| RD: 2023-07-07 | | MARRIAGE MATERIAL | | Enchantment Under The Sea | | Fileunder: Jazz / Funk / Fusion |  | |
| | RD: 2023-06-09 | | INTERNA | | In Der Terrassenwelt | | Fileunder: Indie / Wave / Post-Punk |  | |
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| RD: 2023-06-23 | | FREAK | | The Streets Of Fiesta | | Fileunder: Alternative / Electronic / Punk |  | |
| | RD: 2023-06-16 | | IDA NIELSEN | | More Sauce, Please! | | Fileunder: Funk / R&B / Disco |  | New album from Ida Nielsen, known primarily as Prince bassist. On "More Sauce, Please!" the songwriter and bandleader, visibly influenced by her musical background, combines funky beats, slap-bass virtuosity, lively rap and pop earworms with her signature 4-string Sandberg California electric bass in the foreground.
Born in 1975 in the small Danish town of Aarhus, Ida Nielsen grabbed the ba ... | | more information |
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| RD: 2023-06-09 | | TONY LIOTTA | | Visions | | Fileunder: Funk / Fusion |  | Renowned drummer Tony Liotta releases his new album "Visions" together with singer Louis Virie Blanche and musician Enrico Santacatterina. "Visions" is a tribute to the soul and R&B sound of the 70s, characterized by Liotta´s unique and unmistakable groove.
Italian drummer Tony Liotta is one of the most renowned drummers in the music industry. The musician grew up in America listening ... | | more information |
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| | RD: 2023-06-02 | | MOHAMED LAMOURI | | Mehari | | Fileunder: World Music / Arabien / Rai |  | Algerian Raï singer Mohamed Lamouri releases his second album "Méhari". In the five adapted cover versions and six original compositions, Mohamed Lamouri blurs the boundaries of Arab and Western cultures. His raw voice paired with brilliant trumpets, soft organ sounds and rhythmic drums make "Méhari" a unique listening experience.
Mohamed Lamouri was born in 1982 in Tle ... | | more information |
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| RD: 2023-05-26 | | LAURENT DE WILDE | | Life Is A Movie | | Fileunder: Jazz |  | Jazz pianist Laurent de Wilde has composed a soundtrack to life with his new album "Life Is A Movie". Created in dialogue with double bassist Jérôme Regard and drummer Donald Kontomanou, "Life Is A Movie" is an extraordinary jazz album influenced by the many-sided events in life.
Laurent de Wilde is a French writer, radio host, producer and musician. Born in America and raised in Fra ... | | more information |
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| | RD: 2023-05-26 | | WDR BIG BAND | | Ariabesques - WDR Big Band Plays Bach | | Fileunder: Jazz / WDR Big Band |  | With "Ariabesques," Bill Dobbins and the WDR Big Band have brought Johann Sebastian Bach´s "Goldberg Variations" to life once again. Originally composed for the two-manual harpsichord, Dobbins has managed to create an impressive version for big band by swapping repetitive notes with short rests. By fusing the original melodies and the most important notes of the bass lines with impressive solos, t ...
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| RD: 2023-05-26 | | BIANCA STÜCKER & MARK BENECKE | | Songs Of Love And Sorrow | | Fileunder: Dark Folk / Dark Pop / Medieval Music |  | A short musical journey through the darkness
Love, pain and loss – emotions that lie close together and have been the source for many devotional, wistful and furious songs. Mark Benecke, Germany´s best-known criminal biologist and convinced goth, and Bianca Stücker, singer and multi-instrumentalist, have taken on three of these gems on their third joint musical offering and interpreted ... | | more information |
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| | RD: 2023-05-12 | | LES YEUX D´LA TETE | | Paris Berlin | | Fileunder: Sinti-Swing / Balkanbeats / Chanson / Live |  | LES YEUX D´LA TÊTE celebrate their 15th career anniversary with a LIVE album recorded in July 2022 in
Germany during an epic tour in front of sold-out crowds.
Paris, Berlin, two cities where the band´s music has blossomed and flourished. Two capitals anchored in their
history. Few French bands are as successful on the other side of the Rhine, and this album sounds like a tribute
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| RD: 2023-04-28 | | JAKOB BÄNSCH | | Opening | | Fileunder: Jazz |  | With his debut album "Opening", the highly gifted trumpeter Jakob Bänsch emerges as a promising talent in jazz. The album impresses with Bänsch´s incredible technique, intonation and compositional variety and already reminds the US journalist Bill Milkowski of the debut of Wynton Marsalis.
Bänsch comes from a family of professional musicians and began playing the trumpet at the age ... | | more information |
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| | RD: 2023-05-05 | | JACQUES SCHWARZ-BART | | The Harlem Suite | | Fileunder: Jazz / Bebop |  | The Harlem suite is a childhood dream of coming to NY from my little island of Guadeloupe, and becoming a jazz musician. The tunes and arrangements were written to celebrate each step on this perilous but rewarding journey, during the 20 years spent in this iconic part of New York. The compositions reflect the musical wisdom I inherited from playing with some of the greatest musicians of our time: ...
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| RD: 2023-04-28 | | AN EAGLE IN YOUR MIND | | Intersection | | Fileunder: Blues / Psychedelia / Folk |  | Like a horde breaking through in a deserted plain, An Eagle In Your Mind distills a new kind of folk/rock.
The duet manages to blend the sound of a folk guitar and of an Indian harmonium together with analog percussions and vibrating drones; as well as a spectral voice singing about revolution and the possible.
The duet formed on the fringes, in an old Mercedes van turned into a wandering record ... | | more information |
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| | RD: 2023-04-28 | | DRISS EL MALOUMI | | Aswat | | Fileunder: World / Jazz / Oud |  | The Moroccan musician Driss El Maloumi created another original album with "Aswat". In trio instrumentation characterized by the melodic vocals, the harmonic sounds of the oud and the rhythmic percussions, "Aswat" is an inner musical journey and a metaphorical victory over the vicissitudes of everyday life.
In the 90s, Driss El Maloumi successfully completed a classical Arabic and Western ... | | more information |
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| RD: 2023-04-28 | | FLASH PIG | | Le Plus Longtemps Possible | | Fileunder: Jazz / Free Jazz |  | With 11 passionately played songs based on raw improvisation, the Paris-based quartet Flash Pig invites you to dream with "Le Plus Longtemps". Moreover, their fourth album comprises a bold and uncompromising mix of arranged pop songs and introspective original compositions.
Twins Adrien (saxophone) and Maxime Sanchez (piano) formed a trio in 2005 with Gautier Garrigue (drums), sharing the ... | | more information |
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| | RD: 2023-04-14 | | RICHIE BEIRACH | | Leaving | | Fileunder: Jazz / Piano |  | The American jazz pianist Richie Beirach presents his first live solo recording since 1981. The new release "Leaving" consists of the stunning recording of the concert at Château Fleur Cardinale, France and is a masterpiece of timeless jazz standards combined with Beirach´s unique and rhythmic interpretations.
