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Fear and Trembling (Unabridged)

Naxos AudioBooks

$31.98 Dec 14, 2018

Written from the perspective of an unbeliever, Fear and Trembling explores the paradox of faith, the nature of Christianity and the complexity of human emotion. Kierkegaard examines the biblical story of Abraham, instructed to sacrifice his son Isaac, and forces us to consider Abraham's state of mind. What drove Abraham, and what made him carry out such an absurd and extreme request from God? Kierkegaard argues that Abraham's agreement to sacrifice Isaac, and his suspension of reason, elevated him to the highest level of faith. He explores more comprehensible alternatives, but in each one Abraham fails the test of faith, thus showing that true faith cannot be explained, understood, or made rational. His thesis is a compelling counterpoint to Hegel, who maintained that reason was the highest form of thought, and proved a significant source of inspiration to later existentialist philosophers such as Camus and Sartre.

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Fear and Trembling (Unabridged)
Naxos AudioBooks Dec 2018
CD
$31.98

the earth trembled

PENTATONE

$16.99 ~~$19.99~~ Save 15% Sep 04, 2026

Signum Quartett presents the album the earth trembled, recontextualising the visionary string quartets of Leos Janacek alongside the striking String Quartet Op. 8 by Vitezslava Kapralova. Janacek's lifelong engagement with folk traditions shaped these works profoundly; he lays bare an extraordinary spectrum of feeling, exposing the innermost reaches of his psyche with an almost unsettling immediacy, music in which the earth really does tremble. Set against this, Kapralova's quartet offers balance: a strikingly youthful yet assured voice emerging from the same cultural milieu, opening an equally compelling emotional range. Interspersed throughout are fragments of Janacek's folk song arrangements and intimate miniatures from his album for Kamila Stosslova, whose absent voice subtly haunts the programme, weaving a fragile, imagined narrative between the works. This recording offers a fresh perspective on works that have accompanied the Quartett for many years and remain among the most emotionally overwhelming in the repertoire. Signum Quartett is frequently hailed as one of the most adventurous and outstanding ensembles of today. This is the quartet's fourth album with PENTATONE, after the Schubert cycle including Aus der Ferne (2018), Ins stille Land (2020), and Lebensmuth (2023).

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the earth trembled
PENTATONE Sep 2026
CD
~~$19.99~~ $16.99

AN ACROBAT'S HEART (ECM LUMINESSENCE SERIES)

ECM RECORDS

Vinyl

$59.06 Nov 08, 2024

Double vinyl LP pressing. "Incomparable" is what the German weekly paper Die Zeit called this album on it's release in 2000, before going on to describe the music as follows: "A high, warm voice sings fragile songs, Annette Peacock accompanies herself on the grand piano, a string quartet models sound sculptures: the time measure from classical music, the feeling from jazz, openness from the lyrics, and a voice of dreams." An Acrobat's Heart is a ravishingly beautiful album by one of the most mysterious, elusive and beguiling figures on the fringes of jazz. It features the unique vocals and piano playing of singer-songwriter Annette Peacock, performing her own compositions with the acclaimed Cikada String Quartet. Available for the first time on vinyl, this ECM Luminessence Series is presented in tip-on gatefold jacket.

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AN ACROBAT'S HEART (ECM LUMINESSENCE SERIES)
ECM RECORDS Nov 2024
Vinyl
$59.06

Neidhart: A Minnesinger And His Vale Of Tears / Ensemble Leones

Naxos

$19.99 Jan 31, 2012

Peerless musicianship.

This superb CD proves that time travel is possible. To listen to these outstanding performances by Ensemble Leones of Neidhart's beautiful music and witty, sophisticated, sometimes outrageous poetry is to be transported back eight hundred years to an incredible period in the history of music and civilisation in general. Everyone who cares about that heritage should hear this recording.

All the Neidhart songs in Leones' recital, both music and texts, are taken from the so-called Frankfurt Neidhart Fragment, dated to around 1300 and housed at Frankfurt-am-Main University. The eight surviving pages of a larger manuscript reveal - at least to the patient and trained eye of a scholar like Lewon - six songs by Neidhart, five with more or less complete melodies. This is the first complete recording and performance, made possible by Lewon's painstaking reconstruction of the surviving material, necessitating in one case the borrowing of appropriate melodies from elsewhere. The results may or may not be entirely authentic, but the songs are compellingly evocative and utterly convincing. The instruments employed by Leones are recent reproductions but they sound terrific, especially when played with the delicacy and intuition of Lewon and Romain.

