RSK Entertainment Ltd.

29/08/2024

27/08/2024

We cannot wait for this!! 🤩 Timeless Roots by the legendary Horace Andy & Jah Wobble - out 27th September on Cleopatra Records!

Pre-order available now!

22/08/2024

In case you missed it... Returned To The Earth's excellent review in Prog a few weeks ago!

22/08/2024

4* Review from theartsdesk.com for Catherine Russell and Sean Mason new album 'My Ideal'.

https://theartsdesk.com/new-music/album-catherine-russell-and-sean-mason-my-ideal

Dot Time Records

20/08/2024

It has been two years since the passing of saxophonist, composer and bandleader Barbara Thompson, and to coincide with what would have been Barbara’s 80th birthday her daughter Ana Gracey has tirelessly worked on releasing on CD for the first time her mum’s first live recording with Paraphernali...

15/08/2024

Le label Cleopatra Records a publié le mois dernier le single " Ain't No Sunshine " d' Horace Andy & Jah Wobble !!!

13/08/2024

ALBUM OUT NOW!

Following the band's brilliant performance at Banquet Records, Millie Manders and The Shutup are on tour from October.

Check them out!!

26/07/2024

Review Round-Up!

The latest Big Big Train book by Andy Stuart 'A View From The Embankment, A View From The Line' is out now!

With two fantastic reviews in Prog & Classic Rock Magazine!

Available from all good book retailers!

18/07/2024

The wonderful Rachel Podger on the front cover of this month's The Strad!

https://www.thestrad.com/for-subscribers/august-2024-editors-welcome-and-contents/18309.article

18/07/2024

18/07/2024

PENTATONE digital release Liszt, Metamorphosis will be available from 19th July!

A debut album from Charlotte Hu 胡瀞云, she explores Hungarian composer & virtuoso pianist Franz Liszt’s approach to composing
Scala Radio have selected this as their Album of the Weekend!

11/07/2024

🔥NOW AVAILABLE TO BUY!🔥

📢 Greenslade’s innovative, groundbreaking and dynamic performances captured by the BBC on two discs.

📢 Featuring all of Greenslade's BBC sessions, recorded between 1973 and 1974.

📢 24-page booklet with an interview of Dave Greenslade and liner notes by Chris Welch.

📢 Approx 120 mins of music, 20 tracks, fully remastered 💿💿

Purchase links here: https://www.repertoirerecords.com/artists/greenslade/greenslade-at-the-bbc/

11/07/2024

Château de Versailles Spectacles

Monteverdi: L'Orfeo

5***** The Times

“Every word and note they utter seriously tugs at your heart”

https://www.thetimes.com/culture/classical-opera/article/best-classical-music-2024-new-reviewed-20sc9dzvn

19/06/2024

Out next week!

28th June

The Yardbirds - The Ultimate Live At The BBC

4 CD Boxset

via Repertoire Records

19/06/2024

Saskia Giorgini presents Images, containing some of Claude Debussy's most colourful piano works.

Out 21st June!
PENTATONE

19/06/2024

Channel Classics Records
Rachel Podger
The Times and The Sunday Times

19/06/2024

PENTATONE
Magdalena Kozena
The Times and The Sunday Times

13/06/2024

28th June

The Yardbirds - The Ultimate Live At The BBC

4 CD Boxset

via Repertoire Records

07/06/2024

Out Next Week!

7 Days to go!!

Pre-order on CD here

https://gep.co.uk/products/returned-to-the-earth-stalagmite-steeple-pre-order

Includes Dark Morality winner of The Prog Report Track of the Month & Prog Magazine Track of the Week!

24/05/2024

Hot Off The Presses from The Times and The Sunday Times!

The Muses Restor'd
4****
“a British violin goddess”
Rachel Podger Channel Classics Records

Schubert: Ländler
4****
“I would have happily listened on for much longer”
PENTATONE

17/05/2024

Absolutely thrilled to be on Gramophone's cover! June issue out now, and of course there's a very interesting feature about our latest album (The Muses Restor'd) written by the wonderful Mark Seow...! 🎻⭐

And not only that, The Muses Restor'd has been awarded an Editor's Choice 🥰

🙏 Gramophone!

Channel Classics Records Outhere Music Brecon Baroque Festival Continuo Foundation

17/05/2024

"Baroque Champion" Rachel Podger featured on the cover of
Gramophone

The Muses Restor'd is Editor's Choice & release is 24/05/24
Rachel Podger

Channel Classics Records

16/05/2024

UK Progressive Post-Rock project Returned To The Earth published the official teaser for the upcoming new album "Stalagmite Steeple" due out on June 14, 2024 via Giant Electric Pea.

