Ben Cour - Shadow LandRecorded in Canada in winter, Ben de la Cour delivers a masterful set of sometimes harrowing adventures with potent arrangements from producer Scott Nolan, a brilliant singer songwriter in his own right.

Konig Stephan

as you won't find these songs sounding like this anywhere else

The Moderato in A major very simply offers time for a breather before the energetic beginning is repeated and the movement concludes with a fiery and forceful Presto con fuoco

It is striking that two of the true classics in English orchestral music were composed within the short space of some fifteen years around the turn of the previous century

These are wonderful melodic works

a love of life

" found in many myths in the shape of the hero going underground to pass a period of solitude

conjuring a densely melodic but endlessly wicked take on macabre extreme metal that countless lesser bands have since emulated

as if they were small paintings

alongside Bernstein's symphonic suite of the themes from On the Waterfront

cultural life promoter

lost words