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McCoy Tyner – Time For Tyner (1968/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 42:44 minutes | 1,42 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blue Note Records
Time for Tyner is the ninth album by jazz pianist McCoy Tyner and his third released on the Blue Note label. It was recorded in May 1968 and features performances by Tyner with Bobby Hutcherson, Herbie Lewis and Freddie Waits. The Penguin Guide to Jazz selected this album as part of its suggested “Core Collection” calling it “a powerhouse performance from first to last.”
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McCoy Tyner – The Real McCoy (1967/2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 37:21 minutes | 1,45 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blue Note Records
Originally released as Blue Note BLP 4264 (mono) and BST 84264 (stereo)
The Real McCoy is an engaging and energizing set that finds the extraordinary pianist in peak form. The album highlights his development as both a composer and a performer. For his first album on Blue Note Records, McCoy is joined by Elvin Jones, Ron Carter and Joe Henderson. The quartet performs riveting tunes including “Passion Dance” and “Four by Five.”
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McCoy Tyner – Expansions (1969/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 46:26 minutes | 1,53 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blue Note Records
Of pianist McCoy Tyner’s seven Blue Note albums of the 1967-1970 period, Expansions is the most definitive. Tyner’s group (comprised of trumpeter Woody Shaw, altoist Gary Bartz, tenor saxophonist Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter on cello, bassist Herbie Lewis, and drummer Freddie Waits) is particularly strong, the compositions (four Tyner originals plus Calvin Massey’s “I Thought I’d Let You Know”) are challenging, and the musicians seem quite inspired by each other’s presence. The stimulating music falls between advanced hard bop and the avant-garde, pushing and pulling at the boundaries of modern mainstream jazz.
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Mccafferty – Yarn (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 37:31 minutes | 438 MB | Genre: Indie Rock, Pop Punk, Emo
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Triple Crown Records
According to McCafferty the music on their sophomore album serves as a metaphor for yarn, “a long rambling story that is incoherent and just sort of goes on.” This group uses suspenseful and horror-infused electronic elements to create punk songs with a musical punch and lyrics with shock value as the main focus. “One of the definitions of ‘yarn’ is a long, rambling story that is incoherent and just sort of goes on,” Hartkop explains. “I think that really defines McCafferty. No matter how many times we tried to put it down, it’s come back up. The band wasn’t done with us. It was calling us back for a reason.”
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Mayumi Hirasaki & Lorenzo Ghielmi – L’arte della scordatura – Violin Works from Biber to Tartini (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:15:25 minutes | 786 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Passacaille
With this recording, violinist Mayumi Hirasaki, who has been Concerto Köln’s concertmaster since 2011, explores the chameleon-like possibilities of her instrument: when playing with scordatura, instead of the usual fifths interval between the violin strings, an alternative is used in which at least one string is tuned to a different pitch. This results in completely new sonic and harmonic possibilities, which Mayumi Hirasaki presents in works by Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Biagio Marini and Giuseppe Tartini, among others – sometimes highly virtuosic, sometimes dance-like or cantabile. The colourful continuo group includes Lorenzo Ghielmi (harpsichord), Christoph Urbanetz (viola da gamba), Michael Freimuth (lute, theorbo, baroque guitar) and Johannes Loescher (violone).
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Maysa – Love Is a Battlefield (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 49:00 minutes | 558 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Shanachie Entertainment
Love Is A Battlefield, which features Maysa’s reimagining of the songs that have inspired her throughout her lifetime, is far and away the most sensuous and heartfelt recording of her brilliant career. Teaming up with hit making producers Chris “Big Dog” Davis (Will Downing, Kim Burrell, George Clinton), Jason Miles (Luther Vandross, Miles Davis, Chaka Khan), and The Heavyweights (Regina Belle, All-4-One), Maysa digs deep to deliver the soulful, jazz-inflected performances the world has come to love.
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Maysa – Franquesa (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:31:04 minutes | 973 MB | Genre: Bossa Nova, Latin Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Before 1962 Recordings
Maysa Figueira Monjardim (June 6, 1936 – January 22, 1977), better known as Maysa Matarazzo, was a Brazilian singer, composer, and actress. She is also associated with Bossa nova music but is widely known as a torch song (fossa) interpreter.
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Maysa – Barquinho (1961/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 29:09 minutes | 306 MB | Genre: Bossa Nova, Latin Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Music Manager
Brazilian singer, composer, and actress Maysa Matarazzo (1936-1977), associated with Bossa Nova music but also widely known as a torch song (fossa) interpreter, was one of the most popular artists of her time. Presented here are two of her best albums, which were also her only two albums for Columbia Records, Barquinho (Columbia 37161), taped in Brazil, and Songs Before Dawn (Columbia CS 8426), which was made in New York and finds her performing a mixture of Brazilian, French and Spanish songs, as well as American standards. Maysa died in a car crash at the age of 40.
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Mayke Rademakers – Stagioni (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 51:26 minutes | 498 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Challenge Classics
Mayke Rademakers: “The e-cello is a relatively new instrument; it has not yet conquered its true place in the world of classical music. It presents an enormous spectrum of sound colors as well as the possibility of polyphony when played in conjunction with a loop and other effect pedals. It has inspired me significantly as a classical musician and I cannot now imagine undertaking my compositions and improvisations without it. Improvisation directly engages intuition and spontaneity which in turn enlarges perspective.
