CD & Audio for Musicians

Powerful rhythms and exotic melodies performed on balafon, flute and kora - this is the recipe for the music of Farafina, a music that fascinates an audience around the globe. When it comes to recordi...

The brilliant second album after Blake's smash debut ''Kingdom Of Champa''. This release is sure to satisfy any and all expectations one my have towards the successor of ''Kingdom Of Champa'', even th...

An encounter of the very special kind is provided by New York-based Sound-Designer Brian Ales, or – more specific – his most recent album PanCentric; a unique new blend of electronic sounds and ethno...

The ensemble and repertoire of the celebrated european tour in Fall 1999 recorded in the studio. Once again the Megadrums ensemble presents itself in masterly shape, for the first time featuring renow...

It's a rather rare thing these days, to encounter a recording able to inspire enthusiasm within a few moments. "Tieru", the third album of Burkina-Faso-born songwriter, singer and multi-instrumentalis...

One of the world's finest saxophone players diving into one of the world's most passionate forms of music. After seeing Sally Potter's film 'The Tango Lesson', Barbara became entranced by the rythmica...

'The music seeps through your pores and settles, with ease and grace, behind the light of your eyes. [...] I have found myself, especially with headphones, floating away on clouds of ambient synthesiz...

Oregon, the band which has been existing for more than three decades, is well known for crossing borders of musical genres, combining stylistic means of jazz with those of classical and world music fr...

A lush, lavish celebration of music, full of beauty, grace and finesse. Even after 3 successful decades and prizes to reward their efforts (such as the AFIM ''Indie Award'' and the German ''Jazz Award...

It took these 3 master musicians 26 years to finally make it to the recording room together. And it's a good thing, that van't Hof, Mariano and Swallow never gave up on the idea. Enter Brutto Tempo. W...

Gelungene Klangsynthese von amerikanischem und europäischem Jazz: Auf "Reinventing the World" huldigen Andy Middleton mit Trompetenlegende Kenny Wheeler and Posaunenvirtuose Nils Wogram auf allerhöchs...

The accordion is booming! At every corner, both geographically and musically, the longneglected allround instrument is surfacing. Since its first tour as Accordion Tribe in 1996, this great band has g...

Rolf Kühn hat den Intuition-Katalog in den letzten Jahren mit Aufnahmen bereichert, die höchste Jazzansprüche in jeglicher Hinsicht befriedigen. Ein ausgewogener, homogener Mix zwischen Standards und...

With this album, Jeffar Lumban Gaol and his ensemble are reviving different forms of Batak music. The gondang music for instance, an essential part of every sacred ceremony, was repressed since the Ba...

From exuberance to melancholy, Friesen, Porter and Jones have musically portrayed the whole emotional range associated with that special kind of affection; sensitively, artistically and elegantly. If...

Tribute to Hollywood 'As Time Goes By', 'Singin' in the Rain', 'The Windmills of Your Mind' – now this is musical yearning – in the cinema – and that still means: Hollywood. Charlie Chap-lin, Gene Kel...

The revolutionary of tango, Astor Piazzolla, an internationally acclaimed leading light in his own lifetime, became the epitome and expression of Latin American rhythm, dance and passion for us. Tango...

Music from the Country of bunkers – Albania! Who is Eda Zari? Just have a look at the Cover! And learn, perhaps with astonishment, that this women is the cultural ambassadress of Albania, that she mak...

Music from his home country of Georgia, that means to David Malazonia the synthesis of traditional folklore, an elaborate polyphonic vocal music, and of the Arabian-Persian music of its Muslim neighbo...

Tuba, violoncello and vocals. This sounds like experiment, like highly individual capers in the wake of the avant-garde. To Trio Rouge, however, such prejudice does not apply. For Michel Godard, Vince...

Chinese Music from our time with some traditional origins played by Ma Xiaohui, a master of erhu, a two-string violin an Li Biao, a gifted young percussionist. Sounds full of atmosphere, melancholia a...

After releasing Two Many Frames with the single Times Flies (included twice on Rolling Stone's- CD) followed by Not On The Map with single She Cowboy (played repeatedly on MTV-Europe)— Phonoroid are b...

…away from the mire of homogeneous Eurobop and into the realms of inventive and original small-group jazz. Gramophone On his first Intuition album Blinds and Shades, Florian Ross concentrates entirely...

In November 1998 Charlie Mariano celebrated his 75th birthday on stage with the Würzburg Philharmonic, thereby fulfilling a long and dearly cherished wish: finally get the chance to play with a sympho...

I have been privileged as a jazz artist to have had the opportunity to play with in concert or recordings, some of the great jazz masters such as Dexter Gordon, Joe Henderson, Stan Getz, Michael Breck...