Solomon’s Knot – Bach Motets (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:31:35 minutes | 1,69 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Prospero Classical
This recording features the complete motets by Johann Sebastian Bach, set in the context of music which inspired him by his father’s cousin, Johann Christoph Bach.
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Soft Machine – Other Doors (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 56:27 minutes | 602 MB | Genre: Progressive Rock, Jazz Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Dyad Records
Five years after the release of their last studio album, legendary UK musical institution, Soft Machine, return with a brand new CD/LP, Other Doors. Boasting new material and two numbers drawn from their extensive historical repertoire, Other Doors finds the band on their usual fiery form.
Featuring John Etheridge (guitars), Theo Travis, (saxes, flutes, Fender Rhodes piano, electronics), Fred Thelonious Baker (Fretless bass), John Marshall (drums), Other Doors also features two guest appearances from long-serving bassist Roy Babbington, who retired from the band in 2021.
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Skids – Destination Düsseldorf (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 42:16 minutes | 536 MB | Genre: Punk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Last Night From Glasgow Limited
Destination Düsseldorf” is the brand new studio album from the legendary Scottish punk band Skids. The band cites Europe as a constant inspiration for this new LP, “…from the beauty of the Renaissance to the cruelty of many wars, the ups and downs have been a constant and ever-evolving influence. This new album follows in the footsteps of Days In Europa as a celebration of friendship and shared experiences.”
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Sirius Quartet – Playing on the Edge, Vol. 3 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:19 minutes | 1,13 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Navona
Sirius Quartet returns with the long-anticipated PLAYING ON THE EDGE 3, adding to their ever-thrilling catalog with a fresh batch of imaginative compositions hailing from Bernard Hughes, John Summers, Liova Bueno, Mark Edwards Wilson, Nathan Ball, Peter Dickinson Lopez, L Peter Deutsch, Mark Elliot Jacobs, and Adam Grimes.
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Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Singer Pur & Peter Rundel – Klaus Ospald: Más raíz, menos criatura & Quintett von den entlegenen Feldern (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:22:46 minutes | 707 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BR-Klassik
Born in Münster / Westphalia in 1956, Klaus Ospald is one of the most renowned German composers of contemporary music. He studied composition in Detmold and Würzburg, and also as a master student with Helmut Lachenmann. His works are performed by internationally renowned performers and orchestras. Important organizers and festivals of contemporary music arrange premieres of his works. Klaus Ospald has received numerous awards, most recently the International Hanns Eisler Scholarship of the City of Leipzig 2022. – The BR-KLASSIK CD presents Ospald’s “Más raíz, menos criatura” in a live recording of a performance on November 22, 2019 in a musica viva concert in the Herkulessaal of the Munich Residence and his “Quintett von den entlegenen Feldern” recorded on May 25, 2019 in the Laboratory for Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulic Machines of Coburg University.
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Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Mario Venzago, Keri Fuge, Roderick Williams, Joshua Tan – Herrmann: Suite from Wuthering Heights, Echoes for Strings (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:20:41 minutes | 1,38 GB | Genre: Classical, Opera
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Chandos
Bernard Herrmann is considered one of Hollywood’s most important composers, creating more than 50 film scores, and is especially known for his congenial collaborations with Orson Welles and later Alfred Hitchcock. But Herrmann also created regular classical works: presented here for the first time is Hans Sorensen’s Suite with excerpts from Herrmann’s opera Wuthering Heights. Echoes, also presented here, was composed in 1965 for string quartet and later arranged by Sorensen for string orchestra – the version heard on this album.
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Simone Helle – My Starry Eyes (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 43:46 minutes | 461 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Recordjet
With “MY STARRY EYES” I realize my musical visions and give expression to my values for an appreciative togetherness. Intimate duo arrangements or large band sounds with brass, from swing, gospel, world music to funk, should “carry” my visions, such as serenity, hope, joy to people. A grant has made the first recordings possible and now 10 very different titles are waiting to be released on CD and vinyl to be heard by many people.
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Silesian Chamber Orchestra – Musica Sacromontana XVIII: Václav Pichl, Józef Zeidler (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 43:33 minutes | 470 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © DUX Recording Producers
Another publication documenting the concerts of the Musica Sacromontana festival held annually in the basilica at Swieta Góra near Gostyn.
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Sigurd Imsen, Baroque Ensemble of the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra & Christina Kobb – The Trondheim Concertos (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/176,4 kHz | Time – 51:41 minutes | 1,52 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © 2L
As the eighteenth century progressed, Trondheim experienced strong economic growth. The Great Nordic War was over, and merchants set about exporting timber, stockfish, and copper from the mines of Trøndelag. They maintained close contact with their networks in the main cities of Northern Europe, and Trondheim’s luxury and extravagance characterised its social milieu. Thus, the latest fashions, literature and music from the Continent found their way to Trondheim.
