Ric Graebner - Venus in LandscapeWhile continuing to write for conventional instruments, Ric Graebner increasingly has turned his attention to electronic forms, as well demonstrated by this CD of pieces, all of which are also designed to be part of a combined audio visual experience. Unlike many such experiments, the result is a set of pieces of 'real' music very listenable. When we play this in our music cafe, customers cannot believe it's 'computer music'

The pair were inspired during their time there with the band name The Hoosiers actually coming from the colloquial term for an Indiana citizen - a Hoosier

Kaleida - In Arms

This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt the Younger who served during the Napoleonic era and became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24

Their new single takes on Carl Bean's 1977 disco-soul hit "I Was Born This Way

and is forced to spend the night when a storm washes out the bridge to town

framed by further settings of Heine poems by Schumann and Liszt

Yet the album is more than just a remarkably cohesive meld of sonic influences

This is the definitive collection of their loudest songs ever and is the first to span their entire career

Kaku Takashina

But it's not too late to never forget this legendary

previously unreleased live set from the band's appearance on the '90s hit TV series Party Of Five

and caused a bitter dispute between the two authors