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Laura – Sunset Balcony (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 44:24 minutes | 538 MB | Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Fine Music
Created in her mind on balmy evenings on a sunny balcony in Paris, German vocalist LAURA is proud to present her sophomore album, ‘Sunset Balcony’, set to release on May 5th on GLM Records.
Well known within the jazz scene of Stuttgart which she calls home, Laura has already gathered a reputation for herself by attracting the attention of the likes of Quincy Jones, Dee Dee Bridgewater and Jacob Collier. Taken aback by her musicality, her voice, and her charisma, Michael Jackson’s revered producer felt moved to say, “This young woman doesn’t need to worry about her career, she is amazing and I’m sure we will be hearing more from her in the future”.
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Lauren Daigle – Lauren Daigle (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 37:46 minutes | 450 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Centricity Music – Atlantic Records
Two-time Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter Lauren Daigle releases her self-titled album, ‘Lauren Daigle’, featuring ‘Thank God I Do’. The creative team behind Lauren Daigle is led by Grammy-winning producer Mike Elizondo (Twenty One Pilots, Mary J. Blige, Fiona Apple, Carrie Underwood), and includes co-writes with Natalie Hemby, Shane McAnally, Amy Wadge, Lori McKenna, Jason Ingram and Jon Greene, to name a few. ‘Lauren Daigle’ comprises ten soulful and uplifting songs.
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La Gioia Armonica – Hebenstreit’s Bach (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:06:08 minutes | 2,46 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Ramée
Johann Sebastian Bach was certainly familiar with the Pantaleon – a large hammered dulcimer with a wide range and full chromatic scale. Bach’s contemporary Pantaleon Hebenstreit had developed the instrument, through which he gained international renown and became one of the best-paid Dresden court musicians. The instrument enjoyed great popularity in the 18th century and was an important precursor of the fortepiano, its younger brother. Bach may have heard Hebenstreit with his Pantaleon himself, as he knew several court musicians of the Dresden orchestra personally and also performed with some of them. Whilst we cannot know if they had met in reality, our imagination has nonetheless been much exercised. What would Bach have put on his famous colleague’s music stand? Very little music written for the Pantaleon has survived, although the instrument’s use in the court orchestras of Vienna and Dresden suggests that works for the harpsichord and for the violin in particular could have served for arrangements and improvisations. It is hard to imagine that Bach would have objected to a virtuoso like Hebenstreit adapting his violin sonatas for the Pantaleon.
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Lingua Ignota – SINNER GET READY (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 55:53 minutes | 1023 MB | Genre: Hard Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sargent House
Lingua Ignota is classically trained vocalist Kristin Hayter. This music is sorrowful and almost religiously lamenting past regrets and abhors pleasure it seems. Songs, such as REPENT NOW CONFESS NOW can leave one in a depressed state of mind. Frequently drawing comparisons to Diamanda Galás, Hayter’s vocals range from a delicate soprano to harsh shrieking, and her recordings, including 2019’s Caligula and 2021’s Sinner Get Ready, are ambitious, bracing blends of opera, power electronics, avant-metal, and folk influences. It’s a record born out of a period of turbulence for Hayter, as she stared down the barrel of a burgeoning pandemic, further compounded by the reverberations of a serious spinal injury sustained at a live performance, and its resulting surgery and recuperation. The unsettled foundations echo Hayter’s own Catholic upbringing and subsequent adoption of atheism, and across these nine tracks she creates a metaphorical ecosystem that ruminates on the impact of piety, rebirth, forgiveness, and catharsis. (If I’d scared you enough to lead you away from listening to the Covid-19 Pandemic Variant lament, I am sorry as that was not the intention). I want you to experience that epiphany I do believe she is trying to portray! SINNER GET READY is an uncompromising and often unsettling assessment of religion, but not outright damnation. Instead, an allegorical mirror is assembled using impressive songcraft and informed themes to display the conflict, duality, and divergence often present in the sacrosanct. Despite its theological bearings, this is no self-indulgent enlightenment project. It’s no less urgent, or immediate than previous works, and alongside flexing her multi-hyphenate musical capabilities and assertion as a visual and artistic auteur, Lingua Ignota once again exceeds expectations. This is a terrifyingly real LP that will surely blow your mind. (Not for the feint of mind PG-17 to be sure!) Pax and chillax with this album, thoughts? Luv, Murf
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![Liepāja Symphony Orchestra, Guntis Kuzma - Flowering Jasmine (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download](https://i0.wp.com/imghd.xyz/images/2022/08/08/av3ps50oq6qpa_600.jpg?resize=500%2C500&ssl=1)
Liepāja Symphony Orchestra, Guntis Kuzma – Flowering Jasmine (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:46 minutes | 1,25 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © SKANI
One cannot miss the presence of Latvian nature when listening to the nine tracks selected for this album performed by the Liepaja Symphony Orchestra.
All these miniatures are revealed for a wider audience for the first time in this release – truly, a hidden treasure. They draw their inspiration from the summer dawn (Rits / Morning by Porietis), the sky (Varaviksne / Rainbow by Ivanovs) and the intensive sweet smell of flowers (Plaukstosais Jasmins / Flowering Jasmine by Pelecis). Buth they are not merely the illustration of the beauty of the nature, they serve as a bridge that determines our relationship to the world around us.
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![Louis Sclavis - Les Cadences du Monde (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz] Download](https://i0.wp.com/imghd.xyz/images/2022/06/26/qlgd75emn1zab_600.jpg?resize=500%2C500&ssl=1)
Louis Sclavis – Les Cadences du Monde (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 47:43 minutes | 906 MB | Genre: Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz, Modern Creative
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © JMS Productions
The Ariadne’s thread unwound by Louis Sclavis throughout his travels and musical adventures naturally leads him to write original melodies, nourished here and there by a sonic audacity and a timeless aesthetic well known to the public. His new album, ‘Les Cadences du Monde’, is a sort of bubbling case of imagined music inspired by the photographic work ‘L’Usure du monde’ by Frédéric Lecloux.
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Lamia Yared, Ensemble Oraciones – Ottoman Splendours (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 50:54 minutes | 1006 MB | Genre: World
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Groupe Analekta, Inc
Ottoman Splendours explores the music shared along an axis that stretches through time and space, linking Asia Minor and the modern-day Balkans to the Medieval Iberian Peninsula. Constantinople/Istanbul, Smyrna/ Izmir, Andrinople/Edirne, Thessaloniki/Selanik, Monastir/Bitola, Sarajevo/Saraybosna… these are the principal sources that connect the music of the Ottoman era to Toledo, Cordoba, Granada, and Seville, which the Sephardim were forced to flee following the Reconquista, but whose legacy is preserved through Judeo-Spanish (spoken vernacular), Ladino (semi-sacred language), and related anonymous poetic repertoires or sacred texts.
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