Goethe as an opera librettist: in November 2019, an opera sensation was to be experienced at the Leverkusener Erholungshaus: 232 years after its creation, a comic opera was premiered with "Scherz, List und Rache", to which none other than Johann Wolfgang von Goethe had written the Libretto.

Croatian songstress Josipa Lisac, whose superb vocals were featured on "Majko Zemljo," a classic album by Tihomir Pop Asanovic, the best of Yugoslavian rare groove, which was also featured in the guidebook "OBSCURE SOUND REVISED EDITION. The album was released in 1976 and features the B.P. Convention Big Band International, a group of Croatian jazz musicians.

Roberto Bonati composes and paints a suite dedicated to the night, its magic, its more hidden colors and its deep emotionality. A journey through the dreams, encounters, ghosts, shadows and lights of a dream vision. A nocturnal picture that leads step by step towards the dawn. A painting, but also a meditation on the most noisy moment of our thoughts and emotions: while outside the silence resounds.

HASARD, the new CD by Claudio Fasoli with NeXt Quartet. Hasard in French: chance, chance, risk, danger, uncertainty, possibility, luck, unexpected, destiny, coincidence… The concept of hasard objectif, explored by André Breton and the surrealists, is a notion at the same time fascinating and enigmatic in the field of creativity, evoking disturbing coincidences and surprising encounters. (Sandro Cerini in the cover lines). In the compositions presented in Hasard, we find the peculiarities of Fasoli’s research, to which electronics are added, which find ample space on the evocative and rhythmic level: mass of sound, noisy clouds blend with Fasoli’s rigorous compositional knowledge.

Beatrice Ruth Wain (April 30, 1917 – August 19, 2017) was an American Big Band-era singer and radio personality born in the Bronx, New York City.

The New Grove Project is a collaboration between Per Sundbom and Ingemar Hjertqvist that started in 1983 when the demo for the album Fool's Journey was recorded. Per Sundbom played keyboards and Ingemar played guitar and bass. The collaboration has been passive for a long periods.

The Merry Macs were an American and British close-harmony pop music quartet who were active from the 1920s until 2000.

After an uncomfortably long five-year hiatus-likely spent arguing about time signatures, chord progressions, and who forgot to bring snacks to rehearsals-Glutton is finally back. The beloved (by at least a few people) trio is ready to unleash their questionable wisdom upon an unsuspecting world with their upcoming album: "Skiva heter Vishnu!" On their latest outing, Glutton boldly ditches vocals (likely realizing that nobody was really listening to their lyrics anyway) and commits fully to an instrumental format.

Pearls & Discoveries combines works from the great clarinet repertoire by composers such as Schumann, Widor, Bassi, and Rossini with lesser-known pieces that nonetheless possess great charm and emotional and musical impact.

Bringing Down the Horse is the second album by the American rock band The Wallflowers.

For many decades, the accordion has had a reputation as an instrument of folk music, ballrooms and street players all over the world. Its technical and cultural development can be traced back to its invention and patenting by Cyrill Demian in 1829 on Mariahilfer Straße in Vienna.

30 years ago Red Hot was riding high. Our first three albums: Red Hot + Blue, Red Hot + Dance and No Alternative became successful beyond our wildest dreams. We raised enough money to donate millions to important organizations around the world fighting AIDS, including a million to ACT UP. And we worked with some of the greatest artists and musicians in the world: David Byrne, U2, George Michael, Nirvana, Madonna and many others. Next up was two new albums - one focused on communities of color, Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool, and the other on country music.

Jeremiah Fraites, co-founder and songwriter of the two-time Grammy Award-nominated band the Lumineers, has composed the score for Lionsgate’s “The Long Walk,” the upcoming film from director Francis Lawrence based on the first novel by Stephen King. The film will be released in theaters nationwide on Sept. 12. “The Long Walk” is billed as an intense, chilling and emotional thriller that challenges audiences to confront a haunting question: how far could you go?

Unlike anything we’ve heard from her before, Okkyung Lee returns to Shelter Press with Just Like Any Other Day (어느날): Background Music For Your Mundane Activities, a deeply intimate body of recordings at the juncture of ambient music, minimalism, and the baroque, that stands as radical intervention with what experimental music can be, and the place that organisations of sound occupy in our lives.

Jason Molina was an artist who didn’t like to look back. Throughout the singer-songwriter’s life and career, a restless and evolving creative pulse propelled him forward, training his focus on what was next. His unyielding creativity and work ethic bore sacred fruit. In his short life, Molina achieved what most musicians strive for: a sound that is instantly recognizable but rarely repeats itself.