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Ray Lema and Laurent de Wilde – Riddles (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 46:14 minutes | 754 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Gazebo
Internationally renowned jazz pianist, Laurent de Wilde has been described as an exciting and passionate musician. Born in the United States in 1960, de Wilde spent his formative years (1964 to 1983) in France where he was immersed in French culture, music and literature eventually studying philosophy at the “Ecole Normale Supérieure” in Paris. In 2016, “Riddles”, a piano duo album where African legend Ray Lema and de Wilde “play as few notes as possible and just the right ones”, was released. In concert, this project reaches its full potential and has lead to the duo performing regularly on French and European stages.
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Ray Lema – Transcendance (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 43:51 minutes | 498 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © One Drop
Transcendence as a trance, because in all black music trance is an underlying element. Transcendence as dance because the rhythm and the groove are at the base of all the music of the musician of Congolese origin. And finally, transcendence as surpassing: cleavages, its own limits, its fears and its comfort zone. For this project Ray Lema has brought together a sextet composed of Michel Alibo on bass and Nicolas Viccaro on drums for rhythm, the young Brazilian guitarist Rodrigo Viana who has accompanied him for ten years and two brass Irving Acao tenor sax and Sylvain Gontard on the trumpet. The nine unreleased tracks of Transcendence have returned to us by ear and have never come out.
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Ray LaMontagne – Monovision (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 45:18 minutes | 932 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA Records Label
Ray LaMontagne has been making albums long enough to firmly establish the warm rusticity of his singer-songwriter approach, then pursue his more psychedelic inclinations. On his eighth full-length, MONOVISION, he circles back to a sort of considered simplicity: He not only handled all of the production on his own, but the playing and engineering too. LaMontagne gives his pastoral paeans, like “Summer Clouds” and “Rocky Mountain Healin’,” handsome acoustic arrangements, while the folk-pop “Morning Comes Wearing Diamonds” and “Weeping Willow” each get entwining two-voice harmonies. He reserves his soul rasp for “Strong Enough” and “Roll Me Mama, Roll Me,” but otherwise reminds what a precise, elegant singer he can be when he wants to. The overall mood, well captured by “We’ll Make It Through,” is one of firm but weathered optimism. “Together we’ll get through,” he vows during that song in a soft, woolen timbre, settling into the next, pivotal line with a hint of resignation: “We always do.”
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Ray Davies – Our Country: Americana Act 2 (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:14 minutes | 1,29 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Legacy Recordings
The continuing story of The Kinks co-founder’s journeys through America, as depicted in his 2013 memoir Americana and 2017’s album of the same name, ‘Our Country: Americana Act II’ is a concept album borne from Davies’ vision of America – how it shaped him and evolved through the years. Like its predecessor, the album was recorded at the legendary Konk Studios in London with guitarist Bill Shanley and The Jayhawks once again serving as Davies’ backing band.
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Ray Cooper – Land of Heroes (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 42:48 minutes | 484 MB | Genre: Soft Rock, Folk Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Westpark Music
Land of Heroes follows the question who today’s heroes are.
He finds them in all walks of life – from journalists to whistleblowers, from hospital nurses, to a prince and a close friend who died. “I get my ideas from memories, dreams, history books, biographies, online news outlets, conversations I remember or imagine, I have no method”, Cooper claims, “I look back on history with the hope to learn something about the present; to catch the repeating patterns.”
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Ray Conniff – The Ray Conniff Hi Fi Companion (1958/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:39 minutes | 1,10 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla
Originally released as a double album in 1958, “Hi-Fi Companion” is a perfect little mid-century time capsule, a hip, swinging, urban, yet reassuring showcase of vintage Conniff and his inimitable arrangements of some of the most popular songs of the era.
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Ray Conniff – ‘S Continental (1962/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:29 minutes | 1,25 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla
‘S Continental is an album by Ray Conniff and His Orchestra & Chorus. It was released in 1968 on the Columbia label (catalog no. CS-8576).
The album debuted on Billboard magazine’s “Top LPs” chart on May 12, 1962, peaked at No. 6, and remained on that chart for 18 weeks.
AllMusic later gave the album a rating of three stars. Reviewer William Ruhlmann wrote that the album marked Conniff’s return to “a familiar approach” with the vocals “back to ‘da’das’ and ‘doot-doots.'”
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Ray Conniff – ‘S Awful Nice (1958/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:19 minutes | 1,28 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla
‘S Awful Nice is an album by Ray Conniff and His Orchestra. It was released in 1958 on the Columbia label (catalog no. CS-8001).
The album debuted on Billboard magazine’s popular albums chart on June 23, 1958, peaked at No. 9, and remained on that chart for 43 weeks.
AllMusic later gave the album a rating of three stars.
