Till Brönner – Christmas (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Till Brönner – Christmas (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 48:26 minutes | 863 MB | Genre: Jazz, Christmas
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Masterworks

Till Brönner is Germany’s leading jazz trumpeter. While he is known for his outstanding virtuosity, he is also referred to as a ‘German Chet Baker’. Brönner studied jazz trumpet at the College of Music, Cologne. Among his prominent teachers are Prof. Malte Burba and the American jazz trumpeter Bobby Shew.

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The Three Sounds – Good Deal (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

The Three Sounds – Good Deal (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 41:34 minutes | 746 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blue Note Records

Good Deal is a typically fine record from the Three Sounds, who were beginning to hit their stride when this session was recorded in May of 1959. Like most of their records, it’s laidback – even when the group works a swinging tempo, there’s a sense of ease that keeps the mood friendly, relaxed and mellow. Balancing standards like “Satin Doll,” “Soft Winds” and “That’s All” with bop (“Robbin’s Nest”), calypso (“St. Thomas”) and originals, the Three Sounds cover a lot of stylistic territory, putting their distinctive stamp on each song. It’s very accessible, pleasant soul-jazz and mainstream hard bop, but Gene Harris’ masterful technique means that Good Deal rewards close listening as well.

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Tigran Hamasyan, Arve Henriksen, Eivind Aarset, Jan Bang – Atmosphères (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Tigran Hamasyan, Arve Henriksen, Eivind Aarset, Jan Bang – Atmosphères (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:29:00 minutes | 1,48 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM

This far-reaching double album, recorded and mixed in three days in Lugano, introduces a new group with Tigran Hamasyan, Arve Henriksen, Eivind Aarset and Jan Bang. The Norwegians had played in diverse configurations on ECM – Jan Bang on Eivind Aarset’s Dream Logic, for instance, and Bang and Aarset on Arve Henriksen’s Cartography – but with Hamasyan at the centre of the sound, bringing with him ancient folk melodies transfigured in the compositions of Komitas, other inspirations come into play. All four players are at a creative peak here, whether freely reflecting upon Armenian themes or spontaneously shaping atmospheric soundscapes together.

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Tigran Hamasyan – The Call Within (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Tigran Hamasyan – The Call Within (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 47:50 minutes | 566 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Nonesuch

Nonesuch Records releases its fourth recording from pianist and composer Tigran Hamasyan, The Call Within, on August 28, 2020. The album comprises ten original compositions and features Evan Marien on electric bass and Arthur Hnatek on drums, along with special guests Tosin Abasi on the Armenian prog tune “Vortէx” and Areni Agbabian and Artyom Manukyan on “Our Film.”

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Tigran Hamasyan – Shadow Theater (2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Tigran Hamasyan – Shadow Theater (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:59 minutes | 1,12 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Verve

We have been hearing about the young prodigy for a long time… Tigran has grown up and is now an experienced and influential artiste on the international jazz scene. After captivating musicians like Chick Corea, Avishai Cohen and Jeff Ballard with his energy and originality, Tigran has managed to conquer a new audience, bringing jazz to a new generation. At the crossover of rock, Armenian folk, metal and jazz, the 26 year old pianist proves that he has everything it takes for greatness.

“He plays piano like a raga, the next Keith Jarrett”. –Trilok Gurtu “Tigran really grabbed me, because it’s got several things going on at once. It has a really wild odd-meter thing, and this distorted, aggressive piano treatment. And the harmony is kind of jazz-fusiony.’ –Brad Mehldau “A..may..zing! Now, Tigran, you are my teacher!” –Herbie Hancock

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Tigran Hamasyan – Mockroot (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Tigran Hamasyan – Mockroot (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:22 minutes | 1,11 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Nonesuch

All music composed by Tigran Hamasyan, except for “Kars 1” and “Kars 2” (Traditional Armenian/Tigran Hamasyan).

Tigran Hamasyan’s Nonesuch Records debut album, Mockroot, will be released in February 2015. Tigran’s music draws from a wide range of sources—from jazz and Armenian folk music; Bach and French fin de siècle composers; dubstep, thrash metal, and contemporary electronica. His live performances and six studio albums have received enthusiastic approval from the likes of Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, and Brad Mehldau. Where his last album, 2013’s Shadow Theatre, featured an extended band with choral sections, strings, and saxes, Mockroot is based around the tight trio of Tigran on piano and vocals, Sam Minaie on bass guitar, and Arthur Hnatek on drums.

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Tigran Hamasyan – For Gyumri (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Tigran Hamasyan – For Gyumri (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 29:32 minutes | 269 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Nonesuch

The five tracks here come hot on the heels of An Ancient Observer; and in a sense they are a companion to the album. For Tigran, all these pieces – on the album and on the EP – are musical observations of the world in which we live and the weight of history that we all bear. The Gyumri of the title is the Armenian pianist’s home town. He was born there in 1987 before his family moved to Los Angeles in 2003.

