“I’m looking for a note and, maybe, I’ll find it eventually. I may fail. Perhaps the piece is nothing more than an attempt to find it.”

Emily A. Sprague’s Cloud Time traces an audio-spiritual journey through time and place, recorded across a long-awaited debut tour of Japan in the fall of 2024. Compiled from environmental improvisations captured in and for the moment, material at once welcoming, responsive, and inimitable, the album distills a voyage guided by psychic wayfaring, unbound presence, and activating performance for a reciprocal exchange with space, listener, and each fully engaged instant. Cloud Time is a series of postcards penned to the energetic possibilities of each lived moment, deeply felt and in dialogue with the eternal now.

2x GRAMMY-nominated singer-songwriter Madi Diaz is known for searing explorations of romance and has created her most powerful statement. Raw and stripped down, Fatal Optimist is Madi at her most intimate and most bold. She and producer, Gabe Wax (Soccer Mommy, Zach Bryan), set out to strip these songs back, relying on her performance and her writing. The result is a classic and timeless indie-folk album.

Empty your minds and open them up to new ideas. Princess Nokia has arrived with a new project. Following the animated, hyperpop-tinted I Love You But This Is Goodbye, Nokia emerges with Girls, a venomous, daring, and vulnerable LP that challenges established norms and fearlessly transforms pain into uplifting anthems and heartfelt poetry. If you’ve ever listened to any album from Nokia, you know her music is nothing but a reflection of her current state of mind. From heartbreaking explorations into mental illness to detailing childhood trauma, Nokia has never shied away from laying her soul bare, and her latest is no different.

In 2020 – at a time when travel wasn't readily possible – this unusual journey of the mind was born, crossing the country and taking us to a variety of places.

The Good Vibes Trio is composed by three creative and multifaceted Italian musicians that combine their differents musical backgrounds for a new and interesting project. It’s hard to define the sound of the band because their composition, almost all original pieces, touch different musical areas like jazz or funk but also classical music.

A rarely heard, fascinating solo instrument and an internationally multi-award-winning performer: on the new GENUIN album „From Keys to Strings“, we are presented with an exciting combination! For her prizewinner production from the 2023 ARD Music Competition, harpist Tjasha Gafner has put together an unusual program in which she arranged works for her instrument. These are pieces that Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart originally wrote for keyboard – or, in the case of Johann Sebastian Bach, for lute (or a lute-harpsichord?). The clarity and transparency of both transcription and interpretation by this outstanding young harpist provide surprising insights and new listening experiences!

Il titolo dell’album suona come una risposta ma anche come una dichiarazione di identità. Fuoco come scintilla creativa, come trasformazione. La copertina racconta molto di questo cammino. La tigre, infatti, rimanda direttamente alla metafora del tempo circolare del filosofo Jorge Luis Borges. Il tempo è un fiume, è una tigre, è un fuoco, e ci trascina, divora, consuma, così come anche noi facciamo con lui, o ci imponiamo di fare. Torniamo quindi anche al vortice, quello della vita, dove ci ritroviamo a girare, ma in questo viaggio c’è un equilibrio tra accadimenti e opportunità, e il titolo dell’album, “MA IO SONO FUOCO”, si inserisce proprio in questa linea di pensiero. Con questa affermazione, Annalisa rivendica la propria appartenenza a quella forza inesorabile del tempo che brucia e trasforma, reagisce, distrugge per evolvere.

This album presents Czech composer Vítězslav Novák's Piano Concerto in E Minor, alongside orchestral suites from his ballets "Signorina Gioventu" and "Nikotina". Performed by pianist Oliver Triendl and the Janáček Philharmonic Ostrava under Łukasz Borowicz, this 2025 release on the CPO label marks the first commercial recording of the ballet suites, with the "Nikotina" suite presented in an arrangement by conductor Václav Talich.

Pineapple John is a deeply thematic album, unfolding like a film with its own narrative arc. Produced by John Carter and Trey Call, the album explores themes of love, loss, redemption, and self-discovery. From the opening prelude “Nekid Man (Pineapple John Prelude)” to the closing track “The Island Fair/ Captain Jim’s Drunken Dream/ Carry On,” the album immerses listeners in a world that is both thought-provoking and emotionally rich.

NYOS are a Finland-based instrumental band comprised of guitarist Tom Brooke and drummer Tuomas Kainulainen. Known for their immersive and often physically demanding live shows, NYOS create massive sonic worlds using Brooke’s labyrinthine loops and atmospheric layering alongside Kainulainen’s kinetic drumming, in music that is rhythmic, raw, and eclectic.

Winterreise is a song cycle for voice and piano by Franz Schubert (D. 911, published as Op. 89 in 1828), a setting of 24 poems by German poet Wilhelm Müller. It is the second of Schubert's two song cycles on Müller's poems, the earlier being Die schöne Müllerin (D. 795, Op. 25, 1823).

Surtùm is a journey of peace and grace, a slow descent into the dark nature of humankind; an album with which Massimo Silverio seeks to exorcise the violent and hateful times we are living in. In Silverio's music, the contemporary and the traditional melt in an unprecedented continuum where post-rock, trip-hop, and experimental meet folk sung in Cjarniel—a minority language from the Carnic Alps.

The album Rachmaninov/Barber/Piazzoll showcases the dynamic piano duo of Larissa Dedova and Daria Scarano in a compelling program that spans continents and centuries. The recording features powerful four-hand and two-piano works, including Sergei Rachmaninov's lush and romantic Symphonic Dances, the complex neoclassicism of Samuel Barber's "Souvenirs," and the fiery, rhythmic drive of Ástor Piazzolla's "Tangos." Dedova and Scarano demonstrate remarkable synchronicity and expressive range, seamlessly navigating the vast emotional landscape from Russian passion to American nostalgia and Argentine heat, making for a truly captivating listen.

This piano album presents two profound musical journeys: The first, “Abstracts”, is a collection of eight original compositions by Martín García García, written in 2020 in New York City during the pandemic. Marking his official Opus 1, these pieces reflect a deeply personal and introspective creative process, capturing the essence of a transformative time. The second, “Música Callada” by Federico Mompou, is a meditative exploration of silence and stillness. Written between 1959 and 1967, these miniature piano pieces transcend conventional musical structure, offering a quiet, ethereal experience that speaks directly to the soul. Together, these works invite listeners into a world of introspection, where sound and silence converge in a delicate balance of emotion and artistry.