Samba for Tarsila

by | Apr 7, 2023 | All, Liner Notes, Music

Samba for Tarsila By Ben Sher Liner Notes By Kabir Sehgal To know Ben Sher is to recognize a virtuoso. An acclaimed jazz guitarist who hails from Pittsburgh, Sher has toured the world as an artist and now resides in New York. That he has crisscrossed the globe is...

Metamorphosis

by | Mar 24, 2023 | All, Liner Notes, Music

Metamorphosis By Yumi Kurosawa Liner Notes By Kabir Sehgal Crossing over is usually something an artist does when they want to embark on a new project or collaborate with another artist. But for Yumi Kurosawa, crossing over is her aesthetic and compositional journey....

Chant For Our Planet

by | Oct 21, 2022 | All, Liner Notes, Music

Chant For Our Planet By Marco Pignataro Liner Notes By Kabir Sehgal From murmuring brooks to the eruption of scalding magma, sound is ubiquitous on our planet. What is more, according to satellite data — scientists theorize that sound waves may have been present...

Magic Mirror

by | Oct 14, 2022 | All, Liner Notes, Music

Magic Mirror By Carol Albert Liner Notes By Kabir Sehgal They say that you live only once. But when you read a good book or listen to a beautiful album, you’re treated to another life, another experience on which to draw, as you journey down your own road. Such is the...

Cuban Sketches for Piano

by | Sep 23, 2022 | All, Liner Notes, Music

Leo Brouwer Cuban Sketches for Piano By Mariel Mayz Liner Notes By Kabir Sehgal To know contemporary classical music is to know Leo Brouwer. An acclaimed Cuban composer, conductor, Brouwer has long been celebrated as a modern-day Mozart who has birthed an inimitable...

Words

by | Aug 13, 2022 | All, Liner Notes, Music

Words By Dorie Pride Liner Notes By Kabir Sehgal I’ve long thought of Dorie Pride not just as an acclaimed singer and songwriter. But a painter of words, someone who is able to imagine landscapes of sound and oceans of harmony. The words her easel, the page her...

Samba Jazz Odyssey

by | May 20, 2022 | All, Liner Notes, Music

Samba Jazz Odyssey By Hendrik Meurkens & The WDR Big Band Liner Notes By Kabir Sehgal Maestro Hendrik Meurkens isn’t just an acclaimed artist, whom we have all come to admire. He’s a man brimming with incandescent ideas which manifest into musical gold. What makes...

From Spain to São Paulo

by | May 20, 2022 | All, Liner Notes, Music

From Spain to São Paulo Spanish Guitar Music of the 19th & 20th century By João Luiz Liner Notes By Kabir Sehgal With its beguiling simplicity, the classical guitar is an instrument with almost universal appeal. The guitar has many timbres and colors, which may be...

Distancia

by | Mar 18, 2022 | All, Liner Notes, Music

Distancia By Manuel Valera Liner Notes By Kabir Sehgal Reflective and ruminative, melancholy and meditative – this album is one for the ages. Distancia is Manuel Valera’s latest epic, in which he draws upon searing personal experiences – going through personal loss,...