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Beatrice Egli – Balance (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 47:41 minutes | 582 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ariola Local
Dass es sich lohnen kann, Neues zu wagen und »Volles Risiko« zu gehen, hat Beatrice Egli im letzten Sommer eindrucksvoll mit ihrer gleichnamigen Single bewiesen. Mit dem Song platzierte sich die Künstlerin nicht nur zum ersten Mal in ihrer Karriere auf dem ersten Platz der konservativen Airplay-Jahrescharts 2022, auch auf TikTok sind ihre Follower um über 100% seit Veröffentlichung der Erfolgssingle gewachsen.
»Ich möchte immer wieder aufs Neue das Adrenalin und das Kribbeln im Bauch spüren, die Momente mit den Menschen auf meinen Konzerten genießen. Aber das funktioniert nur, wenn ich auch immer wieder in meine Mitte zurückkehre und die Balance finde, denn sie ist der Ursprung dafür, dass etwas Neues entstehen kann. Das Leben ist ein ständiger Seiltanz – und genau davon erzählen auch die Songs auf dem Album.« (Beatrice Egli)
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bdrmm – I Don’t Know (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 41:09 minutes | 494 MB | Genre: Indie Rock, Dream Pop, Shoegaze
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rock Action Records
While the world became socially distanced in 2020, Hull’s post-shoegaze, dream pop, heavy guitar effects quartet bdrmm made the kind of impact with their debut album any young band would dream about. Bedroom was hailed as “a heady, forward-thinking shoe gaze distillation” by Clash magazine, the Guardian proclaimed “one of the underground hits of lockdown”, while NME awarded the album five solid stars and called Bedroom nothing less than “a modern day shoe gaze classic.” Now signed to Mogwai’s Rock Action Records, the band return with I Don’t Know, complete with their trademark effects-laden guitars and motorik Neu! grooves but now with added piano, strings, electronica, sampling and the occasional dance beat. Bdrmm fans will not be disappointed and the fans of Radiohead, Ride, Mogwai, The Cure that are yet to discover bdrmm would do well by blessing their ears with “I Don’t Know”
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Various Artists – Daryl Runswick – Concerto for Trumpet & Symphony No. 2 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 48:59 minutes | 445 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ASC Records
Orchestral works by Daryl Runswick performed by the mighty BBC National Orchestra of Wales with an opening track performed by the internationally renowned vocal ensemble, The King’s Singers.
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Bamberger Symphoniker – Liebestod – Wagner | Mahler | Strauss (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:16:43 minutes | 1,20 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Accentus Music
The music of Wagner, Mahler and Strauss is very close to the heart of the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra and also a little in their blood, as the multiple award-winning recordings of Mahler 4 with Jakub Hrůša and Mahler 9 with Herbert Blomstedt impressively testify. With this concept album they deal with the subject of death, which Jakub Hrůša by no means understands only as a moment full of despair and tragedy. Rather, he sees in death an element “that gives meaning to our lives.” And it is precisely this idea that the orchestra and its principal conductor convey with their interpretation of four key works by Richard Wagner, Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss. The result a kind of dialogue between the composers, who build on each other historically and stylistically. A dialogue that, says Hrůša, “enchants our ears and touches our hearts.”
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Balmorhea – Pendant World (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:01 minutes | 793 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
Balmorhea have recorded a second DG album, ‘Pendant World’. It features the band’s founder members Rob Lowe and Michael A. Muller alongside a great line-up of guest artists: violinist/vocalist Aisha Burns, cellist Clarice Jensen, experimental jazz saxophonist Sam Gendel, Joseph Shabason on tenor sax and flute, clarinettist Jonathan Sielaff, percussionist Jason Treuting, and vocalists Steph Jenkins and Lisa Morgenstern. Jonathan Low adds synths and percussion and also produced the album.
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Ayron Jones – Chronicles Of The Kid (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 35:20 minutes | 757 MB | Genre: Rock, Blues Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Big Machine Records – John Varvatos Records
Seattle-born musician Ayron Jones is carrying the torch for rock `n’ roll. With a spark that was first lit as a young person in the Emerald City, he was cultivating the light even when no one said he could. Jones, who was abandoned as a child by his parents, grew up with his aunt, teaching himself guitar and grinding in Seattle for over a decade. Then, in a flicker, he became one of the only Black solo artists to earn the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Rock Chart, thanks to his hit single ‘Mercy’- a cut from his critically acclaimed 2021 major label debut, Child Of The State. This year, Jones’ history-making career continues with his sophomore LP, Chronicles of the Kid. With each track, the legend of the determined 2022 iHeartRadio-nominated artist grows. But Jones, a husband and father of four, is not afraid to share the intricacies of his remarkable movie script-like origin story. From poverty to power, he is willing to spotlight the blueprint that has made him ‘one of the biggest names in the genre’ (American Songwriter). Today, after playing stages with The Rolling Stones, Guns `N’ Roses, B.B. King, Jeff Beck, Shinedown, Run DMC, Public Enemy, Sir Mix-a-Lot and more, Jones stands tall in the lineage of guitar-playing virtuosos like Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan, his name emblazoned with the greats. Now, the songwriter is leading the way as the luminous, burning sound of a new generation.
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Ashley Jackson – Ennanga (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 43:07 minutes | 689 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Bright Shiny Things
Harpist Ashley Jackson explores the musical and spiritual connections between various forms of American musical expression in her new album, Ennanga. Through the works of notable Black composers who have redefined musical landscapes, the album celebrates the centrality of the African American spiritual to the history of American music. Ennanga features The Harlem Chamber Players and Jackson’s harp transcriptions of works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Alice Coltrane, as well as original compositions by William Grant Still and Brandee Younger.
