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John Papadakis – When (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 44:05 minutes | 498 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © John Papadakis
John Papadakis has become one of the top Blues and Jazz artists in the 2024 music scene, delighting fans with a unique Blues and Jazz sound. John Papadakis tickets provide an opportunity to be there in person for the next John Papadakis concert. So experience it live and be there in person for a 2024 John Papadakis Blues and Jazz concert.
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JJ Grey & Mofro – Olustee (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 49:10 minutes | 996 MB | Genre: Rock, Country Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alligator
As the only player who has appeared on all of Mofro’s albums, singer JJ Grey is a funky force of nature. The North Floridian returns nine years after his last recording, still honing his mix of soul passion, Skynyrd-styled rock, outright funk and that sassy, butt-shaking magic that makes New Orleans music so irresistible. Grey is skilled in writing across rhythm-heavy genres and Olustee is another strong collection that even calls on the skills of the Budapest Symphony Orchestra under conductor Zoltán Pad.
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Irma Neumüller – Introducing Irma Neumüller (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 38:42 minutes | 426 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Prophone Records
Time will tell; Sovetaka; Världens Ändes; Mybe it’s you; Once again looking for Love; Lördagskväll; No, i’m mit in Love with you; Solen har fatt nog.
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GewandhausChor, Camerata Lipsiensis, Gregor Meyer – Joachim Raff: Welt-Ende · Gericht · Neue Welt (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:46:51 minutes | 1,86 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © CPO
The GewandhausChor is a semi-professional mixed-voice choir which, as the philharmonic choir of the Gewandhausorchester, is maintained by the Leipzig Gewandhaus and is one of the leading choirs of its kind. He takes part in vocal symphonic concerts with the Gewandhaus Orchestra, appears with his own a cappella programs and performs with other renowned ensembles. The Gewandhauschor is a member of the Association of German Concert Choirs.
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Fire! – Testament (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 40:35 minutes | 788 MB | Genre: Contemporary Jazz, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rune Grammofon
Fire! have always been about finding the essence by getting to the core of the music. Their 8th album sees the trio – for the first time on record – stripped down to the bare-bones essentials; with no flutes, no electronics, no guests and no extras, recorded live in the studio to analogue tape – the Steve Albini way – with the master himself at the controls in Electrical Audio in Chicago. Thus, this album stands as a true testament to the group´s expressive power and glowing intimacy.
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Maurice Louca – Saet El Hazz (The Luck Hour) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 38:02 minutes | 756 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Northern Spy Records
Maurice Louca, one of the most gifted musicians and composers on Egypt’s thriving underground music scene, announces his new album Saet El-Hazz (The Luck Hour), to be released September 24, 2021 via Sub Rosa and Northern Spy.
The forthcoming full-length album draws voraciously on Arabic music, psychedelic folk, and free improv and the lead single “Bidayat (Holocene)” mesmerises with a feral groove centered around percussion, guitar and violin.
The title Saet el Hazz is a coded saying in Egypt to refer to a good time and usually implies a great deal of debauchery. “When you mention to someone that you’ve had a saet hazz, there are no questions asked. It is what it is.”
The initial spark for Saet El-Hazz (The Luck Hour) was Louca’s desire to collaborate with “A” Trio, the Lebanese improvisational group featuring Mazen Kerbaj on prepared trumpet, Sharif Sehnaoui on prepared guitar, and Raed Yassin on prepared double bass. “When the three of them come together they create a sonic cosmos entirely their own. I started by composing music that I wanted to have exist within this sonic world— at times in harmony, or clashing with it, and all the emotional ranges in between.”
Just as “A” Trio served as the spark, a commission from Mophradat, an arts organization based out of Brussels, was the tinder. The commission was for a new composition to be performed using instruments that Louca would modify to play microtonally. This led him to Turkey and Indonesia. In Istanbul, he worked with a Lutheran to custom-make a guitar. In Surakarta, he ended up with an instrument maker tuning a Serang—referred to as the Indonesian xylophone, part of the family of Gamelan tuned percussion instruments.
These new modified instruments opened up the compositions to new tonal possibilities which drove Louca to expand his line up to include Khaled Yassine, a longtime collaborator and versatile percussionist and drummer, Christine Kazaryan, a dynamic harpist whom he met via Praed Orchestra, and Anthea Caddy, a cellist who came highly recommended from the Berlin free improv scene.
“There is something about linking luck to decadence that resonates with me, and even if I can’t fully articulate it in words, the drive behind the music of this album and how it came to be, and the energy between us at the studio rehearsing and recording it, was in a lot of ways for me a saet hazz.”
