Switzerland-born singer Susanne Abbuehl studied with the influential vocalist Jeanne Lee (1939-2000) while attending the Royal Conservatory of the Hague, amidst her wholehearted interest in North Indian classical music. On her first release for ECM, Abbuehl and her fellow European musicians render an often thought-provoking program, augmented by the infamous "ECM aesthetic." However, the thrust of this outing emanates from the vocalist's incorporation of e.e. cummings' poems set to her music, while she appoints lyrics to a few Carla Bley compositions. Abbuehl possesses enticingly affectionate vocal attributes coupled with her soft incantations and atmospheric means of spinning a tale. Clarinetist Christof May serves as a near perfect foil for Abbuehl, as he frequently contrasts the singer's animated lyrical approach and tenderly stated choruses…

LIK - the modern-day purveyors of classic Swedish Death Metal - are back with a vengeance with their fourth album 'Necro'! Standing loud and proud above so many imitators, 'Necro' is the musical equivalent of a classic shock-horror film, drenched in blood and gore and packed with exaggerated extremities.
Looking beyond the zombie-fied cover art created by Stockholm-based tattooist and artist Jens Olsson (Ink Fanatics), 'Necro' serves as a reminder of just how special and exciting the genre is: packed with blood-curdling fantasy stories of war, death, zombies, world apocalypse, murder; and stacked with disgustingly good rotten riffs. Proudly staying true to the DNA and ethos of the music they've collectively loved since their teenage years, LIK go straight for the jugular in true quintessential death metal style…

Ex Vitae were a jazz group from Limoges that created their only album in 1978. Ex Vitae offers original and tempting themes. The album presents an interesting crossing of electric jazz and Progressive rock. You will remark a slight influence of Moving Gelatine Plates with regard to the construction of the themes and the use of a wide range of instruments.

After international success with "Tonight Josephine" Tape Five now steps forward with some 1940's inspired flavours! Tape Five with his pacifist attitude has always been inspired by the Great Big Bands from the 30's and 40's who entertained the troops with their unique, powerful and cleverly arranged swingin´sounds, put him right in the mood. For the "Swing Patrol", the fourth album by songwriter/producer Martin Strathausen and his Orchestra, he recruited singers and musicians from ten different countries - from California to Cameron via Brazil, England, Italy, Ukraine, Romania and of course his home base in Germany. With alliances around the world Tape Five is stationed on hundreds of music compilations. An ever expanding, swinging Universe.

In the mid 1960’s, Detroit Michigan was a thriving industrial city. It was at the edge of a cliff, however. The great ethnic diversity in the inner city was a brewing powder keg of civil unrest. This, coupled with a disillusioned population struggling to make some sense of a questionable war in the rice paddies of Viet Nam, set an uneasy and troubling tempo for the future. Still, there were pockets of communities in the Detroit area where things were good and economic life was vibrant. The Grosse Pointes were such communities. It was on the outskirts of this political and racially tense era, in the affluent suburbs just outside of the city of Detroit, that Index was formed. The music of Index has been lauded by music heads for decades, and with good reason: it is bizarre, atmospheric, and “home-made” (in the best of all possible ways); the band has a druggie sound, with songs full of feedback and fuzzy guitars…