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Weasels Ripped My Flesh is an album by Frank Zappa, released in 2016. The album is a rock LP.

Coloured Vinyl, Ep, Limited Edition
Phantomime is an album by Ghost, released in 2023. Phantomime includes a.o. the following tracks: “See No Evil”, “Jesus He Knows Me”, “Hanging Around”, “Phantom Of The Opera” and more.

Father of global superstar Lana Del Rey, releasing his first ever album Lost at Sea, a stunning solo piano album Rob Grant is an accidental recording artist. He has never had a lesson on any instrument in his life. No kind of formal musical training at all. He can’t read sheet music. But when he sits down at a piano, something magical happens. Notes flow from him. Melodies come unbidden. He can play for hours. This record features 2 beautiful tracks with his daughter, Lana Del Rey, resulting in an album where emotion overwhelms thought, and out pours composition after composition, piece after piece. Bringing peace after peace.

Kwanza is an album by Archie Shepp, released in 2023. Kwanza includes a.o. the following tracks: “Back Back”, “Spoo Pee Doo”, “New Africa”, “Slow Drag” and more. The album is a jazz LP.

Reissue, High Quality
Robert Glasper’s 2005 Blue Note debut Canvas signaled the arrival of a singular new voice in jazz and his 2007 follow-up In My Element solidified his status as a rising star who was taking the music someplace new. Featuring bassist Vicente Archer & drummer Damion Reid, the album expanded the possibilities of where a modern jazz piano trio might go by delving further into his hip-hop & gospel roots. This 2-LP Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition was mastered by Kevin Gray and pressed on 180g vinyl at Optimal.

Higher Than Heaven is an album by Ellie Goulding, released in 2023. Higher Than Heaven includes a.o. the following tracks: “Midnight Dreams”, “By The End Of The Night”, “Waiting For It”, “Just For You” and more.

When this album was recorded in 1980, the English Baroque Soloists ensemble had only been founded for barely two years. Indeed, John Eliot Gardiner first created the Monteverdi Choir in 1964, then the Monteverdi Orchestra in 1968 which played on modern instruments. In the late 1970s the orchestra transitioned to period instruments and became the English Baroque Soloists. The first concert under the new name was in 1977 at the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music, although the orchestra was not officially formed until 1978. The Water Music Suites is one of English Baroque Soloists’ first recordings. The instrumental level is remarkable, Gardiner’s aesthetic being already made of accuracy, instrumental perfection, intonation and dynamism – it was a question of breaking down all the prejudgments that could exist on the baroque at that time.

Further celebrating John Eliot Gardiner’s 80th birthday is this LP release of a recording made in 1980. At the time, Gramophone magazine praised it for making Handel’s Water Music “sound as delightful as it can ever have sounded”. The three orchestral suites, bubbling with energy and invention, were first heard in 1717 after King George I commanded a waterborne concert on the River Thames.