Saet El Hazz (The Luck Hour) is a long form composition of six movements, recorded over the course of a week in August 2019 at A/B studios in Brussels.
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Ludovico Einaudi – I Giorni (2001/2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:24 minutes | 890 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca (UMO) (Classics)
Ludovico Einaudi’s 2001 album ‘I Giorni’ is a captivating musical journey that invites the listener into a world of timeless elegance and soulful solo piano compositions. With its tranquil melodies and delicate arrangements, the album captures the essence of minimalism and beauty, making it a perfect companion for moments of introspection and tranquillity. ‘I Giorni’, now available for the first time and exclusively on vinyl, is a masterful display of Einaudi’s ability to create atmospheric soundscapes that touch the soul.
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Heavenchord – Atmospheres & Soundscapes (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:17:49 minutes | 767 MB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cold Tear Records
Heavenchord describes his album “Atmospheres & Soundscapes” as a collage, constructed out of his dreams, visions, insights, life experiences and otherworldly sounds. All of these pieces were captured in a form of sound from modular synthesis in VCV Rack, tape looping and granular synthesis, throughout a time span of a few years, which resulted in creating a conclusive picture. In this album every listener will find a soundscape or two, that will resonate with their soul.
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Fats Domino – Volume II (1977/2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 29:50 minutes | 575 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Archive of Folk & Jazz Music
Antoine Dominique Domino Jr. (February 26, 1928 – October 24, 2017), known as Fats Domino, was an American singer-songwriter and pianist. One of the pioneers of rock and roll music, Domino sold more than 65 million records. Born in New Orleans to a French Creole family, Domino signed to Imperial Records in 1949. His first single “The Fat Man” is cited by some historians as the first rock and roll single and the first to sell more than 1 million copies. Domino continued to work with the song’s co-writer Dave Bartholomew, contributing his distinctive rolling piano style to Lloyd Price’s “Lawdy Miss Clawdy” (1952) and scoring a string of mainstream hits beginning with “Ain’t That a Shame” (1955). Between 1955 and 1960, he had eleven Top 10 US pop hits. By 1955, five of his records had sold more than a million copies, being certified gold.
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Corb Lund – El Viejo (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 36:47 minutes | 444 MB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © New West Records, LLC
“I’ve been wanting to make a record like this for a long time. The band, Franny and I produced it ourselves in my living room with no adults present. It’s all acoustic, not an electric lick on the album…banjos and mandos and string basses and stripped-down drums. I put a ton of work into the tunes and I’m pretty proud of this batch. Had a little help from my old co-writing pal Jaida Dreyer on a couple, also wrote a good one with my screenwriter buddy, Brian Koppelman. Lots of gambling songs and lots of minor keys. And my band guys absolutely killed it too, they’re all badasses. I’m dedicating the record to my old compadre, Ian Tyson, who passed away a few months back. I’ve named the album for him as well. ‘El Viejo’, or ‘the old one’ is what our mutual friend Tom Russell took to calling him in later years. The title track is a pretty special one for us. We had a blast making this thing, and we hope you enjoy it too.” – Corb Lund
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Christiania Mannskor, Marius Skjølaas – Like Father, Like Son (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:10:56 minutes | 2,29 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Lawo Classics
Like Father, Like Son is the Christiania Mannskor’s fifth release on the LAWO Classics label. Christiania Mannskor, established in 2009, is Norway’s professional men’s choir. It is made up of 18 singers under the direction of conductor Marius Skjolaas. The ensemble has regular engagements in Oslo and countrywide and has performed at the invitation of, among others, the Norwegian government and parliament.
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Blackout Problems – RIOT (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 41:55 minutes | 491 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hansa Local
Blackout Problems were founded in 2012 by Mario Radetzky, Marcus Schwarzbach and Michael Dreilich. After several EPs and tours with bands such as Massendefekt and Heisskalt, the debut album Holy was released in 2016 via their own label Munich Warehouse and the distributor Uncle M. The song One was the first track to be realized as a video. Holy entered the German album charts at number 57. Nathan Gray from the band Boysetsfire is featured as a guest singer. The first edition of the album sold out shortly after its release, which is why a second edition has been available since summer 2016. This was followed by appearances on the ProSieben show Circus HalliGalli and the Puls Startrampe.
Blackout Problems at the Rocken am Brocken 2023
Bear Garden – Up (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 46:17 minutes | 508 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Bolero Recordings
Bear Garden is a musical expression, neither more nor less. It´s music – it´s everything.
Martin Wirén, the man behind artist Bear Garden, is a many times rewarded composer and saxophonist with scholarships such as the Swedish STIM award and The Royal Swedish Academy of Music award on his personal record.
