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Matt Berninger – Serpentine Prison (Deluxe Edition) (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]
Matt Berninger – Serpentine Prison (Deluxe Edition) (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:04:15 minutes | 697 MB | Genre: Soft Rock, Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Concord Records
Matt Berninger of The National released his debut solo album, Serpentine Prison, last October via Book, Berninger’s new imprint with Concord. Now he has announced a new deluxe edition of the album that includes six bonus tracks (four covers and two originals) and shared one of those extra tracks, “Let It Be,” which is an original song and not a Beatles cover. The covers will be of songs by Eddie Floyd, Morphine, Bettye Swan, and The Velvet Underground. The deluxe edition is due out digitally March 12. Listen to “Let It Be” below, via a lyric video for the song.
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Matt Berninger – Serpentine Prison (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 41:37 minutes | 445 MB | Genre: Soft Rock, Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Concord Records
A band is like a couple, the secret to a long-lasting relationship is to how to reserve time for yourself. Such is the case with American band The National who have been together for 20 years. Here, their singer, Matt Berninger, has undergone his first project outside the band, but he is not alone. Tens of musicians have participated in Serpentine Prison including Gail Ann Dorsey (Bowie’s loyal former bassist among others), Mickey Raphael (Willie Nelson’s lucky harmonicist), Andrew Bird, as well as even three members of The National. The album is produced by the legendary Booker T. Jones, who also contributes on the keys. This star-studded line-up have created a modest work in contrast to the blockbuster album you might expect. Less rock-oriented than with The National, Berninger toes the line between acoustic and the genre the Americans and Brits would refer to as “singer-songwriter”, a strain of folk and country where the lyrics are as important as the music itself. With its American style, the album sounds like the soundtrack to a night-time road trip with moments of ecstasy, reverie and even weariness. With his deep vocals and elegantly minimalistic accompaniments (piano, guitars, light brass sections), Matt Berninger confidently blends traces of crooners like Nick Cave and Leonard Cohen. Pleasantly produced, Serpentine Prison plunges the listener into the delights of a dreamy autumn scene. A trip into the depths America that only music can make reachable. – Stéphane Deschamps
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Mats Lidström, Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra & Vladimir Ashkenazy – Lidström: Rigoletto Fantasy – Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 1 (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:02 minutes | 1,08 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BIS
Vladimir Ashkenazy and Mats Lidström began their collaboration in London in the 1980s, during Ashkenazy’s tenure at the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra where Lidström was principal cellist. They have since appeared together in concert as well as on recordings, including a recording of concertos by Kabalevsky and Khachaturian on BIS. They are here reunited, in front of the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra, in a performance of what has become a true modern classic: Dmitri Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 1. The concerto was composed in 1959, during the so-called Khruschev Thaw, but even though Soviet censorship and repression had relaxed somewhat following the death of Stalin, the approval from the mighty Composer’s Union was still needed before any public performances could take place. When the concerto was performed before the Union’s committee, Vladimir Ashkenazy – then in his early twenties – was present and has recounted how nervous and uncomfortable Shostakovich appeared while observing the reactions of the committee. The release opens with Mats Lidström’s own Rigoletto Fantasy, based on Verdi’s opera. Inspired by virtuosic violin pieces such Sarasate’s Carmen Fantasy, and with professional experience from the orchestra pit of the Royal Swedish Opera, Lidström has selected a string of highlights from Rigoletto, including of course the Duke’s La donna è mobile and Gilda’s Caro nome, joining them together in a virtuosic, dramatic and moving narrative.
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Mats Eilertsen – Rubicon (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 54:30 minutes | 1,04 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM
Norwegian bassist Mats Eilertsen has been a strong and supportive presence on a dozen ECM sessions to date. With Rubicon he steps forward to present his own music, with an international cast. The album features compositions originally written in response to a commission from the Vossajazz Festival. All About Jazz reviewed the premiere performance: “Rubicon proved to be a very dynamic work. Eilertsen ensured that each of the instrumentalists took their share of the spotlight, brought together combinations of players that emphasized tonal variation, and created ensemble sections bursting with life.” After fine-tuning the material on tour, Mats brought his septet to Oslo’s Rainbow Studio, where Manfred Eicher produced this definitive version of Rubicon in May 2015.
