From Abba to Zamballarana, and from Mozart to Eminem, one of rock’s finest talents has identified 500 albums essential to a happy life. It was a long, tortuous undertaking, but the man knows music (and his aim is true) BY Elvis Costello. 

Joni Mitchell /Big Yellow Taxi Billie Eilish /All the Good Girls Go to Hell Peter Gabriel /Red Rain Kelly Lee Owens /Melt Cerrone  /Supernature Talking Heads / (Nothing But) Flowers Spirit /Nature’s Way The Jimi Hendrix Experience /Up from the Skies Childish Gambino /...

Spiritmuse Records is an independent, audiophile recording label. 

Although best known for her jazz work, Dee Dee has had a wonderfully rich and varied career encompassing soul, musicals, gospel, and underground disco from the 70’s to the present day. She is still active as a vocalist, composer, and producer and remains one of our...

It’s hard to think of a musician more evocative of the 1980’s than Sade Adu. Known, alongside her bandmates Paul Denman, Andrew Hale, and Stuart Matthewman, as simply Sade, her sophisticated poise and icy cool vocals came to soothe an era of rapid change, spiralling...

LARK, released in 1972, was Linda’s first with producer Jim Cregan.In recent years, samples from these tracks have appeared in singles by hip-hop artist  Common,introducing a new generation of listeners to Linda’s work.Gifted with an incredible 5 octave vocal range,...