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Gonzalo Rubalcaba and Aymee Nuviola – Live in Marciac (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:01:45 minutes | 588 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © 5 Passion Records
Multi-GRAMMY® winning jazz pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba and both GRAMMY® and Latin GRAMMY® winning vocalist Aymée Nuviola present a collective mastery on their latest collaboration, Live in Marciac, due out May 27 on 5Passion Records. Live in Marciac captures an evocative and timeless live concert, full of Latin jazz classics and a few originals, from the duo’s 2021 tour performance at the Jazz in Marciac festival in France at the Chapiteau Concert Hall.
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Giuseppe Chiaramonte – Milán & Narváez: Spanish Renaissance Music (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:03:05 minutes | 631 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Brilliant Classics
Two 16th-century masters of the Spanish vihuela, speaking afresh to the 21st century through the modern guitar of Giuseppe Chiaramonte.
In 2020, Giuseppe Chiaramonte starred in a SKY TV documentary about the solo-guitar fantasias of the 19th-century Hungarian composer Johann Kaspar Mertz. These pieces formed the subject of his debut in Brilliant Classics (95722), for an album which won acclaim in the specialist-guitar press for the warmth of Chiaramonte’s sound, the palette of his tonal colours and his adventurousness in reviving the music of a composer deservedly once known as the ‘Liszt of the guitar’.
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Gilda Buttà – Absolutely… Ennio Morricone I (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:17 minutes | 1,02 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Da Vinci Classics
For a long time, Ennio Morricone (1928-2020) kept the two main fields of his compositional activity neatly separated. First, there was film music: this was undoubtedly the best known and also the most abundant of the two. His artistic partnerships with directors such as Sergio Leone, Giuseppe Tornatore, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Giuliano Montaldo, Elio Petri, and Gillo Pontecorvo marked the history of film music. However, the directors with whom he cooperated, also on the international stage, are very numerous, including Brian De Palma and Quentin Tarantino. His film music comprises nearly 500 scores: a record quantity, reached over the course of more than five decades, and crowned by three Academy Awards, three Golden Globes, five BAFTAs, a Grammy and countless other awards.
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George Michael – Listen Without Prejudice (Remastered) (1990/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 48:18 minutes | 547 MB | Genre: Pop Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Music CG
Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 is the second solo studio album by the English singer-songwriter George Michael, released on 3 September 1990 by Columbia Records (Epic Records in the UK). The album was Michael’s final album of all-new material on Columbia until 2004’s Patience. Listen Without Prejudice was a stark departure from Michael’s previous album, 1987’s Faith, with largely acoustic instrumentation and a sombre intensity in many of the lyrics and melodies. While the album topped the UK Albums Chart, disappointing sales in the United States led to Michael’s legal battles against Sony Music, in which he accused the corporation of not fully supporting him as an artist.
Listen Without Prejudice was reissued across a number of formats on 20 October 2017 and again topped the UK Albums Chart, 27 years after it first reached number one on the chart.
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Fondo Barocco – Baroque Cello Sonatas (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:04:44 minutes | 736 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Orlando Records
Starting in Italy in the middle of the 17th century, the cello enjoyed increasing popularity throughout Europe. The instrument experienced its first heyday in the first half of the 18th century. At that time it had just established itself as a solo instrument, and consequently music was enthusiastically written for it. A number of gifted composers of this time were cellists themselves, three of them are presented in the present album; the fourth of our composers was an oboist.
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Flume – Palaces (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 46:21 minutes | 551 MB | Genre: Electronic
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Transgressive
Flume kicks off a new cycle with his highly anticipated third album, Palaces. The 13-track LP shows off his ability to expertly push the boundaries of a sound he helped define, while delivering songs that are still undeniably “Flume.”
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Florence + The Machine – High As Hope (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 40:01 minutes | 429 MB | Genre: Alternative
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © EMI Records
For Florence + the Machine’s fourth full-length, High as Hope, Florence Welch digs deep, meditating on the highs used to fill the holes in our souls, be it drugs, alcohol, reckless love, or spirituality. Over the course of this concise and cohesive journey, she discovers life is about learning to live in the space between the extremes, embracing the normalcy of that middle ground between passionate highs and empty lows. Gone is the sun-splashed grandeur of How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful and the anthemic bombast of Lungs and Ceremonials. The Patti Smith ode “Patricia” and the stomping “100 Years” come the closest to past heights, but otherwise, High as Hope sticks close to the heart of a newly sober and reflective Welch. Arranged as a clean linear narrative, the album opens with “June,” wherein Welch faces the loneliness of fame and her coping mechanisms. She reveals a teenage eating disorder and drug and alcohol addictions on “Hunger” and returns home to revisit where they all started on “South London Forever.” On the string- and horn-drenched “Big God” – featuring Kamasi Washington, among others – Welch even considers a higher power to fill the void. In the moments where her former vices are not the focal point, emotions swell on the tender apology/ode to her younger sister, “Grace,” and the bittersweet “The End of Love,” which features Welch’s purest vocal performance on High as Hope. On the closing “No Choir,” she confesses “it’s hard to write about being happy cause the older I get/I find that happiness is an extremely uneventful subject.” Yet, by the end of the song, she realizes that, in those “uneventful” moments of stillness and mundanity, happiness can be found in the simplicity. Straightforward and relatably human, High as Hope may not be the rousing version of Welch from previous albums, but as a document of her personal growth, it’s an endearing and heartfelt study of truth and self-reflection.
