Califone - VillagersTriple clear vinyl LP pressing. Includes digital download. Part experimental indie and part '70s soft rock, Califone's first record in three years finds creative force Tim Rutili reaching new levels of harmony, fragility, and confidence. Whether detailing aging goths retaining their identity through year long spooky decorations ("Halloween"), an imagined conversation with an inbred monarch ("Habsburg Jaw"), or the conflicts between identity and

and takes his revenge by leading the children of Hamelin away into a beautiful kingdom concealed by a cave

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Nelson Goerner comes back to the composer who revealed him to the great audience of recorded music: Chopin

this collection exposes the depth of Relic's amazing collection

currently as a Professor at the Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce

Rafael Kubelik - Die Schopfung: Stich-Randall

He plays a tough-talking former GI who comes to a small New Mexico town to shake down a gangster who killed his best friend

Phantom Spell recreates the wonderment and awe of 1970s prog rock on it's breathtaking debut

chooglin' beat of the country funk heater "Can't Take Back" opens Ryan Curtis' sophomore album 'Ain't Ever Easy

Accompanying him are stellar talents Peter Erskine on drums

The title of Artist of Merit (1986) and the Moscow Prize (1996)