"TIME MACHINE“ is the sixth studio album to be released by the acclaimed rock band, but it is the first for their new home at Cherry Red Records' Esoteric Antenna label. The band have opened up the throttle to the maximum on this new release with their epic 70s-infused classic rock sounds. With their previous releases achieving Number 1 chart ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Hard Rock
The Singles (The First Fifty Years)
A new 38-track compilation, expanded from "The Singles – The First Ten Years" originally released in 1982. The First Fifty Years expands the offering to 38 tracks, including all the favorites you know and love: their breakthrough Eurovision Song Contest winner "Waterloo" (which turned 50 this year), "S.O.S.," "Fernando," "Mamma ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
Following her first album in this series of the same name, Min-Jung Kym brings a new instalment of works inspired by works to help overcome cancer. Joined by cellist Robin Michael on two of the tracks, the repertoire ranges from Beethoven, to Satie, to Einaudi to Queen. ...
Composer: Erik Satie (1866-1925), Florian Christl (1990), Jules Massenet (1842-1912), Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), Franz Liszt (1811-1886), Ludovico Einaudi (1955), Armand Amar (1953)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Turkish Flavours - 100 Years of Turkish Symphonic Music
If you ask classical music connoisseurs in this country about music by Turkish composers, the name Fazıl Say is likely to come to mind – but beyond that, there’s no idea! According to the British conductor Howard Griffiths, a lot has happened in the 100 years of the Turkish Republic’s existence: the Ankara Conservatory was founded in 1936 at the suggestion of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk; music ...
Composer: Ahmed Adnan Saygun (1907-1991), Cemal Resid Rey (1904-1985), Ulvi Cemal Erkin (1906-1972), Necil Käzim Akses (1908-1999), Ferit Tüzün (1929-1977), Mahir Cetiz (1977), Fazil Say (1970), Zeynep Gedizlioglu (1977), Sinem Altan (1985), Onur Türkmen (1972)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Celia & Johnny (Remastered 2024)
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Celia Cruz and Johnny Pacheco’s first collaboration on Vaya Records, the bestselling album Celia and Johnny. When Celia & Johnny was released in 1974, Celia was already a huge star in her native Cuba. After defecting to the States, though, she struggled to break into the salsa scene. Fania co-founder and Fania All-Stars bandleader Johnny ...
Genre: Latin
Subgenre: Salsa
The performance was sublime in its own right, with musical heroes at every turn and leadership from the podium whose depth and acuity transcended normal expectations." (Musical America) LSO Live marks the beginning of their 25th anniversary year with the release of Mendelssohn's Elijah, recorded live in concert with Sir Antonio Pappano earlier this year. ...
Composer: Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Dream Machine (The Lucid Edition)
"The Lucid Edition" with new and released tracks. Des Rocs are releasing a new album called "Dream Machine". The sophomore effort from the "This Is Our Life" artist arrives August 25. It follows Des Rocs' 2021 debut, A Real Good Person in a Real Bad Place. Dream Machine includes the previously released single "Never Ending Moment."...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Modern Rock
The duo formed by Rale Micic and Abe Rábade explores the traditional Serbian and Galician repertoire (that of their origins) and their own musical writing. A project that combines with naturalness and with a very loose stroke such diverse tendencies can only be imbued with the spirit of the American continent; the land most prone to cultural ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
D' Alessandro: Arie dall’opera Adelaide (Hamburg 1744)
This recording production rebuilds the complex events of a composition by Gennaro D'Alessandro (Neapolitan musician, pupil of Leonardo Leo) believed to be hopelessly lost after the bombing in Dresden during the Second World War: the "Ottone", opera on the libretto by Antonio Salvi accommodated by Carlo Goldoni. ...
