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Missa In Labore Requies

Damien Guillon

Classical - Released December 15, 2023 | Château de Versailles Spectacles

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Trinitatis: Bach Cantatas

Damien Guillon

Classical - Released March 31, 2023 | Alpha Classics

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Purcell: Royal Odes

Damien Guillon

Classical - Released March 4, 2022 | Alpha Classics

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The Odes and Welcome Songs cover the major creative period of Henry Purcell, who composed them for festive occasions. However, in contrast to the musical pomp of Versailles that was commonplace during this time, the special events in which these songs were played were attended by very few. Damien Guillon and his ensemble, Le Banquet Céleste, have explored this chamber music’s intimate beginnings, conceiving this new programme comprising of thirty-seven richly expressive pages.Composed between 1680 and 1695, these pieces were intended to celebrate important occasions; for example, St Cecilia's Day or anniversaries such as that of King James II or Queen Mary. Others celebrate specific events, such as royal weddings, princely anniversaries or the centenary of Trinity College Dublin. Damien Guillon utilises his deep understanding of music to elevate his vocal and instrumental soloists to new artistic heights. "I like the idea of making music together in a group and uniting artists around a project," he says. Produced at the Poitiers Theatre, this new recording is full of life and joy, and is a true reflection of Guillon’s devotion to his craft. © François Hudry/Qobuz
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The Horizon Just Laughed

Damien Jurado

Alternative & Indie - Released May 4, 2018 | Secretly Canadian

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Caldara : Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo

Damien Guillon

Sacred Oratorios - Released August 31, 2018 | Alpha Classics

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There is no shortage of parallels to be drawn between Caldara and Vivaldi: both Venetians, both boasting an impressive body of work running to several hundred pieces of all genres, both died in Vienna (in the same street and in the same penury!), although Caldara had written more operas and oratorios than the Red Priest. And here is one of these very 32 known oratorios, Maddalena ai piedi di Christo written in Venice around 1698; it is "oratorio volgare", that is, recited in Italian, rather than Latin. Originally written as an accompaniment to spiritual exercises, the oratorio came to replace profane operas when the theatres were closed, especially from November to Lent. It took on the guise of opera, and used many of its techniques: naves and altars were (re)decorated and mechanisms and costumes were employed. In reality, it was nothing but an opera with a religious theme... The words and the plot of Maddalena ai piedi di Christo are perfectly suited to these months of penitence. It is a drama of the moral breakdown that tortures the sinner who has to choose between worldly and heavenly love, between living a life of luxury and truly promising herself to Christ. The Le Banquet Céleste ensemble, led by Damien Guillon (who also sings the alto part of Divine Love), takes to this rare piece with fervour. © SM/Qobuz
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It's Dark And Hell Is Hot

DMX

Hip-Hop/Rap - Released March 27, 1998 | Def Jam Recordings

Just as rap music was reaching its toughest, darkest, grimmest period yet, following the assassinations of 2Pac and Biggie in the late '90s, along came DMX and his fellow Ruff Ryders, who embodied the essence of inner-city machismo to a tee, as showcased throughout the tellingly titled It's Dark and Hell Is Hot. Unlike so many other hardcore rappers who are more rhetorical than physical, DMX commands an aggressive aura without even speaking a word. He showcases his chiseled physique on the arresting album cover and trumpets his animalistic nature with frequent barking, growling, and snarling throughout the album. He also collaborates with muscular producers Swizz Beatz and Dame Grease, who specialize in slamming synth-driven beats rather than sample-driven ones. Further unlike so many other hardcore rappers from the time, DMX is meaningful as well as symbolic. He professes an ideology that stresses the inner world -- characterized by such qualities as survival, wisdom, strength, respect, and faith -- rather than the material one that infatuates most rappers of his time. It helpes that his album includes a few mammoth highlights ("Ruff Ryders' Anthem," "Get at Me Dog," "Let Me Fly," and "I Can Feel It") as well as a light, mid-album diversion ("How's It Goin' Down"). The long running length of It's Dark and Hell Is Hot does wear you down after a while, since nearly every song here sans "How's It Goin' Down" hits hard and maintains the album's deadly serious attitude. Even so, It's Dark and Hell Is Hot is a tremendous debut, laying out DMX's complex persona with candor, from his faith in God to his fixation with canine motifs, and doing so with dramatic flair. © Jason Birchmeier /TiVo
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Caught In The Trees

