Category: good to see

Mon Laferte
Tiny Desk Concert
on Laferte reminds me of Amy Winehouse, but her music is more like Latin  Swing with a good touch of Django Reinhard or Stéphane Grappelli thrown is, as well as more Mexican traditional flourishes. Mon favors a burlesque look; her singing is sure and pure. The Chilean Mexican musician, singer, composer, and painter is known for her diverse musical style and captivating stage persona. She has won four Latin Grammy Awards and two MTV Europe Music Awards. (Wikipedia)
Universal Music

Margaret Glaspy
Act Natural
The twenty-two-year-old singer songwriter was born in Sacramento California Her album Echo the Diamon was released last August. “This record came from trying to meet life on life’s terms, instead of looking for a happy ending in everything,” says the now New York-based musician. “The whole experience of creatin g it felt like effortless catharsis.” Margaret Glaspy sounds like someone who’ll go far to me.
ATO Records

The National
Laugh Track (feat. Phoebe Bridgers)
Formed in Brooklyn in 1999, The National are from Cincinnati, Ohio. Made up of vocalist Mark Berninger, the twin brothers Aaron and Bryce Dessner, as well as the brothers Scott and Bryan Devendorf, later joined by Karl Resniak, Mark Berninger’s wife, Carin Besser, contributed to the lyrics from the beginning. The band’s style has been called “literate Rock” by the Guardian: 2dark, melancholy, and difficult to interpret.” Over the years, they’ve received many awards and gone on many tours.
4AD

André 3000
Trapped (from the album New Blue Sun)
Known as one part of the Southern hip hop du Outkast, André Lauren Benjamin (1975) has had a spiritual awakening. In the wake of recent experiences, he embarked on a musical journey of his own where he expresses his creativity freely as never before. The trip seems to lead through various landscapes of the mind, taking us to an actual jungle of sounds from the choral to the animal, in an intricate symphony about the interconnected of all being.
Epic Records

Czech Philharmonic Orchestra / Semyon Bychkov
Mahler Symphony Nr. 9 (Trailer)
Semyon Bychkov’s Mahler series, the first from a Czech orchestra in 40 years, is tackling the symphonies in no particular order and with varying degrees of success. This instalment proves something of a triumph. Whatever weight you place on Mahler’s Bohemian and Moravian connections, the First is a late 19th-century composition envisioned initially as a large-scale symphonic poem.
Deutsche Grammophon