Besant Hall Records, sub-label of Air-Edel Records, released 'Hiraeth' by Lisa Gerrard and David Kuckhermann in August 2018. ‘Hiraeth’,the welsh word meaning “longing for the place where your spirit lives”, is an accomplished presentation of eclectic rhythms from around the world.  Ambient textures of electronics and strings are teamed with an airy, ghostly wash of vocals from Lisa Gerrard resulting in a powerful and unique sound. Hiraeth received a Grammy nomination for 'Best New Age Album'.

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“It has been a dream in my heart for such a long time to embrace and enfold a tribe of like minded kindred spirits. A place to unlock and deliver the three dimensional desire to create a bridge of uncensored connectivity. Creating sounds in a state of surrender that defy the persons of judgment and academia and allow us to embrace each other devoid of division and confusion. You are so very welcome to share in this labour of love for it is all for you.”  - Lisa Gerrard

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PIAS Recordings have released 'Dionysis' by Dead Can Dance in November 2018.  

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Musically, Dionysus is an impressive and ambitious amalgam of the band's previous leanings like the sampled and kaleidoscopic nature of Into the Labyrinth (4AD, 1993) and the percussion dominated Spiritchaser. (4AD, 1998). There are no songs here in a classical sense as it was done on their previous records. The song format was completely eschewed as a concept. Divided in two compositions that are further subdivided into several movements, the duo took the constituent elements of some of its past and further refined them into an enormous sound bathed in a myriad of melodies and polyrhythms. Each of these acts and their movements has distinct moods and ambiances that reveal varied soundworlds with fresh nuances and facets with each new listen. As a result, Dead Can Dance creates a non-linear, genre-less concoction that merges tribal beats, ambient sounds, folk instruments like bagpipes, Bulgarian choirs, dulcimers, highly-manipulated samples into a decontextualized whole, an idea that is close to composer and conceptualist Jon Hassell's concepts of Fourth World Music. As a result, literally, the listener is transmuted in both geography and dimension.  -  All About Jazz

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