Lisa Simone – My World (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Lisa Simone – My World (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 41:59 minutes | 842 MB | Genre: Vocal Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sound Surveyor Music

Lisa Simone is her own woman, a singer, songwriter and performer whose ability to transcend genres echoes the tradition of her mother, musical icon and pioneer Nina Simone. Blessed with a rich vocal range and a soul-deep understanding of music as a means of healing, empowerment, and celebration, the singer/show-woman released her second jazz-tinged album ‘My World’ in 2016 for French publisher Sound Surveyor Music with upcoming concerts in Switzerland, Germany, and the United Kingdom.

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Lisa Simone – In Need of Love (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Lisa Simone – In Need of Love (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 43:39 minutes | 541 MB | Genre: Soul, Vocal Jazz, R&B
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Elektra France

Lisa Simon Kelly, known by her stage name Lisa Simon, is an American singer, composer and actress, known for her work on Broadway and beyond in such productions as La Boheme, The Lion King, Aida, and Les Miserables. She is the only child of musician and civil rights activist Nina Simon and executive producer of the Netflix documentary, “What Happened, Miss Simone?”. Simone’s albums include “Simone on Simone”, “All is Well”, “My World” and “Live at the Edge”. Lisa Simon announces the continuation of her artistic adventure with the release in September of her new album, “In Need of Love”. Opus, which sounds like a look at her life, is an intimate and powerful introspection. The fate of Lisa Simon is the fate of a child who must grow up in the shadow of his mother, often in her absence, who was constantly on the road, carrying his art to the public around the world.

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Lisa Simone – All Is Well (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Lisa Simone – All Is Well (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:05:17 minutes | 735 MB | Genre: Vocal Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Laborie Jazz

Lisa Simone’s album, All Is Well, marks her debut album as Lisa, having previously released two albums as Simone, and two albums with Liquid Soul. In addition to presenting five of her own songs, she offers up the standard Autumn Leaves, Leonard Cohen’s Suzanne, her mother Nina’s Ain’t Got No & I Got Life, plus three more songs – backed by guitarist and arranger Hervé Samb, co-composer of several tracks; plus Reggie Washington on bass guitar & double-bass, and Sonny Troupé on drums and percussion. It was released on the Laborie Jazz label, that since 2006 been focused on the young composers of the French and international Jazz Scene, and the voice had no leading representative among its various productions until now.

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Lisa Shklyaver, Jos van Immerseel – La clarinette française (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Lisa Shklyaver, Jos van Immerseel – La clarinette française (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:28 minutes | 1,01 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Zig-Zag Territoires

Musical love at first sight’, that is a good description of the meeting of Jos van Immerseel and Lisa Shklyaver. With her sweet tone and fine articulation, the young clarinetist effortlessly won the pianist over. No matter which repertoire they played, it clicked immediately.

The desire to come as close as possible to the sound aesthetic of composers at the time of the first performance of their works, along with the simple pleasure of the sound of period instruments, guide Jos van Immerseel in his approach.

For this recording, offering a panorama of French music for clarinet and piano from the early 20th century, Jos van Immerseel has chosen a Bechstein piano of 1870, and Lisa Schklyaver, a Dolnet Lefevre & Pigis clarinet from 1930.

The recording is doubly precious in that it proposes both the view of one of the finest performers of French music on a variety of remarkable works as well as, in a way, the sonority and poetry of an era.

2015 marks Jos van Immerseel’s 70th birthday, one of Belgium’s most acclaimed musicians. Later in 2015 Jos van Immerseel and Anima Eterna will record and release an album of Janacek and Dvorak.

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Lisa Portelli – La nébuleuse (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Lisa Portelli – La nébuleuse (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 42:54 minutes | 460 MB | Genre: French Pop, Chanson
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © At(h)ome

Six ans après son premier album, Lisa Portelli est de retour avec un nouvel opus aux sons rock envoûtants. Présente à toutes les étapes de création, Lisa Portelli nous propose avec “La Nébuleuse” douze titres alliant l’intensité et le rythme du rock à des textes ciselés et portés par sa voix aérienne et cristalline. / Six years after his first album, Lisa Portelli is back with a new album with rock sounds fascinating. Present at all stages of creation, Lisa Portelli offers us with “The Nebula” twelve songs combining the intensity and the rhythm of the rock on texts chiseled and worn by her voice airy and crystalline.

