As the daughter of famed violinist, Paul Robertson, the high priestess of ‘Pop Macabre’, Calista Kazuko, was born into a bohemian family where classical music was a staple part of the diet. Now, the London based outré singer-songwriter and multi- instrumentalist is all about high art, high class, high gloss and high drama. Calista Kazuko's classical roots at the Royal Academy of Music have been jettisoned, she is now carving out her own genre with a diamond-edged blade which she likes to call ‘sophistipop-noir’, perfectly and elegantly exhibited in her highly anticipated EP, Project: Love Me. 'As a full-time, unadulterated, unashamed drama queen, 'Project: Love Me' tells a story full of extravagance, opulence and of course - DRAMA!' The collaborative producers named on the record include such music heavyweights as award winning film composer Guy Dagul, and super-producers Nuno Fernandes and Dennis Weinreich. Calista's way with a grand piano, story-telling songwriting and sophisticated performance style blend together into a dry, heady cocktail that will leave your emotions exposed and giddy. She's not so much lightning in a bottle as the conjuror of the storm. www.facebook.com/CalistaKazuko/
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Sony Classical set to release John Williams & Steven Spielberg: The Ultimate Collection on March 1717/2/2017 Pre-Order via Amazon, here: https://goo.gl/1BKpuo Celebrating one of the most definitive and beloved partnerships in the history of motion pictures, John Williams & Steven Spielberg: The Ultimate Collection delivers an essential sampling of Williams's musical scores for Spielberg's films - a critically acclaimed, award-winning, chart-topping collaboration now in its fifth decade. Comprised of a three-CD set and bonus DVD, John Williams & Steven Spielberg: The Ultimate Collection is available from Sony Classical on March 17, 2017. This collection brings together Williams's two previous discs of his music for Spielberg films, which he recorded with the Boston Pops Orchestra for Sony Classical: The Spielberg/Williams Collaboration (1991) and Williams on Williams: The Classic Spielberg Scores (1995). Those discs include music from Sugarland Express (1974) through Jurassic Park and Schindler's List (1993). Bringing the collection up to date is an all-new third disc, recorded in 2016 with Williams conducting the Recording Arts Orchestra of Los Angeles, and with Spielberg as executive producer. It features the first release of brand new recordings of music from Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Amistad, The BFG, Lincoln, The Adventures of Tintin, Minority Report, Catch Me If You Can, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Saving Private Ryan, War Horse, The Terminal, Munich and Spielberg's 1999 documentary The Unfinished Journey. The bonus DVD that accompanies this new three-CD collection presents Steven Spielberg & John Williams: The Adventure Continues, a new documentary by filmmaker and film historian Laurent Bouzereau, who has been documenting Spielberg's work for more than twenty years. "I was very happy with the fact that when I was music director of Boston Pops, we were able to record a lot of the music that I'd written for Steven's films," Williams said about the first two discs in the collection. "So I said to him, 'Steven, wouldn't it be great if we could complete the Sony collection and put in all the things that we didn't have when the last disc was recorded, this time with our great orchestra here in Los Angeles?' To which Steven responded, 'This is a great idea. Let's do it!'" When Steven Spielberg made his first theatrical feature The Sugarland Express (1974), he sought John Williams to compose the score. With two exceptions, all of Spielberg's films have featured a Williams score. In its continuity and its infinite range of style and expression, their partnership is unique, even in light of other such legendary collaborations in film history, including Bernard Herrmann with Alfred Hitchcock, Nino Rota with Federico Fellini, and Ennio Morricone with Sergio Leone. "Oh, this has been a great adventure," Spielberg tells Williams at the end of Bouzereau's film. "This has been a greater adventure than all the Indiana Jones movies put together for me ... It's been an honor for me to work all these years with John and to have his friendship, his partnership, his brotherhood. When we made Sugarland Express, we didn't realize we'd set our paths to be partners and friends for the rest of our lives." In his ongoing career, now in its sixth decade, Williams has won five Academy Awards (three for Spielberg films), seven BAFTA (British Film Academy) awards, four Golden Globes, and twenty-two Grammy Awards for his film scores. His fifty Academy Award nominations, as of 2017, are a record among composers, and he is second only to Walt Disney in holding the most Academy Award