"More than any other art form, music touches people directly," is ACT founder Siggi Loch's credo. For nearly 30 years, the core of what the label does has been to find and to promote the artists who can inspire the mind, reach the heart and touch the soul, and who do so in ways that have a lasting impact. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Compilations
Morgan Wade has figured out that when you grow up in Floyd, VA, where bluegrass sustains everyone like the Blue Ridge Mountain air but you hear other sounds like pop and punk in your own head, singing for yourself is the way to become the artist you were always meant to be. Produced by Sadler Vaden - Jason Isbell's longtime guitarist ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Contemporary
Normally when you have former members of bands starting a new project, it’s an easy reference so people already have an idea of what to expect right off the bat. But the songs that make up ‘State Secrets’ don’t sound anything like what these guys have been up to in the past with the likes of Comeback Kid, ...
Genre: Alternative
Subgenre: Grunge
Get yo ass in the house, robot - you cyber-spectre, you outhouse prime minister, you hard-headed mirror ninja, snapping selfies, living in the pixelated seams between bursts of flashing images, birthed in a pool of TV static and Tik Tok dust. BLACK ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE AIR is here, not to save but to drown you. ...
Genre: Hip-Hop
Subgenre: Alternative
Nigerian-America duo VanJess has released the deluxe edition to their Homegrown EP. The new version follows the release of a new visual for their slinky single “Slow Down” feat. Lucky Daye. The R&B radio single that’s amassed nearly ten million global streams is at the cusp of breaking Top 10. ...
Genre: R&B
Subgenre: Soul
As the follow-up to his 2019 release "The Golden Rule: For Sonny," Eric Wyatt's "A Song for Hope" is vastly different in both tone and intent. Where the former was a tour de force, a tribute to Sonny Rollins and a straight-ahead blast of straight-ahead bop, Wyatt's new record is more adventurous, colorful, unpredictable, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Gifting fans with one last taste of the new album before it drops this Friday, ANDREW W.K. has revealed a follow-up to recent new singles “Babalon,” “I’m In Heaven,” and “Everybody Sins,” entitled “Stay True To Your Heart.” The track’s mechanical heartbeat builds towards a butterfly drum fill, ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Modern Rock
"The Labyrinth of the Night" drawn by the ultimate beauty sound. The genius Roberto Olzer intoxicates you with illusions and leads you to dreams. This is the culmination of "Atelier Sawano" that I kept asking for. Finally, I can ask the world about this sound source. First of all, I am relieved about that. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Arkells sixth studio album is called "Blink Once". This new collection of songs prove Arkells continue to push their sound to new heights, with the anthemic Blink Once promising to live up to their famous live show. “Now more than ever, it seems our lives can change in the blink of an eye,” says frontman, Max Kerman. ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
Hoffmeister: 6 Clarinet Quartets
Hoffmeisters Œuvre ist ein recht umfangreicher Katalog mit einer bemerkenswerten Anzahl von Werken für Flöte. Mehrere Flötenkonzerte und zahlreiche kammermusikalische Besetzungen, in denen die Flöte dominiert, stehen dabei im Vordergrund. Da die Flöte zu dieser Zeit sehr populär war, ...
Composer: Franz Anton Hoffmeister (1754-1812)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Vivaldi, one of the most-performed composers these days, had lain dormant for nearly two centuries; his works were considered lost. All that changed when a stash of manuscripts was found in the library of a monastery in Piedmont/Italy. Vivaldi's style is so unmistakable, that we can tell his authorship ...
Composer: Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Public Service Broadcasting have shared a new song, ‘Der Rhythmus der Maschinen’, the final single from their forthcoming LP Bright Magic. The track, which features Blixa Bargeld of The Bad Seeds and Einstürzende Neubauten, arrives with ann accompanying visual created by Jordan Martin. ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
Astronomia III: Heaven and Hell in the Serpent's Tail
Duran Duran’s Nick Rhodes and British artist and singer/violinist Wendy Bevan will release their album "Astronomia III Heaven and Hell in the Serpent's Tail". ...
Genre: Electronic
Subgenre: Ambient
Using Thomas Ades’ The Four Quarters as a framework – and featuring several arrangements by the ensemble – the Solem Quartet’s long-awaited debut album explores composers’ depictions of night and day and all the moments in between; from the melodious dawn chorus of Cassandra Miller’s Warblework, ...
Composer: Thomas Ades (1971), Henry Purcell (1659-1695), Cassandra Miller (1971), William Marsey (1989), Florence Price (1887-1953), Bela Bartok (1881-1945), Robert Schumann (1810-1856), Aaron Parker (1991), Kate Bush (1958)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Based on a Scottish legend, the early The Kelpie of Corrievreckan (Op.5b) is an evocative miniature for clarinet and piano revelling in Gipps’ facility for locating a human dimension within a tragic fantasy; the Op.23 E-flat Rhapsody for clarinet and string quartet described by Robert Matthew-Walker in his informative booklet notes ...
Composer: Ruth Gipps (1921-1999)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Aci, Galatea e Polifemo, HWV 72 (Reconstr. R. Pe & F. Longo)
Handel’s dramatic cantata Aci, Galatea e Polifemo is a serenata first performed in Naples in 1708 with a libretto by Niccola Giuvo after Book 13 of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Handel adapted this score several times: The one-act masque Acis and Galatea (HWV 49), with an English text by John Gay, was first performed at Cannons ...
Composer: Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Gasparini, Bacci & Others: Alto Arias
Francesco Gasparini was held in high esteem by his contemporaries, as can be easily seen from his curriculum vitae: In Rome he was in the service of the great patrons of the arts Cardinal Pamphili, Marchese Ruspoli and the Borghese family, and in between he was music director at the Ospedale ...
Composer: Francesco Gasparini (1661-1727), Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Aleksander Tansman was a Polish composer of Jewish origin. Born in 1897 in the city of Lódz, he became a French citizen in 1938. In the initial stage of his career, his compositions did not appeal to many Polish music critics. This was because Tansman’s music, like that of Karol Szymanowski, went beyond the narrow ...
Composer: Aleksander Tansman (1897-1986)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Pieces de clavecin is another solo album by Ewa Mrowca released under the DUX record label. The Cracow born harpsichordist is highly appreciated for her concert activity in the field of early music, which comprises solo recitals and performances with Baroque ensembles in Poland, France, Germany, Spain, China, ...
Composer: Jean Nicolas Geoffroy (1633-1694)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Since the founding of the Scheen Jazz Orchestra, Jon Øystein Rosland has composed and arranged for the orchestra. There have been a number of individual works and in 2016 came the commissioned work "Tamanoar", comprising 10 songs. "Tamanoar" was recorded in Rainbow Studios and released on Losen Records, and the release garnered many rave ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Big Band