Thanks to Lewon and his ensemble - whose ranks swell or shrink according to the current project, incidentally - 21st century audiences can enjoy Neidhart's peerless musicianship, specifically his maverick take on the generally more deferent Minnesang tradition. His Dörperlieder ('bumpkin songs') take the themes of the usual hohe Minne ('high love') - the courtly ideals of love from afar and chivalry - and transfer them to rough rustic settings. The real joke is on the gentry who laugh at the buffoonery and coarseness of the peasants in his songs - they are the implied object of Neidhart's insinuations and sarcasm.

It was a bold decision by Leones to perform the nearly ten-minute long song 'Ich claghe de blomen' without instrumental support - over 100 lines in nine stanzas - but such is the power of Neidhart's music and poetry that time flies past. In any case, the alternation of male and female voice, as well as the interpolation of purely instrumental items, makes listening to this recital as varied an experience as it is aesthetic.

The CD ends with a rather out-of-place song by Adam de la Halle, billed as a 'bonus track' and certainly sounding like an afterthought. The preceding song by the great Walther von der Vogelweide is at least no anachronism, but its inclusion is not really explained in the booklet.

As the notes explain, the German of Neidhart is not strictly Middle High German (MHG) but a Low version of the same, reflecting where the texts were written, and explaining why some of the sounds are reminiscent of modern Dutch. At any rate, Neidhart's language should prove at least as intelligible to modern Low German speakers as Geoffrey Chaucer's is to those familiar with today's English.

On the subject of pronunciation, both Marc Lowen and Els Janssens-Vanmunster sound entirely authentic, and their excellent diction only heightens the listener's joy. Their singing style is folk-like but not 'rustic', emotional without affectation, plaintive or humorous as appropriate without recourse to melodrama. Practically impeccable, in other words.

In his interesting notes Neidhart expert Marc Lewon points out that the 'von Reuental' still frequently attached to his name is erroneous, founded on "a nineteenth-century misapprehension". Curiously he, and Naxos in their title, set about perpetuating another of those with a mistranslation of 'Reuental' - 'riuwental' in MHG - as "vale of tears". In MHG tears is 'trene', 'Tränen' in modern German, whereas 'riuwe' equates with modern German 'Jammer' or 'Schmerz' - the minnesinger's 'lament' or 'pain'. The Nithart of these poems is a knight, not a cry-baby!

In his acknowledgements Lewon also thanks the proof-reader for checking his translations from German into English, but some of the phraseology is decidedly shaky for all that. For example, "in his Bavarian sphere" for "in seiner bairischen Heimat" ('in his Bavarian homeland'); "but from which the German Minnesang of Neidhart’s time was yet but far"; or "Neidhart only played the fool" for "Neidhart [...] spielte nur vordergründig den Narren" ('Neidhart only played the fool ostensibly'). Sometimes the language is so inapt as to misrepresent the original: "They show the distinctive trademarks of Neidhart’s oeuvre and touch on many aspects of his lyrical portfolio, featuring content, form, and musical modes typical to his work" is only tangentially equivalent to the German, quite apart from the linguistic horror that is "lyrical portfolio". Punctuation is also inconsistent and sometimes appears almost randomly applied.

Full sung texts, with translations into modern German and English, are downloadable for free from the Naxos website. The German translations are good, the English somewhat clumsier, with numerous misjudgements of term and register, as well as a few, sometimes meaning-changing typos - but perfectly serviceable nevertheless.

This CD was briefly reviewed here last year, when Naxos released it as a download only. Pace that review, no harp is used in this recording.

-- Byzantion, MusicWeb International

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Neidhart: A Minnesinger And His Vale Of Tears / Ensemble Leones
Naxos Jan 2012
CD
$19.99

On modes (LP)

Alpha

Vinyl

$39.99 May 08, 2026

For his third solo album for Alpha, keyboard polyglot Anthony Romaniuk returns to the piano, exploring the seven modes: derived from the major scale, the basis of ancient Greek music but nowadays endemic in folk, jazz, and beyond, each one containing a world of character and mood. Starting with John Adams' Phrygian Gates, Romaniuk devised a programme comprising music by Pärt, Ligeti, Radiohead, and Björk, with his own original compositions; arrangements of traditional Catalan and English/Scottish music; and improvisations. Continuing his search for a personal and original sound, Romaniuk uses two pianos, including a Klavins upright grand piano (from the collection of Nils Frahm), which, thanks to it's massive soundboard and four-metre-long bass strings, overwhelms the listener. The addition of various analogue and digital audio effects, together with innovative recording techniques, brings the listener into a unique sonic landscape, approaching that of a sound installation.