Richard Alan Beirach, better known as Richie Beirach, was born in Brookly ... | | more information |
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| RD: 2023-04-14 | | RABENGOTT | | Love And Order | | Fileunder: Gothic / Dark Wave / Synth-Pop |  | Born as children of the night RABENGOTT play danceable Gothic Rock and Pop with a pinch of black magic. They combine tradition with fresh blood in the spirit of the New Oldschool. On April 14th their debut album "Love And Order" will be released on Eygennutz Records/Broken Silence. The record features nine tracks and contains the Sisters Of Mercy-inspired "Kinder der Nacht", the stomping "Rabengot ...
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| | RD: 2023-04-14 | | ¿WHO’S THE CUBAN? | | Pafata | | Fileunder: World / Cumbia |  | With their new, funky vocal duo, the Latin rock fusion band ¿Who´s The Cuban? takes a musical trip around the world with their second album "Pafata". Influenced by fiery Cuban rhythms, the musicians play with elements of rock, pop and psychedelic sounds. This original fusion creates a tropical and at the same time electric mix that invites you to dance with its unique sounds.
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| RD: 2023-03-31 | | JULIA SARR | | Njaboot | | Fileunder: World / Soul / Global Pop / Jazz |  | The impressive vocal artist from West Africa, Julia Sarr presents her third album, which she recorded together with the French pianist and producer Fred Soul. On "Njaboot" she combines enchanting West African melodies with harmonious piano jazz sounds and her unique voice.
Born in Dakar and now living in Paris, mezzo-soprano Julia Sarr made a name for herself as a sought-after background ... | | more information |
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| | RD: 2023-03-24 | | PHAROAH SANDERS QUINTET | | Live At Fabrik Hamburg 1980 | | Fileunder: Jazz |  | Another episode of the impressive "Live At Fabrik" series by Jazzline and NDR Kultur featuring multi-instrumentalist Pharoah Sanders, considered a pioneer of free jazz and best known for his collaboration with John Coltrane. The stirring recordings are immortalized here as a quartet with instrumentalists John Hicks (Sonny Rollins), Curtis Lundy (Betty Carter, Johnny Griffin) and Idris Muhammad (Ha ...
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| RD: 2023-03-31 | | ABWÄRTS | | Superfucker | | Fileunder: Punkrock / Deutschpunk / Rock |  | The legendary punk band Abwärts from Hamburg is back with the new album "Superfucker". Known for their changeable style as well as critical lyrics in 44 years of band history, the current release is an essence of this diversity and is additionally accompanied by incisive rock and punk elements.
The musically experimental band project first appeared in Hamburg in 1979 as part of the f ... | | more information |
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| | RD: 2023-03-24 | | LEDFOOT / RONNI LE TEKRO | | Limited Ed Lava Lamp | | Fileunder: Rock / Blues / Americana |  | The exceptional guitarists Ledfoot & Ronni Le Tekrø (TNT) release with "Limited Edition Lava Lamp" their second album together, which is also the successor of the critically acclaimed "A Death Divine". The album is supported by their own band The Sailors and mastered by Grammy-nominated and 12-time Gold and Platinum award-winning mastering enigneer Winter Lazerus.
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| RD: 2023-03-24 | | BASIE ALL STARS | | Live At Fabrik Hamburg 1981 | | Fileunder: Jazz |  | First part of the Basie All Star recordings from the Hamburg Factory in 1981, presented by NDR Kultur and Jazzline. Vol. 1 deals with the instrumental part of the concert. The All Stars formed during Count Basie´s lifetime and here, with a nine-piece line-up and history-making musicians, provide an unforgettable memory of jazz, swing and blues.
New Jersey-born jazz icon Count Basie is con ... | | more information |
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| | RD: 2023-03-03 | | HELGE SCHNEIDER | | Torero | | Fileunder: Jazz / Pop / Helge Schneider |  | Helge Schneider has a new record! "Torero" seamlessly builds on his great successes. With 8 pieces, Helge conjures his way back into the music scene. Whether it´s "The Last Torero" or "The Guilty Doctor": Beware of catchy tunes!
"I still thought, ´oh, I should use my studio to capacity again!´, then I called Sandro and asked us to record something in my studio. This turned into several se ... | | more information |
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| RD: 2023-03-17 | | CHIVVY | | XVI | | Fileunder: Dream-Pop / Indie / Electronica |  | After becoming a duo they have just finished their coming nine album/EP ’XVI’. The music was recorded and co-produced by Daniel ´Fagge´ Fagerström (Viagra Boys, Jenny Wilson, Nina Kinert etc), is still as grand and dreamy as before.
CHIVVY creates a large and evocative soundscape with atmospheric guitars, synths and dreamy vocals. The music is ... | | more information |
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| | RD: 2023-03-03 | | MEMORIA | | From The Bones | | Fileunder: Rock / Alternative / Dark Wave |  | Memoria is the solo darkwave/postpunk project of Tess de la Cour. Tess is also playing in Snake and was instrumental in putting the Riot Grrrl Sessions together, but this year she has focused fully on Memoria and her second album.
Rumbling synths, monotonous drumming and an ominous guitar build an atmosphere that grab you from the first note. Yes, it is dark and ominous but at the same time so ... | | more information |
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| RD: 2023-03-03 | | TRILOK GURTU | | One Thought Away | | Fileunder: World / Jazz / Percussion / Electronica |  | Over the course of 34 years as a recording artist, going back to Usfret, his 1988 debut as a leader, Indian drummer and tabla master Trilok Gurtu has always gone into the studio with a working band and a specific plan. For his 21st recording as a leader, the gifted musical maverick decided to try something completely different. Eschewing the band concept, Gurtu improvised in the studio on an array ...
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| | RD: 2023-03-03 | | ODIN & BJÖRN BERGE | | Hoohahs And Cat Calls | | Fileunder: Blues / Alternative / Electro |  | Get ready for some serious club blues.
Hoohahs and cat calls is a joint record from Odin and Bjørn Berge and is the result of two
self taught artists that doesnt have a technique exploring their own musicality and
masculinity, focusing on the toxic and most animated parts of it.
Yes, Hoohahs and cat calls is an animated blues album, a club blues at its core, and goes on
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| RD: 2023-03-24 | | HANNA MEYERHOLZ | | This Year | | Fileunder: Singer-Songwriter / Americana / Folk |  | Singer and guitarist Hanna Meyerholz presents her third album "This Year" on her self-founded label Irish Green Records. Meyerholz took on the production himself together with Phil Wood. The combination of Americana and folk radiates an extraordinarily grounded warmth and with reduced instrumentation, driving guitar sounds and gentle voices, the duo concentrates on the essentials.
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| | RD: 2023-03-10 | | THE FIREBIRDS | | Stripes | | Fileunder: Rock´n´Roll / Rhythm´n´Blues |  | On "Stripes", the five Leipzig entertainment rock´n´rollers give a great, catchy and energetic performance. Oriented towards Rock´n´Roll and Rhythm´n´Blues, the formation succeeds in an exciting, multi-faceted ride through the music history of Rock and Blues.
