Richard Hayman worked for Mercury Records label recording about 50 albums and about 14 albums directing the 'Manhattan Pops Orchestra'. This long play is one of them. For recording Haymangathered a broad group of renowned instrumentalists, the most famous among them was guitarist Al Caiola, with whom he organized a special and unique orchestra of nearly 60 components.

Allan Pettersson (1911-1980) is one of the main influences in the music of Leif Segerstam, so it makes perfect sense for Segerstam to conduct Petterrson's symphonies. Pettersson was able, in his early symphonies, to maintain at once a sense of thematic drive as well as a dark presentiment of atonal forces. Tricky, but both Pettersson and Segerstam–in his own symphonies–pull it off. The Symphony 7 (1968) contains rough moods, dark clouds, with …..

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This is one of a number of quality Oil Well productions. All songs are complete with no noticeable flaws. 19 May 1972, Live at Earls Court Exhibition Hall, London, England.

If Nicole Atkins has proven anything, it’s that this Jersey-born singer-songwriter is crazy consistent. Since her 2007 debut, Neptune City, Atkins has delivered some of the most alluring pop music of the last decade. Her latest release, Slow Phaser, follows suit as Atkins continues crooning through wry cuts about pretentious boyfriends, hipsters and life on the road. Recorded in Sweden with producer Tore Johansson (The Cardigans, Franz Ferdinand), Slow Phaser is a fitting companion to Atkins’s other work, and a welcomed next step from an artist riding high on her musical journey.

The "Sacrae Cantiones" of Samuel Scheidt (1587-1654) are not as often performed today as the "Symphoniae Sacrae" of his contemporary Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672) or the "Musae Sioniae " of Michael Praetorius (1571-1621), but it's not because Scheidt's vocal/instrumental work is uninteresting or inferior. This electrifying performance of nine of Scheidt's grandest polychoral settings of German hymns proves his stature, if not quite as sublime as Schütz at least as accomplished as Praetorius. Musicologists and musicians have paid far more attention to Scheidt's seminal role as the first internationally significant German composer for the organ than to his vocal works, and most of "us" today would first have encountered Scheidt in the popular transcriptions of his organ music for modern brass ensemble. If you're a brass player or fan, it may come as a surprise to discover how magnificent a composer of vocal/instrumental music Scheidt was…

2012 album from the veteran British Hard Rock band. Nothing would be easier for British rock legend UFO than to rest on their laurels. But idleness or a musical standstill have always been out of the question for Phil Mogg, Paul Raymond, Andy Parker, and Vinnie Moore. These in equal measures experienced and ambitious musicians are interested in the present, their love of creativity and the active continuation of their celebrated band history. And now we can look forward to Seven Deadly, the band's latest studio album which combines present and future with UFO's greatest fortes.

This album is the meeting between 2 great composers active in the wider industrial fields. Geomatic belongs to the most creative generation of talented composers, which is mainly inspired by tribal & IDM. Andrew Lagowski is an old servant of the industrial scene who explored multiple creative grounds, got involved in numerous collaborations and projects. “Cosmochemistry” is meant to be the symbolic key to enter in new/other dimensions.

In early 2014, German death metal band Lay Down Rotten is going to unveil newest output "Deathspell Catharsis." To shorten the time until the release, you can now listen to the title track in the player below.The death metal massacre will be unleashed on January 24th, 2014 in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, on January 27th in the U.K. and the rest of Europe and on February 11th in North America.