When filmmaker Ben Chace finished shooting the movie Sin Alas (Without Wings) in Cuba he reached out to Aruán Ortiz to score it. The haunting original “Cuban Nocturne,” the title song on this album, is the film’s theme. Sparked by that collaboration with Chace, these songs became a reflection on the music that saturated Ortiz's ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Generations is the highly-anticipated new album by 3X GRAMMY®-nominated duo The Baylor Project. Set for release during Black Music Month and on the eve of Juneteenth, this soulful sonic story quilt celebrates the universality of the human condition, viewed through the lens of the Black experience. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
Penelope Three (Mother's Blood Edition)
"Penelope Three" is the third and final installment of Australian-born Brighton-based musician Penelope Trappes’ trilogy. She completes her ambitious and other-worldly triptych with an album of healing, on which she looks to release herself from fear and into love, evoked in Penelope’s signature ambient gothic dreamlands ...
Genre: Electronic
Subgenre: Ambient
Robin Pecknold brings light to the bleakest of winters with Fleet Foxes’ ‘A Very Lonely Solstice,’ a 13-track career spanning collection recorded in December 2020, at Brooklyn, NY’s St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church. ‘A Very Lonely Solstice’ captures a poignant moment in time. ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
WINDPOWER from composer Eric Biddington highlights the versatility of the saxophone through the proficiency and musicality of the players, the Saxcess Quartet, in a collection of 11 original works. With multiple orchestrations and movements spanning 34 tracks, Biddington’s compositions are on full display ...
Composer: Eric Biddington (1953)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Interstate Lullaby / Lost but Found
These songs were recorded in 2018 and 2019 in Dolphus and Dana Ramseur’s Concord, NC living room. All tracks were recorded directly to tape using two Didrik De Geer microphones (# 33 & # 34)and Nagra IV-S and Stellavox SM9 tape machines. The tapes were prepared by Jason Richmond and Dolphus Ramseur at Slipstream Studios in Hillsborough, NC. ...
Genre: Folk
Subgenre: Folk Rock
MOTO FINALE brings the beloved chamber music series to a close with a number of works inspired by nature, loss, spiritual connection, and music of the past. The seasoned Trio Casals returns for this seventh and final installment to perform the works of seven composers in a diverse and conclusive capstone of modern composition. ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
The world premiere recording of compositions by Dirk Brosse, recorded with the Brussels Philharmonic. A Pulse of Joy is the second album (the first one "A Symphonic Journey from Philly to Utopia", was released last year) contains world premiere recordings of some of the works Dirk Brosse has written over the past 10 years. ...
Composer: Dirk Brossé (b. 1960), Esmeralda Raudales
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Mercury X is an outstanding progressive metal band hailing from Sweden. Mercury X's music and sound takes inspiration from the early '80s progressive metal bands as well as modern metal. The new album, "Imprisoned", is based on their lives during the making of the album, taking the listener through different emotional ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Metal
A sultry and sophisticated songbird. The ultra-rare debut and sole output of a wondrous and mysterious vocalist, perfectly accompanied by guitar icon Barney Kessel. An Early Stereo marvel from the original 1959 tapes! Kessel was a jazz pioneer -- as one of the leading lights of the hard-bop movement, his jazz guitar was legendary, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
Karen LeFrak: Interlude, Vol. 4 – Clarity
At a time when the world has paused and is looking ahead at its new reality, Karen LeFrak has begun releasing a beautiful cache of short solo piano pieces as a four-volume album project called Interlude. The compositions deliver an ambient and moving soundscape, perfectly-timed as we find our way forward ...
Genre: Instrumental
Subgenre: Piano
Debut album from Bergen based band, Kosmodome! Kosmodome, a rising star in the firmament of Norway‘s flourishing prog music scene, will blow minds with their psychedelic sounding, 60s atmosphere-coloured rock. The brainchild of the two Sandvik brothers, Sturle on guitars and vocals, and Severin on drums, ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
Dutch harpist Nick Scholten's debut album of solo harp music, 'Crossing a Line', traverses and crosses the invisible, often arbitrary line that divides musical genres. Scholten embraces the interaction between classical and jazz music, and music's transition into modernity, ...
Composer: Nick Scholten, Marcel Grandjany (1891-1975), Marcel Tournier (1879-1951), Carlos Salzedo (1885-1961)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
In his Debut Album 'Waking the Heart’, Nadav is exposing a variety of influences from Straight Ahead Jazz to North African Rhythms, and Afro Cuban music, influenced by his musical journey to Cuba. The album features some of the best Israeli Jazz musicians including Itamar Borochov on Trumpet, Yuval Drabkin on tenor sax, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
Minuets, sarabands, bourrées, gigues, gavottes, hornpipes and polonaises. Like many other composers, Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767) used dance as a foundation for his compositions and this is no more evident than in his fantasias for flute, where we find several examples. ...
Composer: Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
In its style and conception, La Sorsa’s music is very eclectic, steeped in modern and contemporary sounds and avant-garde/free experimentation. La Sorsa called on the musicianship of highly regarded long-term collaborator jazz pianist Sam Leak on Hammond organ as well as the heavy weight stalwarts of the London jazz ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
When Berus debuted in January 2021 with his “Voyage” EP, he had no idea how precise the title described his coming months. Almost a year later the Berlin-based multi-instrumentalist and producer presents his debut album “Blue Hope”, on which he processes his journey as an artist. ...
Genre: R&B
Subgenre: Hip Hop Soul
Alexander Glazunov: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5, The Seasons (excerpts)
A tribute to Alexander Glazunov who turned post-Tchaikovsky Russian musicians into true professionals. He was a composer emeritus and helped raise the profile of classical symphonies and ballet music before and after the mighty Group of Five. Mravinsky insisted on performing pieces by this incredibly ...
Composer: Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
