Jason Vieaux – J.S. Bach: Violin Works, Vol. 2 (Arr. for Guitar) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:03 minutes | 1,00 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Azica Records
Jason Vieaux, “among the elite of today’s classical guitarists” (Gramophone), is described by NPR as “perhaps the most precise and soulful classical guitarist of his generation”. Among his extensive discography is the 2015 Grammy-winning album for “Best Classical Instrumental Solo”, “Play”. Vieaux’s multiple appearances over the years with Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Strings Music Festival, Eastern Music Festival, Caramoor Festival, etc., have forged his reputation as a top-drawer chamber musician.
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Jan Lisiecki – Night Music (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 59:54 minutes | 490 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
Following the fantastic Chopin album earlier this year, we announce the release of pianist Jan Lisiecki’s upcoming album Night Music. With this album Lisiecki continues to explore the universe of night music with works by Mozart, Ravel & Schumann, and consist of selected tracks of his Würzburg recital in 2018.
The release is complemented by a visual album, and both are set to be released 18 February 2022.
Listen to the second pre-release track ‘Ravel: Gaspard de la nuit, M.55 – III. Scarbo’ now!
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Jamie McLean Band – Paradise Found (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 41:13 minutes | 506 MB | Genre: Blues Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Harmonized Records
Personally Autographed by Jamie McLean. “Paradise Found” was produced by Ken Coomer of Wilco and recorded at Cartoon Moon in Nashville. It features the band’s strongest songwriting and performance to date. Songs like “Give My Life To Rock and Roll” and “Ghost Of You” are dripping with summer festival sweat while “Easy Rider” and “Something About Love” are perfect cruisers for a drive out of town. “Paradise Found” and “Turn Around” are heart felt ballads you’ll be singing for months!
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Jameszoo – Blind (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 46:16 minutes | 465 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Brainfeeder
Jameszoo (Mitchel van Dinther) returns to Brainfeeder with a new album – “Blind” – embarking on further adventures on the fringes of jazz and electronica. Imbued with the same spirit of adventure and experimental outlook as his previous work on the label, the recordings were shaped by van Dinther’s studio sessions at Willem Twee Studios – the specialist analogue studio in Den Bosch (Netherlands) with an unrivalled collection of vintage synthesizers – amongst other locations.
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James Newton Howard – Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:50:12 minutes | 1,94 GB | Genre: Soundtrack
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © WaterTower Music
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore is a 2022 fantasy film directed by David Yates from a screenplay by J. K. Rowling and Steve Kloves. It is the sequel to Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018), the third instalment in the Fantastic Beasts film series, and the eleventh overall in the Wizarding World franchise.Pianist, producer, and composer James Newton Howard scored over 60 films beginning in the mid-’80s, including The Fugitive, The Prince of Tides, Pretty Woman, Glengarry Glen Ross, Batman Begins, Michael Clayton, and the Hunger Games series.He has received numerous Oscar nominations, and won an Emmy Award for his theme for the television show Gideon’s Crossing and a Grammy Award in 2009 for his work on The Dark Knight. Those accolades brought continued high-profile film work, such as 2012’s The Bourne Legacy, the Hunger Games franchise, and the Huntsman film series. He made his debut in the Harry Potter universe with 2016’s Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
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James Brown – I Feel Good (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 54:38 minutes | 1,15 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Black Sheep Music
James Joseph Brown, Jr. (* May 3, 1933 near Barnwell, South Carolina; † December 25, 2006 in Atlanta, Georgia) was an American musician. He played organ, piano, guitar and drums, but performed almost exclusively as a singer and dancer. He was also a bandleader and music producer. Brown had a prominent position in the rhythm and blues and soul of the 1950s and 1960s and had a significant influence on the emergence of a new style of rhythm and blues, funk, which in turn strongly influenced later musical styles such as disco, hip-hop and house. This made James Brown one of the most important musicians of the 20th century.
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Jamal Aliyev – Illusion (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 47:44 minutes | 856 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © JA
Jamal Aliyev gave his BBC Proms debut in 2017 to great acclaim and a deeply moving performance of the Elgar Concerto in last year’s Festival Finale at the Royal Hall. ‘sonorous, haunting and poetic’ . His itinerary this year includes duos at the Wigmore Hall, concertos with the CBSO, RPO, BBC Scottish SO, the Istanbul State SO and festivals in Germany. ‘countless little touches of imaginative colour’ Gramophone.
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Jakub Kuszlik – Brahms, Chopin (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:28:57 minutes | 1,24 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Polskie Radio
Jakub Kuszelki is a polish pianist, Prize winner of the 18th International Piano Competition Frederic Chopin in 2021.
On November 11, 2017, for the first time on the DAB Plus digital platform and on the Internet, the sounds of Fryderyk Chopin’s music broadcast by Polish Radio Chopin were heard. Every year, on the eve of the November anniversary of this eighth public radio antenna, birthday concerts are organized. On November 10, 2021, at the Concert Studio of Witold Lutosławski, Jakub Kuszelik, winner of the fourth prize and the Polish Radio Special Prize for the best performance of mazurkas, in the Chopin Competition that ended only three weeks earlier, performed in the next anniversary concert. Extensive fragments of the recording of this November concert fill the currently presented debut solo album of Jakub Kuszlik. Before this just 25-year-old, talented pianist, a graduate of the Academy of Music. Feliks Nowowiejski in Bydgoszcz, in the class of prof. Katarzyna Popowa-Zydroń, the doors of many concert halls, not only in Poland, are just opening. The concert’s repertoire included compositions by Fryderyk Chopin, including, of course, a series of awarded mazurkas. However, the program was extended to include compositions by Johannes Brahms. Their inclusion in the recital program is only at first glance not obvious in the context of Chopin’s oeuvre.