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On modes (LP)
Alpha May 2026
Vinyl
$39.99

VIBRATIONS

ORG MUSIC

Vinyl

$32.74 Feb 22, 2019

Vinyl LP pressing. Recorded in Copenhagen in September of 1964, Vibrations is the second album released by American free jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler's quartet featuring Don Cherry, Gary Peacock and Sonny Murray. Originally issued by the Freedom label, it was also released under the alternate title, Ghosts. Previously out of print for decades, Vibrations has now been specially remastered for an audiophile-grade 180-gram vinyl pressing at Pallas in Germany courtesy of ORG Music.

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VIBRATIONS
ORG MUSIC Feb 2019
Vinyl
$32.74

REMEMBRANCE

BELA FLECK PRODUCTIO

Vinyl

$40.49 May 10, 2024

Remembrance, a new double album out May 10, serves as a moving final document of the profound creative and personal rapport that banjoist Bela Fleck and pianist Chick Corea first showcased at album length with 2007's Latin Grammy-winning The Enchantment. It's also a crucial addendum to Corea's legacy, featuring three previously unreleased Corea compositions as well as five short free improvisations, or impromptus, that Fleck has infused with written music. "We pushed this duo to a new place before we ran out of time," says Fleck, who produced Remembrance. "We have here another cool look at Chick Corea, at the different ways that he can play that we wouldn't have had. There's a lot of great Chick Corea out there, and this is different."

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REMEMBRANCE
BELA FLECK PRODUCTIO May 2024
Vinyl
$40.49

TROLLS / O.S.T.

RCA

Vinyl

$30.09 Oct 21, 2016

Limited vinyl LP pressing including digital download. Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to the 2016 DreamWorks animated film Trolls. The film is inspired by the troll dolls which became popular in the 1970s. The soundtrack is produced primarily by Justin Timberlake, along with Max Martin and Shellback as additional producers. The soundtrack's first single, "Can't Stop The Feeling!" was written and produced by Justin Timberlake, Max Martin and Shellback specifically for the film and is the first time Timberlake has written and produced with the two Grammy Award winners. The film was Directed by Mike Mitchell (Antz, Shrek Forever After and Kung Fu Panda 3) and co-directed by Walt Dohrn (Mr. Peabody & Sherman and Penguins of Madagascar).

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TROLLS / O.S.T.
RCA Oct 2016
Vinyl
$30.09

MR. MONEY WITH THE VIBE

YBNL NATION

Vinyl

$29.36 May 15, 2026

In the rapidly shifting tectonic plates of the global Afrobeats scene, few arrivals have been as seismic as that of Ahmed Ololade-better known to the world as Asake. With his breakout project Mr. Money With The Vibe, the artist didn't merely debut; he effectively recalibrated the tempo of the Nigerian pop soundscape. The EP functions as a masterclass in synthesis, pulling from the ornate, percussive history of Fuji music and grafting it onto the driving, bass-heavy architectures of contemporary Amapiano. It is a calculated, deeply rhythmic hybridization that manages to feel both nostalgic and jarringly modern. From a critical vantage point, Mr. Money With The Vibe is defined by it's brevity and density. Asake treats each track as a focused vignette, utilizing a vocal delivery that oscillates between a melodic, almost liturgical chant and the staccato urgency of a Lagos street orator. The production-characterized by sharp, frenetic percussion and deceptively simple melodic loops-creates a high-intensity atmosphere that mirrors the relentless pace of urban life. He avoids the pitfall of bloated experimentation; instead, he doubles down on a "street-pop" ethos, prioritizing accessibility without sacrificing the complex rhythmic interplay that gives the genre it's distinctive texture. Ultimately, Mr. Money With The Vibe stands as a pivotal document of the current era, capturing the transition of Afrobeats from a regional powerhouse to a dominant global force. By blending the aspirational "hustle culture" narrative with an increasingly sophisticated sonic palette, Asake established a blueprint that has since influenced a new wave of artists. The project is a testament to the idea that authenticity, when paired with relentless precision, remains the most effective currency in contemporary music. Includes the singles, "Sungba (Remix)," "Peace Be Unto You (PBUY)," & "Terminator."