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Mats Eilertsen – And Then Comes The Night (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 47:34 minutes | 831 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM
His double bass has often featured on albums by artists such as Tord Gustavsen, Trygve Seim, Mathias Eick and Jakob Young. But Mats Eilertsen has always kept some time free for his own projects. With Harmen Fraanje on piano and Thomas Strønen on drums, the Norwegian double bass player has once again unveiled his understated poetry on this superb record And Then Comes The Night, the third album by the ten-year-old trio. Following Sails Set (2013), which was released on the brilliant label Hubro, this record was recorded in Lugano in May 2018 and reveals a group who are at the height of their complicity. Fans of producer Manfred Eicher will find all the ingredients of ECM works here, especially since the group come from Scandinavia, but the trio still manage to add a fresh twist to the recipe. And Then Comes The Night is not just your umpteenth album in the dense ECM catalogue. Eilertsen and his accomplices give pride of place to their improvisations. And by sticking relatively closely to the melodic framework, they achieve a tone and a sound of their own. – Marc Zisman
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Matmatah – Plates coutures (Édition deluxe) (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:59:36 minutes | 1,33 GB | Genre: French Pop, Chanson, Folk Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © La Ouache Production
Le duo de guitaristes de pub les Tricard Twins (Tristan Nihouarn et Cédric Floc’h) devient Matmatah lorsqu’il rencontre le bassiste Eri Digaire et le batteur Jean-François Paillard et se rebaptise d’après la ville tunisienne de Matmata où Nihouarn a passé une partie de sa jeunesse. Leur premier album, La Ouaceh, s’écoule à près de 300 000 exemplaires, et le groupe passe les deux années consécutives en tournée. Le groupe est médiatisé à l’occasion d’une affaire de narcotiques, mais cette publicité ne joue pas en faveur de son second album, dont les ventes restent modestes. Matmatah passe la plus grande partie de 2004 en Asie où ils font une tournée, avant de revenir en 2007 avec l’album La Cerise.
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Matisyahu – Undercurrent (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:44 minutes | 1,40 GB | Genre: Electronic, Hip-Hop, Reggae, Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Fallen Sparks – Thirty Tigers
Singer-songwriter Matisyahu has been on a journey inward for more than a decade. The journey has been private and public. Now, nearly thirteen years after the release of his first studio record, Matisyahu and his band have done something unmatched in his past repertoire; they have crafted that journey into a musically thematic eight-song-movement. The band features longtime guitarist Aaron Dugan, Dub Trio’s bassist and drummer Stu Brooks and Joe Tomino, and keyboard virtuoso BigYuki – and the journey starts with them. The band improvised for hours in the studio with Matisyahu watching on as an admirer without singing a single lyric. Out of the improvisations grew melodic themes, rhythmic peaks and valleys, blissful and proto-song guitar passages, deep dub meditations and ultimately an inspired instrumental record unto itself. Only once the band had crafted this musical narrative, did Matisyahu begin to work on a lyrical narrative of his own – a lyrical narrative that is simultaneously informed and integrated with the music yet driven by Matisyahu’s own personal journey. The result is Undercurrent, Matisyahu’s sixth studio album. There are no post-production bells and whistles, excessive overdub distractions, or litany of special guests on Undercurrent.
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Matija Dedic – Influences (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 53:02 minutes | 601 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alliance Records
For many professional musicians, often a moment in time or an influential person that sets the path for one to take a leap into the long desire and urge to take their craft as serious as need to be to become that musician they so desire. For Croatian pianist Matija Dedic, that moment, that person was his father, Arsen Dedic. It was Arsen’s influence and encouragement that made Matija take that step and it was his gift of a recording of Keith Jarrett’s Koln Concert that put Matija on the path to creative and jazz music. And so it makes perfect sense that after the passing of Arsen, Matija would set out to dedicate a very special set of tunes to the memory of his father. This album, Dedicated, is just that; a dedication to Matija’s father who had recently passed and in turn, inspired this collection of music to remember his father and the importance he played in his life, career, and motivation to be here now-in the now as displayed by his mastery of the piano and the music created in his body and soul.
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Emel – Everywhere We Looked Was Burning (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 45:18 minutes | 494 MB | Genre: Folk, Alternetive Rock, Experimental
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Partisan Records
Tunisian-born / New York-based experimental singer Emel Mathlouthi releases her new album Everywhere We Looked Was Burning via Partisan Records. For the first time, Emel sings almost entirely in English after previously only recording a handful of tracks in the language. The choice was informed by settling in New York with her family, discovering the “essential imagery” of poets Rainer Maria Rilke, T.S. Elliot, and John Ashbury, and “thinking back to how music in English was so important to me growing up.” She initially rented a house in Woodstock, NY and set off to “write about nature as well as the beauty and struggle of these times.”
