Fucking Champs - IIIAt the end of the century, The Fucking Champs spread Total Music across the planet, touring relentlessly and producing albums full of undeniable note choices, sounds and songs. For IIIs 25th anniversary, the band remastered the original master tapes, assigned John Golden to expertly cut lacquers and oversaw artwork restoration by forensic experts in Drag City's sub basement. For the first time, this master stroke of musicality is widely available to

it is performed by island singers and instrumentalists

stars in this version of the Greek myth about the sorceress whose ambitions and sins drove her to murder her own children

Honigberg has collaborated in chamber music with such well-known musicians as violinist Hilary Hahn

albeit simplified and merged with a more direct sound akin to US avant-rock acolytes of the '60s folk revival like Gastr Del Sol and David Pajo

Pentagram and progressive rock for seven songs of entrancing classic metal

One of Telemann's characteristic skills was his ability to imbue the arias with the sort of brilliance that we normally associate with solo concertos (consider the radiance of the initial aria in Deine Toten werden leben)

Lost in the woods with only his fundamentalist upbringing to make sense of his unrequited passions

treasuring the fantastic Felicity Lott: here

Bloody Night 5

That career encompassed several musical and stylistic eras

which is now being recognised as the output of a distinctive voice in the generation between Luigi Dallapiccola and modernist pioneers such as Luigi Nono

This is Steinbeck country just as surely as is The Red Pony