P.J. Perry – PJ Perry/Live at George’s Jazz Room, Toronto: June 29, 1991 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:28:42 minutes | 1,01 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cornerstone Records Inc.
Scanning an album that bears the name Alto Gusto, a prospective listener may be forgiven for assuming that it consists of a series of upbeat themes designed to cause toes to tap, fingers to snap and the heart rate to soar. And once it becomes clear that that is not what Canadian alto saxophonist PJ Perry’s quartet had in mind, it would be quite plausible for him or her to wonder what had happened.
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Nicole Brady – Lost Palace (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:09 minutes | 768 MB | Genre: Electronic, Classical Crossover
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Bright Shiny Things
Nicole Brady’s debut album invites listeners into a cinematic tale centered around a band of musicians who once played in a long Lost Palace. Collaborating with iconic musicians, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Miles Mosley, Mark Guiliana and Lydia Ainsworth, Brady composed and produced the eight-track album in Dolby Atmos, achieving a surreal sense of immersion. The album’s sonics carry on the canon of beat-making traditions and classical music, with the psychological multi-narratives reminiscent of 1960s filmmaking. At its core, the album serves as a testament to Brady’s prowess in producing, composing, and performing, showcasing her keyboard skills as the foundation of this genre-defying and organically cohesive concept album.
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London Voices, William Saunders & Ben Parry – Jonathan Rutherford: The Wilderness and the Solitary Place (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 58:18 minutes | 543 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Orchid Classics
The Wilderness and the Solitary Place is an album of world-premiere recordings in which Ben Parry conducts London Voices and organist William Saunders in choral music by British composer Jonathan Rutherford. Following the release of I Slept and Dreamed that Life Was Beauty, these exceptional musicians reunite to perform Rutherford’s sensitive settings of sacred and secular texts. Three Advent carols inspired by Isaiah include one translated into verse by Jennifer Thorn and another derived from the medieval Coventry Mystery Play. From Rutherford’s opera, The Star-Child, based on two Oscar Wilde stories, we hear his Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis and Pilgrim’s Song – in turn based on Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress. Rejoice! Rejoice! is a Christmas anthem inspired by Beatrix Potter’s The Tailor of Gloucester, and In the Bleak Midwinter is a new setting of Christina Rossetti’s timeless poetry. The recording culminates in Rutherford’s meditative and profoundly beautiful Good Friday Music (Seven Last Words).
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Linda Guo and Yuhao Guo – Strauss, Schumann & Szymanowski: Mythen (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:18 minutes | 1,18 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ars Produktion
This CD brings together works by three outstanding composers from the 19th and 20th centuries, each of whom interprets the connection between violin and piano in a unique compositional way.
The Violin Sonata Op. 18 by Richard Strauss takes you into a world of melodic beauty and the harmonious unity between both instruments. Strauss, known for his symphonic poems and operas, shows here his masterful ability to combine the virtuosity of the violin with pianistic brilliance.
Clara Schumann’s Three Romances for Violin and Piano Op. 22 reveal a tender and expressive connection between the instruments. A remarkable 19th-century pianist and composer, Clara Schumann demonstrates here her masterful ability to bring the violin and piano together in an intimate unity.
The Myths Op. 30 by the Polish composer Karol Szymanowski unfold as fascinating musical tales from Greek mythology. Here the violin becomes the storyteller, while the piano sensitively accompanies the dramatic and expressive aspects of the myths. The two instruments merge to create a mysterious and colorful overall sound.
In each of these compositions it becomes clear how both instruments develop extraordinary expressive power together. Whether it’s melodic beauty, delicate expressions or dramatic narratives – these works show the timeless fascination and the unique connection between violin and piano.
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Jelena Jovović – Night Bird (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 58:55 minutes | 684 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alessa Records
Jelena Jovovic jazz vocalist, vocal clinician, composer, lyricist… Graduated summa cum laude in jazz singing at the University of Arts in Graz, Austria. MA degree in jazz performance at the FMU, University of Arts, Belgrade.
Jelena lived in South Africa where she performed extensively and established the jazz vocal curricula at the Jazz department of Cape Town University and Pretoria Tech School of Music.
Upon her return to Belgrade, she worked as a Creative Director of the Radio- Television Big Band and was a Professor of Jazz singing at the Music School ” Stankovic”.
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James Asher – Eye on Astrology (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:12:41 minutes | 756 MB | Genre: Electronic, New Age, Ambient, Fusion
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Starfield
James Asher is a multi-instrumental composer and producer specialising in world beat and chillout music. Amongst his catalogue of over 30 successful albums his worldbeat album Feet in the Soil has sold over 250,000 copies, and interestingly but at the other end of the spectrum one of his early compositions has been sampled by Tyler the Creator, a high-profile American rapper, who for the second year running has won Grammy for best rap album 2022.
