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Leonard Cohen – You Want It Darker (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · February 1, 2018 · Comments off

Leonard Cohen, the acclaimed composer of “Hallelujah”, continues to astonish his audience. At age 82, he presents his uncompromising and urgent new album, You Want It Darker. Described by early listeners as a “masterpiece” and “classic Cohen,” You Want It Darker, is the latest chapter in Leonard’s significant contribution to contemporary music and thought. These startling songs have been beautifully realized in this his 14th studio album featuring 9 new tracks including the title track, all produced by his son, Adam Cohen. (more…)

The Angelica Sanchez Trio – Float the Edge (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · January 29, 2018 · Comments off

You can often judge musicians by the company they keep. Float the Edge, the latest album from pianist-composer Angelica Sanchez, features her alongside two of the most sought-after rhythm-section musicians on the scene: veteran bassist Michael Formanek and rising-star Tyshawn Sorey, both acclaimed leader-composers in their own right. To be released via Clean Feed Records on March 25, 2017, Float the Edge sees this earthy, expansive trio perform Sanchez’s compositions, as well as several free improvisations. “A lot of what we do as a trio – and what each of us does living a life in this music – is take things to the edge, taking the risk to jump off without really knowing where you’re going to land,” the pianist says. “When it works, you feel like you’re floating – it’s beautiful.” Even the pieces she composed for the album were relatively spare on the page, giving the players room to imagine the music on the fly. “I didn’t want to have too much information in the tunes – I just wanted to set a mood that would inspire improvisation,” Sanchez explains. “Mike and Tyshawn are players who naturally develop the music on the spot, and I always have faith that they’ll play something better than I could’ve imagined. Also, unlike with a lot of piano trios, it isn’t just the piano leading the way all the time. I know I can play anything and they’ll run with the music, shape it. This album is really about going on a journey – for us and for the listener.”

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The Allman Brothers Band – Enlightened Rogues (1979/2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · January 21, 2018 · Comments off

The Allman Brothers Band – Enlightened Rogues (1979/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 38:20 minutes | 1,58 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks.com | Front Cover | © Mercury Records
Recorded: December 1978–January 1979, Criteria Studios, Miami, FL

Enlightened Rogues is the sixth studio album by American rock band the Allman Brothers Band. Produced by Tom Dowd, the album was released in February 1979 in the United States by Capricorn Records and PolyGram Records elsewhere. The Allman Brothers Band had broken up in 1976 following internal turmoil, amplified by escalating drug use. The band members splintered into different acts — among those Great Southern, Sea Level, and the Gregg Allman Band. Guitarist Dickey Betts approached his bandmates in 1978 with the prospects of a reunion. After two former members declined to return, they added new members: guitarist Dan Toler and bassist David Goldflies. Living together in Sarasota, Florida, they rehearsed and wrote the material for their next album in fall 1978.
They began recording Enlightened Rogues that December, and recording stretched into the new year. Sessions took place in Criteria Studios in Miami, Florida with producer Tom Dowd, who worked on a trio of early Allman Brothers albums. The group stayed at a home overlooking Biscayne Bay, which promoted unity within the members. The recording process was smooth and pleasant, with members showing courtesy to one another in comparison to ill feelings felt earlier. The album’s title comes from a quote original guitarist Duane Allman used to describe the band: “The world is made of two great schools, enlightened rogues and religious fools.”

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New Order – Music Complete (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · January 20, 2018 · Comments off

Long awaited album Music Complete is New Order’s first full studio release since 2005’s Waiting For The Siren’s Call, and their debut for Mute. The album finds the group revitalised, and where they had previously pushed toward electronics or guitars, here the two are in balance. Music Complete also marks a return to the studio for Gillian Gilbert, this is her first album with New Order since 2001’s Get Ready. (more…)

Living Voices – The Little Drummer Boy (1965/2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · January 19, 2018 · Comments off

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Living Voices – Sing Christmas Music (1962/2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

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John Taylor Trio – Decipher (1973/2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · January 18, 2018 · Comments off

“…one of contemporary jazz’s great performers…” so reads the prestigious Guardian newspaper’s assessment of English pianist John Taylor. As house pianist at London’s legendary Ronny Scott’s jazz club, Taylor accompanied many of the icons of jazz, and in so doing honed his individual style into what became one of the most important voices on the European jazz scene. The gigs and recordings of his own groups, his long-time association with trumpeter Kenny Wheeler, his many ECM trio recordings with Peter Erskine and Palle Danielsonn and groups lead by the likes of Jan Garbarek and John Surman established Taylor’s importance. Taylor’s 1973 MPS trio album Decipher features two top players, bassist Chris Laurence and drummer Tony Levin, who perfectly compliment Taylor’s wide-ranging style on an album that offers the listener a delicious taste of his compositions. The virtuoso sprint of Cipher melds into the varying tempos and emotions of Wait For Me, whereas Leaping is a pointillist abstract exchange between the three. The emotive jazz waltz Speak to Me plays some magical slight-of-hand with the time, and Song For a Child sings out as a soft-spoken ballad. White Magic powers through as a hard-swinging elixir for all that ails. Taylor’s second album as leader presents a master composer/player at full maturity – what a joy that this music is available once again.

