Celeste Bright

Daphne & Celeste are best remembered for being viciously bottled on-stage at festivals during their short heyday in the early 2000s. After two teen pop singles ("Ooh Stick You!" and "U.G.L.Y.") hit the charts in the U.K. and their album sank with nary a trace, the American duo stepped away from the turned-off spotlight and went about their daily lives.

There are 24 Odes and Welcome Songs composed by Purcell between 1680 and 1695: 4 celebrate St Cecilia, 6 are to welcome royalty, 3 celebrate King James II’s birthday and 6 celebrate that of Queen Mary (from 1684 to 1694). The others were written for specific events – royal wedding, Yorkshire festival, Duke of Gloucester’s birthday, hundredth anniversary of Dublin’s Trinity College, etc. For these occasions, Purcell composed incredibly imaginative music of amazing quality – often keeping his most beautiful pieces for less remarkable texts, most of the time conventionally obsequious when it came to royalty. According to the registers, the number of singers and musicians were surprisingly small during special events. Purcell’s most elaborate Odes (namely Come Ye sons of Art and Hail! bright Cecilia) seem to have been designed for about twelve instruments and four singers, for solos and choruses. The Banquet Céleste chose a chamber music-like spirit for these extremely expressive and musical works.

A special double CD containing 45 ultra rare underground psychedelic-folk gems and medieval sounds from the British & Emerald Isles. Artists include Ceathrar, Courtyard Music Group, The Wood Family, The Troubadors, Amity, MacMurrough, Golden Dawn, Horncastle Fayre, Revelry, Faraway Folk, Finn Mac Cuill, Kinesphere, Valda, Crooked Oak, St Elphege Folk Group, Reality From Dream, Miles Martin Folk Group, Chris Duffin, Greg Bright, Pendragon, MIrk, Madrigal, Cobblers Last, Peregrine, Gaslight, Quodlings Delight, Hergest and many more. Comes with large poster sleeve crammed full of rare memorabilia and artefacts together with detailed info on each artist. Our best ever folk offering celebrating the rich history of alternative psych-folk rarely heard.

Terje Rypdal's "Odyssey: In Studio & In Concert" is a very special release. It includes not only the complete Odyssey album - restoring the long track Rolling Stone to its rightful place, but also a full disc of previously unreleased material on which Terje Rypdal's Odyssey band is augmented by the Swedish Radio Jazz Group in a 1976 live performance of Rypdal's suite "Unfinished Highballs".