Last Joe Zawinul album recorded before he passed away in 2007. Musically all release is based in Zawinul's post-Weather Report music,played with Absolute Ensemble, conducted by Estonian director Kristjan Jarvi.It's interesting, that two members of one of most current Zawinul band's (Zawinul Syndicate) are participated on recordings as well (Congolese vocalist Sabine Kabongo and the Mauritius-born bassist Linley Marthe).

Produced by Phil Ramone and Paul Simon, with liner notes written by Elvis Costello, So Beautiful or So What is one of the most highly anticipated albums of the year. Rolling Stone magazine recently declared it, "His best since Graceland," and National Public Radio affirmed, "…his new music balances great poetry and pop. Paul Simon is a national treasure." In their current issue, Filter Magazine calls the new album, "…a new masterpiece from the Picasso of music."

Pyotr Tchaikovsky: Symphonies No.4 in F minor Op.36; No.5 in E minor Op.64; No.6 in B minor Op.74 'Pathétique' -
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia; Antonio Pappano
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Publisher: EMI Classics | Recorded: 2006 | Published: 2010

Alt three performances convey an unfailing sense of dramatic imperative; all three display a suppleness of phrasing that comes from working with voices … In the Fourth Symphony, I am entirely sure that Pappano and his orchestra have crossed that indefinable threshold to achieve something exceptional. Gramophone

(…) Concert reviews in England have been ecstatic, and, to judge from the Barber and a recital of Rossini arias, she [Cecilia Bartoli] may be the real article: a young singer with a generous vocal endowment and, more unusual, a distinctive and communicative musical personality. Hear this performance for her. New York Magazine 15-jan-1990

"Heiðindómr Ok Mótgangr" will be HELHEIM's seventh full-length album, and it follows on last November's release of the "Åsgards Fall" mini-CD, which served as an introduction to the new album. Recorded at Conclave And Earshot Studio in Bergen with producer Bjørnar Nilsen (VULTURE INDUSTRIES, BLACK HOLE GENERATOR) at the helm and mastered by Herbrand Larsen (ENSLAVED), the nine-track album includes guest appearances from TAAKE's Hoest, Gunnar Emmerhoff (EMMERHOFF & THE MELANCHONY BABIES), PV Staff and Trine Mjanger.

Bloodsoaked German quintet Debauchery have returned with their fourth full-length CD since their 2003 debut, and in case you somehow couldn't tell from song titles like "Masters Of The Killing Art" and "Baptise This World In Blood," they play death metal…mid-tempo, downtuned, heavy-as-all-hell, no-frills, gory-lyric-strewn, glass-gargling-vocalled death metal. If that description sounds vaguely familiar to you, there's a good reason for it. Debauchery are basically the German version of Six Feet Under, down to the fact band founder Thomas's vocals sound a lot like those of Chris Barnes. Bonus disc aside, this is a damn good, damn brutal midtempo death album which suffers somewhat because of its highly derivative nature - but not much, because Debauchery is nearly as good at being SFU as SFU are themselves. If you just can't get enough of this style of death metal, you cannot go wrong with BACK IN BLOOD.

AVID Jazz presents three classic Stan Getz albums - plus, including original LP liner notes on a finely re-mastered and low priced double CD. 'Stan Getz & The Oscar Peterson Trio', 'Hamp & Getz' and 'Jazz Giants' plus four additional tracks from Getz and Peterson and an outtake from the Hamp- Getz album. We guess you could say that this collection of classic albums follows the theme of our super-group idea with the recent Lionel Hampton release. ~ Amazon