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Johan Dalene & Christian Ihle Hadland – Stained Glass (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]
Johan Dalene & Christian Ihle Hadland – Stained Glass (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:30 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BIS
This recital brings together two established classics from the 20th century with lesser-known works from the repertoire for violin and piano. Alongside Ravel’s Sonata, a work that reveals the influence of jazz on the French composer, and Prokofiev’s wartime Sonata, Op. 94a, an idiomatic arrangement of its original version for flute, we find compositions by Arvo Pärt, Lili Boulanger and Grażyna Bacewicz, which, at times meditative, at times lyrical, at times folk-inspired, testify to the richness of this repertoire.
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Jocee – Stitch In Time (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 35:41 minutes | 402 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Jocee Records
This anticipated album launch is the 5th record release from Jocee. Written during the pandemic, this record will take you back, make you want to embrace your loved ones and cherish a good old dance together. Jocee is a soulful artist who with her spirited story-telling captures the sunshine and showers of the world. Forefronting a loyal 8-piece band of 9 years, Jocee’s music is laced with bass and sax, paying homage to her love of vintage Motown and Soul. A talented lyricist, with her unique tones and catchy toe tapping melodies, Jocee’s tale-telling honesty leaves audiences young and old feeling like they have met their kindred spirit. Jocee & her band have supported Soul legends such as Sister Sledge, Loose Ends & The Craig Charles Funk & Soul show!
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Simon Mulligan – Chopin: Waltzes (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:03:34 minutes | 1,84 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Steinway and Sons
British pianist Simon Mulligan is, according to The Times of London ‘the most abundantly gifted of pianists’, to Steinway & Sons he is ‘the world’s most versatile pianist’; Pulitzer prizewinning composer Paul Moravec calls him ‘a pianist with complete mastery of the instrument’, while Herbie Hancock says ‘You have a phenomenal touch, man!’ In addition to his extensive discography and vast repertoire, Mulligan’s solo work gains praise from critics and audiences alike, and his collaborations include performances and recordings with Yehudi Menuhin, Joshua Bell, Leonard Slatkin and Sting.
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Simon Höfele – New Standards (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:20 minutes | 984 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Berlin Classics
One is inclined to speak of “soulmates” after hearing Simon Höfele and Elisabeth Brauss play as a duo and after getting to know them both personally. It is like two people connecting with one another in music and in conversation when they either know each other very well or have forged a special bond for some other reason. The latter is sure to be true – this album is their first joint recording venture, and they have not been working together for very long either.
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Skurkar – Skjulte motiver (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 35:26 minutes | 677 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Øra Fonogram
Skjulte motiver is the new album by Skurkar. The album has been released on 2020-09-11. Some songs included are Klip i kortet, Ubetinget fengsel, Tandemtrøbbel, Soppatorsk på Autobahn…
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Skuli Sverrisson & Bill Frisell – Strata (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 37:48 minutes | 664 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Newvelle Records
I’ve never been at a session like the one that we had in June of 2017 with Skúli Sverrisson and Bill Frisell. Sometimes you can really sense a connection between two musicians, some fitting together or a frisson of common experience and spontaneous invention. But this was of another order—a quiet and profound communion. With Skúli and Bill there’s a shared internal language—a sense of inevitable logic—hypnotizing and surreal.
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Baiba Skride, Lise Berthaud, Harriet Krijgh & Lauma Skride – Mozart, Brahms & Mahler: Piano Quartets (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:29 minutes | 1,47 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Orfeo
The Skride Quartet was formed for a concert at Schubertiade Festival in 2016. Whilst maintaining their own high profile solo careers, their passion for chamber music unites the four of them. Within a short period of time they have grown into a close-knit chamber ensemble in great demand internationally. This Debut-CD includes the most famous Piano Quartets of Classical literature, by Mozart and Brahms as well then the unique Quartet movement by Gustav Mahler.
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Spoon – Hot Thoughts (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 41:56 minutes | 991 MB | Genre: Indie Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Matador
“Hot Thoughts” is the bravest, most sonically inventive work of Spoon’s career. With all due respect to earlier efforts that have made the quintet both critically acclaimed and a commercial contender, preconceptions about this band are about to be obliterated. That’s not to say “Hot Thoughts” doesn’t have a requisite supply of infectious earworms but there’s a lyrical bent that’s as carnal as it’s crafty, and a newfound sense of sonic exploration that results in the genresmasher Spoon have flirted with in the past but not fully consummated.
