Results for "Vectordisc Records"

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Scenes From A Voyage To Arcturus

Label: Vectordisc Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: Chrystalman's County; The Starkness Observatory And The Night Departure; Joiwind; Backhouse The Medium At Prolands, The Hempstead; The Apparition; Muspel; Gazing Over Towards Barey; The Music Of Swaylone's Island; The Murder Of Spadevil And Tydomin; The Lusion Plain; Tydomin; Panawe, The Husband of Joiwind; The Muspel Stream, Chrystalman's Food; Arcturus.'

ARTICLE: REASSESSING May 10, 2020

Scenes From A Voyage To Arcturus

By DAN MCCLENAGHAN

Scottish writer David Lindsay published his A Voyage To Arcturus in 1920. It is said to have influenced everyone from C.S. Lewis in the writing of his Space Trilogy to J.R.R. Tolkien to Clive Barker. The story concerns a character Muskull and his fantastical journey across the planet Tormance that orbits the star Arcturus. And while ...

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Duo

By RON THOMAS

Label: Vectordisc Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: Black Orpheus; Young and Foolish; Stella By Starlight; Here’s that Rainy Day; My Foolish Heart; Once I Loved; F Minor; Invitation.

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Deeper Journey

By DAVID BENNETT THOMAS

Label: Vectordisc Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: Coasting Home; Come To The Waters; Wandering Song; First Frost; All The Days; Abraham and Isaac; Hope; Elevator Etiquette; One Horse Town; Deeper Journey; How Lonely Sits The City.

ARTICLE: ALBUM REVIEW October 27, 2016

Ron Thomas / Paul Klinefelter: Duo

By BUDD KOPMAN

One of the wonderful things about jazz is that it can be appreciated from more than one angle, oftentimes simultaneously: pure entertainment, art as entertainment, art as beauty and art as intellect among others. Some of this, of course, relates to music in general, but jazz as a genre has moved beyond any stylistic boundaries to ...

ARTICLE: ALBUM REVIEW September 25, 2016

David Bennett Thomas: Deeper Journey

By DAN MCCLENAGHAN

Pianist David Bennett Thomas takes inspiration from God's word. Not unlike Finish pianist/harpist Iro Haarla, on her beautiful duet set Kirkastus (TUM Records, 2015), with saxophonist Juhani Aaltonen, where Biblical Psalms informed the music, Thomas' Deeper Journey goes to the Bible for inspiration on half the tunes on this meticulously crafted, subtle--yet modern and adventurous--set of ...

ARTICLE: ALBUM REVIEW July 7, 2016

Ron Thomas/Paul Klinefelter: Duo

By DAN MCCLENAGHAN

Pianist Ron Thomas' talents range widely, from his Karlheinz Stockhausen-influenced electric outings like Elysium (Vectordisc, 2009), through his fluid free association piano trio sets, Music In Three Parts (Art Of Life Records, 2006) and Doloroso (Art of Life Records, 2006), to his mainstream outings that draw their inspiration from the late pianist Bill Evans--Two Lonely People ...

ARTICLE: ALBUM REVIEW June 9, 2016

Ron Thomas: Duo

By VICTOR L. SCHERMER

The poet John Keats famously wrote: “A thing of beauty is a joy forever." That's the kind of album this is. It's one stretch of beautiful playing from beginning to end. It's not a “statement," it's not a “thing," it's not a “groove." It's just music that, taken as a whole becomes an “objet d'art," something ...

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Impatience

By RON THOMAS

Label: Vectordisc Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: The Red Carpet; You Must Believe in Spring; Things You Were; Ave Maria (Bach-Gounod); Makers of Fine; Time Remembered; Impatience; Week 42.

ARTICLE: ALBUM REVIEW April 1, 2015

Ron Thomas Trio: Impatience

By DAN BILAWSKY

A brief glance at pianist Ron Thomas' website is enlightening, to say the least. He chronicles his life there, providing a detailed biography, a rundown of commercially available compositions, a list of his colleagues, mp3 files, a discography, essays, videos, photos, teaching information, and a list of influences, with names both familiar (Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock) ...