The Upside 2019

The Israeli pianist has come a long way: awarded with a Victoire de la Musique in 2008f, has multiplied the sound experiences with a tireless gluttony. This former basketball player, adept of the big gap, goes from Gabriel Fauré to Britney Spears, from Michel Portal to Avishai Cohen's trumpet, from the most sinuous improvisation to the most colorful pop. Blue Note renews his confidence and goes out, “Song of the Degrees” (8 Février 2019), en Yaron Herman has multiplied sound experiences with a tireless gluttony. This former basketball player, adept of the big gap, goes from Gabriel Fauré to Britney Spears, from Michel Portal to Avishai Cohen's trumpet, from the most sinuous improvisation to the most colorful pop.

Originating as a sexy South American dance, the chaconne crossed the Atlantic to sixteenth-century Spain, where it acquired a reputation as a dangerous pleasure. Constructed on repeating ground basses, the form’s sinuous flexibility articulated two facets of the modernist urge to self-expression: the boisterous delights of turning the world upside down and the sweet sadness of melancholy introspection.

Titled ARTEMIS after the Greek goddess of the moon, violin superstar Lindsey Stirling's 5th studio album takes listeners on a journey of tragedy and triumph. Each song on the album sonically represents the upward struggle that Artemis, the hero of our journey, takes to find the light within to find the upside of down. Stirling is the winner of the 2017 Billboard Music Award for Top Dance/Electronic Album, earned the #1 Dance/Electronic album of 2016 and 2 certified gold albums. The global sensation has 11.6 million YouTube subscribers and has been featured on Live with Ryan & Kelly, The View, Jimmy Kimmel and more. This Target exclusive features two bonus tracks "Torch" and "Embers."

Wielding her violin like a huntress' bow, Lindsey Stirling focuses her classical crossover vision with a deeply imaginative concept for her fifth album, Artemis. Named after the Greek goddess of the hunt and the moon, the effort finds Stirling hitting her artistic stride with a grand soundtrack to a movie that doesn't yet exist, like a neon cyberpunk take on Howard Shore's Lord of the Rings score. Making her early work feel small-scale by comparison – early-2010s tracks like "Song of the Caged Bird," "Beyond the Veil," and "Heist" come closest to what she's offering here – Artemis also benefits from fewer special guests, which was a distraction on her previous full-length, Brave Enough.