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Electric Six
Fire (21st Anniversary Expanded Edition LP) [ Xl Recordings / LP - released 28/Feb/2025 ] Fire, the debut album by Detroit's Electric Six exploded onto the scene in 2003 and broke dancefloors everywhere. Containing the hit singles "Danger! High Voltage!" with rumoured backing vocals by Jack White, and the iconic "Gay Bar", the album... |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Queen of Hearts The Gesualdo Six, Owain Park [ Hyperion / CD - released 28/Jun/2024 ] "All in all this is a treasure trove of works, some little known and rarely performed, in a wide variety of styles and vocal scorings spanning the first half of the 16th century. Beautifully sung and meticulously researched," Gramophone Sept Choice |
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Shackleton And Six Organs Of Admittance
Jinxed By Being (LP) [ Drag City / 2 LP - released 23/Aug/2024 ] In full aural/metaphysical alignment, Shackleton's bass heavy cosmic dread and Six Organs' ritual folksong revel and delight in their massed collage as they become Jinxed By Being. Unfolding small details into a massive space, and then into further... |
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WILLIAM BYRD
Byrd: Mass for five voices & other works The Gesualdo Six / Owain Park [ Hyperion / CD - released 2/Jun/2023 ] In a selection of motets woven affectingly throughout the glorious five-part Mass, The Gesualdo Six perfectly captures all the power and tenderness of Byrd's compositional voice. |
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Electric Six
Fire (21st Anniversary Expanded Edition) [ XL Recordings / CD - released 28/Feb/2025 ] Fire, the debut album by Detroit's Electric Six exploded onto the scene in 2003 and broke dancefloors everywhere. Containing the hit singles "Danger! High Voltage!" with rumoured backing vocals by Jack White, and the iconic "Gay Bar", the album... |
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OWAIN PARK / HENRY PURCELL / THOMAS TALLIS / WILLIAM BYRD & OTHERS
Lux aeterna The Gesualdo Six, Owain Park, with Samuel Mitchell (narrator) [ Hyperion / CD - released 2/Sep/2022 ] "As always with The Gesualdo Six, the thing that strikes one most forcibly on first listening is the ensemble's extraordinary vocal blend." Gramophone |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The King of Instruments (the BBC series) Gillian Weir (six European organs) [ Priory DVD + CD / DVD/CD - released 20/Oct/2010 ] This new DVD (with a free bonus CD containing specially recorded performances of some of the works) is a release by Priory of the BBC programmes that were recorded on six famous European Organs by Dame Gillian Weir in the late 1980s |
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Daisy Jones & The Six
Aurora (LP) [ Atlantic / Warner / LP - released 3/Mar/2023 ] Daisy Jones & The Six are the fictional band at the centre of Taylor Jenkin Reid's 2019 blockbuster novel of the same name. In the book, the band create a 70s masterpiece titled 'Aurora', then they split up and never recorded again. It charts the... |
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The James Hunter Six
Whatever It Takes [ Daptone Records / CD - released 2/Feb/2018 ] James Hunter had already established himself as a permanent fixture in the world of Rhythm and Soul with his five previous albums, each more poignant and well-executed than the last. However, Whatever It Takes has buried them all. His voice has never... |
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Six By Seven
The Closer You Get + Peel Sessions (LP) [ Beggars Banquet / 2 LP - released 17/Feb/2017 ] Despite heaping praise on Six by Seven's breakthrough second album The Closer You Get, the press seemed confused as to how to categorise them. The band straddled a fine line between post-Brit Pop, British rock and a much edgier kind of punk. Inspired... |
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Six Organs Of Admittance
Companion Rises (LP) [ Drag City / LP - released 21/Feb/2020 ] The new Six Organs of Admittance song title says it all: "Two Forms Moving." Musically, a beatific bongo-driven acoustic form interlocks with a metallic guitar with intermittent synth radiation form, as two distinct vocal forms join together too.... |
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Sonic Boom Six
Sonic Boom Six [ Xtra Mile / CD - released 14/Dec/2012 ] |
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BYRD / WHITE / MORLEY / CORNYSH / TAVERNER
The English Motets The Gesualdo Six, Owain Park (conductor) [ Hyperion / CD - released 30/Mar/2018 ] The versatile Owain Park adds another two roles-those of singer and director-to his burgeoning Hyperion discography, while The Gesualdo Six make their label debut. Their programme of motets ranges widely across the religious musical landcsapes of... |
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TALLIS / GESUALDO / SEERS / PARK / BYRD etc
Fading The Gesualdo Six, Owain Park (conductor) [ Hyperion / CD - released 27/Mar/2020 ] "The Gesualdo Six are the real deal. Far from fading, they're just coming into focus" Gramophone Editor's Choice April 2020 |
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JOHANNES OCKEGHEM / JOSQUIN des PREZ / LOYSET COMPERE / ANTOINE BRUMEL / ADRIAN WILLAERT / etc
Josquin's legacy The Gesualdo Six, Owain Park (conductor) [ Hyperion / CD - released 29/Oct/2021 ] 'The Gesualdo Six are well placed to record this music. They're very good at looking around the repertoire and working out what will fit with everything else … I love anthologies, and I love this particular one' (BBC Record Review) |
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TALLIS / RUTTER / PRAETORIUS / HOLST/ HANDEL etc
Christmas The Gesualdo Six / Owain Park [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Nov/2019 ] From the timeless plainchant 'Veni Emmanuel' via Jonathan Harvey to a riotous 'Jingle bells': Owain Park presents a programme of Christmas treats which effortlessly spans the centuries. |
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CARLO GESUALDO / THOMAS TALLIS / etc
Gesualdo: Tenebrae Responsories for Maundy Thursday The Gesualdo Six, Owain Park [ Hyperion / CD - released 4/Mar/2022 ] "...The Gesualdo Six can build up intense and resonant climaxes, their voices are never forced...In sum, these are accounts of haunting beauty - warmly recommended." BBC Music Choral & Song Choice April 2022 |
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ANONYMOUS / BYRD / HANDL / PART / PEACOCK / etc
Morning star The Gesualdo Six, Owain Park [ Hyperion / CD - released 3/Nov/2023 ] From Lassus and Byrd to Howells, Judith Bingham and Owain Park-The Gesualdo Six's exploration of Epiphany down the ages is a multifaceted compendium of musical delights. |
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James Hunter Six
Minute By Minute [ Universal Music / CD - released 4/Apr/2013 ] |
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The James Hunter Six
Whatever It Takes (LP) [ Datpone / LP - released 2/Feb/2018 ] James Hunter has certainly paid his dues. Over the span of 30 years, he's worked on the railway, busked in the streets of London, provided backup vocals and guitar for Van Morrison, played clubs and theatres all over the world, written scores of... |