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Jakub Józef Orliński – Vivaldi: Stabat Mater (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 18:25 minutes | 329 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics
Since his 2018 solo debut, Anima Sacra, countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński has been increasingly visible in concert and on recordings. Here, Orliński offers a recording of Vivaldi’s Stabat Mater, RV 621, a core part of his voice ranges repertoire that tells the biblical story of Mary’s anguish at the cross, appropriately issued for the Easter season of 2022. This EP is accompanied by a short feature film written and directed by Sebastian Panczyk (on DVD for physical buyers and available digitally). The film portrays a modern interpretation of the Stabat Mater story alongside Orliński’s recording and gives him a chance to show off his acting ability. The countertenor is backed on this recording by the period-instrument ensemble Capella Cracoviensis and its director and organist, Jan Tomasz Adamus, an early music specialist. Capella Cracoviensis does well in this supporting role, and Orliński gives a justly sympathetic performance. The attractive qualities of his voice are fully on display, especially in the long melismatic sections, such as in the “Quis est homo” movement. With the re-emergence of the countertenor in recent times, it is not difficult to see why the charismatic Orliński has found success and a growing audience early in his career.
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Jakob Mind – The One Who Got Away (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 28:26 minutes | 345 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Lovely Records
Jakob Mind is Rotten Mind guitarist and vocalist Jakob Arvidsson’s solo project. His debut album ”The One Who Got Away” is out on today 16 via Lövely records. Blending the sound that put Rotten Mind on the underground radar with Jakob’s own musical influences, the album offers a recognizable yet fresh take on guitar-driven “loser punk”.
”The One Who Got Away” contains 10 tracks, ranging from straightforward punk, post-punk to noise-infused experimental rock. The setting is Jakob’s hometown of Uppsala, Sweden, and the stories revolve around friendship, relationships, and life on the streets. Presented with straightforward and honest lyrics that simply describe reality as it is.
“The lyrics are about life and thoughts in general. This past year I’ve had close friends who died, I’ve lost jobs etc. I always try to just write about what’s going on right now…”
”The One Who Got Away” is out now on all streaming platforms. The album will be available as transparent blue vinyl and transparent/clear vinyl on the 10th of May.
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Jakob Manz, Johanna Summer – The Gallery Concerts I (Live) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 51:01 minutes | 539 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © ACT Music
The Art in Music – Siggi Loch has had the clear objective to foster creative interaction between jazz and visual art ever since he founded ACT in 1992. As a producer who is also an art collector, he loves to bring not only topflight musicians together around him, but visual artists as well. Works by Philip Taaffe, Gerhard Richter, Martin Noël, Martin Assig and many more don’t just adorn album covers, they are also on display at the ACT Gallery in Berlin.
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Jai-Jagdeesh – All is Now Light (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:04:38 minutes | 626 MB | Genre: New Age
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Spirit Voyage Records
Capturing the mystical energies of the sun, the moon, and water, Jai-Jagdeesh s All Is Now Light simultaneously soothes and invigorates the soul, and is the ideal soundtrack for beginning the day. Recorded in Tulum, Mexico, between the Caribbean Sea and the Mayan Jungle, these meditative chants provide a powerful remedy and preparation for a day in modern life. Whether accompanying a yoga practice or used as a regular musical morning companion, this creation is an illuminating point of bright, life-affirming, heart-healing light.
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Jae-Hyuck Cho – Chopin: Ballades (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:48 minutes | 1018 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Orchid Classics
Jae-Hyuck Cho plays Chopin’s extraordinary four Ballades and Sonata No. 3 in recordings that stand out for their nuance, passion and almost Lisztian virtuosity. Jae-Hyuck Cho is remarkable for pursuing a highly successful dual career as both pianist and organist, and he brings the sense of musical space and grandeur inherent in his organ playing to his piano performances. There is great subtlety and delicacy, too, in the Chopin interpretations heard on this album. Chopin pioneered the Ballade form, creating four distinct and deeply original works, from the ardent episodes of the first and dramatic contrasts of the second, to the warm, sunny Ballade No. 3 and poetic, lyrical No. 4.
The Sonata No. 3 epitomises the Romantic spirit and remains one of Chopin’s greatest achievements. Jae-Hyuck Cho performs these works with flair and originality, seeking to shed new light on celebrated repertoire.
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Jacqueline Woodley, Annina Haug, Pierre Rancourt, Marc Bourdeau – Daunais: Mélodies (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:16:01 minutes | 1,28 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Centrediscs
For more than 50 years, Lionel DAUNAIS had an undeniable influence on Québec’s lyric arts scene through his many activities as a singer, composer, lyricist, stage director, radio personality and artistic director.
To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the passing of this Montréal composer, this new album is the only one where his lovely songs are performed by 5 excellent classical musicians from Canada and Switzerland: Jacqueline WOODLEY, soprano; Annina HAUG, mezzo-soprano; Pierre RANCOURT, baritone; Michel BELLEVANCE, flute; and Marc BOURDEAU, piano and arrangements.
The programme is composed of 27 works – sung in solo, duo and trio – that reflect the diversity of styles of Lionel DAUNAIS’ writing: French mélodies, pop tunes, humorous folk-inspired songs, and songs for the young.
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