummer will constantly be torn between melodies and anguishes as well as between brightness and blackness. Midsummer's Eve follows with an introduction rather similar to Chill Crystal Zone weakened rhythm, except that the rhythm explodes heavily with furious percussions, a line of hemmed bass and nervous guitar riffs which plunges us into the somber universe of King Crimson (Red and Starless and Bible Black). An explosive track where the guitar drags it's solos on a hybrid structure with a rhythm broken by short aired interludes, leaning over heavy riffs and dark lines of synth which roar in a cacophony of sounds reminding us that Midsummer is also an album for sound divers as well as for baptism ceremonies, but surely baptisms of another religious order. Sounds, sounds and sounds. Midsummer's Morning is full of those and this up to the last hidden recesses of it's mystery. It's a wonderful ode to schizophrenia with a delicious piano which spreads a magnificent meditative melody where voices drag in a furrow disturbing of emotionalism and eclecticism. A soft piano which reminds me the Añoranza on Curicculum Vitae 1 whose atmosphere is similar to it with all this array of sounds as heterogeneous as troubling which crosses this delicate duel piano / flute. Midsummer's Day cross a little bit the light rhythmics of the Dream in the Miramar years with it's lively tempo where guitar riffs flow on nervous percussions and limpid sequences fidgeting beneath delicate strata of synth. A track which flirts a little more towards the big synth rock, quite as the powerful and colliding Right of Ascension Day, and which knows it's increases of creativity with a beautiful guitar and vocals of festivities which plunge Midsummer's Day in an unreal African rave-up, especially with vuvuzelas which buzz around vocoders. Seduction Crossing is also tinted of this Tangerine Dream universe, but a darker Dream brought out of Legend paths. A fine sequence swirls after an atonal intro with anguishing breezes. A sequence of which chords are trickling away under good striking of muffed percussions and others which are deeply colliding quite as on Legend. A line of bass fed this spiral sequence where keyboard keys water this strange melody of glass tones. A great track which depicts a nightmarish paranoia, especially when are adding superb spectral guitars strata which sway with stridence, tearing this suave to schizophrenic seduction which lives in Seduction Crossing, one excellent track within Midsummer. Our eardrums, still knocked out by strikes of the heavy and captivating Right of Ascension, are wrapped by the eclectic and hollow intro of Drowning Someone's Sorrow into the Ocean Part I. Drops stream in the echo of dark caves of which curves go on towards a heterogeneous sound universe where caustic reverberations cross an array of fluty breezes and metallic hoops. A sequence is emerging from it and discreetly astride this plain fossilized of metallic humming. The movement is delicate and is increasing with the appearance of the P- Shop: odax
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Six Piano Fairy Tales
Davilmar Biggs Pianist Composer is a special breed, and I mean that in the most complimentary sense of the phrase. He has it all - the whole package of artistic gifft - and in abundance. But, what strikes me about his playing is the sheer beauty - the concept, the intelligence, the control over every sound, the vision, the phenomenal listening to it all - all the attributes that comprise great artistry of the sort that touches our souls. Davilmar Pianist composer is an internationally distinguished pianist who has been hailed as a "consummate artist - brilliant, formidable, effortless, and the epitome of control and poise." he began his musical studies at age seven, and developed a passion for the stage and studio, performing throughout the world as soloist, accompanist and chamber musician, z. Possessing the rare combination of insight, inspiration and an amazing technique, his artistry continues to touch and electrify audiences across the world. Career highlights include solo debut recitals at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center and Strathmore Hall, with critics praising his "flawless technique, smooth and limpid phrasing, exciting programming", finally announcing "a triumphant debut from an artist of major import!" .....1-Your music is very interesting and deep! I like it ! Have a wonderful week! All the best for you, Noémie 2-Such tastefully composed music, mysteriously glamourous and intense, absolutely amazing. 3-It's always a pleasure to hear your dreamy music, Davilmar. Have a lovely day 4-I listened to your music as well, very relazing and peaceful experience 5-Thank you a lot for your words... It was great to read that words from a great musician like you... I'm fascinated with your music... Thank you again... Wish you all the best... Kisses from Portugal Inês Vaz 6-Your music is very interesting and deep! I like it ! Have a wonderful week! All the best for you, Noémie 7-Hi Dear Davilmar, My lovely friend :) I love your sound and honors me greatly being your friend:} Beautiful composition 'The City of Magic' you are amazing pianist 8-Thank you for his kindness! Total honor in his visit :) Be welcome, always, here... with your beautiful composition!!! Peace and kisses from Rio de Janeiro 9-Very nice music compositions, Davilmar. Nice to meet you again, on your new MySpace page. Have a great week! All the best to you, always 10-Your composition are very interesting: are they part of a Major work for Piano and Orchestra? It would be great to know more about that. 11-THANK YOU MY CREATIVE FRIEND, I ALWAYS APPRECIATE HEARING FROM YOU...WISHING YOU AN INSPIRING WEEKEND, FULL OF MAGIC MOMENTS...WARMLY, X0X 12-Hello Davilmar my friend :) Your playing is amazing! Beautiful sound :)I wish you all the best! Regards, Vassia from Athens 13-DAVILMAR, I FEEL PEACEFUL, LISTENING TO YOUR MUSIC, I SHOT THESE PHOTOS 3 WEEKS AGO NEAR WHERE I LIVE... HAVE A WONDERFUL MONDAY... ALL THE BEST, WARMLY, CAROL 14DAVILMAR, THANK YOU FOR YOUR FRIENDSHIP DO ADMIRE YOUR MULTITALENTS, HIGHLY APPRECIATE YOUR TALENT, HOPING YOU WILL KEEP INTOUCH. WARMLY, CAROL.- Shop: odax
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Das Wohltemperierte Clavier
"Richter's virtuosity is impressive in other Preludes such as the C minor and A minor. Of course, some Bach is very romantic and the Preludes in C sharp and E flat minor are very fine ... I admire, also, the limpid sound of the C major and B minor Preludes, first and last in the first book, and Richter quickly responds to genre pieces like the D major Fugue, which is an ouverture a la francaise." (Gramophone)- Shop: odax
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