Praised for her “soulful” and “eloquent” playing (Musical America), harpist Ashley Jackson enjoys a multifaceted career as a highly sought-after musician and collaborator in New York and beyond.
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Ashley Bathgate – 8-Track (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 41:08 minutes | 789 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © New Focus Recordings
Cellist Ashley Bathgate releases her third solo album featuring her performance of Steve Reich’s Cello Counterpoint alongside three new works that take advantage of the versatile format of soloist with layered tracks. Composers Emily Cooley, Alex Weiser, and Fjóla Evans wrote works that expand on Reich’s template, exploring harmonic, dramatic, and gestural contrasts. The homogeneity of timbre inherent in works for layered tracks of the same instrument gives the listener a sense they are hearing a hyper-cello; the compositional strategy both echoes studio techniques that are ubiquitous in commercial music while also amplifying more Romantic impulses of extroverted expression and immersive textures.
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Ash Walker – Astronaut (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 37:58 minutes | 402 MB | Genre: Electronic, Trip-Hop, Nu Jazz, Neo Soul
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Night Time Stories
Four years on from his explorative third full-length Aquamarine, Londoner Ash Walker returns with an equally ambitious follow-up, set for release via Night Time Stories. Alongside a plethora of award-winning collaborators and combining a dizzying array of sounds, Astronaut hears Walker push his astral shower of rhythm and vibes to new heights. If Aquamarine was the take-off of his audial spaceship, Astronaut is the cosmic voyage reaching terminal velocity; a rocket-powered masterclass spanning jazz, blues, soul, funk, and reggae.
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Arthur Rubinstein – Chopin: 4 Scherzos & 4 Ballades by Arthur Rubinstein (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:23 minutes | 1,19 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alexandre Bak – Classical Music Reference Recording
Arthur Rubinstein (Polish: Artur Rubinstein; 28 January 1887 – 20 December 1982) was a Polish-American pianist. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest pianists of all time. He received international acclaim for his performances of the music written by a variety of composers and many regard him as one of the greatest Chopin interpreters of his time. He played in public for eight decades.
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Armel Dupas Trio with Jules Billé & Christophe Piot – Lookin’ Up (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 39:58 minutes | 440 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Armel Dupas
Armel Dupas is an atypical pianist. Both solo, and in trio, he talks about his life through music and shares stories with his audience, inviting everyone to dive in his/her inside world. The range of emotions generated by the music of the trio is wide: from the tenderness of a lullaby to the animality of the fast tempo. With his partners Jules Billé on bass and Christophe Piot on drums, Armel is in perpetual balance between yin and yang. An unique concert, a real sensorial experience…
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Antoinette Lohmann & Jörn Boyse – Thesauri Inventio 2 – Sonatas for Violin and Continuo from the Kroměříž Music Collection (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 59:56 minutes | 1002 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Globe
This second new album by Antoinette Lohmann is actually belongs to the album “Thesauri Inventio 1”, one with music from the Kroměříž archive, the other with music from the Di-Martinelli archive, both with mostly world premiere recordings.
In the late 17th and early 18th centuries, numerous music compilations appeared that gather together handwritten copies of all sorts of repertoire. This was cheaper than printing music or purchasing printed editions. Many compilations were intended for internal or local use and often included works of composers who were locally active. Today, they also give us insight into the popularity and distribution of composers and their oeuvres during a specific period.
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Antoinette Lohmann & Jörn Boysen – Thesauri Inventio 1 – Alternative Tunings in the Di Martinelli Violin Manuscript (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:14:10 minutes | 1,22 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Globe
Thesauri inventio 1 & 2 is in fact two albums in one 2CD digipack, one featuring music from the Di Martinelli Music Collection and other from the Kroměříž Music Collection. In the late 17th and early 18th centuries, numerous music compilations appeared that gather together handwritten copies of all sorts of repertoire. This was cheaper than printing music or purchasing printed editions. Many compilations were intended for internal or local use and often included works of composers who were locally active. Today, they also give us insight into the popularity and distribution of composers and their oeuvres during a specific period.
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Anthropology Band – Scald – Live 2022 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 02:47:09 minutes | 1,87 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © EuroArts Music International
3xCD set of Anthropology Band live in 2022 at the Newcastle Festival Of Jazz And Improvised Music and at Cafe Oto, London.
The band’s current 8 piece line up was on fiery form for both gigs, playing a mixture of both old and new material to full houses.
With the electric 70s music of Miles Davis as it’s starting point and the improvised abstraction of AACM as its end point, these recording show a band growing out of the studio and going from strength to strength as it hits the stage.
“An outstanding collection of improvisers with a programme that is inspired by, but definitely not copies from, electric Miles.
It’s how Miles might have sounded if his collaboration with Jimi Hendrix and Gil Evans had come about.
Keeffe is a real find, and when Orphy Robinson and Pat Thomas started feeding off each other, the audience erupted.” – Peter Slavid, review of Liverpool International Jazz Festival gig.
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Anthony Paratore – Carnival of the Animals (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 22:15 minutes | 211 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © EuroArts Music International
Carnival of the Animals” (Le Carnaval des animaux) is a humorous musical suite by the French composer Camille Saint-Saëns. The work, about 25 minutes in duration, was written for private performance by two pianos and chamber ensemble; Saint-Saëns prohibited public performances of the work during his lifetime, feeling that its frivolity would damage his standing as a serious composer. “The Carnival of the Animals” has since become one of Saint-Saëns’s best-known works.
This “musical zoo”, composed in 1886, is retold through the music of the legendary classical piano duo: Anthony and Joseph Paratore. Whether playing on one piano four-handed or on separate instruments, Anthony and Joseph Paratore are recognized as one of the foremost keyboard duos.
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