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Take That – This Life (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 46:27 minutes | 555 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © EMI
Take That return with their ninth studio album ‘This Life’ set for release on 24th November. Signalling a new era for one of Britain’s best-selling bands, the first single ‘Windows’ speaks to an era brimming with energy, creativity and a continued desire to challenge and surprise. The musicality of ‘Windows’ hints at what listeners can expect from the album – beautiful melodies, soaring choruses and sophisticated harmonies perfectly blending the trio’s voices. ‘This Life’ continues the legacy of the one of the most successful bands in chart history, with over 45 million records sold worldwide and 12 number 1 hits in the UK. Take That are not standing still; constantly evolving, the future looking bright for the trio. The album announcement comes alongside the news of a huge 2024 stadium & arena tour in the UK, tickets available to purchase from the 29th September.
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Steve Davis – Steve Davis Meets Hank Jones, Vol. 1 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 31:21 minutes | 527 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Smoke Sessions
STEVE DAVIS MEETS HANK JONES, VOLUME 1 features the legendary pianist in one of his final recordings on a poetic and interactive session with leader/trombonist Steve Davis and bassist Peter Washington.
In June 2008, pianist Hank Jones, trombonist Steve Davis, and bassist Peter Washington recorded this poetic, interactive, impeccably executed, never-before-released recital, titled STEVE DAVIS MEETS HANK JONES shortly after Jones had undergone quadruple bypass heart surgery at the end of 2006 and a month before he turned 90. Not only is it one of Jones’ final sessions, but it is one of the finest of his extraordinary career.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor – HANA (Deluxe Edition) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:27:14 minutes | 1,46 GB | Genre: Pop, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cooking Vinyl
‘Hana’ has been made with long-time collaborator and friend Ed Harcourt. It is their third in a trilogy of records, with each stemming around the thematic frame of a location. The collaboration began in 2014 with the critically and commercially successful ‘Wanderlust’, which was inspired by Eastern Europe, and continued in 2016 with ‘Familia’, inspired by Latin America. New album ‘Hana’, which Harcourt describes as “kaleidoscopic joy”, is inspired by East Asia and began with the album track ‘Tokyo’ and Sophie’s first trip to Japan pre-pandemic in 2020.
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Simona Venslovaite, Veronika Kopjova – Lithuanian Music for Violin & Piano (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:45 minutes | 1,24 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Naxos
The 20th-century Lithuanian composer’s dialogue between modern forms of expression and folk motifs is well represented in the four works in this recording. There is a sense of playful lightness in the Romantic aesthetic of Gruodis’s work, while Banaitis incorporates national lyricism with personal grief in his Sonata. Composed under the restrictions imposed by Soviet occupation, Vainiūnas’s Sonata Op. 38 is suffused with tragedy and sorrow, while the distinctive style of Juzeliūnas had an enormous impact on the future of Lithuanian music. All of these pieces are symbolic of survival and represent being truthful to one’s creative identity while under the harshest of conditions.
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Palle Mikkelborg, Jakob Bro, Marilyn Mazur – Strands (Live at the Danish Radio Concert Hall) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 46:54 minutes | 410 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM
„When we walked out on stage it felt like a homecoming,” says Jakob Bro of this texturally spacious and emotionally charged live recording from Copenhagen, on which three of the defining protagonists of improvisation in Denmark, leading musicians from three generations of Danish jazz, come together. The concert, in February 2023, was particularly poignant since it marked a return to performance for trumpeter Palle Mikkelborg, who delivers some of his most thoughtful playing here. Repertoire, drawn from Jakob Bro’s Returnings and Gefion albums, is addressed in spontaneous and exploratory spirit, and transformed as Marilyn Mazur’s subtle percussion language of blossoming gongs and metals and rumbling drums blends with Bro’s drifting and rippling washes of sound. The music’s atmospheric qualities, as well its eruptive moments, are enhanced by the resonant acoustics of the Danish Radio Concert Hall.
