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Zoe Wees – Therapy (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 59:38 minutes | 705 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Capitol Records UK – EMI
In autumn, the highly anticipated debut album of the young exceptional artist Zoe Wees will be released with “Therapy”. With hits such as the multi-platinum-winning singles “Girls Like Us” and “Control”, the album has already generated over 3 billion streams before release. Born in Hamburg, Zoe Wees has a knack for telling her complex and emotional stories in such a way that they are comprehensible to everyone. And so she takes her fans on a musical journey of discovery again with “Therapy”, on which she addresses personal struggles and triumphs that we all know from our lives. With her usual powerful and unique voice, she sings about the way to find and accept yourself. Zoe says about the latest single from her album “For me, Lightning is about overcoming all the doubts that others try to convince you because they underestimate you and don’t believe in you. When I went through all this, I found a motivation that made me even stronger. Therefore, never doubt how strong you can be.“
“Therapy” will be released on 03.11.2023 and combines all the already known hits of the breakout star with brand new songs.
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Jewel Ackah – Electric Hi-Life (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 30:22 minutes | 340 MB | Genre: Disco, Boogie, Afrobeat
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BBE Africa
HIGHLIFE MAGIC: AT THE BOTTOM OF THE GARDEN??
A couple of years back, UK-based House and Soul DJ Jerry Frempong’s wife Kate was doing a Spring -clean at the family home. At the bottom of the garden, in among a pile of rusty garden tools and so on, she discovered a couple of mysterious bin-bags. She was about to assign them to the skip with everything else, but a sixth sense persuaded her to check the contents. It was a huge pile of rare soul, funk, disco, boogie and- yes – Ghana Highlife records. Kate brought this to the attention of Jerry, who immediately understood the significance of the treasure trove.
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Yves Simon – Yves Simon avec Transit Express: Enregistrement public réalisé au Théâtre de la Ville (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 40:48 minutes | 482 MB | Genre: Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BMG Rights Mgmt France SARL
This record is reissued for the first time since its release in the mid-70s. In 1975, Yves Simon managed to establish himself in 2 years as the new talent of French song to texts. And he is more than ever in the news with two albums and a new book. The latter, a novel, is called “Transit-Express”, like the singer’s new band. And it is this group that we find on the album “Raconte-toi” as well as on this first disc recorded in Paris in public at the Théâtre de la Ville in which he revisits the successes of his first albums in front of a conquered and participatory audience. In summary, the pearls “I dreamed of New York”, “Rue de la Huchette”, “The accordion player”, “Look at me” or of course “In Juliet’s wonderland”. Essential.
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Wynton Marsalis – Black Codes (From The Underground) (1985/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 51:12 minutes | 538 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia
One of the hardest swinging and best-loved of his 1980s recordings wraps listeners in the astonishing group sound that defined Wynton Marsalis. Firey performances by the players jazz writers dubbed “The Young Lions”: saxophonist Branford Marsalis, the “Doctone” – pianist Kenny Kirkland, the “Net Man” – bassist Charnett Moffett, drummer Jeff “Tain” Watts, and of course Wynton himself on trumpet.
Grammy Winner for “Best Jazz Instrumental Performance – Group.”
As the cover tells you, it all comes down to knowing and wanting to know, to study and experience, to rebellion against the bondage of ignorance. And no major art can subsist on luck or on natural talent that is never put to the head-slapping test of discipline. So there is never a point at which learning and knowing don’t come together for the best expression of talent. The objective is mastery, which is always born of sophistication. In jazz, mastery has to do with an unavoidable velocity because the improvisor must work in a context where the moment is all. Where the recipe for shape, continuity, and form has to be conceived, mixed, cooked, and served immediately. As with all art, the more you know, the more you can do. And when everything is focused by integrity, you hear the emotion of idealism boiling over the top, spanning moods from the bristling to the frail tenderness of a vulnerable lover’s whisper. This recording has that scope of passion, and it is delivered with a gutbucket high-mindedness as intriguing as it is exciting, as infectious as it is soothing.
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Jeremy Udden – Wishing Flower (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 46:10 minutes | 888 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sunnyside
Growing up in an urban environment could lead to obliviousness to the natural world. Having grown up in a rural environment, saxophonist/composer Jeremy Udden was very aware of nature but living in metropolises made him seek nature’s touch in the city’s midst. Udden’s children have grown up in Brooklyn and he is frequently amazed at how attuned to nature his city kids are, just one of the intriguing juxtapositions he reflects in his new recording, Wishing Flower.
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Willie Nelson – Greatest Hits (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:26:51 minutes | 910 MB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Legacy Recordings
This new collection is a career spanner jampacked with 22 songs, with each era of Willie’s illustrious six decade career chronicled. It includes massive hits like “On The Road Again,” “Always On My Mind” and “Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain” next to a number of his 21st century gems, including latter day classics like “Ride Me Back Home” and “Roll Me Up.” It features classic collaborations with the likes of Merle Haggard, Waylon Jennings and Julio Iglesias, Willie’s early versions of songs made famous by others in the early 60s like “Crazy” and “Night Life,” alongside interpretations of others’ songs that he made his own from Hoagy Carmichael’s “Stardust” to Arlo Guthrie’s “City Of New Orleans” to Pearl Jam’s “Just Breathe.”
