Crematory are haunting the German Metal scene for a long time now. After the release of their debut in 1993, they put out no less than another eight studio albums, so that Klagebilder (translation: Pictures of Mourning) is their tenth full-length album!

We are thrilled to reveal the new album from Steve Dyer, a man whose enduring vision and message gives hope to us all. In his words…

After his confident display as a full-fledged piano soloist in 2016 (Piano Tales), with Blend Pages Enrico Zanisi has started a fresh page on his artistic path towards freeing himself from the close relationship with the piano and moving forward into compositional explorations.

"A definite musical voice" (Guitar International) and a player of "fluid lyricism" (Downbeat), Canadian guitarist and composer Alex Goodman moved to New York City in 2012 where he established himself as "among the most promising talents of [his] jazz generation" (JazzTimes), "one of New York's most vital young guitarists" (Jazziz), and "an important emerging voice on his instrument" (New York City Jazz Record).

The harpsichordist Helene Diot takes us on a journey between Amsterdam and London, where Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621), William Byrd (c. 1540-1623) and Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625) enter into dialogue with toccatas, fantasies and variations.

Karen Tanaka’s Children of Light is a set of twenty-five piano pieces composed for children to perform. Its theme is animals in danger – because of climate change, persecution by poaching or other man-made changes to their habitat.

"Ooh-La-La" is an upcoming 2025 album by the Japanese jazz pianist Chihiro Yamanaka.

Sanna Vaarni began her studies at the Espoo Music Institute with Katarina Nummi-Kuisma.

She graduated from the piano class of prof. Aleksandra Utrecht at the Mieczysław Karłowicz Secondary School of music in Poznań. In 2008, she graduated with honors from the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Poznań Academy of Music, where she studied harpsichord under Professor Maria Banaszkiewicz-Bryła.

ICONOCLASTS is Anna's first album in five years. Centered around her incomparable voice and expressive organ playing, the album features Iggy Pop and Ethel Cain among others. Together with producer Filip Leyman, she has crafted a true epic of experimental rock music, full of bombast and emotion. ICONOCLASTS is the work of a singular artist at the absolute height of her powers.

Following Third Man Records’ reissue of The Belair Lip Bombs’ (the label’s first Australian signing) 2023 debut album ‘Lush Life’ last year – which gained widespread praise including a - NME review, 7.8 Pitchfork review by Laura Snapes, a Guardian Ones To Watch piece and a ‘Best Rock or Punk Work’ award at the Victoria Music Awards – the Melbourne four-piece are gearing up to release their eagerly anticipated second album 'Again' on 31st October.

A crucial introduction to the 'King of Kikuyu Benga' and the first career-spanning retrospective of the incredible catalogue of the late, great Joseph Kamaru.

Naya Beat is delighted to announce the release of an astonishing lost “holy grail”, Mohinder Kaur Bhamra’s 1982 masterpiece ‘Punjabi Disco’. The reissue includes remixes by Peaking Lights, Danger Boys, Psychemagik, Dexter+Franz, Mystic Jungle, and Baalti, as well as a cover by Say She She’s Piya Malik and Turbotito & Ragz.

The popular Royal Academy of Music Bicentenary Series continues with a very special digital release from Joseph Havlat. A former student of the Academy, receiving awards for exceptional merit in studentship and the highest possible recital mark for a postgraduate pianist, Joseph Havlat is a fast-rising pianist and composer, having performed in major concert venues around the UK, Europe, America, Japan and Australia. For his album on Linn, he has chosen to present a selection of music he loves and regularly plays. Both a homage and a remembrance, the core of this album is folk music, of a melodic kind from Janáček and a rhythmic kind from Martinů. Bookending the narrative are works by Kurtág and Havlat himself, acting as prologue and epilogue.

During the reign of Le Roi Soleil Louis XIV, music played the fundamental role of defining and consolidating the centrality of power: music had to represent the grandeur and divine nature of the sovereign, the power and splendour of the French crown.