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Oscar Peterson – Con Alma: The Oscar Peterson Trio – Live in Lugano, 1964 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 43:50 minutes | 830 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mack Avenue Records
Oscar Peterson’s trio with Ray Brown and Ed Thigpen is widely regarded as Peterson’s “classic trio,” considered by fans as the most popular and in-demand of his long and storied career (featured on releases such as 1963’s Night Train and 1964’s We Get Requests). Recorded during their creative peak in 1964 (5 years into their collaboration), this previously unheard and unreleased live performance is destined to become a fan favorite from the Oscar Peterson vaults. In his memoir Peterson reflects on the dedication that Ray and Ed brought to the group:
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Ólafur Arnalds – For Now I Am Winter (10th Anniversary Edition) (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 48:19 minutes | 772 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mercury KX
Celebrating the 10th Anniversary Edition of Olafur Arnalds For Now I Am Winter, the album has been remastered.
Icelander Ólafur Arnalds has earned a reputation as one of the world’s most brilliant and accomplished young composers over the course of a few years. He is an artist who combines a neo-classical style with a variety of influences ranging from electronica to minimalism.
Since Arnalds made his debut in 2007 with “Eulogy For Evolution”, the 26-year-old has realised a number of very different projects under his own name. These range from his own musical releases to soundtracks for highly successful Hollywood productions (“Looper”, “The Hunger Games”) and ballet music (“Dyad 1909”). On tours through Europe, North America and China, Arnalds has also presented his music very impressively in concerts and gained a large fan base within a very short time.
With “For Now I Am Winter”, Olafur Arnalds now presents his third studio album. His musical ideas here are poppier than ever before and in Arnór Dan Arnarson, the lead singer of the band Agent Fresco, Anrnalds has found a musical partner who fits in wonderfully with his extravagant compositions, creating lyrical, electronic pop anthems.
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William Goldstein – Musical Portraits – An International Collection (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:13:18 minutes | 562 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © New Gold Music Ltd
William Goldstein (born February 25, 1942) is an American composer, recording artist, arts philosopher and improvisational pianist.
Goldstein has received three Emmy nominations and one Grammy nomination for his scores Fame, Hello Again, and Shocker. He has been signed as a recording artist to Motown Records and CBS Masterworks. Goldstein has written arts commentary for public media including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and CBS News.
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Vanessa Amorosi – Memphis Love (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 38:24 minutes | 757 MB | Genre: Soul, Blues, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Bay Street Records
Today, award-winning, platinum-selling and highly-acclaimed singer, songwriter and powerhouse vocalist Vanessa Amorosi releases her new full-length studio album, Memphis Love. Signing with legendary creative and overall icon Dave Stewart’s (Eurythmics) Bay Street Records earlier this year, Vanessa then traveled to Memphis, TN to craft the record in the hallowed walls of Willie Mitchell’s Royal Studios, which she co-produced alongside Stewart. The LP’s riveting gospel textured focus track, “Lift Us Up” is packed with the captivating voices of the Tennessee Mass Choir and sits as the centrepiece of the project.
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Twospeak – Fictions (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 34:48 minutes | 394 MB | Genre: Jazz Fusion, Jazz Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © None More Records
None More Records are very proud to present ‘Fictions’, the third album, and debut LP for the label from Twospeak. Twospeak are band leader and saxophonist Ronan Perrett’s bold and dynamic four-piece that draw inspiration equally from the world of contemporary jazz, bands like The Bad Plus and ADHD, the early 1970’s Canterbury Scene of Soft Machine and Caravan, Hot Rats-era Zappa and Deerhoof-esque indie rock, putting this all together in a heady brew and sounding uniquely themselves. Twospeak’s name is derived from the balancing act between words used to get through day-to-day life and the language of emotion, mood and storytelling humans have been expressing through music for thousands of years. That delicate balancing act is reflected in the distinctive music the group make.
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Tom Gaebel – A Christmas to Remember (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:00:16 minutes | 794 MB | Genre: Vocal Jazz, Christmas
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Music Central Europe
“A Christmas To Remember” contains a mixture of his own songs and Christmas classics, to which Gaebel lends his very special touch. His Christmas concerts, which have taken him and his orchestra all over the country for years, prove just how good he is at this. Eight years after his second and so far last Christmas album, he is fulfilling himself and his fans’ wish for a new Xmas collection.
