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New Me,Same Us (Mini Gatefold)
Little Dragon - die bahnbrechende schwedische Band um die rätselhafte Sängerin Yukimi Nagano, den Multiinstrumentalisten Håkan Wirenstarnd und Fredrik Wallin an Keyboard und Bass und Erik Bodin an Schlagzeug und Perkussion - kehren mit ihrem sechsten Studioalbum "New Me, Same Us" zurück. Für eine Band, die stolz darauf ist, abseits gängiger Hörgewohnheiten zu stehen und die sich mit aller Entschlossenheit dafür einsetzt, die Dinge zu ihren eigenen Bedingungen zu verwirklichen, haben sie bislang nicht gerade wenig Anerkennung im Mainstream bekommen. Mit dem Grammy für ihr Album "Nabuma Rubberband" im Jahr 2014 nominiert, gelten Little Dragon seit langem als eine der gefragtesten Gruppen für Kollaborationen. Im Laufe der Jahre ist eine beneidenswerte Liste an Künstlerinnen und Künstlern zusammengekommen, mit denen sie zusammengearbeitet haben, darunter bspw. BADBADNOTGOOD, Gorillaz, SBTRKT, Flying Lotus, Flume, Kaytranada, Big Boi, De La Soul, DJ Shadow, Tinashe, Mac Miller, Future, Raphael Saadiq oder Faith Evans. Ihre berühmt-berüchtigte Live-Performance hat eine mittlerweile zehnjährige Tourneekarriere nach sich gezogen, in dessen Verlauf sie kürzlich gemeinsam mit Flying Lotus als Co-Headliner eine Show im Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles gespielt haben, sowie auf einigen der weltweit angesehensten Festivals wie Coachella, Glastonbury, Bestival, Lollapalooza, Melt!, Dour, Sónar und dem Festival von Tyler, The Creator, "Camp Flog Gnaw", aufgetreten sind. Vollkommen alleine und ohne Unterstützung von außen im langjährigen und selbstgebauten Heim-Studio in Göteborg produziert und aufgenommen, repräsentiert "New Me, Same Us" ein weiteres Kapitel in der kontinuierlichen Entwicklung von Little Dragon. Mit ihrem einzigartigen Stil finden sie eine neue Richtung von gemächlichem, unkonventionellem R'n'B, Pop und Elektronik und klingen damit so verjüngt und energiegeladen wie eh und je. Die Platte zeugt auch von einer reflektierenden Stimmung, mit Yukimis unverwechselbarer Stimme, die von Übergängen im Leben, Sehnsüchten und Abschieden sinniert.Formate- Standard CD im Gatefold Sleeve- Schwarzes Vinyl (140g) inklusive 12" Lyric Booklet &, Download Code- Shop: odax
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29 Voices From The Heart
Eine Weltpremiere: Youssou N¿Dour spielte mit seinem Idol, der Sängerin Yandé Codou Sène, sein erstes traditionelles Album ein - ein Dokument eindringlicher Schönheit. Begleitet werden sie u. a. von dem besten Trommler Dakars, der lokalen Geige riti und einem polyphonen Frauenchor.- Shop: odax
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Love & Loss Music of Rachmaninoff 2
Rachmaninoff, great pianist that he was, didn't just write Etudes for the piano. That name wasn't enough to describe these huge, virtuosic pieces. He needed a bigger canvas for his bold colors so he called them Etudes-Tableaux- study paintings. Rachmaninoff, a tall dour man had huge hands, perfect for spanning great distances on the piano. His music provides a challenge for most pianists who just reach a little over an octave but studying these pieces brings high rewards. They are not only studies in bravura and virtuosity but musical gems as well that manage to touch the heart. Rachmaninoff used to say that the hardest thing for a composer to do was to write succinctly and economically- a short etude was more difficult for him to write than a concerto. He doe succeed with every one of these compositions. Each Etude-tableau concentrates on one technical issue and this becomes the 'working -out' of his compositional technique. They run the entire range of emotion, Rachmaninoff transports us to the the darker regions of the soul in some of these pieces. His music taps into our hidden emotions and brings them to the surface. One of my favorites is the 'Little Red Riding Hood' etude, Op. 39, No. 6 inspired by the composer reading the familiar story to his little girl one evening. We can clearly hear the cast of characters - unfortunately our heroine meets her demise in the very last bars. These Etudes were the last compositions that Rachmaninoff wrote in Russia, written at his dacha in the snowy Russian countryside. He finally settled in California but yearned for his homeland his entire life- we hear the yearning and the melancholy in all his music, combined here with a fantastic sense of virtuosity and love of the instrument. The recording also includes three well known transcriptions: Fritz Kreisler's beautiful 'Liebesleid,' written originally for the violin, the virtuosic 'Flight of the Bumble-bee by Rimsky Korsakov and to conclude- a transcription of Rachmaninoff's heart-breaking song 'Vocalise.' 'There is no feeling that she is trying to impress with her virtuosity, she lives in the music of her chosen composers, and conveys what Rachmaninoff himself hoped that his music would express, what is in his heart when composing, be it 'love or bitterness, sadness or religion.'' 'What you have here is an ideal balance between brain and heart.' Awarded 6 stars- top rating by Klassisk Magazine, Norway.- Shop: odax
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Ninotchka
Garbo Talks! Proclaimed ads when silent star Greta Garbo debuted in talkies. Nine years and 12 classic screen dramas later, the gifted movie legend was ready for another change. Garbo Laughs! #cheered the publicity for her first comedy, a frothy tale of a dour Russian envoy sublimating her womanhood for Soviet brotherhood until she falls for a suave Parisian man-about-town (Melvyn Douglas). Working from a cleverly barbed script written in part by Billy Wilder, director Ernst Lubitsch knew better than anyone how to marry refinement with sublime wit. 'At least twice a day the most dignified human being is ridiculous,' he explained about his acclaimed Lubitsch Touch. That's how we see Garbo's lovestruck Ninotchka: serenely dignified yet endearing ridiculous. Garbo laughs. So will you.- Shop: odax
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The Big Bang Theory: The Complete Fourth Season
This season the Big Bang gangs romantic universe expands. On the rebound from Penny, Leonard falls into the arms of Rajs sister Priya. Sheldon gets a girlfriend, or rather a friend who is a girl: Amy, a dour neurobiologist who declares herself beasties with Penny. Howard and Bernadette heat up. And so do Raj and Bernadette (at least in Rajs Bollywood daydream). All in the furtherance of award-winning genius comedy.- Shop: odax
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