Having scored four of Farhan Akhtar’s past features, it was a safe bet that music composer trio Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy would team up once again for the filmmaker-turned-actor’s new picture, Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara. After all who wouldn’t want to employ the maestros behind hit Bollywood soundtracks such as Dil Chahta...

Minimalism, electronic fusion, and early English choral music don't generally sit together comfortably within the same sentence, still less on the same classical disc. That fact alone makes Seeing Is Believing worth a listen, aside from these superb performances.

Twenty-nine-year-old American composer Nico Muhly has an extraordinary CV for his age...

So much of Steve Reich’s music depends on shifting tensions and sonorities. The slightest harmonic tweak in the upper strings must be as committed as the most grounding and predictable left-handed piano thuds. Consequently, performing his works requires an almost telepathic connection between musicians and expert marshalling, perhaps even more...

Your first instinct here will probably be to get all excited about the concept. Not only are the orchestral parts for both Saint-Saëns concerti played on dusted-down 19th century instruments, but the Organ Symphony is taped at the church of Saint Sulpice in Paris, with the ‘Titulaire’ Daniel Roth himself...

Ever heard of David Garrett? Neither had I until this week. Unless you're a daytime telly watcher (Daybreak or This Morning, or even the final of Dancing On Ice), I suspect he has housewives all over the UK trembling at the knees, and possibly other places I can't mention here!...

Guinness used to advertise that good things come to those who wait so after 18 years of waiting, the UK finally got to experience the Trans-Siberian Orchestra live show for the first time and was it worth the wait? Well, quite frankly I'm now annoyed we had to wait so...

An opener so often says so much about the record that’s yet to unfold. Straight Outta Compton: bang, get it. Holidays in the Sun: a steel toecap to the teeth. Julianna Barwick’s second album begins with a song called Envelop. No arguments here, as it does exactly that.

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Here we have an electronica collaboration that mixes the best of current high end dance outfits. With its core members consisting of Le Tigre's JD Samson, Ladybug Transistor's Michael O'Neill and Ginger Brooks Takahashi of LTTR, MEN is a musical art/performance collective. Throughout its 12 tracks "Talk About Body" shows...

JD Samson, the spearhead of MEN (and the sideline venture HIRSUTE) is the proud owner of a grizzly bear tattoo. And a rather dapper moustache. Samson is indeed her real surname. Frida Kahlo, eat your hairy heart out.

It’s been a while since alt-rock had a queer/gender agenda, and MEN (Samson...

It's with great sadness that we report that John Barry, gentleman, scholar and towering figure in his field has died of a heart attack after a prolonged period of ill health, aged 77.

Film composer, arranger and conductor, Barry's work saw him win 5 Oscars during his career and be...