Ray Charles’ long-lost duet “Curiosity” with jazz singer Steve Tyrell has been released over 30 years after the track was recorded. The song features on Tyrell’s new covers album Shades of Ray.

The music on this EP inhabits a particular corner of the bounteous repertory of characteristic pieces for violin and piano. Short without being slight, these miniatures are vibrant and emotive, getting to the heart of the matter with freshness and originality, and sharing a rich yet restrained harmonic language which is identifiably English in character.

For her first solo violin album Lea Birringer has selected three partitas for her instrument: partitas transformed over the centuries since Bach, commencing with Bach’s great Partita No.3 in E major and ending with Auerbach’s 2007 example ‘par.ti.ta’. Lothar von Knorr’s Partita from 1946 will most likely be a discovery for most listeners. Her programme also includes works by Reger and Ysaÿe.

Within the framework of his complete Brahms cycle, Geoffroy Couteau presents an original programme focusing on the trio Brahms formed with Robert and Clara Schumann, and on their relationship with Joseph Joachim. All these personalities lie at the heart of the conception of both the Concerto in D minor and the transcription of Bach’s Chaconne; two works that also reveal their shared devotion to Bach.

The sessions for 1980's Double Fantasy were supposed to yield two albums, the second to be released at a future time, but Lennon's assassination tragically halted the project in its tracks. A bit over three years later, Yoko Ono issued tapes of many of the songs planned for that album under the title Milk and Honey, laid out in the same John-Yoko-John-Yoko dialogue fashion as its predecessor…

Ángel Ontalva is a guitarist and composer exploring the boundaries between progressive rock, experimental music, free improvisation, jazz or ethnic music, with an idiosyncratic language developed through decades of intereaction with different musical traditions and endless collaborations with musicians from all cultural and geographical background.
Ángel is better known for being the leader of the avant-progressive band October Equus, with seven released albums. Besides, he has released a trilogy of albums as a soloist (Mundo Flotante, Tierra Quemada and Angel on a tower) and he has released several albums with the space-prog russian band Vespero (Carta Marina, Sada and Olkhon, the first album of the power trio Seaorm with Vespero's rhythm section) and he has created a plethora of international projects, some of them documented in the Russian Series of octoberXart Records, of which Ángel is the founder.

Maypole were one of the great bands to explode on the scene in the late 60's. Originally from the Baltimore area, their 1970 LP "The Real" is revered by many collectors. This is the second album by Maypole, which consists of studio sessions recorded in Miami from 1973-1974 which have never been released before. 53 minutes of hard driving rock tastefully injected with some nice orchestration.

Pure… America collects 68 original hits featuring Boston ("More Than a Feeling"), Boz Scaggs ("Lido Shuffle”), REO Speedwagon ("Keep on Loving You”), America ("Ventura Highway”), Steve Perry ("Oh Sherrie”), and Cheap Trick ("I Want You to Want Me”). Tracks by Blue Öyster Cult, Cyndi Lauper, Poco, and Kenny Loggins are also included on this four-disc compilation.