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The Franklin Electric – This Time I See It (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 38:42 minutes | 450 MB | Genre: Indie Rock, Indie Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Nettwerk Music Group
The Montreal-based collective founded and fronted by Jon Matte transforms experiences into anthems and has done so since emerging on the 2014 debut, This Is How I Let You Down. Logging nearly 400 shows, they canvased the world alongside everyone from Mumford & Sons, Ben Howard to Edward Sharpe, City and Colour an Half Moon Run. Along the way, 2017’s Blue Ceilings marked a major milestone. Not only did the record produce favourites such as “I Know The Feeling” and “Someone Just Like You,” but it also led to a nomination at the 2018 JUNO® awards in the category of Breakthrough Group of the Year. The latter experience set the stage for his next evolution. In Vancouver for the ceremony, Jon identified an endless wellspring of inspiration from the mountains and landscapes of the Canadian West Coast. So, he holed up in Vancouver to write what would become the 2019 EP, In Your Head (Nettwerk)— and more forthcoming tunes. During 2019, he took those ideas and images to several Vancouver studios and cut the five tracks comprising In Your Head. As a producer, Jon added electronics and programming from his home studio. Given the personal nature of his journey, he tried to translate normal and honest everyday feelings to his songwriting.
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The Foreign Resort – Outnumbered (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 44:52 minutes | 517 MB | Genre: Post Punk, New Wave, Shoegaze
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Artoffact Records
Formed in 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark, the Foreign Resort has spent 10 years creating and honing an explosive yet melancholy post-punk sound that is as rich as it is exciting, and as immediate as it is dark and deep. The new album Outnumbered is no exception, supported by N. American and European tours, a stellar video premiered by Decibel, and a sound that will infest your ears!
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The Hagaw Assoziation – Happy Hagaw (1969/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 33:03 minutes | 622 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © MPS
How to describe this Polish band, this music? Bandleader Grzegorz Brudko explains, “You simply can’t call our music ‘traditional’. We play in Hagaw style”. Call it trad, old-time, swing; it’s irreverent, comedic, with musical antics that straddle the line between party music and German cabaret. There is music in their madness, however.
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Carlo Alberto Bacchi – Clementi: Sonatas, Op. 1 & Op. 1A (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:10 minutes | 1,08 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Piano Classics
While Clementi’s sparkling music has been recorded by many celebrated pianists such as Arturo Benedetti MIchelangeli, few of them have paid much attention to the composer’s first published collection. This new recording by Carlo Alberto Bacchi is all the more welcome for being informed by his study of the composer’s complete oeuvre as part of the ‘Clementi Project’ which sees him performing many of the sonatas in concert as well as recording them for Piano Classics.
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Alan Cumming, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, John Mauceri – Tchaikovsky by Arrangement (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:15:11 minutes | 2,60 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Toccata Classics
Tchaikovsky’s ballet The Nutcracker, which has its origins in a novella by E. T. A. Hoffmann, contains some of the best-loved music ever written. But its composer wasn’t very happy with it, perhaps because the plot he was given to work with allowed him to present only a series of dances, losing the moral basis of Hoffman’s surprisingly modern tale, with its messages of inclusivity and what is now called ‘women’s agency’ – here it is the little girl who saves the prince. Hoffmann’s aspirational story continues well after the ballet ends, with the little girl, now grown up, marrying the prince, who is now king. John Mauceri has brought the ballet back to its inspiration, calling on music from elsewhere in Tchaikovsky’s orchestral output to fashion this ‘re-telling’, marrying Hoffmann’s text and Tchaikovsky’s music for the first time.
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The Fleshtones – Face of the Screaming Werewolf (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 30:51 minutes | 383 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Yep Roc Records
Legendary garage rockers The Fleshtones have been pumping out hits for over four decades, earning them the honor of being “America’s Garage Rock Band.” They’re one of the final remaining original CBGB bands, they’ve played on Andy Warhol’s short-lived MTV show while Sir Ian McKellen read Shakespeare over their jamming, and were the last band to publicly perform at the World Trade Center’s Windows on the World. However, what’s most incredible about The Fleshtones is that they’re putting out some of their best music yet forty years into their career, as evidenced by their new album Face of the Screaming Werewolf. Featuring soon-to-be-hits done in the inimitable Fleshtones style, such as “Alex Trebek,” “Spilling Blood at the Rock & Roll Show,” and their cover of the Stones’ classic “Child of the Moon.”
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Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe – Bach: Jesu, deine Passion (Remastered) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:03:45 minutes | 663 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © harmonia mundi
Bach reserved some of his most elaborate cantatas for worship on the Sunday before the beginning of Lent – and it was for that very day that he composed the cantatas BWV 22 and 23 in 1723, as test pieces destined to gain him the post of Leipzig Kantor. The cantatas BWV 127 and 159 were written for the same Sunday in subsequent years.
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Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe – Bach: Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott, BWV 80 (Remastered) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 52:18 minutes | 558 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © harmonia mundi
Christ lag in Todesbanden, BWV 4, Gott der Herr ist Sonn und Schild, BWV 79, and Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott, BWV 80. Written at different moments in the composer’s life and based to a large extent on the works of Martin Luther, these cantatas reflect a marked taste for dramaturgy, vivid word painting and an invariably astonishing use of instruments and voices. Herreweghe and Collegium Vocale Gent give us an accomplished version of these masterpieces, confirming, if further proof were needed, their stature as ardent champions of Bach.
