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Denis Pascal – Schubert, Vol. 3 (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:50 minutes | 882 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © La Musica
Great works of art outstrip their creator. Infused with substance unsuspected at their inception, they elicit intellectual and emotional perceptions in successive generations, gradually becoming a touchstone. Operating into the present, they pose real questions. Journeying through time, they abolish time and continue to resonate, fully and validly, in a world inconceivable at the time of their creation.
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Jonah Parzen-Johnson – You’re Never Really Alone (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 39:39 minutes | 600 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © We Jazz
Brooklyn-based artist Jonah Parzen-Johnson returns with the new album You’re Never Really Alone, out on We Jazz Records, March 8. If you look at the label on the LP containing eight intimate compositions for baritone sax & flute, you will find the words, “we made this together”. At first thought, this simple phrase may seem out of place on a solo record, but just like the compositions on this album, it was carefully crafted to cut to the core of what this music is all about.
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Cool Maritime – Big Earth Energy (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 39:16 minutes | 779 MB | Genre: Electronic
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Western Vinyl
Having crested the west coast modular-ambient wave in just a few releases including 2018’s Sharing Waves on the influential LA experimental imprint Leaving Records – Sean Hellfritsch has swapped the mossy analog synth improvisations of his prior output for refined melodic arrangements dressed in sprightly dawn-of-digital textures. Big Earth Energy plumbs the depths of Hellfritsch’s multimedia mind and naturalist heart, spinning an impressionistic narrative world off of cultural touchstones like the PC game MYST, and the work of Studio Ghibli composer Joe Hisaishi. Inspired by the aforementioned, and guided by Hellfritsch’s experience as an animator and filmmaker, Big Earth Energy is the soundtrack to a hypothetical video game with a pointedly ecological premise, and a twist of psychedelic charm. In Hellfritsch’s imagined virtual journey, the player assumes the perspective of a treefrog sixty-five-million years ago, hopping epochs with each new level, forming a comprehensive picture of the massive changes the planet has gone through over the eons. The ultimate goal of the game is not to amass resources, defeat enemies, or gain power, but to fully witness the unfolding of one of the biggest systems of energy imaginable – or as the album’s creator puts it – “to explore the incomprehensibly vast energetic expression and mystery that is Earth.”
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Carolina Dello Iacono & Antonio Grande – Água e vinho (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 49:54 minutes | 468 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Stradivarius
The CD Agua & Vinho Sentimentals moods for flute and guitar offers a wide and varied anthology of pieces by different authors, from classical to contemporary, revisited by the personal sensitivity of Carolina Dello Iacono, flute, and Antonio Grande, guitar. In the intense instrumental dialogue, the publication becomes a singular musical story that explores different artistic languages, from the song by Egberto Gismonti (that gives the album’s title) to works by Ada Gentile, Heitor Villa Lobos, Francis Poulen and others, between enveloping atmospheres and moments that open up unexpected sonic horizons. The protagonists of this particular listening journey, in a polyphony of ideas, voices and creative instances, are Carolina Dello Iacono and Antonio Grande, musicians with great experience and extensive artistic activity.
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Jessica Corrêa – A Crowded Beginning (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 30:42 minutes | 279 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © PayHouse Music Group LLC
Originally from Oakville, Ontario, Jessica Correa moved to Peterborough to begin her educational journey in Environmental Sciences/Studies and she then completed her Master’s Degree in Sustainability Studies in 2015. From 2015 to 2022, Jessica Correa ideated, founded, built, managed, and operated Random Acts of Green, a social enterprise that raises awareness about small lifestyle changes people can take to make a meaningful impact on our planet.
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Bruno Cocset & Les Basses Réunies – La Nascita del Violoncello: Napoli – Bologna – Modena (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:16:45 minutes | 2,42 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alpha Classics
With this CD book, Bruno Cocset completes his Nascita del Violoncello . After a first part published in 2011, devoted to Bologna and his first repertoire for the cello (Vitali, Gabrielli, Jacchini) – reissued in this boxed set – he presents, with the musicians of Basses Réunies, a new recording devoted to Naples, from the Renaissance composer Diego Ortiz to the gallant and virtuoso cello of Lanzetti… offering two crossed views, two approaches that provide a better understanding of the identity of this instrument. The instruments used here – Cocset plays ten in all – bear witness both to this journey and to the bond that has bound him for many years to his luthier, Charles Riché.
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Hans Zimmer, Steve Mazzaro – Kung Fu Panda 4 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 48:25 minutes | 554 MB | Genre: Soundtrack
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Back Lot Music
Kung Fu Panda 4 is a 2024 American animated martial arts comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Universal Pictures. Hans Zimmer returns as composer — alongside series newcomer Steve Mazzaro — and the fiery percussive score lends the proceedings a mythic grandeur.
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Ezra Collective – Where I’m Meant To Be (Deluxe Edition) (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:33:08 minutes | 1,06 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Partisan Records
Ezra Collective won well-deserved critical and commercial acclaim for 2019’s You Can’t Steal My Joy, a raucous debut long-player laced with elements of Afrobeat, jazz, hip-hop, and grime. However, before they could take it on tour globally, the COVID-19 pandemic set in. They introduce the same musical chemistry on Where I’m Meant to Be and still employ massive doses of jazz-funk layered inside swinging Afrobeat, salsa, grime, and soul.
