Cara/ Dalza/ Spinacino - Bright & EarlyThe "supreme poet of the lute" (Gramophone) Hopkinson Smith creates a subtle, intimate dialogue between Dalza and Spinacino, witnesses of the instrument's flourishing culture in Italy at the dawn of the 16th century. Hopkinson Smith, that indefatigable pioneer for over forty years, eager hunter of the most distant scores and defender of restoring often obscure manuscripts, will stop at nothing in his exploration and revival of the huge repertoire of

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"You can look at the whole record as one person's gradual slip into insanity

more recently he has turned to a different aspect of composition which he terms Sonic Fiction - a complex concept but which stresses the abstract music as creating it's own 'fiction' story and world -perhaps the antithesis of impressionism and program music

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guitarist Peter White

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The film's plot takes place during the Han dynasty

which Leo personally compiled and sequenced

Electro-disco wizards Elite are presented here with their classic 1980 EP "Premier" which features the tracks "Boys On Hollywood Blvd

he succeeds in combining the naïve

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