Lang/ Nova/ Andersen - Village DetectiveIn July of 2016 I got an email from the Icelandic composer Johann Johansson, telling me about how a commercial fisherman off the coast of Iceland had found four reels of a Soviet film in his net. The film, Derevensky Detektiv (1969), was not a lost, rare, or even a particularly good film but as I often make new films out of disused old films, I was interested in learning more. The story told in the sunken film involves a stolen accordion. I started to

Simon Rogers

This is his sophomore album

so it is not unlikely that the composer from Marsica had this instrument in mind

"Singing to Strangers was my first album that wasn't all about me

A clear and present reminder that your sympathetic outlook will no longer be tolerated

including works from Daniel Schnyder

and symphonies as models of coherently elaborated architecture

His cinematic productions are often accompanied by signature electric guitar solos

giving off the illusion of a live album

Wagner - Die Meistersinger Von Nurnberg

and then accompanied Dinah Washington and was with Cannonball Adderley and Dizzy Gillespie in the 1950s before forming his own trio to record first for Norman Granz's Verve label and then for Jazzland and Riverside through into the 1960s

delicately differentiating between the moods and intentions of the various composers