Manu Delago

Three years after suffering a devastating hand injury, Milos returns with a new album, Sound of Silence. The album features meditative solo guitar works alongside a selection of pop and jazz hits curated by Milos himself. Songs by artists ranging from Simon & Garfunkel and Leonard Cohen to Nora Jones have been reimagined in stunning new settings for guitar and other instruments. Guest artists include saxophonist Jess Gillam as well as Hang player Manu Delago (regular collaborator of Bjork).

After the great success of her DG debut Traveller which spent 6 weeks in the top 10 of the Billboards World Music chart and received a Grammy nomination, Anoushka Shankar returns with another outstanding recording: Traces of You, featuring three new songs with her half-sister, Norah Jones. Produced by British composer and multi-instrumentalist Nitin Sawhney, Traces of You features contributions by Anoushkas longtime associates: tabla genius Tanmoy Bose, flutist Ravichandra Kulur, and percussion wizard Pirashanna Thevarajah. Other highlights are a musical exploration of the unique sound of the Hang drum, played by its foremost exponent, Manu Delago.

‘biophilia live’ is a concert film directed by peter strickland and nick fenton and produced by jacqui edenbrow that captures the human element of björk’s multi-disciplinary multimedia project: biophilia. recorded live at björk’s show at london’s alexandra palace in 2013, the film features björk and her band performing every song on ‘biophilia’ and more using a broad variety of instruments – some digital, some traditional, and some completely unclassifiable. the film has already been hailed as “a captivating record of an artist in full command of her idiosyncratic powers” (variety) and “an imaginative stand-alone artwork” (hollywood reporter) and is a vital piece of the grand mosaic that is ‘biophilia.’

The Future Sound of Jazz series is an underated collection of the finest leftfield jazzier flavours from the West German label Compost Records. After the collections trips recently through all areas of dance music , and the most recent messy excursion to disco on volume 11. For volume 12 it's back to a jazzy edge. For FSOJ 12 there's a concoction of future be-bob, house, drum and base, hip -hop, pop, afro- funk, African drum beats,to Nordic Electronic jazz , chilled electronica vocals to Blue note flavoured bossa nova and disco, what a sizzling amalgamation! The collection is on the downtempoe scale of predominantly instrumentals that may take some time to digest.