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Robin McAuley – Alive (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 44:17 minutes | 550 MB | Genre: Hard Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Frontiers Records s.r.l.
Frontiers Music Srl will release legendary rock vocalist Robin McAuley’s new solo album, “Alive”, on February 17, 2023. The official music video for the LP’s title track can be seen below.
“Alive” sees McAuley’s voice continuing to defy time and sounding as inspired and powerful as ever. The music itself is more hard rockin’ than his previous effort, “Standing On The Edge”, but, of course, it is still wonderfully melodic, infectious, and fist-in-the-air uplifting.
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Roberto Passarella – Roberto Passarella: Horizons (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 54:37 minutes | 746 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Stradivarius
Bandoneonist Roberto Passarella presents Horizons, an original solo bandoneon composition across 9 movements.
Roberto Passarella (1989) began studying the bandoneón with his father, Héctor Ulises, at the age of 11 years. He graduated in Composition at the Conservatory of Pesaro with M° Lamberto Lugli and graduated in Philosophy at the University of Perugia, where he is currently a Ph.D. student in Human Science. Roberto Passarella (1989) began studying the bandoneón with his father, Héctor Ulises, at the age of 11 years. He graduated in Composition at the Conservatory of Pesaro with M° Lamberto Lugli and graduated in Philosophy at the University of Perugia, where he is currently a Ph.D. student in Human Science.
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Roberto Cassani & Fraser Campbell – Poet / Shuts / Clock (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 38:35 minutes | 607 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sunnyside
There is much to be said for being in the right place at the right time. Circumstances caused by the pandemic found many people locked down in places they hadn’t anticipated. Though there were likely many who were discouraged by this, there were just as many who found purpose and took advantage of their surroundings and the collaborators waiting there. Such is the story of Roberto Cassani and Fraser A. Campbell’s poet / shuts / clock, a recording made possible by their will to find creative connection in a time of forced separation.
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Robert Watson – Beatitudes (1983/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 41:36 minutes | 747 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hep Records
“It’s hard to recall, but there was a time, not long ago, when concepts like ‘neo-hard bop’ and ‘young lions’ were not in vogue. This album hails from that era (1983), as it is the CD reissue (with bonus tracks) of an LP, not on a major, but from the New Note label, an artist’s label run by Watson and Lundy.
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ro.t – Skymningens röst: dikter av Stagnelius, Lenngren och Bremer (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 23:39 minutes | 232 MB | Genre: Pop, Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Comedia
Bandet ro.t framför svenska dikter till ny, egenkomponerad musik. Genom en blandning av traditionell, svensk folkmusik och visor hörs det mesta från svensk lyrikkanon, från 1700-talets Erik Johan Stagnelius och Anna Maria Lenngren till 1900-talets Dan Andersson och Pär Lagerkvist. Bandet består av Rebecka O’Nils, Jenny Klefbom och William Bülow O’Nils.
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Résonances Consort – Renaissance English Recorders (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:30 minutes | 1,19 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Paradizo
‘Renaissance English Recorders’ revisite près d’un siècle de création musicale correspondant à peu de choses près aux règnes d’Henri VIII et d’Elizabeth I en Angleterre. Parmi les œuvres du riche répertoire pour consort de flûtes édité à l’époque, une large place est accordée à deux publications majeures de la musique instrumentale : les Lachrimae de John Dowland de 1604 et Pavans, Galliards & Almains d’Anthony Holborne datant de 1599. Comme il était de tradition aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles, Julien Martin et son Résonances…
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Red Norvo and His Orchestra – Red (1988/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 46:32 minutes | 697 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hep Records
Kenneth “Red” Norville was born in Beardstown, Illinois on March 31, 1908. By the middle 20’s he was playing professionally throughout the mid-west states and on radio. He worked for Paul Whiteman in the early 30’s and married singer Mildred Bailey. He formed his first band in 1935 and played at the Famous Door in New York. This group was augmented the following year for an engagement at the Commodore Hotel using arrangements by Eddie Sauter who also played trumpet with the band.
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Raphael Wallfisch – Myaskovsky, Lyadov & Rimsky-Korsakov: Cello Works (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:16:41 minutes | 935 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © CPO
For the last ten years or so, there has been a gratifying renewal of interest in the eminent Russian composer Nikolai Myaskovsky, whose career spanned the late Romantic to early Modern periods. His creative legacy deserves far greater attention than is currently paid to him: Myaskovsky’s music demonstrates the highest level of craftsmanship and explores a very unique realm of emotional and soulful experience.His Cello Concerto, Op. 66, was composed in the last three months of 1944.What prompted Myaskovsky to compose this work is not known, since the work was neither commissioned by a performer nor written for a specific artist. It was probably intended to contribute to the growing repertoire of instrumental concertos being created for the rising generation of young Soviet virtuosos. The two-movement concerto opens with a contemplative Lento ma non troppo in a modified sonata form, with a brief solo cadenza taking the place of the development. The prevailing autumnal melancholy mood is balanced by a passionate second theme in major. The ensuing Allegro vivace is shaped as a rondo, with two slow episodes complementing the energetic main theme with its lively triplets. After a brilliant cadenza, the movement reaches its climax when the material of the opening movement is resumed, then leads into a meditative coda. In addition, two virtuoso cello sonatas by Myaskovsky can be heard. The remaining pieces on this album are by Myaskovsky’s teachers at the St. Petersburg Conservatory – Nikolai Rimsky-Korssakoff, who taught him the art of orchestration, and Anatoly Lyadoff, with whom he studied harmony, counterpoint, and free composition.