A rock´n´roll band was founded at a school in Leipzig more than 30 years ago. It only takes five years from the first appearance in ... | | more information |
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| RD: 2023-02-24 | | ADA MORGHE | | Lost | | Fileunder: Jazz / Pop / Soul |  | Ada Morghe’s first two albums, ‘Pictures’ and ‘Box’, saw the multifaceted German artist blurthe jazzy, torch singer elegance of Edith Piaf with the smooth soul pop of Sade, in the processinstigating waves of international critical acclaim. Now Ada broadens her coresound with anambitious new scope as she prepares to release her new album ‘Lost’ on February ...
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| | RD: 2023-02-17 | | GEE HYE LEE TRIO | | Parangsae | | Fileunder: Jazz / Vocal-Jazz |  | "Parangsae" is the new album by the impressive jazz pianist Gee Hye Lee in a trio with the acclaimed bass player Joel Locher, drummer Mareike Wiening and the talented singer-songwriter Song Yi Jeon.
Korean musician Gee Hye Lee began taking piano lessons in Seoul, South Korea, at the age of three. She received various scholarships and awards as a classical pianist and discovered her passion for ja ... | | more information |
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| RD: 2023-01-20 | | ROBESPIERRE | | Sandclocks Of Eternity | | Fileunder: Classic Rock / Progressive / Celtic Folk |  | "Sandclocks of Eternity" is the new project of Robespierre by mastermind Franz Mang together with the longtime ex-Jethro Tull member Florian Opahle as well as the studio cast around John O´Hara (also Jethro Tull) or Simon Michael (Subway To Sally, Feuerschwanz). The result is a great and gripping work with opulent arrangements and a strong focus on stories and legends from old England and Germany ...
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| | RD: 2022-12-02 | | DREIVIERTELBLUT | | Plie | | Fileunder: Liedermacher / Bayerische Mundart |  | Long-awaited fourth studio album by the renowned and multiple award-winning Munich septet Dreiviertelblut around the masterminds Gerd Baumann and Sebastian Horn (Bananafishbones). Twelve songs reflect a diverse range of emotions as well as relentless poetic perfection. The formation once again expresses their love of darkness in a balancing act with Bavarian humor - songwriters at their ...
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| RD: 2022-11-25 | | IGGY POP | | Apres (Reissue) | | Fileunder: Rock / Iggy Pop |  | Limited reissue of the sought-after album ´Apres´ (2012) by IGGY POP as CD and LP with poster including the unreleased bonus track "La Vie Est Belle" featuring SACHA DISTEL.
The ´Godfather of Punk´ IGGY POP shows his soulful side and reinterprets French chansons, American jazz ballads and pop classics. These include the masterful compositions by SERGE GAINSBOURG (´La Javanaise´), JOE DASSIN (´Et ... | | more information |
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| | RD: 2022-12-09 | | LEDFOOT | | Coffin Nails | | Fileunder: Rock / Blues / Americana |  | No bullshit, just a unique artist spitting out his soul in the most naked and real setting possible. Gothic blues!
Still, the sound, the lyrics and the performance are very much a product of today.
Ledfoot aka Tim Scott McConnell is a 12-string guitarist who plays with fitted heavy strings, a brass slide, steel fingerpicks and a stompbox. He has been touring and releasing music since the late 19 ... | | more information |
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| RD: 2022-11-25 | | JOHANNES MOTSCHMANN | | AION 2 | | Fileunder: Neoklassik / Ambient / Electronica |  | With "AION 2" Johannes Motschmann, renowned composer in the field of electroacoustic music and algorithmic composition, presents a highly interesting album. The basis is his composition AION for artificial intelligence and ensemble, which was written for the Ensemble Modern and premiered in October 2021 at the Alte Oper in Frankfurt/Main under the direction of Peter Tilling. In advance, Motschmann ...
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| | RD: 2022-11-18 | | STEPHANIE LOTTERMOSER | | In-Dependence | | Fileunder: Jazz / Soul |  | Jazz is an allegory of life. It is true for both that achieving independence is a long process. This is the story of IN-DEPENDENCE.
Stephanie Lottermoser’s new album is about the aspiration for independence in all aspects of life. Finding your own voice, to deal with setbacks, and to generate strength from those experiences: “Complete independence is virtually impossible. We a ... | | more information |
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| RD: 2022-11-25 | | CLAUS FISCHER | | Downland | | Fileunder: Funk / Jazz / Fusion / Americana |  | It is a pleasant experience to record an album. To turn one’s own compositions into music, to invite the right artists, to arrange and act as one pleases, in short: to be in charge of the musical direction and dramaturgy. In the best case, the result resembles an identity card, a musical ID.
However, despite the fact that nowadays almost every instrumentalist presents a solo-album eventual ... | | more information |
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| | RD: 2022-11-18 | | WDR BIG BAND | | Birth Of A Bird | | Fileunder: Jazz / WDR Big Band |  | End of August of 2020 the international world of jazz was celebrating “100 Years Charlie Parker”. Even those who had not noticed it before now realized that a great musician was being commemorated. Despite the COVID 19 pandemic his work and life were honoured with several projects: these included exclusive LP-editions, books and – obviously – concerts. Already in autumn of ...
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| RD: 2022-11-04 | | VIOLETTA PARISINI | | Unter Menschen | | Fileunder: Songwriter-Pop |  | New release by the renowned Viennese singer and composer Violetta Parisini. "Unter Menschen" unites top class songwriting with unconventional pop sounds: Parisini knows what she´s singing about. Not only did she think it over carefully, but she felt it and experienced it herself. Appears as a CD on Else Musik.
Violetta Parisini started her career in early 2000 as a singer and DJ in the electro/ ... | | more information |
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| | RD: 2022-10-28 | | JUNIUS MEYVANT | | Guru | | Fileunder: Pop / Soul / Indie / Folk |  | The new album, ‘Guru’ is slightly different from what we have heard from Júníus in the past. On this album all production and big part of recordings were made by Júníus himself. Recorded all around the countryside of Iceland and the biggest part in Júníus’s home studio in Westman Islands. The songs are backed by the talented all the talen ...
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| RD: 2022-10-28 | | THIERRY MAILLARD | | Une Larme De Pluie | | Fileunder: Jazz / Klassik / Piano |  | Thierry Maillard is a tireless musical adventurer. In solo piano, in trio, inbig band, the man never stops pushing the limits of his music. And it feelsgood, in these times when the reluctance is too often in order. You have tobe armed with solid faith in gold to build projects like Caméléon, its brandnew production. The impetus? An old desire to “set up an adventure with ...