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Jascha Heifetz – Brahms: Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 77 by Jascha Heifetz (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 34:43 minutes | 608 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alexandre Bak – Classical Music Reference Recording
Jascha Heifetz was a Russian-American violinist. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest violinists of all time. Born in Vilnius, he moved to the United States as a teenager, where his Carnegie Hall debut was rapturously received. He was a virtuoso from childhood. Fritz Kreisler, another leading violinist of the twentieth century, said after hearing Heifetz’s debut, “We might as well take our fiddles and break them across our knees.” He had a long and successful performing career; however, after an injury to his right (bowing) arm, he switched his focus to teaching.
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Wild Nothing – Hold (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 40:32 minutes | 468 MB | Genre: Indie Pop, Dreampop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Captured Tracks
Because Hold, Jack Tatum’s fifth album under the moniker Wild Nothing, was written in the aftermath of new parenthood during the pandemic, it was probably inevitable that it would be searching and existential music. But during the recording process, the artist known for synth-pop tastefulness used it as an opportunity to reach for a new sonic maximalism and wider set of influences. With contributions from longtime collaborator Jorge Elbrecht, Tommy Davidson of Beach Fossils and Hatchie’s Harriette Pilbeam, first single “Headlights On” features an acid house-worthy bass groove and breakbeat that prove Tatum is playing for the rafters.
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White Willow – Ignis Fatuus (Remastered) (1995/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:06:55 minutes | 735 MB | Genre: Progressive Rock, Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Karisma Records
Ignis Fatuus is the classic debut album from Norwegian prog legends White Willow. Originally released in the Spring of 1995, the album took the global progressive rock scene by storm. Fan letters started coming in from all over the world, and wonderful reviews from American and European music magazines kept flowing out of their fax machine. 5000 copies were quickly sold and soon the band was on a plane to California to perform at the 1995 Los Angeles Progfest, along with acts like Spock’s Beard, Ars Nova and Landberk.
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Jan Wouter Oostenrijk – Sharqi Blues (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 42:58 minutes | 496 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mountain Records
Dutch guitar player Jan Wouter Oostenrijk (JWO) (1965) completed his professional jazz guitar studies at the conservatory of Amsterdam (1994) and got the “Gouden Notenkraker” award for his contribution to the Dutch live music with Moroccan formation Raïland. In the past 20 years he became a succesfull international artist with his innovating crossovers Sharqi Blues, Maghreb Jazz. Technically gifted, original, with emotion and sense of adventure, navigating the crosscurrents between guitar-led jazz and Northafrican music.
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Voces8 – A Choral Christmas (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:53 minutes | 1,30 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca Music Group Ltd.
VOCES8, the internationally acclaimed British vocal ensemble’s release, ‘A Choral Christmas’, out on November 3rd 2023, showcases a joyful, cinematic soundscape-packed hamper of choral and orchestral treats. A Christmas musical extravaganza filled with sparkling, cinematic new arrangements of favourite carols from US composer Taylor Scott Davis. Featuring several world premiere recordings of brand new works and arrangements, including the centrepiece of the album, a major new work for choir and orchestra, Taylor Scott Davis’s dazzling setting of the Magnificat, originally commissioned for VOCES8’s LIVE From London festival. Also includes a serene and intimate new a cappella carol ‘The Sleeping Child’ from British composer Bob Chilcott written especially for VOCES8.
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Viktor Valkov – Ornstein: Piano Music, Vol. 3 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:03:46 minutes | 516 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Toccata Classics
Leo Ornstein is as well known for his extraordinary longevity as for his music: he was born in Ukraine in 1893 and died in Wisconsin in 2002, aged at least 108. His generous output of music, much of it for the piano, his own instrument, remains poorly known, although it can stand shoulder to shoulder with that of many better-known names. Some of the pieces here – which cover a span of over 60 years – have their roots in Debussy, Skryabin and Szymanowski, but Ornstein welds those influences into an edgy, energetic language very much his own. The Three Moods of c. 1914 are anger, grief and joy, but there is strength of feeling in all the music to be heard here. Indeed, the Nine Vignettes bear a misleading title: they are substantial and powerful virtuoso essays which can flare up into moments of startling power and violence; hitherto unknown, they constitute a major contribution to the piano literature.
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Versengold – Lautes Gedenken (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 02:06:04 minutes | 1,48 GB | Genre: Rock, Folk Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hansa Local
With the announcement of “Lautes Gedenken”, VERSENGOLD are kicking off the release of their eleventh studio album on 03.11.2023 – just in time for the 20th anniversary. With “Funkenflug”, “Nordlicht” and most recently “Was kost die Welt”, the band can look back on three top-5 albums in recent history and can draw from a wealth of experience for the current album.
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Itoken, Klimperei and Frank Pahl – IKP (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 52:58 minutes | 555 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cuneiform Records
“This beautiful new release by IKP is a wonderful triangulation of sounds, cultures and seasoned musical wizards. The production on this record is impeccable, melding into a wondrous new sound that only these three musicians could make. It’s the perfect filmscore, and who cares about the film!” –Friendly Rich, host, Industry Tactics podcast
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Verneri Pohjola – Monkey Mind (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 45:46 minutes | 858 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Edition Records
Renowned Finnish jazz trumpet player, Verneri Pohjola, is set to release his much-awaited album ‘Monkey Mind’ in November 2023. Collaborating with celebrated musicians Jasper Hoiby, Kit Downes, and Olavi Louhivuori. With an innovative style and dynamic playing, he effortlessly fuses traditional and modern elements to create a captivating and distinct sound, Monkey Mind will solidify his position as a premier artist in the European Jazz scene. Verneri’s previous albums and electrifying live performances have garnered widespread acclaim, establishing him as one of the most talented jazz musicians of his generation – a vital album from a true European jazz virtuoso.
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