Sofya Melikyan - Presence lointaineSofya Melikyan's fascinating album has as it's inspiration the great Ricardo Vies, composer and pianist, champion of young progressive composers (he was Satie's favorite performer of his music), whose friends included among others Picasso, Gide, Colette, Cocteau. Cocteau said of him "Vies does not play, he elucidates". To define Vies "the shining light of contemporary art", as Adolfo Salazar described him in 1918 as the pianist of the French avant

Is This The Life We Really Want

musician and DJ Monsieur ZonZon and producer/DJ/remixer Pat The Cat

and a Bachelor of Music from the Manhattan School of Music

while in the sonatas chamber flexibility is articulated in which refinement and contrapuntal erudition find even clearer expression

who also mixed Stranger In The Alps

And all decked out in colorful

You can't avoid the monstrous riffs in a song like 'The Grand Conjuration'

we get a rare peak into what Vega would sound like if he was allowed to be a rock star drenched in the sonic excesses of the era

flutes and musettes are part of the festivities and the trumpets proclaim the glory of Louis

It has been heard on record just a handful of times

Nemesis 2 / Nemesis 3 / Nemesis 4: Triple Feature

Since their first demo release