The Storm is Here! This redefining release catapults Travis to a whole new level. The Storm includes the current hit single "You Never Take Me Dancing" Songwriting credits on the album include Rob Thomas, Richard Marx and Diane Warren. The Storm is a brand new album with a little bit of something for everyone. Travis Tritt and Randy Jackson team up to create a radio friendly powerhouse collection of songs that emphasize the irresistible soul side of Travis Tritt's singing. Travis has sold over 25 million albums, won two Grammy awards and three Country Music Awards. The Storm finds him bold and invigorated and at the top of his game.

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A very different set than Teldec's Bach 2000. The Hanssler Bachakademie, supervised by Helmut Rilling, is not HIP (historic instruments performance). The orchestras are warm and lush (but not huge). The soloists are, in general, extraordinary. The tempos are sane. Hanssler has included fragments of some incomplete BWV's that are not included in the Teldec set; a minor plus but appealing. I found I preferred these traditional instruments and the daring using of forte-piano in place of harpsichord on a few of the recordings (flute sonatas). Highlights for me are The Well-Tempered Clavier Books 1 and 2, Musical Offering, Flute Sonatas, The Motets. I also found I prefer these Cantatas recordings to any other, including the new Koopman, Suzuki and the well-known Leonhart-Harnoncourt. While not the newest recordings, the sound is warmer which I prefer to the new state-of-the-art HIP recordings. Although most of the Cantatas are older recordings, much of the Hanssler Bachakademie edition is newly recorded for this project and the sound is consistent and excellent. Jan Hanford, J.S. Bach Home Page

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Studiando le 24 Piccole Fughe, publicate da Telemann nel 1731 é impossibile non pensare al Clavicembalo ben temperato di J.S. Bach, i cui due libri furono terminati rispettivamente in 1722 en el 1744: Da una parte 20 Fughe per organo o tastiera (eseguite nella presente registrazione da Kurt Redel, in una trascrizione per orchestra da camera) impiegano 12 distinte tonalitá, dall’altra parte 48 Preludi e Fughe in tutte le tonalitá maggiori e minori. Ma questi due compositori, Telemann e Bach, non furono certo gli unici in quell’ epoca a scrivere tal genere di musica. Il Clavicembalo ben temperato gode ai nostri giorni di una tale celebritá da far dimenticare a volte come esso rifletta problemi che non si riferivano soltanto a Bach, all’ inizio del XVIII secolo. D’altra parte nessun lavoro del Cantor ha beneficiato, mentre Bach era in vita di una simile circolazione nella societá del tempo, né goduto di altrettante copie neppure conosciuto pari gloria nella seconda metá del XVIII secolo. (...)

The members of Gondwana grew up in Pincoya, the poorest ghetto of Santiago, Chile. They eventually converted to Rastafarianism and began a career in reggae music; this, their debut album, was released in Chile by BMG Latin in 1997, and is now being issued in the U.S. for the first time by RAS. Some reggae fans will object to the high-gloss surface of this very tightly-produced album, but Dr. Dread (the head of RAS Records, who traveled to Santiago to produce Together) deserves praise for keeping the bass sound big and heavy and for not trying to get the band to sound Jamaican. The melodies and horn arrangements are definitely influenced by South American music, and the band frequently sings in Spanish. "Chainga Langa" is clearly a product of a culture not normally associated with reggae music, and yet it works beautifully as a reggae song. A few others (like the treacly "Smile Souling") work less well, but overall this is quite an impressive debut. (Phat Cherimoya Dub is a simultaneously-released dub version of Together.)