Jamila Woods
Water Made Us [ Jagjaguwar / CD - released 27/Oct/2023 ] On her expansive new album Water Made Us, Chicago musician and poet Jamila Woods shines anew as she asks the question, what does it mean to fully surrender to love? Across Water Made Us Jamila embraces new genres, playful melodies, and hypnotizing... |
Ben Woods
Dispeller [ Melted Icecream / CD - released 15/Jul/2022 ] On Dispeller, Woods' intimate experiments in rock paint a vivid portrait. Here, the New Zealand artist leans comfortably into intuition and abstraction. Expansive arrangements are anchored by heavy-lidded prose, while carrying the air of the portside... |
Ben Woods
Dispeller (LP) [ Melted Icecream / LP - released 15/Jul/2022 ] On Dispeller, Woods' intimate experiments in rock paint a vivid portrait. Here, the New Zealand artist leans comfortably into intuition and abstraction. Expansive arrangements are anchored by heavy-lidded prose, while carrying the air of the portside... |
Roy Woods
Exis (LP) [ Ovo Sound / Warner / LP - released 1/Oct/2021 ] Originally released in 2015, this 6-track EP features the smash singles "Drama" (featuring Drake) and "Get You Good". |
Roy Woods
Waking At Dawn (Expanded Edition LP) [ Ovo Sound / Warner / LP - released 1/Oct/2021 ] Waking at Dawn was released in 2016 as a follow-up to Roy's debut EP, Exis. The project features the hit single, "Gwan Big Up Urself", inspired by his Caribbean roots & brought to life by Jamaican producer KRS. Another critically acclaimed single... |
Woods
Strange To Explain [ Woodsist / CD - released 31/Jul/2020 ] A bend beyond the last bend beyond, Woods keep on changing, thoughtfully and beautifully. The colours were always there, like trees blossoming just slightly differently each season, a synesthetic message coded in slow-motion. Recorded in Stinson... |
Woods
Strange To Explain (LP) [ Woodsist / LP - released 31/Jul/2020 ] A bend beyond the last bend beyond, Woods keep on changing, thoughtfully and beautifully. The colours were always there, like trees blossoming just slightly differently each season, a synesthetic message coded in slow-motion. Recorded in Stinson... |
CHRISTOPHER GUNNING
Gunning: Symphonies 2, 10 & 12 BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Kenneth Woods (conductor) [ Signum / CD - released 6/Dec/2019 ] Christopher Gunning has composed twelve symphonies, as well as concertos for the piano, violin, cello, flute, oboe, clarinet, saxophone, and guitar; many of these have now been recorded. He has also composed many scores for films and television... |
Ben Woods
Put (LP) [ LP - released 18/Oct/2019 ] With the release of his debut album PUT, Ben Woods establishes himself as the poster boy of a new, more personal phase of the 'Antipodean Gothic': a term, penned by the writer Jasmine Gallagher, which describes the dark output spilling from outsider... |
Jamila Woods
Legacy! Legacy! (LP) [ Jagjaguwar / 2 LP - released 10/May/2019 ] Jamila Woods has a voice and lyrical sensibility that transcends generations, and so it makes sense to have this lush and layered album that bounces seamlessly from one sonic aesthetic to another. This was the case on 2016's HEAVN, which found Woods... |
Jamila Woods
Legacy! Legacy! (Pink Vinyl LP) [ Jagjaguwar / 2 LP - released 10/May/2019 ] Jamila Woods has a voice and lyrical sensibility that transcends generations, and so it makes sense to have this lush and layered album that bounces seamlessly from one sonic aesthetic to another. This was the case on 2016's HEAVN, which found Woods... |
James Moody/Paul Horn/Lou Donaldson/Jimmy Woods
Alto Sax - Four Classic Albums (Last Train From Overbrook/Something Blue/Sunny Side Up/Awakening) [ Avid Jazz / 2 CD - released 6/Apr/2018 ] AVID Jazz is proud to introduce an exciting new addition to our Four Classic Album series, Four Classic Jazz Instrumentalists. We continue with Four Classic Jazz Alto Saxophonists, a re-mastered 2CD set complete with original artwork, liner notes and... |
Hans Gál
Concertino for Cello and Strings; Solo Cello Sonata; Solo Cello Suite Matthew Sharp (cello) / Kenneth Woods / English Symphony Orchestra [ AVIE / CD - released 16/Feb/2018 ] Bringing to light another of Hans Gál's gorgeously melodic and finely crafted scores, AVIE presents the world premiere recording of the Austrian émigré's Concertino for Cello and String Orchestra with Matthew Sharp supported by Gál aficionado... |
Jamila Woods
Heavn [ Jagjaguwar / CD - released 6/Oct/2017 ] Woods first became known as the eloquent heart within the choir arrangements of Donnie Trumpet & the Social Experiment's "Sunday Candy." The singer/songwriter made a few more key appearances on Macklemore's polarizing "White Privilege II" and... |
Jamila Woods
Heavn (Limited Edition White Vinyl LP) [ Jagjaguwar / 2 LP - released 6/Oct/2017 ] A frequent guest vocalist in the hip-hop, jazz and soul world, Jamila has emerged as a once-in-a-generation voice on her soul-stirring debut. Hailed by Pitchfork as, "a singular mix of clear-eyed optimism and Black girl magic," HEAVN is the... |
Jamila Woods
Heavn (LP) [ Jagjaguwar / LP - released 6/Oct/2017 ] A frequent guest vocalist in the hip-hop, jazz and soul world, Jamila has emerged as a once-in-a-generation voice on her soul-stirring debut. Hailed by Pitchfork as, "a singular mix of clear-eyed optimism and Black girl magic," HEAVN is the... |
TOBY YOUNG
The Art of Dancing: 21st-Century Concertos for Trumpet, Piano and Strings Simon Desbruslais (trumpet), Clare Hammond (piano), English String Orchestra, Kenneth Woods (conductor) [ Signum / CD - released 25/Aug/2017 ] Simon Desbruslais returns to disc on Signum with an album that continues to expand the repertoire of the trumpet even further, with four new commissions for Trumpet, Piano and String Orchestra Toby Young's The Art of Dancing is described by the... |
Woods
Love Is Love [ Woodsist / CD - released 19/May/2017 ] Love is Love was written and recorded in the two months immediately following the election, but it's not a record borne entirely of angry, knee-jerk reaction to what America is becoming. Instead, it's a meditation on love, and on what life means now.... |
Woods
Love Is Love (LP) [ Woodsist LP / LP - released 19/May/2017 ] Love is Love was written and recorded in the two months immediately following the election, but it's not a record borne entirely of angry, knee-jerk reaction to what America is becoming. Instead, it's a meditation on love, and on what life means now.... |
JOHN JOUBERT
Jane Eyre: An Opera In Two Acts April Fredrick, David Stout, English Symphony Orchestra, Gwion Thomas, Kenneth Woods, Mark Milhofer [ Somm / 2 CD - released 17/Mar/2017 ] With this new release SOMM pays an affectionate tribute to John Joubert who is turns 90 in March 2017. It also adds a veritable gem to the operatic catalogue: the world première of his 2-Act Opera Jane Eyre recorded live during a concert performance... |