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Sarah Gillespie – Half Cut (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 42:35 minutes | 468 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECN Music
Sarah Gillespie is a creative tour de force – a critically acclaimed singer songwriter, poet and expressionist painter.
For years she has taken private commisions from fans but during the 2020/21 lockdown she produced two sell out collections, donating some of the proceeds to charity and the 606 club in London where she was due to exhibit.
Each of her paintings are inspired by specific songs, including music by Tom Waits, Miles Davis, Nina Simone, Joan Baez, Sidney Bechet, Bob Dylan, Victor Jara, Sister Rosetta Tharpe and many more.
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Ricky Jones – Crazy Sexy (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 53:17 minutes | 606 MB | Genre: Soul
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RLJ Ventures LLC. – Mountain Top Entertainment Group LLC.
Born in Vero Beach, Florida, Ricky Jones has been singing all his life. As the son of a Preacher, Ricky and his brothers and sisters grew up singing in the church choir. It wasn’t long after that that he began entering and winning every talent show he came across in school and abroad.
In college, Ricky quickly became the crowd pleaser as the lead singer for the renown band at the illustrious Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where he graduated with law school on his mind. A summer trip to Los Angeles, California changed all of that! Music was in the air and Ricky Jones signed to Motown Records as the lead singer and writer for the 3 man group Yours Truly.
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Old Mountain – Another State of Rhythm (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 42:47 minutes | 371 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Clean Feed
Abiding friends and serial collaborators Pedro Branco and João Sousa scale an enchanting set of melodic, nostalgia-fuelled summits on Another State of Rhythm, their third long-player issued under the Old Mountain sobriquet.
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Nadav Erlich Quartet – Keeping Warm In Your Own Weather (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 47:18 minutes | 492 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © stssts records
“keeping warm in your own weather, is my first release as a leader with my quartet, featuring the two pianists iannis obiols and alvin schwaar, and iago fernandez on drums.
the very genesis of this group was shaped after an impromptu session: in the moment we played and interacted freely, there emerged this fluidity between abstraction and beauty and all that is in between.
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MUDD – In The Garden Of Mindfulness (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 41:53 minutes | 482 MB | Genre: Electronic, Downtempo, Balearic, Chiilout, Jazz-Funk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Claremont 56
When Paul Murphy released his critically acclaimed debut solo album, Claremont 56, in 2006, many thought it would be the first of many. In a way, it was, as in the years since he’s released a string of collaborative sets alongside Benjamin J Smith (as Smith & Mudd), and as part of underground ‘supergroups’ Paqua, Bison and Hillside. But that second solo album? Well, it just had to wait.
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Martin Pyne – The Stealthy Moon (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:10:03 minutes | 829 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © tall guy records
During 2023, composer and percussionist Martin Pyne decided it was time to explore a format he hadn’t used before: the classic jazz lineup of piano, bass and drums. Martin enlisted two regular collaborators – pianist David Beebee and bassist Marianne Windham – and formed a new ensemble, Small Blue. Two days of relaxed recording yielded a treasure trove of tunes from which Martin selected the very best for this new album, The Stealthy Moon. Of the twelve tunes on the album, nine have never been recorded before, while three have appeared in different formats. It’s a largely intimate set but ranges far and wide in mood and tempo, taking in heartfelt ballads, mysterious grooves, evocative atmospheres and melodic swing along the way.
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Lukas Wanner – Fux: Kaiserrequiem – Pergolesi: Missa in D Major (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:17:16 minutes | 1,24 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Prospero Classical
One, Johann Joseph Fux, is primarily known as a music theorist, the other, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, as the author of the popular “Stabat Mater”. Both can be experienced from a completely different angle on this album with the Ensemble Zeronove under the direction of Lukas Wanner.
The Swiss ensembles Zeronove and I Pizzicanti have made it their mission to bring unknown music back to life. This is wonderfully demonstrated here with two marvellous works by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi and Johann Joseph Fux.
Fux was not only the famous counterpoint teacher of the 18th century (from whom Mozart also benefited), as a court musician in Vienna he also wrote this Requiem, for example, which was composed in 1720 for the funeral of the Empress Dowager Eleonore Magdalene and was still used for many a funeral service at the Habsburg court afterwards.
Pergolesi’s mass was probably composed 10 years later, around 1730. This extensive sacred work is also a discovery and shows a completely different side of the “Stabat Mater” composer.
