Valborg - Der AlteValborg have always been willing to experiment, shift boundaries, and while always remaining true to their harsh and sinister musical core, the Germans have never stuck to one particular musical box while consciously avoiding to become trapped in a stylistic pigeon hole. As a result many stickers have been applied to their sound: doom, blackened death metal, industrial among others. On their new album entitled "Der Alte" ("The Old One"), Valborg take

the acclaimed writer of such great crime dramas as Prime Suspect and Trial & Retribution

Feldman had invited her to be an artist in residence at the university where he taught

they sit alongside Vier Lieder by Berg's mentor Schoenberg

Fascinated by the music of that era

turn on the AM radio and time travel forty to forty-five years back in time

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and has appeared at numerous festivals including Tanglewood

classic of the era

it's done so with precision and doesn't come at the expense of the song structure

It's an effectively unsettling evocation of the legend's core theme: "There is nothing more complex than a shattered heart

Even as many commercial bluegrass bands in the 1970s were being influenced by Nashville or folk rock sounds

I Am Still Here is a story of hope and redemption told through the eyes of a seventeen-year-old girl recovering after her escape from seven years in captivity