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Solar Fields – Movements (2009/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 02:56:13 minutes | 1,97 GB | Genre: Electronic, Psychill, Downtempo, Ambient
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sidereal
Originally released in 2009, but out of print since a few years, Movements was the sixth full-length studio album by Magnus Birgersson as Solar Fields.
The vastness of Solar Fields lush soundscapes is nothing new: along his almost-twenty-year career Magnus Birgersson developed some of the most remarkable examples of psybient music, mixing ambient and IDM in the most natural way. Movements is no exception, actually, it’s one of Birgersson’s work where the studious listener is most challenged: eleven tracks not linked one to the other, where sounds flow naturally, intensely.
Almost ten years after its release, this masterwork of emotive, synthetic music is about to be available once again.
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Ruthie Foster – Joy Comes Back (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 42:32 minutes | 481 MB | Genre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blue Corn Music
With a naturally expressive voice that has drawn comparisons to greats like Aretha Franklin and Ella Fitzgerald, Texas-based singer and songwriter Ruthie Foster has a wide palette of American song forms – gospel and blues to jazz, folk, and soul – and her live performances are powerfully transfiguring. “Joy Comes Back” is the ninth full-length studio release for the Grammy-nominated blues singer.
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Rusty Dean – A Country Bouquet of Hits (1971/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 28:33 minutes | 579 MB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alshire
Rusty Dean presents some of the most beloved hits of mid-century country on A Country Bouquet of Hits. The collection has been lovingly remastered by Countdown Media on digital formats for modern audiences!
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Rustin Man – Clockdust (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 39:50 minutes | 411 MB | Genre: Folk, Psychedelic Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Domino Recording Co
Having waited 17 years for Drift Code, some may be surprised at Clockdust’s swift arrival, but the album’s roots can be found in the same extended sessions. “Early on I realised I had two albums worth of material,” Webb explains. “The first tunes I wrote were electric guitar based, with long arrangements that built up in layers to something sonically quite dense. These became the bulk of Drift Code. As a reaction, I wrote a batch of songs that were tighter in their structure but had more feeling of space. These make up the bulk of Clockdust.”
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Russian State Symphony Orchestra, Dmitry Yablonsky – Shostakovich: Jazz Suites Nos. 1 and 2, Tahiti Trot (2008/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:02:04 minutes | 587 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © 2xHD
All the works on this release will come as a surprise to those who know Shostakovich only as a concert composer in the Beethovenian tradition. Dmitry Yablonsky and the Russian State Symphony Orchestra show another side of the composer with the Jazz Suites and especially on Tea for Two. These musical divergences shouldn’t be surprising: while the symphonies, string quartets and concertos represent the core of his achievement, Shostakovich had wide sympathies across the musical spectrum, hence his oft-repeated comment that he enjoyed all music from Bach to Offenbach.
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Russian Rennaisance – Russian Rennaisance (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:04 minutes | 1010 MB | Genre: Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Azica Records
After emerging with the $100,000 Grand Prize at the 2017 M-Prize Competition, the largest prize for chamber music in the world, Russian Renaissance has firmly established itself as one of the most electrifying and exhilarating ensembles of today. Through stunning performances of everything from tango and folk to Classical and jazz, Russian Renaissance is redefining the possibilities of their traditional Russian folk instruments (balalaika, domra/domra alto, button accordion, and balalaika contrabasso) and capturing the attention of audiences worldwide. What makes Russian Renaissance truly special is their ability to both dazzle with breathtaking style and touch the hearts of listeners of all ages and backgrounds. In addition to their success at the M-Prize Competition, Russian Renaissance has also received a Gold Medal for Chamber Music at the 1st Vienna International Music Competition (2019), 1st prize at the 69th Coupe Mondiale in Russia (2016), and was named Musical America’s New Artist of the Month (March 2018).
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Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim, Johannes Moesus – Richter: 6 Symphonies, Op. 2 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:30 minutes | 1,10 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © CPO
Franz Xaver Richter shares the honors with Johann Stamitz as one of the founding figures of the Mannheim school and the famous court orchestra of Prince Elector Carl Theodor of the Palatinate. Richter joined this renowned ensemble in 1747, serving as a composer, violinist, and bassist. His works combine Baroque stylistic features with elements of the style galant, and he numbered among the masters of the Mannheim school who made very important contributions to the beginnings of the early classical symphony.
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Anders Muskens and Aleksandra Kwiatkowska – Farrenc: Complete Works for Violin & Fortepiano (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:46 minutes | 1,08 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Leaf Music Distribution
Anders Muskens and Aleksandra Kwiatkowska present a new album of the complete works for violin and fortepiano by an important female French composer of the nineteenth century: Louise Farrenc (1804–1875). A virtuoso pianist and composer, Farrenc was also a well-known editor and pedagogue in her time; like many women composers throughout history though, much of her output has been forgotten. This album presents her complete works for violin and fortepiano, recorded for the first time on period instruments.
