When composer and violinist Galya Bisengalieva first conceived her 2020 album Aralkum, it was to be a meditation on ecological loss and grief, both metaphorically and literally through the shrinking of the Aral Sea, one of the worst man-made environmental disasters on the planet.

On October 10th of last year, Babymetal entered into their 10th anniversary year and as the finale of this very special year, Babymetal release a live album of 10 Babymetal Budokan, a series of 10 performances which unfolded from January to April 2021.

Sticky, the new album from Frank Carter and the Rattlesnakes, is the sonic eruption of a year-plus of suppressed energy. While it’s an escapist experience, recent reality is never too far away. It’s there in ‘Go Get A Tattoo’, which was inspired by Carter’s experience of having to shut his first London based tattoo parlour, Rose of Mercy, almost immediately after it opened. It’s just as present in ‘My Town’, a suburban vignette of society’s collective mental health quickly unravelling.

Purple Disco Machine asserts his production prowess on his sophomore album Exotica featuring hits like “Fireworks,” “Hypnotized,” and more!

Sinatra Swings (originally titled Swing Along with Me) is an album by Frank Sinatra with Billy May and his Orchestra, released in 1961…

The first volume in this series traced the inter-war craze for carefree dance music in Austria and the Czech Lands (see GP813). This latest album focuses on Germany where jazz-influenced music flourished from the mid-1920s onwards even in the face of some social, political and racial opposition. Cabarets and dancehalls rejected this nationalist resistance and the Weimar Republic rejoiced in a cross-pollination of symphonic jazz and Kunstjazz – a fusion of dance and classical elements.