Ordinary Elephant

This release celebrates and commemorates Yo-Yo Ma's 30 year recording career with Sony Music. Created with the full participation of Yo-Yo Ma, 30 Years Outside the Box, is the definitive collection of this iconic artist. The box set contains every original album Yo-Yo Ma has recorded including 2 discs of rare and never before released material.

Whilst The Fierce And The Dead are hardly progressive rock in its more classical sense, having a penchant for more snappy immediate-ness, than never-ending cycles of music held together by keyboards and synths, they are progressive when it comes to updating their music. Once bastions of the loud riff, and on The Euphoric you can certainly get plenty of them, the standout change is the addition of (ironically) synths. Less widdly diddly, and more in time with the current Stranger Things vogue, they add a unique sense of individuality to the music which channels that 80’s nostalgia and turns it into a paean for a more fun era.

Downbeat with Asia-Flair Bamboo One is the name of the first CD produced by the guitarist and live musician Bernhard Kowatsch and composer and keyboarder Daniel Huber. As Ko-Dan they will take you to foreign lands with their exciting sound mixture. You mustn't travel to Asia, to listen to far-eastern-sounds: Ko-Dan have written most of their tracks in Thailand, India and Vietnam and even some were recorded there. That is why Bamboo One is a melting pot of downbeat-grooves and music-styles that create a promising and slightly foreign sound. Ko-Dan's Asian inspired music mixture carries the listener, with out of the ordinary and soft sounds, to the point it will remind you of Pat Metheny's soft and unobtrusive guitar playing…