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Scott T. Jones – Fictional Characters (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 43:37 minutes | 932 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Autumn Hill Records
Fictional Characters is a recording project many years in the making, evolving over many decades and through different incarnations, with many behind the scenes collaborators, and creative input from generous and selfless musicians along the way.
My deepest gratitude to any and all humans who helped me pave the way for this project to be brought to fruition:
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Sébastien Tellier – SYMPHONIC (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 11:51 minutes | 128 MB | Genre: Electronic
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Horizons
Sébastien Tellier is a French singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He represented France in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 with his song “Divine”.
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Tom Cabrera – The Hoax (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:39 minutes | 1,25 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Unseen Rain Records
On Sótano’s current voyage pianist Bob Rodriguez joins the fray of sonic exploration and deep communication that emanates from drummer Tom Cabrera’s drums, George McMullen’s trombone, Jack DeSalvo’s guitar and the double-bass of Phil Sirois. This music is no Hoax.
The actual first gathering the original quartet that became Sótano was captured on Connoisseurs of Chaos VII on Unseen Rain of which every track was extemporaneous. On the first album under the name Sótano, the quartet among the remarkable improvised pieces is the composition Ear Rational by Jack DeSalvo and Monk’s Well You Needn’t.
Sótano’s The Hoax adds the prodigiously talented pianist Bob Rodriguez making it a quite potent quintet full of color and swing.
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Sonar Trio – VV.AA.: Lithos; trios for flute, clarinet and piano (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 52:06 minutes | 460 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Tactus
By being present and available in every corner of the planet the stone stands as a witness to the human and natural history. It appears to be as a sort of “geo cultural Esperanto”, a constant that binds distant, in space and time, worlds and cultural traditions by cutting across with a horizontal, diagonal, and vertical movement. This work of the Sonar Trio is inspired by such universal and supratemporal nature of the stone. Marco Delisi (flute), Roberto D’Urbano (clarinet) and Vanessa Sotgiu (piano) are professionals of undoubted skills who are measuring themselves with pages of contemporary music that traces back to a link between West and East, between ascending musical languages of accultured European tradition, and sound vestiges of ancient, possibly primordial and archetypal, character. With the exeption of the first two, all tracks of the Lithos album are dedicated to the Sonar Trio. It suggested path, unfolds therefore between very human vibrations and pure sound solicitations, between hidden suggestions originating from a prehuman world, refined punctuations of a contemporary dialogue, in which the material element is always somewhat present. The trio brilliantly manages to achieve the double goal of reconciling the human with the primordial and history with nature. It does also recompose the sensory threads that hold together sounds and colours, visions and listening.
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Simone El Oufir Pierini – De Montgeroult: Complete Piano Sonatas (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 02:45:38 minutes | 1,53 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Brilliant Classics
Madame Hélène de Montgeroult (1764–1836) lived in a time when significant historical events were shaping France and Europe. Montgeroult’s musical oeuvre is distinguished by its interpretive versatility.
The collection of nine sonatas presented here spans from 1795 to 1811. The three sonatas that make up her Opus 1 are three distinct pieces, each with its own mood. The set is strikingly well-versed in the musical style of the time, with the first two sonatas in particular sharing many similarities with the work of Louis Adam and Jean-Frédéric Edelmann. The Sonata in F major, Op.1 No.1, is a cheerful and light-hearted piece in two movements. The Sonata in E flat major, Op.1 No.2, is very similar to the first sonata in terms of overall mood and structure, featuring two fast movements but with less emphasis on virtuosity. The Sonata in F minor, Op.1 No.3, features an uncommon element for its time: syncopation between the two hands throughout the entire piece. The set concludes with a stormy, rhythmically percussive Allegro agitato.
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Simon Mulligan – Percy Grainger: Solo Piano Works, Vol. 1 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 49:33 minutes | 848 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Steinway and Sons
The singular pianist Simon Mulligan begins a survey of Percy Grainger’s complete piano music on the Steinway & Sons label. This first volume includes heartfelt performances of Grainger’s most beloved melodies and folksong settings.
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Ryan Keberle’s Collectiv do Brasil – Considerando (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:30 minutes | 1,08 GB | Genre: Latin Jazz, Bossa Nova
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alternate Side Records
What started as Ryan Keberle’s torrid love affair with Brazilian music has blossomed into something far deeper and more enduring. Considerando, the trombonist’s second album with the São Paulo-based Collectiv do Brasil, confirms that this is a singular relationship built to last. Slated for release on July 14, 2023, it’s a deep dive into the songbook of Edu Lobo, the beloved and pervasively influential composer, guitarist and vocalist, still going strong at 79, who bridges the bossa nova-era with the 1970s flowering of MPB (música popular brasileira).