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| | RD: 2022-10-21 | | KATHARINA NUTTALL | | The Garden | | Fileunder: Indie / Dark-Rock / Electro |  | Katharina Nuttall will release her 4th album ´The Garden´ October 21 and out now is the new single ´Inspired by John Keats´. The single is a staging of some lines from the poem ´In a drear nighted December´ written by the English poet John Keats.
The song reflects a longing to, like the trees, stand deeply rooted regardless of the weather. A musical spell in the form of Katharina´s low in ... | | more information |
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| RD: 2022-10-14 | | JASPER VANT HOF & PAUL HELLER GROUP | | Conversations | | Fileunder: Jazz |  | We have a communication that works incredibly naturally," Paul Heller enthuses. "Neither of us feels pushed in any direction; it´s a conversation between friends who get along well." Whereas Heller is aware that Jasper van´t Hof´s contribution is once again something very special: "Jasper doesn´t accompany, he constantly brings in things that you react to and in turn do things that you probably wo ...
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| | RD: 2022-10-14 | | BLACK LILYS | | New Era | | Fileunder: Electro-Pop / Indie / Singer-Songwriter |  | Like a phoenix reborn from its ashes, Black Lilys proudly testifies to resilience, through a timeless and
organic pop, swinging between power and vulnerability. Brother and sister in life, they deliver a unique music
in the French musical landscape.
The bewitching sound of Robin´s guitar evoking sometimes The XX, sometimes Ben Howard delicately
carries Camille´s chipped voice, whose timbre is ... | | more information |
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| RD: 2022-10-14 | | JOHN PATRICK THOMAS | | How It Goes On | | Fileunder: Klassik / Orgel |  | The talented American composer JOHN PATRICK THOMAS presents his new work "How It Goes On", together with the enchanting soprano voice of JULIA HENNING and the great organist CONSTANZE KOWALSKI, an atmospheric album with exciting sounds.
Denver-born musician JOHN PATRICK THOMAS composed his first pieces of music at the age of twelve and was a member of the COLUMBUS BOYCHOIR (now known as the AME ... | | more information |
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| | RD: 2022-10-21 | | KYRRE KVAM | | Lost in Translation | | Fileunder: Singer-Songwriter / Indie / Piano |  | With "Lost In Translation", the exceptional Norwegian artist and pianist KYRRE KVAM presents his sensitive compositions with dreamy and wistful piano sounds in ten texts set to music. The singer´s third album is characterized by his picturesque voice and his own poetic interpretations of world literature by RILKE and SHAKESPEARE, MARIE VON TECK, STEPHANIE MOHR and LOUSIE LABÈ. Born ...
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| RD: 2022-10-07 | | MICHAEL BRECKER BAND & RANDY BRECKER BAND | | Live At Fabrik Hamburg 1987 | | Fileunder: Jazz / Fusion |  | October 18, 1987 was a very special day for the two brothers Michael Brecker& Randy Brecker. For years both had conquered the stages of the world together with their band Brecker Brothers and earned the reputation of being among the world´s leading jazz musicians on their instruments, the saxophone and the trumpet. On that evening in the legendary Hamburg factory, both were on stage together f ...
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| | RD: 2022-09-23 | | STEVE GADD, EDDIE GOMEZ & RONNIE CUBER | | Center Stage | | Fileunder: Rhythm´n´Blues / Jazz |  | For the first time, super drummer STEVE GADD reunites with his friends from the "Gadd Gang" days, EDDIE GOMEZ and RONNIE CUBER for a production with the multiple Grammy Award-winning WDR Big Band. Under the direction of Michael Abene, a fantastic grooving album was created, centered around Steve Gadd and his friends. They are joined by Bobby Sparks II and Simon Oslender as special guest musicians. ...
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| RD: 2022-09-23 | | EDDIE HARRIS QUARTET | | Live At Fabrik Hamburg 1988 | | Fileunder: Jazz / Soul Jazz / Eddie Harris |  | The Montreux recording of the song “Compared To What” together with LES MCCANN made EDDIE HARRIS suddenly a famous jazz musician. Located somewhere between Jazz, Funk and Soul, MCCANN and EDDIE HARRIS actually created (this is not an exaggeration!) something like a new style. The hit became the anthem of the civil rights movement. Almost twenty years later, in January of 1988, at the c ...
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| | RD: 2022-09-09 | | PAPIERS D´ARMENIES | | Guenats Pashas | | Fileunder: World / Folk / Traditional |  | Inspired bytraditional tunes from Armenia, Georgia, Greece and Anatolia, Papiers d´Arménies invites you to travel, crisscrossing these paths which, from East to West, have inspired many artists, poets and writers. ...
From the suburbs of Istanbul to the hot Tiflis, passing through Yerevan, Paris, and Los Angeles, thesefive musicians tell about their Armenia, a plural Armenia where popular ... | | more information |
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| RD: 2022-08-26 | | TCHAVOLO SCHMITT | | Miri Chterna | | Fileunder: Jazz / Blues / Gipsy |  | THE LIVING LEGEND OF GYPSY JAZZ Tchavolo Schmitt remains the hero of a refined style based on surgical swing with an incredible sense of melody!Charles ´Tchavolo´ Schmitt is a reference, it is a landmark. He personifies a forgotten art. A ´way´ that we thought was forever lost in the twists and turns of jazz history.
It is a unique trace for Tchavolo Schmitt who presents himself in fro ... | | more information |
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| | RD: 2022-07-29 | | RONJA MALTZAHN | | Heimweh | | Fileunder: Singer-Songwriter / Pop / Liedermacher |  | Third album of the exceptional artist, singer, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter RONJA MALTZAHN. "Heimweh" is a return to her native language roots with a special focus on lyrics and poetry.
RONJA MALTZAHN plays cello, guitar, ukulele, piano and loves to tell stories about being on the road, long journeys, big dreams and courage, encounters and togetherness. On stage, she and her band invit ... | | more information |
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| RD: 2022-08-12 | | GURNEMANZ | | Walking Under Blue Moon | | Fileunder: Folk-Rock / Psychedelia / Blues |  | |
| | RD: 2022-07-01 | | LUDIVINE ISSAMBOURG | | Supernova | | Fileunder: Jazz / HipHop / Nu-Jazz |  | Born in 1983 in Bayeux, Normandy, Ludivine Issambourg discovered the flute at the age of six. Thanks to a rigorous apprenticeship, at fourteen she recorded three LP´s with a Big Band amateur. After a double classical and jazz course at the Conservatory of Caen and Cergy-Pontoise, she joined l´Orchestre Franc?ais de Flutes directed by Pierre-Yves Artaud. Together, they recorded the disc Jindrich Fe ...
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| RD: 2022-06-17 | | DJANGO 3000 | | AliBabo | | Fileunder: Folk-Rock / Balkan-Beat / Bayerisch |  | The Bavarian folk rock band DJANGO 3000 has been shaking the world´s stages for ten years and is now releasing their new album "AliBabo". With the song "Heidi", which is the title tune of the ZDF series "Garmisch Cops", they made their breakthrough and became known far beyond the country´s borders. They can also book numerous TV and festival appearances (e.g. Inas Nacht, Rock the Classic, Chiemsee ...
