Helen Charlston * Poet's Love [New CD] LP Electric Purple Vinyl vocalist and instrumentalist Matthew Dear

vocalist and instrumentalist Matthew Dear at the helm

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"

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

Everybody Breaks Up Anyway

Helen Charlston * Poet's Love [New CD] LP Electric Purple Vinyl vocalist and instrumentalist Matthew DearBritish 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