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Pink Floyd – Alternative Tracks 1972 (1972/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 30:07 minutes | 313 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino
Pink Floyd is an English rock band, formed in London in 1965. Gaining a following as a psychedelic band, they were distinguished for their extended compositions, sonic experimentation, philosophical lyrics and elaborate live shows, and became a leading band of the progressive rock genre. They are one of the most commercially successful and influential groups in popular music history.
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Nilüfer Yanya – PAINLESS (Deluxe Edition) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:12:32 minutes | 871 MB | Genre: Indie Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ATO Records
Mercurial London artist Nilüfer Yanya releases her hugely anticipated second album Painless. It’s the follow-up to Nilüfer Yanya’s renowned 2019 debut album Miss Universe, which fully established her as a singular artist and a distinctive voice that simply has to be heard.
As the daughter of two visual artists (her Irish-Barbadian mother is a textile designer and her Turkish-born father’s work is exhibited at the British Museum) creativity was always destined for Nilüfer Yanya’s future. Now she enters the next stage of her creative journey, Yanya is running head first into the depths of emotional vulnerability on her sophomore record Painless. The album was recorded between a basement studio in Stoke Newington and Riverfish Music in Penzance with Miss Universe collaborator and producer Wilma Archer, Deek Recordings founder Bullion, Big Thief producer Andrew Sarlo, and musician Jazzi Bobbi.
Where Miss Universe stretched musical boundaries to include a litany of styles from smooth jazz melodies to radio ready pop, Painless takes a more direct sonic approach. By narrowing down her previously broad palette to a handful of robust ideas that revolve around melancholy harmonies and looped industrial beats to mimic the insular focus of the lyrics, Yanya has smoothed out the idiosyncrasies of previous releases without losing what is essential to her.
Painless is a record that forces the listener to sit with the discomfort that accompanies so many of life’s biggest challenges whether it be relationship breakdowns, coping with loneliness, or the search for our inner self. “It’s a record about emotion,” Yanya explains. “I think it’s more open about that in a way that Miss Universe wasn’t because there’s so many cloaks and sleeves with the concept I built around it.” She adds, summing up the ethos of the new album, “I’m not as scared to admit my feelings”.
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Nicole Dollanganger – Married in Mount Airy (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 43:45 minutes | 442 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Nicole Dollanganger
Nicole Ann Bell (born September 8, 1991), known professionally as Nicole Dollanganger, is a Canadian singer-songwriter and artist.
Dollanganger’s music is characterized by a feminine, high-pitched vocal style, minimal instrumentation, and lyrical themes frequently pertaining to true crime, sexuality, and romance. Her music has been described as “lo-fi”, “atmospheric”, and “bedroom folk”, is associated with the folk music, folk pop, bedroom pop, sadcore and dream pop genres. In 2015, Rolling Stone named Dollanganger in an article titled “10 New Artists You Need to Know”, stating that her “gothic folk songs” described as “macabre millennial nightmares, softened by dream-pop tranquilizers, reverberating from a casket-shaped music box”, are “as beautiful as they are brutal.”
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New York Philharmonic, George Szell – George Szell live conducting Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 8 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:11:11 minutes | 750 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Archipel
The New York Philharmonic, officially the Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York, Inc., globally known as New York Philharmonic Orchestra (NYPO) or New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, is a symphony orchestra based in New York City. It is one of the leading American orchestras popularly referred to as the “Big Five”. The Philharmonic’s home is David Geffen Hall, located in New York’s Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
Founded in 1842, the orchestra is one of the oldest musical institutions in the United States and the oldest of the “Big Five” orchestras. Its record-setting 14,000th concert was given in December 2004.
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Nek – 5030 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 36:03 minutes | 434 MB | Genre: Pop Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © WM Italy
È con “La teoria del caos” che Nek ha inaugurato il suo nuovo progetto artistico: mentre il singolo è in rotazione radiofonica dall’11 novembre, la raccolta celebrativa “5030” arriva il prossimo 2 dicembre. Come si intuisce dal titolo, il disco in uscita è particolarmente importante per Filippo Neviani, che nel 2022 ha compiuto 50 anni e 30 anni di carriera musicale. Un doppio traguardo importante per il cantautore che sta per lanciare un progetto composto da un album e un tour speciale, anticipati da “La teoria del caos”.
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Neil Young & Crazy Horse – World Record (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 46:44 minutes | 1,95 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Reprise
Given Neil Young’s range and output, it’s just as helpful to describe what World Record isn’t before getting to what it is: It’s not a previously unreleased studio album from the 1970s; an instrumental guitar album a la Le Noise or Arc; an Old Ways-style country album; a romantic stroll through Harvest Moon balladry; a Devo-inspired electronic rock album like Trans; or a mad-as-hell-not-gonna-take-it-anymore rager Ragged Glory.
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Neil Young – Harvest (50th Anniversary Edition) (1972/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:16:49 minutes | 1,19 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Reprise
As much for the wider public as for his great many fans, Neil Young’s Harvest represents the pinnacle of his rich discography from the seventies. Founded upon country-rock and melancholic folk, the so-called Loner’s art shines ever brightly throughout this fourth album, released back in February 1972. It is a gold mine full of bucolic, pastoral gems, recorded with a new group of brilliant musicians called the Stray Gators, with Ben Keith on steel guitar, Kenny Buttrey on drums, Tim Drummond on bass, and the great Jack Nitzsche on piano and arrangement. Harvest, which frequently displays his tumultuous relationship with actress Carrie Snodgress (mother of his first son Zeke) also incorporates some impressive somber moments, such as in ‘The Needle and the Damage Done’ – a stunning ballad about his guitarist Danny Whitten’s heroin addiction, who died of an overdose in November that same year, just after being kicked out of the band by Neil Young.
