La Califusa (1986) is an album by Kei Marimura, a Japanese singer and musician known for her work in the pop and jazz genres, especially during the 1980s. This album represents a continuation of her involvement in the Japanese music scene, where she blended Western pop influences with Japanese musical sensibilities. La Califusa features a mix of smooth pop melodies, jazzy undertones, and elements of the city pop genre, which was very popular in Japan at the time. The title track and other songs on the album highlight Kei Marimura's smooth vocal style, characterized by its warmth and emotion, alongside sophisticated arrangements that evoke the laid-back yet polished sound of 1980s Japanese pop music.

P.S. I Love You (1983) is an album by Kei Marimura, a Japanese singer, songwriter, and musician. The album is known for its blend of pop and jazz influences, which was a prominent feature of Marimura's style during the 1980s. Kei Marimura was part of the vibrant Japanese music scene, where the 1980s saw the fusion of traditional Japanese sounds with Western styles like pop, jazz, and soft rock.

Apnea (2009) is a collaborative album by Max De Aloe and Bill Carrothers. Max De Aloe is an Italian harmonica player known for his versatile work in jazz, blues, and experimental genres, while Bill Carrothers is an American pianist and composer with a deep affinity for jazz improvisation. This album features a mix of jazz, contemporary, and improvisational music, with both artists contributing to a rich, expressive sound. The harmonica, often an underrepresented instrument in jazz, takes a central role in this album, with De Aloe's smooth, emotive playing complementing Carrothers' sophisticated and intricate piano work.

Taloch Jameson & Josh Elliott - Journey (2014) is an album released by two artists, Taloch Jameson and Josh Elliott. It combines elements of electronic, ambient, and cinematic music, taking listeners on an evocative sonic journey. The album features immersive and atmospheric compositions that blend smooth melodies with deep, rich textures. The project has been appreciated for its emotive depth and has found an audience in those who enjoy instrumental and ambient music, often used in contexts like relaxation, meditation, or reflective moments.

We are excited to announce the re-release of Ben's iconic score for Walking With Dinosaurs on all streaming platforms. The original BBC Concert Orchestra recordings, captured at Angel Studios, London have been sensitively remastered specially for streaming with the composer's endorsement. Also in the works is a unique vinyl triple disk set that will include the complete score from Walking With Beasts, including the missing tracks with BBC Singers.

Compilation featuring captivating performances by some of the most iconic female vocalists in jazz. This collection offers listeners an opportunity to explore the emotional and enchanting dimensions of jazz music.

A complete 4CD boxset from the source of the 1963 radio series "Pop Goes The Beatles"
From January 1963, The Beatles regularly pulled in U.K. audiences of around ten million on "Saturday Club" and a myriad of other BBC pop shows, until they received the ultimate recognition from the B.B.C. when they were offered their own show, "Pop Go The Beatles". For some groups, a series that demanded five new recordings each week might have been daunting, but it allowed The Beatles to air their influences, and try out some new favourites. Pop Go The Beatles was broadcast in the summer of 1963 and this 4 CD set contains all sixteen episodes. The show features the band taking requests, interacting with presenters Lee Peters (first four episodes) and Rodney Burke (all the other episodes), playing their favourite songs and most importantly, performing live. Whilst most of the Beatles performances here appear on the more extensive BBC collections, it’s a treat to hear these shows in their entirety (except they're not !). The Beatles hadn’t been to America yet and were still Britain’s best kept secret. The innocence of 1963 comes through in these recordings…you can tell they were still just having fun playing together. An added bonus is the exhaustive 20 page booklet of sleeve notes, so detailed that it even transcribes all the between-song banter!

Ash Ra Tempel is the eponymous debut studio album by the Krautrock band Ash Ra Tempel. Engineered by Conny Plank, it was recorded in March 1971 and released in June 1971 on Ohr.

Schwingungen is the second album by the Krautrock band Ash Ra Tempel. It was released in 1972 on Ohr. It has been re-released four times, most recently in 2011 on MG Art Records. The first song on the album contains a reminiscence to the blues - Peter Green's playing on Fleetwood Mac's Albatross.

