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It was clear that fans of Eva's music wanted a new album but it was important to us that any new record was made up of songs that had not been heard before and that were of a high quality. We are really pleased with the album; it is long overdue Eva's father, Hugh Cassidy Twelve all new songs First...
Ancient Infinity Orchestra's 2023 album, River Of Light. - River Of Light by Ancient Infinity Orchestra (CD)
US based Finnish pianist Anni Kiviniemi debuts her trio featuring bassist Eero Tikkanen and drummer Hans Hulbaekmo (from Gard Nilssen's Supersonic Orchestra and Moskus). The new album "Eir", out on We Jazz Records 12 Jan 2024, is an introspective, moody, yet swinging trio set comprising of 8...
FOUR AND FIVE STAR REVIEWS ALL OVER THE WORLD! This is the Album that introduced the music of Eva Cassidy to listeners all over the World, and has become Eva's signature Album. - Songbird by Eva Cassidy (CD)
Fly My Pretties release their first studio album - The Studio Recordings Part 1. With a rich history as a live act, this album presents some of their most loved tracks in a brand new setting. Fly My Pretties have only ever recorded and released live albums, and in a reverse move, now present their...
Fire! have always been about finding the essence by getting to the core of the music. Their 8th album sees the trio - for the first time on record - stripped down to the bare-bones essentials; with no flutes, no electronics, no guests and no extras, recorded live in the studio to analogue tape -...
The Essential Glen Miller by Glenn Miller (CD). - The Essential Glen Miller by Glenn Miller (CD)
During the 2008 I'm New Here sessions at New York's Looking Glass studios, ScottHeron recorded stripped-down new versions of some of his greatest songs. Accompanying himself on piano and with no overdubs, this is Nothing New, a unique musical insight into one of the most profound recording artists...
The music of Patrick Bleakley, Jonathan Crayford and Anthony Donaldson is born out of a midweek residency at the Wellington bar/venue called Happy over a 12 month period. Picking the best pieces from all the recordings resulted in the album ‘The Truth Isn't Always Ornamental'. Intuition and the...
Kadhja Bonet's music could easily belong in another time, a hybrid between the past and the future. On her debut album, Kadhja - pronounced "kod-ya" - invites us into a world not wholly our own, where past and future meet in a parallel, yet far lovelier, present. The Visitor opens with an awe you'd...
Preservation Hall Jazz Band their new album, So It Is, the septet's second release featuring all-new original music. So It Is finds the classic PHJB sound invigorated by a number of fresh influences, not least among them the band's 2015 life-changing trip to Cuba. "In Cuba, all of a sudden we were...
The Heliocentrics are a group for which genres are meaningless and boundaries invisible. They've spent years squeezing fragments of hip-hop, jazz, psych, and krautrock into their hypnotic, thrumming compositions since debuting on DJ Shadow's 2006 album The Outsider. The primarily instrumental...
You're Driving Me Crazy Van Morrison's 39th studio album "You're Driving Me Crazy" showcases electrifying musical collaborations, fresh interpretations of blues/jazz standards and deep cuts from Van's songbook. The new album is a collaboration with jazz Hammond organ/trumpet virtuoso, Joey...
Nowhere. - Nowhere by Masaki Batoh (CD)
To mark the tenth anniversary of I'm New Here's release, XL Recordings present a unique reimagining of the album by the acclaimed Chicago-based musician Makaya McCraven, whose work Russell first discovered after hearing McCraven's "Above & Beyond", from 2017's Highly Rare album. Equally renowned...
In February 2010, the late, legendary musician, poet and author Gil Scott-Heron released his thirteenth, and last, studio album. First conceptualised in 2005, and ultimately produced by XL Recordings head Richard Russell during New York recording sessions that commenced in January 2008, I'm New...
Kamasi Washington composed and produced the original score for Becoming, the four-time Emmy-nominated film that provided an intimate glimpse into the life of Michelle Obama. Produced by Netflix Originals, Becoming documented a moment of profound change for the former First Lady, not only for her...
Bring Backs marks Alfa's first release for the label ANTI- and is also the most detailed exploration of his upbringing in musical form. The album's nine tracks of groove-based intricacies, lyrical solipsism and meandering fragmentations are tied together by a remarkable poem written by Hilary...
Canadian ensemble BADBADNOTGOOD made their name by crossing genre. This seamless movement between style hit hard when they took hip hop into jazz and vice versa. Their latest album - and first with XL recordings - demonstrates them going back to their instrumental beginnings. Instead of looking at...
Drawing on bebop, punk rock, shoegaze, hip-hop, and electronic music, experimental jazz act High Pulp present Pursuit of Ends, their first full-length album with Los Angeles's ANTI- Records. High Pulp's music is both vintage and futuristic all at once, hinting at times to everything from Miles...