Katharine Dain & Sam Armstrong – Forget This Night (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Katharine Dain & Sam Armstrong – Forget This Night (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:09:39 minutes | 2,15 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © 7 Mountain Records

Forget This Night explores impermanence and desire through songs by Lili Boulanger, Karol Szymanowski, and Grażyna Bacewicz. The heart of the program is Clairières dans le ciel, Lili Boulanger’s only song cycle and an overlooked masterpiece of the genre, which maps the interior emotional landscape of someone deeply in love—from blissful awe to the devastation of abandonment. The cycle is framed by songs of Szymanowski (a contemporary of Boulanger who was also writing music of simmering passion across the continent against the backdrop of the First World War) and Bacewicz, of a generation later, who treats the same themes in songs of fresh directness and aching lyricism.

Opening with Boulanger’s first extant song, Attente, and ending with the premiere recording of a fragment for solo voice she wrote at the very end of her life, Forget This Night poses a universal human question: how wholeheartedly can we open ourselves to relationships, and moments, that will inevitably end?

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Johnny Lytle – People & Love (1972/2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Johnny Lytle – People & Love (1972/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 37:11 minutes | 1,55 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Craft Recordings

People & Love is an album by vibraphonist Johnny Lytle recorded in 1972 and originally issued on the Milestone label.

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Hervé Niquet – Gloire Immortelle ! (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Hervé Niquet – Gloire Immortelle ! (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:47 minutes | 1,20 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Château de Versailles Spectacles

We invite you to come to the Royal Opera of the Palace of Versailles without a suitcase, without a large-capacity bag, without a package because they are prohibited.

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Cortex – Live at Le Périscope (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Cortex – Live at Le Périscope (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 38:52 minutes | 471 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © B Records

Sometimes one has to be careful with the names chosen by the bands. Cortex is no cerebral music but is entirely organic, as remembers the Periscope, where they recorded this album in which their melodic and free jazz is exalted. In the steps of Mats Gustafsson or John Zorn’s Masada, the Norwegian quartet delivers with this new album another proof, if needed, of their place in the jazz world : the place which quivers.

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Classix Nouveaux – Battle Cry (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Classix Nouveaux – Battle Cry (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 48:14 minutes | 537 MB | Genre: Pop Rock, New Wave
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cherry Red Records

40 years after their last album Secret was released in 1983, Classix Nouveaux are back with a brand new album entitled Battle Cry. Containing nine tracks including seven brand new compositions plus ‘Never Never Comes’ and ‘Interlude/Inside Outside’ which have been re-imagined for the 21st century. Featuring a very guitar-rock sound and also contains a couple of instrumentals which is something that the band used to do on their early albums.

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Christoph Buchwald – Falling out of time – Requiem (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Christoph Buchwald – Falling out of time – Requiem (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:12:03 minutes | 676 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Zefir Records

“I didn’t realise that the indescribable – the sadness, pain and anger of losing a child or loved one – could be described so precisely in music and song.” -David Grossman- “Requiem: Falling Out Of Time” is loosely based on David Grossman’s book “Out of Time Falling”, which has been translated into more than 30 languages. The work is dedicated to Grossman’s son Uri, who died in the Lebanon war in 2006. The Cossee publisher and composer Christoph Buchwald, who knew Uri well, wrote the requiem, consisting of 22 songs and 2 instrumental pieces. “Because I couldn’t find any reliable words to express this misery to David and Michal Grossman or to myself. It was only possible with and through the music.” The 24 pieces were written over 7 years and Buchwald, who studied film music, plays organ, harpsichord, 6- and 12-string guitar, bass and sings. Piano, percussion, saxophone, trumpet, flugelhorn, strings, choir and soprano were recorded with guest musicians in the Zeeland Concert Hall, famous for its acoustics.

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Andreas Scholl, Czech Ensemble Baroque, Roman Válek – Frantisek Tuma (Motets, Dixit Dominus, Sinfonia) (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Andreas Scholl, Czech Ensemble Baroque, Roman Válek – Frantisek Tuma (Motets, Dixit Dominus, Sinfonia) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 48:35 minutes | 877 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Aparté

Andreas Scholl returns to his repertoire of choice,introducing us to the splendid works of Frantisek Tůma – a little-known Bohemian composer whowas a prominent musical figure in the 18th century.

Together with the Czech Baroque Ensemble andtheir conductor Roman Válek, specialists in thisrepertoire, the counter-tenor here performs severalof his emblematic motets and cantatas.

In this atmosphere of the twilight of the Baroque,Andreas Scholl’s voice attains its fullness,embracing Tůma’s splendid invention and intensityof expression – a marvellous musical encounterthat reaches its apex in the splendid arias of theMotettum de tempore, the Motetto per ogni Tempoor in the austere but absolute beauty of the chorusJuravit Dominus.

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Various Artists – Christmas in the Spirit of Jazz – A Qobuz Exclusive (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Various Artists – Christmas in the Spirit of Jazz – A Qobuz Exclusive (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 57:56 minutes | 868 MB | Genre: Jazz, Christmas
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ACT Music

Christmas compilation from the ACT Music label made especially for QOBUZ.

