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February 9, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Lisa Gerrard, Genesis Orchestra & Yordan Kamdzhalov: Górecki – Symphony No. 3: Symphony of Sorrowful Songs
Lisa Gerrard, Genesis Orchestra & Yordan Kamdzhalov Górecki – Symphony No. 3: Symphony of Sorrowful Songs Besant Hall Records (part of Air-Edel Records) Henryk Górecki’s Symphony No. 3, Op 36, known as Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, was composed in late 1976. It was premiered the following year in performance and since then there have been […]Archive
January 15, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Zbiginew Preisner / Lisa Gerrard / Dominik Wania: Memories of My Youth
Zbiginew Preisner / Lisa Gerrard / Dominik Wania Memories of My Youth Supertrain Records The Polish composer Zbiginew Preisner has worked widely across theatre, dance and film – including orchestrations for David Gilmour and perhaps is best known for a series of film-scores including music for The Secret Garden and the Three Colours series of […]Archive
March 16, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 928
This Mortal Coil, It’ll End In Tears (1984) What is now a cliché but we still (always) seem to say it in a means-well way is this notion of a cover version where the performer makes the song their own – This Mortal Coil isn’t really a band, more a project. But most of the […]Archive
October 8, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Pan & Me: Ocean Noise
Pan & Me Ocean Noise Denovali Records Created as sprawling double-album, Ocean Noise is the work of Christopher Mevel, here under the Pan & Me name, but known also for his jazz-tinged extrapolations with The Dale Cooper Quartet. The Pan & Me work takes more from neo-classical, the widescreen filmic sequences (Nickel Empire) are borne […]Archive
August 29, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
Lustmord: The Word As Power
Lustmord The Word As Power Blackest Ever Black As Lustmord Brian Williams has created a strain of industrial and dark ambient music that creeps along like a horror soundtrack one minute, then slowly, surely, it opens itself up – unfolding – to reveal the beauty (and still the darkness) of sublime classical music, of minimalism, […]Archive
November 10, 2012 by Simon Sweetman