Sonar

"Had MC Escher made music instead of drawing his famously impossible and perplexing perspectives, it would sound like Sonar." Sid Smith, Prog Magazine (UK)

Eigengrau is the 2016 album by Hungarian artist Gergely Álmos, better known under the mononym Mïus. This was released on the Sonar Kollectiv label from Germany, his third album and his first for the label.

This is the soundtrack to a contemporary dance theatre production called Belle et Fou. Released by Sonar Kollectiv on 12 February, 2007, it features some of the label's most prized artists, including Jazzanova (who helped put this soundtrack together), Clara Hill, Wahoo, Forss, and many others, a nice blend of funky jazz with electronic wizardry.

El soto dei Frari ,the lame man of the Frari: this was the nickname given to the Venetian Giovanni Picchi, perhaps a pupil of Giovanni Croce, in the charges pressed against him in 1610 for teaching music to the nuns in the Spirito Santo without a licence. In 1612 we find him intent on initiating an appeal against the Scuola Grande di San Rocco, after the appointment of Giovanni Battista Grillo as organist.The appeal is successful, obliging the powerful institution to repeat the examination. We also find this original and hot-tempered personality in his 19 Canzoni da sonar con ogni sorte d istromenti (Venice 1625): a collection which reveals the brilliant flair of this still little-known composer.The detailed instrumentation given by the author allows us to recreate the typically Venetian aural splendour, with glorious sackbut choirs and virtuosic violins, recorders, cornetts and bassoon. With the Canzoni da Sonar, presented by Concerto Scirocco in the first ever complete recording of the work, Giovanni Picchi sculpts his mastery into music with a variety of vivid colours and pulsating affects, earning a place of honour in the world of the Venetian school.

German production collective Jazzanova had not released their own full-length album when they released this but The Remixes 1997-2000 is a 2CD collection of remixes they had done in the late 1990's. It was released on their own Sonar Kollektiv label via Compost and features selections by 4 Hero, Incognito, United Future Organization, Ursula Rucker, Koop, and Soul Bossa Trio among many.

The Pool is the 2018 album by Germany's Jazzanova, featuring a number of collaborators. This was released on 29 June, 2018 on their own Sonar Kollektiv label.

Lucas McFadden is better known as hip-hop DJ/turntablist Cut Chemist. This was taken from a television broadcast of his visit to Brazil at the Live At Sónar festival in São Paulo. It consists of a very energetic set of playing music and records to a crowd that partly looked as if they preferred to take a nap.

Future Bliss is the 2017 album release by Glow In The Dark, the nom de plume of British producer Harry Miller. This comes courtesy of Sonar Kollektiv.