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| | RD: 2022-06-10 | | L´ENTOURLOOP | | La Clarté Dans La Confusion | | Fileunder: Reggae / Hip Hop / Dancehall / Ragga |  | Unstoppable elders of the L´Entourloop collective, King James and Sir Johnny are proud to present their long-awaited third and new album “La clarté dans la confusion” ("Clarity in Confusion").
Produced in their now legendary Bandulu Studio, the 20 tracks of this new album are the result of a patient production process, carried out with care and passion. Throughout the a ... | | more information |
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| RD: 2022-05-20 | | ANNE PACEO | | S.H.A.M.A.N.E.S | | Fileunder: Jazz / Folk / Singer-Songwriter |  | In 2020, for the Jazz sous les Pommiers festival, where Anne Paceo was by now an associate artist, she was asked to work on a new composition. After Fables of Shwedagon (2017) and Bright Shadows (2018), in September 2020, S.H.A.M.A.N.E.S was born over a weekend under the shade of the apple trees. It just had to be recorded. Anne then immersed herself in shamanic music from around the world, exorci ...
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| | RD: 2022-05-27 | | THIERRY MAILLARD ENSEMBLE | | Cameleon | | Fileunder: Jazz / Oper / Orchester |  | |
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| RD: 2022-04-22 | | DOPE SAINT JUDE | | Higher Self | | Fileunder: HipHop / Trap / RnB |  | Dope Saint Jude (Catherine Saint Jude Pretorius) is a South African, Cape Town born and raised artist, Her first release was Hit Politik in 2015, followed by Golden Ratio soon after. In 2016, Saint Jude released her first self produced EP, Reimagine , to Soundcloud. Okay Africa’s Sabelo Mkhabela called it “a tapestry of emotions – it’s the story of someone living – go ...
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| | RD: 2022-05-13 | | BOBBY SPARKS II | | Paranoia | | Fileunder: Funk / Soul / Fusion |  | Keyboardist-composer-arranger-conceptualist Bobby Sparks continues his staggering output with Paranoia, a companion piece to 2019’s Schizophrenia — The Yang Projecton Leopard Records. An all-star outing featuring contributions from guitarists Mike Stern, John Scofield, Dean Brown, Andy Timmons and Eric Gales, saxophonists Chris Potter and Keith Anderson, bassists PinoPalladino, Hadrien ...
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| RD: 2022-04-14 | | SIMON OSLENDER | | Peace Of Mind | | Fileunder: Fusion / Jazz / Piano |  | A rising star on the European jazz scene, German keyboardist-composer Simon Oslender plays with a maturity that belies his young age. After his auspicious debut on Leopard Records, 2020’s About Time, the 24-year old wunderkind reveals more of himself on his sophomore release for the label, Peace of Mind.
Backed by an all-world rhythm tandem of veteran American bassist Will Lee (a f ... | | more information |
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| | RD: 2022-05-06 | | DANIEL ERDMANN & CHRISTOPHE MARGUET | | Pronto! | | Fileunder: Jazz |  | Pronto! brings us a quartet of four major personalities from the European jazz scene. All four of them are musicians who love to work with written compositions, melodies, atmospheres but also create new imaginations using their own improvisations, exploring them and then transforming them into the pre-established modes of playing. This quartet nurtures a collective language from everyone´s univers ...
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| RD: 2022-04-29 | | NIKOLA BANKOV & RANDY BRECKER | | Dream Chaser | | Fileunder: Jazz / Rock / Fusion |  | Two years after releasing his debut album, saxophonist Nikola Bankov is back with his upcoming
album "Dream Chaser".
Nikola Bankov is a 23-year old award-winning alto saxophonist and composer who is truly
pushing the boundaries of his instrument. Nikola is the winner of the prestigious Danish Music
Awards and has been listed in magazine Forbes´ 30 under 30. He is from Slovakia but currently
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| | RD: 2022-04-22 | | DAVID ENHCO | | Family Tree | | Fileunder: Jazz / Klassik / Trompete |  | Classical music and jazz have both reached their highest peaks through a perfect formation: the quartet. String quartet for one, quartet with trumpet (or saxophone), piano, double bass and drums for the other. Daring to bring these two poles together is David Enhco´s bet with his new creation Family Tree. He chose to combine his jazz quartet with one of the best French string quartets of toda ...
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| RD: 2022-04-14 | | DAVID KRAKAUER | | Mazel Tov Cocktail Party | | Fileunder: Jazz / Klezmer |  | Label Bleu and Table Pounding Records is thrilled to announce the release of clarinetist, composer and bandleader David Krakauer’s first album under his own name in eight years: Mazel Tov Cocktail Party. Always searching to expand his aesthetic boundaries and find new sounds, Krakauer has teamed up with producer Kathleen Tagg to create a cathartic expression of joy and affirmation. In respon ...
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| | RD: 2022-03-18 | | HELGE SCHNEIDER | | Live In Luxmbourg | | Fileunder: Jazz / Pop / Helge Schneider |  | After the studio album "Die Reaction - The Last Jazz Vol. II", which was highly acclaimed by the press and placed at number one of the German jazz charts and placed in the top 10 of the German album charts, the exceptional artist HELGE SCHNEIDER presents "Live In Luxmbourg", A first-class live recording.
“The bright headlights baked me in the sun. As soon as we got there, everyone was sc ... | | more information |
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| RD: 2022-04-22 | | ANA CARLA MAZA | | Bahia | | Fileunder: Jazz / Latin / Chanson |  | Bahía is a beautiful mix of classical cello and vocals, drawing on Cuban son, samba, bossa nova, tango, jazz and chanson. It opens with ‘Habana’, where she was born 26 years ago to a musical family - her father acclaimed Chilean pianist Carlos Maza and her mother Cuban guitarist Mirza Sierra. The title track ‘Bahia’, is an ode to the district in Havana where she ...
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| | RD: 2022-04-08 | | NATHAN FRANCIS | | Diamond Back | | Fileunder: Jazz |  | Diamondback is Nathan Francis´ sophomore album and the first to feature his own original compositions. This project brings together some of the biggest names in Finnish Jazz music and demonstrates Francis´ prowess as both a bassist and composer. "The album was really created continuously over the past two years. All of these compositions came to me at different places and times and ...
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| RD: 2022-03-18 | | HENRI TEXIER | | Heteroklite Lockdown | | Fileunder: Jazz |  | The question could be: "How to stop being (by) yourself ?"Indeed, if this new record "Heteroklite Lockdown" was granted such an explicit yet contradictory title by Henri Texier, it is because there is no doubt to him that the music it is made of would never have existed as such without the lockdown episode. "It so happens that my son, Sébastien, who´s also been my most faithful partner for ...
