Tom Hambridge – BLU JA VU (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 44:02 minutes | 344 MB | Genre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Quarto Valley Records
Thomas Jay Hambridge (born December 20, 1960) is an American rock, country, and blues, producer, songwriter, musician and vocalist. Hambridge has received two Grammy Awards, an ASCAP award, seven Grammy nominations, seven Boston Music Awards, and has been inducted into the Buffalo Hall of Fame. In December 2015, Hambridge was given the key to his hometown of Buffalo, New York with Mayor Byron Brown declaring December 28 “Tom Hambridge Day.”Hambridge’s songs have been recorded by several notable artists and have been featured in movie productions, commercials and television programs. He has been referred to as “The White Willie Dixon” by Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee Buddy Guy and Susan Tedeschi’s “Secret Weapon”
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Thorwald Jørgensen – Air électrique: Original Music for Theremin & Piano (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:50 minutes | 994 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Zefir Records
Spooky sounds and ghostly wailings are usually what come to mind when people imagine the sound of the theremin. With “Air Électrique”, Thorwald Jorgensen and Kamilla Bystrova go beyond the novelty of the theremin and let the music speak for itself.
With the premier recording of Lera Auerbach’s 10 Preludes for theremin and piano, the standard of the album is set. This compositional tour-de-force presents colourful melodic music which exploits the unique characteristics of both the theremin and the piano. The angular modernism of Lydia Kavina’s Suite for theremin and piano and Olesya Rostovskaya’s haunting Juliet show more of the theremin’s unrivalled sonic possibilities, clearly illustrating what is possible with this combination of instruments.
The album also presents two chamber music pieces. The first is the world premiere of Joseph Schillinger’s Bury, Bury me Wind, in which Thorwald and Kamilla are joined by mezzo soprano, Itzel Medecigo. The other is the spectacular Fantasy for theremin, xylophone and piano by Valery Beluntsov, in which Thorwald plays not only the theremin but also the virtuosic xylophone part.
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Thorsteinn Einarsson – IngI (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 33:25 minutes | 374 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia International
Thorsteinn Einarsson is an Icelandic singer based in Vienna, Austria. His second studio album, INGI. “1;” (one continued) is followed by “IngI” – actually “Ingi”, but the big i at the end forms the Roman numeral 2 in combination with the initial i. Understood? No? No matter, because much more important are anyway the very personal texts in which Thorsteinn Ingi (aha!) Einarsson leads us through his melancholy to euphoric Pop-feeling worlds with his unmistakable voice.
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Thomas Zehetmair & Orchestre de chambre de Paris – Robert Schumann (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:17:18 minutes | 1,35 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM New Series
Founded in 1978, the Orchestre de chambre de Paris quickly established its reputation as one of Europe’s leading chamber orchestras. In 2012, Thomas Zehetmair was appointed the orchestra’s principal conductor and artistic advisor and on this recording, made at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in February 2014, does double duty as both soloist and conductor. Zehetmair’s insightful approach to Robert Schumann has already been demonstrated on ECM New Series with the Zehtmair Quartet, whose recording of the Schumann string quartets won prizes including the Gramophone Award as Album of the Year in 2003. Here the Orchestre de chamber de Paris plays the Symphony no. 1 “Spring” (1841) and the Phantasie for Violin and Orchestra and the Violin Concerto (both 1853). The composition of the first symphony drew inspiration from Schubert’s 9th Symphony and from the poetry of Adolf Böttger. The Phantasie and the Violin Concerto had quite different fates. The Phantasie was premiered to huge acclaim after initial performances. The Violin Concerto had to wait more than 80 years for its premiere, and too often since then players have made adjustments to the violin part. Thomas Zehetmair reveals how urgent and convincing the impact of Schuman’s original version can be when the performers enter into its spirit.
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Thomas Zehetmair – Niccolò Paganini: 24 Capricci Per Violino Solo, Op.1 (2009/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:13 minutes | 1,13 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM New Series
Thomas Zehetmair’s manually overwhelming and thought-provoking ECM recording of the complete sonatas for unaccompanied violin by Eugène Ysaÿe – released in 2004 to great critical acclaim – offered ample proof that alleged virtuoso pyrotechnics can be surprinsingly multi-faceted and complex when approached by a musician with a rare awareness of stylistic layers and expressive traditions. His (long deleted) Teldec version of the Capricci dating from the early nineties quickly won the status of a new benchmark recording. In 2007 he went to the Austrian monastery of St. Gerold to record a second – even more ambitious – interpretation. In an interview with English journalist Ivan Hewett Zehetmair recently explained his ever-growing interest in this particular repertoire: ‘Every violinist grows up with these pieces, because they are such fantastic technical studies. Paganini sometimes had these showman’s tricks, like playing on only one or two strings. But you know, all the great musicians who heard him, like Schumann, took him totally seriously. These Caprices aren’t just studies, or showpieces. They’re improvised character pieces, so full of poetry and fantasy.’
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Thomas Strønen, Food, Iain Ballamy – Quiet Inlet (2010)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 47:01 minutes | 795 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Food has defined a new kind of lyrical electro-acoustic improvisation in the course of its twelve year existence. Founded as a quartet in 1998, since 2006 the group has been a core duo of UK saxophonist Iain Ballamy and Norwegian drummer Thomas Strønen joined by guests for diverse projects. At the Molde Jazz Festival and the Oslo Blå club in 2007/8 their guests were trumpeter Nils Petter Molvær, well known to ECM followers, and Austrian improvising guitarist Christian Fennesz making his label debut. The resultant music, with melodic improvising, trancelike pulses, and shifting clouds of sound is highly attractive.
