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ayumi hamasaki – COUNTDOWNLIVE 2019-2020 ~Promised Land~ A (2020) Blu-Ray 1080p AVC LPCM 2.0-CHDBits
Title: ayumi hamasaki – COUNTDOWNLIVE 2019-2020 ~Promised Land~ A
Release Date: 2020
Genre: J-Pop
Production/Label: avex trax
Duration: 02:37:00
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: PCM
Video: MPEG-4 AVC Video 33000 kbps 1080p / 23.976 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio: LPCM Audio Japanese 2304 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Size: 41.35 GB
Ayumi Hamasaki Countdown Live 2019–2020: Promised Land A is Japanese pop singer Ayumi Hamasaki’s 16th Countdown concert DVD. It was released on August 26, 2020. Hamasaki performed this concert only once at the Yoyogi National Gymnasium on December 31, 2019.
Upon release, the DVD peaked at No. 6 on the weekly Oricon DVD Chart, while the Blu-ray reached No. 9.
It was released in four formats: a DVD version, a Blu-ray version, a DVD+2CD+Goods version and a Blu-ray+2CD+Goods version. The latter two are limited TeamAyu/mu-mo editions, which include a physical CD version of the songs “Ohia no Ki” and “Dreamed a Dream”.
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Aisha Orazbayeva – Music for Violin Alone (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 38:01 minutes | 711 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © SN Variations
“Music for Violin Alone” was recorded in a makeshift studio in an empty house in Le Poujol sur Orb during the first two weeks of the French lockdown. Recorded both as a response to all loss of work due to COVID-19 and a way to be heard again. The pieces on the album are the pieces I’ve come to discover and learn during the two years of maternity leave. Two years of maternity leave have also been two years of creative silence, a search for new approaches, repertoire and ways of playing.
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Tempesta di Mare – Janitsch: Rediscoveries from the Sara Levy Collection (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:17 minutes | 1,31 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Chandos
The Philadelphia-based baroque orchestra Tempesta di Mare here reveals an unparalleled musical legacy, presenting long forgotten works by the German baroque composer Johann Gottlieb Janitsch, confined for centuries to unexamined archives. The works formed part of an enormous music collection which belonged to Sara Levy, the great-aunt of Felix Mendelssohn. She was a distinguished harpsichordist, collector, and influential figure in the musical life of late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenthcentury Berlin. Removed from the Berlin Sing-Akademie towards the end of World War II, her musical library was for many decades considered lost or destroyed. It was unearthed in Kiev only in 1999 and returned to Germany in 2001, where it is now again accessible to the public. While there can be no doubt that the instrumental oeuvre of Janitsch matched the diversity of that of some of his more prominent Berlin colleagues, the emphasis of his compositional output lay on chamber music, especially Quadros, four of which are featured here. The typical, prevailing dialogic structure of the Ouverture grosso highlights the influence which thematic play had on the rest of his work.
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Ike Quebec – With A Song In My Heart (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 38:55 minutes | 734 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla
Influenced by Coleman Hawkins and Ben Webster but definitely his own person, Ike Quebec was one of the finest swing-oriented tenor saxman of the 1940s and ’50s. Though he was never an innovator, Quebec had a big, breathy sound that was distinctive and easily recognizable, and he was quite consistent when it came to came to down-home blues, sexy ballads, and up-tempo aggression. Originally a pianist, Quebec switched to tenor in the early ’40s and showed that he had made the right decision on excellent 78s for Blue Note and Savoy (including his hit “Blue Harlem”). As a sideman, he worked with Benny Carter, Kenny Clarke, Roy Eldridge, and Cab Calloway. In the late ’40s, the saxman did a bit of freelancing behind the scenes as a Blue Note A&R man and brought Thelonious Monk and Bud Powell to the label. Drug problems kept Quebec from recording for most of the 1950s, but he made a triumphant comeback in the early ’60s and was once again recording for Blue Note and doing freelance A&R for the company. Quebec was playing as authoritatively as ever well into 1962, giving no indication that he was suffering from lung cancer, which claimed his life at the age of 44 in 1963.
