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Jellyfish – Spilt Milk (1993/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 46:17 minutes | 1,02 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Virgin Records
When Jellyfish released their second album, Spilt Milk, in February 1993, critics didn’t know what comparison to make of the band. The band had released their first album, Bellybutton, to rave reviews and even had a Top 40 hit with the catchy “Baby’s Coming Back,” which wasn’t even one of the better tracks. The melodies flowed, and the harmonies shook you down to your core.
The duo was celebrated for their defiance in the grunge era, crafting deliriously sunny pop jams. In a Newsweek feature highlighting the Best Summer Albums from 1985-1997, Zach Schonfeld wrote a blurb on Spilt Milk, saying, “God bless Jellyfish for releasing this lost power-pop masterwork at the height of the grunge explosion. With angst on the airwaves, Andy Sturmer and Roger Joseph Manning, Jr. (with help from soon-to-be-star-producer Jon Brion) crafted 12 unfashionably sunny and remarkably well-built pop gems.
“It’s the colorfulness of it all that makes it such a great summer record; nods to peak Queen, 80s metal, and The Beatles at their sugariest abound, but Spilt Milk couldn’t have been made by anyone but Jellyfish. Shame they didn’t copyright the title ‘Bye Bye Bye’ before NSYNC nabbed it.”
The history of Spilt Milk is legendary in Jellyfish circles. When they began writing in 1992, Brian Wilson paid them a visit to the studio, having been impressed by their debut Bellybutton. The duo showed off their electric harpsichords and clavinet, which left Wilson unimpressed. He wanted to see something new. This sparked an idea in the duo.
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Jellyfish – Bellybutton (1990/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 39:37 minutes | 880 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Virgin Records
Jellyfish’s two critically acclaimed and influential releases—Bellybutton and Spilt Milk—have found new life, being rediscovered and appreciated by generations new and old.
Including lead singer/drummer Andy Sturmer, guitarist Jason Falkner, and keyboardist Roger Manning, the San Francisco band Jellyfish released their 1990 debut Bellybutton to critical raves. Despite the kudos and some play at video outlets, the album failed to make much of a commercial impact.
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Jaime Wyatt – Feel Good (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 45:01 minutes | 528 MB | Genre: Alt. Country, Roots Rock, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © New West Records, LLC
“I’m still learning how to experience joy, how to be free, how to be comfortable in my own skin,” says Jaime Wyatt. “A lot of us grow up feeling like we have to hide who we are just to be accepted, but that comes from a place of fear and judgment. I wrote these songs as a way of letting go of all that, as permission to feel good.”Feel Good, Wyatt’s extraordinary new album, is more than just a permission slip, though: it’s an invitation. Recorded with Black Pumas’ Adrian Quesada, the record is bold and ecstatic, built on tight, intoxicating grooves that belie the songs’ substantial emotional stakes. Wyatt’s writing is raw and intuitive here, tapping into the deep recesses of her subconscious as she reckons with grief and growth, and her delivery is visceral to match, cutting straight to the bone with equal parts sensitivity and swagger. Taken as a whole, the collection stands as a radical act of creative liberation from an artist already known for pushing limits, a genre-defying work of healing and self-love that tips its cap to everything from Al Green and Otis Redding to Waylon Jennings and Bobbie Gentry in its relentless pursuit of peace and pleasure.
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Erich Kunzel, Cincinnati Pops Orchestra – Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker – Favorite Selections (2007/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:13:07 minutes | 3,65 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Craft Recordings
Tchaikovsky’s perennial holiday favorite- a sparkling recording of all the best-loved highlights from the ballet.
He’s back…the well known “Prince of Pops” records highlights from Tchaikovsky’s most famous work, the Nutcracker. Highlights include the Overture, The Christmas Tree, Children’s Gallop & Arrival of Guests, Waltz of the Flowers, among many others.
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Emilie Simon – PHOENIX (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 43:46 minutes | 488 MB | Genre: Electronic, Pop, Trip-Hop, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Play Two
Discover “PHOENIX”, the atypical story of Lily Mercier’s return to life. “PHOENIX” is Emilie Simon’s new transmedia project composed of an EP of 6 tracks, a musical tale and a short film.
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Hilary Woods – Acts of Light (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 31:18 minutes | 326 MB | Genre: Experimental, Ambient, Drone, Tribal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sacred Bones Records
Acts of Light is a fugue comprised of nine slow hypnotic dirges. Vulnerability, majesty, and candour elicited with drone, double bass, field recordings and sacred choral chant compose its private ritual. Born out of excavations and explorations in feeling, intuition and physicality through sound which culminated in her 2021 EP Feral Hymns, Acts of Light is a disquiet personal offering to wilderness, loss, absence, mystery and love supreme.