Composer: Gennaro D’Alessandro (1717-1778), Pietro Chiarini (1717-1765), Santo Lapis (1699-1765)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
I’m certain that I’m not the only pianist who has dreamt of recording at the historic Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, NJ. When Cory Weeds asked me to do another project with him, I immediately thought of recording there with my trio. I still remember the thrill I got from thinking of this project! ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
About A Burning Fire (20th Anniversary Edition - Remastered)
This Friday, September 20th, marks the release of Blindside‘s 2004 album “About A Burning Fire,” which is being published in a 20th anniversary edition. There will be two unreleased bonus tracks on that group’s last major label release. The Swedish alternative metal group will also be performing the entire record live this year at Birmingham, Alabama’s “Furnace Fest,” as previously ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
If there is one place where Kaz Hawkins' talent is perfectly expressed, it is the stage. This album recorded at the Summer Camp Festival in Brezoi, Romania is irrefutable proof. Having become one of the most important blues festivals in Europe, Brezoi has long crowned Kaz Hawkins as one of its queens, with the Northern Irishwoman being one of the ...
Genre: Blues
Subgenre: Electric Blues
Mandy Fredrich’s album brings together a series of art songs that create coherent arcs and extended storylines, like a kind of mini-opera. The composers’ songs were used to put together four stories about lovers, all of which revolve around the theme of dreamy happiness in all its different facets! ...
Composer: Dora Pejacevic (1885-1923), Gabriel Faure (1845-1924), Pauline Viardot-Garcia (1821-1910), Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Vocal tour de force Dinah Washington headlines this week with her 1955 release For Those In Love. This album is unique amongst Dinah's offering from that period, with the singer opting to work alongside a smaller combo as opposed to a larger jazz orchestra. This album also saw Washington team up with arranger Quincy Jones – who she used on subsequent releases; ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
„Foreigner“, released in 1973, was Cat Stevens’ fifth album with Island Records and represents the adventurous, risk- taking streak in his character. In a departure from his largely acoustic sound, the album saw Cat explore his love of R&B and soul music, as can be heard on the record’s main single, “The Hurt.” ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Contemporary
In the summer of 2023, saxophonist and composer Wayne Escoffery found himself alone in a way that he’d never quite experienced before. He was away from home, on sabbatical in Europe with a month to himself between tours. A long-term relationship had just ended, and he was confronted with the loss of friendships that he’d once valued. Worst of all, he’d ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Music from Elizabethan England featuring Fantasias by the great William BYRD, Anthony HOLBORNE and Alfonso FERRABOSCO II, the beautiful Lachrymæ pavane by John DOWLAND, lively dance music by Thomas MORLEY alongside lesser known composers Elway BEVIN and Hugh ASTON. Performed on a beautiful renaissance consort of recorders made by ...
Composer: Anthony Holborne (1545-1602), Richard Dering (1580-1630), William Byrd (1543-1623), Giles Farnaby (1560-1620), John Dowland (1562-1626), Elway Bevin (1555-1638), Thomas Morley (1557-1602)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
After a first Brahms recital that made a great impression (Alpha 851) and Mozart concertos (Alpha 1039) praised by the press for their natural fit (Gramophone) and fluidity (Le Monde), Jonathan Fournel, winner of the Queen Elisabeth Competition at the age of 27 and now an important figure ...
Composer: Frederic Chopin (1810-1849), Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
In the depths of an Australian winter, Love Police Records & Tapes released Melbourne troubadour Alex Hamilton’s “Trouble In Paradise”, a fireside feast of heartwarming songs and stories. Loved by the Melbourne music mafia, and renowned around the musical traps and studios of Victoria, Alex Hamilton is a poet, seamless songwriter and artistic collaborator with musical bonds with the best from Neil to ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Folk-Rock
Sir Arthur Bliss contributed two staples of the brass band repertoire - Kenilworth and The Belmont Variations, whose enduring success inspired arrangers to turn to his other compositions, for example Eric Ball and Four Dances from the ballet Checkmate or Phillip Littlemore's suite from the film score for Things to Come. ...
Composer: Sir Arthur Bliss (1891-1975)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