Damien Jurado

Alternative & Indie - Released September 1, 2008 | Secretly Canadian

Nearly 20 years into his tenure as a prominent Pacific Northwest punk-turned-beloved folk-leaning songwriter, Jurado is still perfecting his mixture of barely restrained angst and carefully strategized tranquility. CAUGHT IN THE TREES continues to evoke the ghosts of his peers, Kurt Cobain and Elliott Smith, but is neither as hopeless as the former nor as vulnerable as the latter. The guitars get louder on standout tracks like “Caskets,” but the sweetness on display during “Gillian Was A Horse” and the engaging sadness laid bare on “Last Rights” (both given an even more sympathetic air by Jenny Conrad’s co-vocals) border on stunning. © TiVo
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O

Damien Rice

Pop - Released February 1, 2002 | Vector Records - Warner Records

Magnificently packaged in a CD-sized hardcover book filled with personal artwork, lyrics, and photos, Damien Rice's debut full-length, O, is nothing less than a work of genius, a perfect cross between Ryan Adams and David Gray and a true contender for one of the best albums of 2003. This Irish singer/songwriter works with impassioned folk songs that move from stripped-down to grandly orchestrated in a heartbeat. The production is reminiscent of Songs of Leonard Cohen -- simple guitars, vocals, and then those swelling strings, all of which sound like they were recorded right in the same room. Rice is master of what critic/ranter Richard Meltzer called "the unknown tongue" -- basically the musical equivalent of the "punctum" in photos, it's that thing that grabs a hold of you, the detail that makes it happen. For example, on "Delicate" the strings lift the spare folk song to the heavens at just the moment that makes the song soar -- Meltzer might call it the "folk tongue" or maybe even the "epic tongue." The magnificent, melancholy, optimistic, longing, almost magical "The Blower's Daughter" comes in immediately as the previous song, "Volcano," ends -- same thing with the song that follows -- which gives the album a broad, operatic quality. The gentle "Cannonball," the bright strumming and surreal feedback on "Amie," the distant piano and oceanic harmonies (not to mention drowning, backwards vocals) on the duet, "Cold Water" -- the entire record makes the empty highway less lonely, the sunshine a little warmer, and life a little more poetic. Then there's the actual opera singer doing backup vocal duties on "Eskimo" -- a song of redemption that is Syd Barrett, is Skip Spence, is Grandaddy and is Mercury Rev and everything that implies. What a metaphor for Rice's entire hopelessly beautiful record -- one long angelic hymn for an insane world with the intimacy of a friend playing guitar in your living room and the grandeur of Sigur Rós.© Charles Spano /TiVo
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Chandelier

Damien Rice

Alternative & Indie - Released March 10, 2020 | BMG Rights Management (Australia) Pty Ltd.

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Motorcycle Madness

Damien Jurado

Folk/Americana - Released October 9, 2023 | Maraqopa Records

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Bach : Cantatas BWV 169 & 82

Damien Guillon

Cantatas (sacred) - Released March 8, 2019 | Alpha Classics

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Following his recording of J. S. Bach’s solo cantatas for alto BWV 35 and 170 (issued in 2009), countertenor Damien Guillon has continued his work of research and interpretation, devoting a second album to the Cantata BWV 169 for alto solo and to the famous BWV 82 Ich habe genug ; though better known in its 1727 version for bass, from 1735 onwards it was also performed by an alto voice. To complement this cantata programme, organist Maude Gratton performs Bach’s Prelude and Fugue BWV 543, as well as the chorales Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr, BWV 662, BWV 663 & BWV 664. © Alpha Classics
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Czarmageddon!

