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Human Fortress – Epic Tales & Untold Stories (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:42:45 minutes | 1,28 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Massacre Records
Human Fortress proudly presents the band’s new album “Epic Tales & Untold Stories” – their most epic and commercial release so far!The band is happy to release a new album, a bit more than one year after “Reign Of Gold” – and it’s a special something for their fans!The CD Digipak version of the album will include 2 CDs: The first CD contains new, rare, and previously unreleased songs, while the second CD offers a selection of the band’s best songs. It was hard for the band to select the songs that should be featured on the second CD, and there are still many classics missing. This is how they chose the songs: First, Human Fortress picked songs that are part of the band’s live set for many years now. Then, they kept an eye on the fans’ favorites on YouTube and various streaming services and included a few of them as well.”Epic Tales & Untold Stories” a gift and a huge thanks to their fans for more than 20 years of trust and solidarity!
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Human Feel – Speak To It (Remastered) (1996/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:35 minutes | 1,37 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Songlines Recordings
The fourth album by this Brooklyn-based collective builds on their strengths in a program that ranges across jazz, improv, and contemporary classical/new music, with a passing nod to the traditions of eastern Europe. As composers, Black, Speed and D’Angelo provide different frameworks for the band’s characteristic, often tensile explorations, heard as well in their atmospheric rendition of the Billie Holiday standard “Left Alone” where they’re joined by vocalist Holly Palmer. The feel moves in and out of time (from jazz-rock to free, polyrhythmic and vamp to rubato), while the shifting textural/melodic interplay demonsrtates their commitment to collective improvisation. As critic Louisa Hufstader remarked about their 1994 New World/Countercurrents release, “You can hear them listening to each other, reevaluating, reacting; there’s both urgency and joy in the process…These are really, really talented guys having fun.” The unedited analog recording vividly preserves the integrity of their playing.
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Human Feel – Gold (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 58:56 minutes | 1,05 GB | Genre: Contemporary Jazz, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Intakt Records
Human Feel have been together 30 years now, with no personnel changes in almost as long. Chris Speed, Andrew D’Angelo, Kurt Rosenwinkel and Jim Black had been developing individual and collective vocabularies in this very outfit, which went on to epitomize the 90s downtown scene. Through it all Human Feel has carried on, and whenever they reconvene they have new musical stories to tell, and old ways of relating, of honing musical structures that depend on precision in the details yet leave much to be determined in performance. Now Human Feel present ‘Gold’ 12 years after their last album. The fusion of various musical idioms and the subtle play of calculation and spontaneity provide a highly individual musical language. Jim Black says, We were joking recently we only make an album every 10 years now … The past four years we’ve been getting together more often to work on new material, and to record when schedules allow. We had an amazing European tour in November 2017. The band just gets better. We believe more than ever that the four of us making music together is a necessity, and we intend to keep doing it wherever and whenever we can.
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Hum – Inlet (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 55:30 minutes | 1,04 GB | Genre: Alternative Rock, Shoegaze
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Earth Analog Records
Champaign, Illinois rock band Hum have surprise-released their first new album in over 22 years: Inlet is the group’s follow-up to January 1998’s Downward Is Heavenward.
Hum—the quartet of Matt Talbott, Tim Lash, Jeff Dimpsey, and Bryan St. Pere—released four albums during their original run from 1991 to 1998. The band is best known for the 1995 hit “Stars.” Hum broke up in 2000 and, prior to the release of Inlet, sporadically reunited for concerts and tours.
The new album is an eight-track release that should appease fans of the band’s ’90s output. Highlights include the album opener “Waves,” the hypnotically epic “Desert Rambler,” the dark yet crushing “The Summoning” and the slow ebbing closer “Shapeshifter.”
