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Sylvain Rifflet – Mechanics (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 00:47:01 minutes | 495 MB | Genre: Jazz
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French saxophonist and composer Sylvain Rifflet has his finger firmly set on the pulse of modern times. Working with his group Alphabet, he has masterminded an innovative and spell-binding brand of music in which the modernity of his jazz sound combines with the world of New York minimalism. Poets and writers of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century often described the then-nascent ”industrial world” and its machines as ”enemies of art.” However some did not see progress as dehumanizing. Science fiction imagined a futuristic world, which inspired artists and writers such as Jules Verne and HG Wells. Rifflet’s album Mechanics, with a cover illustration by Belgian comic book artist Francois Schuiten, journeys through forward looking and fantastical worlds.
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Serge Adam, Benoit Delbecq, Philippe Foch – Les amants de Juliette s’electrolysent (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 00:37:26 minutes | 450 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: Qobuz | @ Quoi de neuf docteur
Depuis l’automne 1993, LES AMANTS DE JULIETTE pratiquent une musique dont l’essence est née du désir de tourner les oreilles vers les cultures traditionnelles lointaines. La trompette, omniprésente dans l’histoire du Jazz, tient seule ici le rôle du chant. Les tablas évoquent l’Inde et ses traditions musicales millénaires. Les percussions n’ont plus d’âge. Le piano préparé avec des résonateurs évoque la richesse des mélodies de timbres de l’Indonésie, mais aussi la polyrythmie propre au continent africain. LES AMANTS DE JULIETTE ont choisi d’entreprendre un voyage musical hors du commun. Aujourd’hui, les outils numériques rendent possible une proposition de matière nouvelle, traitée en temps réel, qui va nourrir le jeu collectif. Ici, pas de boucles ni de séquences préenregistrées, chaque musicien développe sa propre syntaxe au sein de l’improvisation collective. Guidés par la recherche des confrontations de timbres, modes de jeu, phrasés, par les rapports et traitements possibles des sources acoustiques et électroniques, ils créent sur la trame de l’oeuvre écrite un temps singulier, une proposition d’un nouvel univers et une invitation à la transe. Après une première expérimentation à la Parenthèse et à l’Alizé à Avignon en 2006 et 2008, nouvelle création le 30 Août 2014 au Festival Jazz Métis à Montreuil.
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Franz Schubert – Nachtviolen-Schubert Lieder – Christian Gerhaher, Gerold Huber (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:16:41 minutes | 650 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: Qobuz | @ Sony Classical
Nachtviolen is the title of a text by Schubert’s frequent collaborator Johann Mayrhofer, here translated with the flowers’ usual English name, Dame’s Violets. They might also be called night violets, which gives an idea of the gentle yet often somewhat dark and mysterious mood of most of the songs programmed here by German baritone Christian Gerhaher. The songs are by and large not very common ones, and Sony deserves credit for not insisting on the inclusion of one of the big Goethe hits. But what Gerhaher gets instead is unusual continuity, both within the often very complex songs he has chosen and over the course of the entire program. The partnership between Gerhaher and pianist Gerold Huber is very close in examining the ways Schubert emancipated the piano from an accompanimental role and often had it mold songs into entirely new shapes. Gerhaher’s voice is deceptively smooth; listeners won’t realize how deeply they’ve been drawn into the drama of a song and how it spills over the neat quatrains of the poetry. The entire program will haunt the mind long after hearing it, but for those who have to have highlights, check out the quietly bittersweet conclusion of Abschied, D. 475 (track 4), and the wild harmonic experimentation of Totengräber-Weise, D. 869 (Gravedigger’s Song, track 15). A triumphant release from a singer who has emerged at the top of the considerable heap of baritone Schubert specialists.
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Title: Ben L’Oncle Soul – Live Paris
Release Date: 2011
Genre: R&B, Soul, Jazz
Artist: Ben L’Oncle Soul & Band feat. Beat Assaillant, Opé Smith, Ulrich Kwasi, 20Syl
Production/Label: Motown | Universal Music France
Duration: 01:59:25
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: DTS, PCM
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 35000 kbps 1920*1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: French DTS-HD MA 5.1 / 48 kHz / 4821 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio#2: French LPCM 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Subtitles: English
Size: 40.97 GB
Ben, alternatively known by the full name ‘Ben L’Oncle Soul’ is an extraordinary success story in France. A chart topping album on the Motown France label, now approaching half a million sales. Ben L’Oncle Soul is a hugely energetic and entertaining modern take on the Soul Revue band – Strong overtones of Motown and The Blues Bros meets Dexys in the 21st Century. A voice with echoes of Ray Charles, Otis Redding and Stevie Wonder. 300 tour dates over the last eighteen months has seen Ben L’Oncle Soul perform for nearly 1 million spectators – including no less than 10 sold-out dates at Zenith in Paris. Ben L’Oncle Soul is the breakthrough French artist of 2011. Ben first gained prominence in his home country with the Soul Wash mini-album (2009), which featured six covers of songs by Gnarls Barkley, Spice Girls, Katy Perry and, most notably, The White Stripes (Seven Nation Army). That mini-album is included in this package alongside the ‘Live Paris’ audio CD and DVD elements. This package is more than just a live classic, it’s an unbelievable spectacle that reprises the greatest successes of his full length debut album and pays homage to the greatest artists of Soul music (Otis Redding, Curtis Mayfield etc) all delivered with extraordinary energy. Guest artists key to the French market include Beat Assailant, 20syl, Hoccus Pocus… (more…)
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Nickel Creek – A Dotted Line (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 37:58 minutes | 845 MB | Genre: Folk
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“If O Brother, Where Art Thou? cracked open the door to bluegrass’ past for a new generation, Nickel Creek are bent on giving it a future.”
