Seishin Takeno's "Echoes," a sonic postcard from Kanagawa. Nine instrumental pieces, I've been told. Not nine songs, mind you – more like nine shaded windows into a particular kind of quiet. This isn't music that yells; it leans in, like a friend confiding a secret you half-hear on a summer porch. Immediately, you're not so much listening as remembering. Or maybe anticipating. It feels...

Based in Boston, U.S.A, Munk Duane who is an admired recording artist and film composer, has just dropped his emotionally resonant song “We've Talked About This Before” along with AWAL (Sony Music). Famous for everything he could do, Duane did more than write and perform the song, he was also the producer of it. The mastering was done flawlessly by Brian Lucey at Magic Garden...