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HUK’s ELEVEN – Rescued from the Drawer (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:03:06 minutes | 684 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © DeHai
The most important thing is in the CD. As mentioned there, for years I brought arrangements to the workshop of Rolf Häsler in Interlaken. The suggestion to record a CD came mostly from the course teachers and when the idea for the production of a CD became concrete, they were also willing to work on the project. My brother Fredi, Roland Bürki, Cornel Studach and Ivo Prato were added. Thus, the band consists of (almost) all course teachers, Ivo and 4 students, a total of 11 musicians. What’s next? We all had a lot of fun with this project and the recordings and we are proud of this CD. Therefore, we are sure to be performing in different venues this year and next year, performing the whole album “live”!
Read moreHuiseung Yoo, Véronique Teruel – Mé lange viennois (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/176,4kHz]
Huiseung Yoo, Véronique Teruel – Mé lange viennois (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/176,4 kHz | Time – 01:08:17 minutes | 2,93 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Audioguy
Since 2012, violinist Huiseung Yoo is the first Korean associate concertmaster of the Vienna Volksoper Orchestra. Pianist Véronique Teruel graduated from the Conservatoire National de Lyon – piano, harpsichord, harp and ballet. She received her Master’s degree at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, where she has been a Senior Lecturer for many years. The Vienna connection is clear.
On this DSD Album, Ms. Yoo and Ms. Teruel perform compositions by Kreisel, Elgar, Strauss (arr. Prihoda), Chausson, Fauré, Sibelius, Monti, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff.
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Hugo Siegmeth & Axel Wolf – Now: Jazz & Renaissance Improvisations (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:34:17 minutes | 1,10 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Oehms Classics
After the big success of the album “Flow” we have here new recordings that are completely different from the previous ones in one respect. Here, the duo of Axel Wolf and Hugo Siegmeth plays exclusively their own pieces. They do not resort to classical material from jazz or ‘standards’ of Early Music, but only to ones that are unfamiliar. For they are pieces that emerged spontaneously: nothing but duo improvisations, most of which were recorded on one and the same day in a Bavarian Radio studio in Munich. The lutenist Axel Wolf and the saxophonist Hugo Siegmeth who join forces here are two musicians with roots in completely different musical disciplines. A virtuoso on the lute and theorbo, Axel Wolf specializes in the Renaissance and Baroque periods, whereas Hugo Siegmeth, saxophonist and composer, is an expert on modern jazz and contemporary music. Although several centuries lie between the heydays of both musical styles, these two musicians both place special focus on improvisation: involvement in the surprising moment and spontaneous interaction.
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Hugo Montenegro & His Orchestra and Chorus – Hang ‘Em High (Remastered) (1968/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 28:37 minutes | 639 MB | Genre: Soundtracks, Easy Listening, Oldies
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA – Legacy
“Back in the ’50s “background” or “mood music” was the rage. Today, background music has moved to the foreground thanks to the popularity of talented arranger-conductor-composers like Hugo Montenegro. The Montenegro musical credits are most impressive: staff arranger for Andre Kostelanetz, conductor-arranger for Harry Belafonte, important film-scoring assignments (“Hurry Sundown”) and extensive TV work (“I Dream of Jeannie,” “The Outcasts” and “Here Come the Brides”). With selections like Theme from “Valley of the Dolls,” In The Heat of the Night, Theme from “The Fox” and the new hit Hang ‘Em High, this Montenegro album runs the gamut from romantic rock through raunchy blues, brassy mariachi and the bright, lyrical western orchestral settings that made THE MUSIC FROM THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY such a smash. Here, then, is more of the Montenegro magicimaginative, modern, entertaining and distinctive.”
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Hugo Barriol – Yellow (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 47:06 minutes | 987 MB | Genre: Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © naïve
Recorded in London with the producer Ian Grimble (Daughter, Mumford and Sons, Bear’s Den) at Church’s Studio, between the high walls of a church where Mass is held every Sunday, Yellow was born, song after song. Starting with “Oh My,” a thrilling opening track evoking the toxicity of bad encounters, and moving on to “Million Years,” born during an outdoor getaway, and “Always,” inspired by the passing of a travel loving friend and the fragility of existence, the 12 songs follow each other in a beautiful sequence, cultivating the folk and acoustic sound of Hugo, who wants to bring “light, color, warmth” to his melancholy. His goal is to deliver his life experiences with sincerity without losing the unifying and lively potential of rhythm.
