Krystian Shek - Al-qahirah2018 release. Krystian Shek released a number of superb and still underrated albums on Namlook's FAX imprint over the years; his first Carpe Sonum offering, 2014's Sometimes Not, was a bracing return to form, and al Qahirah is the follow up, and it's a dandy, a longform slice of far flung ethnotronica that speaks within dub's mother tongue but jettisons the lockstep rhythmic underpinning. In so doing, Shek's augured quite a brilliant thing: digidub

The fireworks created are a divine entry in the Downie canon and an invitation to appreciate the eternal force of music

meant to be ephemeral and now captured for eternity

In the case of Bengt Wilhelm Hallberg it was certainly quite simply his daily activities in the "small town" Landskrona (in the southern province Skane) - he was not visible from the out-look of Stockholm

but also enormously fun

and creating a cultural magma that is inseparable

The scales of fate will turn as the future of Aqua fall hangs in the balance

the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks and it's chief conductor Mariss Jansons have placed this masterpiece

the cellist Torleif Thedéen

On this new production the Kölner Akademie has recorded two oratorios composed by members of the generation after Bach and explicitly focusing on the theme of the Resurrection

Of French descent

musically and personally

The church today