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Eugenio Catone – Shostakovich: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 2 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 56:51 minutes | 823 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Stradivarius
The two Sonatas play a major role among Dmitri Shostakovich’s piano pieces. Given the great “historical awareness” shown by the composer right from the start and his inevitable respect for the sonata genre, they can rightly be considered as symbols of two distinct creative phases, from the comparison of which it is possible to appreciate the stylistic development of his language. Composed seventeen years apart from each other, the two sonatas seem to have developed with diametrically opposed premises and results: the first one is fierce, dense and atonal; the second one is meditative, rhetorical and calm.
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Enrico Pieranunzi – The Extra Something (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:18 minutes | 1,32 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cam Jazz
CAM JAZZ presents the live recording of a recent concert in New York’s Village Vanguard by one of its major artists, Enrico Pieranunzi. With him on stage in the historic club are two friends from previous adventures: Marc Johnson on bass and the late Paul Motian on drums. Hence the great empathy that is felt immediately among the musicians, an extraordinary understanding that goes far beyond the mere fact of music.
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Eliza & The Delusionals – Now and Then (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 40:53 minutes | 501 MB | Genre: Indie Rock, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cooking Vinyl
For Eliza and The Delusionals, making music has not only been a unifying force between them as a band of like-minded individuals, but it’s proven to be a mode of escape, into a soundscape marked by vibrancy and emotion. The group’s journey ‘til this point has seen them grow up on stages around Australia, their music arresting and speaking to music fans who yearn for that same sense of belonging and escapism. And now, Eliza and The Delusionals have arrived at their most significant career point to date: their debut album, Now And Then. The 12-track collection is Eliza and The Delusionals in their purest form. An album that reflects on youth and the formative years that have influenced the mid-20 somethings they are today, Now And Then is the perfect soundtrack to the band’s coming-of-age period.
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Eckart Runge & Jacques Ammon – Baroque in Blue (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:37 minutes | 1,22 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Berlin Classics
On their new album “Baroque in Blue”, Eckart Runge & Jacques Ammon explore the field of tension between two musical epochs and genres that are separated by more than 200 years. Baroque and jazz have much more in common than one might think at first glance: walking basso continuo, the joy of spontaneity and, last but not least, the high art of improvisation.
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David Helbock & Camille Bertault – Playground (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 52:18 minutes | 949 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ACT Music
Camille Bertault and David Helbock are two of the most jaw-droppingly talented members of the cohort of European jazz musicians currently in their mid-thirties. Their journeys in improvised music are always adventurous, playful and exciting. She is the new rising star of French vocal jazz. He, Austrian-born, is one of the most fascinating pianists on the scene. Their two personalities might appear to be polar opposites, yet Bertault’s live-wire humour and Helbock’s calm self-assuredness only appear to be different on the surface. When it comes to the musical choices they make, they are emphatically on the same page. Each is astonishingly versatile, with an innate sense of dramaturgy. This voice-piano duo reaches unbelievable levels of inventiveness here on “Playground”.
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Dave Kerman and 5uu’s – The Quiet In Your Bones (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:03:09 minutes | 668 MB | Genre: Avant-Garde Rock, Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cuneiform Records
In November 2015, I decided to get back into writing music, after a 12 year break, to make this demo. It took 8 months of full-time work, between December 2015 and July 2016, to compose & record. Then a 7- month break, during which I was the musical director for a project with Theatre Basel. February thru December of 2017 was again full-time work, rearranging much of it, replacing most of the original midi instruments with real ones, editing out parts that felt “compromising”, and fine-tuning the whole shebang, as best I could.
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Daniel Villarreal – Panamá 77 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 40:56 minutes | 478 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © International Anthem
Panamá 77 – a vibrant and verdant suite of multi-textural, jazz-laced psychedelic instrumental folk-funk – is the debut album by Panamá-born, Chicago-based drummer and DJ Daniel Villarreal.
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collectif9 – Vagues et ombres (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 53:37 minutes | 1,92 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alpha Classics
collectif9, well-known for its innovative programming and its unique arrangements of the classical repertory, here tackles the music of Debussy, following a first recording devoted to Mahler (ALPHA770). With Clair de lune , La Mer and Des pas sur la neige , the Montreal collective invites us into a sumptuous theatre of shadows and waves: ‘Could we, as nine string players, perform Claude Debussy’s La Mer and do it justice? In a musical style where timbre and colour are paramount, attempting to interpret this emblematic work seemed outrageous; but come to think of it, we like a challenge. This is certainly a reinterpretation. Being fewer in number allows us to otherwise reveal a rich rhythmic interplay already present in the work while shedding new light on the balance of voices and harmonies.’ A work by composer Luna Pearl Woolf completes the programme: Contact, ‘a sonic view into the underwater world of beluga whales in the St Lawrence Estuary’.
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