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Buddy Holly – Buddy Holly (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 24:54 minutes | 145 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Geffen
Holly made his first appearance on local television in 1952, and the following year he formed the group “Buddy and Bob” with his friend Bob Montgomery. In 1955, after opening for Elvis Presley, Holly decided to pursue a career in music. He opened for Presley three times that year; his band’s style shifted from country and western to entirely rock and roll. In October that year, when Holly opened for Bill Haley & His Comets, he was spotted by Nashville scout Eddie Crandall, who helped him get a contract with Decca Records.
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Brad Turner – The Magnificent (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:43 minutes | 1,41 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cellar Live
The incredible Brad Turner returns to Cellar Live with a new album ‘Magnificent’, comprising nine original compositions, including its title track in homage to Thad Jones. Recorded partly live and partly in studio, Turner plays both piano and trumpet and is joined in this dream quintet by Peter Bernstein on guitar, Neil Swainson on bass, Cory Weeds on saxophone and Quincy Davis on drums.
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Boris Giltburg, Veronika Jaruskova, Peter Jarůšek – Dvořák: The Complete Piano Trios (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 02:23:48 minutes | 5,03 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Supraphon a.s.
Piano Trio No. 4, “Dumky”, ranking among Antonín Dvořák’s most celebrated works, is one of the most frequently recorded chamber pieces there is. After attending a performance, with the composer on the piano, Leoš Janáček summed up his impressions succinctly: “A new source of light has flashed.” When it comes to Piano Trio No. 3, the renowned Vienna-based critic Eduard Hanslick called it a gem, demonstrating that Dvořák was “one of the best modern masters”. Piano Trios No. 1 and 2, however, have been scarcely performed. In this light, the complete recording of Dvořák’s piano trios is a project richly deserving attention. All the more so due to the artists who have made it: Boris Giltburg, winner of the Queen Elisabeth Competition and one of the world’s most distinguished contemporary pianists, alongside Veronika Jarůšková and Peter Jarůšek, members of the globally celebrated Pavel Haas Quartet, who have earned great recognition for performing Dvořák’s music – Gramophone Recording of the Year (quartets) and Gramophone Chamber Award (quintets, together with Giltburg). The three musicians featured on the album manifest an incredible chime. Possessing the uttermost technical brilliance, they breathe as one. The album was made at the studios in the picturesque Wye Valley, straddling the border between England and Wales, under the supervision of the legendary producer Andrew Keener while London was celebrating the coronation of Charles III. Exceptional moments for Dvořák’s exceptional music …
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Bill Haley – Rock The Joint! (1952/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 43:59 minutes | 405 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla
Rock the Joint”, also known as “We’re Gonna Rock This Joint Tonight”, is a 1949 boogie song recorded by various proto-rock and roll singers, notably Jimmy Preston and early rock and roll singers, most notably Bill Haley in 1952. Preston’s version has been cited as a contender for being “the first rock and roll record”, and Haley’s is widely considered the first rockabilly record.
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Alain Goraguer – La planète sauvage (Expanded Original Soundtrack) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 56:06 minutes | 640 MB | Genre: Jazz, Soundtrack
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Universal Music Division Decca Records France
At the 1973 Cannes Film Festival, a feature-length animated film caused a sensation and won the Special Jury Prize: La Planète Sauvage by René Laloux, with phantasmagorical drawings by Roland Topor.
For this philosophical tale of anticipation, where men are used as domestic toys by blue giants, the Draags, the celebrated composer ALAIN GORAGUER unleashes his inspiration with a haunting main theme of great melodic clarity, soaring and hypnotic atmospheres, but also pursues funky rhythms with wah-wah on guitar, as if reaching out to Isaac Hayes from Shaft.
Over the decades, the acclaim of LA PLANÈTE SAUVAGE has been growing in crescendo, both the film and its score, revered by new generations as a psychedelic summit, an Everest of French pop. Artists from the new world, from rap and hip-hop cultures, such as A$ap Mob, Madlib, Mac Miller and many others, have dipped into it for samples or remixes.
As La Planète Sauvage celebrates its half-century, CAM Sugar presents a new deluxe edition of the soundtrack, mixed from the recently discovered multi-track tapes, including 7 previously unreleased tracks and 3 alternate mixes. Produced under the expert supervision of Patrick Goraguer, Alain’s son, this is released as Deluxe gatefold 2LP (including a special illustrated zine) and CD digipack. Listening to this complete album will confirm the spellbinding power of La Planète Sauvage is intact.
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The Intersphere – The Grand Delusion (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 51:50 minutes | 636 MB | Genre: Progressive Rock, Alternative Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Long Branch Records
The background for the album “The Grand Delusion” is the highly subjective question that is not only posed by Paul Watzlawick in his eponymous book, but that has now reached a completely new dimension in the madness of media coverage: How real is reality? The songs are not only concerned with thinking and acting in sociological and societal contexts, in systems, orders and interpretations of reality created by humans, but also with reflecting on oneself, introspection and the question “What foundation is my own reality based on?” Almost 5 years after the last release, and after personal crises and changes, The Grand Delusion is lyrically the most personal album to date from The Intersphere, but also one of the most varied, loudest and angriest.
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