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MR. MONEY WITH THE VIBE
YBNL NATION May 2026
Vinyl
$29.36

Mix & Match

Padlewski & Wnuk-Nazarowa: Tearfully / Szostak, Katowice City Singers' Ensemble, Camerata Silesia

DUX

$10.99 ~~$21.99~~ Save 50% May 01, 2020

Tears, that visible attribute of sadness, can, paradoxically, be a form of purification, a dam against despair. Sadness caused by an individual or collective experience of evil, transformed into a Christian hope for the fate altering, sometimes evokes creative thought, allows to enclose the experience within a form of artistic message. For Christians, the deepest, traumatic, experience of evil is Christ’s crucifixion. Perceived as a drama of the whole humanity, redeemed for future salvation and victory of good, it has found a special form in works of art created throughout centuries: paintings, musical pieces, poetry. Passion and Stabat Mater are canonical musical forms related to the drama of Golgotha. The latter introduces Christ’s co-suffering Mother into the scope of His drama. Numerous composers wrote music to the 13th-century sequence, the authorship of which is attributed to the Franciscan Jacopone da Todi. They were creating their own visions of a mother’s suffering, in which, over time, people began to perceive the drama of all mothers who weep their children. Przez ?zy (Tearfully) – such is the title of an album including pieces which are important not only due to their artistic merits. The content of each work touches upon matters fundamental for every human being, but also for the fate of a nation plagued by defeats, yet unceasingly rising from each one. That struggle often finds company in art and the beauty it contains, which in turn, to quote Norwid, is the shape of love.

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Padlewski & Wnuk-Nazarowa: Tearfully / Szostak, Katowice City Singers' Ensemble, Camerata Silesia
DUX May 2020
CD
~~$21.99~~ $10.99

FEARLESS MOVEMENT

YOUNG

Vinyl

$44.49 May 03, 2024

Turning his attention to dance for his latest album, Fearless Movement out this May on Young, Kamasi Washington resumes his ongoing study of music as a means of connection. His 2015 album The Epic, as well as 2018's Heaven and Earth were received by critics and audiences as a reimagination of modern jazz showcasing Washington's larger-than-lift compositions full of celestial grandeur and his distinct blend of jazz, Latin, funk, classical, hip-hop and soul. Fearless Movement, however, offers something different: terrestrial rhythms and collaborations from rappers, musical icons and even Washington's own daughter. Features include: Thundercat, Taj Austin, Ras Austin, Patrice Quinn, DJ Battlecat, Brandon Coleman, D-Smoke, George Clinton, Bj the Chicago Kid, and Andre 3000.

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FEARLESS MOVEMENT
YOUNG May 2024
Vinyl
$44.49

IN A WORD'

RVNG INT'L

Vinyl

$24.99 Mar 05, 2021

In a Word, the sixteenth installment of the intergenerational collaboration series FRKWYS, brings together postminimalist composer Daniel Lentz with vocalist and sound artist Ian William Craig for an album that embraces erosion and the fertility of the loam left behind. A document of shared transformation, Lentz's elegant piano figures and Craig's trembling tenor are wilted, warbled, and looped through manipulated tape machines in a real time composition that evokes a strange warmth and layered beauty. Six panel fold-out CD edition includes artist essays and photographs.

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IN A WORD'
RVNG INT'L Mar 2021
Vinyl
$24.99

TWISTERS: THE ALBUM / O.S.T.

ATLANTIC

Vinyl

$44.74 Jul 19, 2024

Double tan colored vinyl LP pressing. Atlantic Records & Universal Pictures are proud to announce Twisters: The Album - the star-studded musical companion to Twisters, a current-day chapter of the 1996 blockbuster, Twister. The unprecedented 29-track album features brand new tracks from Luke Combs, Miranda Lambert, Jelly Roll, Lainey Wilson, Bailey Zimmerman, Kane Brown, Thomas Rhett, Megan Moroney, Shania Twain, Tyler Childers and many more. From the producers of the Jurassic, Bourne and Indiana Jones franchises, Twisters is directed by Lee Isaac Chung, the Oscar ® nominated writer-director of Minari, and stars Daisy Edgar-Jones (Where the Crawdads Sing), Glen Powell (Top Gun: Maverick) and Anthony Ramos (Transformers: Rise of the Beasts) as equal forces, with opposing motivations, who come together to try to predict, and possibly tame, the immense power of tornadoes.

