Dune and The London Session Orch

   
Artist: Dune and The London Session Orch

   Genre(s): 
Classical
   

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Discography:


   
 Forever

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 16

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CBSO/Zhang, Symphony Hall, Birmingham

Xian Zhang is one of two Chinese women creating a stir in the conducting world (the other is Zhang Jiemin). Her recent tour of China and Asia with the New York Philharmonic, of which she is associate conductor, was clearly significant in this Olympic year. In this concert with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, she presented an intensely colouristic programme focused on Ravel the master-orchestrator.

Zhang's build is that of a shot-put competitor, while her style is one of maxiumum efficiency and no-nonsense lines. In Ravel's orchestration of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition - not often heard in a first half - her approach was briskly matter-of-fact, using broad brushstrokes rather than more subtle detailing. The muted strings of Il Vecchio Castello had a silken sheen, but Zhang was at her most authoritative when controlling the sweeping power of the full orchestra in the final Great Gate of Kiev.

Ravel's own Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No 2 complemented the Mussorgsky, with Zhang now in more expansive mode and pointing up felicities of scoring. Yet what seemed to be lacking was an insightful shaping of phrases and a more profound sympathy for the harmonic and emotional significance that makes Ravel's soundworld so evocative. Nevertheless, the CBSO responded willingly enough to Zhang's bidding, with the brilliant playing of principal flautist Marie-Christine Zupancic and her section standing out.

These two works framed a performance of Lalo's Symphonie Espagnole in which the violin soloist was the Canadian Karen Gomyo. She succeeded in balancing the flamboyance of the score with its moments of quiet lyricism. Like Zhang, she is certainly an artist to watch.


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Audio Caviar

   
Artist: Audio Caviar

   Genre(s): 
Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Transoceanic

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 14

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John Digweed and Nick Muir

   
Artist: John Digweed and Nick Muir

   Genre(s): 
Electronic
   

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Discography:


   
 Stark Raving Mad (Cd 2)

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 1


   
 Stark Raving Mad (Cd 1)

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 1

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New Edition

   
Artist: New Edition

   Genre(s): 
Rap: Hip-Hop
   

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Discography:


   
 All for Love

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 11

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Royal Hunt

   
Artist: Royal Hunt

   Genre(s): 
Metal: Heavy
   Rock
   Rock: Guitar Virtuoso
   

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Discography:


   
 Paper Blood

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 10


   
 Eyewitness

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 10


   
 The Watchers

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 10


   
 The Mission

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 13


   
 Intervention (Single)

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 5


   
 Fear

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 7


   
 Paradox

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 14


   
 Moving Target

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 10


   
 Live 1996 Cd2

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 12


   
 Live 1996 Cd1

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 12


   
 Land Of Broken Hearts

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 12


   
 The Maxi Single (Single)

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 6

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Royal Hunt began in 1991 when bandleader Andre Anderson, primitively from Moscow, coupled up in Denmark with singer Henrik Brockmann, bassist Steen Mogensen, and drummer Kenneth Olson. With Andre on keyboards and seance musicians playing guitar, Royal Hunt was place to record their first album, Farming of Broken Hearts. This was a basic stone set featuring Andre's classically influenced melodies. For the adjacent record album, Merry andrew in the Mirror, Jacob Kjaer, wHO had played on the first album, joined the band as lede guitar player. Clown in the Mirror is a much more than progressive album and features even more classical-sounding melodies than its forerunner.


A fresh era of Royal Hunt medicine began on the next album, Moving Target, when Brockmann was replaced by American singer D.C. Cooper. Although Anderson continued to indite all the songs, Cooper brought a different, softer sound to the isthmus. Anderson's songwriting also matured, and Moving Target sounded more like an album, as opposed to a collection of songs. Yet some other lineup change hit for the fourth album, Paradox, as drummer Kenneth Olsen was forced to leave the band due to audience problems. Paradox, featuring a sitting drummer, continued along the commission started by Moving Target, if a little softer. Dual Live in Japan followed in 1999.





Caleigh

Beep Beep

   
Artist: Beep Beep

   Genre(s): 
Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Business Casual

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 10

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Oasis win top music prize

OASIS have been honoured with a lifetime achievement prize at the Silver Clef
Awards.

The GALLAGHER brothers and their ever-changing line-up have proved
beer-swigging, hip-swaggering and the occasional obscene finger gesture can
nab you the top industry accolade.

The legendary Britpoppers share the trophy - which is awarded to raise funds
for music therapy charity Nordoff-Robins - with PAUL WELLER and U2.
Other winners at the London ceremony included THE FRATELLIS,who
picked up Best British Band following in the footsteps of last year's
winners SNOW PATROL.
For the full awards list, see below:
Silver Clef Award - Oasis

Icon Award - Squeeze

Classical Award - Nicola Benedetti

Ambassadors of Rock - Bryan Adams

Best British Band - The Fratellis

Download of the Year - Estelle, American Boy

International Award - Meat Loaf

Newcomer Award - Amy Macdonald

Oasis shot to fame in the early 90s, continually rivalling pretty boys DAMON
ALBARN, ALEX JAMES and GRAHAM COXON from BLUR .

Their third record, Be Here Now, became the fastest-selling album in chart
history when it was released in 1997.
The band's seventh studio album, Dig Out Your Soul, is due for release on
October 6