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Laurence Juber – A Day In My Life (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 37:32 minutes | 688 MB | Genre: Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hologram Recordings
In the twenty-plus years since it was first suggested that Laurence Juber should record a set of Beatles tunes, he’s released four albums in the ‘LJ Plays the Beatles’ series. This new album came out of a fresh opportunity to record at the famed Abbey Road Studios, in the very same studio the Beatles recorded so many years before – Studio 2. It was also in this very studio where LJ was recording in 1978 when he got the call to audion for Wings. He proceeded to work with Paul and Linda at the Abbey Road Studio, which became a second home during sessions for the ‘Back to the Egg’ album. That was the last time he had been there, until now.
The digital and special vinyl release of “A Day In My Life” will coincide with the 60th anniversary of the Beatle’s debut on Ed Sullivan’s show on February 9th, 2024 and LJ will be a featured guest at The Beatlefest in New York at the TWA hotel at JFK that weekend.
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Knut Johannes Kongsvold – Piano Sessions (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 41:57 minutes | 756 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Jupiter Records
Knut Kongsvold (b. 1989) is a norwegian jazzpianist/composer. For the moment he lives in Bergen where he studies jazz at The Grieg Academy. He has played on different festivals and clubs around in Norway.
In 2012 he was granted Dølajazz Lillehammer Jazzfestival’s talent prize, which gives him the oppurtunity to play a concert with one of the jazzgreats in norway on this years festival.
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KissLiar – Rustic Acid (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 37:37 minutes | 472 MB | Genre: Art Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Funk Rock, Ethnic Fusion
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Addicted Label
Psychedelic music born from jams with a lush groove of drums and percussion, a dense foundation of keys and bass, and flute and guitar soaring above them. The septet from Moscow experiments with genres, entering the territory of prog rock, blues rock, stoner and funk.
«The debut album of the psychedelic ensemble has resolutely set out to deliver us more rural sprawl. This music strongly recommends the practice of photosynthesis.»
An album by psychonauts from Moscow set out to bring us more countryside and fresh air. This music is worth taking up breathing practices.»
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Henning Sieverts – Bassolo (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:06:12 minutes | 564 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Edition Collage
“Henning Sieverts is a brilliant bassist who has the stylistic means of new music as well as those of jazz at his disposal.“ (frankfurter Allgemeine)
All alone, but together with his double bass – this is the new solo program of the Munich star bassist Henning Sieverts. Sometimes it’s extremely tender here, sometimes it’s also grippingly groovy – plucked, stroked, stroked and knocked – everything seems possible in this “one-bass show”. The album “Henning Sieverts: Bassolo” was created in the fantastic acoustics of the Munich Resurrection Church.
All the pieces of the recording are summarized in a music booklet “Henning Sieverts: Bassolo”, in two versions each: plucked and deleted, with and without improv parts.
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Francis Lockwood & Johan Renard – NEW SURYA (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 43:57 minutes | 550 MB | Genre: Jazz Fusion
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Continuo Jazz
This project is the result of a meeting with the violinist Johan Renard during concerts organized in tribute to my brother Didier Lockwood, but also a nod to the group Surya set up in 1979 by my late brother and the drummer Jean My Truong where in the group successively at the time were bassists Josquin Turenne Des Prés, Bunny Brunel and Sylvin Marc. I played keyboards there with Luc Pluton and of course Didier Lockwood on violin and Jean My Truong on drums. From there came the idea of forming this quartet because Johan Renard is in line with the energy that Didier could give to music. It happened naturally! It was almost chance that set up this project, as if it were obvious! But as they say ”chance does not exist”… In the company of Frédéric Sicart on drums, William Brunard on double bass and Henri Dorina for the electric bass parts, we wanted to explore the new paths of so-called ‘Jazz’ music while remaining in acoustic instruments but giving a more current impulse. It is also a certain way of continuing in all modesty the legacy left by my brother Didier because Johan has well integrated his teaching and spirit. Of course the goal here is not to reproduce the sound of the Surya group but rather to let its musical energy shine through in the hope of having succeeded. A great adventure in short. Francis Lockwood
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Electric Gypsy – Dragoons Wander At Night (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 34:14 minutes | 430 MB | Genre: Contry Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Right Brain Syndrome
Electric Gypsy is a Rock band consisting of Guzz Collins (vocals), Nolas (Guitar), Pete (Bass) and Robert Zimmerman (drums). Formed in Belo Horizonte and inspired by the attitude and compositions of the great names in music of the 70s and 80s, Electric Gypsy released their self-titled debut album “Electric Gypsy” on April 29, 2021, produced by the influential music producer, Cris Simões from Pacific Studio.
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