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Mathilde Milwidsky – Zimmermann: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1-3 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:24:34 minutes | 1,46 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Toccata Classics
Born in Cologne, Agnes Zimmermann (1847–1925) settled in London as a child. She made her concert debut in 1863, playing the ‘Emperor’ Concerto, and was soon celebrated as one of Europe’s more important pianists, her partners in chamber music including Clara Schumann, Joseph Joachim, Alfredo Piatti and Wilma Neruda, Lady Hallé. She enjoyed a reputation also as teacher, music editor and composer. At the centre of her modest output of compositions are three substantial Violin Sonatas. Dramatic and lyrical by turn, and always beautifully crafted, they lie somewhere between Mendelssohn and Brahms, but demonstrate an impressively personal musical voice.
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Mathilde Grooss Viddal – Notre Dame – Meditations and Prayers (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 46:45 minutes | 905 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Losen Records
Listening to Mathilde Grooss Viddal’s Meditations and Prayers, the listener may well feel there is a timeless quality to the music. The majority of the tracks are entitled “Reflection” and “Psalm,” and these two dimensions come together on “Reflection V – Psalm 3.
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Mathieu Lussier & Francis Perron – Le monde d’hier (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:41 minutes | 1,23 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ATMA Classique
In Le monde d’hier, bassonist Mathieu Lussier and pianist Francis Perron explore French and English repertoire for bassoon written at beginning of the 20th century.
The composers recorded here, including Elgar, Gounod, Massenet, and Saint-Saëns, fully embraced the Romantic movement of their era. Gabriel Pierné’s almost jazzy Solo de concert rubs shoulders with the noble and introspective Romance by Edward Elgar. Lussier has also chosen grand sonatas by Camille Saint-Saëns and William Hurlstone, as well as smaller works and short vignettes by Herbert Howells, Eugène Bourdeau, Charles Gounod, Jules Massenet, and Philippe Gaubert.
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Mathieu Lamboley – Minuscule: Mandibles from Far Away (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 59:17 minutes | 608 MB | Genre: Soundtrack
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Music Box – Futurikon
In collaboration with Futurikon Films, Music Box Records proudly presents on CD the original motion picture soundtrack of the animated film Minuscule: Mandibles from Far Away (2019) composed, orchestrated and conducted by Mathieu Lamboley (Return of the Hero, Boule & Bill 2). Minuscule: Mandibles from Far Away (in French theaters in January 30, 2019), co-written and directed by Hélène Giraud and Thomas Szabo, shares the same creative universe as the successful Minuscule series created in 2006. The first feature film titled Minuscule: Valley of the Lost Ants (2014) was a huge hit in France and won the France’s César Award for Best Animated Feature Film at the 40th César Awards.
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Mathieu Herzog, Ensemble Appassionato – Mozart: Les trois dernières symphonies (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:25:35 minutes | 1,60 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © naïve classique
Naïve is particularly proud to release the first recording from the orchestra recently founded by conductor Mathieu Herzog: Ensemble Appassionato. A favourite composer for the orchestra, who other than Mozart to bear witness to the recording debut from this ensemble? An ensemble born under the most auspicious circumstances, full of members from France’s major string quartets. The last three symphonies, a triptych as monumental as it is mysterious – we know almost nothing about the circumstances surrounding their composition – are probably the works that best symbolise the projects thus far of Mathieu Herzog and the Ensemble Appassionato. Their fresh vision, modern and chamber-like, plus a multitude of eclectic repertoire. A vision galvanised by the desire to share music with everyone. Listening to this recording nourished with as much passion and ambition as respect and humility, a more human and personified Mozart appears before us, more luminous than ever. Clear timbres, instrumental cohesion, balance, well-rounded characters, full-bodied tempi … Mathieu Herzog demonstrates here a vision and an inherent know-how, placing him immediately in the pantheon of great conductors.
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Mathieu Gaudet – Schubert: The Complete Sonatas and Major Piano Works, Volume 4 – Explorations (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:08 minutes | 1,10 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Groupe Analekta, Inc
Since his first performances in Asia and the release of his first solo album in 2008, pianist Mathieu Gaudet has quickly established himself on the Canadian scene as a complete artist hailed for the passion and intelligence of his musical approach.
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