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Thomas Albertus Irnberger – Haydn: Violinkonzerte & Doppelkonzert (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:57 minutes | 1,13 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Gramola Records
While Joseph Haydn is quite rightly regarded as the most important co-inventor of genres such as the symphony, the string quartet and the piano trio in the form in which they have been handed down since the middle of the 18th century, the instrumental concerts are somewhat different. They primarily served the purpose of giving the individually outstanding members of the Esterházy court orchestra the opportunity to perform as soloists. Nevertheless, one can always appreciate their quality and, upon closer listening, discover a variety of beautiful things in them. Developed from the tradition of the Baroque concerti grossi, Haydn probably created a total of about 40 solo concertos, probably four of them for violin.
Thomas Albertus Irnberger from Salzburg is one of Austria’s leading violinists. He devotes himself with great passion and meticulousness to the classical-romantic repertoire on the one hand and to the exploration and rediscovery of “ostracized composers” on the other.
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The Sonic Brewery – Can’t Kill Rock’n’Roll (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 44:38 minutes | 591 MB | Genre: Blues Rock, Hard Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sun King Music
The Sonic Brewery follow up! Their second album “Can’t Kill Rock’n’Roll” also combines blues rock with hard rock and psychedelic elements
founded in 2017 by Benno Olbrich (vocals), Jonathan Niederer (guitar), Andreas Aigner (bass) and Thomas Hamberger (drums) in Eggenfelden, Lower Bavaria, the quartet made an immediate impression with their debut “Catch The Magic”. From groovy, tight riffs to psychedelic passages and brute outbursts. A sound deeply rooted in 70’s rock, but by no means backward-looking, but modern and full of energy. This is the best way to describe the band in a few words.
However, the true energy can only be felt at their live shows, which are gripping in a way that is not often experienced these days. The band manages to captivate the audience with ease and never lets go for a second. They have already been able to prove their outstanding live quality several times by performing as support acts for The Whiskey Foundation, DeWolff and Joanne Shaw Taylor.
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Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie Konstanz and Gabriel Venzago – Time Travels (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:30 minutes | 1,28 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Solo Musica
It is one of the magical abilities of musical sounds that they create the most intense “present” and a vital “now!” Therefore, in these TIME TRAVELS, past epochs can be brought into the 21st century and temporal dimensions can experience a sensual vivification: Exactly 400 years before this CD recording, William Byrd (1543–1623) died and is brought back to life here with the magnificent THE BELLS. BRANDENBURGER REMIXED was composed as a tribute to the 300th anniversary of the Brandenburg Concerto No. 2, whose legendary virtuoso trumpet part is still an outstanding benchmark for all trumpet soloists today. – The saxophone concerto SIDDHARTA was composed in 2021 to mark the centenary of the first edition of Hermann Hesse’s novel, acclaimed by millions, in which Hesse so unprecedentedly aptly described a living Buddha who takes us back some 2500 years into the past. – Finally, SILK ROAD refers to Marco Polo, probably the most prominent explorer, who died exactly 700 years ago in January 1324 in his birthplace Venice. So let’s bring back all these places and times with the colourful sound world of these TIME TRAVELS to experience them all over again.
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Sofia Pavone – da. zwischen (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:47 minutes | 1,37 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ars Produktion
The Italian-German mezzo-soprano Sofia Pavone is distinguished by her unmistakable timbre, a wide vocal range and an expressive, musically well-thought-out design. She studied with Hedwig Fassbender (concert exam) and received special impulses through regular work with Helmut Deutsch, Jürgen Glauss and Marcus Creed. Furthermore, she is supervised vocally by Sami Kustaloglu, master classes with Brigitte Fassbaender, Ramón Vargas, Axel Bauni and Magreet Honig round off her training. She is a scholarship holder of the Frankfurt Bach Concerts and the Richard Wagner Association Cologne. in 2018, the mezzo-soprano in Corsica was awarded the 1st prize at the Concours International de Chant Lyrique de Canari, in 2020 at the 27th International Johannes Brahms Competition/Pörtschach with the 2nd prize in the song category.
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