Frank Zappa – The Mothers 1971 (Super Deluxe) (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Frank Zappa – The Mothers 1971 (Super Deluxe) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 09:51:31 minutes | 12,26 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Frank Zappa Catalog

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Mothers of Invention’s 1971 lineup, the complete Fillmore tapes are showcased here with every note played over 4 shows, including the John Lennon & Yoko Ono encore. Also included, is the full concert from the Rainbow Theatre in London, where FZ was infamously pushed off the stage, newly mixed by Eddie Kramer. This Super Deluxe 8 CD box set features a bonus hybrid 1971 concert from Harrisburg and Scranton, PA, with extensive liner notes and packaging.
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Feeder – Torpedo (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

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Feeder – Torpedo (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 41:14 minutes | 508 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Big Teeth Music

The follow-up to 2019’s Tallulah, Torpedo is the 11th studio album from Welsh rock group Feeder. A self-described return to the group’s “heavier” early sounds, the project was preceded by its bold title track, characterized by frontman Grant Nicholas as a “classic heavier but melodic Feeder song.” With an 11-song track list including bonus CD track “Desperate Hour,” Torpedo was released on Big Teeth in March 2022.
– David Crone
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Francesco Fratini – Homemade (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

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Francesco Fratini – Homemade (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 28:42 minutes | 337 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ReMida Productions

Francesco Fratini began studying the instrument at the age of 8 (trumpet). He studied with the teachers Salvatore Catania and Franco Vasselli, Giampaolo Casati, Pietro Tonolo, Stefano Zenni, Marco Tamburini, Claudio Corvini, Enrico Rava, Gianluigi Trovesi. In January 2009, still eighteen, he was called by Enrico Rava to join his ensemble, alongside Daniele Tittarelli, Gianluca Petrella, Giovanni Guidi, Gianluigi Trovesi, Dan Kinzelman and Stefano Senni.
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Fausto Mesolella – Madama Terra (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

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Fausto Mesolella – Madama Terra (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:05:21 minutes | 992 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Fonè Records

This album is a tribute to guitarist Fausto Mesolella’s art, his humanity, and his music. It paints a portrait that well represents musical moments that see him as a soloist or with other musicians such as Mimì Ciaramella (percussion), Vittorio Remino (bass), Ferdinando Ghidelli (steel guitar), Stefano Benni (vocals), and Raiz (vocals). This project full of emotions and pathos was realized in DSD Stereo to give a wider audience the opportunity to appreciate its beauty.
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Florie Valiquette – La Captive du Sérail (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Florie Valiquette – La Captive du Sérail (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:07 minutes | 1,13 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Château de Versailles Spectacles

Here are the Oriental Turqueries galantes of the Opera Comique, where the lovers are captured by Corsairs and held as prisoners: the Harem for the Belle and the galleys for her knight… These enslaved Christians captivated the artistic imagination, which mixed the Thousand and One Nights and slave traders in amorous intrigues where the Sultan is deceived in his Seraglio! The young soprano Florie Valiquette embodies these captive heroines, marked by love, despair and courage, while Gaetan Jarry offers the Orchestre de l’Opera Royal the bright colours and frenzied rhythms of Oriental fantasy, from Gretry to Mozart!
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Flock Of Dimes – Head of Roses: Phantom Limb (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

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Flock Of Dimes – Head of Roses: Phantom Limb (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 58:09 minutes | 654 MB | Genre: Alternative, Indie
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sub Pop Records

The selection of live recordings here run the spectrum, from solitary to exuberant. Some were made solo, in the summer of 2020, while other tracks are electrified with the energy that comes from a day cooped up making music with your friends. The versions of “Spring in Winter” and “Like So Much Desire,” from Wasner’s 2020 Like So Much Desire EP, were both recorded alone, on a grand piano in the rural sprawl of Pittsboro, North Carolina at Manifold Studios. The undulating, subdued version of “Hard Way” was recorded live for a KEXP session while Wasner was holed up in the Californian desert, and the live versions of “Two,” “One More Hour,” and “Price of Blue” that live on the bonus disc were recorded with the help of Wasner’s friends Mountain Man, Matt McCaughan, Joe Westerlund, Michael Libramento, Alan Good Parker, and Nick Sanborn out at Betty’s in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. There are also covers of two of Wasner’s favorite songwriters — Joan Armatrading’s “The Weakness in Me” and Joni Mitchell’s “Amelia,” the latter featuring contributions from former bandmate Aaron Roche.
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Fernando De Luca – Moyreau: Complete Harpsichord Music (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Fernando De Luca - Moyreau: Complete Harpsichord Music (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz] Download

