Philippe Rombi is a talented french composer who has built a solid career in the soundtrack field since the mid 90's.
Here's a somewhat interesting approach to Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana" by ex-The Doors keyboard player Ray Manzarek.
One of my Glass favourites, this opera was presented the first time in the Netherlands in 1980.
With more than 50 albums released to date, these are just a few of the records that made of this belgian composer an undeniable reference in the music history of the last 25/30 years, due, in particular, to works like "Struggle for Pleasure", "Maximizing the Audience", "A Man of No Fortune...", "After Virtue", "Motives for Writing" or "Shot and Echo".
The Swiss trio Coroner was one of the most original and inventive groups of the thrash metal "golden era". It was also one of the most underrated ones.
Kevin Moore is a wonderful musician, with several musical projects, who's talent has evolved naturally throughout the years since his beginings as keyboardist of Dream Theater.
And now for something completely different, in fact, there hasn't been any Klaus Schulze post since June, so I guess it's time for two more great works by this tremendous artist.
"Drink Me" was the outstanding debut of the british band Salad, a group that included as vocalist the gorgeous Marijne van der Vlugt, who was also the hostess of some MTV Europe programs in the early 90's (when MTV was still a music channel!).
This is a very interesting album of french pop tunes performed by a lot of well known indie pop names such as The Magnetic Fields, Air (w/ Françoise Hardy), John Wesley Harding, Lloyd Cole, Ivy or Luna.
Subphonic is the product of Neil Pollard's inventiveness, an artist who has contributed, just for an instance, to Freq. Nasty's "FreQ's Geeks & Mutilations", which has been posted earlier on this blog.
A very interesting ambience captured in this two sessions, recorded within a four-year interval.