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Pueri Cantores Málaga – Caporali: Via crucis & Cantate sacre (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:31:50 minutes | 910 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Tactus
After the recordings dedicated to the rediscovery of Ulisse Matthey’s works for organ and harmonium (Tactus tc871390 and tc871380), the Italian organist Fausto Caporali on this album plays the role of the composer. The recording project sees the collaboration of Italian and Spanish musicians with the involvement of the choirs of the cathedral of Malaga, of the famous «cantaor de Flamenco» Francisco Javier Sánchez Bandera (Bonela Hijo), and of musicians of the Cathedral of Cremona, among which the Caporali himself.
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PrismE – Alma (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 40:44 minutes | 744 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Urgence Disk Records
Ah! In jazz, the piano-bass-drums trio is like a jewel, a magic formula, which has a very long and beautiful history, which follows a tradition that does not stop, the proof. To found the trio PrismE, Leïla Kramis brought together the double bassist Stéphane Fisch and the drummer Sylvain Fournier. A story of complicity over a few years, because that’s how the best moments of music are concocted. Each musician*also composes and the rest refines together, in search of the atmospheres and grooves that sign the identity of these three.
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Priscilla Block – Welcome To The Block Party (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 47:56 minutes | 583 MB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © UMGN InDent Records
Priscilla Block draws listeners in with her unfiltered, relatable songwriting and catchy melodies. “I love writing about real-life experiences and the ups and downs that I’ve gone through,” Priscilla says. “I don’t sugarcoat anything, and I think that’s the beauty of songwriting and being an artist. It’s a little sass, a little trash and a little sad,” she describes with a knowing wink as her catalog rolls easily from heartbreak to laughter. Features the Country radio hit, “Just About Over You.”
Read morePrès de votre oreille & Robin Pharo – Blessed Echoes (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]
Près de votre oreille & Robin Pharo – Blessed Echoes (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:27 minutes | 1,25 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Paraty
Robin Pharo and the ensemble Près de votre oreille offer a fascinating dive into the English vocal repertoire of the late 16th century.
At the end of the 16th century, which was also the reign of Elizabeth I, the fashion for the Italian madrigal had indeed fertilized the English musical genius, already fond of vocality. A rich repertoire was born, that of the Lute Song, a song accompanied by the lute, otherwise known as Ayre. If Dowland’s genius overshadowed his contemporaries, this program seeks to do them justice. It reveals their ability to adapt to the style by developing it into a vocal quartet and by adding other equally interesting instruments. The reduced number of instruments allows us to enter into the intimacy and poetry of these works. Here, we are told of anonymous lovers, of the ordinary beauties of nature, of simple but profound sorrows, and then, of course, of this omnipresent, daily death, which we frequent in familiarity.
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Polly Paulusma – When Violent Hot Pitch Words Hurt (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 39:48 minutes | 379 MB | Genre: Folk, Acoustic, Singer-Songwriter
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Wild Sound
‘When Violent Hot Pitch Words Hurt’ is Polly Paulusma’s latest sister-album, the title an anagram of ‘The Pivot On Which The World Turns’, which was released in September via One Little Independent folk subsidiary Wild Sound. It is possibly her most vulnerable accompanying piece yet, revealing early demos, lyric changes, musical alterations, draftings, and even spoken-word origin poems that proceeded the songs.
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Piotr Wiese – All What Matters (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 20:37 minutes | 363 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © 1631 Recordings
Acclaimed Polish composer, pianist and producer Piotr Wiese, who focuses on modern-classical, instrumental piano music, releases his new album All What Matters. The reflective offering evokes the influence of composers like Joep Beving, Otto Totland and Nils Frahm. After several years of fruitful searches (and successful recordings), Piotr’s piano now takes the most prominent place in his home studio in Toruń, Poland. It is from there that Piotr sends out musical invitations to his listeners, allowing us to travel with him on a journey within.
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Pink Floyd – The Great Gig In The Sky + Us And Them (2023 Remaster) [Single] (1973/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 12:34 minutes | 468 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino
“The Great Gig in the Sky” is the fifth track on The Dark Side of the Moon, the 1973 album by the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd. The song features music by Richard Wright and wordless vocals by Clare Torry, being one of only three Pink Floyd songs to feature vocals from an artist outside of the band. It was released as a digital single in February 2023 to promote The Dark Side of the Moon 50th Anniversary box set.
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