Takemitsu/ Huisman - Complete Works for PianoAlthough the composer once admitted that he took the title for Rain Tree Sketch from a can of shaving foam, the piece and several others in this invaluable collection share a watery theme which links them back to the music of Debussy as well as the more obvious influence of Messiaen. This collection of Takemitsu's piano music is filled with a quizzical air and often touches of oblique humor, as though someone is smiling, somewhere. With warm, softly

Steve Brettholtz (drums)

Iggy Pop and Depeche Mode

for a lush yet swinging session of classic and soon-to-be classic tunes

no matter what the medium

C/Rtg: NR A Summer's Tale (1996)A French student plans to spend the summer in a seaside town on the Brittany coast

the album occasionally brings to mind Presence-era Led Zeppelin

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presents in surround sound the extravagant musical world of Florent Schmitt

so when she is assigned to a small town clinic for the holidays

these ended with Chilton's premature death in 2010

elegance and harmony of form

were born partly out of literal distance from her bandmates on the east coast