This collection of soundtrack music by the German-born film composer Hans Zimmer includes his first film score, A World Apart, as well as his co-written, club-influenced soundtrack for the award-winning My Beautiful Laundrette. A subtle, expressive composer, Zimmer makes good use of brooding, layered themes in pieces like "The Fruit Machine," while his music for The Island combines folk-themed segments with dramatic orchestral flourishes.

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Nella Russia di Putin, Dominika Egorova è un agente speciale dei servizi segreti, addestrata come seduttrice. La sua missione è delicata e pericolosissima: agganciare con una 'honey trap' Nathaniel Nash, agente della CIA, e scoprire l'identità della talpa insediata ai vertici, che da quattordici anni passa informazioni sensibili agli americani facendo saltare la copertura degli infiltrati russi in America. Ma nel mondo dell'intelligence tutto è labile e opaco, soprattutto se l'incognita dell'attrazione arriva a confondere ulteriormente le carte. Dominika inizia così una doppia vita e un doppio gioco, in cui si mescolano la spirale di sospetti, il desiderio di vendetta, la disillusione, la dissimulazione.

In February 2021, when public concerts had been cancelled for several months, the musicians of the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne were able to meet behind closed doors on the stage of the Opéra de Lausanne in order to record this disc under the direction of Heinz Holliger. An album released in 2013 presented an earlier recording collaboration between the Bernese conductor and the Lausanne-based ensemble with two works by Schoenberg ( Verklärte Nacht and the Chamber Symphony No. 2 ) and an early piece by his pupil Anton Webern ( Langsamer Satz ). Nearly a decade later, the same performers are reunited and continue to highlight these two leading composers of the Second Viennese School.

For the last batch of our Iannis Xenakis retrospective, we have remastered important recordings from the late 60s that had never been re-issued since their original LP version. The works here conducted by Marius Constant include the Polytope de Montréal, composed for an installation Xenakis made in the French pavilion of the 1967 World Fair, including a sensational light show. It has never been recorded otherwise! Also included are the ballet Kraanerg, number-theory-inspired Syrmos, and mythological works Medea (also an absolute premiere) and Oresteia (probably his stage masterpiece).

2015 collection. Big Beat makes a long overdue foray back into the copious vaults of maverick pop personage Gary S Paxton, this time focusing on late 60s production pop. The workaholic engineer/arranger/producer left a tremendous cache of such material in his vault, all bearing his unique and idiosyncratic trademark of quality. Happy Lovin' Time celebrates this overlooked aspect of Paxton's capabilities, with a remarkable selection of his production work in the genre between 1966 and 1970. Most tracks employ the same crack session team that appeared on Paxton-engineered hits by the Association, Tommy Roe and others and some feature familiar names. Among Paxton's collaborators was popmeister Curt Boettcher, who is showcased on here on two rare demos. Paxton also produced the influential vocal quartet the Four Freshmen, dragging them into the 60s with records such as the groovy 'Nowhere To Go. ' The producer's secret weapon in the later 1960s was writer Kenny Johnson, who contributed a wealth of strong material to visiting acts including the Canadian groups the Jay Bees, New Wing and Privilege, as well as his own recordings under such various guises as the Bogart Cult, Homogenized Dirt and Bakersfield Poppy Pickers. Detailed liner notes by compiler Alec Palao explain the manner in which much of the contents came to be recorded, and overall, Happy Lovin' Time is a fun-filled, eminently listenable package that will delight any fan of 60s sunshine pop.