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Klaus Paier, Camerata Sinfonica Austria & Davorin Mori – View to Horizon (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 44:03 minutes | 410 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © SKIP Records
“Passion”. Whether solo, in a long-standing duo with cellist Asja Valcic, recently also with bassist Florian Dohrmann, in a trio or with string quartet – thanks to his unique technique, his unmistakable individual style and his compositional imagination, Paier is one of the great genre-encompassing storytellers of his instrument. An art that was only waiting for the large format. In his first orchestral project, Paier is now making this a reality with 22 string and wind players of the “Camerata Sinfonica Austria”. The orchestra, co-founded in 2017 by pianist and conductor Davorin Mori, already established through outstanding performances at important festivals, sees itself as a soloist ensemble along the lines of Arnold Schönberg’s famous Viennese “Verein für musikalische Privataufführungen” and is thus the ideal sound body for Paier’s demanding compositions.
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Judi Jackson – My American Songbook (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 45:32 minutes | 907 MB | Genre: Vocal Jazz, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Judi Jackson
Judi Jackson, one of the most impressive voices in neo-soul jazz, has performed on many prestig-ious stages with her deep vocals inspired by jazz divas. Jackson, who will be a guest on the festival stage with her soulful, sad voice, will offer the audience a sophisticated soul-jazz evening with her new project “My American Songbook”, composed of song
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Johnny Griffin – Live at Ronnie Scott’s, 1964 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 53:54 minutes | 1,99 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Gearbox Records Ltd
This never-heard-before recording of the legendary tenor sax “Little Giant” Johnny Griffin playing at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club and backed by members of Ronnie’s House Band (Stan Tracey, Malcolm Cecil and Jackie Dougan) sees a AAA vinyl release. The album was mastered at Gearbox Records using an all-analogue signal chain and cut directly from the original tapes, which were recorded at the club by Les Tomkins in 1964.
The sleeve features photography by the esteemed Val Wilmer and liner notes by Richard Williams.
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Jane’s Party – The Best of Wild in the Woods, Vol. 1 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 27:31 minutes | 302 MB | Genre: Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © JP Productions
Toronto indie rockers Jane’s Party have announced a new EP, previewed today by a cover of Steely Dan’s iconic “Dirty Work.” The Best of Wild in the Woods Vol. 1 arrives November 6, following the band’s recent single “Ships on an Ocean.” Having previously only been a live performance series uploaded to the band’s YouTube channel starting in the summer of 2021, select highlights from Wild in the Woods will soon be available on your streaming platform of choice.
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Jack Ramsey – The Blue Hour (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 53:44 minutes | 388 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Jack Ramsey
The Blue Hour is Jack Ramsey’s first solo album, recorded on September 15th and 16th, 2022, at Sage Arts Recording Studio in Arlington, WA. For the recording, Ramsey performed six hours of improvised piano music over the course of two days, resulting in 78 short pieces. The 19 tracks in The Blue Hour were selected from these 78 improvised pieces, and arranged into four “suites:” Evening, Night, Dream, and The Blue Hour – an exploration of the transformative journey of one day into the next, and the eerie and ephemeral beauty found in night and dream.
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Intende Voci Ensemble, Orchestra Da Camera Canova & Mirko Guadagnini – Caldara: Gloria (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:08 minutes | 1,01 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Urania Records
A tribute to Italian Baroque, Antonio Caldara and his Gloria a 8 voci, transcribed, performed and recorded for the first time ever, a masterpiece of pompous Venetian sacredness to which the wonderful Lauda by Ottorino Respighi was wanted to be juxtaposed. Two centuries later, the Bolognese composer gives a perfect example of rewriting together medieval, Renaissance and Baroque music. A way to reaffirm the strong bond between Baroque and the 20th century, always a source of great inspiration.
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Inon Barnatan – Rachmaninoff: Reflections (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:05 minutes | 1,16 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © PentaTone
IInon Barnatan presents Rachmaninoff Reflections, offering some of the composer’s most cherished piano works, including his Moments musicaux, Prelude in G-Sharp Minor and Barnatan’s own arrangement of the Vocalise. Centrepiece of this project is Barnatan’s breathtaking new piano arrangement of the Symphonic Dances.
Inon Barnatan is one of the most admired pianists of his generation (New York Times). His Pentatone discography consists of Time Traveler’s Suite (2021), Beethoven’s complete cello sonatas with Alisa Weilerstein (2022), as well as complete recordings of Beethoven’s piano concertos together with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields and Alan Gilbert (2019 and 2020).
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Helmet – Left (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 31:20 minutes | 690 MB | Genre: Alternative Metal, Noise Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © earMUSIC
Helmet’s highly anticipated new album, Left, marks their triumphant return to the studio after a seven-year hiatus. This sonic masterpiece, expertly mixed and produced by the acclaimed Jim Kaufman and mastered by 20-time Grammy Award winner Howie Weinberg (Beastie Boys, Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins and many more), solidifies Helmet’s position as one of America’s most influential alternative rock bands.
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Aïsha Devi – Death Is Home (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 41:03 minutes | 455 MB | Genre: Electronic
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Houndstooth
Aïsha Devi returns with new album ‘Death is Home’ on Houndstooth, her first LP since 2018 and her most personal work yet.
Aïsha Devi nurtures an idiosyncratic approach to her music. She describes her sound as Aetherave, and uses bassy-heavy club motifs and intentional aesthetic signifiers to transport listeners to a dizzying, kinetic environment, harnessing timeless frequencies. On each record, Devi has advanced her philosophy and developed her technology; her last album ‘DNA Feelings’ (2018) was a radical hybrid of ancient mysticism and rebellious pop, and her upcoming LP ‘Death is Home’ propels listeners towards the extremes, bending fictile beats and cybernetic textures into transformational songs. This eagerly-awaited new album is a liveable, breathable sonic essence that reveals itself alchemically, reorienting anachronistic cultural preconceptions with its contemporary, ornate language and eerie architecture.
