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Steely Dan – Gaucho (Remastered) (1980/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 38:06 minutes | 1,28 GB | Genre: Soft Rock, Jazz Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Geffen
The popular vinyl series of Steely Dan reissues continues with the 1980 masterpiece “Gaucho”, their last album before a lengthy 20-year album hiatus. The album also marked the end of a number of truly unrivalled years in music with classic album after classic album from one of the most exquisite sounding bands in music history. Like all vinyl reissues in the series, the album has been remastered by Bernie Grundman from an analogue tape copy.
The 1980 set featured the U.S. Top 10 hit “Hey Nineteen” and other enduring fan favorites such as “Time Out Of Mind” (with guest lead guitar by Mark Knopfler) and “Babylon Sisters.” Other guests on the album included Michael McDonald, Jeff Porcaro, Bernard Purdie, Ralph MacDonald, Hugh McCracken, the Brecker Brothers, and David Sanborn.
Gaucho, released in November 1980, reached No.9 on the all-genre Billboard album chart, also reaching the Top 10 in Australia, New Zealand, and Norway, and the Top 20 in such countries as Sweden and Canada. At the 1982 Grammy Awards, it won Best Engineered Recording – Non-Classical, and had further nominations as Album of the Year and Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals. It was certified both gold and platinum by the RIAA in January 1981.
The series is returning the band’s bespoke catalog to vinyl, in many cases for the first time since their original release. Gaucho has been remastered by Bernie Grundman from a 1980 analog tape copy that was originally EQ’d by Bob Ludwig. Gaucho and Aja have been thus remastered as there is no evidence that the original tapes, containing the flat mixes of the albums, were delivered to the record label, so it is presumed that the tapes no longer exist.
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Status Quo – Official Archive Series Vol. 2 (Live in London 2012) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:36:25 minutes | 1,18 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © earMUSIC
The “Official Archive Series” continues with ‘Vol 2 – Live In London’! This was a hometown show recorded on December 19, 2012, during the band’s ‘Quo Festive’ tour, just before Christmas. The setlist at the O2 Arena featured the lineup of Francis Rossi, Rick Parfitt, Andrew Bown, John ‘Rhino’ Edwards, and Matt Letley [in his final UK performance as Quo’s drummer] delivering a slew of classic songs and even included a Christmas Medley with “Walking In A Winter Wonderland,” “Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree,” and Quo’s own “It’s Christmas Time.”
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Sofía Esparza, Rinaldo Zhok – Otro Barbieri – Francisco Asenjo Barbieri: Complete Spanish Songs (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:21 minutes | 1,25 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Odradek Records
Following the success of their Odradek release Canciones para una Reina – art songs by Emilio Arrieta – soprano Sofia Esparza and pianist Rinaldo Zhok return with an album of world-premiere recordings showcasing the cancion output of 19th-century Spanish composer Francisco Asenjo Barbieri, marking the composer’s 200th anniversary.
Winner of the Premio al Talento Artistico de Navarra 2022, Sofia Esparza is a soprano celebrated for her creamy lyricism, while Rinaldo Zhok has been acclaimed for his groundbreaking research into neglected Spanish repertoire. Of Canciones para una Reina, Scherzo magazine wrote: “We should build a monument to this musician in Spain for his incredible work in favour of our heritage… an interpretation full of love, care and nuance…”.
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Rodgers & Hammerstein, Julie Andrews – The Sound Of Music (Original Soundtrack Recording / Super Deluxe Edition) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 03:38:44 minutes | 3,91 GB | Genre: Soundtrack
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Craft Recordings
The soundtrack to Robert Wise’s film version of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music is being reissued across multiple formats, with a super deluxe edition offering “every musical element” from the film and a Dolby Atmos Mix.
The musical features classics such as as ‘My Favourite Things’, ‘Do-Re-Mi’, ‘The Sound of Music’ and ‘Edelweiss’ and Robert Wise walked away with Best Picture and Best Director Oscars (being director and co-producer) at the 1966 Academy Awards.
The new reissue is led by a 4CD+blu-ray super deluxe which features over 40 previously unreleased tracks, including 11 never-before-heard alternate takes and instrumentals of each song for that singalong-a-Sound-of-Music experience. The blu-rays capacity allows it to deliver the full score in hi-res stereo audio and well as a Dolby Atmos Mix of the 16-track original soundtrack.
