Afterglow + Ray Meets HelenAFTERGLOW: Nick Nolte (48 Hrs.), Julie Christie (Heaven Can Wait), Lara Flynn Boyle (Happiness) and Jonny Lee Miller (Trainspotting) star in director Alan Rudolph's (Mortal Thoughts) wry romance about a handyman who wreaks havoc and builds romance in two marriages. Desperate to have a baby, Marianne hires Lucky Mann to remodel a nursery. There's just one problem: Marianne's not pregnant and her husband isn't interested in sex. So what's a handyman to

African roots and the dazzling extroverted technique of the modern era

produced by Simon Iredale and featuring a remix by DJ Nekbath

but especially in improvised music

This Is The Way10

Piano and percussion align with a synthesized chorus as this unique voice heard through fingers sings to the soul

praised in Fanfare for having 'all of Bruckner's splendor and tenderness without any excess baggage'

I think I need a new 'category 'for this disc

Lost Voices of Hagia Sophia presents more than 75 minutes of medieval Byzantine chant for the Feast of the Holy Cross in Constantinople

an inadequate reckoning

after the Thaw

Recorded at the tail end of 1969 with a cast of new collaborators

Ariel Engle (Broken Social Scene) and Sameer Gadhia (Young the Giant)