"Hawaii Is in Your Mind" is the third album by L’Exotighost, a new step forward in expanding the boundaries of 21st-century Exotica toward new horizons. The Madrid-based band is one of the few in the world today that dares to truly dive into the mysterious waters of this musical genre, born in the 1950s as the soundtrack of tiki culture and a testing ground for one of the most suggestive, sophisticated, and elusive sounds.

Since Jesper Munk's debut album in 2013 the German singer-songwriter has made a name for himself as multi-instrumentalist , playing music that ranges from Blues and Soul to heartfelt Pop and indulging Jazz, all this with a very unique, post-Punk edge.

The baroque ensemble Oslo Circles is back at the Opera with its brand new concert program of captivating, surprising, slightly crazy (or completely insane?) Italian and Austrian baroque music from the 17th century. After the wait through the pandemic, Oslo Circles is now ready for a big dose of joy and a bit of madness, and tonight's imaginative music describes dogs, cats, chickens, a fencing school (with real sabers!), a Turkish Janissary, the ballet of philosophers and madness, and a celebration at an inn, to name a few.

On its new CD from BR-KLASSIK, the Bavarian Radio Chorus, directed by Howard Arman, presents Christmas music from Italy. With his Lauda per la natività del Signore, Ottorino Respighi modernised the medieval nativity play of the same name by the religious lyricist Jacopone da Todi. He had already explored art forms of the past in adaptations of early music, re-creations and free works based on Gregorian chants. In this piece, he assigned the medieval verses to three soloists - the angel (soprano), the Virgin Mary (mezzo-soprano), and the shepherd (tenor) - as well as a chamber choir. Accompanied by selected woodwind instruments reminiscent of the music of Italian shepherds, and by four-handed piano and triangle, the miracle of Christmas is brought to life in a simple yet impressive way.

Needing no introduction, Norwegian trumpeter Tine Thing Helseth has championed the trumpet repertoire amongst audiences on all six continents, meriting the highest critical praise for her soulful, lyrical sound and collaborative approach to music-making. Her new album 'Echoes - Trumpet Concertos by Arutiunian, Penderecki and Weinberg, Tine is accompanied by the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Petr Popelka.

Latvian composer Pēteris Vasks’s Castillo Interior was composed in remembrance of the mystic St. Teresa of Avila, a mythologised 16th-century nun who documented her own ecstatic mystical experiences in her autobiography, The Life of Teresa of Jesus, as well as her books, The Interior Castle and The Way of Perfection. A meditative piece commemorating a rare 16th-century woman, published and therefore remembered by history.

S’aimer, c’est croire qu’on finira toujours par se retrouver. Même en plein chaos, même quand tout semble partir à la dérive. C’est avancer, sans trop savoir où ça nous mène, mais avec cette certitude étrange que tant qu’on reste ensemble, ça tiendra debout.

After two acclaimed disco-funk albums in Prism (2022) and Silver (2023), female Brooklyn-based trio Say She She—named in tribute to Nile Rodgers—return with Cut & Rewind, a record made for the dancefloor that remains socially conscious in its message. The prolific and ever-inspired Nya Gazelle Brown, Sabrina Cunningham, and Piya Malik joined forces once again with Orgone's Dan Hastie (keyboards), Sam Halterman (drums), Dale Jennings (bass), and Sergio Rios (guitar) at Killion Sound Studios in Los Angeles. Often brief, the recording sessions were driven by spontaneity and live energy. "We never record anything that we can't recreate live—it's the same thing when the three of us are up on stage that happens in the studio."

Sung Ho Yoo was immersed in music from a young age thanks to his mother. He followed his brother in learning the violin when he was 4, but switched to piano at the age of 7, discovering a stronger interest and talent. It was his debut recital at the age of 14 that deepened his love for music and strengthened his aspirations…

Hive Mind is the long-awaited fourth album from Stoner Kings and features 12 songs, of which one is a cover, that being Vinnie Paz's End of Days. Hive Mind is catchy, riff-laden, chunky and groovy. Dig in to the stoner metal goodness with all of the heavy rock sensibilities that make for good listening and high-end production!

"Romanticism is not the bloodless intellectual commitment to a program, but the expression of my most profound mind and soul." - Sergei Bortkiewicz. This deeply personal attitude toward Romanticism encapsulates the artistic philosophy that sustained Ukrainian composer Sergei Bortkiewicz (1877-1952) through the turbulent tides of the early 20th century: the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the unrelenting horrors of the Second World War.

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The sea brought small treasures back to the shore that The Girl scours every day.

In 1775 Leopold Mozart made an offer to publisher Breitkopf in Leipzig: to print an opus of keyboard sonatas by his son mit veränderten Reprisen, following the famous example set by C. P. E. Bach. Breitkopf declined, but after 250 years the idea still resonates: what might Wolfgang Amadé Mozart’s Sonatas with Varied Reprises have sounded like? Played on a highly responsive Stein fortepiano, Tom Beghin’s reconstituted score of K. 279–284 (Munich, 1775) provides a captivating answer—one that challenges our familiarity with six classics of the repertoire, while also paying tribute to Mozart’s supreme improvisational skills.

A musician since the tenderest age, for many years of my childhood and adolescence movies represented the one outlet from musical practice I could have. “Mommy, can we watch a movie?” was our daily plea, and “No movies for one month” was the most dreaded punishment. My father was – and still is – a great movie fan, and somebody who knew and remembered dozens of films which he had seen in his youth.

A graduate of Mannes Conservatory of Music, David lives in Los Angeles with his lyricist/producing partner/wife Faye Greenberg, two delightfully deranged mutts and occasionally daughter Mabel Lawrence who thinks pursuing a career in New York is more important than keeping Dad company.