On November 13, 2020, Thomas Naïm's new jazz/blues trio opus, "SOUNDS OF JIMI" (Rootless Blues/L'autre Distribution) has been released. This is an important event for Thomas cause it’s an album that pays tribute to a musician that had a great impact on him, the American guitarist Jimi Hendrix. This album also benefits from special guests Hugh Coltman, Erik Truffaz, Célia Kameni and Camille Bazbaz.

Lemon City Trio formed as a soul jazz organ trio, and has since evolved into a band with its own sound and unique repertoire. The band hails from Miami, Fl and has made a name for itself throughout the state, and up the east coast. Ranging from edgy fusion grooves, to dreamy space Rock, and everything in between, on Postcards, LCT takes its audience on a journey from start to finish.

In spring 1994 Mouse on Mars contributed an exclusive piece to Sähkö Recordings’ ambient radio project, a one-week public radio program that was aired citywide in Helsinki, Finland. Andi Toma and Jan St. Werner recorded sounds in and around their studio in Düsseldorf Bilk to construct one continuous composition that spanned the course of one neighborhood walk.

Will Anderson believes in true love—as both concept and catalyst, aspiration and inspiration. During his 34 years, the Hotline TNT founder and architect has found such love perhaps half-a-dozen times. Each instance has prompted some enormous swing of commitment, like a cross-country move or simply being honest about his budding attraction. It is a hopeful and vulnerable way to exist, a way to ensure maximum bruising during the fall of the breakup. And so far for Anderson, that is how it has always ended, whether the air has slowly seeped out of some once-full balloon or whether it has simply popped, those expanded feelings expelled in an instant.

Over the last two decades Philadelphia-based guitarist Chris Forsyth has released over a dozen critically lauded albums that have established him as one of today’s most unique and acclaimed guitar player /composers – a forward-thinking classicist synthesizing cinematic expansiveness with a pithy lyricism and rhythmic directness that makes even his 20-minute workouts feel as clear, direct, and memorable as a 4-minute song.

on Batiste has teamed up with Tori Kelly for a new duet titled “Sing.” Over a moving and joyful production, the two offer an ode to their profession, laying down verses about how they sing to soothe the woes of life.

This is THE great album of iconic, classic Christmas instrumentals. No doubt at some point in the past half century or so you've heard at least a few of Percy Faith's renditions of Christmas music standards, and listening to this album you will instantly recognize them.

Twelve Nights in Hollywood is a 2009 live album by the American jazz vocalist Ella Fitzgerald, recorded at the Crescendo Club in Hollywood, Los Angeles over ten nights in May 1961, and a subsequent pair of performances in June 1962.

Aloha, hep cats. A question: what do blockbusting novelist James Michener, Fifties America's most influential newspaper columnist Walter Winchell and John Sturges, director of The Magnificent Seven, have in common?

"Anima Aeterna", an adventurous album consisting of Arias and motets from the 18th century, follows the spirit of the debut" Anima Sacra", which in 2018 announced Jakub Józef orliński not only as a" voice with a great future " (gramophone), but also a discoverer of new works.

Nebraska, the massively influential 1982 album from Bruce Springsteen, is the VMP Essentials Record of the Month for October 2022. Celebrating the record's 40th anniversary, our edition is half-speed mastered by Barry Grint at Alchemy Mastering at AIR and pressed on exclusive Black Smoke vinyl, with an art print by Justin A. McHugh.

When news first emerged in late 1989 that the E Street Band had been dismissed indefinitely by Bruce Springsteen, it began nine years of uncertainty and speculation as to when, if ever, they would join forces again. They did come back together to record new material for Greatest Hits in 1995 and undertook a small series of promotional appearances in support of it, but the fact that they parted ways again without touring only made the odds of a full return feel even longer.

Previously Unreleased Concert Includes The Hit "Precious To Me!" Phil Seymour Archive Series Volume 7: Live On The Sunset Strip. Recorded At The Height Of His Career At The World Famous Whisky A Go Go. Cover Design By The Flamin' Groovies Cyril Jordan. Featuring songs by Dwight Twilley, John Prine, Bill Pitcock IV (Dwight Twilley Band), Eddy Grant, Kathy Valentine and more. Includes the following songs: "Love You Too Much”, "If You Don't Want My Love”, "Then We Go Up”, "Precious To Me”, "Won't Finish Here”, "Don't Blow Your Life Away”, "Trying To Get To You”, "You're So Square”, "Let Here Dance”, "We Don't Get Along”, "Baby, Come Back”, "Bony Maronie”, "Danger Heartbreak, Dead Ahead”, "Only One."

After meeting and jamming at the Nordtrad conference, Ragnhild Knudsen (Norway) and Pauliina Syrjälä (Finland) formed their duo in 2015. The musicians were immediately inspired by the unique soundscape of the Norwegian hardingfele (Hardanger fiddle) and the Finnish kantele together, with the rich and shimmering layer of overtones.

Mediterranean Secrets, is part of a series of works dedicateci and inspired by the Mediterranean, its music and sounds, but also its stories, legendsand memories.An intimate and introspective journey, where the elements of this inspiration go through a process of deconstruction and reconstruction; being reborn in diffe rent forms; in some cases there are sounds clearly attributable to traditional sounds, in other cases this link is no longer perceptible, although it remains latent in the deep heart of the composition.