Erik Dahl Ensemble – Gethenian Suite (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Erik Dahl Ensemble – Gethenian Suite (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:30 minutes | 1,10 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Svalka

Having an utommusical starting point is often grateful for creativity when composing. On this album, Erik Dahl has taken inspiration from Ursula Le Guins the left hand of darkness, a 1969 science fiction classic. A feminist novel that, among other things, puts our perceptions of the sexes on end. Highly topical yet to the highest degree and if these themes are heard in the music you can have different perceptions of. But undoubtedly, it is a narrative and image-creating music that flows forward where the listener can associate freely. A lot of the songs move in a kind of dreamy landscape, dynamically certainly where the music moves between empathy and utlevel, with tensions between harmonious and disharmonious.

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Eric Serra – The Big Blue (Remastered) [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (1988/2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Eric Serra – The Big Blue (Remastered) [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (1988/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:00:46 minutes | 644 MB | Genre: Soundtrack
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Wagram Music

Eric Serra is an award-winning French film music composer best known for his work with director Luc Besson on international blockbusters. Here is the remastered & expanded reissue of Eric Serra’s classic score for Le Grand Bleu.

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Eric Serra – Subway (Remastered) [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (1985/2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Eric Serra – Subway (Remastered) [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (1985/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 49:43 minutes | 566 MB | Genre: Soundtrack
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Wagram Music

Eric Serra is an award-winning French film music composer best known for his work with director Luc Besson on international blockbusters. Here is the remastered & expanded reissue of Eric Serra’s classic score for stylish comedy.

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Eric Serra – Lucy (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Eric Serra – Lucy (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:02:42 minutes | 639 MB | Genre: Soundtrack
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Back Lot Music

From La Femme Nikita and The Professional to The Fifth Element, writer/director Luc Besson has created some of the toughest, most memorable female action heroes in recent cinematic history. Now, Besson directs Scarlett Johansson and Academy Award winner Morgan Freeman in LUCY, an action-thriller that examines the possibility of what one human could truly do if she unlocked 100 percent of her brain capacity and accessed the furthest reaches of her mind. The Sondtrack album features new music by composer Eric Serra and the original end title song “Sister Rust” by Damon Albarn.

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Eric Schaefer, The Shredz – Bliss (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Eric Schaefer, The Shredz – Bliss (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 42:50 minutes | 455 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ACT Music

On “Bliss”, Eric Schaefer and his band The Shredz blend the fusion jazz of the sixties with the jazz dub of the nineties and the club music of today to concoct an explosive hubble-bubble of a magic brew. Although it sometimes sounds like it, it’s not Voodoo,It is merely the logical continuation of what made Schaefer’s playing so unique from the outset: style and good taste, skills and know-how, complex compositions and improvisatory passion. Rooted in hardcore and matured in jazz, Schaefer plays a range that goes way beyond the scope of any academic colloquium.In 2013, to coincide with the 200th anniversary of Richard Wagner’s birth, Schaefer brought out his ACT debut as band leader in the form of “Who’s afraid of Richard W.?”. Without trepidation he gnawed Wagner’s music down to its skeleton, to then toss the bones into new constellat.

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Eric Schaefer – Kyoto Mon Amour (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Eric Schaefer – Kyoto Mon Amour (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 49:55 minutes | 903 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ACT Music

Drummer and composer Eric Schaefer has been described as the central shining star of the German jazz scene. On “Kyoto mon Amour”, he takes on the challenge of building bridges between Japanese and Western music. Over more than a decade, he has made three visits to Korea and stayed in Japan no fewer than six times, trips which have greatly influenced Schaefer’s musical psyche.

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Eric Revis – Slipknots Through a Looking Glass (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Eric Revis – Slipknots Through a Looking Glass (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 57:18 minutes | 588 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Pyroclastic Records

Poised to challenge those limited views of Revis’ expression, Slipknots Through a Looking Glass — his eighth solo-led album, and first release on Pyroclastic Records — explores new territory alongside familiar travelers: drummer Chad Taylor, pianist Kris Davis and saxophone masters Darius Jones and Bill McHenry. “The band is kind of an amalgam of groups I’ve previously recorded with,” says Revis, who sought to combine the energies of various project iterations on a single record.

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Eric Revis – Sing Me Some Cry (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Eric Revis – Sing Me Some Cry (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 54:14 minutes | 1,10 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Clean Feed

Double Bassist Eric Revis expands his concepts in this outstanding album with fellow New Yorkers, pianist Kris Davis and drummer Chad Taylor, and Chicago reedist Ken Vandermark on tenor saxophone, with all four players providing compositions that push the limit on structure and form while opening up the players to superb soloing settings of great modern jazz.

