Helen Charlston * Poet's Love [New CD] LP Electric Purple Vinyl It works terrifically when the

It works terrifically when the radio friendly voices top off killer hard guitar ensemble action

widening the sonic atmosphere and lyrical focus to provoke an entirely different set of themes than his previous works

It includes a cover of the Steppenwolf song "Born to be Wild"

She is a regular member of Aneta Langerova's band and the Czech-and-Slovak jazz formation Vertigo

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Helen Charlston * Poet's Love [New CD] LP Electric Purple Vinyl It works terrifically when theBritish mezzo soprano and BBC New Generation Artist Helen Charlston and pianist Sholto Kynoch present their take on Robert Schumann's famous song cycle Dichterliebe (A Poet's Love), based on poems by early 19th century German poet Heinrich Heine. The sixteen songs express the birth of love, wonder, fragility in the face of love, emotions and nuances, wounds, sorrow, nostalgia, dreams, tears, betrayal, pain, consolation, and death. The music conveys