Corbillard's greatest hits album, Débranché, feature 14 tracks from their four albums: J'irai m'crasher sur vos tombes (2011), Enfoncer le clou (2014), Faux & Usage de Faux (2017) and Temps Mort (2020). Despite this gloomy atmosphere and forced lockdown, Corbillard has decided to make itself heard. ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
Half The Day's Gone and We Haven't Earne'd a Penny (Remastered)
Kenny Lynch was a popular singer, songwriter, actor and all-round entertainer. A self-styled “black cockney”, Kenny was one of the few people of Caribbean origin prominent in the British entertainment industry during the ‘60s and ‘70s. ...
Genre: R&B
Subgenre: Soul
The deluxe edition of Lady Blackbird's debut album Black Acid Soul comes with a staggering 11 additional songs, encompassing brand new material such as stunning single "Feel It Comin'" and remixes commissioned by the likes of electronic, jazz, funk luminaries Emma-Jean Thackray, Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy and Greg Foat. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
The debut album Black Acid Soul from Lady Blackbird is one of the standouts for 2021. It's instant and within a minute you are hooked. Rough Trade Shops loves this album. Think Nina Simone, Hot Buttered Soul-era Isaac Hayes, Billie Holiday and Chaka Khan. Gilles Peterson called her "the Grace Jones of Jazz". ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Nu Jazz
Through his second full-length and first internationally promoted album, Inigo attempts to bring Original Pilipino Music (OPM) to the global stage with a refined collection of songs that he recorded with multiple producers and songwriters from Manila to California in a span of two years. ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
Live At The Other End, Dec 1975 (Remastered)
In December 1975, Grammy Award-winning songwriter John Prine played three nights at The Other End (previously and now known as The Bitter End) in Greenwich Village, NYC. The acoustic performances featured some of his best-known songs such as ‘Angel From Montgomery’ and ‘Hello In There’, from his ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Folk-Rock
Piazzolla and Rovira are usually presented as the two pioneers of avant-garde tango. It has been claimed that there was a certain rivalry between them, and is a subject of debate which of the two was the first to modernize tango. While nothing clear has emerged from this controversy, it is a good starting point to ...
Composer: Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992), Eduardo Oscar Rovira (1925-1980)
Genre: Latin
Subgenre: Tango
Irlandiani is the debut album from the Irish baroque cellist Carina Drury. Picturing the musical life of early 18th Century Ireland, the album explores the influence of Irish traditional music on Italian baroque composers living in Ireland at the time, and how a fashion for the Italian baroque style also influenced the Irish composers of the day. ...
Composer: Tommaso Giordani (1730-1806), Francesco Geminiani (1687-1762), Turlough O'Carolan (1670-1738), Burk Thomoth
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Johann Sebastian Bach: Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244
Bach's St Matthew Passion is undoubtedly a highlight of vocal music. With a lean choir and double soloists, this recording is orientated towards the composer's historical specifications. Together with the Ensemble Frauenkirche Dresden, which plays historically informed music on modern instruments, the vocalists succeed in creating a homogeneous, self-contained and ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
‘Travelers’ is the result of a collaboration between three personalities, interested in different varieties of jazz, combining their musical experiences in a single moment. The band's debut album contains six tracks set in the convention of contemporary jazz. Five of them are original compositions by the leader and an arrangement of the song ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Edgar Garcia, aka Edgar Blues, is the amazingly talented, 34 year old, singer, songwriter and guitarist from Barcelona. During lockdown, when gigs stopped, he recorded his current album, “The Next Step” which features tracks written by Edgar and go to show that not only is he a masterful musician, but also a great songwriter. ...
Genre: Blues
Subgenre: Bluesy Rock
“Off the Carousel" was released on September 17, 2021. Dynamic, soulful jazz vocalist June Garber presents her fourth studio album, “Off the Carousel”. A masterful interpreter of standards, June has chosen some of her very favourite compositions that reflect upon her life’s ride thus far, on roads both rough and smooth. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
Greatest Hits (1970-2020) (Remastered)
With 34 previous releases, 13 JUNO wins, two Hall of Fame inductions, countless honorary Doctorates, Officer of The Order of Canada — and new inductee into Canada’s Walk of Fame this year — all spanning a 50+ year career — it’s no small task to encapsulate Bruce Cockburn’s inimitable imprint when it comes to Canadian music and culture. ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Contemporary
A collection of warm, intimate, impeccably chosen covers: It’s been almost 10 years since Bangles’ front woman Susanna Hoffs has released any original tunes, preferring instead to go for unexpected songs by reasonably well-known artists. ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Folk Rock
Mattias Spee (1997) studied with David Kuyken and Ralph van Raat, among others. He won several prizes, at the Prinses Christina Concours, the Steinway Piano Competition and the VriendenCultuurPrijs. Spee has a distinct preference for contemporary and lesser known repertoire. “I would like to bring hidden treasures from music ...
Composer: Mattias Spee (1997)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Over plucked acoustic guitar or deftly weighted piano chords, Maple Glider shares vignettes of her life; growing up in a restrictive religious household, falling in an out of love, interstate and international relocations, the new perspectives travel can bring along with the alienation of being away from the familiar. ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Folk Rock
Rilke Projekt - das ist die SEHNSUCHT
Germany's most successful poetry project is entering the next round: Angelica Fleer & Richard Schönherz are continuing their celebrated Rilke project just in time for the 20th anniversary of their gold-plated debut album - with the sixth studio album ‘das ist die SEHNSUCHT’. ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Adult Contemporary
Joachim Stutschewsky, cellist and composer, author of numerous music transcriptions, promoter of Jewish music. Born on 7th February 1891 in Romny (then in the Russian Empire, now Ukraine), into a family with long-time musical traditions, Stutschewsky was brought up in the environment of Jewish klezmer musicians playing at weddings and inns. ...
Composer: Joachim Stutschewsky
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
This is possibly the best federation in the world! It is grassroots democratic, freedom-loving, humane and - above all - musically rousing. Whether funk or fusion, whether catchy soul, rich blues or sparkling straight-ahead jazz: in the Federation of the Groove quartet, no one style dominates the other, rather everything meshes together virtuosically, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
"Americana", the new record sees Ryan Sheridan paying homage to a contemporary US songbook of tunes that have inspired him to reconnect with the joy of music during lockdown. Mostly tracked at his home studio, with his percussionist-extraordinaire Ronan Nolan adding his parts from his base in the Midlands, 'Americana' was mixed by Peter Ashmore, best known for his work with David Keenan and Wyvern Lingo. ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Contemporary