Now based in Yerevan, the Armenian capital, he has touched the sublime by returning to fundamentals. A jazz player with wide-ranging skills, his atypical jazz is highly narrative, because it is stripped bare of any artifice. And as ever in such a context, his improvisations are suffused with poetry, and his piano speaks a marvellous language which is his and his alone.

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Tigran Hamasyan – An Ancient Observer (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Tigran Hamasyan – An Ancient Observer (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 44:57 minutes | 406 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Nonesuch

Nonesuch Records releases its second album from pianist Tigran Hamasyan, “An Ancient Observer”. The album is the follow-up to Hamasyan’s label debut, Mockroot, of which the Guardian said, “A phenomenal piano player, an irrepressible entertainer, a promising experimenter with hi-tech gizmology and a creative world-music composer. Mockroot plays vivaciously to all those strengths”. The musician says of his new solo recording, which features ten new compositions: “These songs are musical observations about the world we live in now, and the weight of history we carry with us”.

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Tierney Sutton – Dancing In The Dark (2004/2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Tierney Sutton – Dancing In The Dark (2004/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 55:16 minutes | 2,64 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Telarc

Tierney Sutton has “paid her dues”. This is her fourth Telarc recording in the in the past four years. Do not be surprised if this is the one that pushes her over the boundary that will enable her to be regarded as one of the generation’s next great jazz vocalists.

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Tia Fuller – Diamond Cut (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Tia Fuller – Diamond Cut (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:03:49 minutes | 1,21 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mack Avenue Records

Saxophonist, composer and bandleader Tia Fuller artistic capacity has blossomed tremendously, resulting in her fourth Mack Avenue Records release – the aptly titled ‘Diamond Cut’, her first album as leader since 2012’s ‘Angelic Warrior’.

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Thunderpussy – Thunderpussy (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Thunderpussy – Thunderpussy (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 51:29 minutes | 635 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Monkeywrench Records

Seattle all-female rock n’ roll band Thunderpussy to release debut self-titled album on 5/25 via Stardog / Republic Records. Album will include previously released tracks, ‘Speed Queen,’ ‘Velvet Noose,’ ‘Torpedo Love,’ and latest single ‘Gentle Frame.’ The band has captured endorsements from Rolling Stone and Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready. They recently wrapped up performances at SXSW and will support the launch of their album with a series of headlining performances throughout the US.

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Thundermother – Heat Wave (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Thundermother – Heat Wave (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 49:24 minutes | 627 MB | Genre: Hard Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © AFM Records

Heat Wave is the fourth release from Swedish rockers Thundermother and follows their 2018 eponymous album. Recorded in Copenhagen with producer Søren Andersen, the effort sees the quartet deliver a collection of no-holds-barred hard rock full of their signature riffs and powerful guitar solos. The single “Driving in Style” is included.

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Thunder – Please Remain Seated (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Thunder – Please Remain Seated (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:20 minutes | 1,22 GB | Genre: Classic Rock, Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited

In celebration of their 30th anniversary Thunder revisit and reinterpret a selection of their finest songs in a way you’ve never heard them before. Includes – ‘She’s So Fine’ and ‘Low Life In High Places’. Welcome to the delicate sound of Thunder…

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Thunder – Please Remain Seated – The Others (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Thunder – Please Remain Seated – The Others (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 33:02 minutes | 675 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited

In celebration of their 30th anniversary Thunder revisit and reinterpret a selection of their finest songs in a way you’ve never heard them before.

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Thunder – All the Right Noises (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Thunder – All the Right Noises (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 48:26 minutes | 1,04 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd

British hard-rock heroes, Thunder, release their 13th studio album ‘All The Right Noises’. The album is a return to the full-throttle sound of Thunder that has seen them create a hugely successful 30+ year career at the forefront of British rock, all built around the lifelong friendship of vocalist extraordinaire Danny Bowes and songwriting genius and guitarist Luke Morley. ‘All The Right Noises’ is an intense confection of illicit charms that reasserts their authority as the number one band in the land. Recorded in the months leading up to the first Covid-19 lockdown, it was originally due for release in September 2020. Strange to reflect then on how much of the new material appears to address the challenging new world we now inhabit. On the album, Luke says “ All the songs were written and recorded pre-Covid. But it is interesting how if you look at some of the tracks through the prism of Covid they still make a lot of sense.” The volcanic lead single from the album, ‘Last One Out Turn Off The Lights’ could easily be mistaken for world-ending lockdown rage. But, says Luke, “That was directly about Brexit, but you could apply it to everything else.” The track is indicative of both the ferocity and message of the album as a whole, with subjects tackled including depression, mental health, and diversity

‘All The Right Noises’ follows on from 2019’s stripped back and reimagined album, ‘Please Remain Seated’ which continued their consecutive Top 10 UK Album Chart run since their ecstatically received comeback six years ago. It is another chapter in the band’s incredibly successful history that has seen them create a succession of some of the most highly-regarded rock albums of the past 30 years. The key to their renown: brilliantly conceived top-drawer material. Thunder is the last of the true British rock giants.

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