After 12 amazing years, the UK’s most successful folk band Bellowhead called it a day in 2016 going out in characteristic style with a sell-out show at the London Palladium. It’s taken a few years and a global pandemic, but to the delight of their many fans, the band ‘Reassembled’ for a one-off worldwide concert stream last December, marking the 10th anniversary of their 3rd album Hedonism. ...
Genre: Folk
Subgenre: Traditional Folk
Mature, Gentle and Powerful: These are the words that open Digging Up The Scars, Neilson Hubbard’s new album. Hubbard has been making beautiful music for decades, as a member of Strays Don’t Sleep (with Matthew Ryan), The Orphan Brigade (with co producer Ben Glover), as a solo artist, and as one of Nashville’s most ...
Genre: Country
Subgenre: Alternative Country
As the pandemic goes on making regular concerts impossible, the Louth Contemporary Music Society continues its work in the studio. Last autumn’s album release Meadow, featuring music by Linda Catlin Smith, won praise from leading critics on both sides of the Atlantic, including the New Yorker’s Alex Ross. Now comes a follow-up, Embers, which ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Santa Ratniece: Vigilia del Mattino
Das Album enthält Weltersteinspielungen des lettischen Komponisten Santa Ratniece, gesungen vom Lettischen Rundfunkchor - einem der führenden Chöre der Welt von heute. Santa Ratniece (1977) ist eine ungewöhnliche Persönlichkeit unter den lettischen Komponisten - eine Reisende und Forscherin, deren Musik nicht mit den Kompositionen irgendeines anderen ...
Komponist: Santa Ratniece (1977)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Choral
Aeternum: Latvian Composers for the Centenary of Latvia
In anticipation of Latvia's centenary, the State Choir "Latvija" and its artistic director, Maris Sirmais, announced their idea for a special and lasting gift to Latvia a new, rich repertoire of choir songs that could be sung by both professional and amateur choirs. Thus they established a creative laboratory in which seventy-seven composers wrote new music for choir. ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Choral
"Tricks Of The Trade" by Malcolm Holcombe is easily his most “accessible” album yet. It’s chock-full of his trademark angry old man folk and suffer-no-fools blues. But there are also some tracks that are a little more like rock and there’s even one track that can best be described as a honkytonk tearjerker. ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Contemporary
Lazybody again sees Annie team up with producer and Slow Weather partner Chris McCrory, 11 sparse songs of love, despair and all emotions in between. Scottish singer-songwriter Annie Booth returns with her sophomore album ‘Lazybody’. Recorded over the course of several months at ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: New Acoustic
To commemorate the 10th year since the passing of esteemed British jazz composer, bassist and bandleader Graham Collier, My Only Desire Records presents this 1975 recording of his previously unreleased suite 'British Conversations'. The recording features lead soloists trumpeter Harry Beckett and guitarist Ed Speight, alongside The Swedish Radio Jazz ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Big Band
Audrey Spillman matches the slow burn of a torch song with the blazing feeling of falling in love on Neon Dream. Produced by her husband Neilson Hubbard and recorded in Nashville, the compelling project provides a snapshot of her life over the last five years, from getting married and starting a family, to grappling ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: New Acoustic
Ink on a Pin - A Celebration of Joni Mitchell
Sara Colman, the acclaimed UK singer, songwriter and composer, announces a November release for her new album celebrating the music of Joni Mitchell, with striking new arrangements and poignant re-workings of seven songs from one of her most significant influences. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
Seminal British Jazz-Rock band, Barbara Thompson's Paraphernalia, join forces with National Youth Jazz Orchestra to celebrate the launch of Bulletproof, a new album from the virtuoso saxophonist, composer & bandleader. Nearly 5 decades after the formation of the legendary British jazz-rock band Barbara Thompson’s Paraphernalia; the group ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Big Band
"sister in kith" is the third album from Treppenwitz, the latest chapter in an ongoing story. The band set up with microphones in a living room; the engineer pressed record and they played. There was no separation between the instruments, and the audio has almost no post-production treatment. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Free Jazz
Separated by the North Sea during the pandemic, as a band we were greatly missing the thing we love most - creating music in a room together. In the depths of winter we decided to try writing new songs together on zoom. It came with it's challenges and distractions -Ewan and Lauren grappling with mediocre broadband in the rural Highlands, ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: New Acoustic
Dzenitis, Buravickis, Leimane, Paidere
The Sinfonietta Rīga state chamber orchestra was founded relatively recently, in 2006. This selection of compositions written for the orchestra and its conductor, Normunds Šnē, are even younger: Ruta Paidere’s Tempera is from 2012, Andris Dzenītis composed Euphoria in 2017, Aigars Raumanis and Sinfonietta Rīga first performed the Temperature of ...
Komponist: Andris Dzenītis (b. 1978), Platons Buravickis (b. 1989), Linda Leimane (b. 1989), Ruta Paidere (b. 1977)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Auf seinem Debütalbum präsentiert Janis Porietis Weltersteinspielungen von Werken für Trompete und Orgel der lettischen Komponisten Maija Einfelde, Rihards Dubra, Alvils Altmanis, Ilze Arne, Romualds Jermaks, Dzintra Kurme-Gedroica, Georgs Pelecis und Renate Stivrina, aufgenommen an der berühmten E. F. Walker & Co. Orgel im Laufe des Jahres 2020. ...
Komponist: Maija Einfelde (b. 1939), Rihards Dubra (b. 1964), Alvils Altmanis (b. 1950), Jānis Porietis (b. 1953), Ilze Arne (b. 1953), Romualds Jermaks (b. 1931), Dzintra Kurme-Gedroica (b. 1968), Georgs Pelēcis (b. 1947), Renāte Stivriņa (b. 1985)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
This is an album of musical friendship where the Riga Saxophone Quartet meets with composers and like-minded performers, and five compositions grounded in poetry, dreams, the Book of Revelation, Old Rīga streetscapes, and the art of photography come into being. ...
Komponist: Dace Aperāne (b. 1953), Mārīte Dombrovska (b. 1977), Rihards Dubra (b. 1964), Edgars Makens (b. 1977), Rihards Zaļupe (b. 1983)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Classical Crossover
Selected Works compilation sequenced by Tom Rose featuring songs from Boo's solo albums and collaborations. Released to celebrate his 60th Birthday the album features new song The Language of Love and a new recording of the Radio Ballad "The Village Bell" with Kris Drever. ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Folk Rock
Classical composition meets electronica: Intrigued and inspired by stories of ancient stone circles that lead to the creation of some unique fragrances, John Metcalfe (Peter Gabriel, The Pretenders, The John Metcalfe band) and Simon Richmond (Palmskin Productions, Neneh Cherry, Imagined Village, The Bays) came together to compose Set in Stone. ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Contemporary
The beautiful collection of musical mediations is performed by Chris Eaton and Abby Eaton. ...
Komponist: Chris Eaton
Genre: New Age
Subgenre: Relaxation
"First Farewell" will likely be Peggy Seeger’s final original solo album, but mellowing is not her style and she’s not going quietly. Her remarkable 24th solo album underscores her importance & continued relevance as a songwriter and performer, cementing her place as one of the most uncompromising and inspiring female artists of any genre and age. ...
Genre: Folk
Subgenre: Traditional Folk
