New.years.day 2024

In recognition of World Sleep Day, 22 established and up-and-coming artists have come together to unveil 50 brand new tracks. The musicians, coming from nine different labels within Universal Music Group, have debuted new compositions aimed at creating a tranquil environment conducive to a soothing night’s sleep.

Spanning the years 1993 – 2004 this collection features remastered versions of the albums ‘Living On the Outside’ and ‘Poor Boy Blue’, and also includes a further 35 additional tracks drawn from demos, studio out-takes and previously unreleased live recordings from Jim’s personal archive. The album ‘Living On the Outside’ was first released in 2001 and featured guest appearances by such notable musicians as George Harrison, Steve Winwood, Paul Weller, Ian Paice and Gary Moore. ‘Poor Boy Blue’ would be Jim’s final album and was issued in 2004.

The corridor leads from somewhere to somewhere, and through all kinds of doors you can enter Renaissance halls, Baroque church halls, smoky cellars of jazz pubs, modern rooms, blue or red salons, or even the wide-open natural landscapes of folk music. And it is just such a wide variety of music that this ensemble plays, without any genre restrictions, almost just making music for pleasure, pushing its own boundaries.

Louis Matute's fourth album, "Small Variations from the Previous Day," is propelled by the emotionally catalyzing 'Large Ensemble,' which continually welcomes new members. The album looks towards Central America and Brazil, drawing inspiration from jazz and elegant pop, from folk to Saudade. Matute invited Brandee Younger and Gabi Hartmann as guests for one track each, and Lea Maria Fries for two pieces in the studio.

In November 2016, I had the rare privilege of performing my original material with a live band, at a concert for a select audience at Cape Town's iconic Milestone Studios. The band, MeaCulpa, comprising of Jose Jordaan and Murray Anderson on guitars, Roger Lloyd on drums, and Brian Lloyd on bass and some vocals, paid extraordinary attention to detail on my tracks, and added an energy to the pieces that only a live band can. The recordings are authentically live, mistakes and all, and there was no post-production fixing or editing, save the brilliant mixing by the studio's in house engineer at the time, Jethro Harris.

The music of Will Griffith’s The Great Dying is a mix he likes to call dark country.

Overview Mandalaband began life in the early 1970's, gaining cult status as one of the most forward-thinking prog outfits of the time. The brainchild of David Rohl, who brought in an array of the best musicians at the time including future Sad Cafe members Vic Emerson, Ashley Mulford, John Stimpson, Tony Cresswell and vocalist Dave Durant as well as the entire Barclay James Harvest, Eric Stewart (10cc), Maddy Prior (Steeleye Span), Justin Hayward (Moody Blues), Graham Gouldman, Lol Creme & Kevin Godley (10cc) and Paul Young.

The Tragically Hip announce a commemorative boxset of their Diamond-certified debut album Up To Here, the latest installment of special deluxe packages, set to release on November 8.

Lena Mary Calhoun Horne (June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010) was an American singer, actress, dancer, and civil rights activist. Horne's career spanned more than seventy years and covered film, television, and theatre. Horne joined the chorus of the Cotton Club at the age of sixteen and became a nightclub performer before moving on to Hollywood and Broadway.