Al Fraser, Sam Leamy, Neil Johnstone
Panthalassa [ Rattle Records / CD - released 6/Sep/2019 ] Panthalassa was the super ocean that surrounded the super continent Pangaea during the Palaeozoic-Mesozoic era. Panthalassa, the album, is an abstract and impressionist work in which conceptual ideas are explored through the luminous ngā taonga... |
Neil Johnstone, Sam Leamy, Steve Garden
Chalk Dogs [ Rattle Records / CD - released 2/Oct/2020 ] CHALK DOGS is a series of multi-layered works created during (and in response to) New Zealand's Covid-19 lockdown between April and June 2020. The project was developed and completed entirely in isolation and explores the blurred lines between inner... |
Sam Ford & Trudi Green with the Soulahula Band
OOOEE! [ CD - released 5/May/2023 ] OOOEE! was recorded during the last Auckland lockdown, with each member of the band recording their own parts at home and sending them in to Soulahula Central, where they were compiled and edited by Sam, Trudi and Chris over the course of... |
Sam Most
Four Classic Albums (I'm Nuts About The Most...Sam That Is! / Musically Yours / Plays Bird, Bud, Monk & Miles / The Amazing Mr Sam Most) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 12/May/2017 ] Possibly a new name to some jazz fans, but our next hero, Sam Most was considered by no less an authority than Leonard Feather to be "the first great jazz flutist". Sam Most had been primarily a tenor sax man before taking up the clarinet and then... |
Sam Ryder
There's Nothing But Space, Man! (Limited LP) [ PLGUK / Warner / LP - released 9/Dec/2022 ] Though Sam Ryder has been on the scene for over a decade now, it's been just the last year that he became something of a household name for many. Coming to prominence earlier this year by performing 'Space Man' as the UK's Eurovision Song Contest... |
Sam Smith
In The Lonely Hour [ Capitol Records / CD - released 23/May/2014 ] 'In The Lonely Hour' is BRIT and BBC Sound Poll winner Sam Smith's debut album. 'In The Lonely Hour' is a 10-track labour of love for Sam 'I said to myself, I don't want to have a genre. 'I wanted to take a risk'. In the course of putting it... |
Sam Smith
The Thrill Of It All [ Capitol Records / CD - released 3/Nov/2017 ] It's been over three years since Sam Smith's debut album was released, and in the meantime he has become one of the biggest acts on the planet with millions of album sales and an array of awards including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, three Brit... |
Stephen Clothier, Ross Harris, Neil Johnstone, Sam Leamy, Steve Burridge, Steve Garden
Collapsed Clouds [ Rattle Records / CD - released 8/Jul/2022 ] How many columns of clouds Had risen and crumbled, I wonder Among other things, these two lines of Japanese poetry by Sora (an Edo period Japanese poet) evoke the natural balance between order and chaos. They inspired and inform the core ideas of... |
Ben E. King, Drifters, Solomon Burke, Crystals, Sam Cooke, The Angels, The Shirelles, Marvin Gaye, Ray Charles, etc
Stand by Me: 30 Soul & Chiffon HITS [ Alto / CD - released 7/Jul/2024 ] "in mid-1950's USA the Teenager was born of the post-war boom. A new retail demographic was determined to impose their tastes away from sheet-music to newly invented 45's, LP's and Charts: a major worldwide industry was born" (MusicalMerit) |
JAMES MACMILLAN
One Equal Music: Psalms, Poems & Folksongs The Elysian Singers, Alexandra Caldon (violin), Sam Laughton (director) [ Signum / CD - released 7/Jun/2019 ] The Elysian Singers of London celebrate the enormous and varied contribution of Sir James MacMillan (b. 1959) to the choral repertoire over the last 20 years. Beginning with MacMillan's blazing 2016 'choral fanfare' Blow the trumpet in the new moon,... |
Fabiano Nascimento, Sam Gendel
The Room [ Real World Records / CD - released 26/Jan/2024 ] The Brazilian guitarist and L.A. saxophonist's collaboration is charming and intimate. The pair coils themselves around these songs, prioritizing rhythmic complexity and sheer prettiness over far-out exploration. - Pitchfork |