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Stan Getz, Charlie Byrd – Jazz Samba (1962/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 00:35:47 minutes | 1,28 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Source: Qobuz | Artwork: Front cover | © The Verve Music Group
Recorded: Pierce Hall, All Souls Unitarian Church, Washington D.C., February 13, 1962.
Jazz Samba is a bossa nova LP by Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd, released on the Verve label on April 20, 1962.
Jazz Samba was the first major bossa-nova album on the American jazz scene. It was the real start of the bossa-nova excitement in America, which peaked in the mid-1960s. Though Stan Getz was the featured star of the album, it was very strongly inspired and designed by the guitarist Charlie Byrd. They were joined by two alternating bassists —Keter Betts and Charlie’s brother, Gene (Joe) Byrd— and two drummers —Buddy Deppenschmidt and Bill Reichenbach— for the recording at All Souls Church, Unitarian in Washington, D.C. on February 13, 1962, and it was released on April 20, that year as Verve LP V6-8432.
The Awakening – Brand New Feeling (Remastered) (1976/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 49:28 minutes | 923 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Black Jazz Records
The Chicago-based jazz sextet known as The Awakening was in the front line of the second tier of jazz combos active in the first half of the 1970s, amongst the Revolutionary Ensemble and the low-profile bands of, respectively, Sunny Murray, Hadley Caliman, Hampton Hawes, Billy Harper, Albert Mangelsdorff, and Fred Anderson. Who inhabited the top tier? Certainly the Art Ensemble Of Chicago and groups led by heavyweights Charles Mingus, Cecil Taylor, Elvin Jones, Herbie Hancock, McCoy Tyner, Sonny Rollins, Keith Jarrett and Phil Woods.
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The Alligator Wine – Demons Of The Mind (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 46:07 minutes | 527 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Century Media
authentic vintage rock – without guitars! An intriguing mix of psychedelic moog sounds, distorted organs and thick synth basses!
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The Airborne Toxic Event – Hollywood Park (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 53:21 minutes | 1,09 GB | Genre: Alternative, Indie
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rounder
The Airborne Toxic Event frontman Mikel Jollett hasn’t been slacking during the five years since the group’s last album.
Jollett – who also serves as a journalist and commentator with a variety of outlets – spent the time writing a revealing and personal memoir Hollywood Park; Publishing May 26, it offers an in-depth examination about climbing out of a youth spent partly in the Synanon cult and in an orphanage, as well as his complex relationship with his father, whose 2015 death inspired the project. On May 22, Jollett and TATE also created a companion album of the same name, whose title track is premiering exclusively below.
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Emerald Sunday – Willow (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 38:08 minutes | 452 MB | Genre: Alternative, Indie
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rock Avenue Records USA – AMG – SNY
Originally formed around ten years ago in the heart of the Angus Glens, in the childhood home of the legendary Bon Scott, EMERALD SUNDAY started life as a cover band. Driven by prolific songwriter and lead guitarist Alan Hunter, the band started to introduce their own material into their live sets, and things have snowballed from there.
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Nat King Cole Sings – George Shearing Plays (1962/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Time – 47:03 minutes | 491 MB | Genre: Jazz
Based on “24/96” Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front Cover | © RevOla
“Nat King Cole Sings/George Shearing Plays” is a 1962 studio album by Nat King Cole, featuring the pianist George Shearing. At the time the album peaked at 27 on the Billboard album chart.
