Explorer Series

The original soundtrack to the much anticipated second series of ‘His Dark Materials’ scored by Lorne Balfe.
There’s some great music on here – perhaps not quite as consistently as the first album, but it’s not far off. A couple of tracks are really exceptional and there’s no doubt that anyone who enjoyed volume 1 should absolutely go and pick this up too. Even more so than that time, the recording has that weird cheap sound that some Remote Control composers favour – I know that real people played some of this music because Lorne Balfe has posted videos of them doing so on social media, but there must be a lot of samples as well for it to sound like this. (When you do hear the brass sounding like actual brass in “The City in the Sky”, it’s so arresting and powerful.)

Valley of The Boom features music by Primetime Emmy winners and Grammy nominated composers Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein. The duo, who composed the spectacular soundtrack to the Netflix hit Stranger Things, return with their sensational score to the National Geographic Original Series, Valley of The Boom. The highly anticipated television mini series is set to air on 13 January 2019 on National Geographic. The six part special series tells the wildly true stories of the epic browser wars and the companies that shaped the internet. Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein’s unique and innovative use of electronics has catapulted them to critical success. This approach to composition led them to win the 2017 Emmy for Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music.

Bigger and bolder than ever, Series 11 marks the arrival of the Thirteenth Doctor, award-winning actress Jodie Whittaker. - a super-smart explorer of the universe, alongside a team of new friends and delightful characters.

Perhaps best known as the pianist for Chuck Berry, Johnnie Johnson is equally a leader in his own right, as heard here. He is joined by various bands that include Keith Richards and Eric Clapton for a rollicking set of country and jazz tinged-blues.

Celebrating Ocora's archives Alongside Nonesuch's Explorer series, Ocora is perhaps the most important mother lode of authentic 20th-century field recordings of world music. Part of Radio France and the brainchild of the late composer-musicologist Charles Duvelle and Pierre Schaeffer, Ocora began recording African traditional music in the 50s.

Stackridge were a British rock group which had their greatest success in the early 1970s. Collection includes four classic albums: Stackridge (1971), Friendliness (1972), Extravaganza (1975) and Mr. Mick (1976).

Featuring a 40-page booklet crammed with rare illustrations and the stories behind the songs, Peephole In My Brain is an essential addition to Grapefruit’s acclaimed year-by-year series of late Sixties/early Seventies British rock and pop.
1971 stands as an odd, rather surreal year in British pop history: while American soft-rockers and singer-songwriters were dominating the album charts, the year in which the country ch-ch-changed over to decimal currency saw the homegrown pop/rock scene becoming increasingly eccentric.

Featuring a 40-page booklet crammed with rare illustrations and the stories behind the songs, Peephole In My Brain is an essential addition to Grapefruit’s acclaimed year-by-year series of late Sixties/early Seventies British rock and pop.
1971 stands as an odd, rather surreal year in British pop history: while American soft-rockers and singer-songwriters were dominating the album charts, the year in which the country ch-ch-changed over to decimal currency saw the homegrown pop/rock scene becoming increasingly eccentric.