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Reed Turchi – Live on 29th Street Volume III (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 49:43 minutes | 556 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © 29th Street Editions
“Beyond genre constraints,” Reed Turchi has released more than a dozen original albums, toured internationally, scored films, produced records, and collaborated with chefs, poets, distillers, and photographers. He has been featured in Rolling Stone, American Songwriter, and The Oxford American, and has recorded sessions for PBS, NPR, KEXP, Daytrotter, and Jam in the Van.
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P!nk – TRUSTFALL (Tour Deluxe Edition) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:18:56 minutes | 897 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA Records Label
TRUSTFALL – Tour Deluxe Edition, is an expanded version of P!NK’s critically acclaimed TRUSTFALL album. This deluxe package contains all of the original album release tracks, with a second disc of music featuring six stunning live recordings from her 2023 Summer Carnival Stadium Tour; two covers – Sade’s “No Ordinary Love” and Sinead O’Connor’s “Nothing Compares 2 U” with Brandi Carlile; and two new singles, including “Dreaming,” a collaboration with Marshmello and Sting.
The critically acclaimed original version of TRUSTFALL was released in February of 2023, and debuted at # 1 on the Billboard Top Album Sales Chart.
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Otto Klemperer – Handel: Messiah, HWV 56 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 02:21:49 minutes | 5,23 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics
Otto Klemperer (* May 14, 1885 as Otto Nossan Klemperer in Breslau; † July 6, 1973 in Zurich) was a German conductor and composer. He is one of the great conductors of the 20th century.
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Naomi Dumas, Caitlyn Koester, Amanda Keesmaat – Graupner : Intégrale des sonates pour violon et clavecin (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 45:02 minutes | 950 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ATMA Classique
The duo AKOYA (violinist Naomi Dumas and harpsichordist Caitlyn Koester) makes its ATMA Classique debut with a recording devoted to violin and harpsichord sonatas of Christoph Graupner. Almost forgotten after his death in 1760, Graupner’s music has been enjoying a renaissance in recent years, thanks to the discovery of his compositions at the University of Darmstadt in Germany. Among his 36 chamber and keyboard sonatas, AKOYA along with Amanda Keesmaat, baroque cello, offer an impressive selection, including several that are recorded for the first time.
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Mr. Sun – Mr Sun Plays Duke Ellington’s Nutcracker Suite (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 43:42 minutes | 772 MB | Genre: Americana, Bluegrass
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Adhyâropa Records
American Roots Music thrives on growing new branches from its grand traditions, and the band Mr Sun, and its individual members, have long been actively re-shaping the acoustic musical landscape. For Mr Sun’s tenth anniversary, this celebrated company of virtuoso string players has reinterpreted the legendary Ellington/Strayhorn Nutcracker Suite, bringing this monumental reimagining of the iconic Tchaikovsky piece into the acoustic string band world.
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Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä – Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E-Flat Major “Symphony of a Thousand” (Live) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:23:13 minutes | 1,45 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BIS
For its final concert of the 2021–22 season and Osmo Vänskä’s last as artistic director, the Minnesota Orchestra chose to present Mahler’s mammoth Eighth Symphony, which calls for one of the largest complement of performers in the history of music, a symbol of the communitarian spirit of collective cultural, social and religious-philosophical endeavour in what has been referred to as a ‘Mass for the Masses’. Mahler’s Eighth Symphony, unlike his others, reveals no contrary despairing voice. It is instead a monumentally affirmative expression of human spiritual achievement achieved through the union of two seemingly incompatible texts: the Latin hymn Veni Creator Spiritus and the conclusion of the second part of Goethe’s Faust. Its première in Munich in September 1910 gave rise to the greatest triumph of Mahler’s career, and a rollcall of European royalty and the artistic élite attended the final public rehearsal and the performances. The Minnesota Orchestra and Osmo Vänskä are here joined by Carolyn Sampson, Jacquelyn Wagner, Sasha Cooke, Jess Dandy, Barry Banks, Julian Orlishausen, Christian Immler as well as the Minnesota Chorale, the National Lutheran Choir, the Minnesota Boychoir and the Angelica Cantanti Youth Choir.
