Geshem is a supergroup made of three of the busiest musicians in the Israeli scene: Drummer Aviv “Sol Monk” Cohen is a virtuoso drummer and a spacey beat maker, Shuzin is a cross-genre shapeshifting producer, and Yonatan Albalak is one of the busiest guitar and bass players in Israel. ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Modern Rock
I Promised You Light follows on from Clarke’s 2021 LP, A Small Unknowable Thing, an emotionally charged album bubbling with courage and defiance. If A Small Unknowable Thing were a sentence, I Promised You Light is the full stop at the end, or “the light at the end of that particular tunnel,” as she puts it. ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Contemporary
Unforgettable...With Love (Remastered)
Unforgettable... with Love, also known as simply Unforgettable, is a 1991 album by American singer Natalie Cole. Released on June 11, 1991, the album includes covers of standards previously performed by her father, Nat King Cole. "A major change of direction for Natalie Cole, Unforgettable found the singer abandoning the type of R&B/pop she'd been ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
Icy Skies – Das neue Album von FINALLY GEORGE ist da Nach fast zwei Jahren der kollektiven Vereinzelung und des allein vor sich Hinwurschtelns könnte man glatt vergessen, welche kreative Kraft sich entfesseln lässt, wenn man Dinge gemeinsam tut. Der Hamburger Produzent und Multiinstrumentalist FINALLY GEORGE ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Modern Rock
2022 release from the seminal British Heavy Metal heroes hailing from Barnsley, UK. Ten titanic tracks bristling with steel-clad riffery and proud intent, Carpe Diem is the statement which reminds heavy metal fans worldwide who the true masters of British Metal are, drawing on a variety of ingredients from their career to forge what is Saxon's most ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Metal
Exactly one hundred years after the birth of Julius Watkins (Detroit, October 10, 1921 – Short Hills, April 4, 1977), Julius Rides Again is the title of the new recording project by Giovanni Hoffer and Pau Moltó Biosca, with the intention of paying due homage to the man who is considered to all intents and purposes the “father” of the jazz ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
Iconic pianist/composer Fred Hersch was an early adopter of new technologies and new ways forward when the pandemic hit in early 2020. But he's also been among the most eager to return to live performance and collaboration now that life has begun to resume some semblance of normality. In August 2021 he returned to the studio to record one ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
"Clover" is a new project, resulting from a long friendship, an intense collective experience and also a desire to play pure, refined music. After 20 years of close artistic and personal collaboration already put into action by the creation of the Yolk Label and a number of other joint projects, the three friends Alban Darche, Sebastien Boisseau and ....
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Mozart & Strauss: Oboe Concertos
“I couldn’t have imagined a better constellation for my first album!” says Cristina Gómez Godoy about her first recording. She has chosen this repertoire because these pieces made her fall in love with the instrument and music. As a musician in Daniel Barenboim’s Berlin-based orchestra, ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
"Die Position des Instruments zwischen Violine und Cello bietet uns Bratschisten viele Möglichkeiten, Elemente aus beiden Klangwelten zu kombinieren und so etwas Eigenständiges und Neues zu schaffen. Auf diesem Album finden sich eine Reihe von Transkriptionen -nicht aus dem Wunsch heraus, etwas von jemand anderem zu ...
Composer: Max Reger (1873-1916), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750), Eugène Ysaÿe (1858-1931), Gaspar Cassadó (1897-1966), Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (1644-1704)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Jessica de Boer "Grow - my first album. In a way, the release of this album is the fulfillment of the things I sing about, heralding a new season. I'm looking back, ahead and at the world around me. So it's not just about me, it's about all of us. An album about emerging, growing (up), trusting and longing. Longing for something that's certainly coming." ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
In Praise of Escape: There’s a special vibe of freedom tinged with regret running through Maxence Cyrin’s new album, Melancholy Island. The title draws its inspiration from two works – “Éloge de la fuite” (In praise of Escape) by Henri Laborit and “La Possibilité d’un île” (The Possibility of an Island) by Michel Houellebecq ...
Composer: Maxence Cyrin
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Ķeniņš: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 8 and Aria per corde
This third album release in the first complete Tālivaldis Ķeniņš (1919–2008) symphony cycle includes the composer’s final symphonic creation, Symphony No. 8, with a remarkable organ solo part performed by the award-winning organist Iveta Apkalna, alongside the composer’s dramatic and concise 5th Symphony, both conducted by Andris Poga ...
Composer: Talivaldis Kenins (1919-2008)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Following his fascinating Odradek debut with 'Chalk Factory', Basque composer Ramon Lazkano returns with an album of world-premiere recordings featuring intimate original works for voices and ensemble. The album is unified by the enigmatic, elusive poetry of Edmond Jabes, a French writer of Egyptian origin. Lazkano ...
Composer: Ramon Lazkano (b. 1968)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Les Six: Merci et Adieu, Claude
„In the 19th and 20th centuries, French music achieved a unique profile and was widely acknowledged on the international scene. This success was due, last not least, to symbolic figures such as Camille Saint-Saëns, Claude Debussy, and the “Groupe des Six,” in spite of their divergent aesthetic tendencies.…
Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921), Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Arthur Honegger (1892-1955), Darius Milhaud (1892-1974), Francis Poulenc (1899-1963), Jean Françaix (1912-1997)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
A well thought-out concept album was to be their first recorded release, the musicians of Percussion Under Construction had already decided before Corona. The forced break in the first lockdown in March 2020 strengthened them in this decision: Newly created works in this exceptional situation were to enter into ...
Composer: Martin Hennecke, Nebojša Jovan Živković (b. 1962), Frank Zappa (1940-1993), Tan Dun (b. 1957), Herman Rarebell (b. 1949), Klaus Meine (b. 1948), Rudolf Schenker (b. 1948)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Beethoven & Lachenmann: Piano Works
The hours I spent learning Beethoven‘s last three sonatas were among the most cherished of my life. They were filled with the exhilaration of being in the presence of something magnificent, something truly meaningful. Over the years, these sonatas have become my intimate companions ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), Helmut Lachenmann (1935)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
This album is pianist Peter Jablonski’s third solo album for the Ondine label. In this album Jablonski represents Grazyna Bacewicz’s (1909–1969) dazzling piano etudes and piano sonatas which are hardly known outside of her native Poland. Jablonski’s piano albums have received an enthusiastic ...
Composer: Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-1969)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
The disjointed space between personal happiness and global sorrow is where Smrtdeath's new album it's fine makes it's home. Written and recorded during the pandemic, one of the most dramatically isolating experiences of our lives, the album finds Smrtdeath's Mike Skwark in a surprisingly contented state, newly coupled up and living in bliss. ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
