Konkolo Orchestra – Future Pasts (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 53:23 minutes | 640 MB | Genre: Afrobeat, Funk, Highlife, Jazz-Funk
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Konkolo Orchestra is a Zürich/Switzerland based project initiated by multi-instrumentalist, producer and composer Alexis Malefakis. With strong jazzy afrobeat and highlife references, Konkolo Orchestra pays homage to musical innovators such as Fela Anikulapo Kuti, Tony Oladipo Allen, Ebo Taylor and many more.
Read moreGianandrea Noseda – Carlos Simon: Tales – A Folklore Symphony (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 22:31 minutes | 224 MB | Genre: Classical
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Carlos Simon’s contract extension comes as the National Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Music Director Gianandrea Noseda, announces the release of its next recording, an album of Four Symphonic Works by Carlos Simon recorded live and released on the NSO’s label. The album will include Tales—A Folklore Symphony, The Block, Songs of Separation, and Wake Up! Concerto for Orchestra. The first EP, Tales—A Folklore Symphony, will be available January 26.
Read moreEnsemble musikFabrik – Simone Santi Gubini: The Black Exposition (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 51:36 minutes | 885 MB | Genre: Classical
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The 21st century is characterized by diverse innovations in the field of classical music: the intensive preoccupation with advanced playing techniques, acoustic principles and the newly discovered complexity of timbres enabled a small number of mostly European composers to redefine “sound excess”. The exploration of frequencies has allowed the sonic extremes of the scores to be linked to both the concept of energetic overexposure and the physical presence of the materials. Essentially, it is the materials that have to change.
Read moreBrion Gysin – Junk (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 42:26 minutes | 437 MB | Genre: Pop, Rock
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Wewantsounds is delighted to reissue Brion Gysin’s cult avant funk album produced by Ramuntcho Matta in the early 80’s. The hugely influential Gysin who, with his friend William Burroughs, was revered by the likes of David Bowie, Brian Jones, Laurie Anderson, Genesis P-Orridge, is accompanied here by Matta – on his return from a two-year spell in New York – and French post punk stalwarts Yann Le Ker (from the group Modern Guy) and Frederic Cousseau (from Suicide Romeo) plus special guests including Don Cherry, Elli Medeiros, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Caroline Loeb and Senegalese drummer Prosper Niang (Xalam). This is the first time the album is reissued, newly remastered from the original tapes.
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