David Sabastian has spent years shifting pop culture from behind the scenes, and affecting change out in the streets. Born and raised in Los Angeles, the forward-thinking fashion designer, painter, activist, and organizer is always moving. When he isn’t designing subversive merch for rappers like YG (see 2020’s sold-out “Fuck the Police” ...
Genre: Hip-Hop
Subgenre: Hip Hop
One of Cipa’s stand-out pieces, this is a delicate, sensitive piano song, with a plain, simple melody that grows into a polyrhythmic pattern structure while never losing its melodic yet melancholic mood. It feels as if we are on a journey to another ...
Composer: Carlos Cipa
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
The seeds of the collaboration were planted in 2017 when Anderson .Paak and Bruno Mars toured together on the European leg of his 24K Magic World Tour. One late-night jam session on the road unlocked immediate chemistry. Just before the world slipped into quarantine, Bruno called Anderson: “Remember ...
Genre: R&B
Subgenre: Soul
Quietude and Joy As Envisioned by Russian Painters
This piano suite was commissioned by The Manege exhibition center, Saint Petersburg, for the project Quietude and Joy. Music being played in exhibition halls is not a novelty. If you google for exhibition background music you will find collections of music ‘suitable’ for all sorts of exhibitions. ...
Composer: Anton Batagov
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Cellist Fernando Arias and pianist Noelia Rodiles team up for this recording, portraying 30 years of Slavic masterpieces for this combination: From the still neglected Dohnányi’s Sonata, op.8 to one of 20th Century’s chamber music masterpieces: Shostakovich’s Cello Sonata op. 40. Intense and brilliant performances in this album ...
Composer: Ernö Dohnányi (1877-1960), Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975), Leos Janacek (1854-1928)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Great sorrow and great joy, expressed in in sacred and secular arias and cantatas, are the themes of Sabine Devieilhe’s album of Bach and Handel. Recorded with the Pygmalion ensemble and conductor Raphaël Pichon, it features appearances by baritone Stéphane Degout and lutenist Thomas Dunford and includes Bach’s cantatas ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750), George Frideric Handel (1685–1759)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Mozart: Mitridate, rè di Ponto
Mozart was just 14 years old when he composed Mitridate, re di Ponto for performance in Milan. An opera seria set in ancient times, it boasts a sequence of spectacular arias for its cast of strongly contrasting characters. At the centre of the action is Mitridate himself – the historical Mithridatus, King of Pontus, ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 –1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Opera
Shani Diluka releases a great project dedicated to Marcel Proust and composers he loved, to celebrate the 150-year anniversary of his birth in 2021 and the 100-year anniversary of his death in 2022. It features Reynaldo Hahn's rarely played Piano Concerto and works by Fauré, Gluck, Massenet, R. Strauss, and Debussy. ...
Composer: Reynaldo Hahn (1875-1947), Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787), Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924), César Franck (1822-1890), Eugène Ysaÿe (1858-1931), Richard Wagner (1813-1883), Richard Strauss (1864-1949), Jules Massenet (1842-1912)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
An opera of adventurous and lavish scope, Rameau’s magical Achante et Céphise receives its world premiere recording – 270 years after its staged premiere at the Académie royale de musique in celebration of the birth of Louis XV’s grandson. The first French opera to feature clarinets, it offers a rich sequence of ...
Composer: Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Anima Aeterna, an adventurous album of sacred arias and motets from the 18th century, follows in the vein of Anima Sacra, which in 2018 decisively announced Jakub Józef Orlinski's arrival as a recording artist. It's programme - music by Zelenka, Handel, Fux, and the little-known Gennaro Manna, Francisco António de Almeida, Bartolomeo Nucci ...
Composer: Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679-1745), Johann Joseph Fux (1660-1741), Francisco António de Almeida (1702-1755), Bartolomeo Nucci (1717-1749), Gennaro Manna (1715-1759), Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Like their band name suggests, Black Veil Brides evoke transcendent visions of an impenetrable hereafter, intermingling with a steely focus on the dark passions and elusive mysteries of the here and now. A romantic fantasy first summoned in a small town by founder Andy Biersack – a creative who was fascinated with death ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Hard Rock
The Country And The Coast Side A
Australian-born country star Morgan Evans has released his brand-new EP, The Country and the Coast: Side A, via Warner Music Nashville today amidst being announced as the headliner of Australia's biggest country festival, CMC Rocks. Evans also recently shared the official music video for the project’s lead single, “Love Is Real” ...
Genre: Country
Subgenre: Country Pop
Mastodon's anxiously-awaited ninth full-length album, Hushed & Grim, released on October 29, 2021 via Reprise Records. Over the past year, the group recorded the album in their hometown, collaborating with producer David Bottrill (Tool, Rush, Muse, Peter Gabriel) behind the board. As their most ambitious body of work ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Metal
Restless Heart (25th Anniversary Edition, 2021 Remix)
Newly remastered and remixed: In the wake of Whitesnake's massive global success, the band's founder and lead singer, David Coverdale, set out to record his third solo album in 1995. However, the plan was derailed when pressure from his record label forced him to change course and release 'Restless Heart' under the David ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Hard Rock
Christina Pluhar, L’Arpeggiata and eight guest singers explore the musical highways and byways of Naples, the most intoxicating and idiosyncratic of Italy’s large cities. Alla Napoletana, a double album, expresses the city’s mercurial personality in music from the 17th to the 20th centuries, embracing the operatic style of the so-called ...
Composer: Andrea Falconieri (1585-1656), Pietro Andrea Ziani (1616-1684), Francesco Provenzale (1632-1704), Rodolfo Falvo (1873-1937), Antonio Farina (1803-1888), Cristoforo Caresana (1640-1709), Pietro Antonio Giramo (1619-1650), Giovanni Legrenzi (1626-1690), Sigismondo d'India (1582-1629)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
El Camino (10th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition)
Seventh studio album by the Brit Award winning American rock band. Featuring the singles 'Lonely Boy', 'Gold on the Ceiling', 'Dead and Gone' and 'Little Black Submarines' the album was ranked the 12th best of 2011 by Rolling Stone magazine. 10th anniversary edition features a remastered version of the original album, a previously ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé (Remastered)
Daphnis et Chloé, commissioned for the Ballets Russes by Serge Diaghilev is one of Ravel’s most ambitious works and its premiere in Paris gathered the most innovative artists of their time: Fokine at the choreography, Nijinsky in the leading role, Leon Bakst for the scenery (the set design he created ...
Composer: Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
The eight song project showcases his soul-infused country, and includes the rowdy anthem, “Beer With My Friends” featuring Cole Swindell and David Lee Murphy. The track was penned by Carter, Murphy, and Bryan Simpson, and is currently impacting country radio. The project also includes his 2020 breakout single “Good Love.” ...
Genre: Country
Subgenre: Alternative Country
Marigold has been out for a year and a half now; it entered the world at the same time the pandemic shut down everything, and most of the planet entered some form of lockdown. During these quieter days, Stu Larsen spent a few months in a small cottage on The Isle of Raasay off the west coast of Scotland, surrounded ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Contemporary
The Strange Idols Pattern and Other Short Stories (Remastered Edition)
"The Strange Idols Pattern and Other Short Stories" is the third album by English alternative rock band Felt, released in 1984 and produced by John Leckie. The album marked a departure from the introspective, guitar-led sound of their first two albums, with Lawrence's vocals becoming much more dominant in the mix along with a ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
