A collection of 18 original piano works which takes us through the award-winning composer's eclectic output, embracing his work with the London Philharmonic (Memoryhouse), The Blue Notebooks, Royal Ballet-commissioned Infra and some of his film scores (Departure from The Leftovers, Miss Sloane). The album is recorded using an avant-garde conception instrument thus creating a completely new sound.

Second album form HFB, a young trio that will revolutionize the blues in this country (and beyond). Awe-inspiring songwriting and performance (lyrics are re-printed). Compared to their debut album the band has developed a style of its own…

This album is the meeting of three passionate souls of music, flowing the guitar of Ernesto Hermoza, irrepressible in the knowledge of the worlds afroperuano and flamenco. The telluric winds of Jorge Pardo with flamenco roots and contemporary and I, Juan Medrano Cotito, well placed in my afroperuvian roots and my crazy flight in different musical genres. This gives way to a musical encounter between Spain and Peru, meeting melodies, rhythm and frenesi, inviting everyone to this beautiful musical encounter.

A modern guitarist for all seasons, Los Angeles-based Jeff Kollman moves seamlessly between everything from electric funk and metal to acoustic folk and blues on his new CD, Silence In the Corridor. Released on his own Marmaduke Records label, it's the latest in a handful of solo efforts by the prolific guitarist and songwriter, who's also part of Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith's funky Bombastic Meatbats band.

Deep in a Dream was the jazz event of 2006 in France; alto saxophonist Pierrick Pedron and the album were showered with prizes and dominated journalists' "best-of lists. The explanation that everyone gives for their high marks is surprisingly guileless: the story they tell is one of an emerging figure of the French scene flying to New York City, alto under his arm, to lead a date featuring heavyweights Lewis Nash and (especially) Mulgrew Miller, and triumphing on jazz's home turf.

Swiss pianist Thierry Lang combines jazz, folk and classical influences on this, his recording debut for ACT. This is defiantly Swiss music but as the album’s liner notes explain label boss Siegfried Loch envisages this often beautiful music reaching out to a wider constituency. The word “Lyoba” is a dialect word for “cow herder’s chant” and comes from the Fribourg region in the West of Switzerland, the area from which Lang hails. The pianist had released two previous “Lyoba” albums locally before being discovered by Loch but the ACT deal has given him the opportunity to present his ideas to an international audience.