Recorded live at the Phoenix Central Park, Sydney, August 22nd 2024.

Cellist, composer and MacArthur Fellow Tomeka Reid explores new improvisational math with 3+3, the third release by her all-star quartet and her most adventurous project as a leader yet. Featuring Jason Roebke on bass, Tomas Fujiwara on drums, and fellow MacArthur Fellow Mary Halvorson on guitar.

The fictitious tour of far-away lands continues, as anonymous artist Glåsbird follows the scratchy, folk-ambience of Norskfjǫrðr with a return to lonely arctic-island sounds. Novaya Zemlya is a Russian-owned island, stretching from just off the mainland between the Kara and Barents seas, with two islands split by the Matochkin Strait.

Exciting, unpredictable, fascinating and brilliant, Murat is an artist in the 'noble' sense of the term. Bringing together all his emblematic titles, from the youthful seed until today where the Murat style reached its peak with songs that reach here peaks of emotions - the mark of the "greats". Jean-Louis Murat is now in the position of an artist who has reached a form of evidence that allows him all the audacity of a "Best Of" album which is already unanimous. A little magical masterpiece with a rebellious pen that fits perfectly with the times. We reach music lovers all over the world.

The follow-up recording for Max Bennett as a leader includes some sessions that were left off from his debut effort, and includes others from Los Angeles with a different band from the same year of 1955. Vocalist Helen Carr is included on two songs, trombonist Frank Rosolino, pianist Claude Williamson, and drummer Stan Levey contribute on the majority of the cuts, and alto saxophonist Charlie Mariano plays a larger role than on the previous date.

Pelican has always been a band that’s not just from Chicago, but distinctly of Chicago. Formed in 2000 by guitarists Trevor Shelley de Brauw and Laurent Schroeder-Lebec alongside brothers Bryan and Larry Herweg on bass and drums respectively, Pelican’s foundation was built upon the rule-free, genre-agnostic scene synonymous with the Fireside Bowl. “The ‘90s in Chicago was a free-for-all. Everyone was just coming from a place of pure creativity,” says Shelley de Brauw. With Schroeder-Lebec returning to the band following Dallas Thomas’ exit in 2022, this reunified version of Pelican allowed the band to tap back into those influences and build something distinctly new with Flickering Resonance.

The first of Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser's exploitive cosmic space rock albums is also the best, and certainly kicks the seat out of the many jam bands that arose in the '90s. Unlike most "super groups" who collapse under the weight of their own hubris, the Cosmic Jokers, who were never really a proper group anyway, almost improve upon the sound of their precursors, namely Manuel Göttsching and Klaus Schulze from acid-jam-supreme Ash Ra Tempel, and Jurgen Dollase and Harald Grosskopf from blitzkrieg psychedelic Wallenstein.

The LP is comprised of stripped down “Doors Only” versions of five tracks where the horns and strings have been removed (“Tell All The People,” “Touch Me,” “Wishful Sinful,” “Runnin’ Blue,” and “Who Scared You.”) The set also features three of those stripped-back versions with new guitar parts added by Robby Krieger (“Touch Me,” “Wishful Sinful,” and “Runnin’ Blue").

Antonio de Cabezón travelled across Europe visiting Milan in 1548 and his music influenced the great European composers. Contrary to keyboard instruments, lute and vihuela already have a vast repertoire in print. The combination of a keyboard instrument (tecla) with the vihuela (called 'viola da mano' in Italy) is common in the sources of Spanish influence of this period, which often bear the indication 'para tecla y vihuela'. Evangelina Mascardi and Maurizio Croci, established soloists on the international early music scene, explore the affinities, the contrasts and, in the words of an enthusiastic chronicler of the time, the 'unheard of imitations' that arise from the dialogue between the two instruments.

As you listen to the first track of this very skilled and well put together album you might be tempted to think that you’re in for a full-on, busy, exciting journey, but no, as you listen through the tracks you’ll find a lot of variety in feel and mood.

In a way it seems out of nowhere, and in a way it was a long time coming. While Maria Baptist has ranged from solo to trio to big band and more, throughout her career at the piano, Jan von Klewitz's saxophone has been a more steady presence beside her than than most.

Maria Baptist is one of the leading solo pianists in contemporary jazz.

Fade Evare are an electronic alt-pop four-piece from Melbourne, formed around siblings Mira and Tori Holleman (formerly of Retiree).

The reign of Elizabeth I (1558–1603) and her successor James I (1603–1625) saw a golden age of English lute music.

Marked by the relative freedom regained after the death of Stalin, Shostakovich's quartets n°6 to 12 were written between 1956 and 1968.