The members of Szun Waves haven't been in the same country together, let alone in the same room, for over two years, but that hasn't stopped them from making their third album, Earth Patterns

Squalls were a band who came from the same rich Athens, GA scene as The B-52’s, Pylon, R.E.M., and Love Tractor, but played their own brand of quirky pop with their own unique sound.

While the world came to a stop during the pandemic, the three-piece retreated in the studio to write and record upcoming album ‘Drif’. In the band’s fashion, they sought for forgotten songs, made ruffling leaves into instruments and wrote lyrics spreading messages of love for each other and respect for nature.

Up next from Mood Hut we have the debut LP from Local Artist aka Ian Wyatt. Previously known for his underground party starters Dancer and Touch Tone. This time Ian takes us further towards the intimate end of the radio dial, recording music as a way of processing the emotions of watching his father and partner battle cancer pre-pandemic. Themes of love, loss and life emerge in a moody brew to help you through.

“For the Grateful Dead's second live album, released two years after its predecessor LIVE/DEAD, the band delivered an equally magnificent, but entirely different, Grateful Dead sound.

24 year old Mancunian alt-pop star Phoebe Green's debut studio album Lucky Me is released on Chess Club. Produced by Alex Robertshaw of multi time Mercy Award nominated outfit, Everything Everything and his production partner Tom Fuller, the album comes off the back of supporting Self Esteem, Everything Everything and Baby Queen in one month alone, a BBC Radio 1 Maida Vale session and a Killing Eve sync. For fans of New Order, Ladytron and Big Moon.

Westbrook & Company presents jazz cabaret 'Paintbox Jane', inspired by the painter Raoul Dufy, the jazz score is composed by legendary British jazz pianist/composer Mike Westbrook (winner of 2022 Parliamentary Jazz Awards for Services to Jazz) and with book lyrics by Kate Westbrook.

Symphony No. 1 in D major by Gustav Mahler was mainly composed between late 1887 and March 1888, though it incorporates music Mahler had composed for previous works. It was composed while Mahler was second conductor at the Leipzig Opera, Germany. Although in his letters Mahler almost always referred to the work as a symphony, the first two performances described it as a symphonic poem and as a tone poem in symphonic form respectively.

Cherry Red Records presents this digitally remastered edition of John L. Watson and White Mouse's 1975 album Let's Straighten It Out, restored from its original analog sources for modern listening!

Louise Johanna "Anneke" Grönloh (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɑnəkə ˈɡrʏnloː]; 7 June 1942 – 14 September 2018) was an Indonesian-born Dutch singer. She had a successful career starting in 1959 that lasted throughout the 1960s, and scored a hit with "Brandend zand", one of the best-selling Dutch songs of all time.

This new release is a brilliant collection of chamber music works by Polish composer Józef Elsner and his disciples Józef Władyslaw Krogurski and Ignatzi Felix Dobzinski. Known as Chopin's teacher, Elsner was also active as a violinist and conductor, and was also a renowned educator.

No, the Count isn't literally back… in fact, he's never really been away, as the Count Basie Orchestra has kept rolling along under a series of leaders since Basie's death in April 1984. This latest incarnation, directed by the Count's longtime bass trombonist Bill Hughes, was recorded in concert in October '05 at Denryoku Hall in Sendai, Japan. Following in the footsteps of Basie's Old Testament and New Testament bands, Aaron Woodward writes in his liner notes, "We are calling this the 'Born Again' era of the Count Basie Orchestra".

Torn Sail are led by Huw Costin - former frontman of Earth The Californian Love Dream as well as being a damn fine solo artist in his own right. Torn Sail's music is so utterly timeless that it could have been released any time since the mid 1960s. Calling upon the likes of Tim Buckley, The Moody Blues and David Crosby, more recent acts like Verve (before they became The Verve), Sun Kil Moon and Talk Talk, as well as enduring influences such as Joni Mitchell, Lucinda Williams and Pink Floyd, it wears its heart on its sleeve unashamedly.

Noir jazz and after–midnight blues meet in the intriguing Twin Danger. Featuring singer Vanessa Bley (daughter of jazz innovator Paul Bley) and sax player Stuart Matthewman (co-founder of Sade, Sweetback, and producer for Grammy-winner Maxwell). The self-titled debut features a unique take on the alterna-hit, “No One Knows” by Queens of the Stone Age. Satisfying fans of jazz, rock, blues and soul, Twin Danger are for both the sophisticated aficionado and the young trendsetter.

Pianist/composer Robert Mitchell has produced one of his finest albums to date with the release of “A vigil for justice, a vigil for peace”. Having emerged as a musician with much promise through his involvement with Tomorrow’s Warriors, he has gone on to work with Courtney Pine, Steve Coleman, Iain Bellamy, Norma Winstone, Greg Osby, and Omar Puente among others, developing a formidable reputation along the way as a gifted pianist and composer. Undoubtedly one of the highlights of 2017, this is an album that has so much going for it that it really is a “must-have” for any jazz enthusiast’s collection.