Roger Glenn – Reachin’ (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Roger Glenn – Reachin’ (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 38:32 minutes | 1,41 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Craft Recordings

Sought-after jazz funk rarity from reed-master Roger Glen. Produced by the Mizell brothers and featuring Bill Summers and Paul Jackson from the Headhunters.

A great lost chapter in the Larry Mizell story – a record that’s not nearly as well known as Mizell-produced jams for Bobbi Humphrey or Johnny Hammond, but which is every bit as great! Roger Glenn’s a funky flute player with a really great groove – California groovy, with just a touch of Latin – served up here with some great Mizell-infused touches – that rolling rhythm on the bottom, soaring instrumentation on the top, and some great Latin elements that are wrapped up warmly in the fusion! There’s plenty of great keyboards, too – played both by Larry Mizell, and also by Mark Soskin – a range of Fender Rhodes, Arp, mini-moog, and more – all adding in the right sort of warmth to Roger’s flute, and the album’s rich array of percussion. Titles include “Kick”, “Reachin”, “Rio”, “Gloria”, “Overtime”, and “Don’t Leave”.

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Roger Eno, Brian Eno – Mixing Colours (Expanded) (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Roger Eno, Brian Eno – Mixing Colours (Expanded) (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:43:41 minutes | 778 MB | Genre: Electronic
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

The Eno brothers (Brian and Roger) will release a deluxe digital version of their collaborative LP Mixing Colours, which debuted this past March. Wednesday, they dropped the video for “Manganese.”

The expanded edition, out July 17th, includes six new tracks along with “Pewter,” previously only issued as a bonus track in Japan. The new song titles are color-based as well: “Moss,” “Violet,” “Vermilion,” “Marble” and “Malachite.” A 12″ EP, Luminous, containing all seven of the new tracks, will be available on August 14th; a special version with a sun yellow vinyl copy will be released exclusively to smaller music retailers in an effort to support them during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Roger Eno & Brian Eno – Mixing Colours (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Roger Eno & Brian Eno – Mixing Colours (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:15:15 minutes | 534 MB | Genre: Electronic
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

Roger Eno and Brian Eno – together and individually among the foremost innovators in experimental ambient music – will release this album on Deutsche Grammophon. Brian and Roger Eno have revolutionized many concepts of music production and performance, from pioneering treatments of pop music by Brian Eno to younger brother Roger Eno’s ambient synth/piano recordings reminiscent of Erik Satie.

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Roger Daltrey – As Long As I Have You (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Roger Daltrey – As Long As I Have You (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 37:23 minutes | 802 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Polydor Records

Legendary frontman of The Who, Roger Daltrey returns with his 9th solo album ‘As Long As I Have You’. The album produced by Dave Eringa, best known for his work with the Manic Street Preachers and on Roger and Wilko Johnson’s album ‘Going Back Home’ and features Pete Townshend’s inimitable guitar on 7 tracks as well as guest performances from Mick Talbot on keyboards (Dexys, The Style Council) and Sean Genockey on lead guitar who has worked with Suede, Shame and The Proclaimers).

Work on ‘As Long As I Have You’ was started shortly after the top 5 gold selling ‘Going Back Home’ was released and continued during breaks on The Who’s record breaking 50th anniversary tour ‘The Who Hits 50’.

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Roger Cicero – The English Album (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Roger Cicero – The English Album (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 47:48 minutes | 548 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Music

After the releases of his debut album Mannnersachen (2006) and the following album respectively (2007) Roger Cicero was honored as an artist and musician who succeeded in getting a really wide audience enthusiastic about jazz.

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Roger Cicero – Glück ist leicht: Das Beste von 2006-2016 (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Roger Cicero – Glück ist leicht: Das Beste von 2006-2016 (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:50:03 minutes | 1,26 GB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA Deutschland

Roger Marcel Cicero Ciceu (6 July 1970 – 24 March 2016) was a German jazz and pop musician. He is interpreted the sound and spirit of the swing era for contemporary audiences, upholding the family traditions established by his father, renowned jazz pianist Eugene Cicero. In 2003 he founded the Roger Cicero Quartet as well as an 11-member big band, both of them adherents to traditional jazz idioms but with lyrics in their leader’s native German tongue. After releasing the 2006 album Good Morning Midnight in collaboration with pianist Julia Hülsmann, Cicero issued his solo debut, Männersachen, later that same year… This “Best Of” compilation includes the studio and live tracks recorded beetween 2006-2016.

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Roger Chapman – Life in the Pond (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Roger Chapman – Life in the Pond (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 50:12 minutes | 619 MB | Genre: Blues Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ruf Records GmbH

A studio album by Roger Chapman is always an event. Since ’66, when the British singer-songwriter emerged as the voice of his generation with the seminal Family band, through every twist of his four-decade solo career, Chappo’s output has defied music industry protocol, challenged genre, and held up a mirror to the times. “I’ve never stopped writing,” he reflects, “and with Life In The Pond, I felt the need to hear what I’d put down in music.”

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Roel Dieltiens & Orchestra of the 18th Century – C.P.E. Bach: Cello Concertos (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Roel Dieltiens & Orchestra of the 18th Century – C.P.E. Bach: Cello Concertos (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:14:07 minutes | 1,34 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Glossa

In the 18th Century, the cello concerto was still a fairly new genre and Boccherini and Haydn had not yet written their contributions at the point when C.P.E. Bach completed his, the three concertos written between 1750 and 1753.