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Raviv Gazit – Ze (1988/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 38:05 minutes | 434 MB | Genre: Electronic
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Raviv Gazit
Fortuna Records return with an exceptional reissue of a mid-80s early electronica LP by keyboardist Raviv Gazit. The album was composed entirely on the Synclavier synthesizer in the basement of the Tel-Aviv University in 1985. Gazit was ahead of his time composing cold yet blissful electronic music for film and theatre which he later released as an album. An unexpected yet extremely welcome addition to Fortuna’s killer catalog.
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The Philharmonic Players & Richard Markson – Haydn: Cello Concerti in C & D (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 53:54 minutes | 982 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Urtext
During Joseph Haydn’s lifetime, concertos for solo instruments and ensemble were generally written for a particular musician. In the case of Haydn’s violoncello Concerto in D major Hob.VII:2, this person was Anton Kraft, first cello in the Esterházy ensemble and later one of Vienna’s greatest virtuosi. This composition for a particular occasion has become a masterpiece for the ages; an autograph score by the composer survives, dating from 1783. The services of Haydn specialist Sonja Gerlach have been obtained for this edition of the concerto with piano accompaniment. She enriches the Urtext edition with a detailed preface that also examines the execution of the ornaments and the cadenzas.
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The Choir Of Westminster Abbey, Peter Holder & James O’Donnell – Judith Weir, Jonathan Dove & Matthew Martin: Choral Works (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:16 minutes | 1,18 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hyperion
A diverse selection of works, many written to commemorate state occasions in Westminster Abbey itself, by three composers who demonstrate a particular affinity for choral music.
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Tamar Inbar – Fata Morgana (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:00 minutes | 1,31 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Solo Musica
Tamar Inbar, oboe, studied with Dudu Carmel at the Jerusalem Music academy where she won the competition for solo performance with orchestra and got full marks for her final oboe exam. She continued her studies with Maurice Bourgue in Geneva and finished her diploma with Thomas Indermuhle in Karlsruhe, and was awarded high honours. She finished her Masters studies with Stefan Schilli at the Mozarteum Salzburg, also with high honours.
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Svitlana Nianio & Tom James Scott – Eye of the Sea (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 29:21 minutes | 265 MB | Genre: Modern Classical, Avant-Folk, Post-Minimalism
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Skire
Recorded in correspondence throughout a calamitous and uncertain 2020, “Eye of the Sea” is a collaborative record made by Tom James Scott of the United Kingdom and Svitlana Nianio of Ukraine. Active since the late 1980s, Nianio has released a treasure trove of diverse and beguiling music under her own name, as a member of the legendary Ukrainian experimental unit Cukor Bila Smerť, and in collaboration with the late musician and instrument maker Oleksandr Yurchenko. For his part, Scott has steadily published solo recordings since the mid aughts on labels such as Bo’Weavil, Students of Decay, and Where to Now?, and worked often in collaboration with kindred spirits like Andrew Chalk and Timo Van Lujik.
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Sage Coals – Stoic’s Dream (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 14:30 minutes | 183 MB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Honey House Records
Sage Cowles is a singer/songwriter/guitar player who is currently based out of North Carolina. His new solo recordings backed by The Stingers is a fearless departure from his previous body of work with the psychobilly country surf band Huntinanny.
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Sabogal Uriburu Dolberg – Gato Negro (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 55:25 minutes | 636 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Club del Disco
Última presentación de GATO NEGRO, el disco debut del trió Pocho Sabogal (Piano), Tomás Uriburu (Contrabajo) y Christian Dolberg (Batería). Un disco de temas propios en clave de jazz. Junto al trio los acompañará en saxo tenor como invitada: Camila Nebbia.
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Sa Chen, Gulbenkian Orchestra & Lawrence Foster – Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 35:29 minutes | 590 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © PentaTone
Sa Chen here gives serviceable performance (in splendid sound) of two concerto warhorses. The Pentatone label seems to have cornered the market in surround sound recordings of the great concertos, but it was perhaps inevitable that their unbroken series of definitive recordings would inevitably move down from the Parnassian slopes – as here. These performances (while eminently musical) perhaps lack that final ounce of passionate commitment to be found in so many other concerti recordings on the Pentatone label. Nevertheless, a case can be made for these readings of two thoroughly musical performances, recorded in customary Pentatone splendour. (Classical CD Choice, Barry Forshaw)
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