On their first ZOHO Roots release, the Jay Willie Blues Band lays down 15 vintage Texas blues, rock, and ballad tracks, including eight scorching band originals plus famous early R&B classics and obscure early blues rediscoveries. Inspired and influenced by the incendiary guitar and slide guitar work by Texas blues legend Johnny Winter, Willie fortifies his blues band with Winter’s ex-drummer Bobby T Torello as a special guest. Other special guests include young Dutch R&B singer and YouTube discovery Marlou Zandvliet (“Hollywood”), and harmonica ace Jason Ricci. In typical blues funkiness and an ironic but provocative sideswipe at political correctness, some of the album’s songs celebrate the guilty pleasures of “Chain Smokin’” and “Champagne and Reefer” - the latter a powerful Muddy Waters tune.

Once of the most refreshing and distinctive voices in modern jazz, Jane Monheit's remarkable vocal abilities have helped breathe new life into the popular and enduring musical style. Whether you're a longtime fan of Monheit's or a relative newcomer to her sultry vocal style, this performance recorded live at the 2004 Brecon International Jazz Festival in Breçon, Whales, offers the next best thing to being there bringing the magic of her live performance into the comfort of your living room.

One-man Atmospheric Black Metal force Lustre delivers their latest compilation of unreleased (or hard to find) tracks under the title of “Lost In Lustrous Night Skies”. Featuring five tracks inspired by Burzum’s atmospheric pieces, this release is quite a treat for hard-core Lustre fans and fans of Atmospheric and creepy Black Metal.Overall, Lustre might not be at the top of their game in this release but it still features four solid tracks of brilliant atmospheric elements and chilling screams. If you are a hardcore fan of the band, better pick up this release in the limited edition vinyl. If you like atmospheric/ambient music, but still need some guitars here and there and disarming screams, be sure to check this compilation out.

Mentored by Erik Satie and Jean Cocteau between 1917 to 1923, the celebrated French compositional group known as Les Six comprised Georges Auric, Louis Durey, Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc and Germaine Taillefaire. The artful relationship between Les Six and their mentors formed an important cornerstone of the inter-war avant garde.

In 1975, George Duke was dabbling in R&B vocals. But instrumental jazz-fusion was still his primary focus, and he had yet to be played extensively on any of the genres' stations. When The Aura Will Prevail came out that year, no one bought the LP for its occasional R&B vocal – the main attraction was Duke's keyboard playing. "Fools" is a melancholy soul ballad that finds him singing lead and predicts what was to come on R&B-oriented releases like Don't Let Go (1978) and Master of the Game (1979), but it isn't typical of the album on the whole. Without question, The Aura Will Prevail is among this artist's finest fusion-oriented albums.

It may be hard to believe, but this is the CD debut of this little-known title! Released by Charisma Records in 1972, the only album of this still highly underrated, British progressive band should appeal to fans of classic, heavy and quite melodic rock based on catchy, but intense guitars, ever-changing moods & rhythms and complex vocal parts…

One of Wakeman's more ridiculous efforts, this is the soundtrack for a re-release of the 1925 film version of Phantom of the Opera. The music varies widely in style, "from operatic rock to tearful ballads" (as the liner notes put it), featuring singers Ashley Holt, Chrissie Hammond, and Ramon Remedios…

Beautiful instrumental progressive rock music from Hungary! The 2 CD set contains unreleased Hungarian Radio and live sessions recorded during the 1970's. Beautiful flute, guitar, organ and synthesizer sounds. Camel's Moonmadness and Raindances could be the closer relatives of this music but it has an absolutly own style and sound…

Morton Feldman - Steffen Schleiermacher - The Late Piano Works Vol. 2
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Label/Cat#: MDG "Scene" # 613 1522-2 | Country/Year: Germany 2009
Genre: Classical | Style: Contemporary, Avant-Garde

…If you’re unfamiliar with Feldman’s nuanced, nondevelopmental music, this may not be the easiest point of entry, but . . . well, there probably isn’t an easy point of entry after all, so why not just dive in?

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Universal
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Label/Cat#: Virgin # CDV 2807 | Country/Year: Europe 1996
Genre: Electronic | Style: Synth-pop

Universal is the tenth album by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, released in 1996. It features songwriting contributions from founder member Paul Humphreys, who departed the band in 1988, and Karl Bartos (formerly of Kraftwerk). The album spawned the band's first Top 20 hit in the UK for 5 years with the track "Walking on the Milky Way".