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Lisa Ono (小野リサ) – 旅 そして ふるさと (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Lisa Ono (小野リサ) – 旅 そして ふるさと (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 56:11 minutes | 588 MB | Genre: Jazz, Bossa Nova
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © DREAMUSIC

Lisa Ono is a popular Brazilian-Japanese bossa nova singer. Born in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Lisa Ono spent her childhood in Brazil until she became 10 years old. She started singing and playing the guitar when she was 15 years old, and her debut as a professional Bossa Nova singer was in 1989. Her natural voice, rhythmic guitar playing, and her charming smile led her to a huge success and helped Bossa Nova to be popular in Japan. She has performed with many top musicians such as the legendary Antonio Carlos Jobim, the Jazz Samba giant Joao Donato, and has been performing enthusiastically in New York, Brazil and Asian countries. The album “Dream”, which was released in 1999, sold more than 2 hundred thousand copies in Japan, and since than she has established a determined position in the Japanese Bossa Nova community.

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Lisa Maxwell – Shiny! (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Lisa Maxwell – Shiny! (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 55:35 minutes | 676 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Magenta Marketing,Inc.

Lisa Maxwell is going to surprise a lot of people with her music! I’m thrilled to be a part! Lisa Maxwell’s highly-anticipated big band album is ready. Featuring trumpeter Randy Brecker, the album boasts an all-star lineup of New York legends, and is dedicated to trumpeter Lew Soloff.

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Lisa Larsson, Malmo Symphony Orchestra, Paul Magi – Into Eternity (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Lisa Larsson, Malmo Symphony Orchestra, Paul Magi – Into Eternity (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:44 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BIS

The music on “Presentiment”, a 2018 release with four orchestral works by Rolf Martinsson, was described by one critic as “bold and uncompromisingly personal, eschewing avant-garde modernism and engaging us with solidly expert conventional techniques of composition and orchestration” (MusicWeb International.com). The present volume features more of Martinssons music, performed by the Malmö Symphony Orchestra a body with which Martinsson has enjoyed a close relationship as its composer in residence. In two of the recorded works, the orchestra conducted by Paul Mägi is joined by another of Martinssons regular collaborators, the soprano Lisa Larsson. Larsson is the soloist in Ich denke Dein…, a song cycle setting five poems by Goethe, Rilke and von Eichendorff, and in Into Eternity, a longer work which in its second half incorporates two poems by the Swedish poet Karin Boye. Into Eternity was composed for the opening of the Malmö orchestra’s new concert hall in 2015, and Martinsson wrote it, as well as Ich denke Dein…, with Lisa Larsson in mind. Larsson also appears on the composer’s previous monograph on BIS, in his settings of poems by Emily Dickinson.

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Lisa Jacobs – 24 Caprices of Niccolo Paganini (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Lisa Jacobs – 24 Caprices of Niccolo Paganini (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:27:01 minutes | 1,58 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © COBRA RECORDS

No violinist can escape them: Paganini’s Caprices. A beautiful, infamous cycle of 24 works for violin solo with an enormous arsenal of technical delights.

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Lisa Hannigan – Live in Dublin (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Lisa Hannigan – Live in Dublin (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:05:16 minutes | 709 MB | Genre: Folk, Singer-Songwriter
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Play It Again Sam

Irish singer-songwriter Lisa Hannigan is set to release a live album with the contemporary-classical orchestra, s t a r g a z e, led by the revered German conductor Andre de Ridder. The collabora-tion – which sees Hannigan’s sparse, ethereal folk transformed into something cinematic and transfixing – has been taken to select festivals across Europe, and most recently graced the stages of London’s Barbican and Dublin’s National Concert Hall. Thankfully for those yet to experience the mesmeric live show, their recent performance at the NCH in October last year is set for release in the shape of Live In Dublin, a discography-spanning 14-track live album, which also includes new track, ‘Bookmark’. This live record follows Hannigan’s critically-acclaimed third full-length, 2016’s At Swim, and arrives in a fruitful musical career spanning 17 years and several award nominations: from the Mercury Prize to Ire-land’s Choice Music Prize and Meteor Music Awards. Across it’s fourteen tracks – including the likes of ‘Ora’, ‘Lille’, ‘Fall’, ‘Little Bird’, ‘A Sail’ and ‘Undertow’ – Hannigan’s delicate vocals and soft-plucked gui-tars and mandolin are delivered against a hypnotic backdrop of sublime waltzing keys, affective string sec-tions and minimalist percussion. The result is something majestic in scope and ambition, and truly beguil-ing in the best possible way.

