Like all the great artists, Ryan Perry isn’t afraid to rip it up and start again. Since 2007, the Mississippi bandleader has blazed a reputation in the award-winning Homemade Jamz Blues Band. But when it came to his solo debut, Perry took a leap of faith and trusted his talent to land him ...
Genre: Blues
Subgenre: Electric Blues
King Solomon Hicks grew up in Harlem "around a lot of great musicians." That certainly shows on HARLEM, an 11-song salute to those roots -- and how the 24-year-old guitarist and singer has turned them into his own fierce and distinctive style over the years. ...
Genre: Blues
Subgenre: Bluesy Rock
The Marais Project’s latest offering, The Garden Party, has a festive anniversary flavour and includes several world premieres, not the least of which is the Eriksson-penned title track. Early music ensemble, The Marais Project, has never followed a predictable path. ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
When 19-year-old Norwegian Thomas Dybdahl released his two first EPs 'Bird' & 'John Wayne' in 2000-2001 he appeared as nothing but a small blip on the musical radar in Norway. Interest was piqued somewhat by the single "Love's Lost", but it wasn't until his debut album '...that great October sound' in 2002 ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Contemporary
Flanagans Shenanigans (Remastered)
Tommy Flanagan is an excellent example of the artists honoured by the the JAZZPAR project. Tommy Flanagan has played and recorded with Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane and Ella Fitzgerald – and that’s just for starters. In each of many playing situations he’s found himself in, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Hard Bop
Following acclaimed recordings of concertos by Dvořák and Shostakovich, by Tan Dun and Josef Suk, the Norwegian violinist Eldbjørg Hemsing returns to her roots in this Grieg recital, joined by Simon Trpčeski at the piano. Each of Edvard Grieg's violin sonatas marks a decisive phase in the composer's artistic development. ...
Composer: Edvard Grieg (1843–1907)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Snarls spent 2019 quietly blooming. Two songs landed this Columbus, OH four-piece on Stereogum’s Top 100 Songs and Best New Bands honor rolls. With that running start in mind, 2020 is when they'll surely blossom into a band to watch. Debut LP Burst finds the next charming ...
Genre: Alternative
Subgenre: Indie Rock
“The mystery of the ballad comes from the way it is told” - Goethe. This fascinating repertory requires the performer to play each of the characters as he or she would in an opera. Who better than Stéphane Degout to take up the challenge of plunging into the heart of German ...
Composer: Franz Schubert (1810–1856), Carl Loewe (1796-1869), Robert Schumann (1810-1856), Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Franz Liszt (1811–1886), Hugo Wolf (1860-1903)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
2020 When you listen to NAKED SIX, you might feel that you’re hearing punch-the-air aural chaos from SIX untethered young wild men. Amazingly, though, this piquant, powerhouse alternative-punky-bluesy stew was cooked up by a trio, described by SoundsphereMagazine as “One of the most exciting ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
Franck: Préludes, Fugues & Chorals
Given the paucity of César Franck's piano music on disc, Nikolai Lugansky's focus on this composer is to be commended. On his third release for harmonia mundi, the Russian pianist reveals an organ master strongly attached to the musical forms inherited from J.S. Bach: the prelude, ..
Composer: Cesar Franck (1822-1890)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Charles Lloyd has played the 150-year-old adobe theater in downtown Santa Barbara more often than any other venue, and more often than any other performer. Knowing that Marian Anderson sang there on February 14, 1940 makes it a sacred space for him. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
As he has throughout his musical life, Mendes thrives on collaboration on In the Key of Joy. The album brings together fellow Brazilian legends with modern-day hitmakers and young rising stars, bringing familiar voices and fresh life to a set of new original songs penned by Mendes ...
Genre: Latin
Subgenre: Pop Latino
Buenos Hermanos (Special Edition) (Remastered)
World Circuit will release a very special edition of Buena Vista vocalist Ibrahim Ferrer’s Grammy-winning second solo album ‘Buenos Hermanos’ on 28th February. Originally released in 2003, ‘Buenos Hermanos’ was acclaimed as an audacious and assured album firmly rooted in ...
Genre: Latin
Subgenre: Contemporary Latin
Epiphany presents four traditional-style Navajo skip dance & two-step dance favorites by Todi Neesh Zhee, popular across Dinétah for over 30 years, with four youth-oriented songs from the younger generation, the Martin Sisters. Alger Greyeyes, leader of Todi Neesh Zhee, ...
Genre: World Music
Subgenre: Worldbeat
US based pianists / keyboardists extraordinaire Jacob Pavek & Philip Daniel have teamed up on the new collaborative project BLOMMA. Their eponymous debut is fun and fresh from start to finish, with tunes built on a layering of rhythmic pianos, synths and electronics. ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Classical Crossover
In the Way Out West trio you will meet musicians Atle Nymo (sax), Magne Thormodsæter (bass) and Hermund Nygård (drums). The trio started a few years ago as a tribute to Sonny Rollins, and plays music based on Rollins' rich trio repertoire. Sonny Rollins created a new expression when in 1957 he chose to omit the ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
In 2014 Dan Snaith aka Caribou released Our Love to overwhelming critical acclaim and massive fan support. Now Caribou returns with his seventh studio album Suddenly, an album about family and the changes we go though as those relationships evolve. ...
Genre: Electronic
Subgenre: Electro-Pop
The Essential Van Morrison (Remastered)
With Legacy Recordings securing the rights to the meat and potatoes of Van Morrison’s catalog, the drive to get the music in shape and out to consumers is full-on. Covering more than 50 years of music, with 50 titles from 1964 to the present, Morrison’s solo works from 1971 to the present are up for renewal as is the music ...
Genre: Folk
Subgenre: Folk Rock
Mannaggia Amore - Giuseppe Porsile: Cantatas for Soprano
Giuseppe Porsile (1680-1750) was one of the very few representatives of the Neapolitan School at the otherwise rather conservative Imperial Court in Vienna. Inês d'Avena and the ensemble La Cicala continue their exploration of the Neapolitan repertoire, ...
Composer: Giuseppe Porsile (1680-1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
The Skiffle Sessions: Live In Belfast (Remastered)
The Skiffle Sessions – Live in Belfast is a live album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison, with Lonnie Donegan and Chris Barber, released in 2000. Lonnie Donegan had played with the Chris Barber jazz band when he had his first hit with "Rock Island Line"/"John Henry" in 1955. ...
Genre: Blues
Subgenre: Bluesy Rock