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| | RD: 2022-04-01 | | LA BRIGIDA ORQUESTA | | Antipoda | | Fileunder: Hip Hop / Rap / Jazz |  | The Chilean eleven piece band La Brígida Orquesta released their first album in 2017 and have since then taken the audience in Chile by storm with there own unqiue mix of Jazz and Hip Hop with powerful lyrics. The band is led by pianist and composer Gabo Paillao (Ana Tijoux, Portavoz) and fronted by vocalist Matiah Chinaski (Mente Sabia Crú) - two legends on the Chilean rap-fus ...
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| RD: 2022-03-11 | | ST. PAUL PETERSON | | Break On Free | | Fileunder: Funk |  | Multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter and producer Paul Peterson, a former keyboardist of The Time, leader of The Family and fDeluxe and protege of Prince, serves up a greasy slice of The Minneapolis Sound on Break on Free, his fifth album as a leader and debut for Leopard Records.
An eclectic collection of tunes, Peterson’s latest ranges from the punchy Prince/James Brown-styled title t ... | | more information |
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| | RD: 2022-03-25 | | GREGORY PRIVAT | | Yonn | | Fileunder: Jazz / Klassik / Soul / Piano |  | After 5 albums under his own name, Gregory Privat presents his next album entitled "Yonn", which means the number "One" in Creole. Indeed, it is the first time that the pianist from Martinique will offer a "piano solo" album. For this recording of 11 tracks recorded entirely in Cologne, Gregory Privat offers an intimate music that has its sources in the Caribbean culture, classical music and ...
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| RD: 2022-03-18 | | RONNI LE TEKRO | | Bigfoot TV | | Fileunder: Rock / Hardrock / TNT |  | ‘Bigfoot TV’ is Ronni Le Tekrø’s first solo album in six years, and old and new fans are in for
a treat. Together with his tight band, ‘Bigfoot TV’ sounds inspired and vibrant, Ronnis brilliant
guitar is a red thread through the album and you’ll find references to everything from TNT to
Thin Lizzy, Beatles, David Bowie and his own progressive rock albu ... | | more information |
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| | RD: 2022-03-11 | | LAURENT BARDAINNE & TIGRE D´EAU DOUCE | | Hymne Au Soleil | | Fileunder: Jazz / Soul |  | French saxophonist Laurent Bardainne summons the spirit of astral jazz on heavy-grooving new album, Hymne au Soleil.
A dreamlike, cinematic excursion to the outer reaches of the solar system and the inner workings of the soul, Laurent Bardainne returns to Heavenly Sweetness with his Tigre d’Eau Douce group for a second album of genre-agnostic jazz-funk. Building on critically acclaime ... | | more information |
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| RD: 2022-02-11 | | ALMA NAIDU | | Alma | | Fileunder: Singer-Songwriter / Jazz |  | A unique talent with a remarkable voice: Germany´s Jazzthing magazine praised her "delicate, wonderfully clear voice with absolutely perfect intonation".
The Munich-based singer, composer and lyricist Alma Naidu is an artist such as one rarely finds.
Renowned drummer and producer Wolfgang Haffner recognized her talent immediately; he discovered Alma for himself in 201 ... | | more information |
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| | RD: 2022-02-25 | | KATERINA GÖTTLICHOVA | | Zimnice | | Fileunder: Folk / Gypsy / BraAgas |  | Singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist Katerina Göttlichova is releasing a new album Zimnice (i.e. Chills). The versatile musician Jan Balcar, jazz double bassist Petr Tichy and keyboardist David Göttlich are guests on the debut album by the co-founder of BraAgas, who were awarded the And?l Music Awards, CR. Zimnice will be published by Indies Scope. The eleven-song record ...
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| RD: 2022-02-25 | | MUDDY GURDY | | Homecoming | | Fileunder: Blues / World / Rock |  | A blues singer-guitarist, a percussionist specializing in Latin rhythms, a hurdy-gurdy player expert in traditional music from central France. At first sight, these three should never have met. And they met, necessarily at the crossroads of different roads, and more precisely on the crossroad of the blues. In the spring of 2017, Tia Gouttebel (vocals and guitar), Marco Glomeau ...
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| | RD: 2022-02-18 | | CUMBIA CHICHARRA | | El Grito | | Fileunder: World / Cumbia / Latin |  | A vocal chord vibrates, the body resonates,and the scream is released, shakingeverything in its path.
"El Grito" (the scream), Cumbia Chicharra´s4th album, came like this, from the bottomof the heart and at full strength. Like anorgasm, a deliverance, a collective tranceor a clamor of resistance... a scream foreach stage of life.
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| RD: 2022-02-04 | | OMAR PENE | | Climat | | Fileunder: World Africa / Afrobeat / Senegal |  | Eight years after the release of “Ada”, Omar Pene returns with a surprising album, produced between Dakar and Paris by the guitarist Herve? Samb. The singer’s soothing voice speaks to the world because it is only together that we can give meaning and use to what is shared.A discourse primarily addressed at young people, to remind them of the sacredness of work, faithfulness, givi ...
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| | RD: 2022-02-04 | | BIANCA STÜCKER | | De Alchemia | | Fileunder: Dark Folk / Dark Pop / Medieval Music |  | Dark and sparkling, seemingly ages old and yet brand new: With De Alchemia, Bianca Stücker has
woven a magical web, and once caught, listeners will find themselves transported to a time that
never existed.
With great dedication to historical detail, the singer and multi-instrumentalist has converted the
complex cosmos of alchemy to sound: Instead of the “transmutation of metals”, ... | | more information |
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| RD: 2022-01-07 | | HIGH TONE & ZENZILE | | Zentone Chapter 2 | | Fileunder: Dub / Reggae / Electronic |  | Fifteen years later, Zenzile and High Tone are finally back for the highly anticipated Zentone Chapter 2! The two most legendary dub groups from France are taking up the challenge a second time and offering us a new album scheduled for November 12, co-produced by Jarring Effects and Black Dub.
A meeting at the top that will delight all fans of dub, since it is not one, but two volumes that enter t ... | | more information |
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| | RD: 2022-01-21 | | Pierre Vervloesem Group | | 30 Years of Success | | Fileunder: Jazz / Experimental / Progressive Rock |  | It’s fairly safe to assume that the Order of Leopold II
medal displayed on the album cover of the Pierre
Vervloesem Group’s January 2022 release 30 Years of
Success is intended to make an ironic statement. After
30 years creating a massive discography of audaciously
outside-the-box music, Belgian electric guitarist
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| RD: 2021-12-17 | | MLB TRIO | | Birka | | Fileunder: Jazz / Kammer-Jazz |  | Record an album in trio with a piano, a guitar and a trumpet, no jazzman had dreamed neither of doing it nor using this very particular instrumental formula! The pianist and composer Thierry Maillard had this bright idea and dared this singular and risky musical adventure. Basically, the first idea was simple, it consisted in producing music that could be described as "chamber jazz" without r ...