14/05/2024

RETURNED TO THE EARTH (UK) Stalagmite Steeple

The previous album “Fall of the Watcher” released in 2022 made my heart flutter so deeply that an EKG was not necessary in determining the workings of my arteries. So, what… I fell in love again! That is what romantic progressive ‘pop’ music can do to the melancholic soul, if so inclined. Not only did I place that album very high on the 2022 altar, with a rather emotional review on my trio of sites, I also chased down the previous albums, especially the equally stunning “Erebus” from 2019. What seduced me thoroughly were the unimpeachable (excuse the pun) melodies that seemed to be created with divine inspiration, particularly when paired with a voice that scours the heavens. Robin Peachey has that rare talent in spades, as every word uttered is clear and poignant, tingling the senses way beyond the norm. One doesn’t need a lyric sheet to follow his utterances. When notified that a new album was in the works, I felt both exhilarated at the prospect of another sonic jewel waiting to be discovered and yet somewhat worried that the bar was too high and perhaps unattainable. I needn’t have bothered, as the new album is a gigantic winner. Both Robin and Paul Johnston have concocted a sophisticated shift in composing and arranging six dark tracks that ‘progress’ to an altogether denser and more distinctive level, perhaps even gloomier than before and reflective of the currently troubled state of humanity, individually and collectively. Just the song titles alone reflect this painful discourse, as both the music and the lyrics underline both tragic loss and wishful eternity.

Setting the sombre tone with the strenuous “Dark Morality”, a ghost emerging from the soul’s inner sanctum, waiting patiently as the mournful piano exposes the stark ethics, a rivulet of bass torch lighting the road ahead, Robin softly choosing his imperative words for maximum effect. His trusted electric guitar raises the bodily hairs with doomsday incandescence, the percussive pulse forges ahead as if leading a funeral procession. The outro ends in dissonant confusion and fatal surrender.

Maintaining the devastating melancholia, “The Final Time” is just too much for anyone to bear, a cello driving home the stake of despondence, an ultimate meeting of closed eyes. Resonant piano and trembling voice reiterate the bluish haze, as a fluid guitar seeks desperately some kind of positive closure. A heart squeezing melody once again.

The epic, nearly 10-minute title track is the epicentre of this remarkable recording, starting off as a simple story purely sung, with a dire piano as the only partner. The jarring electric guitar is the tool with which the arrangement gets ratcheted up into a whirlwind chorus of atmosphere, passion, and melodic acquiescence. The bleak, almost minimalist mid-section beats like a pained heart, a bass pumping a mild sedative as the pain permeates every pore and sinew. Its haunting, perplexing and brazen in its restrained agony. The duo made sure to keep things from being overproduced with any coats of syrupy gloss, a superb piece that has not a single second of fluff.

Hey, it gets worse. Maintaining the eerie shadows and the sinister sonics on “Meaningless to Worth”, the notion of trust is examined, at best a vanishing concept in today’s world, where everything is questioned for ulterior motives and agendas. Cannot have the truth without trust, so that means two are down, I am afraid. The second section serves as a hopeful apotheosis, where shimmering keyboards, shivering guitars, and shifting drums, mean more than money and fame.

The sublime vocal on “Die For Me” steps through the void, and is only matched with a sensationally anguished melody for the ages, a pleading declaration of salvation of any ilk. The mood is raised to a turbulent level with a shuddering guitar rant. The kindly Steven Wilson would be green with envy, as this is a dramatic 9-minute masterwork of melancholia with an extra dose of sorrow. The solemn piano mid-section could be either Barbieri or Holzman, with sparse, minimal but beautiful piano, like a soft echo in a fertile valley, as Robin intones ‘shouldn’t be this way’, paralleled all the way through by his querulous guitar. Beyond gorgeousness.

Looking out over the ocean where humanity’s destiny lies, the ebb and flow of “Raging Sea” connects land and sea, sky and earth, an ideal of peace where we need to return to. The wavering voice matches the fluctuating words, buoyed by a floating bass line and a surging melody not far removed from Tim Bowness’ style. Robin sings with his consuming guitar firmly aimed at the stars above, and letting it cry.

Returned to the Earth have proven persuasively that their musical path is now fully set, fine-tuning, and honing their precious craft towards a future farther from any overt pop sensibilities but also closing in on the apex, a proverbial peak where intelligent and meaningful art can and will prevail. Forever more.

A must have release .....

5 caveman spires

10/05/2024

https://mailchi.mp/8f5826604685/rsk-weekly-round-up-the-courettes-tom-rush-rachel-z

09/05/2024

Out Tomorrow - Jack Teargarden 'Rare And Obscure Recordings' by Upbeat Recordings

09/05/2024

Out tomorrow - Sensual by Rachel Z Hakim Music on Dot Time Records!

Check out a review from Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club: https://www.ronniescotts.co.uk/find-a-show/rachel-z-the-sensual-tour-featuring-omar-hakim

Also, check out Official Video for the title track 'Sensual': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_HcfXrnqAI&t=146s&ab_channel=RachelZVEVO

Order Sensual here: https://hypeddit.com/rachelz/sensual Rock your body and stimulate your mind…heal your soul."Sensual" is an album that pushes the boundari...

09/05/2024

Miró Quartet: Home from PENTATONE

4**** album review

"Expert performances of two new works"

See the full review here: https://www.ft.com/content/79d76ede-5147-4cc0-9c4c-ae1f841fd339

Release date 10th May 2024

09/05/2024

New Releases Out Tomorrow 10th May 2024 from Alpha Classics!

Schmitt: La Tragédie de Salomé & Chant élégiaque
Amore Siciliano
Bach: Six Partitas

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