"Cuban Soul-18 Kilates" is Cassiano's third studio album, released in 1976, and stands as a milestone in Brazilian soul music. It combines Brazilian rhythms with classic American soul elements, creating a unique fusion. Cassiano's smooth, soulful vocal style and the album’s larger-than-life arrangements, reminiscent of Tim Maia's sound, give it a rich, deep feel. The standout track, ‘Onda,’ is a relaxing anthem evoking beach vibes that has become a DJ’s favorite in recent years and also made it into several compilations. "Cuban Soul-18 Kilates" has earned cult status over the years, securing its place as one of the most coveted Brazilian records of all time. Remastered from the original tapes and pressed on 180g vinyl. This release is part of a new reissue series that will include many other outstanding Brazilian classics like Evinha “Cartão Postal” or Gerson King Combo.

Mind Games was meant to be a return to form for John Lennon, after an instantly dated protest album that felt didactic and cold. He seemed to be back on track with its opening Top 20 hit title song. But the rest of Mind Games could be a strangely ruminative and often mid-tempo, with a shaggy studio approach. Mind Games: The Ultimate Collection makes it clear who fans should blame: The producer. After three straight projects with co-producers Phil Spector and Yoko Ono, Lennon took over those duties. He clearly couldn't place enough distance between himself and the material to make the best choices for these songs. An outside voice might have encouraged him to continue work on some tracks, or to toss one or two aside.

The Flûte passion series: Claude Bolling continues at ATMA Classique. Flutist Nadia Labrie presents Picnic Suite for guitar, flute, and jazz piano trio by Claude Bolling (1930–2020), the iconoclastic French composer whose series of suites for flute has become emblematic of the meeting point between jazz and classical music.

Death By Unga Bunga returns with their hardest-hitting record yet, Raw Muscular Power, a 10-track exploration of fragile male ego and crumbling facades through wild, raw, and high-energy rock. Inspired by their performance at Norway’s Tons of Rock festival, the album boasts a "dumber and rawer" sound packed with catchy hooks and testosterone-fueled confusion. The band tackles themes of masculine insecurity, from office workers idealizing manual labor ("Raw Muscular Power") to early-30s existential dread ("I’m Really Old"). Guest appearances include Mike Krol on "Therapy" and Haley Shae of Sløtface on the Paul Stanley-tribute "Starchild." The album also features their first Norwegian-language track, "Ring meg hvis du trenger en venn" ("Call me if you need a friend"), offering a heartfelt message of support. With Raw Muscular Power, Death By Unga Bunga invites everyone to join the party, embracing imperfections and camaraderie through rock.

“Júlio Resende has the profound ability to reinvent Portugal’s trademark deep, emotional music through the piano,” says the respected world music magazine Songlines of the Portuguese pianist/composer. Resende’s concept of Fado Jazz is a perfect example of how jazz has become a global language for free musical expression – a concept which has been fundamental to ACT ever since its foundation over 30 years ago.

In Concert Volume Two is a live album recorded in 1973 by jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard pianist, Herbie Hancock and tenor saxophonist Stanley Turrentine. It was recorded in Chicago and Detroit for Creed Taylor's CTI label and features performances by Hubbard, Turrentine, Hancock, Eric Gale, Ron Carter and Jack DeJohnette.

Psychedelic music born from jams with a lush groove of drums and percussion, a dense foundation of keys and bass, and flute and guitar soaring above them. The septet from Moscow experiments with genres, entering the territory of prog rock, blues rock, stoner and funk.

It all starts with the voice. At turns heavy and hulkingly powerful, yet agile and pointedly precise, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s vocal not only embodies the tradition of the Sufi qawwali but it is the emotive essence of singing itself.

Recorded by Neige and Winterhalter themselves, with a little help from talented friends, Les Chants de l’Aurore pulls off the neat trick of sounding both huge and intimate. From the opening Komorebi onwards, Alcest sound reborn and revitalised, as their most cherished trademarks are reinvented for a new era, and with new depths and sophistication on display.

2 CD Set Contains Previously Unreleased Performances. JESUS ON THE MAINLINE is drawn from two 1971 concerts; April 14th, 1971 in Tacoma, Washington, and November 5th, 1971 at the Gaslight In New York, which would prove to be the final recording of the Delta Blues legend. The bottleneck guitarist was 67 years old when these tracks were recorded and his passion and conviction seem to have strengthened with the years. At this point in McDowell's career he had shifted to playing electric slide guitar. Accompanying McDowell's gruff voice, the guitar often seems to finish the singer's sentences for him; it's like listening to an old married couple.

Popular brass-led ensemble, Kolonel Djafaar, unveiled its second album, ‘Getaway’, their first for Batov Records, seamlessly blending Afrobeat, Ethio jazz, and psych rock, whilst showcasing the band's evolution over the past couple of years.

Country and gospel singer/songwriter Barbara Fairchild recorded her first single when she was just 15 years old. She secured a songwriting contract with MCA right out high school, but continued to perform. She soon had a recording contract with Columbia Nashville and delivered the single "Love Is a Gentle Thing" in 1969.

Amorosa, a multicultural musical band based in Brussels, is driven by the voice of Stéphanie Scultore who sings about love in French and Portuguese, drawing us into her poetry between the warmth of Brazilian rhythms and the elegance of jazz harmonies. Amorosa's music is generous. Sometimes voluble, sometimes calm. At once intimate and universal, it draws its uniqueness and its modernity from the way it mixes genres, textures and registers while drawing on popular traditions. Petit Soleil is an album full of love and humor

SLOWLY: Song for Keith Jarrett was recorded at the end of 2020, a watershed year for pianist Noah Haidu. As critical accolades streamed in for his innovative multi-media release DOCTONE, Haidu was on the verge of realizing another ambitious project: recording a trio album with one of the greatest bass and drum combinations in jazz: Billy Hart and Buster Williams, whose own remarkable collaboration began half a century ago.

The genre of one-handed piano music is large: there are many more pieces for the left hand than the right hand, but this music is often reserved for and used when one sustains an injury. It is not the typical repertoire that a pianist might study, and again is often used only when a pianist injures themselves. While male composers tend to dominate this field, a sabbatical of 2012 allowed Wiley to research her new interest: that of finding WOMEN composers of left handed/one-handed piano music. She found well over 100 such composers, researched and documented each one, and ultimately this led to two major articles on this topic that were published in the American Music Teacher Magazine.