At the Gate of the GhostAdapted from the Award Winning Japanese film Rashomon by Akira Kurosawa at the Gate of the Ghost is a murder mystery told through three witnesses: A young monk a woodcutter and an undertaker.

In his playing

Shamir takes the Latin translation of the title

as well as readings of the Italian poems (many of which are by Petrarch) by Alessandro Quarta

The disc is bookended by the sparkling and witty Overture to Candide and Three Dance Episodes from the musical On the Town

"The Call"

Useless ID has experienced it all

It was not until the genial Theobald Boehm carried through his technical improvements on the transverse flute

a bigger part of who you are than you could ever guess

full of life and fantasy

and they sound like a modern day US mixture of In Flames and Amorphis

Clemens had only recently returned from New York City

he is back at it