The Sherlocks – Live For The Moment (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 49:10 minutes | 1,05 GB | Genre: Indie Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Infectious
Live for the Moment is the debut studio effort from Sheffield indie rock outfit the Sherlocks. Composed of galloping, overdriven guitar riffs, raucous percussion, and infectious vocal harmonies, the record features the title track single and “Chasing Shadows.” The album is released via Infectious Records. ~ Rob Wacey
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The Sheepdogs – No Simple Thing (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 19:30 minutes | 254 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © WM Canada
The Sheepdogs’ upcoming mini-release is titled No Simple Thing, and it’s set to arrive on May 28 via Warner Music Canada. It marks the first material we’ve got from the Saskatoon group since 2018, when they released their album Changing Colours.
No Simple Thing was recorded in Montreal at Mixart Studios in late summer 2020, with the Sheepdogs laying down all the tracks live. It was produced by frontman Ewan Currie.
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The Shadows – Shadoogie: An Anthology Of Their Early Years Vol.2 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:28 minutes | 1,06 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla
The Shadows (originally known as the Drifters) were an English instrumental rock group. They were Cliff Richard’s backing band from 1958 to 1968 and on numerous reunion tours. The Shadows have had 69 UK chart singles from the 1950s to the 2000s, 35 credited to the Shadows and 34 to Cliff Richard and the Shadows. The group, who were in the forefront of the UK beat-group boom, were the first backing band to emerge as stars. As pioneers of the four-member instrumental format, the band consisted of lead guitar, rhythm guitar, bass guitar and drums. Their range covers pop, rock, surf rock and ballads with a jazz influence.
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The Scorpions – Anthology 1959-1965 (1996/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:15:13 minutes | 777 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Wooden Hill
“72 minute, 32 track anthology of this UK band’s cache of demos and acetates stretching back to the roots of rock’n’roll and ending up in the dying embers of the British beat boom. Includes alternate versions of their four Parlophone sides, ten previously-unreleased instrumental gems and three unissued 1962 vocal recordings produced by Joe Meek.” “What a truly astonishing release… this really is a wonderful CD.” – Pipeline fanzine.
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The Sand Band – All Through The Night 10th Anniversary Edition (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 41:19 minutes | 462 MB | Genre: Folk, Ballad
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © [PIAS]
2011 debut album from this band led by songwriter/producer David McDonnell and long time musical partner Scott Marmion. All Through the Night was written, recorded and mixed by them at home and is influenced by the likes of Leonard Cohen, Neil Young, Jackson C Frank, right up to more modern day stuff such as Spiritualized, the Verve, Elliot Smith and Calexico among others. The Sand Band are about truth and melody. Their dark love songs will break and mend your heart. Achingly beautiful and completely individual awash with psychedelic atmospherics.
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The Same Stream & James Jordan – To Hold the Light (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:30 minutes | 1,04 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © GIA ChoralWorks Spiritum
The music chosen for this recording is strangely and poignantly relevant, I believe, for each of us. We all now understand “The Fruit of Silence,” a motet that reminds us to visit those beliefs which are most sacred in the work by Cortlandt Matthews, or now, a deeply personal Requiem by Peter Relph that in reflection, remembers the hundreds of thousands of lives lost in this pandemic. And then there is the LaVoy work “O Great Beyond.” While all great texts speak to the universality of the human condition and, if are truthful, are timeless. Particularly the George Fox text set by Jackson Hill and the Tagore text set by LaVoy give us messages to reinforce the humanness of each of us for hope. Two works on this disc poignantly remind us of the passing of life in the Relph Requiem and especially the final movement of “O Great Beyond.” May these words give comfort to all those who endured the deepest of Life’s losses during our shared Pandemic journey. For, so many loved ones, goodbyes were said in silence, and alone.
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The Sam Singers – Come Fly with Me (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 28:43 minutes | 583 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © SamsProductions
Set the stage – the big award ceremony is coming up! The Sam Singers are announced to receive 50,000 francs in foundation funds, but then they learn that there has been a misunderstanding. The show is already running, your thank-you speeches are written-and so things unexpectedly get out of hand …
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The Salt City Six – The Salt City Six Plays the Classics in Dixieland (Remastered) (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 30:32 minutes | 1,13 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © 2xHD
Don’t just expect Dixieland from this album recorded in 1963 by Ewing Nunn. When you put this on, close the doors and windows, and post a sign outside: do not disturb until the music stops. -The Management.
Recorded live in 1963 at the Penn Sheraton’s River Boat Room in Pittsburgh, PA and released on Audiophile Records AP-80. this extremely rare recording of the Salt City Six plays the Classics in Dixieland – long a favorite of Harry Person of the Absolute Sound, was remastered in 2xHD-Fusion.
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The Saint Tikhon Choir & Benedict Sheehan – Benedict Sheehan: Vespers (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 59:27 minutes | 1,83 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cappella Romana
GRAMMY®-nominated conductor and composer Benedict Sheehan leads The Saint Tikhon Choir in his new setting of Eastern Orthodox Vespers in English. Inspired by the great All-Night Vigil setting by Rachmaninoff, Sheehan’s composition expands the genre with full settings of Psalms. Each verse is treated with deep musical pathos to express a full range of human emotion. Vespers also features virtuosic vocal concertos, including the first for basso profundo in English. Encounter this music that projects a vision of hope and light for all. The Saint Tikhon Choir was founded in 2015 by Benedict Sheehan, the group’s artistic director, and Abbot Sergius of St. Tikhon’s Monastery. It is the first professional vocal ensemble connected with an Orthodox monastery in America, founded with a mission to foster and build up the American Orthodox choral tradition at the highest artistic level.
