The Golden Key is a new album by Steve Parks, a cult soul artist renowned for his rare and highly sought-after record Movin' In The Right Direction (1981). This release continues his signature style, blending smooth soul, funk, and jazz melodies with warm, heartfelt vocals. The album promises introspective lyrics and sophisticated arrangements, transporting listeners to the atmosphere of classic 70s soul with a contemporary touch. It’s a work filled with emotional sincerity and the craftsmanship characteristic of Parks’ artistry.

Tim Lin is a Taiwanese-American saxophonist currently living in New York. Lin has released four albums: 'Romance in Formosa' (2022), 'Empathy' (2023), 'Birdwatching' (2024), and 'Heartfelt' (2025). which was released by Sony Music Taiwan and recorded with musicians such as Dick Oatts, Rodney Green, Jeb Patton, and David Wong.

Hillai’s upcoming album, “Every Other Now,” is a collaboration with bassist and composer Ben Meigners, featuring notable names from the NYC music scene, including guitarist Steve Cardenas, drummer Eric McPherson, and percussionist Café Da Silva. The music draws from a broad sonic palette, aiming to forge a distinctive sound. It evokes themes of memory, nostalgia, reflection, and the fluid nature of how we perceive time. Over the past three years, Hillai has developed this music in NYC jazz venues like Ornithology, where she holds a residency. She gained recognition for her innovative approach, experimenting with various rhythms, harmonies, and ensemble configurations before finalizing her current group. Together, they have been performing an expanding repertoire of compositions co-written by Hillai and Ben, as well as compositions of other members of the band.

Three works, one sound world: Bach’s Horns is a bold exploration of the festive, pastoral and ceremonial power of the horn in Bach’s music. In this imaginative album, the ensemble Solomon’s Knot juxtaposes the Mass in F major BWV 233 with the secular Hunt Cantata BWV 208—framed and interwoven with movements from the First Brandenburg ConcertoBWV 1046. A rich musical arc between sacred grandeur and mythological Arcadia—performed with vibrant energy and historical awareness.

When Germany invaded Austria in 1938, Robert Fürstenthal, born in 1920, took the path of many Viennese Jews and fled to the United States, where he made his living as an accountant; the fact that he had written music in his youth was soon forgotten. Reconnection, after 35 years, with the woman who had been his first love rekindled both that flame and his urge to compose, and from then on songs and chamber music flowed from his pen, preserving the spirit of fin-de-siècle Vienna under the Californian sun – ‘When I compose, I am back in Vienna’, he explained. He died in November 2016, aged 96, knowing that his lyrical, eloquent music was at last attracting the attention of both musicians and microphones.

In this album I wish to present a program of both improvised music and repertoire. I have always had a great love and admiration for improvisation. Dating back to my early years as a young piano student, I enjoyed creating my own pieces, both on the fly and written down. My musical flame was only fanned further by consecutive summers spent playing keyboard and singing in a rock and roll summer camp as a middle and high schooler all the while singing in church and school choirs.

Joanna Domańska’s Szymanowski: Piano Works, Vol. 3 is a masterful exploration of the Polish composer’s early 20th-century repertoire, showcasing his blend of Romantic lyricism and modernist innovation. This volume features the dramatic "Piano Sonata No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 8", with its sweeping emotional contrasts, alongside the intricate "Prelude & Fugue in C-Sharp Minor" and the folk-infused "Variations on a Polish Folk Theme, Op. 10 ". Domańska’s performance balances technical precision with expressive depth, revealing Szymanowski’s unique voice—bridging Chopin’s poeticism and Scriabin’s harmonic daring.

A shared passion for experimentation and a creative engagement with musical tradition unites the composers and performers featured on this new GENUIN release. Violist Ionel Ungureanu (Principal Violist of the MDR Symphony Orchestra) and pianist-composer Sandro Nebieridze present exciting chamber works by Ernest Bloch and Jaromír Ludvík Hruška. The program includes two 20th-century viola sonatas that explore cultural legacy and global sonic landscapes. The album is further enriched by the performers' own composition, “Tunisian Rhapsody”, which forges a musical bridge between the works of Bloch and Hruška. The result is a multifaceted dialogue of distant echoes—interweaving, inspiring, and transporting the listener into new sonic worlds.

Ingenious Ashmen Out of Hocus is a collaboration between electronic producer Jonas Reinhardt and multi-instrumentalist Maxim Starcke, promising a unique blend of experimental electronics and sonic landscapes. The album explores abstract sound worlds, combining analog synthesizers, improvisational elements, and textures inspired by nature and the cosmos. Its music creates an atmosphere that balances cinematic depth with psychedelic abstraction, inviting listeners into a contemplative immersion.

Slow Pain: Live and Solo from Drop of Sun captures an intimate performance of eight tracks from Rosali's acclaimed 2024 Merge debut Bite Down and standalone single “Hey Heron.” Recorded April 23, 2025, at the vaunted Drop of Sun Studios in Asheville, NC, these recordings go beyond showing the bones of Bite Down. Pared down to Rosali's voice and guitar and performed for a small audience, these songs are shaded in cooler tones, rearticulated to show the sleek musculature of her songwriting in an altogether new light.

This album is the culmination of years of musical and technological exploration with the JADE digital musical instrument developed at MEARL (Memorial ElectroAcoustic Research Lab). While JADE has three modes of operation (touch mode, ambient mode, and biosensor mode), it’s EEG mode has been the primary focus of this project. Using an EEG sensing headband, JADE sonifies brain waves, creating MIDI and audio data that can be shaped and sculpted into melody, harmony, and rhythm by a composer.

Harpist to Queen Victoria, the Welsh composer John Thomas (1826–1913) also wrote prolifically for his own instrument, both for solo harp and for duos of two harps or harp and piano – a combination where the different sounds of the two instruments enhance the clarity of the texture. Thomas’ original works use the elegant Romantic style of his own day, but he often drew on Welsh folksong for his inspiration and also left a generous legacy of transcriptions, especially of operatic favourites. Although some of his music was intended for the Victorian drawing room, other pieces require a virtuoso technique – and all of it has a thoroughly engaging melodic appeal.

The wooded stargate of Western Massachusetts can lay claim to one of modern times’ premiere “deep zones” dispensaries: Secret Places of the Lion. Via their Saturn Fern HQ, they’ve issued three full-lengths plus some scattered private documents. The Lion’s latest continues the project’s legacy of regal arcana: High Gardens. Mirage synths and oracle organ lockstep with bronze clanking and MIDI percussion across six (plus a digi-only bonus) marbled hall pageants of arch templar simulacrum. Cryptic psychedelia from a mystery school at the threshold of ascendant cyber-Babylon. The Secret is Kept. The Places Unnamed. High Gardens for a Low and Barren Age.

Joly Braga Santos (1924–88) was one of the most important composers in twentieth-century Portugal. In his early works his fondness for modal harmony, absorbed from the Portuguese masters of the Renaissance, and his busy counterpoint combine to make him sound surprisingly close to such particularly English composers as Vaughan Williams and Moeran. Although his harmonic language became more astringent with time, it retained a burly sense of humour and a powerful charge of energy, often infused with the spirit of Portuguese folk-dance.

Kenneth Earl Burrell (born July 31, 1931) is an American jazz guitarist known for his work on numerous top jazz labels: Prestige, Blue Note, Verve, CTI, Muse, and Concord.