Since you are interested in Old Ideas (Gold Series), here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
Adele
21 [ XL Recordings / CD - released 24/Jan/2011 ] U.K. singer/songwriter Adele presents '21' - the follow-up to her 2008 breakthrough debut, '19'. The album features the singles, "Rolling in the Deep" and "Someone Like You". |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
England My England Alastair Hussain (treble) Thomas Bullard (baritone) / Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Cambridge University Musical Society Chorus, etc [ EMI / Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Jul/2009 ] There is surely no more quintessentially English sound than that of the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, its unaccompanied voices - evocative of immemorial sandstone, of cool cloisters, of evensong in church, chapel and cathedral. |
Alison Krauss & Union Station
Paper Airplane [ Decca Music Group / CD - released 14/Apr/2011 ] A truly breathtaking collection of 11 exquisite songs, 'Paper Airplane' is Krauss' first release since her 2007 multi-Grammy winning, internationally acclaimed collaboration with Robert Plant, 'Raising Sand'. |
Amy Winehouse
Back to Black (Deluxe Jewel Case Edition) [ Universal Music / 2 CD - released 23/Nov/2006 ] All the best parts of her musical character - from jazz vocalist to soul siren. Contains an 8-track bonus disc, featuring live recordings and rarities. |
ARAIA / CALDARA / GRAUN / PORPORA / etc.
Sacrificium Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano) / Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini [ Decca Music Group / CD - released 14/Dec/2009 ] "Porpora's opening aria reveals just what has made Bartoli unique in this field - a stupefying range, fearless vocal leaps and the sort of relentless passagework that makes you suspect the singer might be on a heart-lung machine." (William Dart NZ... |
Beth Orton
Sugaring Season [ Epitaph / CD - released 8/Oct/2012 ] Beth's first album in six years bears the fruits of a period of introspection & renewal: deeply lyrical songwriting, a new-found expressiveness of voice, and a daring synthesis of her broad musical influences into a powerfully individual artistic vision. |
Bob Dylan
Tempest [ Columbia Records / CD - released 7/Sep/2012 ] Bob Dylan's new album arrives and - as has become traditional - you can hardly hear the old boy for the clank of five-star reviews hitting the table. Connoisseurs of the latterday Dylan review will be pleased to learn that 2012 brings a fine vintage,... |
Bon Iver
For Emma, Forever Ago [ Jagjaguwar Music / CD - released 17/Mar/2008 ] "Hearing his muted strums and granular falsetto's like seeing the Grand Canyon for the first time".-Village Voice. "His stunning breakthrough."-Paste. "One of the year's strongest indie folk records."-Now. |
Bruce Springsteen
Magic [ Columbia Records / CD - released 29/Jan/2008 ] 'Magic' is Springsteen's new studio recording in 2007 and his first with the E Street Band in 5 years. Produced and mixed by Brendan O'Brien, the album features 12 songs, including a bonus track. |
Bruce Springsteen
We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions (Limited Edition) [ Columbia Records / 2 CD/DVD - released 24/Apr/2006 ] Bruce's personal interpretations of thirteen traditional songs, all of them associated with the legendary guiding light of American folk music, Pete Seeger, for whom the album is named. |
Bruce Springsteen
Wrecking Ball [ Sony Music / CD - released 12/Mar/2012 ] Bruce has dug down as deep as he can to come up with this vision of modern life. The lyrics tell a story you can't hear anywhere else and the music is his most innovative of recent years. |
Leonard Cohen
Live at the Isle of Wight, 1970 (CD/DVD) [ Columbia / Legacy Records / 2 DVD/CD - released 27/Oct/2009 ] Nearly 40 summers ago on August 31, 1970, 35-year-old Leonard Cohen was awakened at 2 a.m. from a nap in his trailer and brought onstage to perform with his band at the third annual Isle of Wight music festival. The audience of 600,000 was in a... |
The Eastern
Hope and Wire [ Rough Peel Records / 2 CD - released 5/Mar/2012 ] A string band that roars like a punk band, swings like a gospel band, drinks like a country band, works like a bar band, opes like folk singers, sings love songs like union songs, and writes union songs like love songs... |
Fat Freddy's Drop
Dr Boondigga & The Big BW [ The Drop / Rhythmethod New Zealand / CD - released 26/May/2009 ] The follow-up to Freddy's hugely popular debut album is another amazing, hi-tek dub-soul boil up! |
Gillian Welch
The Harrow & The Harvest [ Acony Records / CD - released 4/Sep/2015 ] Uncut Magazine's 'Album of the Month' review calls 'The Harrow & The Harvest' a "timeless country classic, this is Welch's most ruggedly traditional work yet." |
PHILIP GLASS
Book Of Longing: A Song Cycle based on the Poetry and Images of Leonard Cohen Leonard Cohen (spoken text) Dominique Plaisant (soprano) Tara Hugo (mezzo) Will Erat (tenor) Daniel Keeling (bass-baritone) Philip Glass (keyboard) [ Orange Mountain Music / 2 CD - released 25/Mar/2008 ] "For me, this work is both a departure from past work and a fulfillment of an artistic dream." -Philip Glass |
FREDERIC CHOPIN / FRANZ LISZT / MAURICE RAVEL
Benjamin Grosvenor - Chopin Liszt Ravel (Recital) Benjamin Grosvenor (piano) [ Decca Music Group / CD - released 19/Jan/2012 ] "evidence of an awesome talent, a pianist with fantastic natural reflexes in the Cziffra class and, more excitingly, a musician with purpose and imagination, whose playing transcends the sterile confines of the studio" Gramophone Award WINNER 2012:... |
Keith Jarrett / Charlie Haden
Jasmine [ ECM / CD - released 24/May/2010 ] 31 years after the break-up of Keith Jarrett's great 'American quartet', the pianist and bassist Charlie Haden are reunited for an album of standards, played with deep feeling. |
Diana Krall
Glad Rag Doll [ Island UK / CD - released 4/Oct/2012 ] Diana Krall's extraordinary album, 'Glad Rag Doll', is an exhilarating and adventurous exploration of new sounds, new instrumentation and new musicians. |
Leonard Cohen
I'm Your Man - Leonard Cohen (DVD) (Region 2 Only) [ Reel / DVD - released 2/Mar/2009 ] **PLEASE NOTE: This is a UK import so you will need a multi-zone DVD player capable of playing import DVDs** Legendary poet, singer / songwriter and alleged ladies man Leonard Cohen is interviewed in his L.A. home about his extraordinary life and... |