Quasi as a supplement to the Dupré year 2021 (135th birthday, 50th year of death), the new CD recording of the Polish organist Tomasz Głuchowski reached us at the beginning of this year. Recorded in March 2021 at the New Forum for Music in Wrocław, it includes works from three different creative periods of Dupré. It begins with the ...
Composer: Marcel Dupre (1886-1971)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Tulsa slide guitar wizard and master luthier, Seth Lee Jones, delivers a collection of nine rocking, road-tested blues covers that crackle with energy. The album was recorded in under seven and a half hours, straight to tape with no edits or overdubs. These tracks are some of the band’s personal ...
Genre: Blues
Subgenre: Bluesy Rock
You will, of course, be wondering what took Kings of Convenience so long. When 12 years elapse between albums, you might well assume that there has been some dramatic rift. And when you learn that an album has been recorded across five years in five different cities, you might expect something fiendishly ornate, larded with fancy ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Contemporary
Eden's Island: The Music of an Enchanted Isle (60th-Anniversary Edition)
The ultimate reissue of one of the world’s most important albums in the field of Exotica, Jazz and even Proto Psychedelic Music from 1960! Ahbez, was a 20th century maverick, possibly comparable to Moondog and Harry Partch. A bearded, vegetarian, sandal wearing traveller, known for sleeping in caves and even under the Hollywood sign - in the 1940s. ...
Composer: Eden Ahbez (1908-1995)
Genre: Easy Listening
Subgenre:
Songs from Other Places (Special Edition)
Stacey Kent’s Songs From Other Places Special Edition with 5 bonus tracks. Stacey Kent’s clear-as-light vocals and Art Hirahara’s lyrical piano make their duo outing exactly “what the world needs now.” On Songs from Other Places, their artistry is beautifully laid bare in classic songs including Weill and Gershwin’s “My Ship,” ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
Black Label Society builds their music on this simple truth, truth as self-evident on Back in Black as on the dozen songs comprising Doom Crew Inc., the eleventh album from the dependable stalwarts. Doom Crew Inc. is both a tribute to the band's "first to bleed, last to leave" road crew and a salute to the legion whose support, ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Hard Rock
W.A. Mozart: Divertimento KV 563, Adagio e Fuga KV 546
"Mozart is a touchstone of the heart. If I want to do something especially dear to someone, I sit down at the piano and play them a piece by Mozart." With these sentences, the great Mozart interpreter Edwin Fischer has said something essential. From every note of Mozart speaks an extremely sensitive and delicate, loving and at the same time masculine ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre:
W.A. Mozart: Concertos KV 216, KV 219 - Adagio KV 261 - Rondeau KV 269
The peculiar and almost impromptu importance of the genre of the Violin concerto in the catalogue of Mozarts musical production is highlighted by the very limited space of time in which the five most important compositions of this type appeared (all within the one year 1775). ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Magnús Jóhann Ragnarsson and Skúli Sverrisson combine their forces for an album of new music arranged by the duo. Magnús Jóhann is a piano player and record producer that has pursued a diverse range of styles in his work along with being one of the most active performers in Iceland. Skúli is a bass player and one of Iceland’s most ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Nu Jazz
In August 2021, Carlos Cipa got invited to Copenhagen by a local piano manufacturer to try out their iconic handcrafted pianos, designed in the 1930s by the danish design legend Poul Henningsen. Excited about discovering these extravagant instruments, Cipa decided to create a whole recording project out of this journey, ...
Genre: Instrumental
Subgenre: Piano
Żebrowski: Vesperae in visitatione beatae Mariae Virginis
Marcin Józef (Martino Giuseppe) Żebrowski - composer, violinist, singer (bass) and teacher - is one of the most outstanding representatives of the Polish musical culture of the 18th century. Żebrowski's above-average talent compared to other Polish composers of the time, as well as his highly original ...
Composer: Marcin Jozef Zebrowski (1702-1770)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Vivaldi: Concertos & Soprano Arias
A versatile collection of Concertos and Arias by Vivialdi, from I Solisti Ambrosiani. The Solisti Ambrosiani are an Italian ensemble specialising in early music and in the philological performance on original instrumentation, founded in 2008 by the soprano Tullia Pedersoli and the violinist Davide Belosio. ...
Composer: Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
On "Halo-Halo" Noel Mendez is joined by longtime friends who also happen to be some of the most acclaimed and sought-after musicians in the industry covering popular music genres including rock, blues, funk, fusion, jazz, classical and more. “All the musicians who played are excellent in their own music careers,” Noel exclaimed. “There’s Tateng Katindig who has made the rounds of live jazz circuit in the US. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Fusion
The old adage "you can't judge a book by it's cover" may apply more to This Wild Life than any other band on the planet. Little would a listener-to-be know that behind the beard, behind the tattoos and behind the turn up jeans exist a pair of punk rock drummers who have downed sticks, picked up guitars and then poured out harmonies and melodies like they're going out of business. ...
Genre: Alternative
Subgenre: Indie Rock
This is the sound, the story, of the M’berra Ensemble, a collective of Malian musicians from the M’berra Refugee Camp in southeast Mauritania, and Italian producer and electro-shaman Khalab. In a sprawling tent city rising out of the desert, out of nothingness, at the border with Mali in West Africa, brought together by ...
Genre: World Music
Subgenre: Africa
It’s a voice that soars – pure, clear and true — above bass and synths, traditional percussion and infectious Mande guitar grooves. A stop-you-in-your-tracks voice instantly familiar to anyone in Mali, West Africa: Rokia Koné, aka the Rose of Bamako. ...
Genre: World Music
Subgenre: Africa
On his first recording, French baritone Edwin Crossley-Mercer is joined by pianist Yoan Héreau for a performance of Schubert’s Winterreise. Edwin Crossley-Mercer’s mother, painter Claudine Franck, was also inspired by this masterpiece and she has created a painting for each Winterreise Lied. ...
Composer: Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
“It’s the sound of me grappling with transformation,” says Nicolas Bougaïeff of his latest album Begin Within. The Berlin-based, Canadian artist’s last album Begin Within embodies huge musical and personal evolution, with Bougaïeff plunging deep to explore parts of himself, and his craft, that he has never before. ...
Genre: Electronic
Subgenre: Experimental
Giovanni Antonio Terzi: Lute Music
Do you know Giovanni Antonio Terzi, the mysterious lutenist from Bergamo who frequented the most important art venues in northern Italy at the end of the 16th century? If not, don't worry: so few recordings are dedicated to him that he sometimes even passes under the radar of musicians specializing in this musical period. ...
Composer: Giovanni Antonio Terzi (1580-1600)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
