Ruth Welcome - First Lady Of ZitherDuring a thirty year career as America's only professional zither player, German born Ruth Welcome recorded extensively for Capitol Records, cutting eighteen LPs. Her repertoire consisted primarily of standards and show tunes, played in a style that would come to be known as "Mood Music" or "Easy Listening" and her albums would enjoy a huge surge of popularity during the late 90s "Easy" revival, and among the "Space Age" and "Bachelor Pad" niche

now cut off from the outside world

Elephant - Shooting For The Moon

Shostakovich/ Pacifia Qrt - Comp STR QRTS By Dmitri Shostkovich

Nowe kroki - Inkubacja (Jolanta Smolska

The integral recording of Confusion Bleue's amazing concert at Roulette in NYC

plus many unreleased tracks

1956/color/88 min/NR/fullscreen

thanks to the friendship that links me to Joe Farnsworth

Fischer-Dieskau's second recording (with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Gerald Moore for EMI) is justly famous in it's own right

THE LADY VANISHES remains one of the great filmmakers purest delights

which finds it's guitar work inherently in the vain of Disintegration-era Cure

have become a permanent feature of the canon of the most demanding compositions