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TWISTERS: THE ALBUM / O.S.T.
ATLANTIC Jul 2024
Vinyl
$44.74

NEW SENSE OF HEARING

BLANK FORMS

Vinyl

$32.49 Nov 11, 2022

On April 2, 1979, Japanese musicians and Fluxus practitioners Takehiosa Kosugi and Akio Suzuki recorded New Sense of Hearing at Tokyo's Aeolian Hall. Described by Suzuki as the "culmination" of their sound, New Sense documents their experiments with instruments both traditional and avant-garde.

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NEW SENSE OF HEARING
BLANK FORMS Nov 2022
Vinyl
$32.49

WE GET REQUESTS (100% PURE LP)

TOWER RECORDS

Vinyl

$136.49 Dec 26, 2025

This limited-edition release brings back a 1964 classic by the "emperor of the keyboard," Oscar Peterson, showcasing his beautiful touch, elegant phrasing, and effortless swing as he moves briskly through standards and bossa nova selections. Widely regarded as a historic masterpiece-and long praised for it's exceptional sound quality by legendary engineer Bob Simpson-the album is now reborn as a super high-end analog "100% Pure LP." This audiophile pressing includes the celebrated reference track "You Look Good To Me" among other highlights and is strictly limited to 1,000 serial-numbered copies. Pressed on 180g heavyweight, uncolored virgin vinyl using a metal master press, the audio is sourced from the latest 96kHz/24-bit master transferred directly from the original analog tapes, ensuring outstanding fidelity. The deluxe presentation features a gatefold coated jacket with obi, a special soft vinyl outer bag, and includes lyrics and liner notes. As a limited production item, availability may be unstable and orders may be subject to cancellation depending on circumstances.

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WE GET REQUESTS (100% PURE LP)
TOWER RECORDS Dec 2025
Vinyl
$136.49

VIBE PROVIDER
MACK AVENUE RECORDS Aug 2024
Vinyl
$31.49

LIVE 1978-1992

RHINO

Vinyl

$277.45 Jan 19, 2024

Limited 12 vinyl LP set. This Dire Straits - Live 1978-1992 set features remastered, extended, and unreleased recordings from some of their most coveted live albums and performances. The collection includes Live At The Rainbow, Alchemy, On The Night, Encores, Live At The BBC, plus artwork prints and exclusive booklet.

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LIVE 1978-1992
RHINO Jan 2024
Vinyl
$277.45

BRECKER PLAYS ROVATTI: A SACRED BOND
JAZZLINE Jul 2022
Vinyl
$46.99

For One to Love [Vinyl]

MACK AVENUE RECORDS

Vinyl

$41.99 Sep 04, 2015

2016 Grammy Winner for "Best Jazz Vocal Album." "This music is very personal, very close to home," Cecile McLorin Salvant responds when asked about the songs on For One To Love. "I'm not playing anyone else here but myself. I can look at many of these songs and see that this is an event that really happened, or a feeling I've lived through myself," McLorin Salvant explains. "That's what makes it so difficult to share. It's almost like a diary entry." McLorin Salvant is superbly supported in her vision by a world-class group of musicians who share her values and play a key role in shaping each performance into an artistic statement. There are no studio tricks or subterfuge here. When asked her about the secret to her success, McLorin Salvant nonchalantly ascribes much of it to luck. But, then, after a quiet pause, she adds: "People will always be moved by something that's genuine." They certainly will and you will encounter just that on every track of this bold, heartfelt album. That same attention to detail also emerges in a similarly meticulously created, handmade package; a package that Cecile has literally envisioned, drawn or handwritten everything in it. For One To Love is truly the creation of a singular and unique creative. We present to you with Cecile, the second record in her young and amazing career.

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For One to Love [Vinyl]
MACK AVENUE RECORDS Sep 2015
Vinyl
$41.99

ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER'S CINDERELLA
VERVE Jul 2021
Vinyl
$65.99

AT THE RENAISSANCE (CONTEMPORARY RECORDS ACOUSTIC)

CRAFT RECORDINGS

Vinyl

$33.49 Nov 08, 2024

Ben Webster - "At The Renaissance (Contemporary Records Acoustic Sounds Series)" / Recorded live at The Renaissance in Hollywood, CA on Oct 14 1960, Ben Webster at the Renaissance was released on Contemporary Records. Featuring with Saxophonist Webster are Jim Hall (guitar), Jimmy Rowles (piano), Red Mitchell (bass), and Frank Butler (drums). This new edition, released as part of the Acoustic Sounds Series, features (AAA) lacquers cut from the original master tapes by Bernie Grundman and is pressed on 180-gram vinyl at QRP, and presented in a tip-on jacket.

