Fernanda Damiano * Shostakovich & Pupils Vol. 2 - Weinberg Sviridov [New CD] Psychedelic Still Pretending

Still Pretending

Alongside his paternal half-brother Westside Gunn and cousin Benny the Butcher

in making their third and arguably trippiest full length album for Rocket Recordings

The Lamp is Low

The album is full of hard

Fernanda Damiano * Shostakovich & Pupils Vol. 2 - Weinberg Sviridov [New CD] Psychedelic Still PretendingWhile the solo piano output of Dmitri Shostakovich is smaller than one might anticipate from a composer who was himself a gifted (albeit erratic) pianist, there is more to it than the monumental sequence of 24 preludes and fugues which he composed shortly after the Second World War for the pianist Tatiana Nikolaeva, and in emulation of The Well Tempered Clavier by Bach. Indeed some of the composer's earliest surviving music is a set of Eight Preludes,