In addition to our Sephardic roots, the album also includes pieces from the Carpathian Basin. We play, among others, a Sephardic lament, a Schoenberg quotation and a Mahala (Romanian, Hungarian and Gypsy dance). The themes try to draw out - despite their diversity - a structural building system in which the individual parts show a very different face at the ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Free Jazz
"Our music has travelled a winding, long, wartime, happy, unhappy, tragic road, with holocaust, suffering, joy. The fate of a people is perfectly contained in folk music. I consider my own folk music to be capable of being approached with the sophistication of jazz. I think that, in general, every true musician tries to assert his own culture to the ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
Arif Erdem Ocak creates heartfelt hypnotic songs that get under your skin and takes the audience a journey of reflection, silence and mind fullness. This is his second solo album recorded with his new guitar, made by Szontágh Dániel (Serum Guitars) for Arif's percussive guitar technique. Ece Dede is the name of the guitar, which means: The ...
Genre: Guitar
Subgenre: Experimental
The New Poetry Of The Fallen Testament
We want to break out of the caul. It seems almost impossible. We are surrounded by rules, restrictions, visible and invisible obstacles. We're looking around. Our fellow human beings have built into the machinery and even become so, now they are the machinery. We prayed to a good God. The answer is try the official church channels. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
"First class Hungarian Jazz. Szakcsi Jr. Trio's performance is a sophisticated and elegant stage masterpiece. Their tone is inventive, their playing technically flawless, confident and completely unified. Listening to the music of this trio of 12 years, they are characterized by nuanced musical virtuosity. Their music reflects an exceptional talent for improvisation. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
"We were classmates with Kálmán more than 30 years ago at the jazz department. Since then our musical and pedagogical paths have met many times, but we haven't got a chance to make serious co-operation. The idea itself was born last summer when Kálmán visited my parent's house. (He was invited to play at the ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
Embrace: Songs by Hensel, Liszt, Ullmann, Grieg
Award-winning baritone Äneas Humm and his pianist Renate Rohlfing present equally flawless and distinctive performances on their album “Embrace”, encompassing songs by Franz Liszt, Edvard Grieg, Viktor Ullmann and Fanny Hensel. This selection of rarities from the art song ...
Composer: Fanny Hensel (1805-1847), Franz Liszt (1811-1886), Viktor Ullmann (1898-1944), Edward Grieg (1843-1907)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
A cultural treasure for more than 50 years and in the midst of a career renaissance, Judy Collins will release her new album "Spellbound". The artist’s 29th album - and her 6th in the past 6 years - is also a remarkable first: featuring all original songs written entirely by Collins. ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Contemporary Folk
Over the past 20 years, pianist Martin Sasse has released a large number of albums documenting his continuous development into one of the best European straight ahead pianists. The trio line-up with bassist Henning Gailing and drummer Joost van Schaik has ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
The trio around Martin Sasse, long since one of Europe's leading jazz pianists, has existed in changing formations for over 25 years. Already the first album, "Here We Come" (2000), received the best international reviews. In its current line-up, the Martin Sasse Trio has been playing ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
The trio around Martin Sasse, long since one of Europe's leading jazz pianists, has existed in changing formations for over 25 years. Already the first album, "Here We Come" (2000), received the best international reviews. In its current line-up, the Martin Sasse Trio has been playing together for 15 years - it is one of the swinging piano trios in current mainstream jazz. Again ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
The title song, ‘Lazy Lady’, is a love song dedicated to an alluring and charming young woman. The calypso rhythm provides a cheerful background for the improvisation, and the harmony is based on Gershwin’s ‘I got Rhythm’, aka rhythm changes. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Oliver Ostermann: Bei der Feuerwehr
This musical setting of one of the most popular children‘s books from the GDR captures the hearts of both children and adults alike. Be it the lovable Grandma Eierschecke, the daring Emilia Zahnlücke or the always hungry Fire Chief Meier, the wonderfully comical characters ...
Composer: Oliver Ostermann
Genre: Classical
Subgenre:
Back in January 2021, Nashville-based singer-songwriter Cody Fry released his fourth studio album “Pictures of Mountains”. It is his first album in four years, except Christmas album “Christmas Music: The Complete Collection”. The album comprises 12-track, produced by Chad Copelin, Cody Fry and John Fields. ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
Grammy Award-winning and multi-platinum superstar Lizzo returns with Special, her massively anticipated second full-length offering which includes the help of collaborators Ricky Reed, Max Martin, and Mark Ronson. When you love yourself, anything becomes possible. Channeling boundless self-confidence through a downright earth- ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
Turn up the volume and look how time bends before your eyes because that is what Robyn Schulkowsky and Andi and Hannes Teichmann do with their music. They bend time. They make a ring out of it or some sort of ellipse, and then they pull it straight again, they transform it into a rope, and then, of course, they balance on it, forwards, backwards, half speed, double speed, ...
Composer: Robyn Schulkowsky & Gebrüder Teichmann
Genre: Electronic
Subgenre: Experimental
This extraordinary sophomore album from the Jihye Lee Orchestra showcases the Korean composer and conductor Jihye Lee’s adventurous and very personable storytelling approach to large-ensemble jazz-meets-classical music over the course of nine spellbinding compositions. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
Fretless electric bass master Charnett Moffett delivers a love letter to humanity with his new trio/quartet album, New Love. Further refining his signature and virtuosic sound in collaboration with his skilled and fearless ensemble, Moffett's twelve original tracks range boldly through contemporary-, free-, soul-, and world- instrumental jazz while he ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Free Jazz
Outside Notion (2021 Remaster)
As a kid growing up in the noughties, I was 16 when Maximo Park formed back in 2005, of course I was a fan. They were so good and fresh. I think I Graffiti was on permanent repeat on my original Ipod Classic. Remember those? Those glory days before spotify! ....
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Contemporary
