The sixth solo album from this Sheffield, England singer- songwriter and former Pulp sideman features made-up-sounding instruments including a megabass waterphone and a crystal baschet. The album s lush production provides a haunting backdrop to Hawley s unique voice and allows plenty of space for beautiful guitar solos. I wanted it to be a listening experience from start to finish, where you couldn t just pause it and go off and watch Coronation Street or whatever, explains Hawley. Sonically, it flows. It s not jumping all over the place. It just has a mood that goes through the whole thing. Thematically his darkest work to date, Truelove s Gutter explores the idea of people or things that are broken in some way, and the fractured and damaged times in which we live, to which Hawley s... Less

The sixth solo album from this Sheffield, England singer- songwriter and former Pulp sideman features made-up-sounding instruments including a megabass waterphone and a crystal baschet. The album s lush production provides a haunting backdrop to Hawley s unique voice and allows plenty of space for beautiful guitar solos. I wanted it to be a listening experience from start to finish, where you couldn t just pause it and go off and watch Coronation Street or whatever, explains Hawley. Sonically, it flows. It s not jumping all over the place. It just has a mood that goes through the whole thing. Thematically his darkest work to date, Truelove s Gutter explores the idea of people or things that are broken in some way, and the fractured and damaged times in which we live, to which Hawley s... Less

Rare instrument specialist Thomas Bloch is equally at home performing on the soundtrack of Amadeus, on stage with Radiohead, or at Milan’s La Scala (playing glass harmonica, cristal Baschet or ondes Martenot). This CD offers the widest possible range of repertoire for the ondes Martenot, one of the earliest electronic instruments (1919): a solo work and an ensemble for nine ondes Martenot (Bloch), chamber music (Martinu, Messiaen), double concerto with piano, orchestra and percussion (Wisson), electroacoustic compositions (Redolfi, Touchard), and a fully composed piece (Cooper) which contrasts with a partially improvised work (Rolin). These at times surprising works are performed by Bloch and some of his fellow- composers, and also feature Phil Minton, Fernand Quattrocchi, the Pomeranian... Less

Rare instrument specialist Thomas Bloch is equally at home performing on the soundtrack of Amadeus, on stage with Radiohead, or at Milan’s La Scala (playing glass harmonica, cristal Baschet or ondes Martenot). This CD offers the widest possible range of repertoire for the ondes Martenot, one of the earliest electronic instruments (1919): a solo work and an ensemble for nine ondes Martenot (Bloch), chamber music (Martinu, Messiaen), double concerto with piano, orchestra and percussion (Wisson), electroacoustic compositions (Redolfi, Touchard), and a fully composed piece (Cooper) which contrasts with a partially improvised work (Rolin). These at times surprising works are performed by Bloch and some of his fellow- composers, and also feature Phil Minton, Fernand Quattrocchi, the Pomeranian... Less

The haunting, ethereal tone of the glass armonica, which was invented by Ben Franklin in 1761, was said to drive its players insane. On Cristal, Dennis James risks madness as he surveys three centuries of music composed for Franklin's armonica, and two other glass instruments called the seraphim and the cristal baschet. Most of the selections date from the armonica's first period of popularity, which started in the late 1700s and ended in the 1830s, and include compositions by Hasse, Apell, Scmittbauer, a composer who also made armonicas, and Mozart, who composed the Adagio and Rondo for armonica just weeks before he died. James is joined on the Mozart piece by the Emerson String Quartet, who also play on Garry Eister's Quintet for Glass and Strings, one of the few 20th century pieces... Less

Robert A. Maxwell and Kirk Ambrose, Introduction: Romanesque Sculpture Studies at a Crossroads - Jerome Baschet, Iconography beyond Iconography: Relational Meanings and Figures of Authority in the Reliefs of Souillac - Martin Buchsel, The Status of Sculpture in the Early Middle Ages: Liturgy and Paraliturgy in the Liber miraculorum sancte Fidis - Thomas E. A. Dale, The Nude, Phantasia, Vision and the Affective Powers Sculpture - Ilene H. Forsyth, The Role of Verbal and Visual Texts in the Moissac Cloister - Dorothy F. Glass, Word into Image in Italian Romanesque Sculpture - Klaus Niehr, Porches, Walls, and Capitals: New Aesthetics in Architectural Sculpture of the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries - Jose Luis Senra, Between Rupture and Continuity: Romanesque Sculpture at the Monastery of... Less