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Liv Warfield – The Edge (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 34:45 minutes | 434 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Leopard
A LiV Warfield is like no other. It’s like having Tina Turner, Sade and James Brown all rolled into one, but she is an artist all her own. LiV’s powerful vocals and tremendous stage presence is why she has been invited to perform and record with music greats like Prince and Nancy Wilson of HEART.
Her 2023 studio album “The Edge” featuring well-known musicians such as Bobby Sparks, Mark Letteri, JT Thomas and Jelani Brooks of Snarky Puppy will be released in September 2023.
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High Fidelity – Music In My Soul (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 37:09 minutes | 758 MB | Genre: Bluegrass, Folk, Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rebel Records Llc
Jeremy Stephens, Corrina Rose Logston Stephens and Kurt Stephenson, multi-talented musicians and singers for High Fidelity, could be considered bluegrass archaeologists who excavate rare gems of forgotten or overlooked bluegrass and old-time music and make them shine again for new audiences. This latest collaborative endeavor by the band brings forth gospel treasures that will move your feet and your soul.
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Heinz – The Single Sessions, Pt. 2 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 02:44:18 minutes | 934 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cherry Red Records
Following the release of a series of limited edition 10” EPs, this is the first extensive part of a set showcasing Joe Meek’s legendary Tea Chest Tapes. After his tenure in the hugely successful Tornados, Heinz was selected for solo stardom by Joe Meek, who invested more studio time and song writing effort in him than he did in any of his other artists. Backed by the producer’s crack team of session musicians, and recording material often penned by Meek, Geoff Goddard or Dave Adams, Heinz and his famous bleached blond quiff were propelled into the mid-1960s pop scene, scoring a series of hits and near misses along the way.
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Heinz – The Single Sessions, Pt. 1 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 03:13:24 minutes | 1,12 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cherry Red Records
Following the release of a series of limited edition 10” EPs, this is the first extensive part of a set showcasing Joe Meek’s legendary Tea Chest Tapes. After his tenure in the hugely successful Tornados, Heinz was selected for solo stardom by Joe Meek, who invested more studio time and song writing effort in him than he did in any of his other artists. Backed by the producer’s crack team of session musicians, and recording material often penned by Meek, Geoff Goddard or Dave Adams, Heinz and his famous bleached blond quiff were propelled into the mid-1960s pop scene, scoring a series of hits and near misses along the way.
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Teo Gheorghiu – Schubert & Liszt: Excursions (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 57:56 minutes | 873 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Classical
Der 22-jährige Pianist Teo Gheorghiu gehört zu den erfolgreichsten Nachwuchstalenten seiner Generation und geniesst seit seinem Erfolg als «Vitus» im gleichnamigen Film von Fredi Murer in der Schweiz zu Recht einen Sonderstatus.
Was der damals 12-Jährige vor der Kamera leistete, war auch aus musikalischer Sicht bemerkenswert. In der Schlussszene, die in der Zürcher Tonhalle vor Publikum gedreht wurde, spielte er Schumanns Klavierkonzert auf so eindrückliche Weise, dass er in der Folge von renommierten Konzertveranstaltern und Orchestern verpflichtet wurde. In einem Video, das vor dem Entstehen des Films gedreht wurde, zeigte sich der junge Teo erfrischend aufrichtig und selbstsicher und erzählt, dass er einmal ein grosser Pianist werden und in den grossen Konzertsälen der Welt auftreten möchte.
Aus dem Traum wurde Wirklichkeit und aus Vitus, dem damaligen Wunderkind, wurde Teo, ein international mehrfach ausgezeichneter Pianist.
Teo Gheorghiu erhielt 2010 als jüngster Künstler den vielbeachteten «Beethoven Ring». Er trat an internationalen Festivals und in berühmten Sälen auf und musizierte mit bedeutenden Orchestern und Ensembles. Tourneen führten ihn u.a. nach Taiwan, Nord- und Südamerika und in viele Länder Europas. Auch in der Schweiz trat er häufig auf und erntete begeisterte Kritiken.
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Various Artists – Justin Dello Joio: “Oceans Apart” (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 40:08 minutes | 377 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Bridge Records
The featured work on this album of compositions by Justin Dello Joio is the American composer’s new piano concerto, “Oceans Apart”, composed for keyboard titan, Garrick Ohlsson. Ohlsson is joined by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Alan Gilbert, the artists who premiered the concerto in 2023. The program also includes chamber works performed by the New York Philharmonic’s principal cellist, Carter Brey, with pianist Christopher O’Riley; and the American Brass Quintet, and organist Colin Fowler.