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| | RD: 2021-12-17 | | SIMONE PRATTICO | | Oriundo | | Fileunder: Jazz |  | After the release of « Brooklyn Sessions » in 2016, he returns with a new project called “Oriundo” for October 2021. “Oriundo” (meaning a person whose parents were immigrants) promises energic jazz, mainly focused on the complex and delicate rhythms of the drums. From “Tanger” to the “Quartieri Spagnoli” (the Spanish Quarters), Simone tra ...
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| RD: 2021-12-17 | | UMLAUT BIG BAND | | Umlaut Big Band Plays Mary Lou Williams | | Fileunder: Jazz / Big Band / Swing |  | Since 2011, the Umlaut Big Band has made a specialty of going back to the early decades of jazz to revive the music of the great bands of that era, while commissioning contemporary composers to write new works.
After working on Don Redman in 2018, the Umlaut Big Band continues its series of portraits of forgotten composer-arrangers by focusing on the work of Mary Lou Williams (1910-1981), a prolif ... | | more information |
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| | RD: 2021-12-10 | | PAUL LAY | | Full Solo | | Fileunder: Jazz / Klassik / Piano |  | Paul Lay is a Marvel superhero of the piano, a champion of the piano keys who can make them do whatever he wants.
He belongs to this generation of musical phenomenons who grew up with one foot in classical music, the other in jazz, and understands the soul of both traditions. The former is many centuries old, with its focus on melodic clarity and intonation as well as on the beauty of polyphony an ... | | more information |
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| RD: 2021-12-03 | | OUZO BAZOOKA | | Dalya | | Fileunder: Garage-Indierock / Psychedelic-Rock |  | The undisputed champions of Middle Eastern psych rock return with Dalya, their epic fifth studio album.Suspiciously smelling like a mix of prohibited substances and powerful homebrewed potions, Dalya manages to effortlessly be a lot of things that, in a similar universe, contradict each other: it is psychedelic but accessible. It is adventurous and creatively free spirited, but also filled with an ...
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| | RD: 2021-11-12 | | ANDREA MOTIS & WDR BIG BAND | | Colors & Shadows | | Fileunder: Jazz / Latin Jazz / Big Band Jazz |  | It´s hard to believe: in her mid-20s, Andrea Motis is already a jazz superstar inSpain and far beyond. In 2011, Quincy Jones became enthusiastic about the young lady on trumpet and vocals. Andrea´s mentor was bassist, tenor saxophonist and celebrated pedagogue Joan Chamorro, the head of the Catalan talent factory.
In spring 2021, the collaboration with the WDR Big Band Cologne took place. U ... | | more information |
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| RD: 2021-11-12 | | LES YEUX D´LA TETE | | Bonne Nouvelle | | Fileunder: Sinti-Swing / Balkanbeats / Folk / Rock |  | Lulled by songs, fed with rock and world music, these Parisians adept at swing, dancefloor and song have more than 800 concerts and 12 countries
to their credit. Founded in 2008, LES YEUX DLA TETE unleash the stages by delivering a music finely energetic and madly soft, festive but subtle, vintage
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| | RD: 2021-11-26 | | ADMIRAL FALLOW | | The Idea Of You | | Fileunder: Indie / Singer-Songwriter / Folk |  | Admiral Fallow are thrilled to announce the forthcoming release of their new album The Idea Of
You, their first in six years, on Chemikal Underground. The second single to be taken from the
album, Dragonfly, following on from first single Sleepwalking in June, is out now available on all
digital platforms. Singer & lyricist Louis Abbott describes the song as “a sun-drenched exploration i ... | | more information |
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| RD: 2021-11-12 | | BONBON VODOU | | Cimetiere Creole | | Fileunder: Chanson / Folk / World Music |  | The new signature Heavenly Sweetness !
The new album of Bonbon Vodou (Oriane Lacaille & Jeremie Boucris)
produced by Piers Facini & Jean Lamont (Noir Désir, Bashung, Salif Keita...)
Recorded between France and the volcanic island, beaten by the air of the
Indian Ocean, the album, in the words as in the notes, transforms the French
song into Creole succulence.
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| | RD: 2021-11-19 | | FIXI & NICOLAS GIRAUD | | Tempo Tempo! - A Tony Allen Celebration | | Fileunder: Jazz / Soul / World / Hip-Hop |  | "Tempo Tempo! " That’s what the legendary Tony Allen, a true conductor behind his drums, told the young Fixi and Nicolas Giraud nearly 25 years ago, inviting them to follow him in his singular rhythm...
Fixi & Nicolas Giraud started with Tony.Then they followed their path without ever leaving him. Fixi met with national success with Java, international recognition with Winston McAnuff wh ... | | more information |
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| RD: 2021-10-22 | | BRNS | | Celluloid Swamp | | Fileunder: Indie-Rock / Electro-Pop |  | BRNS’ fourth album, Celluloid Swamp, is a mutant chamber pop album with a smorgasbord of references spliced into sound only just recognisable as a guitar band. The four-piece sound like a band that is more overtly settled as outsiders in a mainstream space. BRNS is more boldly aligned to the neo-dadaist manifesto laid out as the parameters for the band when it started in 2010: music free of ...
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| | RD: 2021-11-05 | | MARTIN WINSOR & JEANNIE STEEL | | Troubadours | | Fileunder: British Folk |  | It is a project from the heart of JOHN CREMER, owner of RAILROAD TRACKS STUDIOS in Cologne and renowned audio mastering engineer, who is now releasing "Troubadours" by MARTIN WINSOR and JEANNIE STEEL on his RAILROAD TRACKS label. This album is a collection of live and studio recordings from 1972.
Three members of the five-piece folk band GURNEMANZ perform at the famous TROUBADOUR on Old Brompton R ... | | more information |
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| RD: 2021-10-01 | | PENDEJO | | Toma | | Fileunder: Hard Rock / Heavy Metal / Stoner |  | Heavy brass, brutal riffage, pounding drums, cojones, and Spanish
urban lyrics that make you wonder "did they just say that?". Yes they
did. They go by the name of ¡PENDEJO!
“Taste it and you won’t be sorry.” (Metal Hammer)
¡PENDEJO! is a heavy rock band from the Netherlands, founded by two cousins
with a history in Latin America. Digging into their latino roots they ... | | more information |
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| | RD: 2021-09-10 | | THE NEXT MOVEMENT | | The Next Movement | | Fileunder: Funk / Soul / Jazz |  | A first listen might suggest: this is a new production emerging from the legendary funk scene of Minneapolis. Wrong by far! Three Swiss musicians are boosting Funk to new heights on the new album THE NEXT MOVEMENT (LEOPARD Records). J.J. Flueck, Pascal "P" Kaeser and Sam Siegenthaler form the explosive helvetic Trio, with their music unmistakably fusing the influences of R&B, funk and blues fr ...