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Shakespeare: Julius Caesar (Recorded live at the Shakespeare's Globe, July 2014) Globe / George Irving, Catherine Bailey, Sam Cox, Anthony Howell / Dominic Dromgoole (director) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 20/Nov/2015 ] Julius Caesar is Shakespeare's tense drama of high politics, one which reveals the emotional currents that flow between men in power, with themes that still resonate even today. Staged in Elizabethan dress with Roman accessories and with music played... |
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Shakespeare: The Tempest (recorded live at Shakespeare's Globe, August 2013) Globe / Roger Allam, Jason Baughan, Jessie Buckley, Sam Cox / Jeremy Herrin (director) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 20/Aug/2014 ] Prospero, Duke of Milan, usurped and exiled by his own brother, holds sway over an enchanted island. He is comforted by his daughter Miranda and served by his spirit Ariel and his deformed slave Caliban. When Prospero raises a storm to wreck this... |
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Shakespeare: All's well that ends well (recorded live at the Globe Theatre London in 2011) Globe Theatre / Michael Bertenshaw, Sam Cox, Sam Crane, Naomi Cranston, John Cummins [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 20/Feb/2013 ] G: - Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well centres on the tale of Helena's quest to marry the man she loves, the rather unimpressed Bertram, who initially refuses her due to her lack of social standing. |
Original Soundtrack, with Salt-N-Pepa, Rolling Stones, The Cranberries, Deep Forest, Sam Philips, Ini Kamoze, Janet Jackson, etc
Pret-A-Porter [ Columbia / Sony / CD - released 2/Sep/1994 ] Movie soundtrack from 1997 |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Britten: The Turn of the Screw (Complete opera recorded in 1994 with libretto) Philip Langridge, Felicity Lott, Sam Pay, Eileen Hulse, Phyllis Cannan, Nadine Secunde / Aldeburgh Festival Ensemble, Steuart Bedford, conductor [ Collins Classics / 2 CD Box Set - released 25/Aug/1994 ] "The cast could hardly be bettered, with Felicity Lott an involving Governess and Philip Langridge mesmerising as the ghostly Quint. The whole enterprise… is a worthy counterpart to the composer's own" BBC Music |
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Love's Labour's Lost & Love's Labour's Won [Much Ado About Nothing] (recorded live at Stratford-Upon-Avon in March 2015) BLU-RAY Royal Shakespeare Company / Sam Alexander, Peter Basham, William Belchambers, Edward Bennett, David Horovitch, Chris Nayak [ Opus Arte Blu-ray / 2 Blu-ray Box Set - released 25/Nov/2015 ] Containing Shakespeare's Love's Labours Lost and Love's Labours Won, this double set features outstanding Royal Shakespeare Company productions available for the very first time. Running time: 4 hours 48 minutes (plus extras) Subtitles:... |
Sam Cooke
My Kind Of Blues (Remastered) (LP) [ Not Now / LP - released 24/May/2012 ] |
Sam Cooke
Night Beat [ RCA Records / CD - released 20/Sep/2005 ] |
Sam Cooke
Night Beat (LP) [ Music On Vinyl / LP - released 25/Nov/2010 ] Night Beat is the twelfth studio album by American R&B, soul, and rock and roll singer and songwriter Sam Cooke. Produced by Hugo & Luigi, the album was released in August 1963 in the United States by RCA Victor. The album originated from late-night... |
Sam Cooke
The Singles Collection (180g 2LP) [ Not Now LP / 2 LP - released 8/Jul/2013 ] Contains 35 classic Sam Cooke songs. |
Sam Cooke
Tribute To The Lady - Plus Bon [ Remember / CD - released 27/Sep/2010 ] |
Sam Cooke
Twistin' The Night Away (LP) [ RCA / LP - released 4/May/2018 ] Vinyl Reissue! Twistin' the Night Away is the eighth studio album by American singer-songwriter Sam Cooke. Produced by Hugo & Luigi, the album was released in April 1962 in the United States by RCA Victor. Twistin' the Night Away primarily... |
Sam Cooke
