Nine songs recorded double-quick in one session, with Lowell Fulson on lead guitar on most of it. The rare embellishment on a Hooker release makes for unusually complex and rewarding listening, instrumentally speaking, beneath Hooker's ominous vocals. The textures here are very crisp and vivid, with a crunchiness that should make this an LP of choice for Hooker's rock fans, much more so than, say, the Canned Heat collaborations - Hooker and Fulson make a mean team on "Dazie Mae." Among the other highlights is Hooker's own take on the blues standard "Rollin' and Tumblin'," done here as "Roll and Tumble." The band that shows up on some of these cuts (which, in some instances, may have originated in Paris) is loose enough to follow Hooker, and he and Fulson play like one person.

Métier celebrates the music of Justin Connolly (1933–2020) with a landmark double album. Featuring world premiere recordings of his intricately crafted works, this release shines a long-overdue spotlight on a composer once named by Pierre Boulez among the most compelling British voices of his era. Connolly’s music, characterized by conceptual rigor, lyrical intensity, and flashes of playful invention, has remained largely absent from the public stage in recent decades.

Canadian star pianist Jan Lisiecki’s upcoming album puts the focus on the kaleidoscopic world of the prelude. Composers from multiple eras, whose works are featured, include Bach, Messiaen, Rachmaninoff, Górecki and of course Chopin, who is known for having reinvented the prelude with his iconic 24 Preludes Op. 28.

DOROTHY, like Blondie and DAUGHTRY before them, is a group, not a person. Nevertheless, it's clear that Dorothy Martin is the driving force of the Los Angeles-based quartet: she's not only the namesake, she's the singer and the star around which the other members rotate. Due to landing a contract with Jay-Z's Roc Nation, the modernized blues-rock group – they split the difference between the Black Keys at their most electronica and the full-throated wail of Adele – became a hot pick to click in the mid-2010s, with their 2015 digital EP serving as a teaser for their 2016 full-length ROCKISDEAD. The band continued to hone their sound on subsequent efforts like 2018's 28 Days in the Valley, 2022's transformative Gifts from the Holy Ghost, and 2025's inspirational The Way.

The Overview is a widescreen view of space and humanity's place in it. Written, produced, and played by producer/remixer/Porcupine Tree founder Steven Wilson, it's organized as two suites, and has also been imagined as a film by director Miles Skarin. While there are ominous overtones scattered amongst these ten tracks, Wilson's objective is finding perspective and understanding, and somehow constructing a musical portrait of the vastness of space.

Very comprehensive collection that sounds great. Includes some of their best. This may not have all their hits – everything from the mid-'80s on is missing, for instance – but it's a good cross-section of their earliest recordings, including "Right in the Socket," "The Second Time Around," "A Night to Remember" and "Dead Giveaway."

This album presents first recordings of Seán Doherty’s captivating works for string quartet, enriched by voice and traditional Irish instruments. Two of the pieces are a meditation on death - The Devil's Dream and Paddy's Rambles through the Gravel Walks - and three explore pivotal moments in Irish history: the Easter Rising (Lament for the Poets), the Troubles (No Go) and the Great Famine (Drochshaol).

The 2002 release of Friends/Go for It contained two albums – Friends (1982, originally released on Solar) and Go for It (1981, also originally on Solar) - by Shalamar on one compact disc.

Olmarin Unioni on vuonna 1998 perustettu tamperelainen jazz-yhtye, joka tekee uutta musiikkia tähän päivään, vanhoja perinteitä kunnioittaen. Yhtye julkaisi debyyttialbuminsa Original Finnish Jazz vuonna 2004 ja toisen albumin Peaceful Means vuonna 2005.

Romain de la Haye-Serafini, aka Molecule, is an electronic music composer, DJ and musical adventurer, who has made field-recording his trademark. For several years this Breton has travelled the world, from the tumultuous waters of the North Atlantic or Nazare in Portugal, to a Vendee Globe boat on which he embarked to search for sounds which he then sculpted into their final form. Two years ago, he decided to immerse himself in the heart of a symphony orchestra, a less dangerous but equally fascinating adventure.

A veteran who paid his dues for over a decade before getting his shot at solo stardom, Bobby Womack persevered through tragedy and addiction to emerge as one of soul music's great survivors. Able to shine in the spotlight as a singer or behind the scenes as an instrumentalist and songwriter, Womack never got his due from pop audiences, but during the late '60s and much of the '70s, he was a consistent hitmaker on the R&B charts, with a high standard of quality control. His records were quintessential soul, with a bag of tricks learned from the likes of Sam Cooke, Wilson Pickett, and Sly Stone, all of whom Womack worked closely with at one time or another. Yet often, they also bore the stamp of Womack's own idiosyncratic personality, whether through a lengthy spoken philosophical monologue or a radical reinterpretation of a pop standard. An underrated guitarist, Womack helped pioneer a lean, minimalist approach similar to that of Curtis Mayfield, and was an early influence on the young Jimi Hendrix. Additionally, his songs have been recorded by numerous artists in the realms of both R&B and rock, and the best of them rank as all-time classics.

A three-record set spanning the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's career from its first album in 1967 to 1976, Dirt, Silver and Gold features all of the band's hits, including "Buy for Me the Rain," "Mr. Bojangles," "Battle of New Orleans," and the historic "Will the Circle Be Unbroken." The compilation also showcased many odds and ends (hence the "Dirt" in the title) that blend in nicely with the rest of the selections. If anyone is wondering about the Dirt Band pre-1976, this excellent collection is where they should begin.

The Queen of Showbiz, Cher's first and second solo albums from her folk-rock period are back in 2-in-1! The first two solo albums, "All I Really Want To Do" (September 1965) and the second "The Sonny Side Of Cher" (April 1966), which marked the beginning of Cher's career as a singer, actor, and TV entertainer, are included.

A Horse Called Music is a studio album by the country singer Willie Nelson, released in 1989. The album includes Nelson's last number 1 single, "Nothing I Can Do About It Now". "There You Are" peaked at No. 8 on the Billboard country chart.

Issued by underground imprint RCA Neon in mid-1971, the Shape Of The Rain album “Riley Riley Wood & Waggett” sold poorly at the time despite glowing reviews from the British music weeklies. A surging collision of Beatlesesque writing and harmonies and Byrds-like jingle-jangle guitars, sadly it would take another couple of decades before the LP was finally disinterred by a new generation of record collectors. Half-a-century after its original release, that lost jewel of an album finally gets the attention it deserves as the cornerstone of Grapefruit’s definitive new 3-CD anthology of a criminally neglected late Sixties/early Seventies British band.