Czarface

Hip-Hop/Rap - Released April 29, 2022 | Silver Age

After releasing a posthumous MF Doom collaboration and an instrumental LP, providing music for the Marvel flick Venom: Let There Be Carnage, and publishing a graphic novel, Czarface issued the proper full-length Czarmageddon! in 2022. Compared to 2019's The Odd Czar Against Us, an excellent album which deviated from the group's comic saga with lyrics that often focused on real life issues and the woes of modern technology, Czarmageddon! seems thematically back on track, mixing action and fantasy with good old-fashioned hip-hop bravado. The production often centers around heavy, live-sounding drums, gritty bass guitar, and scratching, but there are plenty of deviations, such as the sitar-laced "The Czarlaac Pit" and the lo-fi, almost chillwave "Can It Be?" "Walk Thru Walls" is an easy highlight, combining dense, breathless wordplay with ominous production and an excellent beat switch, and ending with a reference to the group's comic book. "Big Em Up" is a dancehall spy caper with patois-heavy guest vocals by Lion Eye, and "Fearless & Inventive" boasts an on-point Kool Keith feature along with an exquisite, organ-heavy psychedelic rhythm. "Czarv Wolfman" segues from cut-and-paste production, with samples cut in between rapped lyrics, to a more spaced-out beat, and "Logan-5" concludes the album on a relaxed yet fun-loving note. Czarmageddon! became the second Czarface album to crack the Billboard 200, following 2018's Czarface Meets Metal Face.© Paul Simpson /TiVo
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Gabriel Pierné : L'An Mil, Cathédrales...

Jacques Mercier

Symphonic Music - Released January 1, 2007 | Timpani

Booklet Distinctions Diapason d'or de l'année - Diapason d'or
Timpani's survey of the works of Gabriel Pierné has previously covered his charming chamber works and witty orchestral bonbons, but the series takes a detour into more atmospheric orchestral music on this 2007 release. The three works lavishly presented here by conductor Jacques Mercier, the Orchestre National de Lorraine, and the Chœur Nicolas de Grigny may be classified as symphonic poems; L'An Mil (The Year 1000) is a brooding Gothic study, portraying the middle ages as perceived from a nineteenth century perspective; the Prélude from the incidental music for Les Cathédrales is a shorter piece of scene-painting, though very much in the same somber style as L'An Mil; and the triptych Paysages franciscains depicts a pilgrimage with evocative representations of nature. Pierné's music dates from the late Romantic and early modern eras, a period roughly spanning 50 years between the belle epoque and World War II; and his works have several features in common with those of his teachers, César Franck and Jules Massenet, though in his later music Pierné shows the strong influence of his friend, Claude Debussy. The performances of these pieces are appropriately moody and shaded with the colors of fin de siècle Romanticism and Impressionism; Mercier has fine control of the ensembles' tonal qualities, and he is well-attuned to the subtleties of this evanescent music. Timpani's reproduction is clear yet softly rounded, so the blurred effects and muted timbres are heard to best effect. © TiVo
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Lamento

Damien Guillon

Classical - Released September 4, 2020 | Alpha Classics

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In the post-Renaissance period, the lamento established a place for itself in both vocal and instrumental music. This grief-stricken utterance in the face of death – one’s own imminent demise, that of a loved one, a lamentation that may be either sacred or secular – conveys a sentiment of melancholy that verges on the inexpressible... Café Zimmermann invites its longstanding partner, the countertenor Damien Guillon, to perform a programme of lamenti from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, which gives equal prominence to instruments and voice on a journey through the German-speaking lands. In the past few seasons the countertenor Damien Guillon has established himself as one of the leading interpreters of Baroque music. Widely admired for his musicality and his luminous and exceptionally pure vocal timbre, he is regularly invited to perform as a soloist under the direction of celebrated conductors. © Alpha Classics
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Reggae Film Star

Damien Jurado

Alternative & Indie - Released June 24, 2022 | Maraqopa Records

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Live from the Union Chapel

Damien Rice

Pop - Released November 26, 2007 | 1967 Ltd.

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Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son

Damien Jurado

Alternative & Indie - Released January 20, 2014 | Secretly Canadian

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Dowland : Lute Songs

Damien Guillon

Mélodies (England) - Released February 17, 2011 | Alpha Classics

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Maraqopa

Damien Jurado

Alternative & Indie - Released February 21, 2012 | Secretly Canadian

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Damien Rice

Pop - Released November 7, 2006 | 1967 Ltd.