20 November 2010 - 0 Comments

RHYTHMETHOD NEW RELEASES:

THE NATIONAL ~ High Violet (Expanded edition)

Expanded edition of the hugely successful fifth studio album High Violet.  High Violet Expanded Edition is a double-CD package. As well as the original eleven-track album, the expanded version will be come with a limited edition bonus disc! Touring in January – 3 sold out shows!

BLACK SEEDS ~ Live

The beautiful, deluxe edition CD/DVD package includes 12 live tracks recorded in venues around the world, each with personal comments from the band, plus a bonus DVD featuring new material and a selection of their finest audiovisual content to date, as well as photo galleries & wallpaper downloads & postcards. This is a special limited edition CD/DVD set - get it while stocks last.

PIKACHUNES ~ Pikachunes

Stripped back to bare essentials, a typical track features one or two synths, a 70's analog bass line, and a series of reverberated vocal harmonies, all driven by an atypical disco beat. - no unnecessary frills.MARTHA TILSTON ~ Lucy And The Wolves

Eighth studio album from the British Folk singer/songwriter Martha Tilston with a gloriously clear and seductive voice.  Throughout the album Martha expresses herself in her trademark, endearingly direct, poetic manner. The songs are exquisitely set, the musicianship is faultless: a mesh of violins, viola, cello, double bass and, unusually. trombone. For fans of: Joni Mitchell, Charlotte Greig & Vashti Bunyan

CASSANDRA’S EARS ~ The Cassandra’s Ears Story

In March 2010 - 80s’ Dunedin’s all girl pop-rock group - Cassandra’s Ears’ original masters were re-discovered after a chance encounter by Jan Hellriegel, founding member and songwriter in the band, so they had the tracks -taken from their two EPs: Private Wasteland and Your Estimation - re-mastered and put together in a very special digi-pack full of personal band memories and old photos and posters.  For fans of: Jan Hellriegel, Street Chant, Flying Nun…

DANNY & THE CHAMPIONS OF THE WORLD ~ Streets Of Our Time

The music is a blend of old time, alt-country, acoustic folk, and Americana; Acoustic guitars strum, plucked banjos clank, pedal steel guitars cry and country-tinged female backing vocals soar, Danny’s vocals hold a touch of Dylan, the lyrics mostly bitter sweet tell tales heavy on nostalgia. For fans of: Fionn Regan, Bob Dylan & The Felice Brothers.

WILLARD GRANT CONSPIRACY ~ Paper Covers Stone

An album that sees band leader Robert Fisher and a bare-bones band revisit their back catalogue - 13-years worth - and rework an album’s worth of material in more low-fi style that than in which it was (generally) first released.  Recorded over a two day marathon that yielded a bucket full of songs. Played in a changing format of solo/duo/trio and quartet arrangements, the recordings reflect the living room feel of the band’s early recordings. The Aus/NZ edition features a bonus EP: Trunk In The Attic containing more songs recorded at the session, including some of Willard Grant Conspiracy’s finest compositions. For fans of: John Cale and Johnny Cash.

MEDESKI MARTIN & WOOD ~ The Radiolarian Series

An album project released in three instalments in 2008-2009. The three volumes in the series were first released as three separate albums; This CD packages the wildly eclectic individual Radiolarians instalments together over 2 discs.The songswere composed and then developed through a series of tours before recording the music in the studio. The band draws on influences from a number of musical traditions including funk, hip hop, trip hop and free jazz. For fans of: Ennio Morricone andavant-jazz musicians.

CHARLES DOUGLAS ~ Lives

Recordered in 1999. The album was released briefly before disappearing… until now!  What a back story! The sleeve notes tell the whole harrowing story of Charles Douglas life at the time of recording this albumProduced by Moe Tucker (of Velvet Underground fame) and produced by Ultra Vivid Scene'sKurt Ralske.12 tracks of fuzzy guitar rock, the sound, is very Velvet Underground, Douglas’ drawl is a near perfect Lou Reed but despite the lost decade, it never feels like a time capsule – it turns out one of the most refreshing alt-rock records of 2010 was made in the nineties and is finally getting its dues. For fans of: Lou Reed, The Velvet Underground, The Ramones, Television, The Strokes…

Plus new LPS; PRINCE RAMA~ ShadowTempleand AVEY TARE ~ Down There

ODE RECORDS:

BORIS PIGOVAT ~ Requiem

Vector Wellington Orchestra’s 70th anniversary commemoration of Kristallnacht was one of the most unforgettable concerts of 2008. Now available on CD Requiemis live recording taken from the concert, featuring Boris Pigovat’s ‘Holocaust Requiem’ for solo viola and orchestra, as well as some of his chamber music for viola and for string quartet. The CD comes with a fantastic booklet in both English and Hebrew.

GEORGINA ZELLAN-SMITH ~ Remembrance And Other Piano Favourites

Georgina Zellan-Smith is one of New Zealand's most accomplished pianists with a long list of accolades, dating right back to her debut at London's Wigmore Hall , through to her recordings of ravel and laterley her work with the Auckland University. Many of these short pieces such as ‘Robin's Return’ and ‘Rembrance’ are old favourites and Georgina also includes a touch of local flavour with her transcription of ‘Hine e Hine’. All the old favourites are here played in top class form.

ANNE SOFIR VON OTTER ~ Love Songs

A remarkable collaboration: the celebrated Swedish mezzo-soprano has chosen to make her first recording with leading jazz pianist/composer Brad Mehldau. The 2-CD set features Love Songs, a seven-part cycle by Mehldau himself  on disc one and collects together some of the best songwriters of our time, including Leonard Bernstein, Richard Rodgers and Lennon&McCartney on disc 2.

DANIELE GATTI ~ Tchaikovsky Symphonies 4, 5 & 6

On this 3 CD box set, music director - of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra since 1996 - Daniele Gatti leads the orchestra thoughSymphony nos 4, 5 & 6 ‘Pathetique’ and Capriccio Italien, Romeo & Juliet Fantasy Overture and Serenade for Strings

MARC HURTADO & ALAN VEGA ~ Sniper

Alan Vega, Suicide singer/figurehead and icon of electronic music combines forces with conceptual artist, Marc Hurtado of Etant Donné, ultimate tribute act to the work of Marcel Duchamp, and erstwhile Throbbing Gristle collaborator for stratospheric sonic blast. Sniper also features Lydia Lunch on "Prison Sacrifice" as well as contributions from Henry Rollins, Ric Ocasek and Martin Rev.

PLUS: plenty of new release classical!

That’s all folks, enjoy your weekend and your music!

Thanks to www.rhythmethod.co.nz for this story.

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