Dogs - THE MELODIES MASSACRE YEARSVinyl LP pressing. It took Rouen, France over five hundred years to find an act as fiery as the execution of Joan of Arc, but they finally found one in the Year Of Our Lord 1977: Dogs. The absolute picks of the litter and best in French new wave rock show, Dogs (no 'the'), over the course of nine albums, two dozen singles and EP's left behind an undeniable legacy, none fiercer than on their first recordings for the Melodies Massacre label. This

Wosner has established a reputation as one of the world's great Schubert interpreters

and through them

the game becomes a glorious addiction and the dares become more and more dangerous

recorded December 16

There are 2 duets where Mats shares the lead vocals with singer Jenny Fall

The musicians juxtapose the works

from which he then developed his own concept for a contemporary sonata

Gustav Mahler's musical imagination got sparked by the Wunderhorn anthology of folk poetry compiled by Achim von Arnim and Clemens Brentano

all via YouTube on his gradually disintegrating home piano (a metaphor for much of what was happening at the time)

folk-tinged and awash with a layered

Keen to make use of this untapped creative energy

" Perkins engineered the final two days of tracking