When Angels Speak of Love, released in 1966 on Sun Ra's Saturn label, is a rarity, there having been limited pressings (150 copies, by one estimate), which were sold thru the mail and at concerts and club dates. The tracks were taped in New York during two 1963 sessions at the Choreographer's Workshop, a rehearsal space/recording den with warehouse acoustics. Ra spent countless hours at the CW from 1961 to 1964 sharpening the Arkestra during exhaustive musical huddles. John Corbett calls this "one of the most continuous, best-documented periods of Ra's work"; much tape from these seminal sessions has survived and been issued on LP, CD and digitally.
Wildly acclaimed Brooklyn songwriter Joan As Police Woman returns with her new album Cover Two. This is Joan’s second album re-working songs by other artists and again, Joan makes some very interesting choices.
Global music sensation Celtic Woman look to their DESTINY with an enchanting new TV special, album, DVD/Blu Ray and world concert tour. The Destiny Tour features four sublimely gifted Irish women - three glorious vocalists and a brilliant Celtic violinist accompanied by full band, bagpipers, and Irish dancers whose exceptional talent and high energy bring a fresh fusion to centuries of musical and cultural tradition…
You asked for it, you got it- a double album recorded with my glorious band in the studio documenting the Damned Devotion tour.
Celtic Woman returns with a brand-new album to celebrate this incredible 20 year milestone.
There are 60 tracks spread across the four discs with 15 songs on each, divided thematically to highlight different aspects of the musical range of Celtic Woman. ‘Decade’ is the definitive collection of Celtic Woman tracks. Performers on this album are vocalists Chloë Agnew, Órla Fallon, Lisa Kelly, Méav Ní Mhaolchatha, Hayley Westenra, Lynn Hilary, Alex Sharpe, Lisa Lambe, Susan McFadden, and violinist Máiréad Nesbitt.
Joan Wasser's first Joan as Police Woman album, Real Life, mourned the loss of her lover, Jeff Buckley, while her second, To Survive, mourned the loss of her mother. The Deep Field, however, finds her alone but not lonely, still searching for something and finding beauty and even happiness, if not answers. Wasser reunited with producer Bryce Goggin for this set of songs, but the guests that popped up on her previous albums are notably absent, as is much of the sadness that made Real Life and To Survive as wrenching as they were compelling. Not that The Deep Field is entirely clear sailing: on “Nervous,” she’s shaken precisely because things are going so well with a new love, while on “Run for Love,” she cautions, “I don’t wanna talk on the future with you” even as she revels in togetherness. Here, her highs are as stratospheric as her lows were deep before; “The Action Man” starts as a spin around the dancefloor and ends with Wasser losing track of time and space. These unique twists she puts on happiness keep the album fresh, even when its second half ventures into the smoothest musical territory Wasser has yet explored.
The Solution Is Restless was written and recorded with Dave Okumu of The Invisible and legendary drummer Tony Allen shortly before he sadly passed away.