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Martin Taylor – Change of Heart (1991)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 48:41 minutes | 951 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Linn Records
Martin Taylor’s star rose considerably during the 1990s with a flurry of recording activity as a leader, especially dates such this one from the series he did for the Scottish label Linn. With a rhythm section of pianist David Newton, bassist Brian Shiels, and drummer John Rae, the guitarist’s program is wide-ranging and has some surprises. Taylor wrote a pair of originals: The opener, “73 Berkeley Street,” at first gives the impression of being a groove tune until the quartet launches into a brisk bop setting, and his “Angel’s Camp” has a rhythm & blues flavor with a touch of gospel. Country great Eddy Arnold’s “You Don’t Know Me” has been covered by a few jazz musicians, but Taylor’s bluesy guitar and Newton’s soulful piano make this extended performance a treat. Taylor overdubbed a second guitar on his otherwise unaccompanied treatment of Ike Isaacs’ snappy “After Hours,” and he’s truly solo on a soft lyrical take of Hoagy Carmichael’s timeless “I Get Along Without You Very Well.”
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Martin Stürtzer – Dyson Sphere Alpha (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 02:36:10 minutes | 1,49 GB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Echo Elberfeld
Through our pandemic era Martin Sturtzer has transformed his home studio into a sanctuary. His Dyson Sphere Alpha (156:10) collects six tracks worth of live streamed sets from an ambitious schedule of Sunday evening performances. Across this outsized collection the atmosphere is wordless, but not thoughtless. As meaning crystalizes in the trembling air, the clean strike of high notes makes for an easier upward reach of the mind – toward a deeper interpretation of the spirit. All these recordings of live realizations begin in a contemplative nature. A few stay in this zone throughout their duration, but from most emerge lines of ordered notes, exerting a serene, secure authority. Haunting and time bending the warmth of rapt noble toned synthesizer patches ascends like incense. As the energy level of each set rises, so does the appeal of Strutzer’s selections. Clinging tightly to Berlin-School sources a melodic backbone may be located in the prevalent sequencer engine. Coming fully to life these insistent patterns provide an aural energy in the language of electricity. The structure is more spiral than linear. Circling around core chords in ever tightening loops, Sturtzer disappears into the performance. But perhaps more interesting are the dark tones at the edge of these works. The shifting shapes and expressive shades of sound portend the vast scale of an unknown expanse ahead. The prevailing mood, which is enigmatic, is yet reassuring. Here we may watch the darkness until the darkness leaves us, or we leave it. Some enjoy this kind of music as a means of wandering the cosmos in a daze, to keep the realization of existence at arm’s length – while the more adventurous among us use it to better understand their deeper self. In his meditations on enchantment Martin Sturtzer inspirits us. As sure as twilight will follow these fading sonic shadows, the electric night concedes the healing of fractured minds, and the knowing of wounded souls. So plug in the synths, dim the lights, and breathe deep… for when it is time for a concert, it is time to dream of a better world.
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Martina Rudić, Michele Gamba – Correspondences (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:45 minutes | 1,07 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Stradivarius
“The idea of this album came to us during the first Covid-19 lockdown in March 2020. Martina and I share a deep enthusiasm for new music and we are always eager to find the common roots of composers who have been a constant part of our development as musicians, going right back to our school years. What have Berio and Boulez in common with Bach? Firstly, polyphony. The Bach Sonatas, played here on piano and cello, are in fact “Sonate a 3″, in which the use of different timbres and rhythms goes along with the Bach’s mastery of counterpoint and the sheer inventiveness of the musical motifs. We find that these elements of the composer’s creativity are also very present in the music of Berio and Boulez. In Berio’s Sequenza for cello, the exploration of the idea of polyphony on a monodic instrument, the variety of atmosphere and the pure technical virtuosity find their roots in Bach’s music. Boulez, with his Douze Notations for piano, pays a huge debt to the old German tradition of counterpoint, filtered through the twelvetone system of Schönberg. Boulez clearly stated that he wanted to make fun of the Second Viennese School, and yet the character of each piece and the virtuosity of each tiny nuance recall Bach’s heritage, in particular his rhythmic precision and the effective way that the different ‘voices’ can be heard. These ideas have encouraged us to offer listeners some fascinating parallels between centuries which can seem so far from one another. We hope that re-building these bridges in our own time might help to maintain dialogues and echoes of the history of our common cultural patrimony.” (Michele Gamba and Martina Rudic)
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Martha Argerich – Brahms: Klavierquartett, Op.25 / Schumann: Fantasiestücke, Op.88 (2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:26 minutes | 1,09 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
