5 Records of Summer

This summer, a wave of hits sweeps over the waves … Find the 100 hits of the summer 2019! With: Daddy Yankee, Slimane, Vitaa, Gims, Angele …

Mike Love grew up under the Southern California sun where he soaked up a life of music, sports, and family traditions. Beginning his singing and songwriting career as a teenager, Mike and his cousin Brian Wilson, frequently sang at family get-togethers and holiday gatherings. Mike’s early influences, including his attendance at a culturally and socially diverse high school, served as inspiration to some of The Beach Boys most iconic songs. Throughout Mike's career, he has co-authored more than a dozen top ten singles, cementing The Beach Boys legacy alongside The Beatles and Michael Jackson, as the only artist to have produced twelve top ten singles within five years. Mike continues to write and record music 57 years after his legendary career began. Mike’s new album, 12 Sides of Summer, celebrates a season treasured by so many around the world and will be a must-have on your Summer playlist. “12 Sides of Summer was such a fun album to create. I loved bringing a fresh vision to some of my favorite artists’ songs and Beach Boys’ classics, while pairing them with a few of my new original tracks. This is an album for the whole family to listen to as they celebrate the summer season and warmer days in the sun,” said Mike Love.

Christiaan Bruin is also known as being the drummer in Sky Architect and playing keyboards with Nine Stone Close, but is receiving strong acclaim for his Chris releases and 'Days Of Summer Gone' is another consistent collection of well crafted songwriting and high quality musicianship. Bruin's previous releases have largely followed a theme and this is no exception, as this is very much an album rooted in the atmospheric sounds of the 1970s, with the added instruments played by auxiliary musicians being violin, trumpet, oboe, cello, flute and trombone. Determined not to fall into the trap of recording the same album over and over again, Bruin uses Chris as an opportunity to explore his love of prog rock's past with another nod to yesteryear by way of the suitably abstract cover artwork…

Ned Rorem (b. 1923) is one of our most distinguished composers, perhaps best known for his songs; certainly he is one of the finest composers we have when it comes to word-setting. But this disc is given over to chamber works, and a fine disc it is; it features the British chamber group Fibonacci Series, which consists of seven instrumentalists (led by violinist Jonathan Carney, brother of the American String Quartet's second violinist, Laurie Carney).