Each year on October 9th, Abdullah Ibrahim performs a solo piano concert at the Hirzinger Hall in South Germany in order to celebrate his birthday. Due to lockdown restrictions last year, this traditional birthday concert was replaced with the opportunity to record a solo piano performance. Hirzinger Hall, in Riedering, South East Germany, is famous for its incredible acoustics, and Ibrahim's solitary performance lends itself perfectly to the space, The recording crew was sparse, the audience non-existent, yet Ibrahim’s communion with the piano remains warm and timeless.

Happy The Man (1977). Though it met with little commercial success, Happy the Man's 1977 debut quickly became a cult sensation with fans of prog rock. It's easy to see why: their sound combines a number of diverse influences in a distinctive manner, and their music is as complex and meticulously arranged as any prog album one cares to mention. Unlike some popular prog acts, Happy the Man does not allow one instrument to take center stage or allow relentless soloing to dominate the songs. Instead, the focus is on complex interplay between the group's players: compositions like "Knee Bitten Nymphs In Limbo" and "Stumpy Meets the Firecracker in Stencil Forest" are built on the kind of mathematically complex yet playful instrumental interplay that is normally associated with Frank Zappa's most complex work…

A Collection Of Rare Tracks, Unreleased Songs & B-Sides.
The German synth-pop trio Camouflage was officially formed in 1984 by vocalist Marcus Meyn and keyboardists/programmers Heiko Maile and Oliver Kreyssig. The group took first place in a radio-sponsored song contest in 1986, and before long, their debut single, "The Great Commandment," was scaling the German charts. Their full-length debut, Voices and Images, was released in 1988, reflecting the group's classic new wave synth-pop influences, but most of all Depeche Mode. 1989's Methods of Silence began to broaden Camouflage's sonic palette, yet the Depeche Mode sound still remained at the forefront. Oliver Kreyssig then left the group, leaving Maile and Meyn as a duo augmented by several studio musicians…

jazz fm records returns with an all-new peak-time musical experience entitled… Dreamin'. Escape… with the very best of smooth jazz as heard on jazz fm featuring Luther Vandross, Boz Scaggs, Richard Elliot, Hil St. Soul, Special EFX, Sheila E, Acoustic Alchemy, Marc Antoine, Joyce Cooling and many more… Dreamin' is a double CD, 32-track including many brand new jazz fm tracks and the most recent playlist additions from many of the most popular jazz fm artists and emerging talents hotly tipped for the very top! Dreamin' follows the evocative, 'escape' themed Driftin' and Breezin' trilogy but this time takes a slightly more uptempo approach compared to the previous albums. As always though, the album includes the very best in contemporary jazz, and the smoothest, laid-back grooves ever popular with the jazz fm audience.