Abdullah Sami’s Peace of Time, a spiritual jazz artifact from 1978, is the kind of album that makes collectors weak at the knees and bank accounts tremble. Recorded in New York in August 1977 and self-released in a meager run of 300 hand-crafted copies, it’s no wonder this record has achieved “holy grail” status among jazz enthusiasts, with original pressings fetching upwards of $2,000 online. Spiritmuse Records’ 2019 reissue mercifully brought this obscurity back to life, complete with remastered sound and liner notes that unpack its legend. But is Peace of Time truly the transcendent masterpiece its cult status suggests, or is it just another overhyped relic from the vinyl-digging frenzy of the 2010s? Let’s dive into this hypnotic, groove-laden journey, explore the musicians behind it, and dissect each track with the precision of a crate-digger combing through a dusty record store.

The contemporary global rhythms on Groove World blend African, Latin, Asian and European musical traditions with modern electronic beats.

Chet Sounds’ third album Tying Up Loose Ends, is not only the Australian DIY artist and multi-instrumentalist Chet Tucker’s most sonically compelling body-of-work but opens the most intimate window into his world. Written across Australia between 2022 and 2024, the record took shape while Tucker was constantly in motion — much of it penned in Melbourne while he found himself daydreaming about the desert sun and wide-open spaces of the Northern Territory. That sense of distance and longing seeps into the songs, giving the album a reflective, sun-baked quality that lingers long after the final track fades.

For over 30 years, Putumayo has introduced audiences to the best of Latin music. Get ready to move and groove to the rhythms of salsa, son jarocho, merengue, cumbia and more with Latin Dance Party!

France's near-revolution of May '68 was the zenith of that generation's struggle for a new kind of life. It kicked the country's small, but vibrant, counter-culture into overdrive, and birthed a local underground music scene. The bands it spawned made music with much less rock purity than groups from the UK and US. Their musical and cultural influences foregrounded improvisation, disjunction, and genre-blending: Soft Machine, Pink Floyd, Frank Zappa, free jazz, and radical politics. The introduction of the synthesiser in the early 1970s added fuel to the fire.

Mosaïc is an ensemble made up of six musicians from Bulgaria, France, Portugal and Tunisia. Their compositions are above all else a space for musical encounters at the crossroads of jazz and Mediterranean music. Their musical language is varied, combining Balkan ornamentation with the colours of Western European chamber music and the rhythmic essence of North African music. The ensemble explores imaginative worlds and interweaves traditions like a mosaic, passing from energetic grooves to the breath of the Bulgarian kaval and the woody sonority of stringed instruments. Now that its creations have been welcomed throughout the Mediterranean, Mosaïc presents a debut album inspired by the different places it has visited and the people it has met.

Al Wahem ("The Illusion") is the new full-length release by PRAED, the Swiss–Lebanese duo of Raed Yassin and Paed Conca. Recorded between Beirut and Berlin, the album returns to the group’s central aesthetic: a rhythm-driven weave of Egyptian shaabi, electronics, improvisation and the gritty pulse of street-level sound. Nearly twenty years into the project, PRAED have distilled their approach into four pieces that subtly shift the listener’s bearings, reordering grooves and fragments until familiar elements take on new identities.

Nublu Records is proud to announce the February 2026 release of "Brado," the highly anticipated new album from Brazilian drummer and composer Marcelo Callado.

Released in 1980 as a poignant farewell, A Lifetime Of Music is the definitive compilation from the maestro of melody, Mantovani & His Orchestra. Released on the Decca label, this expansive set arrived in the year of his passing, serving as a celebratory summation of a career that defined easy listening for millions. Across thirty timeless tracks, it gathers the essential cornerstones of his cascading string sound—from the ethereal, gravity-defying "Charmaine" and the sublime "Greensleeves" to beloved interpretations of "As Time Goes By," "Moulin Rouge," and "Swedish Rhapsody". More than just a collection of hits, this album is a sonic monument to the man who was the biggest-selling British recording artist before The Beatles, offering a warm, weightless journey through the music that made him a household name around the world.

Highwave marks a significant turning point for the Nashville-based quintet Moon Taxi, a band that has spent nearly two decades blending indie rock with jam-band spontaneity. Their debut on Ineffable Records showcases a deeper exploration of reggae-fusion and coastal vibes, an evolution spearheaded by guitarist and producer Spencer Thomson’s growing influence in the genre. The album is a collaborative tour de force, featuring guest spots from reggae and alternative mainstays like The Movement, G. Love, Mihali, and Tropidelic. The sonic palette ranges from sun-drenched pop-rock anthems to laid-back dub-inflected grooves, all while maintaining the band's signature uplifting energy. The inclusion of an eclectic cover of "Pink Pony Club" highlights Moon Taxi's adventurous spirit and their knack for reimagining contemporary hits through a vibrant, organic lens.

Originally released in 1981, I Solisti is one of Dino Siani's most varied and character-driven albums, conceived as a gallery of musical personalities where each track highlights one (or more) soloist, as well as a distinct mood, attitude or emotional color. Rooted in big band jazz but open to funk, disco, soft rock, bossa nova and easy listening, the album perfectly reflects the transitional sound of the late 1970s and early 1980s, when cinematic scoring, television themes and sophisticated pop converged.

Composer, Hildur Guðnadóttir, delivers a bold and emotionally charged score that blends orchestral grandeur with raw punk energy, capturing the film’s sweeping romance, dangerous sensuality, and unflinching humanity.

With their latest body of work, Desert Storm carve out a sound that is as primal as it is progressive—melding sludge, doom, and heavy metal weight with moments of softness, space, and surprising vulnerability. Across these tracks, the band summon the wilderness, ceremony, and chaos of the human condition, pushing their sound into new territories while staying true to their instinct for heaviness.

This album celebrates a warm and close musical relationship between composer, conductor and orchestra – and the extraordinary impact the Covid pandemic had on British cultural life.

Most of Beethoven’s ten violin sonatas were composed within a time span of no more than 6 years (1797-1803), with the exception of the last one, op. 96, which he began in 1812, taking probably a further 3 years to revise to his satisfaction. This means the set as a whole represents a relatively young Beethoven, though his development from the early Op. 12 sonatas to the “Kreutzer” Op. 47 clearly demonstrates a formidable inner creative force. His cello sonatas, string quartets and symphonies are more evenly spaced throughout his life, but the violin sonatas lack nothing in invention, range of expression and feeling. As so often in Beethoven’s early works the intensity of the slow movements stands out. This is Volume 2 of Julian Leaper recordings of Complete Violin Sonatas.