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CASTELLANOS / DURON / TORRES etc
Music From The Guatemalan City Cathedral Archive El Mundo, Richard Savino [ Naxos / CD - released 23/Apr/2021 ] Spanish colonies in Central and South America emerged as wellsprings of cultural activity throughout the 17th and 18th centuries. The meeting of indigenous populations with Latin American cathedrals and courtly life resulted in styles bearing the... |
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Rafa El Tachuela
Best of Flamenco [ Arc / CD - released 1/Aug/2013 ] |
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FRANCISCO GUERRERO
Guerrero: Magnificat, Lamentations & Canciones El León de Oro / Peter Phillips [ Hyperion / CD - released 5/Mar/2021 ] Francisco Guerrero is still insufficiently well known by comparison to his great contemporary and compatriot Victoria. El León de Oro here affirms his rightful place in the history of the Golden Age of Spanish polyphony. |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Amarae morti: Lamentations and motets by Cardoso, Gombert, Lassus, Morales, Palestrina, Phinot & Victoria El León de Oro, Peter Phillips (conductor) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Feb/2019 ] "A very rewarding disc" MusicWeb |
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El Michels Affair
Return to the 37th Chamber [ Big Crown / CD - released 21/Apr/2017 ] Return To The 37th Chamber is El Michels Affair's highly anticipated follow up to 2009's underground cult classic Enter the 37th Chamber. This time, in addition to re-interpreting the Wu compositions for a live band, EMA pays homage to the... |
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El Michels Affair Meets Liam Bailey
Ekundayo Inversions [ Big Crown / CD - released 13/Aug/2021 ] There has always been a Reggae influence in the music of El Michels Affair. From their cover of "Hung Up On My Baby" done in a Reggae style, to the general sound and approach that permeates Leon's production style. While recording Bailey's 2020... |
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Bobby Oroza & El Michels Affair
Whatcha Know b/w Losing It 7" [ Big Crown / 7in - released 23/Jun/2023 ] Bobby's 2019 tour ended in New York City and he had two days off before flying home to Finland. Leon invited him to the Diamond Mine to record some music. Bobby had been talking about wanting to stretch out lyrically and write about more esoteric... |
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El Doom and The Born Electric
El Doom and The Born Electric [ Rune Grammofon / CD - released 12/Mar/2012 ] |
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El Michels Affair
The Abominable (Limited 12") [ Big Crown / 12in - released 26/Nov/2021 ] El Michels Affair follows up the massive success of their full length Yeti Season with The Abominable EP. A collection of unreleased tracks, alternate takes, and instrumentals from the Yeti Season recording sessions. EMA's blending their signature... |
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El Michels Affair
The Abominable EP (12") [ Big Crown / 12in - released 26/Nov/2021 ] El Michels Affair follows up the massive success of their full length Yeti Season with The Abominable EP. A collection of unreleased tracks, alternate takes, and instrumentals from the Yeti Season recording sessions. EMA's blending their signature... |
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El Michels Affair
Adult Themes [ Big Crown / CD - released 5/Jun/2020 ] Adult Themes takes the band's "Cinematic Soul" aesthetic literally and sends the listener on a journey through a whirlwind of moods and energies. With their 2005 debut album Sounding Out The City, EMA spearheaded an instrumental funk / soul movement... |
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El Michels Affair
Adult Themes (LP) [ Big Crown / LP - released 5/Jun/2020 ] Adult Themes takes the band's "Cinematic Soul" aesthetic literally and sends the listener on a journey through a whirlwind of moods and energies. With their 2005 debut album Sounding Out The City, EMA spearheaded an instrumental funk / soul movement... |
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El Michels Affair
Enter The 37th Chamber [ CD - released 29/Apr/2009 ] |
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El Michels Affair
Enter The 37th Chamber (LP) [ Fat Beats / LP - released 1/Jan/2009 ] |
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El Michels Affair
Return To The 37th Chamber (LP) [ Big Crown / LP - released 28/Feb/2020 ] The highly anticipated follow up to the 2009's cult classic 'Enter the 37th Chamber'. Featuring: Lee Shields, The Shacks, & Lady Wray. |
