Essential: a masterpiece of country rock music
In the 15 months between the release of Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere and After the Gold Rush, Neil Young issued a series of recordings in different styles that could have prepared his listeners for the differences between the two LPs.

"Ice is made of water, but it is colder than water. Blue dye comes from the Indigo plant, but when something is repeatedly dyed in it, the color is deeper than the plant itself." The phrase, greater than the sum of it's parts, suggests a thing is better than you would expect from the individual parts, because the way they combine adds a different quality. This principle describes the synergy which exists between individuals working together in a cooperative effort. Collectively, they are able to achieve an outcome superior to individual efforts.

Essential: a masterpiece of progressive rock music
On this extensive triple-LP set, the key to sorting out the wheat from the chaff is song length. The longer the song, the better it is.

Essential: a masterpiece of progressive rock music
NECRONOMICON named themselves after a H.P.Lovecraft book mainly because the themes they were touching upon lyrically were much the same as those in that book.

Hong Kong pop and cantopop singer celebrates the 50th anniversary of her singing career with this release. She is best known for performing many of the theme songs for television series produced by TVB in the 1980s and early 1990s. This album features a survey of songs from her prolific and storied career. A must for all fans.

It's always difficult reviewing Krautrock, simply because Krautrock, as a genre, tends not to patch directly into the generally accepted definition of Prog Rock - it's much closer to psychedelia.

The Dixieland style of jazz is based on the music that developed in New Orleans at the start of the 20th century – and became the precursor to jazz as we know it today. One of the first uses of the term "Dixieland" with reference to music was in the name of the Original Dixieland Jass Band (which shortly thereafter changed the spelling of its name to "Original Dixieland Jazz Band"). Their 1917 recordings fostered popular awareness of this new style of music.

Excellent addition to any prog rock music collection.
This is a very serious, sad and emotional record, and it made a very big impression on me. The songs have stunning melodies, and the overall feeling is very psychedelic.

Frequency of Spirit was originally released in 2005, in the same month that the band's former record company Atenzia Records filed for bankruptcy. Now resurrected and fully remastered by Alan Douches (Fleetwood Mac, Yes, Mastodon), this seminal album is given new life. THE WAY is a band built around 3 dynamic individuals who have sold over 100,000 records, recorded for EMI, Sony and Atlantic records, and toured over 500 cities in 15 countries. Vocalist Russell Arcara (Prophet, Surgin), Keyboardist Charlie Calv (Angel, Shotgun Symphony) and guitarist Stephen DeAcutis (Corey Glover) may be some familiar names but what you are about to hear is nothing like you have heard from them before.

Think It Over is a 1978 studio album by American gospel/soul singer Cissy Houston, released on Private Stock Records. The album was produced by Michael Zager, and has been remastered and rereleased with 4 bonus extended disco mixes.

The Berkeley Ensemble returns with this album of chamber works by Ludwig van Beethoven celebrating the composer’s 250th anniversary year.

Cello and piano duo Robin Michael and Daniel Tong return to Resonus with this dazzling collection of the complete works for cello and piano of Ludwig van Beethoven. Written across his productive life, they contain much that is considered pioneering and innovative within the genre.

“Try something new” is Simon Höfele’s motto. Inquisitive, intrepid and full of passion for his instrument, on his new album “Standards” he turns to the trumpet in all its many facets, sweeping his audience along with him with his audacious and clever programmes and thrilling playing. As a “Rising Star” of the European Concert Hall Organisation and one of Konzerthaus Dortmund’s “young wild things”, Simon Höfele has centred his debut album on the Berlin Classics label around the key repertoire for trumpet and the quintessence of his time as a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist.

Coupling powerful interpretations with path-breaking scholarship, Contrapunctus presents music by the best known composers as well as unfamiliar masterpieces. The group’s repertoire is drawn from England, the Low Countries, Spain, Portugal and Germany, particularly in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The scholarly facet of the group’s work – including the discovery of long-lost music and reconstructions of original performing contexts – allows audiences to experience the first performances of many works in modern times.

And now comes ‘Old Wow’, yet another dramatic change of musical direction where, for the first time, Sam includes the instrument most notably absent from his recording career, the guitar and electric guitar at that, played by the album’s producer Bernard Butler (of Suede and McAlmont & Butler fame). Sam explains, “but only because it’s played so beautifully and sensitively and you wouldn’t necessarily know it was guitar at all”. Other musicians involved include what he calls the “classic line-up” of piano (James Keay), bass (Misha Mullov-Addado) and percussion (Josh Green), along with Caoimhin Ó Raghallaigh of the acclaimed band The Gloaming (on Hardanger violin). Guest vocals are also contributed to the album with a remarkable appearance by Elizabeth Fraser of the Cocteau Twins, plus splendid harmonies from Cosmo Sheldrake and spoken word poet Dizraeli.