Abysmal Evenings

The Drums are a four-piece indie pop band from Brooklyn, NY. Jonny Pierce is the main founding member, as well as the singer, songwriter and producer. The band heavily channels the sound of The Smiths & Joy Division/New Order and they put on a highly regarded live show. Jonny found creative inspiration and challenge in writing infectious pop music that lyrically confronts darker issues than to sonically be expected. As he grew as an artist, he became more involved in this dichotomy, finding more interesting ways to do so. This new record is perhaps his best work yet - catchy and carefree at times, yet dark and atmospheric at others, strung together more seamlessly than in the past. The band has received critical praise of their past work & grown to acquire a very loyal fanbase in the US and strongly in South America and the UK. They have over half a million followers on Facebook, which is a strong indication of their following. Anti -Records is excited to have them on the label and their new album is due for release in June 2017.

This is one of the beauties of the Japanese progressive rock. Initially published in 1986, "La Mosaïque De La Rêverie" is one of the most famous and successful albums of Nippon symphonic rock. This is a very personal work, that has become a symbol of the prolific Eighties Japanese Progressive rock school. Despite a certain Genesis touch which might be observed, it strikes a perfect balance between vocals, synthesizers and piano, flute and guitar. This classical rock is very lyrical, subtle and dynamic. "Abysmal Masquerade" (1987) is the second album reissued by the Musea label, now completed by alternative versions and bonus tracks. "The Pay For Dreamer's Sin" (1989) contains sumptuous and refined symphonic music which evokes Yes and Genesis.

English Evenings were a British new wave duo that released one album in 1985 entitled After Dark. Before English Evenings, Lee Walsh was a member of the band Sly Fox, whose name later changed to One Adult. After the band broke up and with its members going their separate ways, Walsh secured a record deal under the name of English Evenings, together with bandmate Graham Lee. They released only one album in 1985, on the UK independent label Safari Records.

In August of 1961, the John Coltrane Quintet played an engagement at the legendary Village Gate in Greenwich Village, New York. Eighty minutes of never-before-heard music from this group were recently discovered at the New York Public Library. In addition to some well-known Coltrane material ("Impressions"), there is a breathtaking feature for Dolphy's bass clarinet on "When Lights Are Low" and the only known non-studio recording of Coltrane's composition "Africa", from the Africa/Brass album.

Pianist Paul Bley was touring Scandinavia with a quartet made up of longtime associate Gary Peacock on bass and two brilliant British musicians, drummer Tony Oxley and John Surman on baritone saxophone and bass clarinet, when they made this Oslo recording in 1991. Rather than a conventionally organized quartet session, the CD consists of seven largely improvised solos, three duets, and two tracks–the collectively improvised "Interface" and Surman's "Article Four"–with the full quartet. Even more unusual is the frequent emphasis on bass frequencies and slow, even solemn, tempos. Only extraordinary musicians could keep such a format interesting, and these four do, exploring room resonance with almost ceremonial levels of concentration.

Newest album by technical death metal masters Abysmal Torment. 10 tracks of extreme, brutal, technical death metal.

Heretofore something of a specialist in the music of Grazyna Bacewicz – although the young Polish pianist had earlier released four discs of Chopin, her later recordings for Hänssler were a single disc of solo piano music and a two-disc set of the Polish composer's complete works for violin and piano with Piotr Plawner – Ewa Kupiec in this two-disc set takes on the solo piano works of the Moravian composer Leos Janácek.