‘Indie’ cross-over composers and their Polish avant-garde heroes come together in a program about musical inheritance. The "Indies & Idols" program is an excellent example of artistic director Richard Tognetti’s flair for making a unified narrative out of the apparently eclectic. In this case - a meeting of the heroes of the Polish avant-garde with some contemporary ‘indie’ cross-over artists who admire them.Tognetti thinks that the contemporary composers of "Indies & Idols" – Jonny Greenwood, Sufjan Stevens and Bryce Dessner – are the inheritors of what has been a “slow-motion response” to the upheavals of Modernism. This generation that I’m part of, and younger, have all responded to Modernism in a sort of slow dance, if you like”, he says. “It’s taken a long time.

Raymond and Ray is a 2022 comedy-drama film written and directed by Rodrigo García and starring Ewan McGregor and Ethan Hawke.It had its world premiere at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival on September 12, 2022. It was released in limited theaters on October 14, 2022, before releasing on Apple TV+ on October 21.Jeff Beal is an American composer of music for film, television, recordings, and the concert hall. Highly regarded as a jazz instrumentalist and versatile composer, Beal creates music that often incorporates a synthesis of improvisatory and composed elements.

Since 2020, Margret Koell, a proven specialist in historical harps, has been in possession of a Welsh triple harp. It is a copy of an instrument by the famous harp maker Evans, whose original from 1736 is kept in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.This wonderful harp was the occasion for the present recording with works by the two famous British composers John Dowland and Henry Purcell. Despite the long harp tradition on the British Isles, there is no original literature for the harp from this period. Margret Koell had to resort to literature for lute or keyboard instruments, which she makes sound on the harp without major changes.

FLY MAGIC is saxophonist Timo Vollbrecht’s longstanding signature ensemble. A genre-exploding unit with a bold sense of creativity and intent. Following two highly acclaimed releases (Fly Magic, 2016 / Faces in Places, 2018), GIVERS & TAKERS marks the band's next chapter. Recorded while on tour, it captures the chemistry that the four musicians developed on the road, presenting a new vision that expands on the sonic path Vollbrecht has been refining for over a decade.

The Libertines' debut album, Up the Bracket, turns 20 in October, and to celebrate, Rough Trade Records is reissuing the album in a variety of formats, including remastered vinyl editions and a deluxe box set with 65 bonus tracks.

Haut en couleurs, cinématographique au possible, avec Sun Monkey Voltage, RP3 reste fidèle à sa propre tradition et nous délivre un nouveau répertoire maîtrisé, généreux, feel-good et groove à souhaits…

Sunstorm is a star-studded AOR/melodic rock outfit featuring powerhouse vocalist Joe Lynn Turner (Rainbow, Deep Purple); bassist Dennis Ward, guitarist Uwe Reitenauer, and drummer Chris Schmidt (all members of Pink Cream 69); and keyboardist Jochen Weyer. Founded in 2006, the band issued its eponymous debut album that same year via Frontiers Records. A sophomore outing, House of Dreams, dropped in 2009, followed by Emotional Fire (2012) and Edge of Tomorrow (2016).

Meghan Elizabeth Trainor (born December 22, 1993) is an American singer-songwriter and television personality.

Corrie Dick, a musician and composer specialising in euphoric, sonically-inventive drumming, is at the rhythmic epicentre of a new era of innovative British jazz.

Violinist, vocalist and storyteller Susan Reed has crafted a wide-ranging career that includes multiple nationally renowned books and recordings for children.

Leaping genres with this kind of authority is a talent within itself, and the success he has had certainly acknowledges his obvious commitment to artistic integrity.

The official game synopsis reads “Batman is dead. It is now up to the Batman Family – Batgirl, Nightwing, Red Hood and Robin – to protect Gotham City, bring hope to its citizens, discipline to its cops, and fear to its criminals… You must evolve into the new Dark Knight and save Gotham from chaos. Your legacy begins now. Step into the Knight.”

Herbert Schuch ist bekannt dafür, Brücken zwischen zwei Komponisten zu schlagen. Nach seinem ersten Projekt "Bagatellen" und dem Folgeprojekt "Reflecting Beethoven" stellt er Klaviermusik zur Diskussion, die eine gewisse geistige Ähnlichkeit zwischen Franz Schubert und Leoš Janáček aufweist. Herbert Schuch gilt mittlerweile als einer der führenden deutschen Pianisten, der immer wieder eigene Konzepte und Projekte im Konzert und im Studio vorstellt. "Eigentlich ist die Idee zu diesem Album, nämlich Musik von Franz Schubert und Leoš Janáček miteinander in Beziehung zu setzen, in einer Art Traumwelt zwischen Wachen und Schlafen entstanden. Ich hatte mich hingelegt – und dachte an diese zwei Komponisten."

Merge Records release Pigments, the debut collaboration between New Orleans electro-revival dynamo Dawn Richard and multi-instrumentalist, producer, and composer Spencer Zahn. Pigments is a project about the power of self-expression through living art, through motion. It’s also a love letter to New Orleans, Louisiana. Not strictly classical, jazz or ambient electronica but rather a body of “movements,” it is an expressive soundscape that is an immersive passage through the city as seen through the eyes of a young Black girl with dreams to paint her future with the pigments given to her.

Written, recorded, and mixed over three days in Joshua Tree, California, Hollywood Visit is the product of two old friends with one shared goal: have fun and attempt to capture the moment. During 13 years of friendship Dave Harrington (DARKSIDE, Taper’s Choice) and Tim Mislock (Hedwig and The Angry Inch, The Antlers) have held many roles for one another: guitar tech, producer, marriage counselor, bartender, roadie, sous chef, booking agent, superfan.