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Sedibus – Seti (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 43:02 minutes | 411 MB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cooking Vinyl Limited
The simpatico sophomore by the unstoppably prolific Alex Paterson and fellow Orb original Andy Falconer is an epic sail through the sky at night. Helmed by gentle spirits with warmth in their hearts, Seti feels cold and dark, yet also glowing and welcoming. Aboard a cosy candlelit spacecraft, the duo experience the cosmos as somewhere overwhelmingly infinite, yet reassuring and friendly. A sort of ‘ambient unplugged’, it’s full of acoustic instruments and nostalgic samples, folding space between the old world, and places where no man has gone before.
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Secret Archives Of The Vatican – Elowen (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 26:02 minutes | 270 MB | Genre: Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Broken Drum Records
Elowen is a collection of tunes that we’re calling nu-medieval. This means that they use some medieval instruments and sounds (but not exclusively) and some medieval musical modes and scales. However, they are not medieval music. There is no historical accuracy or even an attempt at it. These are modern tunes with roots as much in current fantasy music and RPG music as in medieval times. There is even a subtle science fiction, alternative history, element. The aim is to take you elsewhere or elsewhen, for a short time.
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Schubmodul – Lost In Kelp Forest (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 42:49 minutes | 485 MB | Genre: Stoner Rock, Heavy Psych, Progressive Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Tonzonen Records
Schubmoduls instrumental music contains elements from different styles, ranging from hard as nails to dreamy often wrapped ina a robe of psychedelic space sounds. Stories are not told through singing but through creative songwriting inside the listeners head. Schubmodul merges the worlds between crisp progressiv rock and traditional stoner that encourages you to swing your head without a throttle.
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Saga – 10,000 Days (2007/2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 50:58 minutes | 658 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © earMUSIC
10,000 Days is the eighteenth studio album by Canadian band Saga. It was recorded after Michael Sadler had explained that he would leave the band for family reasons. The title therefore alludes to the thirty years Sadler had been part of Saga (which equates roughly 10,000 days). Sadler left after the tour but would return to the fold four years later.
“Corkentellis” is the first full-band instrumental Saga ever recorded (“Conversations” had some lines sung through a vocoder, whereas “Voila!” and “Watching the Clock” were solo piano interludes by Jim Gilmour). The track’s unusual title is an amalgam of the names of three former Saga managers – Clive Corcoran, Geoff Kent and Michael Ellis. Along with “Book of Lies”, it has become a live favourite.
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Rafael Toral – Spectral Evolution (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 47:14 minutes | 664 MB | Genre: Electronic, Jazz, Ambient
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Moikai
The first release on Jim O’Rourke’s legendary Moikai imprint in over two decades, ‘Spectral Evolution’ is a defining statement from Portuguese vanguard Rafael Toral, an album of subtly orchestral, jazz-inspired guitar music that’s been slowed to a vertiginous crawl. Using his arsenal of hand-made synths to sing like birds around stretched, steel-wound drones, he evokes Bach, Loren Connors, Gavin Bryars and Rhys Chatham on a longform piece full of conventional chord progressions and alchemical sleights of hand that will have you reeling, and no mistake.
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Peggy Lee – Things Are Swingin’ (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 33:13 minutes | 610 MB | Genre: Vocal Jazz, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Finest Recordings
Featuring songs by Cole Porter, Duke Ellington, Arthur Schwartz, Harry Warren, Jule Styne, and two by Peggy herself: “It’s a Good, Good Night” and the title song (the latter written with the album’s conductor, Jack Marshall). Included for the first time is an alternate take of Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen’s “Life Is for Livin’”. There are two bonus tracks, “You Don’t Know” and “Fever” (both recorded during the Things Are Swingin’ album sessions). Remastering by Ron McMaster.
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Orquesta Sinfónica de RTVE and Sergio Alapont – Juan J. Colomer: Symphonic Genesis (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:06 minutes | 1,13 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © IBS Classical
The feeling is dispersed in the face of new beginnings. There is nothing in the music of Juan J. Colomer (Alzira, 1966) that does not speak about it: what he enunciates, what he leaves silent, what he does not completely conceal comes to intervene like the first day between those who listen to it. The luminous passages belong to the frank way in which an idea is shaped and its detours, where it appears without veils, as essential as the darkness that, from time to time, inhabits it. Both are openings to what his work is. We look for ways of access to the present and past, to small pieces of the map, to the abandoned territory or memory, to the contradictions it interrogates. Although this time it is titled “genesis,” Colomer modulates a thought without origin or end, within a perpetually restarted discourse. This is how his invention lives outside. Perhaps in its living references, without dates or places exactly assignable, it retains the sense in which it inscribes, deprived of its ancient power, enigmatic connections, metamorphoses of times. For this reason, although it is about genesis, Colomer’s works become strange to the conditions of their creation, they are beyond the finished and the unfinished, they radiate as far as we like to imagine.
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Ole Amund Gjersvik – Love Songs Live (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 49:58 minutes | 407 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Acoustic Records
Ole Amund Gjersvik (* 10. Dezember 1963 in Bergen (Norwegen)) ist ein norwegischer Jazz-Bassist.
