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Jon Hassell
Vernal Equinox [ Ndeya / CD - released 20/Mar/2020 ] Jon Hassell's 1977 solo debut, Vernal Equinox offered the first glimpse into the sound that would become known as Fourth World music - a pioneering blend of electronics and global music influences, drawing on ambient, jazz and minimalism, alongside... |
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Jon Hassell
Vernal Equinox (LP) [ Ndeya / LP - released 20/Mar/2020 ] Jon Hassell's 1977 solo debut, Vernal Equinox offered the first glimpse into the sound that would become known as Fourth World music - a pioneering blend of electronics and global music influences, drawing on ambient, jazz and minimalism, alongside... |
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Jon Hopkins
Immunity (2023 Remaster Limited Edition LP) [ Domino / 2 LP - released 6/Oct/2023 ] To celebrate the 10-year anniversary of Jon Hopkins' seminal fourth album, Immunity, a newly remastered version of the record is now available. A confident, dramatic record defined by an acute sense of physicality and place, Immunity felt and... |
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Jon Hopkins
Music For Psychedelic Therapy [ Domino / CD - released 4/Mar/2022 ] Music For Psychedelic Therapy carves a new path for Jon sonically and philosophically. Enveloping Jon's journeys across geographical and cosmological spectrums, the album is an inimitable and all-embodying journey in and of itself. It's a richly... |
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Jon Hopkins
Ritual (LP) [ Domino / 2 LP - released 30/Aug/2024 ] By turns devotional, empowering and nurturing, Jon Hopkins' forthcoming new album RITUAL is a 41-minute electronic symphony built from cavernous subs, hypnotic drumming and transcendent melodic interplay. Tense, immersive and ultimately triumphant,... |
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Jon Spencer
Spencer Sings The Hits! [ In The Red / CD - released 16/Nov/2018 ] Jon Spencer is back! Often imitated, never duplicated, the original NYC underground-rock legend returns from the wilderness with twelve red-hot hits, each more powerful than the last! Despite the title, this is not a hits collection but is instead... |
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Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Freedom Tower - No Wave Dance Party 2015 (LP) [ Bronze Rat Records LP / LP - released 19/Jun/2015 ] With Freedom Tower: No Wave Dance Party 2015, the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion seem to have finally figured out what to do and how to do it when making a record: wail hard on the blues (or whatever mutated variant this is) and don't fuss over the buff... |
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Various Artists / Jon Savage
Jon Savage's 1967 The Year Pop Divided [ Ace Records / CD - released 31/Mar/2017 ] Now typified as the year of flower power, 1967 was the year the 60s divided. During those 12 months, the revenues from LP sales in Britain finally overtook those from 45s. It's also the year when the British singles charts suddenly revealed a vacuum... |
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Various Artists / Jon Savage
Jon Savage's 1965-1968: High Sixties On 45 (LP) [ 2 LP - released 5/Jun/2019 ] A love letter to the 7″ single presented over 2 LPs by the writer, broadcaster and music journalist, best known for his history of the Sex Pistols and punk music, England's Dreaming, published in 1991. Running chronologically from the 1965 tracks on... |
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WAGNER
Die Walküre Anita Välkki, Claire Watson, Hans Hotter, Jon Vickers / The Royal Opera House, Georg Solti [ Testament / 4 CD Box Set - released 31/Jul/2014 ] This release marks the first appearance of Georg Solti on Testament as an opera conductor in an historic performance of Die Walküre at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in October 1961. |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Image of Melancholy Barokksolistene / Bjarte Eike, artistic director & violin Berit Norbakken Solset, soprano; Jon Balke, organ / soundscapes; Milos Valent, viola and voc [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/Jan/2014 ] Joined by the soprano Berit Norbakken Solset and by the jazz pianist Jon Balke, Eike and his ensemble have created an intensely atmospheric and highly suggestive disc, which richly lives up to its motto - 'Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.' |
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RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Der Ring Des Nibelungen [complete operas on Blu-ray audio] Jon Vickers, Martti Talvela, Thomas Stewart, Régine Crespin, Gundula Janowitz, Josephine Veasey, etc / Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan [ Deutsche Grammophon Blu-ray audio / Blu-Ray Audio - released 5/Jul/2024 ] Deutsche Grammophon is reissuing, in Blu-ray audio, Karajan's monumental Ring cycle, which he recorded together with the Berlin Philharmonic and a stunning cast of singers. |
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PAUL SCHOENFELD / STEVEN STUCKY / JOHN HARBISON
Schoenfeld/Stucky/Harbison: Three American Violin Sonatas Cho-Liang Lin (violin), Jon Kimura Parker (piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/May/2020 ] The three sonatas on this recording were written at the behest of violinist Cho-Liang Lin, who worked closely with each composer at their premiere performance. |
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GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E flat major 'Symphony of a Thousand' Christine Brewer, Soile Isokoski, Juliane Banse, Birgit Remmert, Jon Villars, etc / City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle [ Warner Classics Masters / CD - released 25/Jul/2017 ] "A Mahler 8 that seems dutifully fervent against a euphoric Rattle and his forces" - Recording of the Month Gramophone Magazine April 2005 |
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RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen [Highlights] Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Thomas Stewart, Josephine Veasey, Gundula Janowitz, Jon Vickers, Jess Thomas / Berlin Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan [ Deutsche Grammophon SBS Eloquence / 2 CD - released 11/Dec/2013 ] Highlights from Herbert von Karajan's mighty 'Ring' cycle. The disc includes extended highlights from the four 'Ring' operas and allows us to sample Karajan's choice of different singers for the same character in different operas - Fischer-Dieskau's... |
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Jon Hassell
Last Night the Moon Came Dropping its Clothes in the Street [ ECM Records / CD - released 2/Mar/2009 ] This recording from the innovative & influential Jon Hassell is conceived as "a continuous piece, almost symphonic, with a cinematic construction" and drifting "clouds made out of many motifs". |
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Jakob Bro (guitar) with Palle Mikkelborg (trumpet, flugelhorn), Jon Christensen (drums), Thomas Morgan (double bass)
Returnings [ ECM / CD - released 23/Mar/2018 ] "Danish guitarist Jakob Bro creates magical music, impossible to categorize", wrote Downbeat recently. On 'Returnings' the magic is intensified as Bro and musical soul-mate Thomas Morgan reconnect with two living legends of European jazz, trumpeter... |
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Jakob Bro, Thomas Morgan, Jon Christensen
Gefion (LP) [ ECM / LP ] 'Gefion' is Danish guitarist Jakob Bro's first ECM album as leader, following recordings for the label as sideman with Paul Motian and Tomasz Stanko. Like the work of those masters Bro's balladeering distils a sense of jazz history in its specific... |
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IGOR STRAVINSKY
Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress (complete opera recorded in 1993) John Cheek, Jon Garrison, Jeffrey Johnson, Shirley Love, Melvin Lowery, Jane West, Wendy White, Arthur Woodley / Robert Craft [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2009 ] "That we have such a direct link to Stravinsky's living thoughts and intentions in Robert Craft and such a powerful performance makes this recording as much a 'must have' as the composer's own." (MusicWeb July 2009) |
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Jon and Vangelis
The Best of Jon and Vangelis [ Polydor Records / CD - released 10/Mar/1985 ] Available as an import from Europe, this 1984 compilation contains a great selection of the best songs Vangelis created in collaboration with Yes singer, Jon Anderson. |