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David Enhco, Marc Perrenoud – Chet (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 41:56 minutes | 388 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Nome
Radiant personalities of the European jazz scene, the French trumpeter David Enhco and the Swiss pianist Marc Perrenoud pay tribute to the great jazz trumpeter Chet Baker. With a selection of emblematic jazz standards, David and Marc trace the musical journey and tragic fate of Chet Baker, made of poetry and light.
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Tom Fitzgerald – St Kilda Man (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 30:57 minutes | 336 MB | Genre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Wild At Heart Records
Tom is an accomplished musician from Bancroft, ON. While his primary passion has always been playing the fiddle, Tom is also accomplished on the guitar and as a step-dancer. He is a Canadian Grand Master Fiddle Champion (2012) and a Canadian Open Fiddle Champion (2012), and has performed with Natalie MacMaster, Leahy, Nathan Carter, Tommy Hunter, Tony McManus, Brian Finnegan, Wayne Rostad, and We Banjo 3, among others. Growing up in the centre of the Ottawa Valley, Tom was immersed in the rich tradition of Canadian Old Time fiddling and step dancing. However, over the years he has absorbed elements of other musical styles and traditions such as traditional and contemporary Irish, country, bluegrass, swing, jazz, R&B, and classical, which allows him to effortlessly fit into almost any musical situation.
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Stile Antico – Giaches de Wert: Divine Theatre, Sacred Motets (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:07:16 minutes | 1,18 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © harmonia mundi
Franco-Flemish composer Giaches de Wert wrote a considerable amount of sacred music during the late Renaissance, but little of it was published during his lifetime. Only three books of motets were released in 1566 and 1581. Stile Antico’s new album introduces us to another side of this composer who, though Flemish-born, spent most of his life in Italy, primarily in Mantua, where he was to remain for the rest of his life, though not without maintaining connections (both musical and, during the mid-late 1580s, romantic) with the court at Ferrara, where the lively musical life must have been a welcome distraction from his not-always-happy existence at the Mantuan court. The unique and dramatic style of these remarkable motets cannot fail to ravish explorers of this ‘divine theatre’.
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Carl-Henri Morisset – Individual Dispersion (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 46:32 minutes | 697 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Paradis Improvisé
This is the first piano solo album by Carl Henri Morissette (born 1992-7-24) from Torcy, Paris.
I started playing the piano at the Michel Slovo School of Music from the age of 8.
At the same time, I studied saxophone and clarinet there.
Prior to enrolling in CNSMDP, he received a jazz piano DEM from the Valmobue Conservatory (Nowisir) in 2011.
Since starting jazz piano, he has studied with Alexis Bosch, Laurent Guangini, Pierre de Bessmann, Hervé Serin, Ricardo del Fra, Glenn Ferris and Dre Palemato.
He has worked with Ricardo del Hula, Pieric Pedron and Archie Shep, and since 2016 has recorded 3 albums: Unknown with Pieric Pedron, Side Stories by Thomas Bramley Trio and Moving People by Ricardo del Hula.
This is the first piano solo album that he releases with full satisfaction!
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Steven Graff – John Carbon: Short Stories for Piano (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:19 minutes | 1,16 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Convivium Records Ltd.
Short Stories is a suite of 24 evocative piano pieces of widely varied moods. These “tales” for piano take the player and listener through imaginative har-monic and contrapuntal explorations, each reflecting its characterful title and projecting a vivid mental image. Icarus, a virtuoso single-movement work, evokes the Greek myth in a dazzling – yet ultimately tragic – flight across the piano keyboard.
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Roeland Celis & Ping O.D. – The Vacuum (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 50:39 minutes | 589 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Whirlwind Recordings
We’re delighted to welcome Roeland Celis to Whirlwind Recordings to release The Vacuum with his sextet, Ping O.D. this Autumn.
