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
“It’s been twelve years since the first of these songs made itself known to me and started me off on the road to Songs From The Floodplain. Since then it’s been a process of constant but gradual unfolding for me, even when my focus was elsewhere. I hope you’ve enjoyed the journey too and are able to find your own stories on ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Contemporary Folk
Multi-instrumentalist, composer and educator Kevin Figes presents 'Changing Times', his fifth quartet recording. The album features pianist Jim Blomfield on Fender Rhodes, Prophet and Hammond organ, Mark Whitlam on drums and Thad Kelly on bass. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
By the time John Spiers & Jon Boden had hung up their highly regarded hats as the Spiers & Boden duo in 2014 they had earned a place in the hearts of the folk audience that few could rival. Described by The Guardian as 'the finest instrumental duo on the traditional scene', Spiers & Boden first rocketed onto the ...
Genre: Folk
Subgenre:
Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I
Much research and publication has been done in recent centuries on the Well-Tempered Clavier, which (according to Hans von Bülow) can be regarded as the "Old Testament" of music history. Therefore, please forgive me for limiting myself to a few personal thoughts in the following lines, as a more detailed ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
"The album charts my journey from teenage to adulthood in a world where I have lost my way as often as I have found it. Many of the songs explore cracks in the veneer of people I’ve met. I ask what lies behind the mask and have I got the courage to lift my own." ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Contemporary
2020 is a year that we will never forget. Fear and isolation painted the background for my latest album called Lockdown. Written and recorded during this most turbulent of years. I have always found the darkness a dangerously productive spark for creativity. As the world has been turned upside down the songs and lyrics flowed and flowed. ...
Genre: Blues
Subgenre: Electric Blues
Ivanovs: Symphonies Nos. 15 & 16
Janis Ivanovs' (1906-1983) Symphonies Nos. 15 &16 see their world premiere release in this 2021 studio album by the most prominent Latvian orchestra the LNSO. Available previously only as broadcast copies and ageing LP records from the 70ies and 80ies, these timeless pieces by perhaps the most talented Latvian symphonic composer are now available to a wider ...
Composer: Janis Ivanovs (1906-1983)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
She has elicited favourable comparisons with mavericks such as Bjork and Liz Frazer of Cocteau Twins, but Storm Gordon is very much a sui generis artist, one who occupies her own distinct space. Now, 14 years on from the critically-lauded Someone to Dance With, the singular Scottish singer-songwriter and visual artist releases her new album, The Lie I Love the Best, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Michael Csányi-Wills: The Last Letter - Symphony No. 1 - Seagull Nebula
Prima Facie is pleased to release this collection of orchestral works by Michael Csanyi-Wills. Symphony No. I was released in 2020 and was met with great critical acclaim. Keen to continue the working relationships between Prima Facie and Cardiff University, Mark Eager successfully organised the recording of two more works by Michael, The Last ...
Composer: Michael Csanyi-Wills (1975)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
After 12 amazing years, the UK’s most successful folk band Bellowhead called it a day in 2016 going out in characteristic style with a sell-out show at the London Palladium. It’s taken a few years and a global pandemic, but to the delight of their many fans, the band ‘Reassembled’ for a one-off worldwide concert stream last December, marking the 10th anniversary of their 3rd album Hedonism. ...
Genre: Folk
Subgenre: Traditional Folk
