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Wannes Cappelle – Verslegen nevest gie (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 38:21 minutes | 748 MB | Genre: Classical
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Precies twee jaar geleden legden Wannes Cappelle, frontman van Het Zesde Metaal, en de Belgische pianist Nicolas Callot de plaat ‘Kom, benevelt mie!’ in de winkel – een verzameling liederen van Franz Schubert, maar dan in het West-Vlaams. Het album schoot door de verkoop van zeventien exemplaren in de eerste week meteen naar de top van de klassieke Ultratop en bleef daarin nadien ook een aanzienlijk aantal weken staan. Tot alle vinyls op waren.
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Wang Yuehan – Beloved (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:29:18 minutes | 2,44 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hearing the Silence
As one of China’s few fortepianists, Wang Yuehan considers it her responsibility to introduce the ancient instrument to the public and help audience better understand its appeal through her performances.
“When I play Mozart’s music on the fortepiano, it authentically brings back the music of his time to me,” Wang told Shanghai Daily. “I feel like I am communicating with the great musicians in person. The fortepiano helps me to better understand the reason and logic of their composition.”
Featuring a softer sound and smaller frame, fortepiano is a piano used in the mid-18th to early-19th century, for which composers of the classical era, especially Haydn, Mozart, and the younger Beethoven wrote their piano music.
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Wanda Landowska – Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Books 1 & 2 by Wanda Landowska (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 05:12:11 minutes | 3,26 GB | Genre: Classical
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Wanda Landowska, who continued to perform and record up to her death in 1959, was renowned as the greatest harpsichordist of the first half of the twentieth century. Book II of her recording of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier was made between 1951 and 1954 at her home in Lakeville Connecticut. As with all of Landowska’s recordings, what strikes the listener most is her vitality, her musical integrity, and her total commitment to the music she is playing. Landowska brings a unique mood, style and character to the great Prelude and Fugue in E major which she described as ‘one of the most perfect works of music.’ Her heartfelt interpretation of the Prelude and Fugue in F sharp minor can be best summed up in her own words: ‘When Bach writes of sorrow, it never crushes us. Perhaps because there is no trace of bitterness.
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Wanda Jackson – Rockin’ With Wanda! (1960/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 26:49 minutes | 479 MB | Genre: Rock
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Rockin’ with Wanda is a compilation album by country music and rockabilly singer Wanda Jackson. It was released in 1960 by Capitol Records (catalog no. T-1384). The album cover calls it “a collection of great country songs in the rhythmic singing style of Wanda Jackson.”
AllMusic gave the album a rating of four-and-a-half stars. Reviewer Richie Unterberger called it “absolutely the best collection of Wanda Jackson’s rockabilly recordings” and “a leading candidate for the best female rock & roll album of the 1950s.”
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Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2022 Remaster) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 51:48 minutes | 1,98 GB | Genre: Alternative Rock, Indie Rock
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THIS IS A REMASTER OF THE ORIGINAL ALBUMYankee Hotel Foxtrot was widely acclaimed as one of 2002’s best albums, appearing in year-end lists of Mojo, NME, Q, Rolling Stone, and Uncut, among many others. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot also was featured in multiple decade-end lists, with Rolling Stone naming it #3 Album of the 2000s, as well as many Greatest Albums of All Time lists, including in the NME.Among Yankee’s inspirations was a recording Tweedy bought at Tower Records in the late 1990s, The Conet Project: Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations. As Bob Mehr points out in his new album note, the record got “deep under Tweedy’s skin.” Tweedy said in his 2017 memoir, Let’s Go (So We Can Get Back), “It was as fascinating to me as anything being made by actual musicians using actual instruments … I wanted to know why it was so hypnotic to me. Why could I listen to hours of this stuff, even though I had no clue what any of them were saying. That question became the foundation for Yankee Hotel Foxtrot … the way people communicated or ultimately failed to communicate.” The album takes its title from a haunting recording of a woman repeating those words that is included in The Conet Project; that recording is sampled in the penultimate song on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, “Poor Places.”“Conceptually, Tweedy had decided to focus on a big idea for the next album: the state of America. His lyrics—often distilled from scribbled pages of free verse or poetry—became a form of inquiry,” Mehr continues. Tweedy said, in 2004, “I wanted to write about the stuff right in front of my eyes, microscopically looking at America and asking questions about each little thing … How can there be all these good things and things that I love about America, alongside all of these things that I’m ashamed of? And that was an internal question, too; I think I felt that way about myself.”Mehr says, “Exploring those questions, while weaving in strands of Eastern philosophy and bits of autobiography—Yankee lyrics would be loaded with the pained imagery of someone suffering from migraines and mental health issues—Tweedy would conjure a deep examination of both country and self.”Describing the uncanny, strangely prescient feeling of the album, which Wilco began offering as a free stream on its website in 2001, Mehr notes: “In the wake of 9/11, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot would be burdened with unintended meaning. The disc had originally been scheduled for a September 11 release. Its cover—a Sam Jones-shot image of Chicago’s twin Marina Towers angled in looming fashion—bore an eerie resemblance to the felled World Trade Center towers. And the songs—with titles like ‘Ashes of American Flags’ and ‘War on War,’ and lyrics about how ‘tall buildings shake, sad voices escape’—took on a terrible new resonance.”
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Wand – Spiders in the Rain (Live) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:11:54 minutes | 827 MB | Genre: Psychedelic Rock
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With 2020 hindsight (and magic mics), we spy Wand in their late Plum/Laughing Matter quintet style, rolling up the west coast and rolling out the magic carpet. These nights spent communing with the crowds and jamming toward infinity (fittingly) promise that we’ll meet again, on nights like these further down the Möbius strip. But you KNEW this!!!
