The Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne's honorary conductor Dmitrij Kitajenko has associated with the orchestra since 2009, a co-operation spanning more than 30 years and producing many excellent recordings. With this orchestra, OehmsClassics released the Second Symphony by Jean Sibelius in June 2018, which was named the best recording in the category of symphonic music at the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) in 2019.

Motéma Music, now celebrating its 20th year as one of the world’s premier jazz/world labels, will release FlamenKora, a self-titled debut album from a new trio that unites West African Mande music with authentic Spanish flamenco guitar and American and Euro jazz trumpet to create a transglobal collaboration unlike any other. FlamenKora features German-born, New York-based trumpeter Volker Goetze, Senegalese-born, Paris-based kora master and vocalist Ali Boulo Santo Cissoko, and the rising Madrid flamenco guitar sensation, Alejandro Moreno. Following a series of sold-out shows in Europe, FlamenKora will introduce their cross-genre global music to the masses with their Motéma release on Friday, June 9th, 2023.

Pearl Jam live at Passeio Marítimo de Algés, Lisbon, Portugal, 13 July 2024.

Over the last 15 years or so, British Columbia indie rockers Mother Mother have kept a pretty steady ship, but it wasn’t until 2020 that the band caught fire, when a whole new generation of fans discovered their catalogue via TikTok. On Inside, their eighth LP, you can feel them adding fuel to that spark.

After a series of epic, sprawling and headphones-friendly albums, Motorpsycho is back with a short, reasonably pop-formatted and intimate album of mainly acoustically based songs. For once playing the game instead of trying to reinvent it, this 10-song album of tunes is clearly a reaction in some way to too much architecture and too many grand visions, and dials the music down to more comprehensive and digestible sizes than have been the band's métier lately.

Following the release of their critically acclaimed self-titled debut EP in 2021, Antwerp’s Lucid Lucia are set to release their debut album ‘Ever-changing Light’ on the 7th October via the groove-obsessed Belgian tastemaker label, Sdban Ultra.

Another day. Written and recorded on guitar another day may 2022 at candle studios toronto,
Engineered by alex gamble. Drums recorded may 2022 at palace studios toronto, by a. Gamble, as well as fuzzbrain studios london, total refreshment center london. Bass recorded by sandy miranda october 2022 at palmer stone studios, toronto. Josh zucker guitars recorded july 2022 at candle. Lead vocals recorded by dylan frankland at foran sound/wychwood sounds, toronto, late 2023.
Lead vocals by damian abraham except 9 by mike haliechuk. Bass by s. Miranda, drums by jonah falco, guitars by m. Haliechuk and j. Zucker. Back up vocals by j. Falco, sam bielanski, pretty matty, charlie manning walker, holden abraham, d. Frankland and danko jones.

This recording is the culmination of a process spanning several years, in which the performers delved into the works of composers found right in their own backyard.

Complete recording of Frescobaldi's first book of "Toccate e Partite" in the final, expanded version of 1616 with the additional pieces ("Aggiunta") of 1637 (without Battaglia). The programme is complemented by the most beautiful excerpts from the "Recercari e Canzoni" of 1615, from the "Primo Libro di Capricci" of 1624 and from the " Fiori musicali" oof 1635.

Delve into the captivating world of contemporary classical music with Giacomo Manzoni's Parole da Beckett. This mesmerizing programme, brought to life by the exquisite soprano Livia Rado alongside the Coro Polifonico Castelbarco, Ensemble Vocale Continuum, and the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, a testament to the innovative spirit of composer Giacomo Manzoni. Released by MILANO DISCHI, the album focuses on the title piece, which takes inspiration from the words of Samuel Beckett, weaving a sonic tapestry that blurs the lines between music and literature.

With the three piano trios, Op. 1, Ludwig van Beethoven took a genre still largely associated with salon music and raised it up to rival the string quartet. The works are innovative in form as well as in content. From this collection, the Trio in G major, Op. 1 No. 2, appears as a cheerful and engaging work. While it has been said that one could discern ‘the master’s happy youth […] still unclouded, light and frivolous’, hints of ‘the deep seriousness and tender intimacy that would follow’ can also be found.

With the three piano trios Op.1 Ludwig van Beethoven took a genre still largely associated with entertaining salon music, and raised it up to rival the string quartet. The works are innovative in form as well as in content especially so in the case of the Trio No. 3 in C minor, Beethovens trademark key. It is therefore fitting that the Sitkovetsky Trio has chosen this work to open their cycle of the composers piano trios.

Ghent based psych jazz collective Compro Oro, are set to release new album ‘Buy The Dip’ on the 2nd September via the groove-obsessed Sdban Ultra label. Having received critical acclaim for their 2020 album ‘Simurg’ – a collaboration with Murat Ertel, co-founder and frontman of Istanbul's cult psychedelic folk band BaBa ZuLa and his singer partner Esma Ertel – the band’s fifth album is less ethno- and more techno-logy, both on a musical and conceptual level. With tastemaker fans including BBC 6 Music’s Gilles Peterson and Stuart Maconie alongside Jazz FM’s Jez Nelson, the band’s spontaneous quest for psychedelic sounds and jazz grooves has not stopped expanding since their formation in 2014.

"Better music through science" was the Epic Records-coined slogan that Boston leader Tom Scholz hated, but this masterwork of studio-happy, high-school-parking-lot music earned it. Scholz fine-tuned his overdubbed guitar orchestra to a pitch that a thousand subsequent album-rockers couldn't resist. And why should they? Where the band's later records were hardly worthy of note, Boston pulls together classic after classic: "More Than a Feeling," "Peace of Mind," "Hitch a Ride." The pseudo-cosmic ambience invites scoffs as the year 2000 recedes into the past, but it's really just part of the disc's charm. Let it take you home tonight.

CIKADA DUO is Kenneth Karlsson (piano/synthesizer) and Bjørn Rabben (percussion). They are joined by Åke Parmerud (elektronics) and Elisabeth Holmertz (soprano) in this production of Arne Nordheim's music. Take the stand within the percussion and let yourself be embraced by electronica, vocal and synthesizers in an extreme surround sound recording, produced by the GRAMMY-nominated Lindberg Lyd.