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Sinfonia of London, John Wilson – Metamorphosen – R.Strauss; Korngold; Schrecker (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:22 minutes | 1,19 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Chandos
Following their critically acclaimed album of English Music for Strings, Sinfonia of London and John Wilson turn to Germany and three outstanding works for string orchestra. Franz Schreker’s Intermezzo, the oldest piece here, was composed in 1900, before Schreker’s rise to fame in the opera houses of Germany and Austria, but shows strong indications of what was to follow. Korngold composed the Symphonische Serenade following his return to Vienna from Hollywood after the Second World War, and shortly before he wrote his Symphony in F sharp. Korngold effortlessly conjures a vivid range of colours and textures from his large forces (32 violins, 12 violas, 12 cellos, and 8 basses) in a work that explores the virtuosity of the players to the full. Composed in 1945, as a reaction to the horrors of the war, and the desecration of German culture, Richard Strauss’s Metamorphosen for 23 solo strings seems to look backwards to the German romantic tradition (a trait even more evident in his Four Last Songs, of 1948). The moving final passage, marked ‘In Memoriam’, leaves the listener to contemplate in silence.
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Bobby Boyd – Bobby Boyd (2023 Remaster) (1976/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 41:22 minutes | 767 MB | Genre: Funk, Soul
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Athens Of The North
The vocalist, saxophonist, composer and arranger Bobby Boyd, arrived in New York at a young age after completing his schooling in Augusta, GA. His musical adventures began in the mid-60s with the release of his debut single “My Type Of Dancin’” on Veep Records in 1965, a fledgling R&B subsidiary label of United Artists. Encouraged by their positive impact on his career, he went on to release his second single “Whatcha ‘Gonna Do About It” on Bang Records in 1968.
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Blue Monday Trio – Looking at Michel (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 43:16 minutes | 498 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © LaPOP
The Blue Monday Trio, a Rome-based ensemble made up of Emanuele Rizzo (piano), Giuseppe Civiletti (double bass) and Giampaolo Scatozza (drums), offers a romantic, refined and elegant Contemporary Jazz. In Looking at Michel, the trio pays homage to the Italian-French pianist Michel Petrucciani, proposing the rediscovery of the artist with a personal interpretation of his most iconic songs, in a colorful collection of passion and imagination.
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Sam Cooke – The Best of Sam Cooke (1962/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 36:03 minutes | 1,55 GB | Genre: Soul
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA – Legacy
“The Best Of Sam Cooke” album was the beacon that kept Cooke’s most popular songs in the public eye. Between 1957 and his death seven years later, Cooke recorded an average of one Top Ten single every four months! For a couple of generations this was the first – and often only – Sam Cooke album they owned. Although there are more ambitious collections that show Cooke’s remarkable range and diversity, this is still the best starting place. These are Sam Cooke’s biggest commercial hits. This is the message in a bottle that brought his gifts to millions of people.
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Walter Klien, Minnesota Orchestra, Stanisław Skrowaczewski – Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 17 in G Major, K. 453 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 31:16 minutes | 1,11 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Vox
Collectors of a certain age may remember this attractive pairing of Mozart’s 17th and 27th piano concertos through its original LP release on Vox’s subsidiary label Candide. It also turned up on CD as part of Vox’s long gone budget Prima series. Newly remastered for Vox’s new Audiophile Series, this 1978 Elite Recordings production supervised by Marc Aubort and Joanna Nickrenz retains its vivid impact and vibrant detail.
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Sir John Barbirolli – Elgar: Cello Concerto, Enigma Variations, Symphonies, Sea Pictures, The Dream of Gerontius… (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 07:16:38 minutes | 15,80 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics
Sir John Barbirolli began as an orchestral cellist, and played under Elgar’s baton in the premiere of the Cello Concerto. Encouraged by Elgar, he moved into conducting and made his mark with the composer’s Second Symphony in 1927. After Elgar’s death, Barbirolli vowed to make the composer’s music his special mission in life and to do his utmost to make it known all over the world. From the performances here, we can judge how well he kept his promise.
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Stromae – Multitude (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 35:46 minutes | 403 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Universal Music Division Polydor
Multitude is the third album by Belgian musician Stromae. It was released through Mosaert on 4 March 2022. It is his first studio album following his hiatus and since Racine carrée in 2013. The first single, “Santé”, was released on 15 October 2021. Multitude also includes various music styles from different cultures, as seen in “Santé” and “L’enfer”.
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