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Katie Von Schleicher – A Little Touch of Schleicher in the Night (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 38:08 minutes | 449 MB | Genre: Indie Rock, Indie Pop, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sipsman
Produced by Katie von Schleicher and Sam Griffin Owens (Sam Evian), A Little Touch of Schleicher in the Night was recorded with a bunch of poker buddies the two accumulated during the pandemic. Lyrically wry and classically lush with strings and horns, it’s a songwriter album that nuzzles up to the Arthur Russell and Kirsty MacColl LPs in one’s record collection. In narrowing the gap between her personality and her songwriting, von Schleicher has made her most untroubled album.
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Adam Zinatelli – Fifteen Feet Closer to the Sky (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:20:19 minutes | 1,15 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Leaf Music
Introducing Fifteen Feet Closer to the Sky by Adam Zinatelli, Principal Trumpet of the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra. Adam’s musical journey began with a simple idea: collaborating with composers to create unique pieces for trumpet Over a decade in the making, Adam proudly presents this dream project. Each track on the album is a premiere recording. The composers featured here capture the diverse beauty of contemporary music inspired by the trumpet’s expressive range. Fifteen Feet Closer to the Sky features works like Sung in a Rickshaw (2010) by Gabriel Dharmoo, a vibrant blend of South Indian Carnatic music influences. Trio Lyrical (2010) by Tobin Stokes highlights three trumpets in harmonious melodies. Jeffrey Ryan’s Legacy (2022) and Open and Shut (2022) pay homage to composer Donald Erb, pushing the trumpet’s limits. Eric Nathan’s Four Sculptures (2007) presents contrasting movements for two trumpets, while song without words (2008) by David John Lang explores the dialogue between flugelhorn and piano. In The Tarantella dell’Ubriaco (2020) by Claude Lapalme, the cornet takes center stage in a lively romp. Dorothy Chang’s All that glitters (2023) weaves expectation throughout its movements, thanks to the support of the Canada Council for the Arts. Karen Donnelly, Principal Trumpet of the National Arts Centre Orchestra, delivers Fanfare for the Backyard Birdfeeder (2020), a unique exploration of birdsong on the trumpet. Fifteen Feet Closer to the Sky is a testament to innovation, dedication, and the enduring power of music, offering inspiration to all, especially trumpet players.”
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Karine Deshayes, Les Paladins, Jérôme Corréas – Mozart: Exsultate, jubilate! (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 55:00 minutes | 914 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Aparté
Karine Deshayes, one of today’s most remarkable interpreters of Mozart together with the vocal and instrumental ensemble Les Paladins, gives an outstanding performance in this program of his sacred and secular works, in which the motet Exsultate, jubilate! Forms the centrepiece. Her rich, full-bodied voice taps directly into the roots of this highly virtuosic piece, originally written for a powerful, resonant soprano castrato tessitura. Conducted by Jérôme Corréas, the musicians complete the program with a selection of early pieces by Mozart: several of his (unjustly underrated) Church Sonatas, his Symphony No. 17, a poetic Agnus Dei from the Vespers, and excerpts from the all too rarely heard Davide penintente and La Betulia liberata. Through his attention to contrast and his concern for expressivity, the conductor reveals the underlying theatricality of these works, unparalleled in their dramatic power.
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Jouni Järvelä – Jouni’s Pipe Dream (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 53:49 minutes | 612 MB | Genre: Contemporary Jazz, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Eclipse Music
What do you call music for a quartet of three reed players with a drummer, music with not just a backbeat—and complex funk rhythms—but swagger, contrapuntal lines from warm, soulful saxophones played with a hip strut? According to saxophonist and composer Lenny Pickett, “It’s chamber music. Chamber music with mixed winds and percussion.”
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Jonny Ek – Erik Söderlind Meets Jonny Ek (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 43:51 minutes | 475 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Jonny Ek
Erik Söderlind is one of Sweden’s finest jazz exports. With his trademark fingerstyle technique he is musically rooted in the style of straight ahead-jazz and highly influenced by Wes Montgomery, George Benson and Grant Green. In 2015 Erik received The Guitar People Prize Sweden, an award given to the best guitar player in Sweden. The same year he released his third solo album “In The Moment” which features artists like Eric Alexander, Lisa Nilsson, Svante Thuresson and Dan Berglund. Over the last few years he’s become increasingly better known internationally as well and has played with several of the most influential jazz guitarists in the world, like Frank Vignola and Peter Bernstein.
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Jane Remover – Census Designated (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:01:30 minutes | 709 MB | Genre: Indie Rock, Bedroom Pop, Shoegaze
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © deadAir
The singer-producer explodes her sound with a feverish blend of shoegaze and bedroom pop.
On Frailty, Jane Remover was a voyager sculpting her own cosmos from her childhood bedroom. A frenetic combo of emo, EDM, and idyllic video game tones, the singer-producer’s 2021 debut rendered a cyber otherworld with ultra-blue fjords and bleach-white skies. Within her insular online music scene, it soon became a touchstone. Instead of capitalizing right away, she took some time to hibernate and touch grass, embarking on a cross-country road trip. She said goodbye to the freaky mashup microgenre she dreamt up under an alter ego. She also came out as a trans woman, announcing the name Jane Remover with the release of two songs: the smoky, whimpering ballad “Cage Girl” and “Royal Blue Walls,” which starts wispy and escalates into a delicate squall that felt less digitized than her past work. On her new album, Census Designated, Jane ushers in another evolution of this shoegaze blueprint.
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