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Susan Tedeschi – Just Won’t Burn (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:08:51 minutes | 758 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Fantasy
On 22nd September 2023, Susan Tedeschi – Grammy-winning singer, guitarist, songwriter, and co-leader of Tedeschi Trucks Band – released the 25th Anniversary Edition of her platinum solo album ‘Just Won’t Burn’. The 25th Anniversary Edition of ‘Just Won’t Burn’ celebrates the album that launched the career of one of the most prominent female artists in the Americana, Blues and Jam communities.
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Souad Massi – Sequana (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 40:58 minutes | 435 MB | Genre: World, Folk, Singer-Songwriter Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Backingtrack Production
Sequana is the tenth album by Franco-Algerian singer-songwriter Souad Massi. If her music was previously coloured with folk and chaabi, the sound palette broadens here as far as the Sahel, the Caribbean and Brazil, with Justin Adams (Rachid Taha, Tinariwen, Robert Plant) on production. Souad Massi continues on her path as a committed, liberated woman singing about the causes close to her heart. Sequana is a collection of ten songs, nine of which were written by her, with the intention of capturing the passage of time and that which we must strive to preserve and pass on. The album draws on a diversity of musical styles – folk, country, rock, calypso, bossa, along with sounds of the Middle East and the Algerian desert.
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Skarra Mucci – Perfect Timing (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 41:05 minutes | 488 MB | Genre: Reggae
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © X-Ray Production
Skarra Mucci is a Jamaican Reggae and Dancehall artist born in Kingston. Known as the “Dancehall President”, his career counts 7 solo albums, including the essential “Return of the Raggamuffin” (2012) and countless classics and cult collaborations, such as the hit “My Sound” from the album “Greater Than Great” (2014) which exceeds 15 million cumulative Spotify and YouTube streams and the critically acclaimed album “Dancehall President” (2016) with its tour of more than 100 dates around the world, from Mexico to China.
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Rowan Pierce, Julien Van Mellaerts & Lucy Colquhoun – Songs of the Night (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:35 minutes | 1,19 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Champs Hill Records
Soprano Rowan Pierce, baritone Julien Van Mellaerts and pianist Lucy Colquhoun present Songs of the Night: a collection of works exploring the night in all its guises, from roaring storms and peaceful sunsets to magical forests and nocturnal travellers. The journey begins in the depths of a dark German forest with Schubert’s Friedrich Schlegel’s Waldesnacht. Goethe’s iconic Wandrers Nachtlied is heard in Schubert’s famous setting and Schumann’s less familiar edition, creating a fascinating chance to compare two composers’ thoughts about the same text. There are also two gems by Hans Pfitzner, plus settings by Hugo Wolf and Clara Schumann. The set ends with Felix Mendelssohn’s delectable Maiglöckchen und die Blümelein, in which lilies-of-the-valley urge all the other Spring flowers to join in a miniature round dance. Lucy Colquhoun comments: “All of the songs here have been performed and recorded before, yet much of this repertoire still deserves greater exposure. My hope is that as many listeners as possible will come to love them as much as I do.” Lucy Colquhoun is much in demand as a song pianist, performing widely as a recitalist throughout the UK including at the Purcell Room Southbank, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Oxford Lieder Festival, and at London’s Wigmore Hall, where she has played for multiple singers in the Ferrier Awards finals (2019–2022), including all prizewinners. Soprano Rowan Pierce was awarded the President’s Award by HRH Prince of Wales at the Royal College of Music and won both the Song and First Prizes at the inaugural Grange Festival International Singing Competition in 2017. She was a Britten Pears Young Artist, a Rising Star of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and a Harewood Artist at ENO. Julien Van Mellaerts represented New Zealand at Cardiff Singer of the World 2019. He is the winner of the Wigmore Hall / Kohn Foundation International Song Competition and the Kathleen Ferrier Awards. Recital engagements have included At The World’s Edge Festival; Chamber Music New Zealand; London’s Wigmore Hall; and Berlin’s Pierre Boulez Saal. His debut recital album, Songs of Travel and Home, was released on Champs Hill Records in 2021.
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Zoot Collectif, Natalie Dessay & Zoot Octet with Neil Saidi, Noé Codjia, David Paycha, Thomas Gomez & Clément Trimouille – Pannonica (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:14:53 minutes | 1,42 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Zoot Records
Muse, benefactress, agent and supporter of numerous African-American jazz musicians who were victims of racial segregation, the daughter of Charles Rothschild and wife of Baron Jules de Koenigswarter, found a meaning to her life in the jazz clubs of Manhattan. There she met the king of bebop, Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Mingus, Art Blakey, Bud Powell, John Coltrane, Walter Davis, Sonny Clark, Lionel Hampton and many others. Dreaming of telling their story in music, and based on an original idea by Neil Saidi, saxophonist and musical director of the Zoot Collectif, the octet composed the music for the poetic show Pannonica, with the help of writer and director Elsa Rooke.
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The Smashing Pumpkins – SPRC Welcome Package {Re-issues Pre-order Bonus} (2011-2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 30:35 minutes | 542 MB | Genre: Alternative Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © The Smashing Pumpkins
A zip file named “SPRC Welcome Package”, containing the first 4 downloads, plus an instrumental version of Frail & Bedazzled (not the same as the one slated to be on the re-issues), was given to anyone who pre-ordered the Gish and/or Siamese Dream re-issues from the SP web site.
http://www.spfc.org/songs-releases/discog.html?discog_id=288
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