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AT THE RENAISSANCE (CONTEMPORARY RECORDS ACOUSTIC)
CRAFT RECORDINGS Nov 2024
Vinyl
$33.49

GONE WITH THE WIND

ORG MUSIC

Vinyl

$32.49 Nov 08, 2019

This truly incredible performance has been underappreciated throughout the years, in part because it had not been pressed in nearly three decades. Previously pressed on white color vinyl for Record Store Day 2016, Ben Webster's 'Gone With The Wind' will now be widely available on 180gram black vinyl. The performance took place at the legendary Jazzhus Montmartre in Copenhagen during January of 1965, right in the prime of Webster's long European period.

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GONE WITH THE WIND
ORG MUSIC Nov 2019
Vinyl
$32.49

MELANCHOLIA - 140GM SILVER VINYL

MADFISH RECORDS IMP

Vinyl

$35.49 Oct 17, 2025

Limited silver colored vinyl LP pressing. 2025 release features 12-tracks of instrumental piano mastery from the legendary yes keysman. With 'Melancholia', Rick Wakeman completes a remarkable trilogy of solo piano works that began with 'Piano Portraits' (2017) & continued with 'Piano Odyssey' (2018) - both landmark albums that found him reaching new heights of popularity & critical esteem as a solo artist. But while those records looked outward, reinterpreting beloved melodies & exploring sweeping themes, 'Melancholia' turns inward, inviting us into the most personal, introspective & perhaps profound music of Wakeman's storied career. The album began, as so much of Wakeman's finest work has, with a quiet moment at the piano. One afternoon, his wife Rachel overheard him playing a contemplative piece - what would later become "Garo" - & was struck by it's quiet emotional power. And because she knew well that he often turned to the piano in times of sadness or inner turbulence, using music as a kind of emotional compass, she encouraged him to share it. What followed was not a conceptual record in the traditional sense, but a deeply cohesive suite, written intuitively at first & later shaped in collaboration with long-time producer & engineer Erik Jordan at The Granary Studio in Norfolk. Recorded on a beautiful Steinway Model D, the sound of 'Melancholia' is rich, resonant & stripped bare in the most delicate way.

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MELANCHOLIA - 140GM SILVER VINYL
MADFISH RECORDS IMP Oct 2025
Vinyl
$35.49

INTENSITY (CONTEMPORARY RECORDS ACOUSTIC)

CRAFT RECORDINGS

Vinyl

$33.49 Dec 13, 2024

Art Pepper - "Intensity (Contemporary Records Acoustic Sounds Series)" / Recorded in 1960, Art Pepper's 5th album release on Contemporary Records, "Intensity", was released in 1963. A collection of 7 jazz standards the album features Dolo Coker (piano) along with Jimmy Bond (bass), and Frank Butler (drums). This new edition, released as part of the Acoustic Sounds Series, features (AAA) lacquers cut from the original master tapes by Bernie Grundman and is pressed on 180-gram vinyl at QRP, and presented in a tip-on jacket.

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INTENSITY (CONTEMPORARY RECORDS ACOUSTIC)
CRAFT RECORDINGS Dec 2024
Vinyl
$33.49

MISERERE (VINYL)

Gramola Records

Vinyl

$37.99 Mar 10, 2015

• In it's latest project, the Chorus sine nomine, one of Austria's leading choirs, under it's founder and director Johannes Hiemetsberger has turned to a very special work: the Miserere by Gregorio Allegri in an arrangement for saxophone and three choirs a cappella by Vladimir Ivanoff. • The setting of the 51st Psalm from the 1630s, which is uniquely captivating due to it's simplicity, was a fixed component of the liturgy of Easter week in the Sixtine Chapel in Rome for over 250 years and soon achieved cult status because of the high penalties on it's 'pirate copy'. • Here, the three-choir ensemble is in a subtle equilibrium with the young saxophonist Michael Krenn and meets any trace of sentimental mush with the respect due. • Recorded in the splendid Viennese acoustic of the Otto Wagner designed Church am Steinhof, built in the first decade of the 20th c. on the grounds of the then Lower Austrian State Asylum.

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MISERERE (VINYL)
Gramola Records Mar 2015
Vinyl
$37.99