Sweden’s OPETH are preparing to release their most important record to date with »In Cauda Venenum«. Certainly, fans and critics will have their opinion, but few records in the Swedes’ oeuvre are as engaging, delicate, panoramic, intense, and musical as OPETH’s lucky ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Modern Rock
Fado music reimagined: Fado stories are filled with longing and loss, so when Maria asked me to produce and arrange select classic fado songs and add modern jazz sensibilities for her album “Close to Me”, I summoned up the aura of Shakespeare’s “Now is the winter of my discontent” quote....
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
The Book of Secrets (Polish Jazz vol. 84)
Krzysztof Herdzin is one of the most exceptional musicians in Poland today. As classically trained pianist, he explores the classical music idiom with ease and yet plays with elite of Polish jazz and pop musicians with equal fortune. His phenomenon lies first and foremost in his diversity. ...
Genre: Instrumental
Subgenre: Piano
Melancholie und Sturmflut (Bonus Track Edition 2019 Remaster)
Das Erfolgsalbum des Hamburger Rockbarden; mit Bonustitel. "Melancholie und Sturmflut" ist das bislang erfolgreichste Album in der Karriere des Hamburger Rocksängers Achim Reichel. Es erschien erstmalig 1991, und die drei ausgekoppelten Singles "Aloha Heja ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
Blues in Blond (Bonus Track Edition 2019 Remaster)
Das erste Album für das Jörg Fauser alle Texte geschrieben hat. In der Vorbereitungszeit haben wir uns oft zusammen gesetzt, entweder bei ihm in Berlin, oder bei mir am Großensee (bei Hamburg) und haben gemeinsam Themen festgelegt, zu denen Jörg dann Texte verfasste....
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
Mazacote is a hard-hitting world latin party band playing brass soaked tropical dance beats. Inspired by the sounds of Colombia, Mozambique and Nicaragua, they weave driving rhythms and heavy groove with a socially conscious message. ...
Genre: Latin
Subgenre: Latin Jazz
Morning Edition, talking about the Carolina Chocolate Drops The Carolina Chocolate Drops are as much about revelation as revival. On its Nonesuch debut, Genuine Negro Jig, the trio brings exuberance, humor, virtuosity and an infectious acoustic groove to its exploration of a near-forgotten brand of banjo-driven string-band music ...
Genre: Blues
Subgenre: Acoustic Blues
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (The Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Nonesuch releases the soundtrack to Dream Works and Warner Bros. Pictures’ Tim Burton–directed Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. The film is an adaptation by John Logan of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s 1979 Tony Award–winning musical. It stars Johnny Depp ...
Genre: Soundtrack
Subgenre: Film
Wilder Wassermann - Balladen & Mythen (Bonus Track Edition 2019)
Bei seinem neuen Album hat Achim Reichel sich von seiner Leidenschaft für Balladen-Klassiker leiten lassen. „In der Sprache unserer großen alten Dichter wohnt ein Geist, der über echte Zauberkraft verfügt. Im Fluss der Silben und Laute schillern mitunter Melodien wie Lichtreflexe ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
Motherless Brooklyn (Original Motion Picture Score)
Thom Yorke & Flea, Wynton Marsalis, and Daniel Pemberton are some of the musical heavyweights whose music is featured on the soundtrack to “Motherless Brooklyn” - the film directed, written by, produced by and starring Edward Norton. Featured on the album are two versions of the song ...
Genre: Soundtrack
Subgenre: Film
Arthur or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire (2019 Deluxe Remaster)
Remastered in stereo from the original tapes! The Kinks were in the middle of a commercial downturn when they made Arthur or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire in 1969. Their most recent album, 1968's The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society, failed to chart in the U.S., ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Classic Rock
Jan Akkerman, the renowned Dutch guitarist who shot to fame during the 60s and 70s with bands like Focus, Brainbox and The Hunters, and was once voted Best Guitarist in the World by Melody Maker, will release his new album "Close Beauty" on October 25, 2019 via Mascot Label Group/Music Theories Recordings. ...
Composer: Jan Akkerman
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Fusion
Ives: Symphony No. 3, "The Camp Meeting" & Symphony No. 4
MTT, leading American champion of Ives’ work, states: “At its core, the music of Charles Ives is an expression of the heart and soul of America. The complexity of Ives’ rhythmic and harmonic ideas was very much ahead of his time, and, even as he was often labeled eccentric by ...
Composer: Charles Ives (1874-1954)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Pianist/composer Conrad Tao's third Warner Classics album, entitled American Rage, traces the roots of rebellion from the 1930s Harlan County labor disputes, through the trauma of 9/11, to the deep divisions of the present day. ...
Composer: Frederic Rzewski (1938), Julia Wolfe (1958-), Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Gallant’s upcoming sophomore album “Sweet Insomnia” – featuring additional songwriting contributions from Sarah Aarons, Ben Abaraham, and Trey Campbell. Sonically channeling turn-of-the-century R&B, the track integrates lush acoustic guitar, a thick ...
Genre: R&B
Subgenre: Hip Hip Soul
Wenn die Flöte Träume weckt: Emmanuel Pahuds magisches Album "Dreamtime": Die Flöte ist zwar ein Instrument, auf dem man größte technische Virtuosität zelebrieren kann, aber ihr wahres Geheimnis liegt woanders. Emmanuel Pahud, einer der weltbesten Flötisten unserer Zeit, hat ...
Composer: Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996), Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Carl Heinrich Reinecke (1824-1910), Krzysztof Penderecki (1933)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre:
Multi-GRAMMY nominated and multi-platinum British singer/songwriter James Blunt will release his sixth studio album Once Upon A Mind on October 25th featuring the new single “Cold”. After flirting with electronica on his last album, Blunt returns to what he does best on Once Upon A ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
"This album captures so many magical moments, the best times I've ever had as a musician," declares singer-songwriter Natalie Merchant of Leave Your Sleep, her ambitious, two-disc Nonesuch debut. Merchant, celebrated solo artist and the one-time voice of 10,000 Maniacs, ..
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Folk Rock
Remastered from the original tapes. The EPs include rare, early track The Egg - with atmospheric eerie slide guitar and driving bass this is a stand out gem from the band’s back catalogue and transports you in time to late 1980s Manchester....
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Classic Rock
