Wandering Rebel

There’s freedom to be found in consistency. Until recently, Juan Wauters maynot have agreed with this statement. As a touring musician and multinational citizen, transience had always come naturally to him. Circumstance, however, recently prompted him to reconsider the benefits of staying in one place. His most introspective work to date, Wauters’ sixth solo album […]

Mwandishi

Herbie Hancock recorded this album in 1970, in the early days of the jazz fusion movement, and was still transitioning from post bop and avant-garde jazz to fusion. The first thing he did was use electronic instruments and experiment with the jazz song format. This is the first album with the Mwandishi Sextant, where every […]

Old Segotia

From the opening notes – arriving as if in mid-air – to its final, cheerful burblings, Seán Mac Erlaine and Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh’s Old Segotia is an album about friendship: both musical and human, the product of two distinctive musicians visiting each other’s worlds with a sense of veneration, and a sense of joyful wonder.Here, […]

Thick As A Brick 2 (Half-Speed Master)

IAN ANDERSON’S ACCLAIMED SEQUEL TO A PROGRESSIVE ROCK MASTERPIECE RETURNS – NOW HALF-SPEED MASTERED FOR SUPERIOR SOUND.In 2012, Ian Anderson – the legendary Jethro Tull frontman, composer & flautist – revisited one of rock’s most celebrated concept albums with ‘Thick As A Brick 2’.Subtitled Whatever Happened to Gerald Bostock?, this audacious sequel explores the imagined […]

Genuine Negro Jig (15th Anniversary Edition)

Nonesuch Records releases a fifteenth anniversary edition of Carolina Chocolate Drop’s 2010 Grammy Award-winning album Genuine Negro Jig, featuring founding band members Dom Flemons, Rhiannon Giddens, and Justin Robinson.The reissue includes the original album and nine bonus tracks: seven previously unreleased tracks plus a 2025 remaster of ‘City of Refuge’ and a 2025 mix of […]