Decca Records announces today the release of a brand-new series of accessible bespoke albums of newly composed music and words designed to enhance anyone’s life and help the listener approach their life in a more mindful way. The newly signed Calm Collective, features musician Lotte Mullan working together with Neurolinguistic Psychotherapist Martin Weaver and Mindfulness Practitioner Victoria Grove who have created a series of albums. This collection of specially created mindfulness albums has something for everyone. Whether dealing with the pressures of everyday life and anxiety, battling sleepless nights and tearful babies, or even improving the intimacy of a sexual relationship, the Calm Collective is designed to bring help to all. Each of the albums feature newly composed music by Lotte Mullan who carefully designed the compositions to lower the heart rate and calm the mind. Mullan wore a Fitbit throughout the making of the records to monitor the effect different sounds and rhythms had on her heart rate.

Saleem Ashkar made his Carnegie Hall debut at the age of 22 and has since gone on to establish an international career. Recent and future concerto highlights include the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Konzerthausorchester Berlin and the St Louis, Vancouver and Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestras.He has also performed with the Wiener Philharmoniker, Royal Concertgebouw, London Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Orchestre National de Lyon and on a three week tour to Australia. Saleem has a close relationship with many leading conductors including David Afkham, Daniel Barenboim, Riccardo Chailly, Jakub Hrůša, Pietari Inkinen, Fabio Luisi, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Kazushi Ono and Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider.

The Goossens Messiah, recorded for the first and only time by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus under Sir Thomas Beecham, has stood as a landmark of the classical catalogue for sixty years. Goossens’ richly orchestrated version is set to reach a new audience thanks to Maestro Griffith and DCINY, New York City’s leading promoter of classical music.
They gathered at Abbey Road Studios in London in July 2019, to record the work with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and a chorus comprising of sixty members of The Jonathan Griffith Singers, drawn from around the world and sixty members of the National Youth Choir of Great Britain. The new recording has captured the score’s vibrant tone colours in thrilling high-definition sound.

The music on this album is a culmination of compositions manifested during a 5 year period from 2014-2019. Unorthodox methods including but not limited to tape manipulation, layering, FX as well as inherent limitations were employed to achieve a commitment allowing the listener to transcend.

Solex is back with more soul in his 7th CD release entitled "Smooth Ride". With tempos from mellow to funky, this project displays an array of emotions. Let's take this ride together!

101 Strings Orchestra was a brand for a highly successful easy listening symphonic music organization, with a discography exceeding 150 albums and a creative lifetime of around 30 years beginning in 1957. 101 Strings had a trademark sound, focusing on melody with a laid-back ambiance most often featuring strings. Their LPs were individualized by the slogan “The Sound of Magnificence”, a puffy cloud logo and sepia-toned photo of the orchestra. The 101 Strings orchestra included 124 string instruments, and was conducted by Wilhelm Stephan. The orchestra’s famous official photograph was taken in the Musikhalle Hamburg.

Born in Bergen, Norway in 1969, Sissel had appeared on Norwegian television several times as a child, but came into the public eye with her stellar vocal performances at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. She sings in her native tongue, in addition to English and Latin, similar in style and substance as the Irish ethereal vocalist Enya. Two albums in the mid-'90s, Innerst I Sjelen and Deep Within My Soul, found a small but dedicated audience and led to a prominent place as the voice of James Horner's maritime muse in the smash 1997 film Titanic. 1997 also brought about a project with rapper Warren G on an unusual compilation of hip hop and classical recordings on Mercury/Def Jam, which became a hit in Europe. Recording under her full name, Sissel Kyrkjebø, she recorded Gift of Love for Polygram in 1999.

Aucun groupe de musique populaire des années 60, 70, 80 ou 90 n’a connu plus de hauts et de bas en termes de popularité, ou n’a attiré un public si varié que les Bee Gees. Ils font leurs débuts au milieu des années 60 dans un ensemble qui rappelle les Beatles, puis se mettent rapidement à écrire leurs propres textes et à développer un style plus personnel, perfectionnant en chemin un son pop progressif tout à fait singulier. Après un passage à vide au début des années 70, le groupe se réinvente au cours de l'ère disco grâce à la bande originale du film La Fièvre du samedi soir, qui a fait d'eux le groupe de soul blanc le plus célèbre de tous les temps.

Levi Robin’s path of wandering and wondering has led him along many roads. From main streets to mystic mountaintops, packed concert halls to huddled rooms full of whispered secrets swaying and hovering above the candle’s glow. Far out, and deep within. Always seeking what — a life lived in quiet commitment to the ever-vanishing horizon, perpetually pushing on beyond each crowded station, always returning home, where stillness speaks in psalmic silence.

Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the psychological thriller Swallow. The album features the film’s original music composed by Nathan Halpern (The Rider, Minding the Gap, One Percent More Humid, Rich Hill) . Swallow is written and directed by Carlo Mirabella-Davis and stars Haley Bennett, Austin Stowell, Elizabeth Marvel, David Rasche and Denis O’Hare. The movie revolves around a newly pregnant housewife who finds herself increasingly compelled to consume dangerous objects and must confront the dark secret behind her new obsession. The thriller, which premiered at last year’s Tribeca Film Festival, was released in select theaters and on VOD earlier this month by IFC Films.

Vamps embarked on their first world tour in the fall of 2010. Making stops in the following countries: Taiwan, United States, Spain, France, China and Chile. Their seventh single "Memories" was released on December 15, 2010 and contains the B-side "Get Up -Japanese Ver.-", which is an alternative version of "Get Up" that translates some of the English lyrics into Japanese. This recording of the song was used in the Bakuman. anime, which features a fictionalized version of Hyde that is voiced by the singer himself. On July 13, 2011, Vamps released their fourth DVD, Vamps Live 2010 World Tour Chile, which was recorded in Santiago on November 6, 2010 at the Caupolican Theatre.

The NOW series is back and kicking off the new decade with NOW 105. The legendary compilation includes two discs of chart topping hits! Available from 3 rd April, NOW 105 is the perfect soundtrack to Spring 2020.

This new recording celebrates a triple anniversary – the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth, the 20th birthday of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, and it will be released 40 years after the legendary Triple Concerto recording made by Anne-Sophie Mutter and Yo-Yo Ma under Herbert von Karajan.

Charley Crockett (born 1984) is an American blues, country and Americana singer, guitarist, and songwriter. He has released five albums since 2015, with his most recent, Lil G.L.’s Blue Bonanza, peaking at number 10 in the US Billboard Blues Albums chart.

Two-time Grammy-winning vocalist/pianist Diane Schuur shakes out new versions of songs for which she has a deep-rooted affection. On her latest recording “Running On Faith,” Schuur arranges music by some of her favorite performers and songwriters; from Miles Davis to Percy Mayfield to Paul Simon, all with her distinctive, jazzy charm.