Even after playing it in concert together the previous summer, Argerich, Kremer, Bashmet, and Maisky still spent five days in Berlin recording Brahms’ Piano Quartet in G minor. They spent a Saturday in late February 2003 tuning up and the next four days recording, one day for each movement. On top of that, they practiced every morning back in their hotels. And this is Martha Argerich, Gidon Kremer, Yuri Bashmet, and Mischa Maisky here: not only arguably the four greatest living virtuosos on their instruments, but friends who’ve been playing chamber music together for decades. How could they have spent six hours recording the opening Allegro? How could they have spent any less? Considering that Argerich, Kremer, Bashmet, and Maisky are also four of the most highly individualistic and idiosyncratic performers in the history of classical music, they probably took five-and-three-quarter hours just working the kinks out. But the results are absolutely worth it: despite all their arduous work, Argerich, Kremer, Bashmet, and Maisky play with unrelenting recklessness, taking musical, dramatic, and — most of all — emotional chances few other performers would dare take. Rhythms, tempos, dynamics, phrasing, form, and every note are all infused with their individual and collective technical and interpretive virtuosity. While their performance may be too exciting to listen to every day, it is nevertheless one of the two or three greatest performances of Brahms’ Piano Quartet in G minor ever recorded. Deutsche Grammophon’s sound is right there in the room with you.
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Marlena Shaw – Marlena (1972/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 40:51 minutes | 1,60 GB | Genre: Jazz, Soul
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © CM BLUE NOTE A92
Marlena is an album by American vocalist Marlena Shaw recorded in 1972 and released on the Blue Note label. The album was Shaw’s third release and her first for the Blue Note label.
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Markus Stockhausen, Arild Andersen, Vangelis Katsoulis – Across Mountains (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 55:18 minutes | 500 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © O-tone
Markus Stockhausen, Vangelis Katsoulis and Arild Andersen will release their new album ACROSS MOUNTAINS on February 4th, 2022 at o-tone music/Edel Kultur. German trumpeter Markus Stockhausen, Greek pianist Vangelis Katsoulis and Norwegian bassist Arild Andersen have known each other since 1996 when they met at a concert in Athens. ACROSS MOUNTAINS was founded in a time when traveling and concerts were impossible.
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Mark Lockheart – Dreamers (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 53:48 minutes | 1014 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Edition Records
Dreamers is the new project from the legendary British saxophonist and composer Mark Lockheart featuring Elliot Galvin (Dinosaur, Elliot Galvin Trio), Tom Herbert (Polar Bear, The Invisible) and Dave Smith (Robert Plant). Stylistically free and psychedelic in nature, the release of Dreamers signals a new trajectory for the musician who has already featured on a wide ranging and diverse catalogue of albums including Radiohead’s Kid A. As a founding member of Loose Tubes and Polar Bear, Mark Lockheart has always remained ahead of the curve and has constantly explored new directions in his own music. Dreamers epitomises this adaptation and evolution, allowing the music to speak beyond the boundaries of genre and predictability. Mark has created an album which is direct and unpretentious but also surprising and unexpected.
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Mark Isham – Blacklight (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:07:21 minutes | 688 MB | Genre: Soundtracks
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © 3654278 Records DK
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack from the action film Blacklight (2022). The original music is composed by Mark Isham (The Hitcher, Judas and the Black Messiah, The Nevers).
Blacklight is a 2022 American action thriller film written by Nick May and Mark Williams, directed by Mark Williams. The film stars Liam Neeson, Aidan Quinn, Taylor John Smith, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Yael Stone, Claire van der Boom, Zac Lemons, Andrew Shaw, Gabriella Sengos, Georgia Flood, Caroline Brazier, Tim Draxl, and Mel Jarnson.
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Marko Komonko – Hermann: Complete Surviving Music, Vol. 2 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 49:49 minutes | 882 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Toccata Classics
Pál Hermann, born in Budapest in 1902, was not only one of the leading cellists of his generation; he was also an important composer, one of the major figures in Hungarian music in the generation after his teachers Bartók and Kodály. But since only two of his works were published before his early death – in 1944, at the hands of the Nazis – and many more of them were lost, he has not had the esteem that he deserves. The works on this second volume of his surviving compositions – here mostly chamber works for strings, several in their first recordings – have the wiry humour, sprung and spiky rhythms and Hungarian melos that mark him out as a worthy successor to Bartók – and hints at how much was lost with his murder.