Fernando De Luca – Moyreau: Complete Harpsichord Music (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 08:40:19 minutes | 5,75 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Brilliant Classics

The first-ever survey on record of the complete surviving output by a significant contemporary of Rameau: a missing piece in the jigsaw of the French Baroque.
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Francesco Corti – Handel: Winged Hands. The Eight Great Suites & Overtures (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Francesco Corti – Handel: Winged Hands. The Eight Great Suites & Overtures (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:27:02 minutes | 3,16 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Arcana

After the album Bach, Little Books , harpsichordist Francesco Corti continues his collaboration with Arcana with a 2-CD recording entirely dedicated to George Frideric Handel. At the center of the project are the eight “Great” suites. These masterpieces were the composer’s first published set, and are a clear testimony to his virtuosity at the keyboard. Their characteristically diversified styles reflect not only the mélange of national traditions assimilated by the young composer, but also his phenomenal improvisatory talent. Moreover, the attraction of these pieces lies in their melodic and rhythmic affinity to the world of singing and orchestral writing, Händel’s strongest interests.

Arrangements of Handel’s operatic overtures and arias started circulating early in his career in England, and in his later years he was known to perform his overtures on the keyboard himself. Corti designs a program showcasing the composer’s brilliant treatment of the instrument, choosing to complement the “Great” Suites with a selection of transcriptions from Händel’s own hand and from his close musical circle.
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Freddy Weller – The Roadmaster (1972/2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

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Freddy Weller – The Roadmaster (1972/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 28:04 minutes | 1,10 GB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia – Legacy

Wilton Frederick “Freddy” Weller is an American country music artist. He recorded for Columbia Records between 1969 and 1980. He had his highest charted single in 1969 with his debut release, “Games People Play”.Freddy Weller had a successful behind-the-scenes career in pop/rock before finding solo success as a country singer. Born Wilton Frederick Weller in Atlanta in 1947, he started playing both banjo and mandolin at age eight and soon moved on to the guitar as well.
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Pierre Fournier,Friedrich Gulda – Beethoven: Complete Works for Cello and Piano (Remastered) (2006/2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Pierre Fournier,Friedrich Gulda - Beethoven: Complete Works for Cello and Piano (Remastered) (2006/2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz] Download

Pierre Fournier,Friedrich Gulda – Beethoven: Complete Works for Cello and Piano (Remastered) (2006/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 02:18:10 minutes | 5,34 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

It would be difficult to rank these three complete collections of Beethoven’s works for cello and piano, recorded by Pierre Fournier with three different partners, all distinguished Beethoven experts: Arthur Schnabel (1947-48), Friedrich Gulda (1959) and Wilhelm Kempff (1965). Fournier and Gulda are like fire and water. The French cellist provides guidance to the solitary and somewhat untameable Gulda, who himself admitted to having learned some discipline over the course of the recording, and kept a debt of gratitude for Fournier his whole life. The result is a tremendous show of mutual attention and a clarity of expression, without any pomposity or pretentiousness. – François Hudry
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Femke IJlstra, Celia García-García – Colores del Sur (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Femke IJlstra, Celia García-García - Colores del Sur (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

Femke IJlstra, Celia García-García – Colores del Sur (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 55:19 minutes | 804 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © TRPTK

The sunny south conjures up images, especially for northerners, of bright sunshine, an azure sea and brilliant blue skies, of bright colours, festive dances and enchanting stories, of languid warmth during siestas and nightly dinners in illuminated squares. Even in France, ‘Colores del sur’ and dances from southern Spain, for example, were considered exotic. Since the mid-19th century, the music and dances from Spain have captured everyone’s imagination.
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Fates Warning – Awaken the Guardian Live (2017) Blu-ray 1080i AVC DD 2.0 + BDRip 720P