Celis grew up in a musical family. His parents, both classically trained musicians, sent him to music school in his home town of Sint-Joris-Winge when he was eight years old. Later, he studied in New York at the Aaron Copland School of Music with support of the Belgian American Educational Foundation. Roeland’s approach on the guitar can be described as guitar-oriented, dynamic and fluid, merging influences from jazz and different rock-and pop-genres into his own unique voice. On September 15 2023 his sextet, Ping O.D., will release its debut album. This formation features NYC veteran alto saxophonist John O’Gallagher – heard on numerous Juno and Grammy nominated/winning recordings – combines elements from the rich jazz tradition with harder guitar genres like progressive metal as well as math rock.
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Ursula Reicher, The Globular Cluster – Welcome To Dark Matter (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:44 minutes | 1,16 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © IAN Records
With “Welcome To Dark Matter“ I am delighted to present music I have written especially to combine my contemporary Big Band, “The Globular Cluster“, my award-winning “Void Quintet“ and me, Ursula Reicher, as a solo singer and pianist.
The main topic of these compositions is death and how we deal with the dying of people who are close to us. Thusly I have created a 9-piece concept album, intended to take the listener on a journey of reflection regarding their own lives. The first 8 compositions are based of The Phases of Grief from death researcher, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. Track 9 is my arrangement of a Ben Harper song. On “Welcome To Dark Matter“
I want to shed light on my different musical influences. Therefore it will be no traditional Jazz-Big Band album, rather, elements from Classical-Music and Rock music, as well as influences from Darkpop and Electronic Music will also appear.
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The David Tattersall Group – The David Tattersall Group (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 52:41 minutes | 573 MB | Genre: Rock, Singer-Songwriter
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Bella Union UK
Prolific songwriter and guitar virtuoso David Tattersall presents 11 new songs on themes of memory, dreams, loneliness and love, featuring nylon-string guitar improvisations in the vein of gypsy jazz legend Django Reinhardt. The David Tattersall Group are old friends who rehearsed together for months in a small, smoky, sweaty room, before recording the album on a huge red boat moored on the River Thames, all vintage microphones and wooden walls inside. Friendship is a vital part of the record’s magic. Stylistic influences include Ronnie Lane, after whom one song is named, and the nylon-string guitar work of Jonathan Richman and Willie Nelson. A pastoral mood prevails, with swells of melancholic violin and Spaghetti Western harmonica, backed by honky-tonk piano and the dry drum sounds of Neil Young’s Harvest period, while the golden voice of Holly Holden adds a touch of glamour to proceedings. David’s process includes much musical improvisation and stream-of-consciousness writing, but his end goal is to couple classic songwriting with the collective chemistry of musicians playing live in the studio. His lyric influences include Tom Verlaine, John Cooper Clarke and the New York School of Poets, particularly James Schuyler.
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Steve Goodman – Live ’69 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:03:13 minutes | 694 MB | Genre: Pop, Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Omnivore Recordings
Before Steve Goodman landed a record deal in 1971, and a few years before his classic “City Of New Orleans” became a modern folk standard, he was already a seasoned live performer throughout his hometown of Chicago and surrounding areas. His brilliant songwriting and musicianship, coupled with his engaging on-stage personality and distinctive performance style, made him a favorite of anyone who caught a live show.
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Sarah Aristidou – Thomas Larcher: The Living Mountain (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:51 minutes | 1012 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM New Series
Austrian composer Thomas Larcher’s new album features premiere recordings of three strongly contrasting works. The Times has hailed Larcher’s music as a world “of haunting landscapes and dreams, stylistically disparate but fused by the composer’s astonishing ear and quizzical attitude to traditional forms”, a description borne out by the compositions here. The Living Mountain, for soprano and ensemble, draws upon the memoir of the Scottish poet and nature writer Nan Shepherd. Unerzählt is an intimate song cycle for baritone and piano, deploying texts of German writer W.G. Sebald. And Ouroboros, named for the serpent of eternity, is a powerful piece for cello and chamber orchestra. Recorded in Munich and Weerberg in 2021 and 2022 and produced by Manfred Eicher, The Living Mountain is the fourth New Series album of Larcher’s compositions.