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Eric Reed – Groovewise (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Eric Reed – Groovewise (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 58:56 minutes | 690 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Smoke Sessions Records

Eric Reed didn’t want to make a good record, he wanted to make a great one. The celebrated pianist and musician says, I could have called guys who play exactly what I want; it would have been good and not very interesting. It would have been swinging or it would have sounded nice there wouldn t have really been a spark. You don t just want to sound good. You want it to be amazing. And, his Groovewise is that killing record. It features a memorable quartet with Seamus Blake, Ben Williams, and Gregory Hutchinson and is the first recorded meeting of Reed and Hutchinson in over 15 years. They are clearly inspired performing in front of a live audience and the creative energy flies off the bandstand. They open with an impromptu rendition of Powerful Paul Robeson for Clifford Jordan whose wife, Sandy, who was in attendance and they close with the extended title track Groovewise bracketing a thrilling set of live jazz. Several of the compositions are dedicated to the memories of Mulgrew Miller, Cedar Walton, and Marian McPartland and Eric s Until the Last Cat has Swung, is a declaration that jazz remains alive and well in the hands of a new generation. Although Eric might not feel ready to be a keeper of the flame, jazz music is much better off that he already is.

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Eric Reed – For Such a Time as This (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Eric Reed – For Such a Time as This (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:13 minutes | 1,08 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Smoke Sessions

For more than three decades, Eric Reed has been one of the most influential and beloved jazz musicians. He’s recorded close to 30 accomplished leader albums showcasing his virtuosic chops, intellectual clarity and unwavering will to swing. Most remarkable is his ability to refract and coalesce a wide range of musical, spiritual, and personal influences into a single stream of consciousness. This is perhaps the most personal of them all.

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Eric Reed – Everybody Gets the Blues (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Eric Reed – Everybody Gets the Blues (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:35 minutes | 1,11 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Smoke Sessions

The title of Eric Reed’s new album has a double meaning—as in, everybody understands the blues, and everybody feels down from time to time. “Your blues may not be my blues, but everybody gets them,” he writes in the liner notes. True enough, but this album is too joyful for that to be the parting message. After having listened to it, you’ll understand intuitively—if you don’t already—why Eric Reed is one of the most reliably good pianists in the gospel-jazz tradition.

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Eric Lu – Late Works by Mozart, Schubert & Brahms (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Eric Lu – Late Works by Mozart, Schubert & Brahms (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:03 minutes | 1,04 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Genuin

Late works played by a young achiever: The up-and-coming American pianist Eric Lu plays major works of piano music on his first Genuin Classics CD. With this, he casts a spell on us from the distant opening bars of Mozart’s A minor Rondo! Schubert’s Impromptus also come from a different world and with Brahms’ Piano Pieces, Op. 118 he lets the autumn of Romanticism blow over to us. Listening to these recordings, one can understand why he not only won the International German Piano Award 2017, but also the Chopin Competition and, and, and, and … Transcendent!

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Eric Lu – Chopin: 24 Préludes – Brahms: Intermezzo, Op. 117 No. 1 – Schumann: Ghost Variations (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Eric Lu – Chopin: 24 Préludes – Brahms: Intermezzo, Op. 117 No. 1 – Schumann: Ghost Variations (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:28 minutes | 998 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics

The most striking aspect of these Preludes by Chopin undertaken by Eric Lu is the absolutely lyrical tranquility that dominates the forty-minute-long journey which is so arduous to build fluidly and coherently. Eric Lu deserves admiration for the expressive and polyphonic unity that he brings to the cycle, which is usually more contrasted. The American’s playing resounds as his phrases transport you on a grand, noble journey of emotion. Behind this soft façade is a somewhat more tragic melancholy, which increases over the course of the album and reveals the sombre, or at the very least anxious nature of the 24 Preludes. Chopin is at his darkest romanticism, not too far removed from the Schumann of the Kreisleriana (April 1838).

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Eric Lu – Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 – Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 2 & Ballade No. 4 (Live) (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Eric Lu – Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 – Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 2 & Ballade No. 4 (Live) (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:14:04 minutes | 696 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics

Warner Classics and Askonas Holt are proud to announce the signing of 20-year old American pianist, Eric Lu, winner and Dame Fanny Waterman Gold Medallist at the prestigious Leeds International Piano Competition 2018. As part of this year’s coveted prize the winner receives worldwide management with Askonas Holt – one of the world’s leading arts management agencies, and an international album release on Warner Classics – one of the foremost global classical music recording companies. This is the first time a record label and a management agency partner with ‘The Leeds’ to create a ground-breaking portfolio prize designed with long-term career development in mind. The recording deal is a corner-stone of its new prize package, designed to redefine what a music competition can offer young performers. Both, Warner Classics and Askonas Holt, aim to ensure that the winner has the opportunities, support and advice to develop a significant long-term international career.

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Eric Legnini – Waxx Up (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Eric Legnini – Waxx Up (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:00:46 minutes | 681 MB | Genre: Jazz, R&B, Soul, Funk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Anteprima

New album from Belgian jazz pianist Eric Legnini. A collection of short, pop and soul-oriented tracks, moving between acoustic and electronic music, and between yesterday and today. Eric Legnini has been serving jazz for twenty-five years; under his own name or as a special guest, the theme master has nothing much to prove. This particular chapter is not necessarily over, only this time he has decided to honour the raw material which fuels his work, the black wax in which his music has always dug deep for inspiration, and which has gradually shaped his style.”Wax is my roots! Vinyl records, sampling, the seventies-all these are ingrained in my musical culture”, says this record junkie who never misses an occasion to dig through a crate of LPs.”This record contains all the kinds of music that nurtured me: from hip-hop to soul, from funk jazz to present-day r’n’b. I am not trying to hide the sources of my inspiration, I’m simply giving my own version of them.”

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