Vocalist Catherine Russell's third album for World Village is a wonder, pure and simple. On this collection of 13 songs, titled Inside This Heart of Mine, the thread that ties it all together, is the special place these songs hold inside the heart of the singer. Let's describe that heart. It's warm and effusive, bluesy and erudite, bold yet vulnerable, passionate yet ethereal. Starting to get the drift? If not, then listen to Catherine's masterful reading of 'Troubled Waters,' a seldom heard tune scored by the Duke Ellington Orchestra, performed here as a sultry meditation, reaching deep into the cockles of one's being. This decades spanning collection, originally performed by the likes of Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Peggy Lee, Maxine Sullivan, Howlin' Wolf, Wynonie Harris, Fats Waller, and Catherine's father, Luis Russell, draws from Vaudeville wit, Tin Pan Alley tune craft, New Orleans swagger, Swing Era sock, the European Cafe, Jump Blues jive, modal Delta Blues, and Django-esque swing, with an immediacy and a timeless quality that's refreshingly oblivious to current 'trends.' Catherine's third album represents a deepening of a well-established, tried and true, approach.

Supernatural Fairy Tales: The Progressive Rock Era is a 5-CD compilation of progressive rock from around the world. It was curated by Archie Patterson of Eurock, and released by Rhino Records in 1996. The cover art is by Roger Dean, longtime cover artist for the genre. Reviews of the set generally note the difficulty of summarizing such a broad and far-reaching genre, as well as the obvious omission of several big-name bands whose music could not be licensed for inclusion. However, several lesser-known tracks from a broad variety of bands make the set an interesting listen.

Encased in a classy sleeve painted by Scottish playwright John "Patrick" Byrne, the first LP from the tumultuous Stealers Wheel is a debonair affair comprised of the kind of accomplished and polished pub pop for which impetus Gerry Rafferty would become known as he subsequently rode out the decade on the sublime radio single "Baker Street ." Rafferty released his first solo slab, Can I Have My Money Back? (the title already showing signs of unrest) in 1971, and brought amigo Joe Egan from those sessions to the princely proceeding here. Worthy musical moments abound, all forever overshadowed by the clever corporate-snub "Stuck in the Middle With You" which branded the duo a one-hit wonder when the track took on a life of its own…

In his 1919 essay “The Uncanny,” Sigmund Freud defines the term as follows: “the ‘uncanny’ is that class of the terrifying which leads back to something long known to us, once very familiar.” To this end, a feeling of uncanniness distinguishes itself from just being afraid because of its relation to what we already know, a disturbing variation of what we expect to see when we look in the mirror or the kind of horror that comes from inside the house. The uncanny valley, for instance, describes the creepiness that seeps in when we encounter an almost but not quite perfect replica of a human being (robots, computer animations, the list goes on).

INFINITE MOMENTS is an hour of ambient electronic music from veteran Norwegian composer Erik Wøllo. Across nearly four decades, 40 albums encompass Erik’s unique mix of layered synthesizers, melodic guitars and expansive percussion. This time he takes a different approach — there are no synthesizers! The album is performed entirely on electric guitars processed with the diffused sustain of the EBow and layered note structures of harmonizers. No rhythms, only long, vast and engaging soundscapes. Minimal, extended and infinite in its essence, the album is a meditative inward journey of stillness and reflection — an emotional mapping of the mind, beautifully weightless and contemplative.

Born 25th August, 1925 in Montreal, Canada, Oscar Emmanuel Peterson grew up in Little Burgundy, a predominantly black neighbourhood in greater Quebec. He took up piano and trumpet at age five, quickly becoming adept on both instruments. At seven he was diagnosed with tuberculosis which prevented him from playing the trumpet, he thus concentrated on the piano during this time, practising four to six hours a day. Studying under the Hungarian-born player Paul de Marky - himself a student of virtuoso Istvan Thoman - the young Oscar began learning classical piano but later switched to jazz styles, most notably 'boogie-woogie'. By 1961, with the piano-bass-drums line up now firmly established, the OPT performed a week's residency at The London House, a renowned jazz spot in Chicago. These performances were among the finest the new line-up ever gave, and were released on Verve as four separate albums; The Trio, Something Warm, The Sound Of The Trio and Put On A Happy Face, in '61 and early '62. The following year, Peterson's most commercially successful record Night Train (Verve, 1963), was released, another Trio masterpiece that due to its shorter track times, received considerable radio play.