With their new album "Manu Scriptum" (from Latin: written by hand), Spanish hornist Adrián Díaz Martínez - professor of horn at the Musikhochschule Lübeck since 2021 - and his Japanese piano partner Ikuko Odai once again present an exciting concept album.

Acclaimed saxophonist, philosopher, bandleader, and musician Shabaka Hutchings, now professionally known as Shabaka across all solo musical efforts, announces his first major label solo body of work, Afrikan Culture, through Impulse!, out on May 20. Entirely written by Shabaka, the eight-track digital only EP showcases him on various wind instruments and focuses on the aural meditative space.

Released in 1961, My Favorite Things made John Coltrane a star with box-office pull previously reserved for the likes of Dave Brubeck and Miles Davis. The dazzling quartet treatment of the Richard Rodgers hit song features Coltrane on soprano saxophone for the first time on record and became an instant hit single in its own right. The album also became a major commercial success, receiving the Grammy Hall of Fame award in 1998 and attaining gold record status in 2018. The recently uncovered mono version of this album once believed to be lost forever is included in this deluxe package along with the stereo version, both having been mastered from the original tapes.

Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood’s 1968 duet album Nancy and Lee is to be reissued by Light in the Attic Records next month.
Nancy and Lee arguably represents the pinnacle of the collaborative efforts of one of pop music’s most unlikely pairings. Featuring lush orchestral arrangements by Billy Strange, and boasting the talents of famed Los Angeles session musicians The Wrecking Crew, the album went on to sell over a million copies worldwide.
This first ever official reissue is described as ‘definitive’ by the label since it comes with Nancy’s involvement and sees the audio remastered from the original analog tapes by engineer John Baldwin. There are two bonus tracks in the form of ‘Tired Of Waiting For You’ and ‘Love Is Strange’ both recorded as part of the album sessions.

CD reissue featuring the 'Special Cassette Remix' edition in which all songs, other than "Yesterday's Shadow", are remixed or extended from the standard album version. Comes with five bonus tracks including a previously unreleased 7" single edit of "Yesterday's Shadow" and the 'Extended Dance Mix' of "Beat Boy" that was originally only released on a promo 12" single.

For the third installment of Ingrid Laubrock's duo series on Intakt (following Kasumi with Aki Takase and Blood Moon with Kris Davis) Ingrid Laubrock and Andy Milne develop their own sounds in a common sound world. Fragile is characterized by the great empathy that unites these two artists. The music, which is both stirring and soothing, confident and intuitive, is deeply expressive and inventive. “Laubrock’s growth as an original writer and improviser has been marked in the last two decades, during which time she has led several bands, notably Sleepthief and Anti-House, and proved adept at creating for large ensembles and small groups that revealed her own individuality, mostly within avant-garde traditions. As for Milne he has more than fulfilled the promise he showed as a member of Steve Coleman’s Metrics in the early ‘90s. The Laubrock-Milne duo has a balance between the drive and momentum of large ensembles and the stillness and engagement with silence and space of smaller groups. Making music that releases a form of energy, something that pulses with life, while also drawing down into intimacy, suggesting feelings of tenderness or uncertainty, is no mean feat”, writes Kevin Le Gendre in the liner notes.

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One of the most popular adult alternative rock bands of the 1990s, the Goo Goo Dolls rose to prominence with major hits like "Name" and "Iris," earning a widespread audience receptive to their mix of jangling guitar-driven pop and acoustic balladry. Often compared early in their career to the Replacements, they managed to refine and mainstream their sound, going on to sell millions of records to audiences largely unfamiliar with their influences.

