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
The Best of Sam Cooke (LP) [ RCA / LP - released 12/Feb/2021 ] |
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 ] |