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  Shikiori from Sinne Eeg Label:  Stunt Records Release Date:  July 11, 2025 Website:  https://sinnemusic.com Danish vocalist Sinne Eeg teams with up pianist Jacob Christoffersen on her 2025 offering Shikiori .  Setting the stage, Shikiori is the name of the 150-year-old traditional Japanese home-turned-concert venue where she and Christoffersen recorded the live album.  The set comprises of a mix of originals by Eeg and Christoffersen beside personalized interpretations of songs by Billy Strayhorn, Leonard Bernstein, and Annie Lennox.  The music is stirring, manteled by the bluesy soulful intonations of Eeg's register, resonating an entrancing lilt liken to Sade and an impaling quality reflective of Adele.  Encircled in a breezy ether, Christoffersen's pulsating playing pervades a poetic canter alongside Eeg's ruminating vocals.   “Don’t Be So Blue," composed by Eeg is a luxuriating and spacious ballad that highlights her luminous tone ...

  New Release: Alchemy from Wayne Alpern Label:  Henri Elkan Music Release Date:  December 19, 2025 Website:  https://www.waynealpern.com Endowed with the gift to set poetry to music reminiscent of Tchaikovsky, Mozart and Stravinsky, compounded by the acumen to interlace, juxtapose, and coalesce improvised components with the instincts of Broadway Theatre's perennial trailblazers like George and Ira Gershwin and Leonard Bernstein, composer-visionist-stylist Wayne Alpern continues to flex his creative imagination and infatuate audiences with his twelfth musical album Alchemy on his label Henri Elkan Music.  A collection of a dozen pieces of original music for woodwind quintet, the recording is produced by Judith Sherman and performed by the Grammy-winning Imani Winds, whose members are: Brandon Patrick George (flute), Toyin Spellman-Diaz (oboe), Kevin Newton (French horn), Mark Dover (Clarinet), and Monica Ellis (bassoon).  The frilly winds circling across ...