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Title: Pet Shop Boys – Smash (The Singles 1985–2020)
Release Date:2023
Genre: Electronic, Pop
Production/Label: Rhino Music
Duration: 03:42:15+01:03:51
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: MPEG2
Audio codec: LPCM, DTS, AC3
Video: MPEG-4 AVC Video / 24811 kbps / 1080i / 29.970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio 1: English / LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Audio 2: Dolby Digital Audio / 5.1 / 48 kHz / 640 kbps / DN -31dB
Size: 447.7 + 12.8 GB
This release features new 2023 remasters and includes 55 singles, starting with West End Girls from 85 and ending with 2020 s I Don t Wanna. It includes most of their singles although there s a few grey areas/omissions such as no How Can You Expect To Be Taken Seriously? (from 1991 s Behaviour) and a lack of Burning The Heather'(the latter, from 2020 s Hotspot, was issued on seven-inch vinyl in the UK)
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Title: Night Ranger – 40 Years And A Night (With Contemporary Youth Orchestra)
Release Date: October 20, 2023
Genre: Hard Rock
Production/Label: FRONTIERS MUSIC SRL
Duration: 01:19:54
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: MPEG2
Audio codec: LPCM, DTS, AC3
Video: MPEG-4 AVC Video / 29473 kbps / 1080i / 29.970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio 1: LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 96 kHz / 4608 kbps / 24-bit
Audio 2: Dolby Digital Audio / 5.1 / 48 kHz / 640 kbps / DN -31dB
Size: 20,44 GB
Night Ranger had a one of a kind performance at the Key Bank State Theatre in Cleveland on November 9th 2022 as they performed their entire show with the Contemporary Youth Orchestra. CYO is made up of 90+ musicians aged 12 to 18, representing more than 40 schools in Ohio. It has grown to include a full orchestra, wind, string and percussion ensembles. The students performed alongside Night Ranger on all 15 of their songs this night.
Contemporary Youth Orchestra, founded in 1995, aims to give students the opportunity to work and perform both new and contemporary orchestral music. One of the regular projects of the Cleveland-based CYO has been to collaborate with well-known pop and rock acts such as Jefferson Starship, Styx, Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo, and Kenny Loggins (among others) for orchestral concerts featuring the artists’ work. It’s a slightly different arrangement of their music in which the orchestra works with the composer to develop the full orchestral performance.
This show was unlike any other Night Ranger show – not only did it raise funds for the Contemporary Youth Orchestra Education Fund, but the band decided to film the entire performance and bring it to the masses showing it all start to finish. These unique renditions of their greatest hits were for the first time ever – performed with an entire symphonic orchestra. The setlist combined the band’s classics, new songs and covers, and all of this together is what made this a truly once in a lifetime Night Ranger concert event.
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Ensemble Mélero – Buxtehude: Trio Sonatas & Variations (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:29 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Daphne Records
Heinrich Schütz, Dieterich Buxtehude and J. S. Bach are considered the most important musicians and composers of their generations in Germany. Buxtehude was, for a long time, mainly renowned for his organ music, and it was only through the German musicologist and librarian Carl Stiehl’s discovery of the Düben Collection in 1888 that his vocal music started to gain attention. His chamber music first came into focus during the 1970s, when research about the performance practices of early music started to be conducted on a larger scale, along with performances with period instruments. Buxtehude’s trio sonatas now belong to the standard repertoire. Ensemble Mélero plays a selection of trio sonatas on this recording with the ambition to give examples of his sense of variety and inventiveness. With the variations for harpsichord, the goal is to give the listener further examples of Buxtehude’s ornamentation and ability to vary over a given theme.
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Ensemble fünf&fünf – Ulrich Zeitler: Novembrig (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 59:14 minutes | 562 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Solo Musica
The cycle of poems “novembrig” by the Swiss lyricist Elsbeth Maag describes the naturalness of dying and death as a self-evident stage within the perpetual process of becoming and passing. Tenderly and encouragingly, the poet approaches this preferably repressed topic in vivid images. She succeeds in creating verses of captivating sensuality that are conciliatory while preserving the mystery.
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Danakil – Dialogue de dub (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 38:41 minutes | 439 MB | Genre: Dub, Reggae
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Baco Records
A dub version of Danakil’s flagship album, produced together on the Baco Studio mixing console. Two emblematic pieces from the album “Les Vieillards” and “Marley” are embellished with additional organ and melodica takes, in the pure tradition of dub reggae.
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Bastards of Soul – Give It Right Back (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 36:59 minutes | 744 MB | Genre: Soul
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © EASTWOOD MUSIC GROUP
Bastards of Soul returnwith their 3rd album “Give It Right Back”, the last chapter in the band’s story following the untimely death of their lead singer Chadwick Murray in 2021. The set features “This Love”, a song written by Chadwick and although he was never able to record the song, Keite Young (who performed the stunning cover of “Like A Ship” with Leon Bridges) stepped in with a beautiful rendition that Chadwick would be proud of. Also featured on the album are Daptone recording artist The Sha La Das and Colemine recoding artist Ghost Funk Orchestra.
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Ali Sethi – Intiha (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 36:35 minutes | 690 MB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient, World, Tribal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Other People
Singer, songwriter and author Ali Sethi had been entranced by Jaar’s music long before they began collaborating. He’d absorbed the sounds over a number of years, listening casually and taking in their subtleties in bars and rooftop parties across Lahore and London. “It felt familiar to me, that sense of adventure you have when you hear his music, like a tale that teases you and plays with your expectations as it unfolds,” says Sethi. “In that sense it resembled the leisurely improvised ghazals and qawwalis I grew up hearing in Pakistan.”
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Alena Walentin & Berit Johansen Tange – Andersen: Works for Flute & Piano (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:08:15 minutes | 2,19 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Dacapo
Joachim Andersen (1847–1909) charted an exceptionally diverse path in his career. At the heart of it, he stood as a founding member of the Berlin Philharmonic, adroitly balancing roles as a conductor and a solo flautist of great renown. His legacy includes the composition of eight volumes of études, now considered a cornerstone of the flute repertoire. Andersen emerges as a composer deeply rooted in his era, a sentiment vividly expressed through the enchanting and emotionally resonant tapestry of his works for flute and piano. This essence springs to life in these performances, impeccably interpreted by Alena Walentin and Berit Johansen Tange.
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