Four world-class soloists conspire to drum up the moon for this 74-minute long magic carpet ride of infectious grooves. Christy Doran’s seething guitars, Bruno Amstad’s vocal acrobatics, Patrice Heral’s incredible percussion wizardry and John Wolf Brennan’s poetic piano pulsings are captured in a superb recording by this stellar Irish-Swiss-French band, creating an epitome of 21st century world music.

A work of dark, gothic beauty, “Dubh” presents seven tracks by seven Irish composers: Linda Buckley, Judith Ring, Enda Bates, Peter Moran, Scott McLaughlin, Garrett Sholdice and Benedict Schlepper-Connolly. The CD features Amsterdam-based new music group, Trio Scordatura who create spaces both of astonishing intimacy and subtlety, and almost terrifying, textured expansiveness.

Reflections is the latest offering from Irish-based contemporary music ensemble, Concorde. This enhanced content CD features works by Irish composers, Stephen Gardner, Jane O’Leary and Judith Ring alongside works by Korean, Si-Hyun Yi and Mexican, Alejandro Castanos. All works were commissioned by Concorde and represent a range of colourful styles and influences.

PParafusxo is collaborative project between Spanish percussionist Roberto Oliveira and Irish composer Jonathan Nangle. Recorded live in concert, the release represents a moment caught in time. Oliveira performing from an arsenal of percussion, focusing on one instrumental grouping at a time, moving clockwise throughout the duration of the concert while Nangle captures moments of Oliveria’s playing and processes these in real time, feeding them back to Oliveira creating a dialogue of evolving material.