Organic and soulful optimism and brightness – essential in times of great division and uncertainty. Esteemed composer and pianist Antonija Pacek releases one of the year’s most hopeful and promising instrumental albums, with the aptly-titled serenity and charm of Soul Sanctuary.
Classical
When the world seems to be automatically generating everything we consume, the value of human art becomes all the more mesmerising and valuable, and so, in its purity, freedom, and timeless charm; this album is an essential and profoundly rewarding experience.
North Indian music meets a dreamy acoustic pop sound and melody, to introduce the uniquely calming creative corner of Suchetana Sinha’s music.
For The Love Of Trees is an instrumental, neo-classical folk project, following intimate and organic live cello arrangements, occasionally with piano and other strings, through serene, sometimes melancholic, always evocative and beautiful melodic expressions.
An esteemed musician and composer, achieving a deeply moving balance of precise instrumental phrasings and evocative melodies, throughout the uniquely cinematic pathways of a single track. Adelaide’s Con Piliouras brings creativity and depth to the contemporary classical arena, with the changing stages and surrounding, all-encompassing escapism of Almost Yesterday.
With piano inspired by JS Bach, poetry, sung harmonies and production from Stephanie Rodriguez M., and lyrics by Ivano Bersini, Song is traditionally enthralling, but also, as per Ivano’s repertoire, completely unique from start to finish.
LA-based songwriter and flamenco guitarist Julian Tcherassi – a musician with over 18 years of experience performing and composing, now launching a profoundly inspiring independent single, which brings together multiple genres in a boldly unique but sonically gentle and immersive fashion.
Carefully walking the line between intimacy and vastness, Elaine Yu guides with moving piano melodies and subtle strings, rhythms and other classical instruments, throughout the evocative journey of the Timeless EP.
An alluring modern musical composition, soaked in the sentiments of an 18th-century Venetian composer, inspired by progressions allegedly recued from the ruins of a bombed Dresden library – Adagio is an expansive multi-track production, with a live orchestra and leading vocal performance that ultimately brings together two worlds of artistic expression, under a modern, cinematic and all-consuming creative light.
Boldly skilful vocals honed over decades of performance in the West End, alongside a captivating poetic and melodic journey from delicacy to euphoric uplift – Shimi Goodman brings unparalleled experience and conviction to modern music, with the deeply evocative, classical crossover single Adagio.
Australian songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Justin Bell turns his passion towards the chaos and beauty of neo-classical expression, with the boldness and wonder of the Pestoric five-track EP Space. End. Time.
Taking the time to actually feel the music, to feel something real, absorb it, and begin playing only when the mood intends. Alasdair Hames Dodds is refreshingly genuine when it comes to piano composition, and Disillusionment is an initially simple but ultimately striking ode to that truth.