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Orkester Nord, Martin Wåhlberg – Duni: Le peintre amoureux de son modèle – Les deux chasseurs et la laitière (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:49:46 minutes | 1,93 GB | Genre: Classical, Opera
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Aparté
Do you know Duni? Martin Wåhlberg and Orkester Nord take you on a journey of discovery of the father of opéra-comique through two of his emblematic works: Les deux chasseurs et la laitière, and Le peintre amoureux de son modèle, recorded here for the first time.
Combining musical innovation and comic genius, these two ‘comédies mêlées d’ariettes’ were at the origin of the metamorphosis of the light genre, which led directly to Mozart and the singspiel.
Duni displayed a wealth of theatricality and an art of ‘quiproquo’ (misunderstanding), as in Alberti’s aria Chère Laurette (Le peintre amoureux de son modèle) or the superb final quartet Ainsi le sort from Les Deux chasseurs et la laitière.
Martin Wåhlberg and Orkester Nord, who had already highlighted Mozart’s debt to Grétry, continue their fascinating lyrical epic through the treasures of French opera, fully embracing its revolutionary spirit and dramatic force.
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The Opium Cartel – Valor (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 44:40 minutes | 901 MB | Genre: Progressive Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Apollon Records
Pre-order for the forthcoming The Opium Cartel album Valor, out on Apollon Records June 5th. Pre-order here and get a signed copy ahead of official release date. This one comes with colored (red) vinyl.
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The October Trio – Looks Like It’s Going To Snow (2009)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:00:31 minutes | 1,07 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Songlines
Veteran trumpeter Brad Turner teams up with award-winning ensemble The October Trio for this 2009 album consisting of compositions written specifically for the augmented lineup. As good as the trio is on its own, there’s a fine synergy at work here based on mutual admiration and a shared aesthetic, a finely-honed approach that gives equal consideration to individual storytelling and four-way conversations and a more expansive, cinematic approach.
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The 24-Carat Black – Ghetto: Misfortune’s Wealth (1973/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 57:26 minutes | 2,13 GB | Genre: Funk, Soul
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Stax
A one-off concept album that’s a big fat Soul-R&B gem: Craft Recordings will reissue the definitive version of one of the most ambitious, groundbreaking records in the Stax catalog: The 24-Carat Black Ghetto: Misfortune’s Wealth. Composed, arranged, and produced almost entirely by longtime Isaac Hayes collaborator Dale Warren, the album draws marked comparisons to the lush, transformative arrangements penned by Warren for the seminal trio of Hayes albums, Hot Buttered Soul, The Isaac Hayes Movement, and …To Be Continued. Often cited as one of the first concept albums in the soul, funk and R&B genres at a time when such boldly artistic statements were reserved for progressive rock bands like Pink Floyd, this ‘soul opera,’ featuring just eight tracks, is an entrancing mixture of lush, orchestral soul ballads and Blaxploitation-era funk grooves, split into vignettes dealing with aspects of everyday life in some of America’s poorest areas. Its unique blend of immaculately arranged grooves and socially conscious narrative launched the album into cult-classic status among DJs and producers who have sampled it for tracks, most recently by Kendrick Lamar, Jay Z, Digable Planets, Dr. Dre, and many others.
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Thanya Iyer – KIND (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 42:00 minutes | 467 MB | Genre: Indie
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Topshelf Records
Crucial questions around healing, cultural identity, and disability are among the many subjects visited by Thanya Iyer’s sophomore album, KIND. Although represented by a concise title, KIND explores an expansive universe where Iyer and her band examine interpersonal relationships, ideas of home and destination, and our collective responsibilities to one another. To aid in this journey of big, difficult questions, Iyer enlists the help of a huge cast of musicians, with guest features ranging from brass trios, vocal sextets, flautists, and harpists.
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