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Neal Francis – Sentimental Garbage (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 30:13 minutes | 659 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ATO Records
7 track tour EP with 4 tracks leftover from the “In Plain Sight” sessions, one of which was re-recorded “in a style closer to the demo, which was going for a Bill Withers/ Marvin Gaye “Here My Dear” aesthetic” per Neal Francis. The set also includes covers of James Gang and Shuggie Otis songs. Francis has spent 2022 touring the US playing festivals, headlining clubs and opening theater tours with Amos Lee and Marcus King.
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National Philharmonic Orchestra – The Fantasy Film World of Bernard Herrmann (1974/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 45:47 minutes | 925 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca Music Group Ltd.
Before settling on this name, the orchestra began operation in 1964 using a variety of names including RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra and the London Promenade (the latter consisting largely of London Philharmonic Orchestra personnel). It was incorporated as the National Philharmonic Orchestra in 1971 by Sidney Sax. Musicians from London’s huge talent pool were contracted by Gerhardt and Sax. By way of example, the violin section would routinely be peppered with leaders / concertmasters of all the major London orchestras, past and present, such as John Ronayne, Bela Dekany, Lionel Bentley, John Ludlow, John Brown, Donald Weekes, Irvine Arditti, Charles Meinardi, Hans Geiger, etc. The orchestra ceased to record exclusively for RCA Records in 1974. Decca Records began recording the orchestra in March 1974. This was for a Phase 4 Stereo recording of the Yellow River Piano Concerto conducted by Elgar Howarth. Columbia Records began using the orchestra in 1975.
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Nathan Milstein – Milstein Masterpieces for Violin and Orchestra (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 42:47 minutes | 865 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © NewConcept Classical Remasters
Nathan Milstein wird bei der Aufnahme von Meisterwerken für Violine und Orchester von Mozart, Beethoven, Wieniawski, Nováček, Strawinski und Saint-Saëns begleitet vom Concert Arts Orchestra, dirigiert von Walter Susskind. »Milstein Masterpieces« ist seit der Erstveröffentlichung 1960 besonders beliebt unter Kennern von Violin-Aufnahmen und Klassik-Liebhabern im allgemeinen. Seltene Exemplare in sehr gutem Zustand erzielen Preise von über $500 auf dem Gebraucht-Markt und sind bis heute sehr begehrte Sammlerstücke.
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Natalie Merchant – Leave Your Sleep (2010)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:45:19 minutes | 1,98 GB | Genre: Pop, Singer-Songwriter
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Nonesuch
Throughout her career, Natalie Merchant has thrived on exceeding only her own expectations. Her last album, 2003’s The House Carpenter’s Daughter, rooted in American and British Isles folk traditions, was a stepping stone toward Leave Your Sleep. Where the former’s songs were made of originals and covers, the latter marries them in sung poetry and original music from various traditions.
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Nareh Arghamanyan – The Komitas Project (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 50:24 minutes | 381 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Nareh Arghamanyan [dist. Tratore]
Nareh dedicated performer of chamber music appearing at summer chamber music festivals throughout the world with various music partners such as pianists Arnaldo Cohen, Carlo Grante, violinists Midori, Hyeyoon Park, Fumiaki Miura, cellists Peter Wiley, David Soyer, violists Kim Kashkashian and others.
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Nare Karoyan – Koharik Gazarossian: 24 Etudes (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 58:11 minutes | 485 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Piano Classics
Koharik Gazarossian (1907-1967), of Armenian descend, was born in 1907 in Constantinople (now Istanbul) and received there her first piano and composing lessons, her teachers were Edgar Manas and Rudolph Leibovitch. When she was not even 20 years old, she followed up on advice given to her and went to Paris in order to study composition and piano. She entered the Paris Conservatoire and took lessons with Paul Dukas (composition), Jean Roger-Ducasse (composition), Paul Fauchet (harmony) and Lazare Lévy (piano).
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Fourplay – Energy (1998)
PS3 Rip | ISO | SACD DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 50:14 minutes | Scans included | 3,24 GB
or FLAC 2.0 Stereo (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | 50:25 mins | Scans included | 997 MB
Features 2.0 Stereo and 5.1 multichannel surround sound | Telarc Distribution / Heads Up Records # HUSA 9146
2008 album from this Jazz supergroup: Nathan East (vocals, bass guitar); Larry Carlton (guitars); Bob James (keyboards); Harvey Mason (drums).
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Foreigner – Head Games (1979) [MFSL 2013]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 38:10 minutes | Scans included | 1,54 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Full Scans included | 787 MB
Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab # UDSACD 2052 | Genre: Rock
Foreigner continued its platinum winning streak on Head Games, the band’s third album. By the time Head Games was released, FM radio had fully embraced bands like Foreigner, Journey, and Boston, whose slick hard rock was tough enough to appeal to suburban teens, but smooth enough to be non-threatening to their parents. Tailor-made for the airwaves, “Dirty White Boy” and “Head Games” kept Foreigner at the top of the arena rock heap as the decade came to a close; and the supergroup’s successes would continue well into the ’80s.
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