35th Anniversary reissue of Oscar-winning composer Maurice Jarre’s original motion picture score to the 1990 thriller ‘Jacob’s Ladder’.
…Jacob’s Ladder was an exercise in surreal, psychological horror – a tale of a Vietnam veteran haunted by dark, unexplained visions. Legendary composer Maurice Jarre provided a fitting score packed with unusual flourishes, from unique instruments to haunting electronic work by Michael Boddicker, a notable synth player on works by Michael Jackson, Lionel Richie and others.
Tim Robbins, Elizabeth Peña, Danny Aiello and Macaulay Culkin (whose career was about to go supernova within weeks of this film’s release thanks to Home Alone) starred, and Jarre’s fusion of electronics and orchestral ideas was…
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Bassist 
Kenny Barron’s offering Songbook is a deeply personal milestone in the pianist’s career. Long regarded as one of the most lyrical voices in modern jazz, Barron fulfills a long-held dream by revisiting thirteen of his original compositions, now reimagined with words by lyricist Janice Jarrett and performed by a talented cast of vocalists spanning different generations.
“You can’t tell a book by looking at its cover,” as Bo Diddley so memorably reminded us. And that cliché applies to the art adorning Americana/blues rocker 
Londoner 
1. Big Thief – No Fear
As we’ve come to expect from Ace’s much-admired series of Jon Savage-curated two-CD collections, this new – and sadly final – volume is a multi-genre delight, taking the listener from house to baggy via post-punk, proto-grunge, minimalist avant-garde, the advent of sampling and more.
After more than a decade away from European stages, legendary Australian rock outfit The New Christs are finally returning. To celebrate this long-awaited comeback, Wild Honey Records and FOLC present 
Marianne Faithfull didn’t have to open her mouth to receive a recording contract. As the story goes, so vividly recounted in the liner notes to the new box set 
It was a difficult time for me when I started working on this album. I had just uprooted myself from the city apartment building where I’d been living for twenty years to a house in a more rural town two hours away where I knew no one when one of my best friends died (“Ashes”), and then my dog died (“Constant Companion”), then my mother was diagnosed with esophagus cancer (“Scratchers”). I was pretty depressed for a solid year (“Long Slow Nervous Breakdown”) and lost and very lonely (“Harmonizing With Myself”). I was thinking about fate and circumstance and about how I’d ended up where I was (“Where Are You Now”).
From Academy Award® winning writer/director Chloé Zhao, 
If there’s one constant for the UK’s Wisdom Teeth label, it’s evolution. Perhaps that’s fitting, given that its name implies growth and maturation. Since it was founded, just a little over a decade ago, Wisdom Teeth has traversed a gamut of styles, moving as steadily as the progress bar crawling across the waveform of a DJ mix. Early experiments in dubstep gave way to unorthodox bass music and leftfield techno; successive compilations have been dedicated to narrowly bounded experiments in the wiggly terrain around 100 BPM or the quick-stepping possibilities of the 150-170 zone.
Originally issued in 1998, 
Narcomancer covers a lot of ground. The album’s opening tracks are reminiscent of acousmatic music in the GRM sense, loose structures built from overlapping fragments of sound. Undergirding these complex textures are brooding and dark layers of synth that move slowly with a muted sense of dread. However, they are punctuated by abrupt bursts of shimmering tones, falling musical figures, didgeridoo, weird vocalizations, and soft beats. The album employs ambient, techno, and electroacoustic techniques without falling clearly into any of these genres.
For his 25th studio album, Window, cornetist 
Not Holding Back! is harmonica ace Kyle Rowland’s first major musical statement, but he’s no fresh-faced newcomer. The Sacramento, CA-based, Georgia-born musician, and his cleverly named Rowland & Tumblin’ outfit has been banging the rootsy, blues-infused rocking for decades.