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Tennessee Guitars – The Guitar Stylings of Those Nashville Cats (1967/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 24:56 minutes | 895 MB | Genre: Country, Oldies
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA – Legacy
Nashville Cats showcases the stories and songs from musicians and session singers who have played important roles in country music history.
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Tengyue Zhang – Guitar Recital (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:12 minutes | 1,02 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Naxos
Tengyue Zhang won the 2017 Guitar Foundation of America (GFA) International Concert Artist Competition, one of the world’s most prestigious events. His debut recital illustrates the moods, colors and techniques of the concert classical guitar from baroque transcriptions to masters of the twentieth-century genre such as Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Tansman, and Brouwer. Despite being from very different backgrounds and time periods, several of the pieces share intriguing relationships in their use of variation form or thematic motifs and harmonic progressions. Aside from the GFA, Tengyue Zhang has also won first prizes at other well-known competitions- Austria’s Forum Gitarre Wien International Youth Competition, the Changsha International Guitar Competition, the 2017 Schadt String Competition, and the 2017 Alexander Frauchi International Competition in Moscow.
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TENET Vocal Artists & Jolle Greenleaf – Love Enfolds Thee Round (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:29 minutes | 1007 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Olde Focus Recordings
TENET Vocal Artists, NYC’s prëeminent early music ensemble, releases a Christmas disc of music spanning medieval to modern day repertoire. TENET’s pristine, one-on-a-part singing lends itself well to both well-known and rarely heard songs and carols featured in this recording. New compositions and fresh arrangements make Love Enfolds Thee Round a stand-out among holiday recordings. Each member of the ensemble is well featured, creating an intimate sound-world to celebrate the holiday season.
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Theory Of A Deadman – Say Nothing (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 34:58 minutes | 441 MB | Genre: Alternative Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Atlantic Records
Theory get a little more topical on their new album, as Say Nothing actually says quite a bit while tackling such issues as domestic abuse, racism and the divisive nature of politics. “I look at the record as a microcosm of our current era,” says guitarist Dave Brenner. “It’s a reminder to look inward at what’s happening and what we’re becoming. I hope everyone dives into the words. At the same time, music is still an escape. Maybe we can give the world a little solace and encourage everyone to treat each other better.”
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Theodore Shapiro – Destroyer (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 46:10 minutes | 413 MB | Genre: Soundtrack
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Lakeshore Records
In the first decade of the 21st century, film score composer Theodore Shapiro (aka Teddy Shapiro) became the go-to guy for movie comedies starring the major comic actors of the time, including Ben Stiller, Will Farrell, and Owen Wilson. He was born Theodore Michael Shapiro on September 29, 1971, in Washington, D.C., and earned a B.A. in music from Brown University, then a masters from the Juilliard School of Music. In 1993, he scored episodes of the television series The State. His first film score came with the crime drama Hurricane Streets in 1998; his first comedy was Safe Men later that same year. In 1999, he scored the comedy Six Ways to Sunday and the boxing documentary On the Ropes (along with Ray “Web” Davis). The drama Restaurant was released in early 2000, followed that year by the adventure film Prince of Central Park; another film taking boxing as its subject, Girlfight; and, at the end of the year, the David Mamet comedy State and Main. In 2001, Shapiro scored Wet Hot American Summer, Heist, and Not Another Teen Movie. His only film of 2002 was Love in the Time of Money, but in 2003 he had two comedy scores, Old School (with Luke Wilson, Will Farrell, and Vince Vaughn) and View from the Top. No less than four comedies followed in 2004: Along Came Polly (Ben Stiller, Jennifer Aniston); Starsky & Hutch (Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn); 13 Going on 30; and Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn). In 2005, Shapiro scored the comedies The Baxter and Fun with Dick and Jane (Jim Carrey), and in 2006 the comedies The Devil Wears Prada; You, Me and Dupree (Owen Wilson); and Idiocracy (Luke Wilson). Bug, released in early 2007, was more of a drama than a comedy, but Blades of Glory (Will Farrell), which followed shortly, was played for laughs; Shapiro also scored Mr. Woodcock and The Girl in the Park that year. His three movies of 2008 were Semi-Pro (Will Farrell), Tropic Thunder (Ben Stiller, Jack Black), and Marley & Me (Owen Wilson, Jennifer Aniston), and in 2009 he had I Love You, Man, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, and Year One (Jack Black).
