Syncmate 2024

A long-awaited new album from KENSO, the king of Japanese progressive rock, released for the first time in about 10 years since his previous album, "Nainaru Koe Ni Kaikou Seyo". This masterpiece album is full of "progressive love" and has been completed after a long production period, incorporating elements of rock, classical music, and now a "Japanese taste", telling the view of life, which can be said to be one of the elements of progressive rock, through music!! The 11 songs, created by filtering the progressive rock that has been handed down since ancient times through KENSO’s original filter, are not only original and overwhelmingly complete, but also stand out as works of art!! This is a work that is sure to strike a chord with all rock fans!

Reissue on CD with two extra songs of this album released, only on LP format, in 2018 by the Galician band JUZZ. An unlikely, but more than successful, cocktail of progressive jazz rock seasoned with RIO suggestions, stoner avalanches and post rock and free jazz fury. All flavored with the elegance of the Canterbury scene.

Alta Ripa signifies a seismic shift in Ben Lukas Boysen's artistic journey. It revisits the foundational impulses of his youth, shaped amidst the serene beauty of rural Germany—a bucolic backdrop where his creative palette flourished. However, it was his move to Berlin in the early 2000s that electrified his sound, infusing it with the city’s pulsating energy and diverse cultural influences. Alta Ripa captures this transformative experience, blending the introspective melodies of his rural beginnings with the bold, experimental tones born from Berlin’s vibrant electronic music scene. This album is a testament to Boysen’s evolution, showcasing how geographical shifts can profoundly shape artistic expression.

In an auspicious start to The Fray's new era,The Fray Is Back opens on the driving grooves, shimmering textures, and gilded guitar tones of "Angeleno Moon": a soulful and soaring anthem that strikes a potent balance of dreamy nostalgia and forward-looking urgency.

"An intelligent, completely unique mix of sheer power and playfulness that really shakes things up“ Jazzpodium

Le Retour des Dieux sur la Terre and Le Caprice d'Erato are part of the tradition inherited from Louis XIV of occasional pieces that served to illustrate major events at Court: Composed four years apart, the first to celebrate the wedding of Louis XV and Marie Leszczynska in 1725 and the second for the birth of their first son in 1729, these two divertissements are veritable little concert operas in which splendid grand narratives, triumphal overtures, surprising dances, solemn choruses and grandiose finales follow one another.