—Entertainment Weekly
“Nickel Creek has an intuition for showing how different genres are more related than most people think…The group makes music with the songcraft and emotional frequencies of alternative rock.” —New York Times
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Concertos KV 207, 211, 218 – Salvatore Accardo, Prague Chamber Orchestra (2011)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:16:45 minutes | 1,48 GB | Genre: Classical
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Salvatore Accardo is a renowned Italian violin master, most recognized for his interpretation of works by Niccolo Paganini. On this cherished recording by audiophile label Fone Records, Accardo leads the Prague Chamber Orchestra through three concertos and rondeau for violin and orchestra. The works are some of Mozart’s finest and most inspired melodies.
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Minoru Nojima – Nojima Plays Franz Liszt (1987/2011)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 61:51 minutes | 988 MB | Genre: Classical
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Reclusive pianist virtuoso Minoru Nojima, one of Japan’s most internationally respected musicians, recorded this classic album in 1986. When first released in 1988, Nojima Plays Liszt became a reference work and established Minoru’s reputation as a fine interpreter of the music of Liszt. The album had been hard to find for many years until this reissue became available. Nojima, a “pianist’s pianist,” is not very well known in North America as he records and performs live very infrequently, but has been compared to some of the piano greats, was a silver prize winner of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 1969 and has performed with orchestras around the world.
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Minnie Riperton – Perfect Angel (1974/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 36:39 minutes | 1,41 GB | Genre: R&B
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Minnie Riperton’s first album for Epic – and the record that broke her from a hip Chicago underground artist into one of the seventies’ biggest soul divas! The record moves past the baroque soul of Minnie’s early years with Rotary Connection and Charles Stepney – and hits a mix of mellow compressed LA styles and slicker funkier numbers that do the same thing for her Chicago-trained vocals that Rufus’ backing did for that of Chaka Khan. Of course, it helps that she’s got some superbly sensitive writing and arranging help by husband Richard Rudolph – and Stevie Wonder’s definitely lurking in the background, too. Includes Minnie’s huge crossover hit “Loving You”, a perfect showcase for her beautiful 5 octave voice, plus the tracks “Our Lives”, “Every Time He Comes Around”, “Perfect Angel”, and “Reasons”.
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Masabumi Kikuchi Trio – Sunrise (2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88.2 kHz | Time – 00:51:56 minutes | 923 MB | Genre: Jazz
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An ECM debut from Masabumi Kikuchi and a last session from the great Paul Motian. Motian and Kikuchi were friends for many years and Paul understood the idiosyncracies and the wayward charm of the Japanese pianist’s highly personal style perhaps better than anyone. The trio – completed by Zen bassist Thomas Morgan – makes new art out of the interactive free rubato ballad. A strangely beautiful album.
