Attacca World Music members all come from different musical backgrounds. As a result, our music grows not only from the style, phraseology and the formal language of classical music and contemporary jazz, but also, very emphatically, draws inspiration from authentic folk music.

HIGHER is the 2nd installment of a tetralogy. The four albums each represent an element: Sur La Voie Ensoleillée was EARTH (roots, grounded, down to earth) and HIGHER represents AIR (cosmic, spiritual, high).

The world of pop music was hardly ready for The Velvet Underground's first album when it appeared in the spring of 1967, but while "The Velvet Underground and Nico" sounded like an open challenge to conventional notions of what rock music could sound like (or what it could discuss), 1968's "White Light/White Heat" was a no-holds-barred frontal assault on cultural and aesthetic propriety.

"Bootleg Series Vol. 3: Son of a Witch" gives you all the Dark Swamp Blues, Black Porch Acoustic Slide Guitar, and Acoustic Fingerstyle Blues you've been begging' for! This collection of 10 instrumental solo guitar performances by Justin Johnson will help you slip away, zone in, zone out, or just kick back and enjoy the music while you sip on your favorite liquid concoction.

"A Musical Zoo" with Ashley Riches and Joseph Middleton is a veritable tour de force, featuring compositions spanning nearly 160 years, from Schubert’s The Trout to Shostakovich’s Once there lived a cockroach, and four languages (German, French, Russian, and English).

Renowned composer Ólafur Arnalds presents the EP A Sunrise Session, a live studio session featuring tracks from Arnalds recent release, Some Kind of Peace.

With her impressive modern fingerstyle technique and equipped with a voice that gets under the skin, the guitarist and singer-songwriter Sophie Chassée has been attracting attention in the scene for some time.

They should be simple and beautiful – that’s what Chick Corea wrote about his 20 Children’s Songs; the reason being that just this very simplicity and beauty of children‘s minds was what he wanted to express in his musical miniatures.

In their way, the two Brahms cello sonatas are among his most complex works, although the Cello Sonata in F major, Op. 99, is also one of his sunniest. Throughout, in a dozen different ways, Brahmselegantly solves the problem of what to do when his melody instrument is mainly lower than his accompaniment one, and the two sonatas are fascinating essays in register and balance.

Spirals , the slow reveal, cyclical but eventually coming to a point . ‘Realm of Spells ‘ is for me the point . Maybe the last time I will get to work with Bill. For me personally, this record embodies and contains a lot of the basic approach I had right from the beginning , especially in regard to playing the bass. The circumstances of our trip led to me using a Fender P bass for the first time in years. All the early PiL stuff plus Full circle with Holger and Jaki was played on Fender P. I was taken back to that beautiful naive beginning . At that juncture some pristine mathematical truth shot like a ray of vajra light from deep space.

The Italian composers of the seventeenth century, living at the time of Galileo, were at the forefront of a musical revolution that offers some surprising analogies with the birth of the modern scientific method. Just as Galileo with his telescope was able to observe the sky and discover new celestial objects, so the musicians of the time strove to fathom the depths of the human soul with their wind and bowed or plucked string instruments.

Following the success of 'Arias for Nicolino', a musical portrait of the celebrated castrato of Handel's era (A427), Carlo Vistoli turns his attention to Venetian opera of the seventeenth century. The Italian countertenor - 'a voice […] intrinsically beautiful, strong and powerful' (Opera Magazine) - has been delving into this repertory since the beginning of his international career with specialists such as Leonardo García Alarcón, William Christie and John Eliot Gardiner.

Recorded by David Thomas on a cassette at the Pirate's Cove, Old River Road, Cleveland, Ohio, on June 2 1977.

Sparkle Hard is the seventh album by Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks, in keeping with their trademark sound but with some unexpected flourishes, including Auto-Tune, a fiddle, and guest vocals from Kim Gordon.