More Musea Titles Marching Forth
Date: Sunday, April 08 @ 19:00:00 UTC
Topic: Album Release News


Musea Records released or started distributing the following titles last month, starting with Kotebel - Concerto For Piano And Electric Ensemble: Spanish instrumental project Kotebel aims at developing elaborate music with complex harmonic, as well as quite pleasant melodic and rhythmic structures. These elements are created by using resources which come from the worlds of Progressive rock and classical music. As the title of its first album Structures implies, the group lays down its framework for future masterpieces. Seven independent pieces explore different styles within the Progressive rock genre, based on the extensive use of keyboards and flute. It can be placed amongst Premiata Forneria Marconi, Tony Banks, The Enid, or early Genesis, while keeping a sense of freshness and originality that places the band at the forefront of the actual scene.

Mysticae Visiones (2001) is a concept album based on the musical representation of a series of metaphysical concepts, including birth and death. The first eponymous piece (35 minutes) is a suite that integrates different Progressive rock styles with elements from classical music (Impressionist period) and other genres. The second piece, "The River" (15 minutes), based on a fragment from the "Siddhartha" (Hermann Hesse), blends oriental resources with symphonic rock. With its female vocals, its jazz-rock parts and its flute ala Airto Moreira, many sequences of this opus could have been played by Chick Corea in the Seventies. Blessed by a huge musical knowledge, keyboards player Carlos Plaza keep on creating unusual melodies and harmonies. His ambitious and majestic symphonic rock expands the boundaries of contemporary music, with a strong and obvious spiritual inspiration.

After an excellent Fragments Of Light (2003), the next album Omphalos (2006) includes a 30 minute-suite, based on neoclassic soprano vocals, bombastic keyboards, airy flute parts, and eclectic guitar playing, in a vein somewhere between Steve Howe, Allan Holdsworth and Steve Hackett. Classical music, jazz and Progressive rock are incredibly melt in this modern symphony. Undoubtely one of the best albums to be heard in 2006!

Ouroboros (Musea, 2009) offers six instrumental tracks (Plus the "Mysticae Visiones" suite as a live bonustrack), well balanced between keyboards and guitars, with syncopated and complex rhythms sometimes recalling Gentle Giant. Not unlike other Musea bands in the past (Hecenia, Priam, Tiemko...), Kotebel succeeds in being melodious, ambitious, symphonic and experimental at the same time. Perfectly produced (What a sound!), Ouroboros is a masterpiece, which is all but a surprise coming from a band collectioning them!

The new album, Concerto For Piano And Electric Ensemble, "features Adriana Plaza Engelke as soloist in Kotebel's interpretation of Carlos Plaza's 'Concerto for Piano and Electric Ensemble.' In four movements, this Concerto explores different languages and subgenres in progressive rock (symphonic, avant-garde), and classical (romanticism, impressionism, modernism). The album includes a DVD - 'Making Of' - with a full video rendition of the recording sessions of the Piano Concerto, in high resolution audio (48 Khz and 24 bits)," according to the Kotebel website.

Jack Dupon - Bascule À Vif: A double album recorded "live" with three songs previously recorded for the album L'Echelle Du Désir and six songs from the Demon. The song order closely follows the order time of the concert.

Name: Bascule À Vif
Details: 9 tracks, 110 minutes
Labels: Transit-Music-Group for the North and South America, Musea Records for Europe and Asia
Recorded Saturday, October 22, 2011, Camille Claudel at room Clermont-Ferrand
Sound: Stephen Mazoyer and Jack Dupon
Production Mix: Studio "Welcome to Tibet" by Stephen Mazoyer
Mastering: Basaltestudio by Simon Capony basaltestudio.com
Graphics: Sabino Cagigos artolant.free.fr/voir/voir.htm

Electroclav - Chemin Initiatique: Electroclav is an electronic music French composer. Since childhood he has been passionate about synthesizers and computers. He has been inspired and initiated by Jean Michel Jarre, Vangelis and others artists of the current electro scene. Thanks to this album, he creates a music that goes beyond the notes, means an abstract representation of his course. According to Electroclav, Music puts Spirit and Soul in harmony. Without lyrics, his music sends mood, feeling and sensations. It is born and is growing up at the rate of a beating heart. It makes born a story in our mind, makes vibrate the images, describes a feeling, is progressing and then, stops for silence. Later, at the second listening, Music is born again to transport you until another trip, to a path of initiation. Here, the path of initiation is guided by the composer who makes you discover sound ambiances. A story is born, like a film, your own film.