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Hugo Barriol – Hey Love (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 18:44 minutes | 323 MB | Genre: Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © 67 Records
Third single from his upcoming EP, Hey Love plunges us into the heart of a romantic relationship made of ups and downs, all with disconcerting sincerity !
For the past few months, Hugo Barriol has been distilling compositions full of sweetness and melancholy, for our greatest happiness ! Whether with the sublime Stay or more recently with Don’t Let me Down, the French prodigy teases us his next EP that will be released on November 6th.
Today, he offers us a third excerpt entitled Hey Love which takes the codes of his predecessors: intimate folk, angelic voice, dreamlike atmosphere… about this title, he declares : “I wrote this song last summer, when I felt that my relationship had reached breathless…”
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Hugh Cornwell – Monster (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:12:31 minutes | 846 MB | Genre: Rock, Singer-Songwriter
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Music CG
One of the most celebrated songwriters of his generation, Hugh Cornwell presents his latest album ‘Monster’. It features 10 tracks written about some of the most remarkable, and indeed infamous, people of the 20th Century, both heroes and villains. As a companion disc to the album, ‘Restoration’ is a collection of 10 re-recorded acoustic versions Stranglers hits which Hugh has rediscovered over the years including favourites No More Heroes and Always the Sun alongside gems from the band’s catalogue including Outside Tokyo, Don’t Bring Harry and Let Me Down Easy.
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Hugh Coltman – Who’s Happy? (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 52:13 minutes | 554 MB | Genre: Vocal Jazz, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Okeh
After a beautiful homage to Nat King Cole, the most French of the British singers flew out to New Orleans in order to record new compositions with his fellow travelers, a local brass band and the virtuoso guitarist Freddy Koella, co-director of Who’s Happy ?. Dancing percussion, brass instruments filled with soul, guitars blending blues and jazz, nothing is missing from his groovy fiesta that is sometimes punctuated nostalgic and laidback overtones and in which Hugh Coltman managed to slip in his personal touch. There resides the strength of a disc which respects tradition that he tackles with a contemporary eye. It is worth noting the participation of Melissa Laveaux on Hand Me Downs.
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Hugh Coltman – Shadows – Songs of Nat King Cole & Live at Jazz à Vienne (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:35:14 minutes | 1010 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Okeh
Deluxe reissue of “Shadows: Songs of Nat King Cole” album. This release expanded with 1 bonus track & additionally contains “Live at Jazz à Vienne” as second disc.
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Huey “Piano” Smith & His Clowns – Having a Good Time (1965/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 26:38 minutes | 283 MB | Genre: R&B, Soul, Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Life Series
No collection of leftovers here, Huey “Piano” Smith’s album debut featured the hits “Rockin’ Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu,” “High Blood Pressure,” and “Don’t You Just Know It” along with Crescent City favorites like “Little Liza Jane,” “Don’t You Know Yockomo,” “Just A Lonely Clown,” and Bobby Marchan’s “Little Chickee Wah Wah.” As a budget priced collection, this one’s hard to turn down. An essential building block for any New Orleans collection.
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Huey Lewis And The News – Sports (1983/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 37:41 minutes | 1,50 GB | Genre: Rock, Pop, Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Capitol Records (CAP)
After two mildly successful, vaguely new-wave albums, Bay Area bar band Huey Lewis and the News (several of whose members had backed Elvis Costello on MY AIM IS TRUE) hooked up with mega-selling producer Mike Chapman and released 1983’s SPORTS. The album dominated both AM and FM radio throughout 1984, aligning it with THRILLER, PURPLE RAIN, SHE’S SO UNUSUAL, and Madonna’s early singles as definitive pop music of its era. SPORTS is genial frat-boy rock at its finest. Singles ‘The Heart of Rock and Roll,’ ‘Heart and Soul,’ ‘I Want a New Drug,’ and ‘If This is It’ comprise half of the album, and these songs have stood up to repeated listens. Hearing SPORTS today, the album still sounds surprisingly fresh, all the more remarkable when one considers how poorly other hits of the day have fared.
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