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Four Aces Guitar Quartet – Plan BE (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 54:43 minutes | 940 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Antarctica Records
On Plan BE, the Four Aces Guitar Quartet takes you on a journey through Belgian music history and presents its own arrangements of music by some iconic composers who have put Belgium on the international map. From Josquin Desprez’s subtle polyphony to the gypsy swing of Django Reinhardt, brought to you on four classical guitars by the internationally acclaimed ensemble Four Aces Guitar Quartet.
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Elisaveta Blumina – Kancheli: A Little Daneliade, Valse Boston, 18 Miniatures & Largo & Allegro (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:07:20 minutes | 634 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © CapriccioNR
German pianist Elisaveta Blumina is an Echo Klassik Awards prizewinner and artistic director of the Hamburg International Chamber Music Festival. She belongs to a generation of musicians who put the music centre stage, and is steeped in the great Russian piano tradition of Heinrich Neuhaus.
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East Forest – Music For The Deck of The Titanic (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:03:40 minutes | 708 MB | Genre: Indie Pop, Modern Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Bright Antenna
East Forest has a natural talent for creating soundscapes that speak to the heart. Lush and emotional, they are designed to engender deep spiritual experiences. But it would be a mistake to think of East Forest as just a musical project.
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Cy Walter – Manhattan (1955/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 23:47 minutes | 429 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Epic – Legacy
Cy Walter (September 16, 1915 – August 18, 1968) was an American café society pianist based in New York City for four decades. Dubbed the “Art Tatum of Park Avenue,” he was praised for his extensive repertoire (with an emphasis on show tunes) and improvisatory skill. His long radio and recording career included both solo and duo performances, and stints as accompanist for such elegant vocal stylists as Greta Keller, Mabel Mercer, and Lee Wiley.
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Costanzi Consort – Casali: Sacred Music from 18th Century Rome (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 54:27 minutes | 501 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Toccata Classics
The history of music-making in Rome tends to focus on Renaissance polyphony, with an occasional nod to the Baroque thereafter. But thanks to composers like Giovanni Battista Casali (1715–92), choral music continued to flourish in Roman churches and other religious establishments in the eighteenth century, too, until Napoleon’s occupation broke many of its traditions. Casali’s music, though, is as good as unknown, and this pioneering recording reveals a composer at home in the galant style – with a surprising fondness for the occasional dissonance.
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Cornelius Claudio Kreusch, Johannes Tonio Kreusch, Anthony Cox – Hotel Casablanca – Duality (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 27:07 minutes | 251 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © EDITION COLLAGE
At its best, a music album is a journey, for the musicians as well as for the listeners. Like hardly any other subject, music offers the chance to get from here to there and from yesterday to tomorrow without preconditions or borders, with one’s thoughts as well as one’s feelings. As a universal world language, it can take everyone with it. The adventure is all the greater when the tour guides come from different genres, but freely and impartially seek a common path. Like the avant-garde bassist Anthony Cox, the groove-oriented jazz pianist Cornelius Claudio Kreusch and the classical guitarist Johannes Tonio Kreusch. On their new album, the three now invite you to check into the “HOTEL CASABLANCA” as the basis of a remarkable expedition.
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Christina Perri – songs for christmas (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 25:24 minutes | 280 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Elektra (NEK)
Christina Judith Perri (born August 19, 1986) is an American singer and songwriter. After her debut single “Jar of Hearts” was featured on the television series So You Think You Can Dance in 2010, Perri signed with Atlantic Records and released her debut extended play, The Ocean Way Sessions. Her debut studio album, Lovestrong (2011), followed soon after and has since been certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
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City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra – CBSO Sounds New (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:28:18 minutes | 1,38 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © NMC Recordings
When the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra marked its Centenary in 2020, there was never any question that new music would be at the heart of the celebrations. The orchestra marked its 100th year by commissioning 20 emerging composers to write short orchestral works to be played throughout the 2020 season – but then Covid-19 intervened.
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Carlos Ferreira – Isolationism (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 46:07 minutes | 247 MB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient, Drone, Shoegaze, Post-Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © AKP Recordings
Carlos Ferreira is an experimental Brazilian guitarist and composer whose work explores the relationship between sound, space, time, and memory. ‘Isolationism’ utilizes reverb-drenched guitar tones, piano, clarinet, pipe organ, and atmospheric field recordings to study frequency, resonance, and sound vibration. The results harmonize cinematic aplomb with levity, grief with hope, and an unbearable gravity with the lightness of existing in a moment.
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