Pianist and composer Tigran Hamasyan’s StandArt—his first album of American standards—is out now on Nonesuch Records. StandArt includes songs from the 1920s through the 1950s, by Richard Rodgers, Charlie Parker, Jerome Kern, David Raksin, and others; it also includes a piece Hamasyan improvised with his bandmates—bassist Matt Brewer and drummer Justin Brown—and trumpeter Ambrose ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Nils Wülker has advanced to become one of the most successful jazz trumpeters and composers in Europe over the past twenty years. In September 2021, Nils Wülker will produce his orchestral album CONTINUUM with new compositions of his own with the BR Munich Radio Orchestra, which will be released on Warner Musik in April 2022, as the twelfth album under his own name. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Jade Warrior (2022 Remastered Edition)
Jade Warrior is the debut self-titled and self-produced album by Jade Warrior, released in 1971 as part of the progressive rock movement. The album sets the scene for what the majority of the band's albums were to sound like, mixing various ethnic sounds with a progressive and otherworldly sound, ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Classic Rock
Last Autumn's Dream (2022 Remastered Edition)
Last Autumn's Dream is the third studio album by British band Jade Warrior. The album, released in 1972, yielded two singles, "A Winter's Tale" and "The Demon Trucker". Formed in 1970, Jade Warrior were one of the most original British bands to emerge during the Progressive Rock era. The first incarnation of Jade Warrior featured Tony Duhig (guitars) and Jon Field (flutes, percussion), ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Classic Rock
The six-piece Finnish metal band Gladenfold creates an inherently Nordic-sounding blend of metal music rooted in the aggression and energy of melodic death metal while borrowing from the majesty of power metal and symphonic metal. On the third studio album "Nemesis" (2022), Gladenfold's music has evolved towards darker and more atmospheric landscapes, ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Metal
Sangare' is renowned worldwide for her vibrant and powerful music, which often features revolutionary messages about women’s rights, tradition and poverty. In her 30 year career she has won numerous awards, counts among her many notable fans Alicia Keys and Beyoncé (who sampled the classic ‘Diaraby Nene’ for her 2019 Lion King ...
Genre: World Music
Subgenre: Worldbeat
here is a calm, serene spirituality about Ann Wilson in 2022 which instantly draws you to her. She feels like a warm, wise someone who has seen enough bullshit to know how to avoid it calmly, and someone who is at peace with whatever she needs to be at peace with. Perhaps that is why the soul (and, indeed title) of her latest album, Fierce Bliss ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Modern Rock
Celebrated singer / songwriter, recording artist and entertainer Chris Janson announced earlier this year that his fourth studio album was due in the coming months. Today he reveals that All In will hit shelves and streaming services on Friday, April 29. The fully loaded, 16-track album features collaborations with Eric Church and Travis Tritt, as well as co-writes ...
Genre: Country
Subgenre: Alternative Country
Nearly sixty years after they first played together, Ry Cooder and Taj Mahal, longtime friends and collaborators, reunite with an album of music from two Piedmont blues masters who have inspired them all their lives: GET ON BOARD: THE SONGS OF SONNY TERRY & BROWNIE MCGHEE, out April 22, 2022 on Nonesuch Records. ...
Genre: Blues
Subgenre: Acoustic Blues
Just Like That ... is the first album in more than six years from the Rock And Roll Hall of Famer Bonnie Raitt. On her new album, Raitt continues to draw on all the influences that have shaped her legendary career, while at the same time creating something that articulates the circumstances and challenges that of these unprecedented times. ...
Genre: Blues
Subgenre: Electric Blues
Une nouvelle fête baroque (Live)
In November 2021, Emmanuelle Haïm led two celebratory charity concerts – one in Berlin, the other in her home city of Paris – to mark 20 years of her ensemble Le Concert d’Astrée. The music, mostly from operas, was by Handel, Rameau, Purcell, Vivaldi and Campra, and the spectacular line-up of vocal soloists included sopranos Natalie Dessay, Sabine ...
Composer: Jean Philippe Rameau (1683-1764), Andre Campra (1660-1744), Henry Purcell (1659-1695), Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759), Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Janáček: Glagolitic Mass, Sinfonietta
Two life-affirming works from Leoš Janáček’s prodigious final years are performed by the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg under Marko Letonja, its Music Director from 2012 to 2021: the Glagolitic Mass, both monumental and exuberant, and the colourful, multi-faceted Sinfonietta. The vocal soloists are Malin Byström, Jennifer Johnston, ...
Composer: Leos Janacek (1854-1928)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
The FIST is the law! Toronto based heavy metal high-flyers SKULL FIST are more balls and ambition than is legally allowed. Since their steely inception back in 2006, dungeon keeper Zach Schottler and his shredding band of reckless companions have released three classic heavy metal almanacs, have eaten more dust than is good for their health, have endured various ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Hard Rock
A fascinating album featuring spellbinding recordings of Bach’s Suites and Partitas on the guitar, interspersed by first recordings of György Kurtág’s four short pieces extracted from “Darabok a Gitáriskolának”. Performed with finesse and utmost sensitivity, Pedro Mateo González guides us in a voyage through Back and Kurtág’s music, recorded in ...
Composer: György Kurtág (1926 ), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Genre: Classcial
Subgenre: Instrumental
Last November Jason Aldean released the first part with Macon - now follows with Georgia the second, his musical homage to his home, city and state. Aldean proudly says, "The place you grow up has a big influence on who you become, and it's no different for me - especially musically. My small hometown of Macon was very important to my musical background. ...
Genre: Country
Subgenre: Alternative Country
Nils Frahm’s ‘Durton’ is one of three albums of rare early recordings, many of which have been unobtainable for years, some of which have never been released at all, and none of which have ever appeared on streaming services. All the three records of early works reveal a fascinating glimpse into an era of Frahm’s work known ...
Genre: Electronic
Subgenre: Ambient
Electric Piano (Remastered 2022)
Nils Frahm’s ‘Electric Piano’ is one of three albums of rare early recordings, many of which have been unobtainable for years, some of which have never been released at all, and none of which have ever appeared on streaming services. All the three records of early works reveal a fascinating glimpse into an era of Frahm’s work known until ...
Genre: Electronic
Subgenre: Ambient
Streichelfisch (Remastered 2022)
Nils Frahm’s ‘Streichelfisch’ is one of three albums of rare early recordings, many of which have been unobtainable for years, some of which have never been released at all, and none of which have ever appeared on streaming services. All the three records of early works reveal a fascinating glimpse into an era of Frahm’s work ....
Genre: Electronic
Subgenre: Ambient
On her second full-length record, Head of Roses, Jenn Wasner follows a winding thread of intuition into the unknown and into healing, led by gut feelings and the near-spiritual experience of visceral songwriting. The result is a combination of Wasner’s ability to embrace new levels of vulnerability, honesty and openness, with the self-assuredness ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Contemporary
Gang of Youths return with Angel in Realtime. The album is about the life and legacy of Dave's father, indigenous identity, death, grief and God. And also the Angel, Islington. Despite and indeed because of frontman Dave Le’aupepe’s father’s absence, his influence permeates every talking point that the album offers. At times it’s solely focused upon the precise, personal experiences of loss: ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
