Richard Hickox – Rubbra: Choral Works (2000/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 56:21 minutes | 536 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Chandos
Throughout his long composing career, Edmund Rubbra (1901–1986) had always been concerned with writing for voice. Indeed, his earliest acknowledged pieces were all vocal. His exquisite Christmas carol Dormi Jesu written for the Oxford Book of Christmas Carols in 1922 pointed the way to a whole series of wonderful works for choir which extends to his last composition, an unassuming setting of Psalm 122 (1984). Most of these choral works are unaccompanied and include five settings of the Mass, plus many motets and anthems. However, there is also a series of short cantata-like pieces, three of which are included on this album.
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Rich Ruth – I Survived, It’s Over (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 43:40 minutes | 470 MB | Genre: Spiritual Jazz, Fusion, Psychedelic
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Third Man Records LLC
2022 release from Nashville-based ambient composer Rich Ruth. Mixed by renowned Chicago producer/engineer John McEntire (Tortoise, The Sea and Cake, Stereolab), I Survived, It’s Over features “Taken Back,” in which sitar, shells, and bass are slowly joined by piercing lead guitar, synth blasts and drums as the track bursts open into psychedelic orbit. “I Survived, It’s Over is a meditation on healing, confronting trauma, surrendering, and finding peace,” Rich Ruth frontman Michael Ruth says. “I constantly experiment with sound until it reflects the way I am feeling and attempt to sculpt something meaningful from it.”
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Renaud Capuçon, Kit Armstrong – Mozart: Sonatas for Piano & Violin (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 04:57:55 minutes | 4,88 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
This 4-CD album of Mozart’s ’16 Sonatas for Violin and Piano’, played by Renaud Capuçon and Kit Armstrong, showcases the brilliance of the composer’s chamber music and mastery of both instruments. The sonatas have been central to this duo’s partnership since they made their debut together with the works at the 2016 Salzburg Mozartwoche.
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Rafael Ruibérriz de Torres Fernandéz, Isabel Goméz-Serranillos, Santiago Sampedro – Misón: The Five Sevillian Flute Sonatas (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 58:26 minutes | 656 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Brilliant Classics
Recent scholarship on Luis Misón (Mataró, 1727–Madrid, 1766) demonstrates the growing interest among the musicological community in studying the life and work of one who is an essential composer in the history of Spanish music. Musical historiography has extolled Misón’s contribution to the genre of the tonadilla escénica, a genre widely appreciated in his time and which must have had a notable influence on his instrumental music, about which less is known.
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Priori – Your Own Power (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 50:36 minutes | 559 MB | Genre: Electronic, Downtempo, Leftfield, Deep House, Ambient
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Courage Holdings Inc
Following on from the 2020 release of ‘On A Nimbus’, Priori returns with his second album ‘Your Own Power’ to be released on the 12th November via NAFF – the label he co-founded alongside Ex-Terrestrial.
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Pride Of Lions – Dream Higher (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 44:14 minutes | 578 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Frontiers Records s.r.l.
Pride of Lions, the revered melodic rock band featuring legendary songwriter and The Ides Of March member Jim Peterik together with powerhouse vocalist Toby Hitchcock, are back with their seventh studio album, “Dream Higher” on June 16, 2023. Once again, Peterik shows why he is a world class songwriter and musician on this new batch of stunning melodic rockers. And his partner in crime in Pride Of Lions, the talented Toby Hitchcock is in as fine a vocal form as he has ever been, belting out these songs with the authority and finesse that only he can.
Jim Peterik has never lost his verve for melodic rock, a style of music he inarguably helped forge. Pride Of Lions showcases everything that you should love about the genre: powerful vocals, thanks to Toby Hitchcock, and unforgettable melodies.
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Portugal. The Man – Chris Black Changed My Life (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 34:24 minutes | 423 MB | Genre: Indie Pop, Indie Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Atlantic Records
Chris Black Changed My Life is the follow-up to 2017’s Woodstock and dedicated to their late friend Chris Black, who sometimes acted as their hype man at shows. The album was produced by Jeff Bhasker, and some songs, including “Thunderdome [W.T.A],” “Summer of Luv,” “Time’s a Fantasy,” “Champ,” and “Anxiety:Clarity”.
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Pop Evil – Onyx 10th Anniversary Edition (2013/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 44:33 minutes | 548 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © MNRK Music
Who has not heard the band like me in the past or did not even know that they exist, will probably stumble quite rudely over the name, at least it happened to me so. The new longplayer Onyx introduced into the system, I have a bad feeling, just the fact that US boys call themselves Pop Evil, is a dangerous combination, which suggests horrible plastic sound, which poisons your middle ear.
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Piotr Schmidt – Hearsay (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 40:55 minutes | 442 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © SJRecords
“Hearsay” – this is the title of jazz trumpeter Piotr Schmidt’s sixteenth album. After Komeda Unknown 1967, which once again showed Schmidt to be a brilliant arranger, it was time to invite the listeners once again into the world of his original music. This time it is an emotional journey full of mystery and understatement.
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Piceno – Einunddreissigfünf (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 36:32 minutes | 377 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Galileo Music Communication
At thirty-one and five, the guitar duo Piceno presents itself to the world for the first time in the form of a sound carrier. Influenced by jazz, classical, pop and world music, the two musicians create their own world, which moves as light as a feather between concert sounds and driving grooves. The melange of original compositions, arrangements and interpretations is a reflection of the long-standing collaboration between Peter Groesdonk and Ben Enzon, which can no longer only be experienced live. The two musicians play their way through the world of the acoustic guitar on twelve strings, showing their full range and adding another piece to it.
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Phi-Psonics – Octava (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 40:15 minutes | 395 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Gondwana Records
Phi-Psonics is a meditative, deeply soulful, immersive instrumental group from Los Angeles, led by bassist Seth Ford-Young and featuring Sylvain Carton on woodwinds, Mitchell Yoshida on electric piano, and Josh Collazo on drums. Their beautiful music draws on jazz and classical influences together with Ford-Young’s own musical experiences, relationships, and his introduction to spirituality, yoga and philosophy at a young age. Along the way they create something uniquely their own, sharing beautiful landscapes for your spirit to roam freely within.
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Philippe Jaroussky – Il Boemo (Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:42:52 minutes | 1,01 GB | Genre: Classical, Soundtrack
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics
Countertenor Philippe Jaroussky, soprano Emöke Baráth, and a cast of other top-notch singers perform works by Josef Mysliveček on the album Il Boemo. Award-winning Czech director Petr Václav gathered the artists for his 2022 feature film Il Boemo (The Bohemian), which revolves around the life of the once-famous, now almost forgotten Bohemian composer. The album releases the soundtrack to the film.
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Petr Nohavica – Glance (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 47:50 minutes | 530 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Bivak Records
The album “Glance” of the talented drummer and composer contains Nohavic’s own compositions, influenced by African rhythms or Nordic jazz, capturing the joys and moments of life and trying to honestly tell a story that is hard to describe in words.
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Pet Shop Boys – SMASH – The Singles 1985 – 2020 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 03:39:50 minutes | 2,62 GB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino
The complete collection of their singles from across 35 years of the duo’s acclaimed career. The 6LP vinyl box set format includes all Pet Shop Boys’ hits starting with their debut single ‘West End girls’ and continuing through such iconic tracks as ‘Love Comes Quickly’, ‘It’s a Sin’, ‘Always on My Mind’, ‘Being Boring’, ‘Suburbia’, ‘Opportunities’, ‘What Have I Done to Deserve This?’, ‘Rent’ and ‘Heart’.
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