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Afro-Harping is the first of a rarfied and outstanding trilogy of soul-jazz albums by Dorothy Ashby. Remastered from the original tapes, Afro-Harping is filled front-to-back with sumptuous and hypnotic grooves. Its African percussion, soulful orchestratio

Tropicale is the explosion of joy of the Italian economic miracle, the promise of distant destinations becoming all of a sudden tangible, the illusion of a taboo world where everything seems possible. Through rare and unreleased cuts from the CAM Sugar ar

An ode to Natasha’s daughter, Delphi. Bat For Lashes is known for her otherworldly albums with lead characters “Laura”, “Daniel” & “The Bride”. For the first time, Natasha writes about her personal experiences and the magical, sometimes melancholy intimac

UMR and Decca Records are making Jamaican/British jazz saxophonist Joe Harriott’s album Movement available for the first time since it was released in 1963. The release comes as part of UMR’s Black Story initiative, which seeks to celebrate the culture, t

Bringing together the last sessions of Django Reinhardt for Decca and Blue Star, recorded in Paris from January to April 1953, shortly before his passing at the age of 43. Remastered from the original master tapes and presented on standard black vinyl wit

Max Richter’s ninth solo album – the first to be written and recorded at his serene new studio in rural Oxfordshire – is a fleeting self-portrait of a musician in constant motion. In A Landscape is a record about “reconciling polarities”, as Richter puts

To mark Record Store Day in 2024 Universal Music Recordings and Decca Records are making Jazz guitarist Amancio D’Silva’s album ‘Reflections (The Romantic Guitar Of Amancio D’Silva)’ available again for the first time since it was released in 1971, on lim

The Loop is Jordan Rakei’s fifth album and his most personal to date. Along with his typically bold production style are spectacular orchestral arrangements and haunting choirs, hypnotic beats and an Odyssean-style narrative that charts a course through t

With Les Liaisons dangereuses 1960, Roger Vadim stirred up a scandal. Based on the famous epistolary novel by Laclos, the director presented audiences in the early 1960s with a film in which libertinism, scheming and the upper middle classes intertwine in

At the 1973 Cannes Festival a feature-length animated film caused a sensation and won the Special Jury Prize: La Planète Sauvage. For this philosophical tale of anticipation, the celebrated composer Alain Goraguer unleashes his inspiration with a haunting

With an extraordinary career spanning more than six decades, world-renowned Italian composer Ennio Morricone created over 600 original compositions with a unique and unmistakable style, blending avant-garde solutions with the finest pop psych attitude. Ma

Harry Beckett's 'Flare Up' (1970) is a much talked about and sought-after album from an artist and composer who had a six-decade career in jazz. The album contains the funk driven track 'Third Road', which was featured on the critically acclaimed 2020 BJE

Continuing the 'British Jazz Explosion' vinyl reissue series is John Surman and John Warren with 'Tales of the Algonquin'. This album was recently included in Jazzwise Magazine's 'The 100 Jazz Albums That Shook The World' and they praised it with 'The Big

Continuing the "Morricone Segreto" series of unearthing hidden and underrated soundtracks of the late Maestro – the next release is the score of I Malamondo. A strange, off-beat mondo-movie about the youth of the early 1960s, directed by Paolo Cavara. Thi

Max Richter provides the stellar score for Apple TV+ series Invasion. "A big part of any scoring project is the process of discovering the musical language that feels like it emanates from the world of the show, like it belongs only to that world, and fee

One of the landmark classics of the rising British jazz scene of the late 60s – an unusual pairing between modern trumpeter Kenny Wheeler and famous arranger John Dankworth – both coming together in this sublime set of instrumental tracks based on the sto

If one were asked to pick an album that represented the best of British jazz in the 1960s, 'Le Déjeuner Sur l’Herbe' by the New Jazz Orchestra would be a serious contender. Recorded in September 1968, it draws together many of the key streams that had dev

New 27-Track Vinyl 2LP Compilation Reveals the Hidden, Dark-Tinged and Psychedelic Side of the Much-Missed Maestro Complete with 7 Previously Unreleased Numbers! The career of the influential Italian composer Ennio Morricone is celebrated by the new Decca