My Focus – Live Under The Rainbow

Mike Patton and the Avett Brothers join forces to create a work of immense beauty.

Fondly remembered this month...

In 1976, the revolutionary singer-songwriter LAURA NYRO returned from self-imposed exile. But her comeback confounded expectations, shifting away from the impassioned intimacies of her early albums to embrace more radical perspectives. Fifty years on, Nyro’s collaborators revisit her striking second act. “She was a hip American from the Bronx,” one friend and producer tells Rob Hughes. “But her soul was old.”

From an Academy-honoured screenwriter comes a mind-bending thriller – a bold vision of quantum AI and time travel, and a meditation on Fermi’s Paradox

Works by Saariaho and Shostakovich Dudok Quartet Amsterdam Rubicon RCD1218 59:41 mins Carrying a dedication to ‘those who have departed’, Kaija Saariaho’s Terra Memoria for string quartet, composed in