6 Minutes Diary

Cardboard sleeve (mini LP) reissue from ex-YES band members featuring digital remastering, using 2011 master audio. The cardboard sleeve series faithfully replicates the original LP featuring gatefold jacket and includes the albums: Jon Anderson's - "Olias Of Sunhillow" (1976) & "Song Of Seven" (1980); Steve Howe's - "Beginnings" (1975) & "The Steve Howe Album" (1979); Chris Squire's - Fish Out Of Water (1975); Alan White's - "Ramshackled" (1976).

Peter Gabriel is the third eponymous solo album by English rock musician Peter Gabriel, released on 23 May 1980 by Charisma Records. The album has been acclaimed as Gabriel's artistic breakthrough as a solo artist and for establishing him as one of rock's most ambitious and innovative musicians.

The Ultra Vivid Lament’ is the 14th studio album from Manic Street Preachers. It is both reflection and reaction; a record that gazes in isolation across a cluttered room, fogged by often painful memories, to focus on an open window framing a gleaming vista of land melting into sea and endless sky.

Beethoven’s trifles illuminate his work in a new way: through these short pieces of only a few minutes one encounters the multiple aspects of his abundant and complex musical personality, such as the diary of a Beethoven of the miniature.

Robert Schumann rated the string quartet genre very highly, describing it as ‘noble’ and considering it to be one of the most revealing in terms of compositional craftsmanship. Possibly it was the high regard in which he held the genre that for so long stopped him from actually completing a quartet of his own – although he had first seriously considered writing one in 1828, it took almost 15 years before he was ready to fully commit to the idea. Once he had done so, there was no returning: during some hectic summer weeks in 1842, a year which is often called ‘Schumann's chamber music year’, he completed the three string quartets of his Op. 41, presenting them to his wife Clara on her 23rd birthday in September. In her diary she wrote ‘… they delighted me to the utmost. Everything in them is new, clear, expertly worked out and always idiomatic.’

Mega Bog is the fluid musical moniker of songwriter Erin Elizabeth Birgy, who has spent the last ten years channeling, capturing, and releasing her unique bouquet of fragrant, sci-fi pop experiments with a handful of bicoastal collaborators. She is joined on her fifth and finest album (and first for PoB) by members of Big Thief, Hand Habits, and iji, who help her spin a manic web of emotions into beautiful, abstract future poems and thrilling genre perversions. Mega Bog has visited a significant portion of the Western world, frequently looping the USA and Europe to sing in tiny art spaces and haunted historical theaters alike. The live concerts are known for their emotional unpredictability.

With a captivating compilation of re-written, sound-painting arrangements for violin and orchestra of well-known film and series soundtracks and new compositions by Academy Award-winning composers Rachel Portman and Anne Dudley, violinist Esther Abrami demonstrates her versatility, musical sensitivity and sophistication on Cinéma.

SOMM RECORDINGS is delighted to announce the release of Natural Connection, a captivatingly lyrical new recording by pianist Leon McCawley featuring music for solo piano inspired by the natural world.