Ponce: Chamber Works

Advantages: An entertaining read, Deals well with the racial issues
Disadvantages: If your not a fan of Grisham you probably wont enjoy it

...The next novel in my John Grisham series is one of the best books I?ve read, the chamber. He has become one of those authors that people either love or hate, personally as I?m sure you?ve been able to tell I love his work, well most of it. I can?t really say I?m a big fan of one of his latest. and although he features heavily in my current book selection, I have started to branch out a little bit. Grisham, a former lawyer has made a very good living out of writing novels, since his debut effort a time to kill. Despite his move away from practising law he writes his books on the subject he is familiar with keeping a law theme within almost all of his works to date. His Knowledge of the criminal system obviously helps a lot in explaining exactly what he means in an easy way so that someone like me, with only basic knowledge of legal... Read review

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Advantages: Well executed, varied, great songstructure, atmospheric, good vocals
Disadvantages: None

...'Chamber of Divine Elaborations' the second album by avant-garde French black metal band Reverence, mixes dissonant, warped, atonal riffs with unsettling industrial ambience, an insectile, unconventionally programmed drum machine and weird rasped/growled chanting and eerie clean singing to create an album that will be sound instantly familiar to fans of Blut Aus Nord. Indeed, as both bands hail from France and have chosen to remain anonymous thus far, it seems almost certain that the bands share some if not all members, given the aesthetic and musical similarities they share. The songs mix whooshing, metallic ambience with sampled sirens, radio transmissions, chiming clocks, piano, horror-film synths and sci-fi and horror film samples with the twisted and misshapen riffs evident on Blut Aus Nord's seriously weird 2006 album M... Read review

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Advantages: many
Disadvantages: none

...Very fine cd. D'Indy's String Sextet may be a bit pale as a composition, but the Violin Sonata is a wonderful work that is unjustly neglected. As far as I know this is the only recording ever made, apart from an old one by Henri Temianka and Doris Stevenson. This sonata is named "academic" or "overly intellectual", but this is simply not true. It satisfies the mind as well as the emotion, and that is surely the case in this fine and idiomatic recording by Marietta Kratz and Caroline Weichert. It dates from 1994 and I hope it to be still available. The Piano Quartet by the young D'Indy is a worthwile addition. I strongly recommend this wonderful disc for the repertoire as well as the playing.... Read review

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