Soon Spherian will be releasing a Single "Fae Eternal" as a teaser of what's to come for the new Concept EP "Lepidoptera". Featuring Spherian's new Vocalist Elisha Wilson. Here is a short synopsis of the EP: The Concept EP "Lepidoptera" tells the story of a race of Faery-like beings that tend to the natural happenings of the world they inhabit. Thinking themselves immortal many of them have lived for centuries comforted in the knowlege that they are eternally at one with nature. Unbeknownst to this race, there is a being that resides in the voids of space that feeds on the destruction of life. It is determined to see, and feed off the despair and ultimate annihilation of these beings and their world.

„Dort wo sich erdige Grooves und Melodien sanft wie der Wind treffen, wächst aus den Wurzeln von Rock, Modern Jazz und melancholischem Pop eine Ulme heran.“ Alle drei Mitglieder sind von unterschiedlichsten Stilrichtungen beeinflusst – sei es melancholischer Pop, Progressive Rock, Modern Jazz oder klassische Musik - und versuchen so, ein neues Ganzes zu kreieren.

Neal Acree recently scored the Chinese film Animal World starring Li Yifeng and Michael Douglas with composer/electronic artist Michael Tuller. Soundtrack available now on all digital outlets through Neal’s newly formed Velvet Machine Records label and Genkaku No Oto.

Finishing third on Swedish Idol as a 17-year-old isn’t the recommended fast track to pop credibility, but most pop stars don’t possess Tove Styrke’s determination and prodigious songwriting gift. She’s been shaping her own hits since her post-Idol debut, and, aged 25, reaches album three bearing the same brand of smart, spare, and deliciously catchy pop that sparked compatriot Robyn’s artistic renaissance. Take “Mistakes”: Built around a staccato robo-hook you’ll struggle to dislodge, it’s deliciously self-aware. “But really I should get some me time/Before I do something I can’t rewind,” she warns herself. But she’s defenseless. And we’re defenseless to pop this good.

New Jersey-based rock band Save Face have released their full-length debut, Merci. The album is the band’s first release for Epitaph. With its catchy-yet-off-kilter and viscerally charged sound, Merci is a concept album about an addict dealing with post-rehab relationship struggles and an eventual paranoia-fueled meltdown. Partly inspired by the theatricality of such bands as Queen, Merci is driven by a dramatic tension that reflects Save Face’s mission of making emotionally complex, multi-faceted art.

His gaze is directed to the future, he has the history of jazz behind him, and he never kow-tows to convention. This piano genius loves freedom and fantasy, driven by the imperative to keep discovering the new. If the Joachim Kühn New Trio is his most recent adventure story, then “Love & Peace” is its second chapter.

Suivant la règle de bien des enregistrements live, cet album est tout simplement indispensable pour qui apprécie le talent de Lynda Lemay : ses chansons, du comique (« Chéri tu ronfles », « Au nom des frustrées ») au pathétique (« Ceux que l’on met au monde »), gagnent en épaisseur avec ce disque réalisé au Capitole de Québec. Lynda Lemay, avec un abattage assez irrésistible, se montre souvent magistrale, sur des morceaux parfois inédits, devant un public québécois particulièrement réactif. Un album live à ne pas manquer.

Reissue with the latest remastering. Amazing stuff! Johnny "Hammond" Smith began his career as a simple soul jazz organist – but by the time of this album, he'd teamed up with the mighty Larry Mizell, the genius arranger/producer who'd breathed new life into the careers of Donald Byrd and Bobbi Humphrey. Mizell works with Hammond in the same way he does with other jazz artists – by taking a groove that works best with their solo style, and slowly layering other instrumentation and effects on top of it, so that when the solo kicks in, it's supported on waves and waves of funky sounds and soulful grooves.

Native American flutist Golaná was born Scott Cunningham and raised as an Anglo-American. He was first attracted to music through church hymns and began four years of piano lessons at eight, followed by four years of trumpet in school bands; he began playing guitar at 15. He graduated from San Diego State University with a B.S. in Information Systems Management and got his master's degree in Systems Management from U.S.C. After a corporate career, he started his own computer software consulting business in the mid-'80s. At the same time, having recovered from drug and alcohol dependency, he embarked on a spiritual search that led him to study Native American culture. His interest was given greater impetus when an aunt told him that his great-great-grandmother was a Cherokee, making him one-sixteenth Native American. Turning to the flute, he began playing a Native American style of new age music, also influenced by '70s folk and rock. In a Cherokee ceremony, he was christened Golaná, which means raven. Responding to inquiries about his music, he began issuing it on records, beginning with Path to the Heart and continuing with Walk Between Worlds and 2000's Feather on the Wind.

Dans cette nouvelle formation en trio, l’alchimie musicale s’est formée tout naturellement. C’est avant tout une rencontre humaine et cela se ressent musicalement. Le grand chanteur et griot sénégalais Mola Sylla vous coupera le souffle jusqu’à la dernière note. Accompagné par le joueur de kora Bao Sissoko et le talentueux Wouter Vandenabeele au violon, ils forment une unité de laquelle émane la musique du coeur.

Houria Aïchi, rendue célèbre pour son interprétation des chants de l'Aurès, revisite aujourd'hui le répertoire sacré de son pays. Elle a collecté ici et là des joyaux populaires qui racontent Saints et rites rythmant le quotidien.

It would be fair to say that most listeners in Western Europe have never investigated traditional Albanian music. Thankfully, former Pink Floyd producer Joe Boyd has. Last year, he decided to pay tribute to his favourite Albanian style, "saze", by putting together a band of "virtuoso musicians and vocalists" from the country to record an album paying tribute to the style.

This CD reissue of one of tenor-saxophonist Zoot Sims's final recordings adds a version of "Emaline" to the original program. Pianist Jimmy Rowles often co-stars on the date (with bassist George Mraz and drummer Akira Tana offering solid support). The lyrical repertoire emphasizes ballads and pretty melodies with the highpoints including such offbeat material as Woody Guthrie's "So Long," Sims's "Brahms…I Think," "In the Middle of a Kiss" and the more familiar "Never Let Me Go" and "Suddenly It's Spring." The melodic performances are quite warm, romantic and enjoyable, fine examples of subtle creativity.

Italian composer and musician Marco Ragni has been a presence in the Italian music scene for a quarter of a century or thereabouts, and following a couple of decades in various band constellations he decided to venture out as a solo artist a few years back, launching his first solo album back in 2010. "Mother from the Sun" is his fourth studio recording, released towards the end of 2014. To give you an idea, think of the Pink Floyd albums A Saucerful of Secrets, More, Ummagumma, Atom Heart Mother (side two), Meddle, and Obscured By Clouds as major inspirations. Add to this the late sixties California hippy scene and the fact that Marco is Italian, and you have three strong foundations for a unique blend of psychedelic music with folk and funk and classic prog.