Just Relax Music Universe Harmonious Harp Melodies (2022)

From their EPK, “soaring riffs, stunning solos, pounding rhythms and vocals that just nails supreme. This is the approach taken by the French Progressive Metal band as they get to their fifth studio album, titled “Back Home.” The album does not only mean back home to Earth for the space-travelers in the story of the concept, but it also means back home for the band, as they have returned to their original roots.”…

A golden age is brought to life for us by sixty1strings on their new GENUIN album. Their unique instrumentation of mandolin, harp and guitar presents a thrilling programme of baroque music from Spain, Italy and France. Konstanze Kuß (Spanish baroque harp), Ekaterina Solovey (baroque mandolin) and Negin Habibi (baroque guitar) plunge into the sensual compositions by Antonio Vivaldi, Marin Marais and Domenico Scarlatti with enthusiasm and panache. Both original compositions and arrangements are performed, and the mandolin serves as a full-fledged, silvery-singing substitute for a diva in a hoop skirt and wig…

Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis was Lithuania’s leading composer at the turn of the 20th century as well as an internationally admired artist. The piano scores from which these pieces are transcribed are Romantic in expression, influenced by the beauty of his country’s landscape and its folklore. With this selection of works, Joana Daunytė has expanded the repertoire of Lithuanian harp works, presenting a new perspective on the music’s national flavour.

In the harp world, few figures are better known than Carlos Salzedo; however, in the larger musical world, and even among classical music enthusiast, his biography and personality are not sufficiently discussed and appreciated. For this reason, this Da Vinci Classics album is a very welcome addition to the existing discography, and will enhance the fame of this great musician and pedagogue.

Paramount Music will release a soundtrack album for the Paramount+ original movie Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe. The album features the film’s original music composed by John Frizzell (Alien: Resurrection, Office Space, Dante’s Peak, The Following, King of the Hill, Thirteen Ghosts, Legion) who previously scored 1996’s Beavis and Butt-Head Do America and has recorded his new score with a 69-piece orchestra in Vienna. The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, July 8.