Per Aspera ad Astra is a concept album, with compositions that I wrote over the last three years, mixing multiple styles and aesthetics: jazz, world music, rock, fusion, pop, electronic, contemporary music. For me, one of the most interesting aspects in the creation of this project ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
Thomas Trotter performs the complete organ works of Maurice Duruflé on the world-famous organ in the Chapel of King’s College Cambridge. Thomas is a prize-winning concert organist and one of the UK’s most admired performing musicians, reflected in Her Majesty The Queen awarding him The Queen’s Medal for Music on St Cecilia’s Day 2020. ...
Composer: Maurice Duruflé (1902–1986)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
In December, MisterWives debuted "SUPERBLOOM: The Live Dream," a special performance of the band's latest record SUPERBLOOM in full. Presented on Moment House, "The Live Dream" is a visual, theatrical journey through the album, featuring multiple sets, costumes, and choreography and bringing the band's ...
Genre: Alternative
Subgenre: Indie Rock
Dustin O’Halloran worked on Silfur during the lockdown in Iceland, where he ordinarily spends part of the year. Unable to return to his other home in Los Angeles, he drew inspiration from isolation and Iceland’s unique atmosphere, revisiting works from four solo albums and refining them through ...
Composer: Dustin O'Halloran
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Minimalism
PRIMAVERA I the wind is the first collection in a momentous series encompassing 81 world premieres for solo cello. This digital album presents 14 new commissions by THE PRIMAVERA PROJECT for groundbreaking, multi-Grammy nominated cellist Matt Haimovitz. Each composer responds to Sandro Botticelli’s enigmatic painting, ...
Composer: David Sanford (1963), Vijay Iyer (1971), Jake Heggie (1961), Luna Pearl Woolf (1973), Gabriella Smith
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Big Mess marks Elfman's first solo collection in more than thirty years, but it's no return to form. Clocking in at 18 tracks, the sprawling, ambitious double album finds the Grammy and Emmy Award-winning composer breaking bold new ground as both a writer and a performer, drawing on a dystopian palette ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
Drawn from 10 Years groove right from the off doesn't come like this very often. So what's here on 'Cameron the Wise'? Well it's gutsy tenor saxophonist Charles Owens along with Butcher Brown bass guitarist Andrew Randazzo and providing the formidable opening figure that caught my ear drummer Devonne Harris ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Fusion
Shostakovich, Weinberg: 3 Piano Trios
Fusions. The fusion of an ensemble made up of three members of the same family, the Trio Mestral. The fusion of related styles, those of Shostakovich and Weinberg. Each work is charged with extraordinary tensions, painful and exalted, darkly humorous and deceptively naive. ... Fusions. The fusion of an ensemble made up of three members of the same family, the Trio Mestral. The fusion of related styles, those of Shostakovich and Weinberg. Each work is charged with extraordinary tensions, painful and exalted, darkly humorous and deceptively naive. ...
Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975), Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919–1996)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
The Immersive Experience (Stereo)
The Immersive Experience is a spectacular collection of 35 of the greatest classical tracks, recorded in Dolby Atmos surround sound by the London Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir and young British conductor Ben Gernon at the legendary Abbey Road Studios. ...
Composer: Richard Strauss, Giuseppe Verdi, Hector Berlioz, Johannes Brahms, Samuel Barber, Gabriel Fauré, Felix Mendelssohn, Richard Wagner, Ludwig van Beethoven, Remo Giazotto, Tomaso Albinoni, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Gustav Holst, Alexander Borodin, Claude Debussy, George Frideric Handel, Johann Strauss II, John Philip Sousa, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Johann Sebastian Bach, Dmitri Shostakovich, Gustav Mahler, Sergei Prokofiev, Antonín Dvořák, Edward Elgar, Jacques Offenbach, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
A Few Stars Apart is a testament to finding a human connection: between close family and friends, as well as one’s own heart. Produced by GRAMMY Award winning producer Dave Cobb, the album was inspired by the stillness Nelson found while riding out the beginning of the pandemic with his family ...
Genre: Country
Subgenre: Alternative Country
“This is our seventh record, the significant numerology of which affected the DNA of its content: the seven virtues, the seven sorrows, and the seven deadly sins,” says the band’s iconic frontwoman Shirley Manson of the album and its twists and turns from capitalism and lust to loss and grief. ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
Shaped by pianist Andrew von Oeyen’s experience of lockdown, this solo recital comprises Bach’s eight-movement Overture in the French Style BWV 831, Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas No 13 in E flat and No 23 in F minor, ‘Appassionata’, and arrangements by Wilhelm Kempff of two movements that Bach wrote ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Brandon’s music feels like a lot of different things—often all at once. In some ways, it’s like your childhood best friend disclosing an important truth by the glow of a beach bonfire. In other ways, it’s like the moment you stop worrying about what other people think and can laugh and smile anywhere without apology. ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: New Acoustic
The eagerly awaited new album from Maroon 5, JORDI, is the band’s first since the critically acclaimed Red Pill Blues. The album will include the recently released hit single “Beautiful Mistakes ft. Megan Thee Stallion” as well as fan favorites “Memories” and “Nobody’s Love.” ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
This third outing by the ZZ Quartet, co-led by guitarist Ratko Zjaca and accordionist Simone Zanchini, finds the intrepid improvisers and virtuosos on their respective instruments stretching and exploring in separate live settings last year. Recorded in pre-pandemic times at the Milestone Jazz Club ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Virginia-based indie pop/rock duo Vacation Manor —Nathan Towles and Cole Young—share new single “Parachute” from their upcoming self-titled debut album, out June 11th. On Vacation Manor, the duo stitch together shared and personal experiences in a patchwork of vibrant and vivid alternative anthems ...
Genre: Alternative
Subgenre: Indie Rock
Van Dyke Parks orchestrates Verónica Valerio: Only in America
A collaboration album between recording artist and arranger Van Dyke Parks and harpist and poet Verónica Valerio. This record is a Chamber-music Suite of Songs of the Yucatan, featuring the poetry of Verónica Valerio and orchestrated by Van Dyke Parks. Starting with a new arrangement of Agustin Lara’s classic "Veracruz," ...
Composer: Agustín Lara, Van Dyke Parks, Verónica Valerio
Genre: Latin
Subgenre: Latin Jazz
Bernstein, Barber, Crawford & Ives: Americans
Vivid testimony to the multifaceted partnership of James Gaffigan and the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, their latest release invites us to explore the conductor’s American roots, from the most mischievous (Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story) to the spiritual ...
Composer: Samuel Barber (1910–1981), Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990), Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901–1953), Charles Ives (1874–1954)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Trio Mediæval’s collection of hymns and lullabies - intimate songs as old as time and as new as tomorrow: this is music with no boundaries, celebrating our common humanity. We’ll never know the first song or the first singer, and we’ll never know what they sang about. But if time could unwind and we could hear it, ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Mediaeval
LA based fast rising duo Emotional Oranges continue to make strides to the release of their upcoming project JUICEBOX with the reveal of stellar new single "Bonafide." Featuring rising soul sensation Chiiild, the track is a woozy, gorgeous offering showcasing the Avant Garden labelmates in rare style. ...
Genre: R&B
Subgenre: Hip Hop Soul
