Red Rum Club are one of the most loved bands around the country on the live scene. Every gig is a sweaty celebration of joy, of rock n roll, and of the collective power generated by a gang of mates in tune with each other. When their music is put to record there is ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Adult Contemporary
Hands up if you’re a sucker for music that rips your heart clean out of your chest, throws it to the ground and, without mercy, cha-chas all over it. Fans of said genre may already be familiar with the deep timbre of Brighton-based alt-country’s Holly Macve; new ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Contemporary
Fresh off the success of a #6 in the UK Album chart, people’s poet Jamie Webster returns to Guesthouse for an exclusive encore rendition of his ‘Live from Parr Street Studios’ set. ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Contemporary
It is impossible to imagine the German singer-songwriter scene without Christina Lux. Since 1998, the Karlsruhe native has been releasing her albums at regular intervals and touring Germany with her music. Her album Leise Bilder was awarded the German Record Critics' Prize in 2018. She has gained a loyal fan base that has enthusiastically ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: New Acoustic
Felix & Fanny Mendelssohn: String Quartets
Felix’s impassioned F minor quartet was the fiercely personal response to his sister’s death in 1847, only a few months before his own. The Takács Quartet frames it with equally committed accounts of a much earlier work, and Fanny’s own important contribution to the genre. ...
Composer: Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel (1805-1847), Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847)
Genre: Classical
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Multiple prize-winning conductor René Jacobs and the B’Rock Orchestra present the third instalment of their Schubert cycle on PENTATONE with a recording of the composer’s Fourth and Fifth Symphony. Just as with the Second and Third, Jacobs approaches these works as a symphonic pair, revealing contrasting aspects of Schubert’s personality and ...
Composer: Franz Peter Schubert (1797-1828)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Larry Coryell's Last Swing With Ireland
Larry Coryells Last Swing With Ireland contains guitarist Larry Coryell’s final studio outing recorded in Dublin during May 2016. (There is also a later live concert recording from Berlin – link to review below). Coryell was in town working at The Sugar Club with his hand-picked local rhythm section of Dave ...
Composer: Larry Coryell (1943-2017)
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Here is Bartek Dzikowski second album. Self produced. Took him several years, but it was worth it. Bartek Dzikowski gathered musicians from all over the world to join in on this project. Have a listen to those songs. You will find different colors and genres here. ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Folk Rock
Bill Heller, best-known as the keyboard player for the GRAMMY-nominated jazz group The Rippingtons, released a new jazz fusion album as a leader earlier this year. The new collection offering 12 original compositions and an eclectic palette of sounds. The opening and title track is a transportive tour-de-force, featuring Heller on keys alongside Dave Karasony on drums, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Fusion
In this first album for Prima Classic, Maestro Pérez-Quer selected works by Spanish composers of the 19th and 20th centuries, rarely recorded before: Julián Arcas, Federico Moreno-Torroba, Emili Pujol, Severino García Forte, and Ángel Barrio. ...
Composer: Julián Arcas (1832-1882), Emili Pujol (1886-1980), Federico Moreno-Torroba (1891-1982), Severino Garcia Forte (1854-1931)
Genre: Guitar
Subgenre: Classical Guitar
First Flight To Tokyo: The Lost 1961 Recordings (Remastered)
First Flight to Tokyo: The Lost 1961 Recordings is a thrilling previously unreleased live recording of Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers captured at Hibiya Public Hall in Tokyo on January 14, 1961 during the band’s first-ever tour of Japan. The Jazz Messengers were among the first modern jazz groups to tour the country, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Hard Bop
Acclaimed singer, songwriter and musician Emily Scott Robinson's anticipated new album, American Siren, is out today via Oh Boy Records-her first release in partnership with the label. Produced by Jason Richmond (The Avett Brothers, The Steep Canyon Rangers), American Siren showcases Robinson's powerful storytelling abilities as she gracefully blends imagined characters with meaningful stories and people ....
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Contemporary
Gesualdo: 4e Livre de Madrigaux
The madrigals from Carlo Gesualdo's fourth book are generally regarded today as one of his most mature and independent artistic achievements in the field of this genre. The ensemble Tarentule, founded in 2012, presents here a remarkable recording of these extraordinary masterpieces, which interpret the ...
Composer: Carlo Gesualdo (1566-1613)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
A Journey Through the Life of Peder Balke 1804-1887
Bresk is a Norwegian trio that offers Nordic instrumental Progressive Rock, born from an idea of the tastiesrista Lars Christian Narum. The band is completed with son Jon Anders Narum on drums and brother Peder Narum on bass, and the proposed sound is ELP and Kayboards-driven 70s Progressive Rock inspired. ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Modern Rock
Selle: Concertum Latino Sacrorum - Liber Primus
The prosperous Hanseatic city of Hamburg with its thriving cultural life always attracted capable minds. One of these was Thomas Selle (1599-1663), who worked here as city cantor from 1641. Around 1650, he compiled what he considered to be the most relevant of his own sacred compositions for printing, in order to preserve his work for ...
Composer: Thomas Selle (1599-1663)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
With the title Irish Minimalism, composer Dave Flynn has laid down a marker. Minimalism is associated with America, and specifically with composers like Steve Reich and Philip Glass (both of whom have spent a good portion of their careers disavowing the term) however, the hallmarks of the style (repetition, gradual incremental changes that accrue over time, ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Modern Composition
Sea birds, distorted noise, and then the line “Mighty ships hung over ground” — the marine theme not only begins but makes its mark throughout the entirety of A Lantern and a Bell, the first album from Loney dear since 2017, released on Peter Gabriel’s Real World Records label. ...
Genre: Electronic
Subgenre: Electro-Pop
Domenico Maria Dreyer: Sonatas for Recorder and Basso Continuo
A veritable discovery from the Italian High Baroque. The flute sonatas by Domenico Maria Dreyer, a contemporary of Antonio Vivaldi. The Swiss recorder player with an Indian background Isaac Makhdoomi interprets them together with Sebastian Bausch on the harpsichord. In this integral compilation, the works are recorded on an album for ...
Composer: Domenico Maria Dreyer (1700-1735)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
All Things Must Pass (50th Anniversary (Super Deluxe))
Newly remastered! "All Things Must Pass" is the third studio album by English rock musician George Harrison. Released as a triple album in November 1970, it was Harrison's first solo work after the break-up of the Beatles in April that year. It includes the hit singles "My Sweet Lord" and "What Is Life", as well as songs such as ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Classic Rock
