The long wait has come to an end – at least for a little while! Exactly one year after the first issue with works of Ottorino Respighi for violin and piano, GENUIN has now released the second CD with Ilona Then-Bergh and Michael Schäfer. After the impressionistic and late-romantic works of Respighi, adaptations of Italian baroque sonatas are now on the programme. Whoever is familiar with Respighi’s wonderful suites on old tunes will have ……

Compilation album released in the U.S.A. on Brazilian singer Astrud Gilberto (Bahia, 1940). She features twelve songs from her diverse discography that stands in the melodic and romantic look of the compositions. The subject of love has always been a favorite in the production of Astrud, both accompanied by orchestra and small ensembles in which artists appear as Stan Getz, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Joao Gilbert, Walter Wanderley or Kenny Burrell among others, interpreting Brazilian rhythms, especially bossa, ballad or slow.

Amazing singer Sheryl Crow is nine-time Grammy winner, wooow! Now, on the eve of the release of her new album, Feels Like Home, she has delivered a powerhouse performance in the ornate Grand Ballroom of The Plaza at the New York City landmark…

Recording performed by Living Strings orchestra led by Hill Bowen, who also authored the arrangements. This orchestra, founded in 1959 by the woman who was the first producer in the U.S.A., Ethel DeNagy Gabriel, remained studio orchestra for twenty two years, usually releasing pop music recordings like this one.

FREEDOM CALL will release its new studio album, "Beyond", on February 24 in Europe and March 4 in North America via SPV/Steamhammer. The 14-song effort was recorded at Separate Studios in Nuremberg and FREEDOM CALL's own studio and was produced by guitarist/vocalist Chris Bay and Stephan Ernst.

Southern German gothic metallers CREMATORY will release their new album, "Antiserum", on March 4, 2014 in North America and February 24, 2014 in Europe via Steamhammer/SPV.

Led by lead singer and drummer Peter Hoorelbeke (a.k.a. Peter Rivera), Rare Earth started out in Detroit as The Sunliners and tore up the Motor City club scene in the mid- to late-’60s before signing to hometown Motown. The platinum album Get Ready (1969) was then followed by the gold Ecology (1970). Attesting to the band’s reputation for live performances, five years later it released what would be its last gold album, Rare Earth In Concert.

It is an extraordinary story, the very stuff of legend. A country blues singer with a career shrouded in mystery, who died in his twenties, whose entire recoreded output numbered less than thirty songs (all included here) which hardly sold any copies during his short lifetime, has become regarded as one of the most influential musicians of the twentieth century…