Soyuz - Force Of The WindSome records just stop you in your tracks. They resonate with you and feel instantly familiar like an old friend, even on the first listen. SOYUZ's third album 'Force of the Wind' is one of those records. It holds all the trademarks, beauty, and eccentricities of classic Brazilian recordings, from the 60s and 70s, that we have come to love. Think artists such as Milton Nascimento, L Borges, Burnier e Cartier, Arthur Verocai et al. But this record

Included in this album is John Mayer's Second Violin Concerto

Those years were among the most tumultuous our country has ever seen and the duality between the generally positive state of affairs within the band and the turbulent world outside (or as Patterson Hood puts it: "watching so many things we care about be decimated and destroyed") informed the writing of this album to the core

Compared to Lodoïska his talent has clearly gained in quality

On this recording Franz Lörch presents the instrument with works by Johann Sebastian Bach

Big Joanie is back with their sophomore record Back Home

Telemann may have written his twelve fantasias for the amateur market

known as the goddess of the rainbow

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playing drums with Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels

and this harp album contains many Christmas pieces and famous melodies

but this (luckily from today's perspective

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