On “Life Goes On” (featuring Sampa the Great), party sounds meet James Mollison’s honking tenor sax, Femi Koleoso’s funky beats, and Sampa’s rapid-fire delivery as T.J. Koleoso’s insistent bassline and Ife Ogunjobi’s trumpet solo above Joe Armon-Jones’ organ and piano vamps before massive funk arrives with a trumpet solo to carry it out. “Victory Dance” commences as a triple-timed drum and percussion orgy atop shouted human voices. Afro-Cuban-styled horns and hand percussion bump and burn before the horns usher in an Afro-Cuban theme. Armon-Jones enters, then takes off with rapid montunos as the tune moves to intense salsa with soaring trumpet. They don’t let up when Kojey Radical fronts the band on the single “No Confusion.” Anchored by T.J.’s circular funk bassline, the horns pulse in driving Afrobeat style above Femi’s breaking snares and hi-hat while Armon-Jones lays down sinister chord voicings, adding to the rhythm section’s heft as Radical syncopates his incendiary delivery. “Welcome to My World” is all groove and grit as post-bop and Afrobeat horns meet dubwise rhythms in a strutting frenzy. “Ego Killah” is strictly dubwise steaminess with double-time bass and piano vamps; interlocking drums and percussion rub against and buoy one another. That track is followed by the R&B-centric “Smile” led by Armon-Jones’ crystalline jazz piano harmonies supported by a rhythm section playing smooth, gentle, neo-’80s soul. “Live Strong” inserts grooving ’70s-styled funk into shimmering contemporary jazz piano and swinging horns. Emeli Sande assists on the livelier sounding “Siesta,” offering her heavenly yet assertive soprano atop Rhodes piano, congas, bongos, and bass. “Belonging” arrives as interstellar space jazz with glorious soloing from Mollison and martial snare from Koleoso. Armon-Jones opens a harmonic door in the bridge as the tune begins to assert itself, wedding spacious spiritual jazz to driving neo-electro and funk. His knotty acoustic piano solos with both Koleosos in trio. The set closes with a reading of Sun Ra’s “Love in Outer Space” as a finger-popping, smooth, jazzy, neo-soul jam with Nao (Neo Jessica Jones) emoting in her wispy, reedy soprano as T.J. Koleoso guides her with a slippery, resonant bassline framed by ascendant horns and spectral keys. While Where I’m Meant to Be is a logical follow-up to Ezra Collective’s debut, it’s a soulful, musically advanced, rhythmically infectious one, too. – Thom Jurek
Chris Potter feat. Brad Mehldau, John Patitucci & Brian Blade – Eagle’s Point (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:42 minutes | 1,26 GB | Genre: Contemporary Jazz, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Edition Records
Chris Potter announces the upcoming release of his new album, ‘Eagle’s Point’. Featuring a modern day supergroup of supergroups including Brad Mehldau, John Patitucci and Brian Blade, the new record will be released on Edition Records in Spring 2024. It promises to be an electrifying testament to modern jazz, uniting four unparalleled luminaries within the genre, performing eight original compositions written by Chris especially for the recording session. The planets finally aligned; despite never having the time to perform together, this supergroup seized the opportunity in late 2022 and assembled to record this landmark album. Each musician, a dominant force in their own right, contributes to every track with humility and mutual respect. The musicianship is nothing short of exceptional, with everyone bringing something different to the table; Brad Mehldau’s virtuosic performances on the piano dance and have an unmatched eloquence, John Patitucci’s bass lines weave intricate tapestries, and Brian Blade’s percussive finesse lays the rhythmic foundation for this dream team. Chris’ new compositions showcase his exceptional skill as a writer, crafting melodies which augment and reflect the talents of those in the group. In this setting, Potter’s musical narratives flourish, marked by moments of virtuosic interplay, infectious grooves, and those quintessential Potter-esque melodies. Each track reverberates with their collective genius, a confluence of unparalleled talent, virtuosic brilliance, and artistic expression of the highest calibre.
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Bananarama – Glorious – The Ultimate Collection (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 03:21:07 minutes | 3,51 GB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © London Records (Because Ltd)
Bananarama are celebrating their 40th anniversary with the release of Glorious – The Ultimate Collection. With 40 tracks selected by Sara and Keren themselves, the double CD album covers every decade of the band’s career. Featuring hits such as Cruel Summer, Venus, Love in the First Degree, Only Your Love, Preacher Man, Move in My Direction and more. Plus two new singles, Feel The Love (released October 18th) and Supernova.
Bananarama is THE original girl group. They are in the Guinness Book of Records for the most internationally charted hits by an all-female band, with over 30 million sales worldwide.
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Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band – BRSB (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 37:51 minutes | 414 MB | Genre: R&B, Soul, Funk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Big Crown Records
Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band, the mysterious steel pan outfit hailing from Hamburg, Germany have amassed a cult following around the globe. With a slew of classic 7”s and three critically acclaimed full length albums, they set a high bar for themselves, one they clearly intend on pushing even higher with this new offering. On their fourth album BRSB, Bacao are back with more of the same, but more of the same with them is inherently different. Covering songs that span genres and range from mega hits to underground album cuts, they make them their own with their unique approach to the traditional steel pans of Trinidad and Tobago.
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