From French Castle to Studio Magic: A Classical Pianist's Apollo Ray Electronic Evolution Apollo Ray is a great musician, singer, and composer from London, England. Apollo Ray is a professionally trained pianist who can also compose, engineer, produce, and mix music. He has also worked as a tour manager and as a backline and studio player while on the road. His first album, In Orbit, was made...

Sophia Mengrosso’s new album, “Unforgiven”, doesn’t so much start as it does detonate, a thirteen-song treatise on survival. Her voice, a thing clearly trained for gilded halls and velvet curtains, instead wails from within a foundry’s clang and fire. The result is a bizarre and beautiful collision, the sonic equivalent of discovering a lost Caravaggio painting lit by a flickering fluorescent tube in a...