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El Michels Affair
Sounding Out In The City (LP) [ Big Crown / LP - released 22/Jul/2016 ] Over 10 years ago, Leon Michels released his first full length record, Sounding Out The City. It was Michels' first full length record under the moniker El Michels Affair. At the time, the budding retro soul scene consisted of mostly organ quartets a... |
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El Michels Affair
Stack The Deck b/w Things Done Changed (7") [ Big Crown / 7in - released 10/Dec/2021 ] Big Crown Records is proud to present this rock solid two-sider from El Michels Affair. To go with this project, El Michels teamed up again with Bobby Oroza for the A side tune which plays along with the collab theme called "Stack The Deck". These... |
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El Michels Affair
Yeti Season [ Big Crown / CD - released 26/Mar/2021 ] Fresh off their 2020 offering Adult Themes, El Michels Affair is back with a new full-length release. Titled Yeti Season, this newest album has everything we've come to expect from EMA's patented cinematic style of instrumental soul music. Where... |
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El Michels Affair & Black Thought
Glorious Game (LP) [ Big Crown / LP - released 14/Apr/2023 ] When Leon Michels and El Michels Affair released their first record, Sounding Out The City, in 2005, it was hard to guess what was next for Michels and his then-introduced, now-patented "cinematic soul" sound. Now, four EMA studio albums and scores... |
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El Michels Affair & Black Thought
Hollow Way b/w I'm Still Somehow (7") [ Big Crown / 7in - released 18/Aug/2023 ] Following up on the incredible success of El Michels & Black Thought's Glorious Game album the duo treat us to another 7" with two of the standouts from the album. The A Side "Hollow Way" is a testament to the chemistry between Leon & Thought. EMA... |
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3MA/Sissoko/Driss El Maloumi/Rajer
Anarouz [ Six Degrees / CD - released 10/Nov/2018 ] Since their debut record in 2008, the 3MA musicians have been through many individual experiences broadening their knowledge. They meet regularly to give 3MA concerts throughout the world and over the years, new ideas have sprung up, and then have be |
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GEORGE DE LA HELE
La Hèle: Missa Praeter rerum seriem & works by Manchicourt, Payen & Rogier El León de Oro / Peter Phillips [ Hyperion / CD - released 5/Apr/2024 ] A collection of works representative of a school of Flemish composers living in Madrid towards the end of the Renaissance and all employed by Philip II of Spain, who held composers from the Low Countries in particularly high regard. La Hèle's Mass,... |
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El Perro Del Mar
El Perro Del Mar [U.S. Import with Bonus Track] [ The Control Group / CD - released 11/Jul/2006 ] With a voice that wavers between Jane Birkin's and Neil Young's, Swede Sarah Assbring, or El Perro del Mar as she calls herself, writes of hope and loneliness, sometimes at the same time. |
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EL-P
Cancer4cure [ Fat Possum / 2 LP - released 11/Jun/2012 ] Constantly progressing and unapologetically ambitious, Brooklyn indie-rap icon El-P has returned with Cancer for Cure, his first solo hip-hop album in five years. Since then, the underground rap world that anointed El-P has dissipated, replaced by an... |
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Hanni El Khatib
Head in The Dirt - LP [ Innovative Leisure / LP ] Head In The Dirt, produced by Dan Auerbach, is the 2nd album by Hanni El Khatib, where he takes a lucky eleven songs and makes the entire history of rebel music something all his own. He's got cut-to-the-bone rhythm 'n' blues and overcranked... |
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GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: L'Ange de Nisida (complete opera) Joyce El-Khoury, David Junghoon Kim, Laurent Naouri, Vito Priante / Royal Opera Chorus & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Sir Mark Elder [ Opera Rara / 2 CD Box Set - released 20/Mar/2019 ] Opera Rara presents, 179 years after it was written, the world premiere recording of a Donizetti 'lost' masterpiece, restored and brought thrillingly back to life. Written in 1839 for the Theâtre de la Renaissance in Paris, rehearsals started but the... |
