Crossover / Popular Classic

Komponist: Pärt; Komponist: Einaudi; Komponist: Glass; Komponist: Nyman; Artist: Neumann; Artist: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig; Artist: Van Veen Label: Berlin Classics (Edel)

Record Label: Bdhw Clo. & Rec. Style: Metal

Conductor: Canadian Brass; Orchestra: Canadian Brass; Performer: Canadian Brass; Composer: Various; Artist: Canadian Brass Label: Opening Day Entertainment

Artist: Roxxcalibur Label: Limb Music (Soulfood)

Artist: Hugo & True Spirit Race Label: (Indigo)

The new album Eisplanet follows the track of ice and snow. 12 really cool tracks with a bunch of catchy melodies. Outstanding in the land of electro! Filled up with high end remixes and versions of well known acts like [:SITD:] or MONO INC. CD 2 contains 9 tracks incl. Polarmission. Welcome to EISPL Record Label: No Cut Style: Dark Electro

Before the actualization of Bing & Ruth's halcyonic opus Tomorrow Was the Golden Age, there was City Lake. This newly remastered version of the 2010 limited edition album features David Moore leading an eleven piece ensemble through a greater gamut of rhythmic materials while tracing the ambient tra Record Label: Rvng Intl. / Sc Style: Independent

Kari Rueslåtten's forthcoming studio album, "To The North", is inspired by the dramatic landscapes of northern latitudes and will evoke imagery in listeners' minds akin to the dark, brooding visual scenes of film and TV's "Nordic Noir" genre. "To the North" is a follow up to last year's successful "Time to Tell" album, and this time Kari Rueslåtten has brought a darker-edged atmosphere to her acoustic, melancholic Norwegian folk. She has taken inspiration from Norwegian and Celtic folk music, along with artists such as Loreena McKennitt, Tom Waits and Emmylou Harris. "To The North" is the Trondheim based singer's 6th studio release. On this album, Kari Rueslåtten has created a soundtrack of the North, which bring herself, and her listeners, back "home". However, as Rueslåtten explained, she also regards the North as a state of mind. "I'm interested in creating emotions in the listener, and mental resting places that allow people to close their eyes and transcend to a different environment", she said. "For me, I like music that creates images in my head that unfold into new stories and new worlds, and invariably these are my home, and the landscapes of the North". The album was recorded in the UK at Liverpool's Grammy Award winning Parr Street Studios. All the tracks were recorded live, providing an organic element to the recording, which has produced a more vital sounding result. Record Label: Despotz Style: Singer/Songwriter

Artist: Tsaziken Label: Westpark

“The energy and intelligence of the playing are irresistible.” – The Guardian “A 10-piece orchestra heavy in percussion and horns playing extended jams that always threaten to tear the roof off.” – Sounds and Colours Five years after their inception, the Sao Paulo based Brazilian group Bixiga 70 continues to travel musically forward, only to find themselves more and more at home. The band’s aptly named third album, “III”, is a luminescent and energized admixture of Atlantic cultures. The album’s hyper-contemporary dialogue journeys between the sounds and rhythms of Brazil and Africa, and between the band’s ten musicians and their distinctive musical identities. Their collective influences include jazz, funk and Afro-Brazilian music, and stretch further afield into dub and reggae, electronics, cumbia and carimbó, ethio-jazz and samba. Bixiga 70’s “III” is a breathtaking rhythmic storm where inspired solos, harmony and dynamics, beats and improvisation all mesh together in vital and unpredictable ways. Spanning between a joyous danceability, a sharp sense of humor and committed political reflections, the life-blood of this ten-piece unit is instrumental music, but it is an instrumental music that speaks profoundly. Self-produced by the band in their own studio in Sao Paulo (and mixed by Victor Rice) all the compositions on “III” are written and arranged by the entire Bixiga 70 collective. There are no liner note details: the process of creation is decentralized and acknowledges the importance of each musician in the room. The album was recorded live in the studio to further assure the depth of this collaborative spirit and to accentuate the intensity of the band’s sonic experiments. Following the global attention garnered by their previous album 2014’s “Ocupai” (Mais um Discos), Bixiga 70 headed out into the world. Their musical travels to Europe, the USA and Morocco, as well as the many varied regions of Brazil (including the streets of Bixiga) have all left a deep mark on the sounds and visions of the new album Throughout the nine tracks found on “III”, styles merge and original syncretisms come to life. The album shape shifts contemporary afro-funk, Moroccan cumbia, spiritual jazz, adapted afro-brazilian chants, Cuban blaxploitation, sounds from São Paulo’s Black Rio movement, Arabian dub, Malinké drumming, Angolan guitar music and traditional bamboo fife bands. There is no doubt that Bixiga 70 is one of the guiding voices of Brazil’s contemporary instrumental music scene and their new album “III” clearly demonstrates why. They are a band that deftly searches for untracked and thrilling musical spaces to occupy. And most importantly, they are a band that succeeds in finding them. Record Label: Glitterbeat Style: World Music

Various Artists Label: Various Artists

Artist: SERIAL BUTCHER Label: Unique Leader