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Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002/2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · January 12, 2018 · Comments off

On its Nonesuch debut, Wilco delivers a thrillingly experimental work that scored a perfect 10 on Pitchfork, which hailed the album as “complex and dangerously catchy, lyrically sophisticated and provocative, noisy and somehow serene … simply a masterpiece.” As the New York Times put it, Jeff Tweedy’s “songs about love, America, apocalypse, and self-invention unfold in richly enigmatic arrangements.”

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is the Chicago-based group’s fourth studio album. It is Wilco’s best selling album, reaching number 13 on Billboard‘s top 200 chart in 2002. The album features drummer Glenn Kotche for the first time and is the last record to include multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Jay Bennett. (more…)

Vanessa Paradis – Bliss (2000/2013/2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · January 12, 2018 · Comments off

“Bliss” is a pop album by French singer Vanessa Paradis. It is her fourth studio album and contains the single “Commando”. The album proved to be one of her least successful efforts, with none of the singles reaching the No. 1 spot in France as anticipated. However, it is notable because American actor Johnny Depp performed on some of the tracks. It also marks the recording debut of Lily Rose Depp, Johnny and Vanessa’s daughter, as she is featured on one track. Despite a weak chart run, Bliss spawned a few minor hit singles. The primary one was “Pourtant”, which is often regarded as Paradis’ most poetic work. Singles “Commando” and “Que fait la vie” were the other single releases off this album. Fans also note Bliss for its extensive artwork, all of which was hand-painted by Vanessa Paradis and Johnny Depp, with use of watercolors. The album topped the French album charts and remained on the charts for 49 weeks.

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Valenti Moya – Valenti Moya Meets Monk (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · January 12, 2018 · Comments off

This album offers some of the most acclaimed Monk compositions recorded in the key of Jazz Manouche. A completely different sensation and vision when listening to some of The Monk classics like “Teo”, “Blue Monk”, “Let’s Cool One” or “Epistrophy” with a touch of swingy guitar by the hand of one of the most recognized Spanish guitarists from Manouche, Valentí Moya.

The album also contains two songs written by Moya himself, “Always Know” and “Honesty”, composed especially for the recording session of Manouche with Monk. Thelonious fell in love with the two songs while reading the scores and the two musicians decided to include them in this recording. The external musicians who have collaborated on this album are some of the most recognized musicians of the current Spanish jazz scene such as the pianist Marco Mezquida or Gemma Abrié with her powerful voice. A must for all Monk lovers.

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Twisted Sister – You Can’t Stop Rock ‘N’ Roll (1983/2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · January 12, 2018 · Comments off

Although New York’s Twisted Sister wore makeup and stage costumes, the group was completely unlike other glam-metal bands of the early ’80s. The group’s 1983 major-label debut, „You Can’t Stop Rock N’ Roll“, is more akin musically to such harder-edged metal outfits as Motorhead and Metallica, while on stage, the band adopted a more freakish persona (while bands like Motley Crue did the opposite). Twisted Sister’s U.S. debut wasn’t the commercial breakthrough that its next release was (1984’s hit „Stay Hungry“), but it did the job of introducing the band to the rest of America and solidified the band’s standing in the U.K. (where Twisted Sister had already released an independent record).

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Twisted Sister – Under The Blade (1982/2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · January 12, 2018 · Comments off

Under the Blade is the debut studio album by American heavy metal band Twisted Sister, released on Secret Records on September 18, 1982. It featured a very brutal and rough sound, which was eventually totally ignored on a remixed re-release by Atlantic Records on July 14, 1985. Features bonus track “I’ll Never Grow Up, Now”.

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Twisted Sister – Love Is For Suckers (1987/2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · January 12, 2018 · Comments off

Although Twisted Sister’s final studio album wasn’t as commercially successful as its predecessors, it is still Twisted in every way and a great record. Released in 1987, the album took its cue from the cock-rock, pop-metal explosion happening at the time. But despite the obvious influence of this trend, the band retains it’s heavy sound.

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Twisted Sister – Come Out And Play (1985/2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · January 12, 2018 · Comments off

Armoury Records begins the process of remastering and reissuing a number of albums from New York metal band Twisted Sister. “Come Out And Play” is the follow up to the monstrous “Stay Hungry” album that catapulted Twisted Sister to the masses. “Come Out And Play” includes a number of stylistic diversions, including a lighthearted cover of the ’50s standard “Leader of the Pack”, and a song in which several non-heavy metal stars (Billy Joel, Brian Setzer, among others) are featured, “Be Chrool to Your Scuel”. There are also songs that are reminiscent of the band’s heavy metal past, like the title track and “Kill Or Be Killed”.

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Trapt – Trapt (2002/2012) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · January 12, 2018 · Comments off

The California rock band Trapt’s self-titled, second studio album under Warner Bros. Records. The album features the group’s hit single “Headstrong” that reached number 16 on the Billboardhot 100 and hit No. 1 on the Modern Rock Tracks. Trapt became certified platinum in 2003, making it the most successful album produced by the band.

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