First Four Minutes

The album FOUR MINUTES for woodwind quartet contains 18 four-minute works, written by 18 composers from 9 countries. A woodwind quartet, sometimes casually called wind quartet, is an ensemble of four woodwind instruments, or music written for four instruments. The usual scoring is flute, oboe, clarinet and bassoon. The instruments in a woodwind quartet usually have different ranges that allow for rich harmonies with high and low tones. Since these four instruments are from different subgroups of the instrument family, wind quartet music has timbral variety from each instrument's resonance.

It is no surprise that a period of relative solo silence followed the release of Parallel (2020), Kieran Hebden's eleventh full-length under the celebrated Four Tet alias. Amongst a series of outstanding AV shows conceived alongside the art and technology collective Squidsoup, running his label Text Records, and collaborations with artists like Thom Yorke, Burial, Chloé Robinson and Ellie Goulding, it's hard to see where the studio time might have fit in. After a 2023 victory lap which saw Hebden tour the world as part of the Pangbourne House Mafia (an unlikely, but ultimately transcendent super troupe comprising himself, Fred again.. and Skrillex), a return to the studio seemed inevitable—necessary even—to heal from the relentlessness of recent times.

Fresh Garbage collects together all of the relevant documents from Led Zeppelin’s legendary four night set at the Fillmore West on their first tour. All of the main Led Zeppelin biographies state how important these series of gigs were for the success of the group with the public and their acceptance by the music industry. On the same bill with Taj Mahal and headliners Country Joe And The Fish, the initial scheduled called for two sets on January 9th, 10th, and the 11th but a final night was added on. The opening show coincided with Jimmy Page’s 25th birthday and the final night was when their debut album Led Zeppelin was released in the US. The tapes from these shows began to surface back in the days of vinyl but Scorpio is the first to present them in one cohesive set. The audience recordings are fair to good but given the historic importance, are more than acceptable and reveal a fascinating chapter in the band’s live history.

We’re excited to be launching a new release series: “Melodies Record Club”, a string of DJ and Artist curated mini compilations in loud 12” format!

LA musician and composer John Nau releases new album Four Corners!

Those Four Guys (T.F.G.) consists of four experienced, recognized and multiple award-winning musicians - Janko Novoselic on drums, Goran Delač on bass, Marko First on violin, sopils and bagpipes, and Petar Ćulibrk on piano, rhodes and synths. The project, which started as a joke during the first COVID isolation, quickly turned into a serious author's story with 9 compositions that are difficult to place in style drawers. Given that each of them draws their inspiration from their musical background, the influences of ethnic, blues, jazz, soul, electronica and hip hop can be heard among the compositions.

James Ehnes takes a break from the 19th and 20th century repertoire and has recorded for the first time in his career four of the most famous baroque violin concertos – Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, the first four works in his set of 12, op8. James also directs the Sydney Symphony.