We Are So Blessed

'So Here We Are' is Alison Young's highly anticipated debut album. Recorded at Canterbury Studios in the heart of Toronto. It is a collection of originals and standards developed through working with some of Canada's most prominent musicians.​

Ater becoming the biggest breaking British rock band with their self-titled 2014 debut album, Royal Blood’s eagerly anticipated second album ‘How Did We Get So Dark?’ will be released on June 16th on Warner Bros. Records.

We at Musicalypse have known and loved Anneke van Giersbergen for many years and many projects, from The Gentle Storm and Ayreon, back to The Gathering, and onward to pretty much anything she’s ever done with Devin Townsend. However, the one thing that’s never quite clicked has been her solo music, at least for me personally; so when the band VUUR was announced, anticipation ensued! Not only was the legendary vocalist going to be heading back into heavy waters with her music, but she had some of Ayreon’s absolutely fantastic musicians with her, including the incredible Ed Warby on drums, Jord Otto and Ferry Duijsens on guitars, and Johan van Stratum on bass. Do any of those names sound familiar? They might, if you’ve been following any of Arjen Lucassen/Ayreon‘s work in the past few years.

Vibrant Canadian jazz saxophonist Alison Young is about to release her first recording as a feature artist in Q2 of 2018. This playlist is a preview of what is ahead. Alison has been "wowing" international audiences as a side-person for over 10 years, but now's the time for her exciting style and unique old-soul to be featured.

Kulturnews: "Cipa's experiment is no coincidence, the Munich composer has worked with jazz, electro and improvisation in the past, always expanding his classical horizon towards pop. 'Ourselves, as we are' has nevertheless become a classical piano album: very elegant, pensive, almost meditative, and yet always creating images that embrace you in a well-tempered way. Quiet, but never boring."

“A lot of songs on my album are about love, empowerment and how people treat each other,” says Alina Engibaryan. “It’s all about some kind of relationship.” On We Are, the follow-up to the jazz/singer-songwriter’s 2016 critically-acclaimed debut Driving Down the Road, the Russian-born Engibaryan chose to concentrate on making original music and creating something far more personal. It marks a huge step forward for the artist, the granddaughter of jazz drumming great Nikolay Goncharov and a budding singer since the age of two. “I kind of changed everything for this record,” she says. “The band is different and the music is stylistically different from the first album. I only had one original song on that record. This time, all except one song are mine.”