With “Your Bliss My Joy” - Sex Magick Wizard’s debut for Rune Grammofon - this young quartet take a big step forward from their promising first album, “Eroto Comatose Lucidity”, released in 2019 on the small Finito Bakalao label. Since then Ingvald André Vassbø (Kanaan) has taken over the drum duties from Axel Skalstad (Krokofant) and forms an explosive and fine-drawn rhythm section with bass player Henrik Sandstad Dalen.

Only nine months after her momentous debut solo album Ekhidna, the guitarist is back fronting her trio. With their previous album, Smells Funny, this explosive and expansive trio experienced a breakthrough of sorts, having gone from strength to strength through five albums since their 2011 debut Shoot!, gathering respect from both rock and jazz camps.

Hedvig Mollestad must surely be one of the hardest working musicians on the Norwegian music scene at the moment, with "Tempest Revisited" being her third album in a mere 18 months, all at a consistently high artistic level.

After seven albums spearheading Hedvig Mollestad Trio (still very much active!) and three solo albums, the guitarist is here introducing a brand new, exciting trio while breaking some new ground in the process. Ståle Storløkken (keys) is known from Supersilent and Elephant9, while Ole Mofjell (drums) is part of a young generation making waves on the European improscenes. Weejuns is a solid step into shimmering, hardcore improvisation and breathtaking instrumental interplay, echoing The Tony Williams Lifetime, Henry Cow, Soft Machine, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Supersilent and 73-74 period King Crimson.

"Memorable Mozart … so fresh and vital that it suggests the joy of first discovery … a celebration of music as tirelessly inventive as it is richly human … superb sound makes this a memorable issue."

A blend of intelligent musicianship and artistic authenticity.

Charles Brown, whose ambling, relaxed, sophisticated blues are now but a footnote to musical history, is the unofficial but undisputed king of hip Christmas music.

Softly enchanting melodies straight from the heart, Luna Elle is an emerging 18-year old singer from Mississauga, Ontario.

When we first wrote about him in 2015, we called him 'Frenchy and chic.' We referred to Gaspar Royant as a French crooner back then. Read more about him here.

When it comes to holiday records emitted from the shadows of the mighty Motown hit factory on West Grand Boulevard, few could match the quality and quantity from one of their key artists.

RCA Camden CAS-636 Living Stereo LP. Augustana Choir- "Christmas Music." Henry Veld, director. Produced by C.E. Crumpacker. Notes by Leonard Raphael. 1960

A score illuminated by the magic of instrumental timbres, rich in rhythmic invention and harmonic spells.

The Danish String Quartet bring their highly acclaimed Prism project to its conclusion.

Imagine an in indestructible iron house… without windows… without doors… but with countless people fast asleep inside, awaiting a death without air. You know if they die in their sleep, they will leave this earth without pain. And so, if you cry aloud to wake the lighter sleepers, only to bestow upon them the agony of experiencing their irrevocable death, are you doing them a good turn? If even a few stir, however, there will always exist a hope the house can be destroyed…

In 1906, Komitas gave a concert and lecture in Paris. Debussy came on stage after the concert and knelt before the Armenian composer (who was also a priest, a singer and a pioneer of ethnomusicology), exclaiming: ‘I bow before your genius, Reverend Father.’