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Sigur Rós – ÁTTA (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 56:37 minutes | 615 MB | Genre: Ambient, Post-Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited
Following it’s surprise digital release, Sigur Rós’ first new studio album in ten years, ÁTTA, is their most intimate and emotionally direct record to date.
Few bands cut through the noise and distractions of the world to bring you a pure elemental truth or feeling like Sigur Rós. As you hear on ÁTTA, there’s a new compulsion and drive to the band that comes with the new formation of the line up. Multi-instrumentalist Kjartan Sveinsson is back in the fold – having left the band in 2012 – to join frontman Jónsi and bassist Georg Holm.
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Shida Shahabi – Living Circle (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 44:51 minutes | 435 MB | Genre: Modern Classical, Ambient
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © 130701
Stockholm-based composer Shida Shahabi returns with her sophomore album, ‘Living Circle’ – a wonderfully rich and accomplished new work that resonates with a powerful depth and viscerality. Where the warm, homespun piano of her 2018 debut, ‘Homes’, drew widespread praise and announced her arrival as a bold new voice, ‘Living Circle’ sees the artist pushing forwards into deeper, more expansive sonic realms. With tracks stretching longer and slower, and her piano lines less ornate and dominant, ‘Living Circle’ is a heavyweight album and a must-hear for fans of Stars Of The Lid, Sarah Davachi, Max Richter, Labradford, etc. Released via FatCat’s 130701 imprint on June 23rd on vinyl, CD and digital formats, it is preceded by a live show supporting A Winged Victory For The Sullen at London’s Barbican Centre on May 13th.
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Shania Twain – Queen Of Me (Royal Edition) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 56:55 minutes | 710 MB | Genre: Country, Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Republic Records
Five-time GRAMMY award winning and multi-platinum selling icon, Shania Twain, releases her new album, Queen Of Me, viaRepublic Nashville, a division of Republic Records. Her sixth original full-length album, Queen Of Me, is the superstar’s most triumphant-feeling body of work; an album about standing in your own power and worshipping yourself. Its lead single “Waking Up Dreaming” was co-written and produced with BTS hitmaker David Stewart.
This “Royal Edition Extended Version” features all the extras from the Royal Edition, as well as two all-new tracks. Billy Ray Cyrus is featured as a guest vocalist.
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Sera Kalo – Exante (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 35:34 minutes | 399 MB | Genre: R&B, Soul, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © O-tone
Sera Kalo is a U.S. Afro-Caribbean musician and songwriter. She grew up in a Caribbean home in Connecticut steeped in a mix of musical styles, from her St. Lucian mother’s soulful singing of old hymns and Motown classics to her Dominican father’s love of reggae, cadence and calypso. From a young age, the diverse musical influences of her childhood home combined with the suburban big city sound and various alternative style mixes shaped her love for music. Her vocal idols have among others been Carmen McRae, Sarah Vaughan, Nancy Wilson, India Arie and Erykah Badu.
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Secret Night Gang – Belongs on a Place Called Earth (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 46:48 minutes | 523 MB | Genre: R&B, Soul, Funk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Brownswood Recordings
Manchester jazz-funkers, Secret Night Gang return with their sophomore album “Belongs on a Place Called Earth”, due for release 23rd June 2023. This is a record birthed from the emotional turmoil the world collectively faced as a result of the pandemic. A time which cultivated self-reflection and profound life questions leading to an evolution for the Manchester natives. On this album they present a fresh & bold new neo-soul sound, with the leading purpose of permeating hope & light through their music. In continued strength to strength, Secret Night Gang are carving their own lane across the British jazz & street soul scene and this upcoming album, is set to take them to new heights.
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Scott Kym – Matthew Heap: Dillinger (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 52:43 minutes | 520 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Navona
Dillinger: An American Oratorio from composer Matthew Heap in collaboration with librettist Darren Canady dramatizes the life of notorious Great Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger. Seen alternately as both an enemy of the state and a folk hero, Dillinger’s story is a fitting backdrop to Heap’s nuanced exploration of class warfare and the American Dream. The oratorio focuses on Dillinger’s final days and is presented in a quasi-oratorio setting, much like the opera-oratorio form that Stravinsky used in Oedipus Rex. Despite its historical source material, the music is more relevant than ever, bringing to life the struggles of Americans feeling caught between social strictures and larger economic forces.
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