Osada Vida, one of the most interesting bands on the Polish prog-metal scene, returns this Spring with a brand new album, “Particles”. The CD will be released by Metal Mind on March, 25th in Europe and April, 9th in USA (via MVD).

Believe, one of the most interesting and original bands on the Polish art-rock scene, returns with a brand new album, “The Warmest Sun in Winter". The record will be released on April, 22nd in Europe and May, 7th in USA (via MVD).

MoonJune Records
(USA) / March 17, 2013

Santa Barbara-based composer Emma Lou Diemer (b. 1927) is a fixture in California's classical music community, having received commissions and performances from orchestras and ensembles throughout the state and worked throughout her career to advance the musical community. “Pacific Ridge”, Diemer's debut Navona release, features three of her orchestral works, each in a single movement: Santa Barbara Overture, Concerto in One Movement for Marimba, and Concerto in One Movement for Piano.

”Al Combate” , the debut release from the Chicago Arts Orchestra (Javier Jose Mendoza, Artistic Director), highlights New Spain as a mecca of baroque and galant music through a handpicked selection of works from two of eighteenth-century colonial Mexico's most prolific and influential composers, whose music explores the period's transatlantic cultural flow from Europe to New Spain: Ignacio Jerusalem, a master of the galant style who brought modern European styles and techniques across the Atlantic; and Santiago Billoni, whose harmonic experimentation and erudite voice helped shape late baroque repertoire.

Composed with integrity, mystery, and ambition, the orchestral works of Marga Richter thrive on the emotional and the visceral, conjuring vast and majestic imagery with poetic and dramatic underpinnings. “Poetic Images beyond Poetry” includes three of Richter's works for orchestra, each of which present a tonal and moving representation of their various influences: Out of Shadows and Solitude, Quantum Quirks of a Quick Quaint Quark, and Spectral Chimes: Enshrouded Hills.

“James Adler & Friends”, an album of works by and commissioned for pianist, composer, and Yamaha Artist James Adler, features works by Leo Ornstein, Paul Turok, Seth Bedford, Franz Liszt, Stephen Sondheim, and Adler himself, showcasing his penchant for both contemporary and traditional concert repertoire. These pieces offer a career-spanning glimpse into Adler's career, from his first publicly performed piece, to works sprouted from personal collaborations, to his own original compositions and arrangements.

Richard Cornell’s “Tracer” explores the nature of art and the collaboration that occurs among artists and the interaction between creator and influence, highlighting the performers' instincts to respond to one another, interpreting the music as individuals and as a group, and exploring the intricacies of the works as they are played. This release includes a visual version of Tracer, which serves as a computer-rendered survey of art and culture that guides and morphs the music to match the viewer's progress through time and space; as the viewer travels among an imagined world, the music responds to the imagery.

Original works by Seattle-based violinist and singer Hope Wechkin, which also includes her inventive arrangements of traditional Balkan folk songs. Wechkin's virtuosic and innovative pairing of voice and violin-which she performs simultaneously-fuses folk, classical, and world music into a blend of genres that emerges "full-bore, all-out, utterly unselfconsciously" (Seattle Times). The works on “Leaning toward the Fiddler” range from themes of passionate longing to humorous musical feuds between lovers, highlighting Wechkin's ability to perform in a wide breadth of styles with great ease and skill.

Australia’s award-winning powerhouse rock band Tracer are pleased to announce the long-awaited release of their new studio album "El Pistolero", released in the UK on Monday 6th May. The release will be supported by a re-scheduled UK tour that will start at the Sheffield Plug on 8th June, ending at the Isle of Wight Festival on 16th June.

British-bred blues rock guitarist, Danny Bryant, will release his hotly tipped new studio album “Hurricane” via Jazzhaus Records in the UK on Monday 6th May.

French metal rockers Karelia are set to release new album "Golden Decadence" in the UK on 15thApril through Rocksector Records. The album features a guest performance from the legendary Scorpions guitarist Rudolph Schenker on the tracks Keep Watch On Me and The Way Across The Hills. The first single from the new album is entitled Vanity Label.

Spin Doctors will release their new album “If The River Was Whiskey” in the UK on May 6 through Ruf Records (US release is April 30). Spin Doctors are the multi-million selling icons best known for the hit singles Two Princes and Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong, not to mention the classic Pocket Full Of Kryptonite. This year, Chris Barron (vocals), Aaron Comess (drums), Eric Schenkman (guitar) and Mark White (bass) are reconnecting with the flat-broke twenty-somethings who scraped for dollars at the sharp end of the Big Apple blues circuit. The Spin Doctors have come full circle. “If The River Was Whiskey” is the deep-blues album the Spin Doctors almost made before mega stardom came knocking. It finally bottles those near-mythical songs from their time on the sweatbox circuit.