Die Schlagerpiloten – RIO (Deluxe Edition) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:42:27 minutes | 1,32 GB | Genre: Pop, Schlager
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © TELAMO – WM Germany
They know every top secret destination, every dream beach, every time the perfect spot to enjoy the sunset: Shortly before the fifth anniversary, Die Schlagerpiloten invite you to the fifth album trip – and this time it’s to “RIO”!
After they could stir up the Top 3 of the Official German Album Charts four times in a row, the Schlagerpiloten, who are now flying in pairs, thank their massive fan base with 17 summery titles. Had they already been able to secure a place in the top 3 of the German album charts directly in early summer 2019 with the programmatic title of their debut album “Lass uns fliegen”, the celebrated successors “Santo Domingo” (DE #2), “Blue Hawaii” (DE #2) and “Sommer-Sonnen-Feeling” (DE #3) also landed directly in the top region of the best lists in each case. In total, their albums could stay in the Top 100 Album Charts for 71 weeks so far.
Read moreKevin Sun – The Depths in Slow Motion (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 37:03 minutes | 724 MB | Genre: Contemporary Jazz, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Endectomorph Records
On this album we receive a future unobstructed by any goofy or heavy handed attempts to align with futurism™ or the glories of the past. The tones go on skipping and stammering with the bright optimism of a child, a cheerfulness that is hesitant to occupy itself and sometimes abandons itself for the pensive or macabre. The cognition between the notes and compositions is vivid and tangible, a nonlinear narrative about moving through territory you were told was dangerous but are compelled to witness and overcome for yourself…
Read moreKatie Noonan – A Small Shy Truth (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 56:13 minutes | 563 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ABC Jazz
Revered ARIA Award-winning folk jazz trio Elixir announce the release of their fourth album, A Small Shy Truth, based on the poetry of iconic Australian poet, cartoonist, writer, painter, philosopher and National Living Treasure Michael Leunig.
Read moreKaleidoscope Chamber Collective – Many Voices: Ensemble (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 37:11 minutes | 657 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © NMC Recordings
The second instalment in the Many Voices series, released in partnership with Music Masters and Composers Edition, features a new collection of ten flexible ensemble works from a diverse roster of leading composers: Abel Selaocoe, Aileen Sweeney, Blasio Kavuma, James MacMillan, Jasmin Kent Rodgman, Roderick Williams, Rūta Vitkauskaitė, Sonia Allori, Tom Coult and Tom Poster.
Read moreJosé González – Veneer (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:13:05 minutes | 376 MB | Genre: Indie Pop, Indie Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Peacefrog Records
Deluxe 20th Anniversary Edition includes the classic debut album, remastered in 2023, plus the previously unreleased live album, recorded in Göteborg in 2003.
Read moreJazzrausch Bigband – Mahler’s Breakdown (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 42:37 minutes | 497 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ACT Music
Mahler’s Breakdown is the extraordinary arrangement of the band’s chief composer, Leonhard Kuhn, and turns the symphony upside down: 110 years later, Mahler’s departure towards a new musical language is skilfully continued, just as his wish to fill the parts with soloists. In the 50-minute techno version of the ‘Sinfonia Maledetta’, as an Italian copyist expressed it, Jazzrausch Bigband unleashes its instrumental versatility and sheer momentum. Through their energetic improvisations, the 15 musicians take Mahler’s and Kuhn’s music into the here and now. A rave to enjoy listening to, a symphony to dance to.
Read moreIrma Curry – Love Is A Necessary Evil (1965/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 50:17 minutes | 904 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla
Irma Curry may not be a familiar name to you, but in the early 1950s she was a star vocalist in Lionel Hampton’s band. In 1962, she recorded a stupendous album for Columbia called Love Is a Necessary Evil.
Irma also recorded several singles with Benny Carter in 1964 and with the Alan Simon Trio in 1985. In between, she performed at clubs in New York and Hollywood, including gigs with Louis Jordan. A few weeks ago, when Fresh Sound’s Jordi Pujol told me he was re-issuing Love Is a Necessary Evil and that Irma was still around, I tracked down a number for her and we spent time on the phone. Irma has the most lyrical phone voice and she is as sweet and as gracious as can be. (All photos of Irma Curry courtesy of Kim, Irma’s daughter.)
Read moreIl Pomo dOro, Maxim Emelyanychev, Ivan Podyomov – Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 29 & 40 – Oboe Concerto (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:22:04 minutes | 1,36 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Aparté
Maxim Emelyanychev and Il Pomo d’Oro continue their uncommon Mozart symphony cycle. The idea is the following: put together great symphonies of the late Mozart and youth pieces. Maxim Emelyanychev, who has already gathered the first and the last symphonies – the beginning and the end –, has chosen to record the symphony no. 29 and the legendary no. 40 in the present volume. The ensemble makes us follow Mozart, from Salzburg to Vienna, in the yearning for liberty his life was. Perfectly suited to this repertoire, Maxim Emelyanychev uses the exceptional and period-instrumented sonority of Il Pomo d’Oro to deliver a dramatic and powerful Symphony no. 40, while rendering all the lyricism and contrasts of the no. 29. The Oboe concerto, interpreted by the soloist Ivan Podyomov, first oboe at the Royal Concertbouw Orchestra, adds a concertante supplement to this programme.
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