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Maya Youssef – Syrian Dreams (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 49:48 minutes | 947 MB | Genre: World
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © harmonia mundi
The latest release in harmonia mundi’s fascinating Latitudes series features Maya Youssef, a virtuoso of the qanun, a traditional Syrian zither. Youssef’s extraordinary musical gift and generosity of outlook, warmth, humor and optimism have brought comparisons with such legendary virtuosos as Ravi Shankar, Yehudi Menuhin and Meredith Monk. Syrian Dreams was written to express Youssef’s powerful feelings of loss and sadness over the tragedy and suffering occurring in her homeland.
Combining her extraordinary talent and dexterity, Maya Youssef has crafted a unique and innovative approach to playing the qanun, a traditional Syrian 78 stringed plucked zither famed for its penetrating and illustrious sound. To Maya, the act of playing music is a life and hope-affirming act; a space and musical solace where harm and pain is not only hindered, but reversed. Her latest album, produced by Jerry Boys, the Grammy-winning engineer of the Buena Vista Social Club series, and overseen by renowned record producer Joe Boyd, reveals an unparalleled work of musical ingenuity, agility and finesse, firmly placing her amongst some of the most skilled qanun players of her generation.
Presented with double bass and percussion, ‘Syrian Dreams’ is Maya Youssef’s personal journey through the 6 years of war in Syria, a translation of her memories of home and an expression of a deeply rooted connected to her music. Her journey with the qanun spans back to her youth in Damascus, where she was nationally recognised by the age of 12 and went on to graduate from the High Institute of Music and Dramatic Arts in Damascus. After having taught qanun at Oman’s Sultan Qaboos University, she was endorsed by the Arts Council England to move to London as part of their ‘Exceptional Talent Scheme’, where she now teaches, plays and researches. Currently undertaking a PhD at SOAS, she is examining the significance and adaptability of music as a healing tool, with a focus on Syrian refugee children at camps in Lebanon and Europe.
Debuting her highly anticipated first album, Maya will be supported by Basel Saleh of the Orchestra of Syrian Musicians, renowned Syrian oud player, conductor and choir leader whose stunning work has resonated far beyond his native Homs to be featured throughout prestigious festivals in the Middle East and Europe.
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Maya Levy, Hrachya Avanesyan – The Lockdown (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 55:56 minutes | 961 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RUBICON
With their concerts celebrating the anniversaries of Piazzolla and Prokofiev in 2021 cancelled due to Covid, violinists Maya Levy and Hrachya Avenesyan decided to put their time in Lockdown to good use by recording a programme of works by both composers and turning their Brussels apartment into a recording studio. The result is this striking and dramatic album. The music of both composers contains emotions that many of us will have experienced over the past year. Fear, tension, despair, hope, joy – the emotional range explored by the works on this recording is wide ranging but overall, the mood is of hope triumphing. Prokofiev composed his sonatas under Soviet repression, and Piazzolla’s Tangos have the unmistakable bitter-sweet melancholy of the Argentinian soul underlying the sultry and sensual tango.
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Maya Hawke – Blush (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 38:20 minutes | 405 MB | Genre: Indie Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mom+Pop
Born in New York City, 21 year old Maya Hawke is an actress, singer and lyricist. Hawke was most recently seen in the third season of Netflix’s “Stranger Things,” as well as in Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” and Amanda Kramer’s “Ladyworld.” Following the release of her independently released A and B side singles in 2019, she returns with a deeply personal full-length album. Hawke, who wrote the lyrics, continued her collaboration with Grammy Award-winning songwriter Jesse Harris, who wrote the music for the album. On creating the album, Hawke says, “This album happened accidentally… Jesse and I started working together accidentally… we kept writing, kept collecting songs because it brought joy into both of our lives. Collecting them into an album and releasing it comes from a crazy, if not pathological desire to share that joy with others. From my point of view, ‘Blush’ is a collection of secret messages, hidden communications with the people in my life. ‘By Myself’ was a secret message to myself, that I hope I’ll receive someday soon.”
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Maya Fridman & Artem Belogurov – The Fiery Angel (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 28:15 minutes | 888 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © TRPTK
Taking a large musical work such as an opera, and arranging it into a piece of chamber music, can be quite a daunting task, as you may imagine. But it had been done before, especially in the late 19th century. Taking Sergei Prokofiev’s masterpiece, The Fiery Angel, and recomposing – no, re-imagining – it into a half-hour story that completely conveys the story with just two instruments, that’s a monumental task. A task which Maya Fridman took upon herself in 2015, as part of her Master’s Degree in cello performance (for which she received the highest honors, cum laude).
To be able to create this arrangement, she needed to work out a way to portray all these different roles of the story with just two instruments, cello and piano. The hysterical, erratic Renata, the knight Ruprecht, Madiël, the Fiery Angel himself, and even figures such as the Village Witch and the people at the convent in Trier, all are portrayed wonderfully by Maya’s arrangement for these two instruments. Her famously expressive playing style came in perfectly to suit the various timbres her arrangement requires.
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Maya Fridman – Ten Songs of Change (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 45:48 minutes | 718 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © TRPTK
“Author Lulu Wang selected poetry from the Tang and Song Dynasty which are considered the golden age of Chinese arts and culture. Each of the poems reflects the feeling of the trigrams and the related musical piece. By weaving the poetry into the music, the album becomes a tapestry of experiences and moods reflecting upon the eight trigrams. The music is dedicated to Maya Fridman, an alchemist who, through her deep musical understanding can turn any music into gold. Her sound on the cello speaks from soul to soul. Working with Maya and Lulu on this project has been a dreamlike experience for which I am ever grateful.” (Marion von Tilzer)
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Maya Fridman – REIÐ (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 47:10 minutes | 848 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © TRPTK
“In the middle of the journey of our life, I found myself within a dark woods where the straight way was lost” – Dante Alighieri, Inferno
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