The Statue of Liberty is so hyperreal, so over-replicated in insurance ads and postage stamps and on the Vegas strip, that if you ever happen to be looking at her in real life, you won't see her at all.

These contemplations and improvisations were partly inspired by an instrument called an Ondomo — a recreation by Naoyuki Omo of the Ondes Martenot, one of the earliest electronic instruments developed in 1928 by Maurice Martenot (Ondes Martenot translated as ‘Martenot’s waves’). For this set of recordings, Alan gravitated back to his primary instrument, the piano, for many of the improvisations, allowing the various background colours to inform the process. The result is an album of great beauty and invention, rich in sonorous textures and equally rich emotional resonances.

"VARI" is Varijashree Venugopal’s first original music album, produced by Grammy Award-winning artist Michael League, acclaimed for his work with Snarky Puppy. This album is an enriching exploration of the global soundscape, where Indian classical music meets a diverse array of musical traditions, all brought together by the rhythmic tapestry of Indian percussion. It is a sonic journey with a singular mission: to unite cultures through the universal language of music.

Directed by Desmond Earley, the Choral Scholars of University College Dublin are internationally renowned for stunning performances, artistic collaborations, recordings, video productions, and innovative commissioning projects. Here they return with a digital EP of Irish and Scottish Gaelic songs in time to celebrate St Patrick’s Day on 17 March 2024. Three of the tracks are new arrangements by Desmond Earley, with translations by Brian Ó hUigínn and they are accompanied by the newly formed Solstice Ensemble, who will join them on their next album, due out on Signum Records in September 2024.

”Filippo Bianchini’s new album ”Mood Indigo” is a beautiful new creation that indeed takes the listener through a multitude of inviting moods ..

Mosaic Voices are the Resident Choir at the New West End Synagogue, in London. The synagogue, designed in 1877 by the Scottish architect George Audsley, is a masterpiece of Victorian architecture, known for its beautiful choral acoustic. A great deal of the material on this album is therefore music sung by Mosaic Voices, in Hebrew, during religious services and festivals, of which this music forms a functional element.

CRD Records releases violinist Maya Magub's album Canons on 7 October 2022. The album comprises Telemann's Six Canonic Sonatas and Mozart's Canons and Puzzle Canons. Maya is joined on the album by violinists Ben Jacobson, Marianne Thorsen and Jonathan Morton, with Jonathan Moerschel, viola and Richard Harwood, 'cello (CRD 3542).

In her recording for PASSACAILLE, the Italian harpsichordist and organist Federica Bianchi deals with the development of music for keyboard instruments from the beginning of the 15th century to the beginning of the Baroque period.

As a young chorister, the fourteen-year-old Franz Schubert penned his first string quartets, a genre that he would continue to explore until the last years of his life.

Superstar Angela Gheorghiu, the most glamorous and gifted opera singer of our time, was born in the small Romanian town Adjud. From early childhood it was obvious that she will become a singer, her destiny was the music. She attended the Music School in Bucharest and graduated the National University of Music Bucharest, where she studied with the remarkable music teacher Mia Barbu. Ms. Gheorghiu’s magnificent voice and dazzling stage presence have established her as a unique international opera superstar.

Madame Zuzu’s The Smashing Pumpkins Live in Europe. AUTOGRAPHED 13 LP Box Set pressed on 180g black vinyl. Limited edition pressing of 1000 copies only. Includes never before seen photos taken during the early European tours a personal essay from Billy Corgan on the highs and low of 1992 European tour. Featuring soundboard recordings from 9 different shows from Billy Corgan’s personal audio archive.

"Compared to the human voice, everything else is almost unmusical," Martin Luther is said to have once judged. The Calmus Ensemble makes this credo entirely its own on its new CD "Luther Collage".

Goethe as an opera librettist: in November 2019, an opera sensation was to be experienced at the Leverkusener Erholungshaus: 232 years after its creation, a comic opera was premiered with "Scherz, List und Rache", to which none other than Johann Wolfgang von Goethe had written the Libretto.

Croatian songstress Josipa Lisac, whose superb vocals were featured on "Majko Zemljo," a classic album by Tihomir Pop Asanovic, the best of Yugoslavian rare groove, which was also featured in the guidebook "OBSCURE SOUND REVISED EDITION. The album was released in 1976 and features the B.P. Convention Big Band International, a group of Croatian jazz musicians.

Roberto Bonati composes and paints a suite dedicated to the night, its magic, its more hidden colors and its deep emotionality. A journey through the dreams, encounters, ghosts, shadows and lights of a dream vision. A nocturnal picture that leads step by step towards the dawn. A painting, but also a meditation on the most noisy moment of our thoughts and emotions: while outside the silence resounds.