Violinist HuanLing Qian, originally from China but with ties to Poland, presents an album of contemporary classical violin music by composers from the Middle Kingdom. The album features 20th-century compositions by composers such as Sicong Ma and Guoquan Li, as well as works written more than a decade ago by Xunfang Huang and Chen Shuying. The violinist is accompanied by pianists Grzegorz Gorczyca and Grzegorz Skrobiński.

GENUIN and SCHOLA HEIDELBERG present world premiere recordings on a new album featuring works by the internationally awarded composer Dániel Péter Biró, who teaches in Norway. The elite Heidelberg choir and the ensemble aisthesis, specializing in contemporary music, acquaint us with Biró’s imaginative and multi-layered music, which reflects the thought-world of the eminent Dutch-Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza in sound and pours it into new contexts. A listening experience spanning cultures and epochs!

When Markus stayed with us for a week, after one of his tours got cancelled, we improvised together for hours each day. We recorded our experiments, and we puzzled over the hovering nocturnal mood of our explorations. Of course we were channeling the situation of our lives and of the world, perhaps a dissonance between the realms of comfort and distress, distance from family or a larger distance from our hopes for the human herd. As artists, we take a shamanic path, and we trend toward the outlying regions of cognition. Our musical mood during these sessions reminded me of the books by Peter Kingsley, about pre-Socratic mystics Parmenides and Empedocles, who’s meditative approach of “incubation” planted a more earthy and subterranean core to ancient European philosophy. Consider this musical excursion as subterranean, seeking balance inside of dark silence. Markus and I share a deep friendship based on searching, questioning, practice, and a sort of alchemical process of creating things that never existed before, from within our life journeys.

On November 7, 2025, the Belgian label Sdban Records will release a reissue of the mythical Open Sky Unit (1974) by the eponymous jazz fusion group featuring Micheline and Jacques Pelzer, Steve Houben, Ron Wilson, Janot Buchem and Michel Graillier. The album returns on vinyl, highlighting a pivotal moment in Belgian jazz history, where soul, funk, and free improvisation came together in a vibrant and family-driven project.

On ‘All That’s Solid Melts Into Air’, Devon Church (ex-Exitmusic) veers sonically and politically leftward. Taking its title from a famous Karl Marx quote - ‘All that is solid melts into air, all that is sacred is profaned’ - Church’s third album contemplates the corrosive effects of 21st century capitalism - impending climate doom, skyrocketing wealth inequality, the predations of the so-called ‘attention economy’, genocide and the specter of world war - and their hallucinatory effects on our collective and individual psyches.

Mario Pilati was born in Naples on 16 October 1903. His life was very short, intense and troubled. Together with his siblings, he was introduced as a child into the study of music, as was the custom in Neapolitan upper-middle-class families.

Hardenack Otto Conrad Zinck (1746–1832), a student of C. P. E. Bach, blended empfindsamer Stil with Italianate elegance and Danish folk elements. This album presents his 'Six Keyboard Sonatas and an Ode' (1783), performed by the Danish clavichordist Mads Damlund, revealing Zinck’s expressive imagination through sparkling keyboard textures and lyrical melodies, offering a delightful rediscovery for modern audiences.

British recorder player Heidi Fardell makes her debut on Willowhayne Records with the world premiere recording of Robert Valentine’s Opus XI. A versatile performer and engaging educator, Heidi brings virtuosity, warmth, and historically informed insight to every note, opening up the world of the recorder for modern audiences.

Sandra Chamoux received the highest distinctions in Christian Bernard’s class at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional (CRR) of Grenoble before being admitted with honors to the Haute École de Musique in Geneva, where she studied with Harry Datyner and was awarded the Premier Prix de virtuosité in 1992. A laureate of the Gian-Battista Viotti and Ferruccio Busoni international competitions in Italy, she also studied under Catherine Collard, Vlado Perlemuter, and Yevgeni Malinin.

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Luciferian Towers is the perfect name for a Godspeed You! Black Emperor album, matched only, perhaps, by the title of its 2000 classic Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven. In a way, this new one - the band’s third since reuniting in 2011 - feels like a bookend to Lift, in that it’s similarly powerful, but far more sinister. (If we want to extend that idea even further, “heaven” is in the title of one, “Lucifer” the other.)

Music for Woodwind Choirs features two major works, one for an oboe ensemble (consisting of two oboes and two English horns), the other a thirty-minute “symphony” for flute choir.

Gabriel Bird is an actor, musician, and writer based in Edinburgh, Scotland. An award-winning trilingual performer, he’s trained and worked throughout Switzerland, Italy, France, the UK, China, and the US. He will now stop referring to himself in the third person, as it feels really weird.

Loud Minority is the album that focuses, and straight to the point captures the energy of a tight power trio Jacks Full shaped by years on the road and a no-frills approach to songwriting. Gritty, loud, and Amped-up rock, it's a modern take on a classic sound.

Jano Rix, best known as one-third of Grammy Award-nominated trio The Wood Brothers, and his father, veteran drummer Luther Rix, whose career includes work with Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue, Leonard Cohen, and Ten Wheel Drive, have joined forces on record for the first time. Simply calling themselves RIX, the father/son duo will release their debut album, Legacy, Vol. 1, a collaboration more than 12 years in the making.