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Lee Ritenour – A Twist Of Rit (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 1:10:27 minutes | 1,39 GB | Genre: Jazz
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A Twist of Rit is Lee Ritenour’s new 2015 Concord Records release. A star-studded band performs a number of new compositions combining with fresh, “twisted” versions of some of his earliest funky, fusion material from the 70s and early 80s. Combining some of the hottest rhythm players out there, including Ron Bruner Jr., Chris Coleman, Dave Weckl, Melvin Davis, Paulinho Da Costa, Michael Thompson, John Beasley, Patrice Rushen, and Dave Grusin with a five piece Horn Section and Ernie Watts on tenor sax, A Twist of Rit will make for one of his most special releases to date. (more…)
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RELEASE: American.Nightmare.Reunion.Los.Angeles.Show.2015.720p.MBluRay.x264-TREBLE
SOURCE: Music Bluray
DATE: 2015/10/15
GENRE: Hardcore
RUNTIME: 45min
AUDIO: [AC3] @ 192kbps
VIDEO: [x264] @ 6744kbps
RESOLUTION: [1280×720]
SUBS: n/a
IMDB: n/a
COMMENT: On December 29th and 31st, 2011, the last known incarnation of
American Nightmare (Give Up The Ghost) reunited to play their
first shows in almost eight long years. One in Boston and the other
Los Angeles, these legendary shows were comprised of fanatic
audiences who travelled from all over the globe
RELEASE: American.Nightmare.Reunion.Los.Angeles.Show.2015.1080p.MBluRay.x264-TREBLE
SOURCE: Music Bluray
DATE: 2015/10/15
GENRE: Hardcore
RUNTIME: 45min
AUDIO: [AC3] @ 192kbps
VIDEO: [x264] @ 13683kbps
RESOLUTION: [1920×1080]
SUBS: n/a
IMDB: n/a
COMMENT: On December 29th and 31st, 2011, the last known incarnation of
American Nightmare (Give Up The Ghost) reunited to play their
first shows in almost eight long years. One in Boston and the other
Los Angeles, these legendary shows were comprised of fanatic
audiences who travelled from all over the globe (more…)
RELEASE: American.Nightmare.Reunion.Boston.Show.2015.720p.MBluRay.x264-TREBLE
SOURCE: Music Bluray
DATE: 2015/10/15
GENRE: Hardcore
RUNTIME: 45min
AUDIO: [AC3] @ 192kbps
VIDEO: [x264] @ 6764kbps
RESOLUTION: [1280×720]
SUBS: n/a
IMDB: n/a
COMMENT: On December 29th and 31st, 2011, the last known incarnation of
American Nightmare (Give Up The Ghost) reunited to play their
first shows in almost eight long years. One in Boston and the other
Los Angeles, these legendary shows were comprised of fanatic
audiences who travelled from all over the globe
RELEASE: American.Nightmare.Reunion.Boston.Show.2015.REPACK.1080p.MBluRay.x264-TREBLE
SOURCE: Music Bluray
DATE: 2015/10/16
GENRE: Hardcore
RUNTIME: 45min
AUDIO: [AC3] @ 192kbps
VIDEO: [x264] @ 13720kbps
RESOLUTION: [1920×1080]
SUBS: n/a
IMDB: n/a
COMMENT: And the award for biggest E-penis of the week goes to the loser
from localnet. Yay, 300kb oversized (more…)
Сomposer: Frederic Chopin (1810-1849), Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Title: Lang Lang – Live In Versailles
Release Date: 2015
Genre: Classical
Artist: Lang Lang, piano
Production/Label: Sony Classical
Duration: 01:31:03
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: DTS, PCM
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 31000 kbps / 1920*1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: DTS-HD MA 5.0 / 48 kHz / 3163 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.0 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio#2: LPCM 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Subtitles: English, French, German
Size: 25.29 GB
Ever since his first visit to the magical space that is the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles, Lang Lang had dreamed of performing there. When his dream came to fruition in the form of a special recital on June 22, 2015 he chose Chopin’s four momentous Scherzi and Tchaikovsky’s rare but masterly cycle The Seasons to present to his audience. The live concert was filmed in 4K in the Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles.
Tchaikovsky and Chopin have both played a major role in Lang Lang’s career to date. When Lang Lang, as a 17-year-old, stood in for an indisposed André Watts at a Ravinia concert with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the work he played was Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto.
If Tchaikovsky has appeared at pivotal moments in Lang Lang’s career, Chopin has been a constant companion: a recital rarely goes by without music by the Polish master on the programme and Lang Lang has already recorded a substantial amount of his music, including the Études and the Ballades (which Lang Lang sees as siblings to the Scherzi).
Lang Lang is a committed advocate of Tchaikovsky’s The Seasons. As he says, “Even though there are not so many notes compared to more virtuosic pieces, the harmony that Tchaikovsky creates within these notes is incredible. His timeless melodies have a kind of pain that he always turns into beauty. He presents his heart, and he holds your heart.”
Mariss Jansons – Tchaikovsky: Pique Dame (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 02:48:30 minutes | 1,51 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: Q0buz | Artwork: Digital booklet | @ BR-Klassik
In its history as a concert orchestra, the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks has also devoted itself on numerous occasions to opera, under such eminent conductors as Rafael Kubelik and Leonard Bernstein. Chief conductor Mariss Jansons also maintains the tradition, for example with concert performances of Russian operas such as “Eugene Onegin”. BR-KLASSIK now presents the 2014 live recording in Munich’s Philharmonie im Gasteig of the semi-staged performance of Tchaikovsky’s late masterpiece “The Queen of Spades”. With great connoisseurship, Mariss Jansons has brought together a group of singers for this performance in original Russian who are all native speakers of the language, and very familiar with the work. They include Misha Didyk as Hermann, Tatiana Serjan as Lisa, and Alexey Markov as Prince Yeletsky. (more…)
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Low – Ones And Sixes (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 57:11 minutes | 641 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks | @ Sub Pop Records
Ones and Sixes takes everything Low excels at and dips it in a heavy gold plating of industrial-leaning electronics. This somehow catapults to new and extreme heights the innate beauty their music has always had. It’s a series of contrasts: stunning and menacing, gorgeous and frightening, giving and desperate, and ultimately, unbearably heavy and unbearably light. From one to six and back again. (more…)
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