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Lisa Friend – Voyage (Ravel, Brahms, Villa-Lobos, Paganini, Poulenc, Ibert, Donizetti, Fauré…) (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Lisa Friend – Voyage (Ravel, Brahms, Villa-Lobos, Paganini, Poulenc, Ibert, Donizetti, Fauré…) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:32 minutes | 1,03 GB | Genre: Kammermusik
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Chandos

Following her acclaimed recording of Mozart’s Flute Quartets with the Brodsky Quartet and her more recent disc of Fauré and Debussy, the flautist Lisa Friend continues her journey to explore another sound-world in this programme of works for flute and guitar(s). Spanning music from Brahms to Bellinati, the wide-ranging programme juxtaposes original compositions for these forces (Ibert’s Entr’acte, Piazzolla’s Histoire du Tango) with arrangements – some of instrumental works (Brahms, Poulenc, Shostakovich) and some of vocal pieces (Donizetti, Rachmaninoff). Works for flute and guitar quartet are interspersed with more intimate pieces, for flute and solo guitar, which adds further variety to the programme. No mere accompanists, Craig Ogden and the Aquarelle Guitar Quartet play a significant role throughout. The end result is a fascinating and rewarding programme of delightfully listenable music.

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Lisa Ekdahl – More of the Good (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Lisa Ekdahl – More of the Good (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 39:15 minutes | 431 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Okeh

Lisa Ekdahl is a Swedish singer, composer, lyricist and recording artist who has recorded albums both in English and in Swedish. Her debut album sold quadruple platinum and brought her to into superstardom overnight in her native country, where she is mostly known for her strong song writing and Swedish lyrics. She’s a three times Grammy Award Winner.

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Lisa Ekdahl – Grand Songs (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Lisa Ekdahl – Grand Songs (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 37:14 minutes | 390 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Masterworks

Twenty years after her debut, Lisa Ekdah revisits pop gems past and present with the usual playfulness, finesse and class that we have become accustomed to from her. On Grand Songs, the Swede is covering a lot of ground, with versions of numbers by Billie Eilish (Wish You Were Gay), The Beatles (I Should Have Known Better), Bob Dylan (Most of the Time) and Beyonc’e (If I Were a Boy), as well as Diana Ross and the Supremes (Stop! In the Name of Love), The Monkees (Take a Giant Step) and James Taylor (You Can Close Your Eyes). Like any jazz singer worth their salt, Ekdahl excels with this tricky material and takes advantage of it in order to showcase her unique vocal timbres. The backing here alternates between jazz quintet and large string orchestra with intimate sequences giving way to a dash of lush hedonism. Ekdahl is at her best when she dares to surprise, as on the delightful bossa nova version of I Should Have Known Better and her very 1950s jazz cover of If I Were a Boy. These two tracks are the clear the highlights of a delightful record. – Marc Zisman

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Lisa Delan – A Certain Slant of Light (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Lisa Delan – A Certain Slant of Light (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 51:26 minutes | 933 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © PentaTone

The exceptional nature and musicality of Emily Dickinson’s poetry has attracted many composers. “A Certain Slant of Light” features musical settings of Dickinson poems by four outstanding American composers: Aaron Copland, Gordon Getty, Jake Heggie and Michael Tilson Thomas. The collection of songs featured on this album reveals the diversity of Dickinson’s oeuvre, as well as the rich 20th- and 21st-century tradition of American art song composition.

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Lisa Cella – Lumen (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Lisa Cella – Lumen (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:02:32 minutes | 525 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Stradivarius

The present recording compiles nine works for and with flutes of various sorts, six solos, one solo with optional live electronics and two duos (violin and harpsichord, respectively), and they showcase aspects of the composers thinking from 2006-15. Similarities and disparities are at play within these nine scores, but the overall tendency towards slowness and dynamics finely distinguished among the quieter ends of the spectrum prevails in each piece, as does a tempo that seldom if ever fluctuates. This basic, and by nature somewhat simplistic recapitulation works only as a means of placing the heritage to which Daniele Venturi clearly aligns himself, the flute as a timeless yet modern instrument, indeed a timelessly modern one, more a source of careful and thorough exploration than a harbinger of pastoral melody.

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