Jed Wentz - Pied Piper of Hamelin & Other MelodramasThe melodrama, a genre combining recitation with music, flourished with particular vigor at the dawn of the 20th century. By that time, it had outgrown it's original 18th century form: no longer simply alternating between music and speech, late 19th century melodramas (and their descendants) mainly consisted of texts declaimed over a nearly continuous and elaborate musical accompaniment. To avoid being overwhelmed by the accompaniment and yet remain

the album includes the empowering dance track "Like a Girl" and a song dedicated to an ex titled "Jerome"

Amsterdam's Altin Gn have built a strong reputation for fusing past and present to make brilliantly catchy

The ensemble is once again joined by Berit Opheim and Gjermund Larsen as well as Rolf Lislev and Bjorn Kjellemyr

Published in Venice in 1599

Apart from the indigenous music of the Fuegians and Patagonians

and went on to play whatever music flowed into my mind over three evenings

Vidor and Péter Nagy provide striking evidence in their present recording with original works and successful arrangements of some classics of Romantic and late Romantic literature

Everybody's Blues is the follow-up volume to the earlier John Lee Hooker Specialty album Graveyard Blues

Dennis Hunt

In Sehnsucht

they'll say

he deserves to be lauded