Since you are interested in Old Ideas (Gold Series), here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
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,... |
Leonard Cohen
Popular Problems (Gold Series) [ Columbia CD / CD - released 26/Sep/2014 ] Leonard Cohen is a master songwriter, musician, poet, novelist and visual artist whose stunning body of original work has touched the lives of millions with a career spanning six decades. On Popular Problems, his thrilling new studio album,... |
Leonard Cohen
Ten New Songs [ Columbia / CD - released 17/Oct/2001 ] Cohen's first studio release for nine years is as brilliant and poetic as ever. |
Leonard Cohen
You Want It Darker [ Sony Music / CD - released 21/Oct/2016 ] Leonard Cohen, acclaimed composer of 'Hallelujah', has released an album of haunting new songs at the age of 82. This great artist continues to astonish us. Uncompromising and urgent, "You Want It Darker" is the latest chapter in Leonard's... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Christmas a Cappella II Musica Sacra conducted by Indra Hughes [ Atoll Records New Zealand / CD - released 20/Nov/2007 ] This is the second programme of unaccompanied Christmas choral music performed by one of New Zealand's most successful choirs and includes a wide variety of pieces: the well known and the unfamiliar. |
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
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. |
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... |
Leonard Cohen
Live in London [ Columbia Records / 2 CD - released 26/Mar/2009 ] This 2CD set was recorded live on July 17, 2008 at 02 Arena, capturing the extraordinary show that earned Cohen more than 80 five-star reviews. 'Live in London' offers definitive performances of classic songs drawn from his 40-year repertory. |
PUCCINI / BIZET / DVORAK / OFFENBACH / DONIZETTI / VERDI / etc
40 Most Beautiful Arias Maria Callas, Placido Domingo, Cecilia Bartoli, Kiri te Kanawa, Jose Carreras, José Cura, Angela Gheorghiu, etc [ Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Feb/2009 ] Nothing stirs the soul and tugs at the heartstrings more than an inspired operatic aria. Warner Classics CD set 40 MOST BEAUTIFUL ARIAS collects forty of the most moving ones the world has known on this star-studded collection. |
Whirimako Black
The Late Night Plays [ Ode Records / CD - released 29/Sep/2011 ] With staggering, emotive deliveries, Whirimako covers songs made popular by; Nancy Wilson, Billie Holiday, Etta James, Erykah Badu, Leonard Cohen, U2, Joni Mitchell, Al Green, Sting, Frank Sinatra, Miles Davis and Stevie Wonder. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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! |
Melody Gardot
The Absence [ Universal Music / CD - released 31/May/2012 ] Steeped in Melody's global travels and worldly influences, encompassing the sound and feel of exotic places such as Morocco, Buenos Aires, Brazil, Lisbon and more. |
Pixie Williams
For the Record - The Pixie Williams Collection [ Blue Smoke Records New Zealand / CD - released 11/Jul/2011 ] A stunning new digitally re-mastered collection of Pixie Williams' songs. Recorded 60+ years ago, these songs have never sounded so good. In 1949, Pixie Williams gave voice to one of the most enduring popular melodies of the 20th century: Blue... |
Ray LaMontagne
God Willin' & The Creek Don't Rise [ Red Ink Records / CD - released 23/Aug/2010 ] Acclaimed recording artist Ray LaMontagne presents his fourth studio record, and the follow-up to his heralded 'Gossip in the Grain'. |
Robert Plant / Alison Krauss
Raising Sand [ Decca Records / CD - released 25/Oct/2007 ] Two of the most distinctive vocalists in modern music, present their astonishing new collaborative album. The pair create an amazing, unexpected, and entirely new sound when they sing together. |