LYR thrive on the unexpected. Comprised of musician Richard Walters, producer and multi-instrumentalist Patrick J Pearson and current UK Poet Laureate Simon Armitage, LYR is a nexus of diverse creative disciplines and one of the most thrilling musical projects to inaugurate the new decade. LYR’s debut album Call in The Crash Team is out now […]

Lambert is the masked man at the piano – a phantom haunting the space between romance and pop culture. A character without a history, Lambert guides the listener on an intimate, haunting emotional journey through music. Get to know Lambert – the man, behind the mask, behind the piano… Stream the essential Lambert What goes […]

Unlike the piano – which unless creatively modified is confined to the 12 pitches of the Western chromatic scale – the strings have access to the notes between the notes. This freedom allows for all manner of expressive wobbling, bending, and sliding. The emotional potential of stringed instruments is only magnified when they gather in […]

London-based record label Mercury KX celebrates genre-defying, multi-disciplinary artists. Home to acclaimed composers and innovative musicians such as Anoushka Shankar, Ólafur Arnalds, Keaton Henson, Luke Howard and Isobel Waller-Bridge, the label prides itself on carefully curated audio-visual adventures. Their diverse roster create unique sound-worlds that bridge electronic, modern-classical, cinematic, alternative and ambient genres. ZoneOut’s Cassandra […]

Sophie Hutchings is guided by her instincts. As a young woman, immersed in a highly musical Sydney household, she bided her time, absorbing the music and art of her father and brothers, but herself refusing to play her own ruminative piano compositions beyond the safety of her bedroom. When her own innate talent finally got […]

Italian pianist and composer Federico Albanese has released his latest single ‘The Lantern’, and announced his signing to UK record label Mercury KX. The new track will feature on ‘FLOW’ – a compilation album celebrating three years since the label’s launch. Federico Albanese’s latest single ‘The Lantern’ is out now to stream. Speaking of his […]

Watch this intimate performance by songwriter and composer Keaton Henson, filmed in an old army base garage in the UK. This performance is part of the long-running Mahogany Sessions series, which has played host to such notable artists as Billie Eilish, James Bay, and Hozier. Keaton performs the movement ‘Impromptu On A Theme’ from his […]

Award-winning artist, composer and producer Ólafur Arnalds has announced brand new material and a tour in autumn 2020, following three years of intensive touring of his re:member project. The new ‘re:act’ tour features Ólafur’s signature string quartet, a live percussionist and an arsenal of pianos and synthesizers. His self-playing Stratus pianos will be along for […]

Record label Mercury KX and Decca Publishing are co-presenting the ‘Calm Amongst The Chaos’ showcase at the 2020 South by Southwest (SXSW) Music Festival on March 19th 2020 in Austin, Texas. This showcase is the first of its kind to be held at SXSW. Mercury KX and Decca Publishing, both entities within Universal Music Group, […]