Irish label Claddagh Records release Pomes Penyeach, an album by Irish musicians Adrian Crowley and Matthew Nolan. The record's title comes from a collection of 13 short poems by James Joyce. The album reimagines the 1927 work through music.

Following the vinyl release of Delfonic's reworks of Roy Ayers tracks taken from the BBE Music compilation Roy Ayers-Virgin Ubiquity, it's now Osunlade's turn to add his production and remix enchantment to the music of the master craftsman with these remixes of Brand New Feeling. Featuring the exceptional vocal talents of Merry Clayton, perhaps best known for her blistering performance on the Rolling Stones' Gimme Shelter and her own Webster Lewis penned hit Emotion, alongside Jazz vocalist and Earth, Wind & Fire, Ubiquity and Harvey Mason collaborator Silvia Cox, Osunlade's Yoruba Soul remixes have added new dimensions to this track. Hailing from St Louis, USA Osunlade's CV includes writing music for Sesame Street to working with and producing artists as varied as Patti Labelle, Freddie Jackson, Eric Benet, Martha Wash, Salif Keita, Nadirah Shakoor and Cesaria Evora. He started the Yoruba Soul project and label after his move to New York because of 'the continued need to create the music I wanted' and it is this musical freedom that has made him one of the most distinctive music makers, producers, DJs and remixers around today.

"In 1996 Kimmie Rhodes released West Texas Heaven, an album that marked a ground-breaking moment in her career as a singer-songwriter, to critical acclaim. The album was chosen as "bestnof the year" by many publications worldwide, including USA Today. It featured duets with fellow Texans, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Townes Van Zandt and was recorded at Willie's Pedernales Studio in Austin and Jack Clements, legendary Cowboy Arms Hotel and Recording Spa in Nashville.nnNow Kimmie is releasing the album, which has been re-mixed and re-mastered along with some rare bonus "out-take" tracks from the original sessions and a since recorded duet with Emmylou Harris and Beth Nielsen Chapman that she says, "fits the spirit of the album."nn"This is a voice you could listen to all day." British Vogue Magazinenn"… multi-layered with meaning & emotion, the writing craft flawless, this is wonderful work, just wonderful." Country Music Magazinenn"… the voice of a beautiful child coming from an old soul. She touches us where the better angels of our natures dwell." Emmylou Harrisnn"Kimmie Rhodes: The soul of a poet and the voice of an angel.

Celebrate 15 years of genre-defying groove with Life from Below, the 8th full-length album from Seattle’s Polyrhythmics. Blending funk, soul, psychedelic rock, Afrobeat, and R&B, this dynamic release was recorded live in studio and captures the band at their most raw, connected, and creatively inspired. Featuring standout tracks like “Mayo con Yayo,” “Chophouse,” and the lush, vocal-driven “Smoke & Mirrors” (featuring Adryon de León), this album marks a new chapter for the instrumental seven-piece—honoring their roots while exploring new sonic territory.

"Hummingbird Highway," the title track of Dar Williams' 13th album, was inspired by a romantically-named road that runs along the Maya Mountains of Belize—and a partly imagined story about a child whose parent brings gifts back from work trips as an attempt to make up for lost time. "Sometimes you go away in a car. Sometimes you go away with your door closed," Williams has said. "I've been the child and the parent." She sings with rich detail about what the kid sees: "You're laying out the treasures you brought for me/ Cinnamon bark from a cinnamon tree/ And a stone that you saw/ Clear at the bottom of the sea." This is joyous Americana, its fleet rhythm like the flap of a hummingbird's wings, but with an emotional tug as the young narrator also recognizes their parent's guilt for needing to be in two places at the same time. "You say it's the older you feel, it's the older I get," she sings. "Your highest of highs and your deepest regret."

Yusuf/Cat Stevens - On The Road To Findout (Vol. 3)" does not refer to a specific volume of a collection.