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Ray Barretto – Barretto Power (Remastered) (1970/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 36:24 minutes | 810 MB | Genre: Latin
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Fania
Early jazz crossover: Ray Barretto, one of the leading lights of the salsa explosion and of the Fania label, will have his Barretto Power album released in a 50th anniversary HiRes edition by Craft Latino on October 23.
Barretto Power was released in 1970, some two years into the conga player and bandleader’s long association with Fania. It began a succession of genre-straddling, Afro-Caribbean masterworks that the Fania All-Stars member released in the first half of the decade. This was the album on which Barretto crystallized the tight and funky sound that he became known for, primarily in the salsa idiom and with such top players as Orestes Vilató on timbales and the young Andy González on bass.
Highlights of the LP include the enduring hit “Quítate La Máscara,” which established Adalberto Santiago as one of the great Afro-Caribbean singers of his time, and Puerto Rican composer Tite Curet Alonso’s frenetic “De Qué Te Quejas Tú.”
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Steven Osborne; Ludovic Morlot: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra – Ravel: Piano Concertos; Falla: Nights in the gardens of Spain (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:59 minutes | 1,01 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hyperion Records
Steven Osborne’s solo Ravel for Hyperion has invited comparisons with the distinguished interpretations of the past; this new recording of the concertos is certain to win similar plaudits. The Falla is a generous and appropriate coupling, perfectly complementing these wonderful works.
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NHK Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo, Vladimir Ashkenazy – Ravel: Orchestral Works (2003/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:33:31 minutes | 1,79 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Exton
This CD presents acclaimed conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy with the NHK Symphony Orchestra of Tokyo performing Maurice Ravel’s most famous orchestral works. The violinist Mayu Kishima joins the orchestra to perform the Tzigane. Ravel created this piece to suggest a Hungarian rhapsody, with a slow tempo in the first movement and a fast-paced second movement, Initially written for violin and piano, Ravel left this later arrangement for orchestra. Also included is the Bolero, Ravel’s last work for orchestra.
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Mikko Franck – Ravel: L’enfant et les sortilèges – Debussy: L’enfant prodigue (Live) (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:28:55 minutes | 1,50 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Erato – Warner Classics
Recorded live in Paris, two contrasting music dramas on the theme of an errant child, written by two supreme French composers and performed by a starry line-up of francophone singers. Mikko Franck, in his role as Music Director of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, conducts Debussy’s L’Enfant prodigue, starring Roberto Alagna and Karina Gauvin, and Ravel’s L’Enfant et les sortilèges, with Nathalie Stutzmann and Sabine Devieilhe among the singers surrounding Chloé Briot in the role of the Child.
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Raul De Souza – Plenitude (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:39 minutes | 1,21 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © PAO Records
The Brazilian virtuoso trombonist Raul de Souza is a world Jazz phenomenon whose unparalleled career spans six decades. Early success in his home territory was followed by stardom in the USA with Sweet Lucy, part of a long and storied discography that has included collaborations with other pre-eminent musicians of his and later generations in Brazil (where he enjoys legendary status), as well as many others around the world. Still active, de Souza has recently been working with a younger crop of musicians who bring modern sounds and fresh energy to his work. As Generations Band, they are celebrating the forthcoming release of Plenitude, the extraordinary first album they have made together. Born in 1934 in Rio de Janeiro, de Souza burst onto the vibrant Brazilian music scene in his 20s and played with the likes of Sérgio Mendes, Milton Nascimento, Airto Moreira and Flora Purim, co-developing the Bossa Nova of the ’50s and the Samba Jazz of the ’60s. After moving to Los Angeles in 1973, his collaborations with superstars such as Cannonball Adderley, Sonny Rollins, Jack DeJohnette, Herbie Hancock and Jaco Pastorius culminated in the 1977 hit Sweet Lucy, produced by George Duke. He eventually returned to Brazil, where he contributed to Tom Jobims 1996 Grammy-winning album Antônio Brasileiro. Still active as a composer and an astounding performer, de Souza has recently been working with a group of talented young musicians that has proved inspirational for all concerned. Ranging in age from 24 to 86, the intercontinental line-up of the Raul de Souza Generations Band includes Swiss born trombonist and arranger Christophe Schweizer, piano discovery Alex Correa, bassist Glauco Solter and drum prodigy Matheus Jardim. The unit originally came together in 2017 for a concert at a Jazz festival in Hamburg and has subsequently developed its own infectious blend of Funk with traditional and contemporary Brazilian Jazz, drawing on the rich legacy of rhythms, melodies and harmonies from that country and the beautiful sound of a two trombone front line. On tour shortly before the global pandemic and literally living together as a family for several weeks, the group recorded Plenitude, which consists of contemporary arrangements of de Souza’s early funk successes such as Sweet Lucy and Daisy Mae, collaborations with old friends (including a rework of Apesar de Você by compatriot Chico Buarque), plus brand new compositions.
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