Ole Amund Gjersvik studierte bei Bjørn Ianke, Mathias Weber, Knut Erik Sundquist und Kåre Garnes; er hatte außerdem Unterricht bei Marc Johnson, Bjørn Kjellemyr und Terje Venaas. Er graduierte am Musikkonservatorium in Bergen. Bereits seit Anfang der 1980er Jahre arbeitete Gjersvik als freischaffender Musiker, u. a. mit Bob Mintzer (Yellowjackets) und Mick Ronson sowie mit zahlreichen Musikern der norwegischen Jazzszene, wie Dag Arnesen, Ketil Bjørnstad, Olav Dale, Karl Seglem und Kenneth Sivertsen. Außerdem war er als Studiomusiker für zahlreiche norwegische Fernsehshows tätig sowie für Künstler wie Neil Sedaka, Gilbert O’Sullivan, Christer Sjøgren, Sissel Kyrkjebø, Rune Larsen und Tor Endresen.
Ole Amund Gjersvik leitete zwei eigene Formationen, das Ole Amund Gjersvik Quartett mit Jan Kåre Hystad (Saxophone, Klarinette und Flöte), Morten Færestrand (Gitarre) und Stein Inge Brækhus (Schlagzeug) und die Tango-Formation Combo Tango.
Naty Mistral – Naty Mistral: The Impossible Dream (Remastered 2024) (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 02:24:51 minutes | 4,23 GB | Genre: World
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © EMEC – HD Remastered
Nati Mistral (Natividad Macho Álvarez, * December 13, 1928 in Madrid; † August 20, 2017 ibid) was a Spanish singer and actress.
At the age of twelve, Nati Mistral won a music competition from Radio Madrid, in which she had participated without the knowledge of her parents. She then attended the conservatory and played small roles in classical plays such as Antígona and Don Gil de las calzes verde at the Teatro Español de la Plaza de Santa Ana under the direction of Cayetano Luca de Tena. Together with Tony Leblanc, she became a member of the musical group of Lola Flores and Manolo Caracol in 1944. In 1945, she took the stage name Nati Mistral on the occasion of the Nobel Prize ceremony for Gabriela Mistral. She had her first great success as a singer with the song Dos Cruzes.
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Nat King Cole – Unforgettable (1952/2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 36:28 minutes | 390 MB | Genre: Vocal Jazz, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Finest Recordings
Unforgettable is an original jazz compilation by Nat King Cole. It was initially released on a 10-inch LP in 1952, and it was reissued on a 12-inch LP in 1954.
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Nat King Cole – His Most Famous Recordings (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:21:12 minutes | 1,41 GB | Genre: Vocal Jazz, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Finest Recordings
Born on March 17, 1919, Nat King Cole was one of the world’s greatest solo vocalists and a pioneer for racial equality (in the 50s he became the first African-American artist to host a TV series). From “Unforgettable” to “L-O-V-E” and “The Christmas Song,” he left behind a slew of timeless classics. To mark his birthday, we celebrate 20 of the best Nat King Cole songs.
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Nat King Cole – Christmas – Thinking Of You (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 31:22 minutes | 584 MB | Genre: Jazz, Christmas
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Finest Recordings
Nathaniel Adams Coles (March 17, 1919 – February 15, 1965), known professionally by his stage name Nat King Cole, was an American singer, jazz pianist, and actor. Cole’s career as a jazz and pop vocalist started in the late 1930s and spanned almost three decades where he found success and recorded over 100 songs that became hits on the pop charts.
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Miles Davis – Kind Of Blue (1959/2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 45:44 minutes | 852 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Finest Recordings
Sixty years after the release of Miles Davis’ masterpiece, explanations for its everlasting allure and mysterious beauty remain elusive. Over the years—in books, magazines and documentary films—a parade of Miles’ contemporaries have struggled to explain this 1959 album, often cited as the best-selling jazz album in history. Recorded in long, whole takes over only two sessions 51 days apart, at Columbia Records’ famed 30th Street Studios, Kind of Blue is a landmark in the evolution of jazz as the first modal classic—where the improvising is based on scales rather than the dense clusters of chord changes that powered bebop. This stylish, beloved cornerstone of any jazz collection, with its relaxed tempi, rich colors and sleek silences, also possesses a timeless simplicity that continues to sound familiar and inviting.
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Little Richard – Lucille (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 38:11 minutes | 444 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Finest Recordings
Little Richard (* December 5, 1932 in Macon, Georgia, as Richard Wayne Penniman; † May 9, 2020 in Tullahoma, Tennessee) was an American rock ’n’ roll singer, pianist and songwriter. During the most successful phase of his career at Specialty Records in the mid-1950s, the African-American musician combined stylistic elements from blues, gospel and rhythm and blues under the new genre designation “rock’n’roll” and thus transferred them into the musical mainstream. After high rankings in the rhythm and blues charts dominated by black artists, he managed to cross over into the genre-independent American pop market. His fast and powerful piano playing, his loud and over-turned singing as well as his energetic concerts inspired many well-known musicians.
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Henrik Meierkord – Proscenium (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 39:08 minutes | 353 MB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient, Modern Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Whitelabrecs
Henrik Meierkord is a cellist, artist and composer from Helsingborg, Sweden who currently lives in Stockholm. He returns to Whitelabrecs following his ‘Cello Improvisations’ EP (2023) and the collaborative album ‘Inseln’ with Logic Moon (2022). He has also previously released music on labels such as Ambientologist, Audiobulb, Projekt records, Ella ruth Institutet and Subcontinental Records. Henrik began playing cello aged of 12, progressing to play in classical orchestras, onto performing in bands and then creating his own music. He has also collaborated and performed for artists such as Ossler, Pawel Kobak, Marco Lucchi, Meipr, Sole and Strulgattu.
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