Maria Callas Commendatore OMRI (December 2, 1923, New York – September 16, 1977, Paris) was a leading 20th-century Greek mastiff. Her vocal art and special acting skills have been praised by a host of critics.

Acclaimed Pianist Randy Ingram and Virtuosic Vocalist Aubrey Johnson Team Up to Produce Play Favorites, a Duo Album Greater Than The Sum of Its Parts, due out November 4, 2022 via Sunnyside Records.

You can piece together the life of William Fitzsimmons with the songs he chose to record for his forthcoming album, Covers, Vol. 1. For the Illinois-based singer, songwriter, and producer, some tunes recollect joyful moments at home as a kid, and others recall his high school days.

In his nine symphonies, Gustav Mahler created an entire world for himself and his listeners. More than any other composer, he tries in his symphonic oeuvre to get to the very depths of the circle of life - the eternal cycle of growth and decay.

A revelatory discovery in the Tinariwen archives, Kel Tinariwen is an early cassette tape recorded in the early 90s that never received a wider release, and sheds new light on the band's already rich history. Not having yet developed the fuller band sound that they became internationally established with, Kel Tinariwen features their trademark hypnotic guitar lines and call-and-response vocals weaving in between raw drum machine rhythms and keyboard melodies that almost evoke an Arabic take on 80s synth-pop. There's distinct parallels with the sounds found on this tape and the work uncovered in recent years by cratedigger labels such as Awesome Tapes From Africa, Sahel Sounds and Sublime Frequencies.

Ulla returns with ‘Foam’, a surprise new album unlocking variants of ambient pop and looped jazz/dub styles coiled inside a glitched matrix that reminds us of Huerco S’ ‘Plonk’ as well as Ekkehard Ehlers fractal treatments and those incredible, smudged and disneyfied edits of Celine Dion released earlier this year by elusive outfit Romance. It’s an absorbing, quietly significant album for 3XL, on its most substantial release to date.

Whigham had piano and harmony lessons at the Cleveland Institute of Music from the age of seven. He started playing the trombone at the age of eleven; he was already engaged for concerts and even recordings during his school years.

Mogensen learned to play the drums at the age of six; at the age of ten he also received classical piano lessons.

Retro Pop said "Covering a range of styles inherent to the band's repertoire, Heart & Soul sees Blue do what they do best and on Heart & Soul they succeed in regrouping for an album that dabbles in nostalgia while continuing to push their sound.

Ubuntu Music is delighted to announce the upcoming release of Pluto, from the exceptionally talented pairing of O’Higgins & Luft, on 4th November 2022.

„Wir haben das Privileg, alles, was uns im Laufe unseres Lebens musikalisch geprägt hat, zu unserem eigenen Destillat zu kochen, und das mit diesen wunderbaren Musikern, diesem fantastischen Klangkörper: Unser ureigenes Wunschkonzert!“

The Magic Flute is an upcoming German fantasy musical film directed by Florian Sigl, based on the 1791 opera of the same name by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with Roland Emmerich as executive producer.

The music of the Ukrainian-born Thomas de Hartmann (1884–1956) is only now beginning to be rediscovered, almost seven decades after his death.

Composer Guillaume Roussel has written the original music for the film Couleurs de l’incendie directed by and featuring Clovis Cornillac with co-stars Léa Drucker, Benoît Poelvoorde, Alice Isaaz and Olivier Gourmet. The film is based on the novel by Pierre Lemaitre, who received the Prix Goncourt for his book Au revoir là-haut. The movie adaptation of the latter by Albert Dupontel in 2017 (See You Up There) was a huge success and won several Césars. In Couleurs de l’Incendie, Fanny Ardant plays the role of a heroic opera singer; her singing voice in the film is that of the soprano Sandrine Piau. In addition to the music by Guillaume Roussel (who, among other things, wrote the soundtrack for Cédric Jimenez’s film Bac Nord), we hear Verdi, Saint-Saëns and other classics from the French repertoire, including Plaisir d’amour.

As they are currently touring around Europe and recently ended their sold-out US tour, french psycho indie rock band La Femme announces the release of ‘Teatro Lucido’, a new studio album entirely sang in spanish, on November 4th.