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Walter Wanderley E Portinho – Órgao, Sax E Sexy (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 33:38 minutes | 602 MB | Genre: Bossa Nova, Latin Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla
Brazilian organist Walter Wanderley was one of the true masters of his instrument, both in Brazil and throughout the world. He is best known for his lounge and bossa nova music. With 46 recorded solo albums in his discography (both in Brazil and the U.S.), he reached number 26 on the Billboard pop charts in September 1966, which opened a clear path for further success.
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Walter Wanderley – Samba No Esquema De Walter Wanderley (1963/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 28:23 minutes | 560 MB | Genre: Bossa Nova, Latin Jazz
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2008 reissue of this Bossa Nova classic from the Blue Note vaults, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the creation of Bossa Nova by Tom Jobim and Joao Gilberto.
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Walter Wanderley – O Samba E Mais Samba com Walter Wanderley (1962/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 29:10 minutes | 633 MB | Genre: Bossa Nova, Latin Jazz
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Walter Wanderley’s debut album ‘O Samba É Mais Samba’ was released in Argentina as ‘El Samba Es Mas Samba Con Walter Wanderley’, the North American market named this LP as ‘Walter Wanderley’s Brazilian Organ’, and a second release in US made it as ‘From Rio With Love’. Wanderley was known for his distinctive staccato stuttering style and mastery of the Hammond B-3 organ and on later recordings and during live concerts a L Series Hammond. Walter Wanderley was already famous in his native country Brazil in the late 1950s and became an internationally renowned star in the mid-1960s through his collaboration with the singer Astrud Gilberto.
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Walter Wanderley – Festa Dancante (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 31:38 minutes | 521 MB | Genre: Bossa Nova, Latin Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla
Wanderley was already playing the piano at the age of five; at the age of twelve he received lessons in music theory. in 1958 he moved to São Paulo, where he played in the nightclubs and in 1959 he got the opportunity for first recordings, first as an accompanist of Carlos Lyra and his wife, the singer Isaurinha Garcia. Soon he also worked with Marcos Valle, Antônio Carlos Jobim and João Donato. Through the collaboration with João Gilberto, he also gained international fame. From 1966 to 1967 he recorded the three albums Rainforest, Cheganca and A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness (the latter with the participation of the singer Astrud Gilberto) under the label The Verve Music Group and the name The Walter Wanderley Trio, which consisted next to him of Claudio Slon (drums) and Jose Marino (bass). The three albums were produced by Creed Taylor in the United States.
With the US recording of Samba de Verão (also known as Summer Samba or So Nice), Wanderley reached number 23 on the Billboard charts in the summer of 1966.
Wanderley was known for his staccato playing style and mastery of the Hammond B-3 organ. He recorded 46 albums under his own name. Walter Wanderley died at the age of 54 as a result of cancer.
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Walter Wanderley – E O Bolero (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 31:20 minutes | 582 MB | Genre: Bossa Nova, Latin Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla
Wanderley was already playing the piano at the age of five; at the age of twelve he received lessons in music theory. in 1958 he moved to São Paulo, where he played in the nightclubs and in 1959 he got the opportunity for first recordings, first as an accompanist of Carlos Lyra and his wife, the singer Isaurinha Garcia. Soon he also worked with Marcos Valle, Antônio Carlos Jobim and João Donato. Through the collaboration with João Gilberto, he also gained international fame. From 1966 to 1967 he recorded the three albums Rainforest, Cheganca and A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness (the latter with the participation of the singer Astrud Gilberto) under the label The Verve Music Group and the name The Walter Wanderley Trio, which consisted next to him of Claudio Slon (drums) and Jose Marino (bass). The three albums were produced by Creed Taylor in the United States.
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Walter Trout – Ride (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:53 minutes | 1,20 GB | Genre: Blues Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Provogue
The iconic US blues-rock guitarist Walter Trout releases his 30th solo album, Ride via Provogue/Mascot Label Group.
However fast or far a man travels, he can never truly outrun his past. On his new album he found himself eyeing the horizon and the green shoots of his triumphant late career. There was a new record deal with Mascot / Provogue. A move from California to Denmark with his beloved family. Even now, aged 70, Trout was still writing fresh chapters of his life story.
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Walter Susskind – Mussorgsky, Mozart & Bruch: Orchestral Works (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:34:18 minutes | 522 MB | Genre: Classical
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Jan Walter Susskind (1 May 1913 – 25 March 1980) was a Czech-born British conductor, teacher and pianist. He began his career in his native Prague, and fled to Britain when Germany invaded the city in 1939. He worked for substantial periods in Australia and the United States, as a conductor and teacher.
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Walter Gieseking – Ravel: Tombeau de Couperin, Gaspard de la nuit, Pavane pour une infante défunte & Sonatine (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:03:47 minutes | 1,22 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics
Among the major accomplishments of Walter Gieseking’s career at the piano, the three cycles Mozart, Debussy, and Ravel have influenced generations of musicians and are part of the discographic legend. The Ravel recordings in particular are striking tokens of Gieseking’s unsurpassed refinement and deep understanding of the French spirit, perhaps a legacy of his French childhood?
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Walter Gieseking – Ravel: Miroirs, Jeux d’eau, Valses nobles et sentimentales & À la manière de… (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 53:57 minutes | 1019 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics
Walter Gieseking is undoubtedly one of the most important interpreters of French piano music. Especially when it comes to Debussy and Ravel, few can compete with him. Excellent pianistic skills, a musical culture of expression and a love of the Mediterranean landscape were important sources of Gieseking’s specialism in this genre.
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