Title: Fates Warning – Awaken the Guardian Live
Release Date: 2017
Genre: Rock, Prog Rock, Prog Metal
Director: Oliver “Bomber” Barth
Artist: John Arch – vocals; Joe DiBiase – bass; Steve Zimmerman – drums; Frank Aresti – guitars; Jim Matheos – guitars

Production/Label: Metal Blade Records
Duration: 01:23:57 + 01:23:29
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: AC-3
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 18034 kbps / 1920*1080i / 29.970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio: English Dolby Digital 2.0 / 48 kHz / 320 kbps
Size: 23.16 GB

Legendary progressive metal act Fates Warning celebrated the 30th anniversary of their third album, Awaken the Guardian, in 2016. The album was to become their final release to feature vocalist John Arch. That era’s lineup was rounded out by bassist Joe DiBiase, drummer Steve Zimmerman, along with current guitarist Frank Aresti and, of course, Jim Matheos. Awaken the Guardian also holds the honor as the band’s very first release to debut on the Billboard charts.

Awaken the Guardian remains an important album for the band’s fans worldwide. Decibel Magazine remarked in their Hall of Fame no. 134 entry that “Each member still talks with great pride of its creation, each blown away by the feedback it has received since its release 30 years ago, each amazed at the powerful and positive impact it has had on so many lives.” To celebrate 30 years since the album’s release, Matheos reassembled the Awaken the Guardian-era lineup for two special festival appearances: Keep it True XIX in Lauda-Konigshofen, Germany and Prog Power USA XVII in Atlanta, GA. Fortunately for fans that were not able to attend, each show was filmed and recorded!

John Arch comments about the experience: “It was truly a surreal experience being able to share the spirit of ‘Awaken The Guardian’ at these shows. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the fans that have given back so much over the 30 year span since the album’s release. To all our family and friends, much gratitude.”

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Hathor Consort & Romina Lischka – Ferrabosco II: The Art Of Fantasy (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Hathor Consort & Romina Lischka – Ferrabosco II: The Art Of Fantasy (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:16:30 minutes | 1,49 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ramée

Alfonso Ferrabosco the Younger, viol player at the court of Elizabeth I and Charles I, was the most innovative and influential composer of viol consort music of his generation. Following the steps of his father, composer Alfonso Ferrabosco the Elder, he continued the specifically English « In Nomine » tradition for viol consort into the seventeenth century while adding his own special touch in the « In Nomine through all parts » in using the cantus firmus in all voices with various rhythms and transpositions. His greatest achievement was the development of an imitative counterpoint perfectly adapted to the viol. The particular character of Ferrabosco’s music was determined by his love for architecture and symmetrical forms which were integrated in all possible ways into his Fantasies: flexible motives, augmentations and diminutions of themes and a clear harmonic structure.

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Fernanda Morello – Territorios: Paisaje Latinoamericano en el Piano (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Fernanda Morello – Territorios: Paisaje Latinoamericano en el Piano (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 48:58 minutes | 419 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Virtuoso Records

PANORAMA of the classic.New album by pianist Fernanda Morello, with works by Latin American composers. Available on various digital platforms. Another Argentine artist who does not stand idly by the current restrictions. Brava!

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Damiano Fernanda – Galuppi: Piano Sonatas (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Damiano Fernanda – Galuppi: Piano Sonatas (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:07:43 minutes | 549 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Brilliant Classics

A debut album from a gifted young pianist, who has stylishly reimagined the world of the Venetian Baroque on a modern piano.

At a time when only Bach and Scarlatti were Baroque-era composers in the repertoire of pianists rather than harpsichordists, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli pressed the cause of Baldassare Galuppi (1706-1785) with performances and recordings of sonatas. Galuppi’s style was defined during his lifetime as ‘gay, lively and brilliant’, and this description certainly capture the style of the keyboard sonatas which he wrote throughout his career.

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