For fifteen years, Tony Allen drummed for Fela Kuti and invented Afrobeat with him. When Kuti died in 1997, Tony Allen did everything he could to protect and promote his musical legacy.

Iannis Xenakis’ commitment to musique concrete is a lesser-known aspect of his work but had a decisive influence on many composers. He notably worked with Pierre Schaeffer’s Groupe de recherches musicales (GRM) at the French national radio at the end of the 50s and created memorable electroacoustic works, first put on record a few years later, and which we have digitized and remastered in high resolution!

Harmonium and piano… this is an extraordinary connection. There are a lot of original compositions, especially by french composers, as well as many impressive transcriptions of well-known pieces by great composers.

Ole Amund Gjersvik (* 10. 1963) is a Norwegian Jazz Bassist.

The Symphony No. 9 in E minor, "From the New World", Op. 95, B. 178, popularly known as the New World Symphony, was composed by Antonín Dvořák in 1893 while he was the director of the National Conservatory of Music of America from 1892 to 1895. It premiered in New York City on 16 December 1893. It has been described as one of the most popular of all symphonies. In older literature and recordings, this symphony was – as for its first publication – numbered as Symphony No. 5.

Widely regarded as a master of the cover version, Bryan Ferry’s new interpretations of four classic love songs.

Opus 5 can justifiably be called a New York all-star band, moreover, it is a criss-cross jazz all-star quintet

A great compilation, it's at the level of American Big Bands. The sound recording is perfect. It's a pity that the orchestral grabds are dying out.

On his third solo recording for Cantaloupe Music, Florent Ghys radically retools his creative approach with Ritournelles & Mosaïques — a wide-ranging two-part opus that pulls back the curtain on an intrepid composer, double bassist and electronics bricoleur in full sonic exploration mode. Ghys began work on the project in late 2019, but like the rest of the world, he soon found himself in the midst of a prolonged isolation period, which inspired him to expand his creative palette. On his previous album Télévision, Ghys had begun with an audio-visual idea; this time, he started at the root: with the sound.

This pair of Schubert piano sonatas, recently recorded by Elisabeth Leonskaja, were both left unfinished by the young composer. The first comes with a final movement revised by Martino Tirimo, the latter in its usual completion with the pieces from D. 459a.

Continuing a Shostakovich series launched in 2020, Tugan Sokhiev conducts the Symphony No 10, a tension-ridden work composed shortly after the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953.

Cassadó duo changes the register and presents "Hypnosis", a concept album to be released in spring 2022. Music transports us to the past, takes us to another dimension. It connects us with our essence as human beings. In this context, hypnotism invites us to connect with the most intimate of ourselves.

Originally released in May 1982, Combat Rock is the final album from The Clash of Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, Paul Simonon and Topper Headon. Featuring two of the bands most well-known songs, 'Should I Stay Or Should I Go' and 'Rock The Casbah'. Now re-released as a double remaster-edition, with an additional 12-tracks compiled by The Clash.

In 'Schubert & Schumann: Loss & Love', cellist Adolfo Gutierrez Arenas and pianist Josu De Solaun touch on two perennial themes that pervade all human lives. The album is a very personal one: both artists have recently lost their parents, and during a pandemic we all turn to music more than ever to find solace and a reflection of our own feelings as those experiences of loss and love are intensified.