Chart-topping Matt Bianco is back with album #17 “Masquerader”. Front-man Mark Reilly’s smooth vocals set the tone, the beats blend organic Lounge and Club sounds with the Caribbean and South America. Matt Bianco, the chart-topping group that ignited the British Jazz-Pop fires in the 1980s with Top 10-hits like “Yeh Yeh”, “Get Out Of Your Lazy Bed”, or Half A Minute”, is back with their seventeenth album. “Masquerader” dives deep into the band’s roots of Latin, jazz, and pop — with a fresh intent and a modern production edge on singles like Latin-Club-track “Playing With Dynamite”, the restless “Wanderlust”, Samba-soulful “Deep Space” and the dancehall tango-inspired groove of the title track. Front-gentleman Mark Reilly’s smooth vocals set the tone, while the beats blend influences from across the Caribbean and South America with organic Lounge and Club sounds. The album features a lineup of stellar talent, a.o. Brazilian guitar virtuoso, and Verve-recording artist Ricardo Silveira, as well as Venezuelan singer Lino G Rocha bring authentic Latin flair, while London’s vocal Soul-Queen Betty Black (Keb Darge, Snowboy, Bluey) and renowned saxophonist Dave O’Higgins contribute their own distinctive styles. Reilly wrapped up the production and mixing in his own home studio, ensuring every track resonates with the unmistakable Matt Bianco sound — now reimagined for a new era.

Renowned International / Canadian Holly Cole is set to release her 13th studio album, Dark Moon, on January 24th. Teaming up with her long-time live performance partners, along with additional musicians to create rich harmonies and layers, this album is a true ensemble project that highlights her signature style. The ensemble that Holly has brought together to help create and perform on Dark Moon includes long time live performance / recording mates, Aaron Davis (piano), George Koller (bass), Davide Direnzo (drums) and John Johnson (saxophone). Add to that the brilliance of sometime accompanist’s including guitar master and provocateur Kevin Breit and on harmonica two-time Grammy winner and original member of Bella Fleck and the Flecktones, Howard Levy and finally the wonderful three-part 1950’s Nashville style harmonies of the Good Lovelies. Together they define the absolute best in “ensemble playing”!

One of the most successful independent albums of all time, Comfort in Sound is the fourth studio album by Welsh rock band Feeder, released originally on 21 October 2002.

LOVED', Parcels' third album, is exuberant and euphoric, but also reflective. It's an album of unity - with each other, with the listeners, in the grooves - and that's indisputable. 'We do have a purpose as a band to our audience: we're giving people joy', says guitarist/vocalist Jules Crommelin. 'I see it as spirit, and it's an incredibly powerful thing'. Includes 'Safeandsound' and 'Yougotmefeeling'.

For their fifth studio album, Welcome to the Mood, Auckland's genre-defying sextet LEISURE refines their soulful, slow-burning ethos into a radiant new chapter – one rooted in togetherness, creative freedom, and the lived experience of a band evolving with authentic purpose.

Jazz with David Basse explores jazz’s wide range of forms and influences. You’ll hear everything from roots music and rare classic cuts to blues, Latin and the latest releases. Drawing on his lifelong experience as a jazz musician and recording artist, David punctuates his handpicked tracks with insights, anecdotes and interview snippets that bring to life the quintessential American musical genre.

This album presents sounds from Japan with piano and marimba and invites to a musical journey full of nostalgia and cultural depths. It reveals the beautry of traditional Japanese melodies in a modern, emotional guise with virtouso interpretations by Benyamin Nuss and Fumito Nunoya.

Julius Benedict studied with Hummel and Weber, beginning as a virtuoso pianist and then becoming a conductor and operatic composer. In 1835 he moved to England where he spent the next 50 years as a much-admired composer, teacher and writer.

"Brahms Trio - History of the Russian Piano Trio, Vol. 8" is an upcoming album by the Brahms Trio on the Naxos Classics label.