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Nidarosdomens Jentekor & TrondheimSolistene – Lux (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/352,8 kHz | Time – 70:45 minutes | 2,78 GB
or FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 70:45 minutes | 1,14 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet | Genre: Classical
Acquiring life skills during a challenging, fragile phase of life learning to belong, to feel seen and included, learning to build friendships all of this lies at the core of the Nidaros Cathedral Girls’ Choir’s mission. The Requiem in Andrew Smith’s version, commissioned by the choir, is loosely based on the Roman Catholic mass for the dead. Several of the texts of the traditional Requiem Mass have been replaced, however, with biblical references to the tragic fate of children, reflecting the all-too-frequent conflicts of today in which the young are innocent victims. The musical material in the Requiem takes its inspiration from Gregorian chant. Melodic fragments of the ancient requiem mass can be heard in the background. Trygve Seim’s improvising saxophone makes up an integral part of the whole, yet lives a life of its own in close companionship with the singers and Ståle Storløkken on organ. The palette is expanded with the glorious strings of TrondheimSolistene in Ståle Kleiberg’s Hymn to Love and The Light (with Petra Bjørkhaug, organ). These works add dimensions of faith, hope and love. And light too, when all seems dark. In life there are moments to treasure, and challenges to overcome. In the words of Helge Torvund: The light you need exists.
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Eddie ‘Lockjaw’ Davis & Shirley Scott – Bacalao (1960/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 43:26 minutes | 489 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front cover | © RevOla
“Bacalao” is another album by saxophonist Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis with organist Shirley Scott recorded in 1959 for the Prestige label.
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Thelonious Monk – Mønk (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 41:44 minutes | 840 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front cover | © Gearbox Records
Hot on the heels of Impulse’s recently unearthed Coltrane number one hit album comes another beauty from Jazz’s ‘Holy Trinity’. This is a previously unreleased, precious lost treasure from Monk’s most critically acclaimed line-up; Charlie Rouse on saxophone, John Ore on double bass, and Frankie Dunlop on drums. The music was recorded live in Copenhagen in 1963 at the peak of Monk’s career. A year later he was to feature on the cover of TIME magazine, one of only for 4 Jazz artists ever to do so.
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Theatrum Affectuum – Nicola Matteis: Most ravishing things (Music from the Books of Ayres) (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:23 minutes | 1,46 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front cover | © Aeolus
An Italian in 17th-century London: For London’s musical life, which was informed by the middle classes, Matteis wrote diverse works incorporating influences from Italy, France, and England. The ensemble “Theatrum affectuum” presents the largely short pieces from Matteis’s “Books of Ayres” as a sparkling, multifaceted cosmos: virtuoso and intimate, bawdy and elegant, intellectual and down-to-earth, rip-snorting and mellifluous…
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Rémi Panossian Trio – In Odd We Trust (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 43:45 minutes | 847 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Add Fiction
En dix ans, avec plus de 500 concerts en dehors de l’hexagone, ce trio est devenu l’emblème du jazz français à l’étranger. Rémi Panossian, fondateur du groupe, est nommé Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres fin 2019 (!); un comble pour ce qui reste avant tout une bande de potes espiègles, oscillant sans cesse entre le deuxième et le troisième degrés à l’image la pochette de ce cinquième album, proche de l’univers de Wes Anderson. On ne distingue plus ce qui est prévisible de ce qui ne l’est pas, ce qui est attendu de ce qui surprend, en témoigne leur musique qui jongle entre mises en place et improvisations, jamais loin du burlesque mais sans jamais tomber dedans. Le RP3, c’est aussi et surtout des riffs mélodiques qui rentrent par une oreille pour ne jamais en ressortir. Une musique au groove ciselé façon haute couture, et d’une légèreté profonde dans les compositions et les arrangements, ponctués par un Son devenu signature, dans la lignée des grands trios qui ont redessiné l’exercice de la formule piano / basse / batterie ces dernières années (The Bad Plus, E.S.T., Avishai Cohen…). Mais nul n’est prophète en son pays. Si le RP3 fait salle comble en Asie, en Amérique du Sud – et du Nord, un peu partout en Europe, c’est paradoxalement en France où ils sont le moins reconnus pour leur créativité, leur longue carrière et leur folie douce. Alors c’est peut-être pour leur éviter d’accuser un des pires bilans carbones de la scène française que celle-ci se doit de reconnaître le talent dont font preuve ces trois trentenaires dans cette aventure pour le moins étrange de dix — si courtes — années.
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