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Squirrel Flower – Planet (i) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 43:49 minutes | 909 MB | Genre: Indie Folk, Indie Pop, Indie Rock, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Full Time Hobby
On her sophomore album as Squirrel Flower, Boston native Ella O’Connor Williams leans into a sprawl of emotional chaos, dispatching demons and riding out the storm with a mercurial sense of curiosity. As a toponym, Planet (i) refers to a combination of spirit and place; that of her own self as well as the world at large. Themes of personal, meteorological, and environmental disaster scud like silver clouds over the album’s panoramic arrangements in a tenuous, but pleasingly textural way. Recorded in the U.K. by producer Ari Chant (PJ Harvey, Perfume Genius), Williams’ already melancholic indie rock takes on some of the hazy grit that hangs like an aural patina over Bristol’s legendary music scene. Where her 2020 debut seemed almost celestial in its moodiness, Planet (i) is rooted and decidedly earthbound. The thrilling “Hurt a Fly” ripples with electricity and light while songs like “Roadkill” and the sprawling “Night” are all gravity as if wrought from deep mineral deposits and stone. A number of the tracks, though, are quite gentle, bearing a woolen sadness that is quite affecting. “I saw a hummingbird face down in the water,” sings Williams in an airy half-whisper, imbuing the lovely “Deluge in the South” with heartbreaking imagery. The sparse “Desert Wildflowers,” on the other hand, is quietly defiant in its eerie uplift. Like Squirrel Flower’s debut, Planet (i) is a journey through an ever-changing landscape and marks a noticeable creative step forward for Williams. – Timothy Monger
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Squid – Bright Green Field (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 54:48 minutes | 1,14 GB | Genre: Math Rock, Post-Punk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warp Records
At last the debut album from Squid and it’s everything you wished for and more. Bright Green Field is produced by Dan Carey and released via Warp Records. It’s an album of towering scope and ambition, it is deeply considered, paced and intricately constructed. With all band members playing such a vital and equal role, this album is very much the product of five heads operating as one. Some bands might be tempted to include previous singles on their debut – and the band already released two more in 2020 via ‘Sludge’ and ‘Broadcaster’ – but instead Bright Green Field is completely new. This sense of limitlessness and perpetual forward motion is one of the the key ingredients that makes Squid so loved by fans and critics alike, from BBC Radio 6 Music who have A-Listed previous singles, ‘Houseplants’, ‘The Cleaner’ and ‘Match Bet’ to publications such as, The Guardian, NME, The Face, The Quietus and countless others.
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Squeeze – The Knowledge (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 47:01 minutes | 559 MB | Genre: Pop Rock, New Wave
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Love Records
Welcome back to the world of Squeeze, a world where previous visitors will find much that is both reassuringly familiar and intriguingly different. A new album, ‘The Knowledge’, offers up another dozen examples of high quality Chris Difford & Glenn Tilbrook song craft, and is the perfect curtain-raiser for a massive UK, US & Australian tour. Two years on from the critically acclaimed Top 20 success of ‘Cradle To The Grave’ (the band’s first set of new songs this century), ‘The Knowledge’ sees our heroes broaden their musical canvas, as evident on the opening ‘Innocence In Paradise’ with its pedal steel and cinematic atmosphere evoking images of the mythical western. But don’t be wrong-footed by that curveball compass point, because Squeeze are still very much part of the fabric of South London.
Their hometown heritage, such an integral part of the group’s DNA since seventies hits like ‘Up The Junction’, ‘Cool For Cats’ and ‘Slap And Tickle’, flows through the album as resolutely as the mighty majestic Thames. Greenwich’s own Maryon Wilson Park is name-checked in the chorus of the softly shuffling ‘Patchouli’, while ‘Every Story’ is a heartfelt poem to the people and places that shaped their upbringing.
After their resurgence in 2015 with UK Top 20 and critically acclaimed album Cradle To The Grave, the first Squeeze album of new songs since 1998, Squeeze went on to play the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury in 2016, solidifying themselves as one of the UK’s best live acts.
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Squeeze – East Side Story (1981/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 48:52 minutes | 955 MB | Genre: Rock, New Wave
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © A&M
East Side Story is the fourth studio album by new wave group Squeeze. The album peaked at number 19 in the UK Albums Chart, spending 26 weeks in the listing.
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Squeeze – Cool For Cats (1978/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 38:10 minutes | 764 MB | Genre: Rock, New Wave
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © A&M
The British new wave group Squeeze’s second album, originally released in 1979. “Cool For Cats” contains four UK hit singles, more than any other album the band has issued. The album peaked at number 45 in the UK Albums Chart, spending 11 weeks in that listing.
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Squeeze – Argybargy (1980/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 36:12 minutes | 750 MB | Genre: Pop, New Wave
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © A&M
Argybargy is the third album by British pop/new wave band Squeeze. Argybargy was released in February 1980 peaking at 32 in the UK Albums Chart spending 15 weeks in that listing. It would be the last album featuring founding member Jools Holland until Squeezes first reunion album 1985s Cosi Fan Tutti Frutti. Squeeze came to prominence in the United Kingdom during the new wave period of the late 1970s and continued recording successfully in the 1980s and 1990s. Though not as commercially successful in the United States Squeeze had American chart hits and have a dedicated following there and continue to attract new fans. All of Squeezes hits were written by band members Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook with the former penning the lyrics and the latter handling the composition. The duo were hailed as the heirs to Lennon and McCartneys throne during their peak of popularity in the early 1980s.
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Squarepusher – Feed Me Weird Things (25th Anniversary Remastered Edition) (1996/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:16:35 minutes | 742 MB | Genre: Electronic, Drum and Bass
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warp Records
Warp Records is delighted to announce the release of a very special anniversary edition of Squarepusher’s debut album Feed Me Weird Things, virtually 25 years to the day from its original release in ‘96.
This complete edition has been remastered from the original DATs and features two extra tracks which were first released on the B-side of the Squarepusher Plays… EP and later featured on the original Japanese release of this album. The edition also includes a 16 page booklet with personal photographs, ephemera and candid notes from Tom Jenkinson, throwing light on the early days of his career.
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