For Us Alone is the new album from Alaskan Tapes. Toronto-based musician Brady Kendall infuses his ambient music with a deeply calming essence, which, as strange as it may sound, ties into his previous musical life as a drummer, when he began his music career back in high school, ...
Genre: Electronic
Subgenre: Ambient
DIM finds SYML working for the first time with an outside producer, Paul Meany (Twenty One Pilots), with additional mixing support from Joe Visciano (SZA, Earl Sweatshirt). “People like Paul and Joe act as mirrors instead of wrecking balls,” says SYML. ...
Genre: Alternative
Subgenre: Indie Rock
The borders between London’s musical tribes have always been porous. For Yussef Kamaal, the sound of the capital – with its hum of jungle, grime and broken beat – has shaped a self-taught, UK-tipped approach to playing jazz. In the states, the genre’s long-running to-and-fro with hip hop – from ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Avantgarde Jazz
"Mixing jazz with hip-hop and dub production influences, the album features a band including Nubya Garcia (whose new solo EP Armon-Jones plays on), Moses Boyd, Oscar Jerome, and Maxwell Owin... ...Starting Today follows Armon-Jones’ Idiom EP with Owin – one of our favourite 12″s of 2017, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
Loveplaydance: 8 Scenes From the Floor
On ‘LOVEPLAYDANCE’, legendary Tokyo DJ and producer Toshio Matsuura charts a new direction. Casting musical cornerstones in a fresh light, the TOSHIO MATSUURA GROUP features Tom Skinner (drummer for Sons of Kemet and Owiny Sigoma Band amongst others) as its musical director, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Nu Jazz
Bass-heavy dub and contemporary club culture are the foundations for Joe Armon-Jones’ phenomenal second album. “Turn to Clear View” builds on the celebrated keys player’s singular vision, exhibiting a sound with flourishes of R&B, hip-hop and p-funk, and featuring regular bandmates ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
Live (Remastered) (Deluxe Edition)
When Fleetwood Mac released its first live album in December 1980, it captured the legendary band’s most iconic line-up on stage demonstrating the full scope of their collective, creative powers. Recorded mostly during the world tour for Tusk, Fleetwood Mac Live delivered a double-album’s worth ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Modern Rock
There’s something universal in the appeal of an escape – of finding somewhere to relax and explore your ideas. It’s a feeling which connects together the different parts of Maisha’s debut album. A deep record which provides grist for serious spiritual rumination, the music prompts ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
If You Knew Her is Zara McFarlane’s second album on Gilles Peterson’s Brownswood Recordings. This new, emotionally charged body of work sees her blossoming as a lyrically conscious songwriter, cementing what Until Tomorrow revealed – an artist composing original songs, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
Phish keyboardist Page McConnell announces the release of his new solo album, MAYBE WE’RE THE VISITORS, arriving digitally via Keyed Records this Friday, April 9. MAYBE WE’RE THE VISITORS was written and recorded in Iceland and Burlington, VT. The release is preceded by today’s premiere ...
Composer: Page McConnell
Genre: Ambient
Subgenre:
They're Calling Me Home (with Francesco Turrisi)
Rhiannon Giddens’ new album, They're Calling Me Home, recorded with Italian multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi, will be released April 9 on Nonesuch Records. Giddens and Turrisi, who both live in Ireland when they aren’t on tour, have been there since March ...
Genre: Folk
Subgenre: Folk Rock
After hustling for many years, Country rocker Tim Montana today announces his first album as a signed artist, Long Shots, will be released on April 9 via Music Knox Records/BBR Music Group. The Montana native blends Country with rock electric guitar and influences from the West to ...
Genre: Country
Subgenre: Alternative Country
“Recording Bach’s complete Six Sonatas and Partitas has long been a dream of mine,” says Augustin Hadelich “They are formidable tests of technical ability and stamina, but also of musical imagination and expressive range – they never cease to provide challenges, hope, and joy.”...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
TV Baby, the debut album from Toronto power-pop act PONY, feels like it’s programmed from a different era. Driven by vocalist/guitarist Sam Bielanski’s sharp vocal tones and flashy, driving rhythm, the band combines cheeky 1980s style ...
Genre: Alternative
Subgenre: Indie Rock
Primal Fear's ferocious new record "Metal Commando" has been an undisputed highlight of 2020. The German power metal band's 13th full length detonated in the midst of a raging pandemic, leaving no stone unturned in it's path. Right now however, they want to show us something new, a different side to them ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Metal
Ennio Morricone’s film music provides an infinite treasure trove of creative thinking, associated with the most varied of images. It is also extremely versatile, just waiting to be delved into, reworked and rediscovered – his compositions would still be ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Encounters - Music for Viola and Piano
Berlin Philharmonic member Joaquín Riquelme and pianist Enrique Bagaría explore a century of viola and piano masterpieces, including spellbinding performances of Brahms’ Sonata op. 120/1 and Hindemith’s Sonata op. 11/4. Schumann’s lyrical and brilliant Adagio and Allegro op. ...
Composer: Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Paul Hindemith (1895–1963), Robert Schumann (1810-1856), George Enescu (1881-1955)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
"I Call It Being Human" is rooted in intimate, imperfect experiences, the struggling and straining to be who we are, perfectly exemplified by “Psychopath.” About the new song, Emily explains, “‘Psychopath’ is really the driving force behind the theme of this project. I had just started dating my ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
The 6th chapter already in our quite productive recording existence. It's been only going up from when we first started out and we like to express that positive vibe into our music as well. On this occasion of producing a brand new album, we tried to continue the code of keeping ...
Genre: R&B
Subgenre: Soul
Rubbra: Symphony No. 5, Op. 63 (Remastered)
Edmund Rubbra established his reputation with his first four Symphonies. But in many ways, Rubbra’s Fifth Symphony may be considered his most immediately attractive. It was premiered on 26 January, 1949 by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Sir Adrian Boult at the Royal Albert Hall, ...
Composer: Edmund Rubbra
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