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MIKE SHINODA – THE CRIMSON CHAPTER (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 21:23 minutes | 270 MB | Genre: Alternative Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Records
Michael Kenji Shinoda (/ʃɪˈnoʊdə/; born February 11, 1977) is an American musician, singer, rapper, songwriter, and record producer. He co-founded the rock band Linkin Park in 1996 and is the band’s co-lead vocalist, as well as rhythm guitarist, keyboardist, primary songwriter and producer. Shinoda later created a hip-hop-driven side project, Fort Minor, in 2004. He has also served as a producer for tracks and albums by artists such as Lupe Fiasco, Styles of Beyond, and the X-Ecutioners.
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MIKA – Que ta tête fleurisse toujours (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 37:16 minutes | 430 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Universal Music Division Island Def Jam
La pop de MIKA prend pour la 1ere fois un gout 100% francophone. Dans cet album aussi joyeux qu’intime, aussi touchant que dansant, MIKA ouvre une porte sur ses souvenirs et ses émotions, sans perdre sa force pop si universelle. Il réussit le tour de force de faire vibrer la langue française sur ses envolées et ses mélodies incomparables. On y découvre le MIKA qu’on aime. Les tubes s’enchaînent (C’est la Vie, Jane Birkin, Apocalypse Calypso..) tout en laissant l’émotion et les frissons nous rattraper parfois (30 secondes, Passager, Moi Andy et Paris..).
MIKA a consacré plusieurs mois à l’écriture et à la production de cet album en prenant le temps de rencontrer et collaborer avec la jeune scène française. Un exercice libérateur qui donne un résultat exceptionnel. « Que ta tête fleurisse toujours » est un appel à la créativité et celle de MIKA est plus que jamais florissante.
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Michael Kaeshammer – KaeshammerLIVE! (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:15:16 minutes | 824 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Music – Seven.One Starwatch
Something magical happens when Michael Kaeshammer sits at the piano. Sure, like all pianists, he plays 12 notes across 88 keys. But the musician and songwriter coaxes dazzling, kaleidoscopic sounds from his instrument in a way few can rival.
So, it’s no surprise that Turn It Up — Kaeshammer’s towering 15th album — is superb, a dynamic, rollicking collection though one stubbornly resistant to a single, catchall genre. “Eclectic yet accessible jazz-based pop” might come closest to the mark, but it doesn’t quite capture it all. Like his sprawling record collection, which houses everything from AC/DC to Erik Satie, Kaeshammer’s songs reflect his boundless appreciation of music in whatever form it takes.
For him, playing just jazz or just pop or just boogie-woogie instead of all three — sometimes with a classical instrumental piece thrown in — would be the aural equivalent of eating a cheese sandwich for lunch. Every. Single. Day.
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Mark Prihodko and Viktoria Korolionok – Cerdanyenca (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:29 minutes | 1,00 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © IBS Classical
The hour-long emotional tour-de-force with cellist Mark Prihodko and pianist Viktoria Korolionok evokes a soul-searching journey that spans a century of romantic repertoire following the music-making traditions of Ysaye, Gershwin, and Rachmaninov. Almost four years in the making, the album’s program selections relate less to each other than they mint each of the young cellist’s artistic phases, becoming an integral part of who Prihodko is, as a musician. Cerdanyenca takes its title from the eponymous sonata, written by Catalan composer Marc Migó Cortés, who dedicated this masterwork to Prihodko, his great friend.
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Marianne Beate Kielland & Nils Anders Mortensen – Sigurd Lie: Songs, Vol. 2 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:09:02 minutes | 2,37 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Lawo Classics
The songs on this release – volume 2 – continue the chronological list from volume 1.The album begins with the remarkably special cycle Wartburg, encompassing an enormous range of singing pathos. The text by Theodor Caspari has to do with Wartburg Castle, with its sweeping history. Martin Luther sought refuge there from May 1521 to March 1522. Saint Elisabeth of Thuringia resided there from 1211 to 1228, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe visited the castle several times, and, notably, the famous “minstrel contest” at the castle was an inspiration for Wagner when he composed his opera Tannhauser. So it is not so unusual that Theodor Caspari was also inspired by the castle’s history and reputation when he wrote his Wartburg texts.
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