Release date 28 April 2008
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Wildbirds & Peacedrums are charismatic singer Mariam Wallentin and drummer Andreas Werliin. Together the Swedish duo have forged an extraordinary hybrid of spiritual pop, primal blues and ecstatic soul music. Seesawing between pagan rhythms and sparse, bewitching ballads, their self produced debut is a declaration of intent: immediate, exhilarating, and ... [more]

Release date 7 April 2008
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Caravan is taken from the acclaimed album Parades (a top 25 album of the year in Mojo magazine) which was released last October. The band have completely transformed their live act in a few short months, winning over thousands of new fans, and recently won two Danish Music ... [more]

Release date 31 March 2008
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Twenty-nine-year-old British-born Essie Jain makes her recorded debut with the glacial delights of 'We Made This Ourselves', an album whose quiet, powerful minimalism is undeniable.

Born into a musical family, Essie grew up in London, where her childhood featured classical piano and cello instruction, as well as training in operatic singing. ... [more]

Release date 22 October 2007
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**Order the album on CD or vinyl and you'll receive a free A3 poster featuring artwork from the sleeve of Parades. Strictly one per order and while stocks last.**

Parades is the highly anticipated second album by Denmark’s Efterklang, the follow up to their underground hit of 2004, ... [more]

Release date 24 September 2007
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** The LP release is printed on tasty red vinyl and is a limted edition press of 750 copies **

With an intuitive understanding of melody and dynamics, Nancy Elizabeth brings a refreshingly Northern turn of phrase to her debut album, Battle and Victory.

The Lancashire-born singer’s down-to-earth songs are ... [more]

Release date 17 September 2007
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Fernando Corona’s long-awaited third album as Murcof marks a dramatic departure from previous works. Truly monumental in scale, Cosmos is composed almost entirely of recordings of classical instruments, a process which Corona describes as “expanding the possibilities of acoustic instruments through electronics.” It’s a move away from the micro-programmed sound ... [more]

Release date 3 September 2007
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‘I Used To Try’ is the second single by Lancashire born and bred Nancy Elizabeth. The single precedes Nancy’s forthcoming debut album, Battle and Victory. The single will be available as a download, and in a limited edition of 600 numbered 7” singles for the world. The CD version is ... [more]

Release date 23 July 2007
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‘Hey Son’ is the haunting first single from The Leaf Label’s latest signing, Nancy Elizabeth, giving us a dramatic taste of the delights to come on her debut album, Battle and Victory, to be released in September. The single will be available as a download, and in a limited edition ... [more]

Release date 21 May 2007
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Cécile Schott returns with her third album as Colleen, the highly personal but distinctly more adventurous and confident Les Ondes Silencieuses, which follows her one-off Colleen Et Les Boîtes À Musique project from late 2006.

This album signals a change of approach for Parisienne Schott. Gone are the ... [more]

Release date 7 May 2007
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A real treat for the burgeoning ranks of A Hawk And A Hacksaw fans, this strictly limited EP includes the first fruits of the duo’s blossoming relationship with a group of extraordinarily talented Hungarian folk musicians, who have come together under the name The Hun Hangár Ensemble ... [more]

Release date 2 April 2007
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Copenhagen’s Efterklang make a welcome return with a magical re-introduction to their sound - the release of Under Giant Trees, a limited edition five-track mini-album in deluxe packaging.

Recorded in the band’s own studio, the evolution of Under Giant Trees was somewhat unconventional. The five pieces developed as a way for ... [more]

Release date 23 October 2006
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Like a long exhalation of breath, Adrian Klumpes’ debut solo album arrives with an intuitive sense of calm. But this is no chill out music; Be Still reflects a search for peace in a fractured world. Like a Rothko canvas, Be Still is minimal and introspective, yet rich and intense; ... [more]

Release date 21 October 2006
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This special Japanese edition of Triosk's acclaimed second album, 'The Headlight Serenade', features a second disc containing six stunning live tracks from the trio's recent session for Australia's national broadcaster ABC, four of which are new pieces and otherwise unavailable.

This 2CD package is only available in Japan, and from your ... [more]

Release date 9 October 2006
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'The Way The Wind Blows' is the incandescent third album from A Hawk And A Hacksaw, and was partly recorded in a remote Romanian village with members of the justly admired Balkan folk group, Fanfare Ciocarlia . Now a duo comprising songwriter Jeremy Barnes (drums, accordion, vocals) and Heather ... [more]

Release date 2 October 2006
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“It seemed like a dream opportunity to explore further the miniature continent of sound that music boxes in all their variety generate” says Colleen’s Cécile Schott in response to the carte blanche handed to her by national radio station France Culture’s Atelier De Création Radiophonique to record music for a ... [more]

Release date 25 September 2006
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Keiron Phelan and David Sheppard’s wide-ranging musical journeys have intertwined since they were teenagers. Harps Old Master is perhaps the pinnacle of their achievements to date: a lush, expansive, emotional work that envelops the listener in its melancholy beauty.

With contributions from The Willard Grant Conspiracy’s Josh Hillman (strings and Laika’s ... [more]

Release date 10 July 2006
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As clear as an azure sky of deepest summer.

An apparently harmless phrase can hide something altogether darker. That quote neatly sums up Triosk’s second album The Headlight Serenade. Brilliantly recorded by the young Australian trio, the album’s crystal clarity makes it sound like it’s floating on air.

The quote comes ... [more]

Release date 3 July 2006
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Listening to volcano! is a journey through highs and lows, through confusion and clarity. Like much of their work, ‘Apple Or A Gun’ (the first single to be taken from their groundbreaking debut album Beautiful Seizure ), refuses to be pigeonholed, or indeed easily comprehended on first listen. But ... [more]

Release date 3 July 2006
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Deluxe double CD reissue of the first Manitoba album Start Breaking My Heart , now re-branded as Caribou due to litigious US 'punk' rocker... Disc 1 is all of 2001’s Start Breaking My Heart while disc 2 includes all the tracks from the People Eating Fruit EP ... [more]

Release date 3 July 2006
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Deluxe double CD reissue of the second Manitoba album, Up In Flames now re-branded as Caribou due to litigious US 'punk' rocker... Up In Flames (originally released in 2003) features the same track list as the previous UK Special Edition of the album (which was released ... [more]