Savina Yannatou's fourth ECM album is a dazzling evocation of her band's hometown, plunging deep into its rich and complex history. Once known colloquially as the Jerusalem of the Balkans, Thessaloniki has been home to a host of cultures, religions and ethnic communities. Greeks, Jews, Turks, Bulgarians, Serbs, Armenians, Slav-Macedonians and Pontiac Greeks have shared the city's diverse life. Yannatou gives all of them a voice, even casting an Irish song about Salonika into this multi-lingual programme in which she shines as a unique interpreter and spokeswoman for the city's ghosts. As ever, Primavera en Salonico are a delight, one of the most resourceful bands of any idiom, as they negotiate the inspired - and very varied - arrangements of Kostas Vomvolos.

In early 2008, Herbert was commissioned by a collaborative project between Peter Gabriel and Bowers & Wilkins to record an acoustic album at Gabriel's Real World Studios. The result of these sessions - "Ten Lives" - was released as a digital download in July 2008, available only from the Bowers & Wilkins website as part of their Music Club.

"The Only Place" is the follow-up to the acclaimed "Crazy For You" and finds Bethany Cosentino and Bobb Bruno maturing in both sound and perspective. This album finds front woman Cosentino transitioning into adulthood, with the feeling of uncertainty and self-doubt at the emotional center of the album. As with all of Best Coast's previous recordings, on "The Only Place" Cosentino handles all songwriting, lyrics, vocals and rhythm guitar, while multi-instrumentalist Bobb Bruno plays lead guitar, bass and drums. What's new this time is their decision to work with producer and composer Jon Brion.

Madoca Kawahara a.k.a. MADOCA [pronounced “ma du ka”] is a Japanese American producer, pianist/ keyboardist/ composer. Her style consists of contemporary/ classic jazz, fusion, soul, funk, Latin and Salsa blended together to provide sustenance for your mind and soul & relaxing instrumental experience. Madoca's latest release, "Illusions of Love" showcases the growth and maturity of this very talented underrated artist from Atlanta, GA.

"Just Like A Woman" is Barb Jungr's hymn to the late, great Nina Simone. This beautiful, haunting album combines Barb's compelling arrangements and resolute delivery to bring a fresh perspective on songs associated with her heroine Nina Simone.

Eric Serra is an award-winning French film music composer best known for his work with director Luc Besson on international blockbusters. Here is the remastered & expanded reissue of Eric Serra's classic score for stylish comedy.

"Love is a Four Letter Word" is the highly anticipated fourth studio effort from two-time GRAMMY winning singer-songwriter Jason Mraz. Mraz has earned worldwide success with his signature phrasing and word play anthems. His latest release is his deepest and most artistic statement to date, fueled with the singer’s distinguished vocal landscapes and rich textural arrangements. Produced by GRAMMY Award-winning producer Joe Chiccarelli, the album includes Mraz’s heartfelt acoustic ballad and second top 10 single “I Won’t Give Up,” which finds the musician achieving a new level of profound success. Filled with riveting material, the album flows tremendously from the appealing soulful track, “The Freedom Song,” to the elegant jazz inspired “5/6”.

This complete double album of the 1956 live recording from Café Bohemia in New York City features Kenny Dorham and his musicians, including a very young Kenny Burrell on guitar. This album is included in the Penguin Guide to Jazz Core Collection where it was awarded four stars out of four.

Popular English rock/electronica band Bloc Party's fifth studio album. "Hymns" is a rebirth for Bloc Party. After 16 years as a band, countless world tours and awards and four studio albums, Kele Okereke and Russell Lissack are taking it back to where it all began…

"Dreams" is an album by Hungarian guitarist Gábor Szabó featuring performances recorded in 1968 and released on the Skye label. The Allmusic review states: "a collection of originals, pop covers, and classical reinterpretations. The result is a sort of accessible third-stream music. Szabo has many fine moments".

Nika is the 25-year-old sole singer and songwriter behind Zola Jesus. Her album "Taiga" is at once challenging and accessible, and is undeniably branded with what Nika terms a “piercing ambition.” Such encompassing purpose, she explains, would be impossible without a newfound sense of personal and artistic self. The album is a declaration of that purpose; one laced with jarring clarity in both its content and production. Taiga, the Russian name for a boreal forest pays homage to Nika’s Russian roots and her time spent growing up in rural Wisconsin on a 100-acre farm.

Manchester alternative band that layers socially relevant lyrics, steeped in the British experience, over atmospheric, epic rock. The making of "The Take Off and Landing of Everything" saw the band take a new approach to writing and recording. Previously songs were mostly developed by the band as a whole, but this new album sees individual members and sub-groups take the lead on several tracks.

Following up his 2011 album "Ashes & Fire", which was the best reviewed and highest charting of his career, Ryan Adams’ returns with his self-titled Blue Note debut. Recorded at his PaxAm studios and produced by Adams, the album represents another leap forward in his development as both songwriter and performer. Easily his most fully-developed musical statement, the album takes Adams’ inspired songcraft and brings it into a more hard driving rock direction that will please the hardcore Ryan devotee but will also turn on a broader audience.

"You're Dead!" is a shamanic pilgrimage into the psychedelic unknown of the infinite afterlife. A sonic, visual and metaphysical fusion of technological innovation and technical virtuosity that amounts to a transcendent, mind-expanding plasm that could only exist between our world and another. The enduring universe of Lotus supporting cast has expanded and evolved to feature in order of appearance, Herbie Hancock, Kendrick Lamar, Captain Murphy, Snoop Dogg, Angel Deradoorian, Thundercat, Niki Randa, alongside mindblowing original artwork by Japanese comic book artist Shintaro Kago.

Four-time Grammy-winning violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter celebrated the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth in 2006 with a series of releases of all his major works for violin, among them this performance with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Mutter herself. Plus, violist Yuri Bashmet appears on the Sinfonia concertante.