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Tina Turner – Tina Turns The Country On! (1974/2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Tina Turner – Tina Turns The Country On! (1974/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 35:13 minutes | 771 MB | Genre: Country, Rock, Soul, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino

Tina Turns the Country On! is the debut solo studio album by Tina Turner, released in September 1974 on the United Artists Records.Released while Turner was still a member of the Ike & Tina Turner Revue, it was an attempt by her husband, Ike Turner, to expose her to a wider audience. Although the album did not chart, it earned Turner a Grammy Award nomination in the “Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female” category.

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Tina Turner – Love Explosion (1979/2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Tina Turner – Love Explosion (1979/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 36:14 minutes | 811 MB | Genre: Soul, Funk, Disco, Pop, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino

Love Explosion is the fourth solo studio album by Tina Turner, released late 1979 on the EMI label in Europe, Ariola Records in West Germany and United Artists Records in the UK. Italy and South Africa followed in early 1980. The album was not released in the United States. It was her second solo album released after she left husband Ike Turner and the Ike & Tina Turner Revue. Love Explosion failed to chart, so Turner lost her recording contract. It would be her last album until the critically acclaimed Private Dancer in 1984.

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Tina Turner – Acid Queen (1975/2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Tina Turner – Acid Queen (1975/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 35:53 minutes | 797 MB | Genre: Pop Rock, Soul, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino

Acid Queen is the second solo studio album by Tina Turner. It was released in 1975 on the EMI label in the UK and on United Artists in the US. Although it is a Tina Turner solo album, the first single, “Baby, Get It On”, was a duet with Ike Turner, her musical partner and husband at the time. Acid Queen was her last solo album before their separation and her departure from Ike & Tina Turner Revue.

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Thea Gilmore – Thea Gilmore (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Thea Gilmore – Thea Gilmore (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 40:59 minutes | 436 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mighty Village Records Limited

Thea Eve Gilmore (born 25 November 1979), also known as Afterlight, is an English singer-songwriter. She has released more than twenty albums since her 1998 debut, Burning Dorothy. She has had three top 40 entries on the UK Albums Chart and one on the UK Singles Chart. Her first album as Afterlight was released on 15 October 2021.

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The Kinks – The Journey, Pt. 2 (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

The Kinks – The Journey, Pt. 2 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:48:14 minutes | 2,08 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited

Experience the timeless allure of The Kinks with ‘The Journey – Part 2’, a double best of. A thrilling odyssey through the bands iconic hits, including the electrifying ‘Till the End of the Day’, the exuberant ‘David Watts’, the sun-soaked vibes of ‘Sunny Afternoon’, and the rebellious anthem ’20th Century Man’, plus many many more.

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Shania Twain – Greatest Hits (Deluxe Edition) (2004/2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Shania Twain – Greatest Hits (Deluxe Edition) (2004/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:24:34 minutes | 1,82 GB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mercury Records Nashville

Greatest Hits is the first greatest hits album by Canadian country-pop singer Shania Twain, released on November 8, 2004 by Mercury Nashville. The album contains seventeen of Twain’s hits, including all of her seven number one hits on the Hot Country Songs chart. Notably absent from the track list is Twain’s self-titled debut album, in which no songs were included. Some songs are included in their pop versions such as “That Don’t Impress Me Much” and “I’m Gonna Getcha Good!”. “Ka-Ching!” was included in the European version of Greatest Hits as the song was a massive hit there.

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Sarah Reeves – More The Merrier (Deluxe Edition) (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Sarah Reeves – More The Merrier (Deluxe Edition) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 36:44 minutes | 439 MB | Genre: Christmas
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Curb | Word

Certain to become a staple of countless Christmas and Holiday music collections for many years to come, More The Merrier, the 8-song holiday EP from pop artist and songwriter Sarah Reeves featuring the song, “Winter Wonderland (feat. Clark Beckham)” will fit perfectly alongside Bing and Nat and the Vince Guaraldi Trio. Listeners are sure to experience all of the sounds and feelings the holidays have to offer or remind us of, from the lighthearted, jazzy fireside moments to the sacred. More The Merrier was produced and arranged by Ben Schofield and Mark Campbell. Sarah signed her first record deal at age 18. For more than a decade, in addition to pursuing her own artistry, she has dedicated a vast portion of her career to writing songs for other artists and TV and film. Her music has appeared in Disney Plus and National Geographic’s six-part original series ” Welcome To Earth,” starring Will Smith; Disney’s Raya and the Last Dragon international trailer; promos for “American Idol ” and UFC; and on television series across major networks like ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX and Netflix, among others. ” Winter Wonderland is one of the first songs I play every year at the beginning of the Christmas season, “shares Reeves. ” It is simple, classic and I was so excited to record my own version. I asked my friend who is an incredible artist named Clark Beckham to join me on this song. He was the perfect addition. I hope this song brings a magical feeling of warmth and nostalgia this Christmas.”

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