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Thomas Stronen & Ayumi Tanaka & Marthe Lea – Bayou (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:01 minutes | 715 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM
A fresh and open music, delicate and space-conscious, is shaped as drummer Thomas Strønen and Ayumi Tanaka, previously heard in the ensemble Time Is A Blind Guide on Lucus, resurface in a new trio with clarinettist/singer/percussionist Marthe Lea. The group first came together at Oslo’s Royal Academy of Music, where for two years the players would meet each week for exploratory music making. Strønen: “We always played freely- drifting between elements of contemporary classical music, folk music, jazz, whatever we were inspired by. Sometimes the music was very quiet and minimalistic: playing together generated some special experiences.” The spontaneous spirit of the music is reflected in the trio’s debut recording, which was made at the Lugano radio studio and produced by Manfred Eicher. With the exception of the title piece, based on a traditional Norwegian tune, the music on Bayou was collectively created in the moment.
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Thomas Strønen – Time Is A Blind Guide (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 52:55 minutes | 984 MB | Genre: Jazz
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“Time” is a guiding principle in any drummer’s ensemble, not least when it is subtly subdivided or extended as it is in this debut by Thomas Strønen’s acoustic group. The name derives from a literary source, “Time is a blind guide” being the first sentence in Canadian author Anne Michaels’s 1996 novel Fugitive Pieces.
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Thomas Schippers – Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 in B-Flat Major, Op. 100 – Menotti: The Unicorn, the Gorgon and the Manticore (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:23:21 minutes | 890 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Jube Classic
Thomas Schippers was a talented American conductors and a particular champion of the music of Samuel Barber. He played at a public piano recital at the age of six and was a church organist when he was 14. He continued his piano studies at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia (1944-1945). He also studied privately with Olga Samaroff (1946-1947). He went on to Yale University, where he had some lessons in composition with Paul Hindemith.
In 1948 he took second prize in the Philadelphia Orchestra’s young conductor’s contest. He took a job as organist of the Greenwich Village Presbyterian Church in New York. He and group of other young musicians formed a group called the Lemonade Opera Company, which he conducted for several years.
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Thomas Rhett – Center Point Road (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 52:51 minutes | 687 MB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © The Valory Music Co.
As he’s ascended to country music’s A-list” (Billboard), multi-platinum selling performer and current ACM Awards “Male Artist of the Year” Thomas Rhett ups the ante with his fourth studio album Center Point Road. With early praise from critics for the 16-song project entirely co-written and co-produced by Thomas Rhett, Center Point Road “shows how much Rhett has comfortably grown into his role as a star with something to say.
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Thomas Markusson – Open (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:01:03 minutes | 589 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Footprint Records
Footprint Records is proud to present Thomas Markusson Open, a jazz project emanating from sketches by Markusson and developed in a free form by him and his three brilliant musicians in a live context. Anders Jormin writes: “In our modern times of mindfulness, yoga and all other ways of trying to deal with the unfulfilling life of constant social media and stressful work, this wonderful music opens new possibilities and elegantly shares serene horizons. I hear music for the soul. I sense and share focus, concentration- and opened minds. Music respectfully meeting time and moment itself. Music where form unfolds and the musicians, carefully in dialogue with space and silence as well as with each other, humbly yet confidently state their inner voices…”
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Thomas Kotcheff – Frederic Rzewski: Songs of Insurrection (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:45 minutes | 1,16 GB | Genre: Classic
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Coviello Classics
For his debut solo album, rising Los Angeles-based pianist Thomas Kotcheff has taken on a formidable challenge: the premiere recording of American composer Frederic Rzewski’s virtuosic (and timely) Songs of Insurrection, based on protest songs from seven countries around the world.
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Thomas Hampson, Wolfram Rieger – Songs By Richard Strauss – Notturno (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:17 minutes | 1,13 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
This is one of Deutsche Grammophon’s key releases for the Strauss year, which marks the composer’s 150th birthday. Thomas Hampson is widely regarded as one of the premier interpreters of German art song today. In 2014, American baritone Thomas Hampson celebrates Richard Strauss’ 150th anniversary with several concerts in Europe and North America and a new production of the composer’s Arabella at the Salzburg Easter Festival.
With this release he adds to his his already considerable discography and videography on the label with an expertly-crafted collection of Lieder by Richard Strauss.
Starring guest artists Daniel Hope on Notturno.
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Thomas de Pourquery and Supersonic – Sons of Love (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 51:19 minutes | 577 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Label Bleu
Here’s a tantalising extract from an inviting, vibrant album of cosmic jazz released earlier this year by French saxophonist and Sun Ra disciple Thomas de Pourquery. It seems to have gone very much under the radar – even my beloved Rate Your Music only has a couple of reviews for it so far. This is how Volume 2 was born in the story of Supersonic, a bird from the divine Sun Ra’s nest and who now goes flying: it is called “Sons Of Love. »
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Thomas Cappeau – Commando Ninja (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 37:03 minutes | 398 MB | Genre: Soundtrack
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Lakeshore Records
50% Commando, 50% Ninja, 100% American! Commando Ninja is an indie movie tribute to the ’80s action heroes! Lakeshore Records will release the soundtrack to Commando Ninja, directed by Benjamin Combes. The film features score by Composer Thomas Cappeau of the long-running French sci-fi TV series “ReBoot” on France 4. The Commando Ninja soundtrack will be released digitally in December. Starring Eric Carlesi (as “John Hunter”), Philippe Allier and Stéphane Asensio, Commando Ninja movie is currently making the film festival rounds and just premiered at the Effet Stars festival in Montpellier, France. Stay tuned for more film and soundtrack details.
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