London, February 1719: the birth of the Royal Academy of Music. George Frideric Handel was appointed musical director. German-born Handel, having spent four years in Italy, wanted to make London the new capital of opera. The only language to be sung on the stage of the King’s Theatre was to be Italian, and two other composers, Attilio Ariosti and Giovanni Battista Bononcini, were imported from the Italian peninsula. Both men were string players and contributed a new instrumental sweep to the company.

Soilwork is back with their twelfth studio album, which represents the band in their growth and their current phase of life, which is marked by a time period that probably no one on this planet will forget so quickly. Unlike the albums before, the creation process of Övergivenheten was very lengthy and a representation of the emotional state of the guys from Soilwork.

Jorge Saade (born in Guayaquil, Ecuador; full name: Jorge Saade-Scaff) is a violinist.

Srdjan is one of the most successful classical guitarists of the new generation and the top prize winner at almost all of the most important international classical guitar competitions.

Originally released in 2002 in Tommy Emmanuel's native Australia (where he's a jazz and folk guitar legend) but not available in the States until 2005, Endless Road is a solo acoustic album that in its revamped form adds a pair of unimpressive vocal numbers. Emmanuel's fingerpicking style is heavily influenced by Chet Atkins, who appears here on a genial but melodically flimsy duet called "Chet's Ramble" that, truth be told, sounds like it was probably an outtake from their 1997 duet album, The Day Finger Pickers Took Over the World.

What happens when the energy of New York’s finest young jazz talents collides with the mysticism, poetry, and raw power of The Doors? You get Ghost Riders — an electrifying new album that reimagines the legendary band’s music through the lens of modern jazz, recorded with unmatched sonic fidelity.

Several stories of the musical underground coexist in the Blood Quartet, another miracle of improvisational freedom that occasionally emerges in Barcelona. "For me, the best thing is to share and experience the underground scene, feeling like I'm part of a community," says Kike Bela, founder of the Blood Quartet along with trumpeter and guitarist Mark Cunningham and guitarist Lluís Rueda, completed by drummer Carles Esteban. This collective heartbeat reaches ten years of existence and is celebrated with the release of an album, the premiere of a short documentary at the In-Edit Festival, and a concert-party at Casa Montjuïc this Saturday, October 18th at 8 p.m.

Celebrating more than a decade on the international folk scene, Danish-Finnish-Swedish Floating Sofa Quartet proudly presents their fifth album: Tides.

“With phenomenal expressive flexibility, the Vertavo moved from warmest sensuality to knife-edge brittleness,” declares The Guardian.

Man of Many Parts is an album by multi-instrumentalist and composer Buddy Collette recorded at sessions in 1956 and released on the Contemporary label.

In Between Dub, featuring a remix collection of some of Jack Johnson’s most beloved recordings from his over two decade long career, but with a dub twist.

After these three Fania stars’ success with their initial release of Asalto Navideño Vol. I, they rewarded us a year later with Asalto Navideño Vol. II. Many consider this album to be even better than the first.

By 1977 England was in the throes of punk, a musical revolution that held hugely successful "dinosaur" rock groups in contempt.

Wheatfield Soul is the fourth studio album by the Canadian rock band the Guess Who, released in March 1969.

Life Is a Grand… is the only full-length release from multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, composer Henry Badowski.