Twistin' the Night Away / My Kind of Blues (2CD) [ Not Now Music / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/2014 ] Two groundbreaking albums, plus bonus tracks, from the 'king of soul' Sam Cooke. CD 1 represents Sam's triumphant take on the twist of the early 60s while disc 2 has Sam put his legendary voice to some true classics. |
Sam Cooke
The Wonderful World Of Sam Cooke (LP) [ Universal Music / LP - released 21/Feb/2020 ] |
Sam Fender
Live From Finsbury Park (Limited Red Vinyl LP) [ Polydor / 2 LP - released 10/Nov/2023 ] Double LP pressed on red vinyl, featuring live recordings from Sam's sold-out headline show at London's Finsbury Park. |
JULIUS ISSERLIS
Isserlis: Piano Music Sam Haywood (piano) with Steven Isserlis (cello) [ Hyperion / CD - released 15/Dec/2013 ] "Haywood, fortunately, isn't tempted to make more of these pieces than is wise. He plays them with consummate sensitivity, and has been well recorded. Isserlis seems to have been a charmer and, musically-speaking, a miniaturist and his works reflect |
Sam Hinton
Whoever Shall Have Some Peanuts & Other Folk Songs for Children [ Smithsonian Folkways / CD ] |
Sam Hunt
Montevallo [ MCA Nashville / CD - released 27/May/2016 ] Hailing from Georgia, Sam Hunt is quickly establishing a name for himself and becoming one of Nashville's most talked about young talents. |
Sam Morton
Daffodils & Dirt [ XL / CD - released 14/Jun/2024 ] Highly anticipated debut album from SAM MORTON, the musical duo comprised of singer, songwriter and acclaimed actor and director Samantha Morton and music producer and co-songwriter Richard Russell. |
Sam Morton
Daffodils & Dirt L(LP) [ XL / LP - released 14/Jun/2024 ] Highly anticipated debut album from SAM MORTON, the musical duo comprised of singer, songwriter and acclaimed actor and director Samantha Morton and music producer and co-songwriter Richard Russell. Over twelve startling tracks, the pair build a... |
Sam Rivers
Fuchsia Swing Song (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 17/Mar/2023 ] A saxophonist of striking originality, Sam Rivers was born in Oklahoma and exposed to music from an early age by his pianist mother and gospel singer father. Rivers moved to Boston to study at the Boston Conservatory and eventually met, and began... |
Sam Smith
Gloria [ Capitol / CD - released 27/Jan/2023 ] |
Sam Smith
Gloria (LP) [ Capitol / LP - released 27/Jan/2023 ] |
Sam Smith
In The Lonely Hour (10th Anniversary Edition) [ EMI / 2 CD - released 2/Aug/2024 ] Released in 2014 In the Lonely Hour was the first of many incredible milestones and successes that Sam would achieve over the course of their standout career. The album includes UK Number 1's 'Money On My Mind' and 'Stay With Me'. Other hits on... |
Sam Teskey
Cycles [ Universal / CD - released 8/Oct/2021 ] Cycles is the debut solo album from Sam Teskey, lead guitarist & Grammy-nominated engineer from The Teskey Brothers. What Sam Teskey presents on Cycles nothing short of a cosmic journey, one that traverses a lot of musical territory. From sprawling,... |
Sam Teskey
Cycles (LP) [ Universal / LP - released 8/Oct/2021 ] Cycles is the debut solo album from Sam Teskey, lead guitarist & Grammy-nominated engineer from The Teskey Brothers. What Sam Teskey presents on Cycles nothing short of a cosmic journey, one that traverses a lot of musical territory. From sprawling,... |
Sam Baker
Cotton [ Music Road / CD - released 14/Sep/2009 ] "Baker demonstrates a true gift for narrative songwriting, particularly telling stories in which the American Dream has gotten a little tarnished... |
Sam Amidon
Sam Amidon [ Nonesuch / Warner / CD - released 23/Oct/2020 ] Sam Amidon considers his new self-titled album the fullest realization to date of his artistic vision. It comprises his radical reworkings of nine mostly traditional folk songs, performed with his band of long-time friends and collaborators. Amidon... |
Sam Amidon
Sam Amidon (LP) [ Nonesuch / Warner / LP - released 22/Jan/2021 ] Sam Amidon considers his new self-titled album the fullest realization to date of his artistic vision. It comprises his radical reworkings of nine mostly traditional folk songs, performed with his band of long-time friends and collaborators. Amidon... |