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Marius Neset – MANMADE (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:36 minutes | 1,14 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Chandos
The Norwegian saxophonist and composer Marius Neset (*1985) can look back on countless nominations and awards for his performances and recordings. Together with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra under Edward Gardner, CHANDOS presents the Norwegian here with four first recordings of his extremely worth listening works, in which he also participates as a soloist in three of them.
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Marina – Ancient Dreams In A Modern Land (2021/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 52:43 minutes | 1,09 GB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Atlantic Records
MARINA has announced an extended deluxe edition of their current album “Ancient Dreams In A Modern Land”, which will be released on January 7th and will contain three new songs as well as two previously unreleased demo versions of tracks from the album, which was released in June 2021. The three new songs are titled “Pink Convertible”, “Free Woman” and “Happy Loner”. It’s already available now and can be heard below. In terms of content, “Happy Loner” deals with the fact that sometimes you feel so much under pressure from social pressure that you just want to be alone: “I’m on the edge / And I feel like everything’s too much”.
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Marilyn Nonken – Syncopated Musings (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:56 minutes | 1,01 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Divine Art
Since the rediscovery of Scott Joplin’s ragtime genius in the 1970s his music has been an important part of the popular/light classical repertoire. Yet though he called himself with some justification “The King of Ragtime Writers” he was not a brilliant pianist; he was actually a trained violinist and cornet player and was lead singer of the Texas Medley Quartette. This wide experience helped to make his piano rags full of interest. All the same, most recordings concentrate on the most familiar works and ignore the many other superb pieces in Joplin’s substantial output. This new album from New York pianist Marilyn Nonken (Professor of Music at New York University’s Steinhardt School) includes some well-known works and some rarities. Rags, concert waltzes and other novelty pieces show brilliance and a well-honed craft.
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Marillion – Script for a Jester’s Tear (Deluxe Edition) (1983/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:50:31 minutes | 3,54 GB | Genre: Progressive Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino – Parlophone
At the time, Marillion’s remarkable, full-fledged 1983 debut Script for a Jester’s Tear was considered an odd bird: replete with Peter Gabriel face paint and lengthy, technical compositions, Marillion ushered in a new generation of prog rock that bound them forever to the heroics of early day Genesis. Intricate, complex, and theatrical almost to a fault, Script for a Jester’s Tear remains the band’s best and sets the bar for their later work. Filled with extraordinary songs that remained staples in the band’s live gigs, the album begins with the poignant title track, on which Fish leads his band of merry men on a brokenhearted tour de force that culminates with the singer decrying that “…the game is over.” “He Knows You Know,,” a song sprinkled with drug paranoia and guilt; as the song veers to its chorus, Fish announces, “Fast feed, crystal fever, swarming through a fractured mind.” If “The Web” hints at a grain of commercialism, “Garden Party” is a joyous anthem that showcases Marillion at the peak of its powers. Bogged down by some hilariously over-the-top British poetry, “Chelsea Monday” may be one of the album’s lesser moments (if there are any), but the magical “Forgotten Sons” concludes the opus magnificently. Luckily for Marillion fans, EMI released a remastered version of Script with two different versions of “Market Square Heroes,” “Three Boats Down from the Candy,” “Grendel,” “Chelsea Monday,” the demo of “He Knows You Know,” and an alternate track titled “Charting the Single.” A vital piece for any Marillion head and an essential work for any self-respecting first- or second-generation prog rock fan. – John Franck
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Title: Kasabian – Live! (Live at the O2)
Release Date: 2011/2012
Genre: Rock, indie rock, neo-psychedelia, electronica
Artist: Tom Meighan – lead vocals, tambourine, Sergio Pizzorno – guitar, backing vocals, keyboards & electronic programming, Chris Edwards – bass, Ian Matthews – drums, Jay Mehler – guitar
Production/Label: Eagle Rock Entertainment
Duration: 01:47:53
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: DTS, PCM
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 29027 kbps 1920*1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: English DTS-HD MA 5.1 / 48 kHz / 4746 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 768 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio#2: English LPCM 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Size: 35.77 GB
Filmed in high definition at London’s renowned O2 Arena on December 15th 2011, this is Kasabian’s first stand alone Blu-Ray release. The show came on the back of the band’s No.1 album Velociraptor! and the setlist combines tracks from that album with hits and classic album tracks from across their career so far. The concert was part of a sold out arena tour that covered the UK and Ireland at the end of last year. Kasabian are the recipients of numerous awards for Best Live Band and Best British Band in recent years and this new show with its spectacular and innovative staging will be a must have for their huge and dedicated fanbase.
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