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Craig Armstrong - As If To Nothing

Released 17th March 2023. Award-winning Scottish composer Craig Armstrong’s trailblazing 2002 alb...

Released 17th March 2023. Award-winning Scottish composer Craig Armstrong’s trailblazing 2002 album ‘As If To Nothing’ receives 20th anniversary first-ever vinyl release on Hydrogen Dukebox.  Twenty years on from its original release, Craig Armstrong’s ‘As If To Nothing’ - his electronic/orchestral masterpiece featuring musical heavyweights Bono, Mogwai, Evan Dando, King Crimson and others - is being reissued for the first time on vinyl in a super-deluxe, super-limited edition run via Hydroge...

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Benjamin Grosvenor - Schumann & Brahms

Released 17th March 2023 The acclaimed British pianist, Benjamin Grosvenor, still only 30 and yet...

Released 17th March 2023 The acclaimed British pianist, Benjamin Grosvenor, still only 30 and yet a well-established favourite of critics and audiences around the globe, takes Robert Schumann’s haunting Kreisleriana as his starting point in his new album, Schumann & Brahms. This eight-movement work portrays the mercurial personality of the fictional Johannes Kreisler, created by E. T. A. Hoffmann: Kreisler’s highs and lows, and his dreamy nature, clearly mirror Schumann’s own tragic manic...

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Brackenbury Bianco - Wayward Mystic (Improvisat...

Released 2nd September 2022 Improvised duo recording by violinist, vocalist and composer Faith Br...

Released 2nd September 2022 Improvised duo recording by violinist, vocalist and composer Faith Brackenbury and drummer Tony Bianco, inspired by the works of Hildegard von Bingen. "In 2021 I handed Tony a CD of Saint Hildegard von Bingen's spiritual songs to listen to, and the next thing I know he has played an entire hour long drum track alongside the recording, in one sitting- and that it was so right. The sounds of his rolling-thunder-in-the-distance drumming and the ethereal monophonic voc...

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Faten Kanaan - Afterpoem

Released 24th February 2023. Faten Kanaan's fifth LP Afterpoem is a mysterious, smudgy, bitterswe...

Released 24th February 2023. Faten Kanaan's fifth LP Afterpoem is a mysterious, smudgy, bittersweet, and uniquely playful album. Deeply melodic, it continues her poignant exploration of counterpoint as a narrative tool. From the repetitive structures of modern minimalism and early music/baroque influences - to more languid textural ebbs & tides, there's a warmth in her use of electronic instruments that gives the album a curiously timeless feel. Composing intuitively, her music has often ...

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Sean Shibe - Lost & Found

Released 26th August 2022. Sean Shibe’s second PENTATONE album Lost & Found is an ecstatic jo...

Released 26th August 2022. Sean Shibe’s second PENTATONE album Lost & Found is an ecstatic journey containing music by outsiders, mystics, visionaries, who often have more than one identity and lay claim to various artistic traditions, genres, or audiences. The repertoire ranges from Hildegard von Bingen to Olivier Messiaen, Moondog, Julius Eastman, Bill Evans, Chick Corea, Meredith Monk, Shiva Feshareki, Oliver Leith and Daniel Kidane. Stretching ten centuries, these pieces are bound tog...

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Moby - Reprise Remixes

Released 20th May 2022. Electronica meets orchestral in a new album of house, techno and contempo...

Released 20th May 2022. Electronica meets orchestral in a new album of house, techno and contemporary classical remixes: Reprise Remixes reimagines tracks of Moby’s hit album and Deutsche Grammophon debut Reprise (released May 2021). Featuring artists such as Bambounou, Planningtorock, Topic, Peter Gregson, Christian Löffler as well as Moby himself.

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Sam Slater - I Do Not Wish To Be Known As A Vandal

Released 10th June 2022. The record was made just before the pandemic started, working closely wi...

Released 10th June 2022. The record was made just before the pandemic started, working closely with the distinct feed-backing Dorophone sounds of Hildur Guðnadóttir, Yair Glotman’s thunderous double-bass, James Ginzburg’s devotion to precise form and muting my reverb stems, the microtonal brass and woodwinds of Hilary Jeffrey and Sam Dunscombe and theinfinite intimacy of Icelandic singer-songwriter JFDR. From Berlin, I would flag sounds I loved; some twitching strings, the stolen alto voice f...

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Sheku and Isata Kanneh-Mason - Muse

Released 5th November 2021. Classical music’s star duo have performed together all over the worl...

Released 5th November 2021. Classical music’s star duo have performed together all over the world Now they present an impassioned programme of Barber & Rachmaninov Including each composer’s Cello Sonata and a selection of beautiful songs transcribed for cello The siblings have performed the sonatas in many concert halls, and had prepared this specific programme for a tour when the pandemic hit Instead they turned to the recording studio to share their music A celebration of the musical c...

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Víkingur Ólafsson - Mozart & Contemporaries

Released 3rd September 2021. THE JOURNEY CONTINUES … We’re proud to present Víkingur Ólafsson’s e...

Released 3rd September 2021. THE JOURNEY CONTINUES … We’re proud to present Víkingur Ólafsson’s exciting new project looking at the dark side of Mozart and his Contemporaries. A Mozart tribute with a twist ... An echo of an Age. Music from W. A. Mozart  • Baldassare Galuppi • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach • Domenico Cimarosa • Franz Joseph Haydn *including 3 new arrangements by Víkingur*

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Isata Kanneh-Mason - Summertime

Released 9th July 2021. MUSICAL LANDSCAPE OF 20TH CENTURY AMERICA. Summertime is the sparkling ne...

Released 9th July 2021. MUSICAL LANDSCAPE OF 20TH CENTURY AMERICA. Summertime is the sparkling new album from vibrant young pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason. Isata brings her signature flair to this virtuosic and spiritual music for solo piano. Including a world premiere recording of a Samuel Coleridge-Taylor piece. Following her 2019 award-winning debut album, Romance.

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Moby - Reprise

Released 28th May 2021. Musical pioneer Moby announces his new album Reprise, out May 28 on Deuts...

Released 28th May 2021. Musical pioneer Moby announces his new album Reprise, out May 28 on Deutsche Grammophon. Reprise sees Moby revisiting and reimagining musical highlights from his 30-year career. Together with the Budapest Art Orchestra, he has re-envisioned some of his most recognizable rave classics and anthems with new arrangements for orchestra and acoustic instruments. He’s also joined by a stellar line-up of guest artists from across the musical spectrum, including Alice Skye, Amy...

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Sarah Neufeld - Detritus

Released 14th May 2021. Composer and violinist Sarah Neufeld is a career-long touring and recordi...

Released 14th May 2021. Composer and violinist Sarah Neufeld is a career-long touring and recording member ofArcade Fire. Her third solo LP ‘Detritus’ confronts anguish with beauty, turmoil with grace, gliding through the present like a dancer mid-motion, reaching through space 'til she's caught. The album is wistful and emotive, and carries the listener on a journey of euphoric and complex looped violin dusted with mesmeric melody recall. Openers ‘Stories’ and ‘Unreflected’ lead with atmosph...

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