Clin D'oeil 2012

L’émergence et le déclin de l’hyperpuissance hispanique demeurent l’un des phénomènes les plus spectaculaires de l’Histoire. De l’union de la Castille avec l’Aragon à la fin du xve siècle à l’échec de l’Invincible Armada devant l’Angleterre, quatre souverains ont gouverné un pays qui a été engagé sur tous les fronts : en Méditerranée face à l’Empire ottoman et aux Barbaresques, en Europe du Nord face aux Pays-Bas révoltés et aux princes du Saint Empire passés à la Réforme. …

Alessandro Striggio (1536-1592) - Mass for 40 and 60 voices - Le Concert Spirituel & Hervé Niquet (2012) {Glossa GCDSA 921623}
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Classical / Renaissance / Baroque / Sacred Vocal Music

As his starting point for a brand new recording of the music from the polychoral Renaissance and the “monumental Baroque”, with Alessandro Striggio’s 40 and 60-part Missa sopra Ecco sì beato giorno leading the way, Hervé Niquet turns to the musical celebrations for a feast day occasion in the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence in honour of St John the Baptist, adding a trio of works by Orazio Benevoli, another specialist in multi-parted choral works, and Striggio’s motet Ecce beatem lucem, also scored for 40 voices.

Elton John's Classic Album Selection (1970-73) box set is comprised of five of the music legend's most influential and critical acclaimed albums: Elton John, Tumbleweed Connection, Madman Across The Water, Honky Chateau, and Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only The Piano Player. These albums (now including selected bonus tracks) provided the backbone of Elton’s early career and were the source of a series of breakthrough hits which would propel him to become one of the most successful British artists of all time.

'Cherry' Ma Xiao Qian chinese pop singer and actress, she was born in Zhejiang. Also known as: 拇指姑娘 / Thumbelina

11 CD collection includes: Spoke (1997); The Black Light (1998); Hot Rail (2000); Even My Sure Things Fall Through (2001) EP; Feast Of Wire (2003); Convict Pool (2004) EP; Black Heart (2004) Maxi Single; In the Reins (with Iron And Wine) (2005) EP; Garden Ruin (2006); Carried To Dust (2008); Algiers (2012).

Swans - The Seer (2012) {2CD Young God Records YG45}
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Rock / Post Rock / Experimental Rock / Art Rock

Michael Gira claims that Swans' The Seer took 30 years to make: "it's the culmination of every previous Swans album as well as any other music I've ever made, been involved in or imagined." This is not hyperbole. Two years after My Father Will Lead Me Up to a Rope to the Sky, The Seer is the most sprawling, ambitious, thoughtfully conceived and tightly performed recording in the band's catalog – also not hyperbole – over two discs, two hours, and 11 tracks. And it is not an endurance test, but an argument for compulsive listening. It's an exquisitely wrought journey through post-rock, electronic soundscapes, haunting acoustic songs, punishing noise, and (lots of) percussion.

Leo Ieiri (家入レオ) is a Japanese singer and songwriter. Her song "Sabrina" was used as the third ending song of the anime television series Toriko.

For roughly half a decade, from 1968 through 1975, the Band was one of the most popular and influential rock groups in the world, their music embraced by critics (and, to a somewhat lesser degree, the public) as seriously as the music of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Their albums were analyzed and reviewed as intensely as any records by their one-time employer and sometime mentor Bob Dylan. Although the Band retired from touring after The Last Waltz and disbanded several years later, their legacy thrived for decades, perpetuated by the bandmates' respective solo careers as well as the enduring strength of the Band's catalog…