If Duo - Songs Volume 2: If Duo was born in the resonant sessions Meeting In Paris, the disc the quintet's Giovanni Falzone recorded in 2006. The musical and human bond between Bruno Angelini and Giovanni Falzone was such that the idea of ​​creating a duo emerged. After a few concerts, they chose to record their music with a particular desire, that of establishing a long-term work and burn multiple disks, each being devoted to exploration of a unique world. Placing the melody in the heart of a modern jazz, interactive, clean or swift, built around a groove or seemingly disjointed ... this has always been the desire art by Giovanni Falzone and Bruno Angelini creating the duo. Songs Vol 1 in 2008 was the first game, free and spontaneous, built around the flamboyant music of trumpeter Alpine, Giovanni Falzone. Songs Vol 2 confirms this art direction, developed over by the two men over many concerts. Bruno Angelini assumes this time the compositions, imbued with the strong identity of the duo but also of his private world.

Ksiz - Nerve Of War: Feeling alone since Regency's demise? Here's something to dry your tears! Ksiz is a young band from Strasbourg, led by two virtuosos: guitarist Mathieu Spaeter and drummer Jimmy Pallagrosi. Supported by musicians as good as these two can be, the duet put all its talent and inspiration into a well-crafted instrumental piece of work, carrying the legacy of Dream Theater and Planet X. The Progressive heavy-metal side isn't the only one here though: Sandcrawler (2007) knows how to mix various musical styles, such as jazz, funk and fusion jazz-rock. For instance, when the Fender Rhodes piano replaces the six-strings, one may think of Niacin. Add some violin parts here and there, and Jean-Luc Ponty seems to come back from the Glorious Seventies. Following the path of its predecessor, Ksiz strikes again with a second album named Nerve Of War, published in the year 2012 on the Musea Parallèle label. The quality of the compositions is still top-notch, inspiration leads the way again, and instrumental prowess rules. This isn't by chance if the guest-list includes such names as Derek Sherinian (Dream Theater, Planet X...), Tom Kennedy (Dave Weckl, Al Di Meola...) or Christophe Godin (M&oumo;rglbl, Gno...). Let's also note that the album ends with a majestic nearly-twenty-minutes epic-track. No doubt about it, the French Liquid Tension Experiment of the XXIst Century is named Ksiz!

Jean Paul Prat - Desnudo: Surrounded by a large line-up (bass, three guitars, five brass instruments, keyboards, flute, percussions, piano & vocals), French drummer Jean-Paul Prat presents an instrumental, powerful and symphonic work. The recurent themes are perfectly orchestrated and their many variations are full of melodic richness. The growing bass and brass instruments are close to Weidorje, but this music shows much more contrast and violent sequences follow quietest passages. Originally recorded as an eponymous one-title album clocking at more than 40 minutes, Masal (1982) was reissued by the Musea label with complete biography and four bonus-tracks. Those have been recorded in 1985 and 1990 with a smaller line-up, but with similar inspiration. To be rediscovered! After having revived the spirit of Masal though the self-named band in the year 2009, Jean-Paul Prat delivers nowadays a splendid piece of work. Published in 2012 on the Musea Parallèle label, Desnudo showcases the sensivity of an unique musician. Don't miss this beautiful piano solo album!

Plus these titles from Talking Elephant: The Shadows - Change Of Address, Sharks - Jab It In Yore Eye, Cyril Tawney - In Port, and Ten Years After - Hear Them Calling.

[Source: Musea, Kotebel website]







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