Results for "Pias Recordings"

Patchouli Blue

Label: Pias Recordings
Released: 2020
Track listing: Total Falsch; Verwirrung Am Strand; Glaub Mir Kein Wort; Patchouli Blue; Deine Kusine; Vergessen & Vorbei; Sollen Es Doch Alle Wissen; Tief Gesunken; Zwei Herzen Aus Gold; Sag Mir, Wie Lang; Meine Welt Ist Schon.

Bohren & der Club of Gore: Patchouli Blue

by Karl Ackermann
May 23, 2020

Momentum is a relative notion in the dark, doom-jazz world of Bohren & der Club of Gore. In the five years since its last studio album, Piano Nights (Pias Recordings, 2014), it has scaled back to a trio with the departure of long-time drummer Thorsten Benning. The shift from the earlier “doom metal jazz" was more ...

Mo Jodi

By Delgres

Label: Pias Recordings
Released: 2018
Track listing: Respecte Nou; Mo Jodi; The Promise; Mr. President; Vivre Sur La Route; Sere Mwen Pli Fo; Can't Let You Go; Ti Manmzel; Anko; Ramene Mwen; Chak Jou Bon Die Fe; Pardone Mwen.

Dionysus

By Dead Can Dance

Label: Pias Recordings
Released: 2018
Track listing: ACT I: Sea Borne - Liberator of Minds - Dance of the Bacchantes ACT II: The Mountain - The Invocation - The Forest – Psychopomp

Dead Can Dance: Dionysus

by Nenad Georgievski
October 31, 2018

In Greek mythology, Dionysus represents the god of the grape harvest, winemaking, and wine, of fertility, ritual madness, religious ecstasy, and theatre. In ancient times, he was worshipped fondly by his followers with cultural festivities, wine-induced ritualistic dances, intense and violent orgies, and secretive various depictions of drunken revelry (the Dionysian Mysteries). What he embodied was ...

Delgres: Mo Jodi

by Phillip Woolever
September 27, 2018

The France-based trio Delgres have successfully created one of the year's strongest all round albums. Sung mostly in Creole, the project's heartfelt social statements come through clearly in global terms nonetheless. The band is named after Louis Delgres, an infantry officer who died in the rebellion after Napoleon's 19th century campaign to reintroduce slavery ...

New and Notable Releases

by Phil Barnes
October 4, 2017

Sometimes in summertime the living isn't quite so easy and life contrives to get in the way of finding and celebrating the great music that is out there waiting for us. This article is an attempt to distill personal favourites from the many releases that have crossed my path in the last few months--had time been ...

New, Notable and Nearly Missed

by Phil Barnes
January 25, 2017

One of the great pleasures of the holiday season is taking stock of the last 12 months, comparing notes with friends, investigating their recommendations and catching up with some of those releases that you never quite got round to. The falling cost of an independent release has meant that it is easier than ever for a ...

Piano Nights

By Spencer Bohren

Label: Pias Recordings
Released: 2014
Track listing: Im Rauch; Bei Rosarotem Light; Fahr Zur Hölle; Irrwege; Ganz Leise Kommt Die Nacht; Segeln Ohne Wind; Unrasiert; Verloren (Alles); Komm Zurück Zu Mir.

Bohren & der Club of Gore: Piano Nights

by Karl Ackermann
February 20, 2014

Of the many hard-to-define sub-genres of jazz, “dark jazz" may be the most challenging to classify. Exemplifying the category is Bohren & der Club of Gore's Piano Nights . The German quartet, whose members have a variety of doom metal origins, has morphed their earlier inclinations into a hybrid that has little to suggest the player's ...