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Hans-Joachim Roedelius & Arnold Kasar – Einfluss (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Hans-Joachim Roedelius & Arnold Kasar – Einfluss (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:16:28 minutes | 735 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

With delicate piano themes and atmospheric electronic sounds, Hans-Joachim Roedelius & Arnold Kasar develop a unique chemistry. The fact that they are part of different generations of musicians is one of the reasons for the uniqueness and the magic of their encounter.

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Rodriguez – Cold Fact (1970/2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Rodriguez – Cold Fact (1970/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 32:20 minutes | 369 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sussex Records

First official reissue and mastered from the original tapes, “Cold Fact” is one of the lost classics of the ’60s, a psychedelic masterpiece drenched in colour and inspired by life, love, poverty, rebellion, and, of course, “jumpers, coke, sweet mary jane”, co-produced by BEASTIE BOYS/MOS DEF sample heavy guitarist Dennis Coffey and featuring legendary Motown players THE FUNK BROS. Some songs of this album were covered by Paolo Nutini & David Holmes. This reissue comes in a deluxe Digipak includes 36-pg booklet feat. unseen photos, archival material, and new notes including interviews with RODRIGUEZ, the maker of “Cold Fact”. RODRIGUEZ is considered a shadowy figure because he was, for many years, lost too. A decade ago, he was rediscovered working on a Detroit building site, unaware that his defining album had become not only a cult classic, but for the people of South…

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Rodrigo y Gabriela – Mettavolution (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Rodrigo y Gabriela – Mettavolution (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 41:14 minutes | 482 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited

Five years since their last album, Mexican acoustic rock guitar duo Rodrigo y Gabriela are ready to embark on the next chapter of their remarkable story, with the release of the most ambitious music of their twenty year career together. Entitled ‘Mettavolution’, the new album brings together Rod and Gab’s passionate interest in Buddhism, the history of human evolution and the liberation of the potential we have as a species; all expressed through the medium of two acoustic guitars.A white-hot side one that acknowledges the duo’s thrash-metal roots back in Mexico City gives way to an incredible new arrangement of Pink Floyd’s ‘Echoes’, inspiringly reimagined for two acoustic guitars, which takes up the whole of the second half of ‘Mettavolution’. Long-time Floyd fans (the title track of 2009’s ’11:11′ album was dedicated to the band) Rodrigo y Gabriela lovingly pay homage to the ‘Meddle’ era prog-classic, while at the same time weaving their own golden threads into its timeless textures, to create something exciting, contemporary and unforgettable.Recorded in Los Angeles with noted producer Dave Sardy, best-known for his work with Oasis, LCD Soundsystem, A Perfect Circle and Fall Out Boy, ‘Mettavolution’ is Rodrigo y Gabriela reborn, reaching for a higher state of consciousness, pushing themselves as writers, interpreters and players, and challenging us the listener to absorb, engage and respond to them.

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Rodrigo Amarante – Drama (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Rodrigo Amarante – Drama (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 41:38 minutes | 783 MB | Genre: Psychedelic Folk, Folk Rock, Latin
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Polyvinyl Records

You may know Rodrigo Amarante already. You may have heard “Tuyo,” his theme tune to the Netflix drama Narcos, or the Little Joy album, recorded with Fab Moretti and Binki Shapiro, you might have noted his name among the credits on songs by Gal Costa, Norah Jones and Gilberto Gil; or perhaps you saw him play live with Brazilian samba big band Orquestra Imperial, or with Rio rockers Los Hermanos; you really should have heard his debut album, Cavalo, released in 2014. You may think you know Rodrigo Amarante already, but Drama, his second solo album, is going to introduce a whole new level of confusion to the mix.

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Rodrigo Amado & Chris Corsano – No Place To Fall (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Rodrigo Amado & Chris Corsano – No Place To Fall (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 48:55 minutes | 570 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Monofonus Press/Astral Spirits

“At a certain point, there is only good and ‘gooder’” — Bill Dixon

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Rodrigo Almonte – Distancia (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Rodrigo Almonte – Distancia (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 56:49 minutes | 1,02 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Odradek Records

How far do you need to go to experience music more intimately? In what direction should you embark on a musical journey? I can’t think of a straight and universal answer to these questions, but I know that beautiful and enticing music comes from a plethora of experiences, a creative journal nurtured by different cultures, moments in time, places in this world.

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Narciso Yepes, Philharmonia Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, Luis Antonio García Navarro – Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez; Fantasía para un gentilhombre (1985/2010) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Narciso Yepes, Philharmonia Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, Luis Antonio García Navarro – Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez; Fantasía para un gentilhombre (1985/2010)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 44:24 minutes | 805 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

This programme dedicated to Joaquín Rodrigo includes a pair of his landmark works, recorded in the late 1970s by Spanish 10-string guitarist Narciso Yepes working with two different orchestras led by García Navarro. The Fantasía is a 1978 performance from the English Chamber Orchestra while the Concierto de Aranjuez is from a 1979 recording with the Philharmonia Orchestra. Both orchestras bring out the best in Rodrigo’s music, with its astounding ability to evoke feelings and visualizations of rural Spain and its romantic past.

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