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| RD: 2021-07-16 | | HELGE SCHNEIDER | | Die Reaktion - The Last Jazz Vol. II | | Fileunder: Jazz / Blues / Avantgarde / Klassik |  | HELGE SCHNEIDER is undoubtedly one of the most versatile artists in this country. The
exceptional musician releases 34 years after the debut "The Last Jazz" his new (jazz) album,
which also makes use of swing, blues, bebop and classical music and brings this very special
HELGE SCHNEIDER style. Released as CD and vinyl double LP on RAILROAD TRACKS.
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| | RD: 2021-09-03 | | YAN WAGNER | | Couleur Chaos | | Fileunder: Synth-Pop / Dark Wave / Electro |  | With Couleur Chaos, Yan Wagner is in tune with his life and desires. After successive mournings –
including his mother, whom he calls out to with the joyful politeness of despair (“Des cieux plus
cléments” with a Daho-esque chorus) – and a move to Marseille, he’s bringing forth some kind of
letting go. With fun and simplicity back on the agenda, he hasn’t ... | | more information |
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| RD: 2021-06-04 | | PHILIP LASSITER | | Live In Love | | Fileunder: Jazz / Soul / Funk |  | With Live in Love, trumpeter-composer-arranger Philip Lassiter mixes socio-political messaging (“Make America Love Again”) with humorous, earthy storytelling (“Poof,” “Suga Coat Me,” “Root Chakra”) and some forays into old school funk (the James Brown-inspired “Repent” and the P-Funk-ish “Love Story”). Along with detours into ...
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| | RD: 2021-08-27 | | BRAIN DAMAGE MEETS BIG YOUTH | | Beyond The Blue | | Fileunder: Reggae / Toasting / Jazz |  | ... a story in History
… or how to condense in a sound bite, the incredible and terrible journey, experienced by Martin Nathan and his longtime friend Samuel Clayton Jr, both gone to Jamaica in March 2020, for a collaboration with the legendary Big Youth. The context of a first and unprecedented world lockdown has only left them very little time to record the takes with the famous DJ, befor ... | | more information |
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| RD: 2021-07-30 | | ANTOINE BOYER & YEORE KIM | | Tangram | | Fileunder: Jazz / Gypsy |  | Since 2011, the Umlaut Big Band has made a specialty of going back to the early decades of jazz to revive the music of the great bands of that era, while commissioning contemporary composers to write new works.
After working on Don Redman in 2018, the Umlaut Big Band continues its series of portraits of forgotten composer-arrangers by focusing on the work of Mary Lou Williams (1910-1981), a prolif ... | | more information |
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| | RD: 2021-07-16 | | PHILIPPE MOURATOGLOU | | Ricercare | | Fileunder: Jazz / E-Musik / Folk / Chamber Music |  | 3 years after Universe-Solitude, unanimously acclaimed by the critics, Philippe Mouratoglou´s superb trio offers us an eagerly awaited new opus. The record, carefully prepared and meticulously recorded at Studios La Buissonne offers a new repertoire of original compositions, nourished by influences ranging from Francesco da Milano´s Ricercare to an evocation of Jimmy Rowles´ The Peacocks. This tig ...
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| RD: 2021-06-11 | | KADY DIARRA | | Burkina Hakili | | Fileunder: World / Soul / Burkina Faso |  | The great KadyDiarra comes back with her family to burn the boards with a 3rd incandescent album! In a shared celebration spirit, she offers us a compendium of humanity(ies) that plunges its roots in the heart of West Africa, between multiple cultures and globalised humanism.
Sweet trance concerts in which the commitments of this woman of a thousand faces and her incomparable sense of celebration ... | | more information |
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| | RD: 2021-05-28 | | PAT KALLA & LE SUPER MOJO | | Hymne A La Vie | | Fileunder: Afrobeat / Afro Funk |  | “Pat Kalla & Le Super Mojo propel us into a whirlwind métisse of African
groove and Caribbean funk, Afro-disco, Afrobeat, Makossa ... (Their music)
dances with the musicality of political poetry, all expressed through a
storyteller´s Creole." (Fip)
Hymne à la Vie Pat Kalla´s second full-length LP out on Heavenly Sweetness
is not only as the title has it, a hymn to life, it´ ... | | more information |
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| RD: 2021-06-04 | | LA CAFETERA ROJA | | Mozaik | | Fileunder: HipHop / Latin / R&B / Soul / World |  | Founded in Barcelona, in 2008, La CafeteraRoja is multigenerational, multilinguistic, mixed and self-taught Band. An European group playin´ self-made music that sounds like a mix between all kinds of genres such as Hip-hop, Pop and Rock.
AuréliaCampione (vocals/guitar), Anton Dirnberger (MC/keyboard), Chloé Legrand (Guitar/chorus), Fiti Rodriguez (Vocals/ bass guitar/chorus), Jean-Mi ... | | more information |
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| | RD: 2021-03-26 | | ARCHIE SHEPP & JASON MORAN | | Let My People Go | | Fileunder: Jazz / Piano |  | Archie Shepp, Jason Moran: there are encounters that reveal a thread in the history of music. Resonances that until now have been almost imperceptible and that can suddenly be heard clearly.
Words, sounds, speech, men, memory, thoughts, fears and emotions—time—all related…all made from one…all made in one. —John Coltrane, 1964
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| RD: 2021-05-14 | | MICHEL PORTAL | | MP85 | | Fileunder: Jazz / Klarinette |  | This record was made in very peculiar conditions, after two long months of lockdown. With the members of my new quintet, we met up in the Label Bleu studios, eager to play music but with mixed feelings of joy, fear of the virus and unvoluntary distrust of the other one suddenly thrown back to their state of "menacing stranger". As if the question was for each one of us to settle for the rig ...
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| | RD: 2021-02-19 | | FRED HERSCH | | Songs From Home | | Fileunder: Jazz / Piano / Impro. |  | Pianist/Composer Fred Hersch celebrates his 65th birthday in quarantine with a brilliant new solo album recorded in his Pennsylvania home
On ‘Songs from Home,’ due out November 6 via Palmetto Records, Hersch explores nostalgic pop songs, heartfelt originals and resonant jazz classics with his inimitable expressiveness and rich invention in the intimacy of imposed isolation
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| RD: 2021-05-21 | | EDWARD PERRAUD | | Hors-Temps | | Fileunder: Jazz / Piano |  | Before I started this opus, here is how, in my own words, I pictured the music I wanted to create:
"To compose a music that would be extra sensitive, beyond sensual, a music of eternal love, infinite, a love one can feel at the heart of nature and human art, without necessarily understanding where it springs from.
To play a music that would be alive for the present but also for an "after life" be ... | | more information |
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| | RD: 2021-04-30 | | ADRIAN CROWLEY | | The Watchful Eye Of The Stars | | Fileunder: Indie / Singer / Songwriter |  | One stormy night in Ireland, Adrian Crowley’s brother brought home a wounded crow. After taking care of it for a time, the crow flew away on its own, leaving an impression behind: Crowley wrote a story, which would later become the aptly titled “Crow Song” on this, his brand new record & ninth studio album The Watchful Eye of the Stars. He sings, “And I was joyous ...
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