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Various Artists – Stefan Heucke: Woodwind Sonatas, Op. 114 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:22:41 minutes | 1,22 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © GWK Records
GWK RECORDS presents four new sonatas by Stefan Heucke, each for a woodwind instrument and piano, which were created during the Corona lockdown in 2020 and immensely enrich the relatively narrow repertoire of the genre, in the first recording with internationally leading soloists and promising newcomers. With his Opus 114, Stefan Heucke (*1959; Germany/Italy) has composed a sonata cycle that captures the different characteristics of the four most prominent European woodwind instruments and, reinforced by highly demanding, complex and virtuoso piano parts, plays them off in a rousing way. In his “integrative tonal” (Heucke), subjective-emotional and at the same time intellectual-constructive musical language, Heucke dissolves the boundaries between the classical European tonal system and new music and further develops the traditional forms. The flute sonata, which Daniela Koch (flute) and Kimiko Imani (piano) interpret in a highly musical manner, breathtakingly expresses the flexible, bright, brilliant character of the flute. Expressively recorded by Ramón Ortega Quero (oboe) and GyuTae Ha (piano), the oboe sonata is deeply touching in its succinct melancholy and its piercing, sometimes cartoonish intensity. In the expressive interpretation of the bassoon sonata by Marceau Lefèvre (bassoon) and Kimiko Imani (piano), the extremes of the bassoon, the elegiac and bizarre, the majestic, and its poetry fascinate. An exception is the clarinet sonata in the sonata cycle as well as in Heucke’s oeuvre, insofar as the composer incorporated biographical circumstances into it: the second pandemic lockdown. For Heucke, this found its excellent symbol in the video of the song “O du stille Zeit” by C. Bresgen, which the composer’s fellow singers posted in November 2020. The quiet drama and turmoil, gloom, heaviness and shadows, even a tarantella-like dance of death develop around Bresgen’s folk song-like, simple, innocent theme. Simon Degenkolbe (clarinet) and Tobias Haunhorst (piano) express the drama of the sonata and the time it was written in a profound and compelling way.
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Clutch – PA Tapes (Live in Nashville, 9/24/2022) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:20:09 minutes | 1,63 GB | Genre: Hard Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Weathermaker Music
Head-bangin’, booty-shakin’ rock squad CLUTCH have announced the fourth release in their series of live concert recordings, shared under the collective moniker PA Tapes.
Released today, Tuesday 12th September, PA Tapes (Live In Nashville, 9/24/22) boasts another 20 live tracks to delight both new and old fans alike, drawn from the whole breadth of their three decade, stellar catalogue.
Legendary for changing the set list every night, with each band member taking turns in the hot seat, Nashville’s songs that evening were selected by chief storyteller Neil Fallon, who notes, “Marathon Music Works is one of our favourite venues in the U.S. The crowds there make it easy to have a good time and we certainly did just that on September 24th.”
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Christone “Kingfish” Ingram – Live In London (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:34:35 minutes | 1,07 GB | Genre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alligator Records
Recorded in front of a rabid crowd at The Garage in London, this release is a white hot testament to the exhilarating live Kingfish experience. Christone is in masterful control whether blasting out molten, rock-infused riffs or picking the bluesiest single notes this side of heaven. At 16 songs and 109 minutes long, it’s a motherlode of blues magic, and the set list is a fan’s dream show, including “Outside Of This Town,” “662,” “Another Life Goes By” and a new, previously unrecorded song, “Midnight Heat.” “Christone ‘Kingfish’ Ingram has already made his mark as one of the best, and undoubtedly most exciting, blues guitarists in the world.”
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Ten Years After – A Sting in the Tale (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 52:47 minutes | 608 MB | Genre: Classic Rock, Blues Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ten Years After
In 1967 four young musicians from Nottinghamshire, England formed Ten Years After. Alvin Lee, Chick Churchill, Ric Lee & Leo Lyons became one of the most explosive quartets on the world stage and cemented themselves as one of the biggest bands in Rock ‘n Roll history. The band scored eight Top 40 albums on the UK Albums Chart and twelve multimillion selling albums on the US Billboard 200 between 1967 and 1974.
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