Fringe, the series that Rolling Stone calls the "most exciting drama around, " returns with a brand new season of endless impossibilities exploring the depths of the mysterious saga that holds millions of viewers in its hypnotic grasp. Shape shifters, cryonic heads, belly-dwelling beasts, & shadows that turn victims to dust inhabited the last season. Season Three plunges further down the rabbit-hole as we rejoin our three unlikely partners
- FBI Agent Olivia Dunham, brilliant but damaged scient
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Personnel: Robert Fripp (guitar); Brian Eno (tape loops, synthesizer). Two years after their first recording NO PUSSYFOOTING set the standard for ambient music, Fripp & Eno reconvened for another round of subtle, inventive instrumental pieces. While the format is much the same as on the previous album (cycling tape-delayed guitar loops over ambient synth backgrounds), theres further refinement of the approach. Taking the minimalist mantle much more literally, theres much less movement in the ...

Almost 30 years on since Evening Star, Robert Fripp & Brian Eno resume their collaboration, & remarkably, they seem to have picked up right where they left off. Remarkably, because Fripps more recent soundscaping has had a different quality than either his collaborations with Eno or his proper " Frippertronics" albums like Let the Power Fall or the solo side of God Save the Queen/ Under Heavy Manners. Surely theyre not back to using the old Revox tape machine setup, but having Eno in the pro ...

This landmark set could indeed be characterised as a rare summit meeting of three of the most brilliant, iconoclastic players in the last half-century of jazz. However, that would do a disservice to the graceful, appealingly understated atmosphere of these intimate sessions. For two days in February 2005, guitarist & longtime artist Bill Frisell joined upright bassist legend Ron Carter, a member of Miles Daviss groundbreaking 60s bands, & drummer Paul Motian, part of the equally storied B ...

Fritz Reiner's friendship with Béla Bartók must be considered an important factor in the creation of these legendary recordings. Koussevitsky's famous commission for the Concerto for orchestra was due in large part to Reiner's advocacy, & he was among the first conductors to both perform & record this masterpiece. Beyond this, Reiner's great sympathy for his friend's work extends to the care & attention to detail he gave to the works included here. For all its virtuosity, the concerto is s ...

2011 is also a Mahler anniversary year we celebrate the 100th anniversary of his death on 18 May. Our main focus is on a treasure from the archives: the Wunderlich / Fischer-Dieskau Lied von der Erde. Mahlers great symphony of six songs on texts from an anthology of Chinese poetry, was composed in summer 1908 a period of anxiety & grief for the composer. The work celebrates the pleasures of wine & beauty & the joys of friendship, culminating in the overwhelming Abschied, a movement lastin ...