nominations by an individual artist. Fifteen of those nominations are for scores from Spielberg films. Sony Music Masterworks comprises Masterworks, Sony Classical, OKeh, Portrait and Masterworks Broadway imprints. John Williams & Steven Spielberg: The Ultimate Collection Tracklisting: DISC 1 - CD 1 Raiders of the Lost Ark from "Raiders of the Lost Ark" 2 Theme from "Always" 3 Adventures on Earth from "E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial" 4 Theme from "Sugarland Express" 5 Title Theme from "Jaws" 6 Out to Sea / The Shark Cage Fugue from "Jaws" 7 Exsultate Justi from "Empire of the Sun" 8 Parade of the Slave Children from "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" 9 Over the Moon from "E.T. The Extra Terrestrial" 10 March from "1941" 11 Cadillac of the Skies from "Empire of the Sun" 12 Scherzo for Motorcycle and Orchestra from "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" 13 Close Encounters of the Third Kind/When You Wish Upon a Star Medley Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Excerpts) When You Wish Upon A Star (interpolated) DISC 2 - CD 1 Flying from "E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial" 2 Theme From "Jurassic Park" 3 Remembrances from "Schindler's List" 4 Flight to Neverland from "Hook" 5 The Battle Of Hollywood From "1941" (includes the Irish folksong "The Rakes of Mallow") 6 Smee's Plan From "Hook" 7 The Barrel Chase From "Jaws" 8 My Friend,The Brachiosaurus from "Jurassic Park" 9 Jim's New Life From "Empire Of The Sun" 10 The Dialogue From "Close Encounters Of The Third Kind" 11 The Lost Boys Ballet From "Hook" 12 Theme from "Schindler's List" 13 The Basket Chase from "Raiders Of The Lost Ark" 14 The Face Of Pan from "Hook" 15 The Banquet Scene from "Hook" DISC 3 - CD 1 The Adventures of Mutt from "Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" 2 Dry Your Tears, Afrika from "Amistad" 3 The BFG from "The BFG" 4 With Malice Toward None from "Lincoln" 5 The Duel from "The Adventures of Tintin" 6 A New Beginning from "Minority Report" Escapades for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra from "Catch Me If You Can" 7 Movement 1: Closing In 8 Movement 2: Reflections 9 Movement 3: Joy Ride 10 Marion's Theme from "Raiders of the Lost Ark" 11 Hymn to the Fallen from "Saving Private Ryan" 12 Dartmoor, 1912 from "War Horse" 13 Viktor's Tale from "The Terminal" 14 Prayer for Peace from "Munich" 15 Immigration and Building from "The Unfinished Journey" 16 With Malice Toward None from "Lincoln" (Alternate Version) "ATA," the second single from Olga Bell's highly anticipated LP Tempo (set for May 27 release One Little Indian) is available now, having premiered on Apple Music's Beats 1 Radio by DJ Julie Adenuga who raves, "Music lovers: every once in a while a tune comes around that makes you stop… Thank you, THANK YOU for making this music." Listen to the show here, and listen/share "ATA" on Youtube here. Bell has also confirmed new tour dates including shows with Nancy Whang, Empress Of and Yeasayer, plus her own European headline gigs. See below for details—with more to be announced. Bell says of the track, "'ATA' was inspired by a 1958 Frank O'Hara poem called 'A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island.' It's filled with wordless instrumental stretches—space for thoughts to congeal, to clarify. Some elements of the beat were inspired by the Art Of Noise classic 'Moments In Love' (the snaps especially), and the wormy synth bass of the verses transforms into a high, bright lead when the sun finally speaks, in the middle of the song ('baby it's tough! but don't get low / our work is humble / daily I rise, daily you write')." The first single from the album, "Randomness," recently received a "Best New Track" designation at Pitchfork after it was premiered by Dummy, who described the house-influenced track as "the fuel of self-manifestation." The Minister Akins-directed video premiered at i-D, who called the video "fire" and said of the track, "if you're anything like us, you've probably had [it] stuck in your head since it surfaced earlier this month." Check out the premiere here, and share/post the video here (full video credits at link). The track is available for instant download with album pre-order. "This record is first for the body, then for the mind," says Bell, who began writing the album immediately after seeing the film Paris Is Burning. "I started every song by thinking about tempo specifically, listening to the metronome alone, feeling its relation to my body, to the pace of the day, the weather, the light. On fast days I listened to club music, most of it at least twenty years old, and on slow days I turned to early West Coast hip-hop and Portishead because of how physically charged and compelling these records feel despite their low BPM." https://www.facebook.com/bellinspace |
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