Sofie set out to find pieces from the solo lute repertoire that she intuitively associated with the different phases of the text. The result is a concert with a surprising palette of colors, styles and atmospheres. At times she chose the rich, powerful sound of the theorbo. At other times, she chose the fragile, muted sound of the Renaissance lute
The Prélude by French Baroque composer Robert de Visée combines phrases full of grandeur with pauses for breath full of intimate doubt. The music of John Dowland draws on the typically English predilection for melancholy. Francesco da Milano's fantasies and ricercars echo not only the bright colors of the Italian Renaissance, but also the constant search for a new beginning. Luis de Narvaez's Cancion del emperador is an arrangement for lute of Josquin Desprez's famous chanson Mille Regretz, a song that exudes serene regret for all that is not. And in the Chaconne by Robert de Visée, the same chord progression spins on its own axis. At Sofie's request, Vladimir Gorlinsky created a new composition that reflects the state of mind in the midst of a burnout

Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss were united by their deep relationship to literature and especially to poetry as a source of inspiration for its musical interpretation and transcendence into a sphere of expression that reflected their own feelings about life. Nevertheless, both composers worked on their texts in very different ways. While Mahler adjusted the texts through a multitude of interventions - omissions, rearrangements, and even his own additions - according to need and expressive demand, Strauss stuck strictly to the poems.

This release features some of Fischer’s best-known recordings and also his rarest. His pre-war Schubert recordings are classics of the gramophone and have been almost continuously available. APR’s original 1997 transfers of the Impromptus had the benefit of being taken from vinyl pressings of the 78rpm masters and this reissue has allowed us to improve them even further, presenting these gems in the best possible sound.

Lounge melodic impulses in soft and light compositions open the picture of a colorful collection. Cafe Del Mar: Ambient & Downtempo label founded in 1999 by the owner of the sunset bar Cafe Del Mar in Ibiza. To your attention is presented a publication Cafe Del Mar Music for review, as well as an overview of the overall picture, content and listening! Essentials Collection is designed and signed as a reference on your choice of several exchangers file. Zoe Johnston, Afterlife & Rachel Lloyd, Indo Aminata, Jelly & Fish, Beat Foundation, Psychedelic Research Lab, Eight Wave. Convenience, reliability and availability, is property of our portal, efficiency and commitment to new heights, as well the immensity of the transformation!

Scriabin and Mozart: two composers rarely associated, yet the juxtaposition here seems clear when performed by Zlata Chochieva. In this first naive classique lbum, the Russian pianist is ingenious in both the cycles of fragmented variations and the more opulent sonatas or preludes. This project is inspired by the 150th anniversary of Scriabin’s birth, but Zlata Chochieva has been a fan of the Russian composer since her childhood as he was the first to appeal to her emotions as a listener and performer.Associating him with the classical Mozart - rather than a romantic composer, as is usually the case - enables Zlata Chochieva to conjure up an unexpected kinship that benefits from her vibrant and graceful style, rising to thrilling virtuosity. “The perfection in the phrasing, the polyphony and the formal proportions, plus the concision and the lack of superfluous notes are just some of the points that link Scriabin to Mozart", she explains.

Eric Tanguy’s focus on “imagination, poetry and an interior world” has helped to make him one of the most widely performed French composers of today. Belonging in a line that leads back from his mentor Henri Dutilleux to Messiaen and Debussy, he does not identify with any specific ‘school’ of composition. His aesthetic has also been shaped by the music of Sibelius and his technique is characterised by intricate use of modes. “There is rigour and purpose behind my music,” he says, but I don’t expect the listener to have to decode it … It’s the feeling that matters.” The album In a Dream takes its title from a piece for violin and piano, one of the eight chamber works on its programme. Composed between 1999 and 2019, they are performed here by violinists Alexandra Conunova and Rosanne Philippens, viola-player Lise Berthaud, cellist Edgar Moreau, clarinettist Pierre Génisson, pianists Suzana Bartal and David Kadouch, and string ensemble Quatuor Diotima.

Ariane Brisson, flautist, and Olivier Hebert-Bouchard, pianist, present Mythes, an album of transcriptions of works by Claude Debussy, Leo Janacek, Maurice Ravel, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Karol Szymanowski. Inspired by the magical, mythical world of sprites and fairies, the program includes Debussy's Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune in an arrangement by Gustave Samazeuilh; Janacek's Pohadka (A Fairy Tale); and Ravel's Sonatine pour piano in transcriptions by Ariane Brisson; along with Vaughan Williams' Lark Ascending, and Szymanowski's Mythes for violin and piano, Op. 30 both transcribed by Ariane Brisson.