The Great White Sea

James Yorkston works once again with Karl-Jonas Winqvist's The Second Hand Orchestra. Following the spine-tingling, atmospheric folk of 2021's 'The Wide, Wide River', they involve a third party in the shape of The Cardigans' Nina Persson on 'The Great White Sea Eagle', and once again all of Yorkston's collaborators recorded in few takes, learning the material ad hoc in the studio.

The Magnetic Fields' "50 Song Memoir" is the five-disc set chronicles the 50 years of songwriter Stephin Merritt's life with one song per year. On this release, in addition to his vocals on all 50 songs, Merritt plays more than 100 instruments, ranging from ukulele to piano to drum machine to abacus. The album was ranked on MetaCritic-com under the number 5 in "Best Album of 2017", and # 60 in "Most Discussed Album of 2017".

Air Born: The MCA & Decca Years 1973-1984 is a new box set featuring the music of English prog-rock band Camel. The box features 27 CDs & five blu-rays and includes newly remastered versions of every Camel album and single issued between 1973 and 1984, but also includes new stereo and 5.1 Surround Sound versions of five albums, as well as new mixes of three concerts; The Marquee Club, London 1974, Hammersmith Odeon 1976 and Hammersmith Odeon 1977. The package also features previously unreleased outtakes from album recording sessions and BBC Radio ‘In Concert’ appearances from 1974, 1975, 1977 and 1981.

This ensemble's first project, "The Waves", borrows its words from Virginia Woolf to tell sensual stories filled with images of the natural world. Double bass, cello, viola, violin and voice enter in dialogue to paint a poetic fresco that is at once fragile,melancholic, poignant, and luminous.

Hailed as "a deeply natural songwriter" (The New Yorker) who "defies expectations in his own way" (Time) and "Gen X's most famous absurdist" (Blender), Beck is the single most inventive and eclectic figure to emerge from the '90s altertnative revolution. In an era obsessed with junk culture, Beck seamlessly blends pop, folk, hop-hop, indie/underground and electronica with the end result being an authentically uncategorizable musical style that nevertheless has sold millions of records and scored multiple Grammy awards.

Henry Mancini (/mænˈsiːni/ man-SEE-nee; born Enrico Nicola Mancini; April 16, 1924 – June 14, 1994) was an American composer, conductor, arranger, pianist and flutist. Often cited as one of the greatest composers in the history of film, he won four Academy Awards, a Golden Globe, and twenty Grammy Awards, plus a posthumous Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995.

12 CD box set collection featuring all of Allan Holdsworth's solo albums from 1982-2003. That title is no hyperbole-it was a proclamation that ran on the cover of Guitar Player Magazine in 2008, and is a feeling shared by fans and guitarists all around the world. Still, though, Holdsworth remains largely under-rated; many who admire his most famous work have overlooked dozens of fascinating finds to be made on his decades of recordings. This collection is a treasure trove of such discoveries, as it brings you all 11 of his albums as a solo artist, producer and group leader since 1980 plus the live-in-Tokyo album Then! And a 40-page booklet full of liner notes and archival photos. You also get previously unreleased bonus tracks, and all these albums have been newly remastered from the original tapes: I.O.U. (1982), Road Games (1983), Metal Fatigue (1985), Atavachron (1986), Sand (1987), Secrets (1989), Wardenclyffe Tower (1992), Hard Hat Area (1993), None Too Soon (1996), The Sixteen Men Of Tain (2000), Flat Tire (2001) and Then! (2003).

Steve Rothery - guitarist and founder member of UK Prog giants Marillion. "The Ghosts of Pripyat" is the long awaited solo album from one of the most melodic and atmospheric guitar players around.

Swedish jazz singer and pianist Ida Sand pays tribute to the music of rock legend Neil Young with the cleverly-titled "Young At Heart", featuring Young classics such as Cinnamon Girl, Helpless, Ohio and Harvest Moon in jazz-soul interpretations with all the depth and expression of the originals, but with an added laid-back feel.