Carson McHone - Still LifeThe songs of Still Life were written in quiet moments between tours and recorded away from Texas in Ontario with Canadian musician and producer Daniel Romano. The phrasing and tones recall John Cale, The Kinks, Richard and Linda Thompson like minded artists of the late '60s and early '70s, another era of transition and innovation. Still Life is an offering of deliberation, an expos of conscience, a confirmation that creation is an act of hope.

action and comedy that follows a bounty hunter as he is blackmailed by two overzealous tax collectors into stealing a fortune in illegal bank notes in a dangerous foreign town

Reflecting the aural composition of his direct surroundings into kaleidoscopic instrumentation provides a unique insight into how one musical phenomenon transposes sight into sound

Three opuses

It took decades for the music of our distant "French" cousins - long hidden away in the bayous of southern Louisiana - to finally leave it's home

a quiet revolution took place across the UK in the late 1970s and early 1980s

and drummer Nasheet Waits

dubbed the "Russian Quartets" and dedicated to the Russian Grand Duke Paul

originally a two LP set

Joey Mabe (Mahlathini and the Mahotella Queens)

including regular appearances with the Academy of Ancient Music

The Ripple Effect is a follow up to the award-winning

Christoph Schoener combines obvious and surprising arrangements with Mozart's original works