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DONIZETTI / MEYERBEER / ROSSINI / HALEVY / BERLIOZ / etc
Écho Joyce El-Khoury (soprano), Michael Spyres (tenor) / The Hallé, Carlo Rizzi [ Opera Rara / CD - released 10/Feb/2019 ] "El-Khoury supplies firm, sensitively coloured tone and technical finish in everything she does...she is nigh-on technically immaculate as well as remarkably eloquent" Opera |
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Abdel Aziz El Mubarak
Abdel Aziz El Mubarak [ Ace Records U.K. / CD - released 13/Dec/1995 ] |
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PROKOFIEV
Toccata / Sonata No. 2 / Sarcasmes / Visions Fugitives Abdel Rahman El Bacha (piano) [ Mirare / CD - released 1/Mar/2012 ] An eminent Chopin specialist and also a feisty proponent of the Prokofiev concertos, Abdel Rahman El Bacha is the ideal interpreter for these piano works, which range from the futurist strains of the Toccata Op.11 (1912) to the 'fleeting visions' of... |
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JOHANN FRIEDRICH FASCH
Fasch: New Year's Cantata, 'Jauchzet dem Herrn' / etc Deborah York & Klaus Mertens / Accademia Daniel, Shalev Ad-El [ CPO / CD - released 1/Aug/2010 ] |
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TELEMANN
Three Cantatas Dorothee Mields (soprano) & Klaus Mertens (bass baritone) / Accademia Daniel, Shalev Ad-El [ CPO / CD - released 1/Oct/2007 ] "CPO continue to produce very high quality performances and recordings of some of the German baroque's very best pieces." (Early Music Review) |
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Akim El Sikameya
Introducing [ CD - released 25/Sep/2008 ] |
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ALFREDO ROLANDO ORTIZ
South American Suite for harp and orchestra / etc Alfredo Rolando Ortiz (Paraguayan harp) El Paso Symphony Orchestra, Gurer Aykai [ ARO / CD - released 20/Sep/2013 ] The acclaimed Suite composed and performed by Alfredo Rolando Ortiz. Orchestration by Paul Hurst. Also in this recording: VENEZOLANA FOR FIVE PEDAL HARPS, performed by members of "HarpFusion:" Dr. Carrol McLaughlin, Director; Hiroko Saito, Jennifer... |
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ANTONIO CALDARA
Caldara: Ii Piu Bel Nome (complete opera) María Espada (soprano), Raquel Andueza (soprano), Marianne Beate Kielland (mezzo), Robin Blaze (countertenor) / El Concierto Espanol, Emilio Moreno [ Glossa / 2 CD - released 20/Sep/2010 ] "María Espada's Venus faces down Juno in a wonderful display of ornamentation...and Marianne Kielland as Hercules if delightfully mocking and accusatory. The orhcestra is unfailingly perky and nuanced" BBC Music Magazine, October 2010 **** |
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Antonio Gonzalez "El Pescailla"
Tiritando [ Vampisoul / CD - released 31/Oct/2011 ] |
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Jesús VILLA-ROJO
Villa-Rojo: Music for Cello: Sonata 2 / Lamento / Oracion serena / Expresiones Asier Polo (cello), Amaia Zipitria (piano), Rafael Romero 'el Gallina' (vocals), Gerardo Lopez Laguna (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2011 ] Jesús Villa-Rojo is one of Spain's most impressive contemporary composers, and writes masterfully for the cello...Cellist Asier Polo is closely identified with this music and is "as authoritative as could be". |
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Diego El Cigala
Romance de la Luna Tucuman [ Decca / CD - released 10/Jun/2013 ] |
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El Alamein
New Patterns [ Hell Is Now Love Records / CD - released 30/Nov/2012 ] |
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ANTONIO VERACINI
Violin Sonatas Opp. 1-3 El Arte Mvsico, Angel Sampedro (violin), Teresa Casanova (violin), Isabel Goméz-Serranillos (cello), Diego Fernández (harpsichord) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Dec/2016 ] The Veracini who wrote these playful and virtuosic trio sonatas is not Francesco Maria but his uncle, Antonio. The nephew's work is relatively well-known, including an Op.1 set of twelve sonatas which has already received a recording on Brilliant... |
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ESTEVE Y GRIMAU / LASERNA / VALLEDOR
La Tirana Contra Mambru: The tonadilla and popular musical comedies in Spain c.1800 El Concierto Espanol / Emilio Moreno (violin & director) [ Glossa / CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] The musical soundtrack for the ordinary people of Spain at the turn of the 18th- century, was the tonadilla. |