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Explore Ensemble – Perfect Offering (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:44:59 minutes | 901 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Huddersfield Contemporary Records
Perfect Offering invites the listener to journey with the ensemble, inhabiting and exploring four vibrant, imaginary landscapes. Each is underlined by themes of place and space, ecstasy and tranquillity, lightness and darkness, as well as ambience, transience, refraction, and silence. There is a diverse interest in harmony evident in the music collected here – each composer exhibits a distinctive idiolect, ranging from Cassandra Miller’s entirely white note radiance to Rebecca Saunders’ haunting atonal timbralism, Lisa Illean’s spectrally-tinged, weathered sounds, and Lawrence Dunn’s wonky and surrealist tonalities.
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Everything But The Girl – Fuse (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 35:42 minutes | 402 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Buzzin’ Fly Records, under exclusive license to Virgin Music Group
Everything But The Girl was formed in 1982 by singer-songwriter-musicians Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt. Acclaimed for their tender-tough lyrics, Thorn’s unique voice and Watt’s arrangements, they released a string of UK gold albums throughout the 1980s experimenting with jazz, guitar pop, orchestral wall-of-sound and drum-machine soul, through to the 90’s, ending on ‘Temperamental’, where the duo chose to quit on a high. Tracey focused on family life away from the spotlight before returning with a run of solo albums and best-selling autobiographical books. Ben moved into DJing and remixing, and launched the respected electronic label, Buzzin’ Fly. He returned to his singer-songwriter roots with a trilogy of solo albums from 2014-2020. In November 2022 Everything But The Girl announced they had recorded a new studio album – the first for over two decades, released in 2023.
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Eva Saladin – Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi Mealli: Violin Sonatas Op. 3 & 4 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:21:32 minutes | 1,59 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Challenge Classics
Born in 1624, Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi Mealli was brought up partly in Venice and ended up in Innsbruck as a member of the Court Band. His name crops up later as a violinist in churches and at court in Messina and finally in Madrid, where it is likely that he died in 1687. There were two important stylistic periods for violin literature in the 17th century. In the early decades, a corpus of instrumental music appeared in northern Italy, with the first solo music explicitly for violin being written by composers such as Castello, Fontana and – most of all – Marini. Towards the tail-end of the century, we see the flowering of a refined culture of instrumental music in Austria, dominated by virtuosi such as Biber, Walther and Schmelzer. Pandolfi Mealli was caught in the middle, not being a follower of either school, and may have been somewhat lost from view among all these star performers.
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Europäisches Hanse-Ensemble – Musik der Hansestädte, Vol. 1: Musik aus dem alten Stralsund (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:54 minutes | 1,52 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © CPO
The Stralsund skyline with its brick church towers rises impressively above Strela Sound. While today this view can mainly be seen by those who approach Stralsund via the Rügen Bridge, the city has appeared in this way to arriving seafarers since the Middle Ages. As one of the Hanseatic cities lined up like pearls on southern Baltic Sea beaches, Stralsund had achieved a degree of economic prosperity as a member of the Hanseatic League since the 13th century. Closely networked with other Hanseatic cities such as Lübeck, Wismar and Rostock and governed by councillors and mayors from the upper class of merchants, the Hanseatic League not only guaranteed economic security but also facilitated cultural exchange. In the 15th and 16th centuries, the alliance gradually disintegrated due to growing European competition. However, Stralsund remained a city of trade and Baltic exchange.
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Étienne Daho – Tirer la nuit sur les étoiles (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 44:04 minutes | 509 MB | Genre: Chanson, French Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Universal Music Division Barclay
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Les astres étaient parfaitement alignés pour faire une attraction de Tirer la nuit sur les étoiles, douzième album studio d’Etienne Daho. En quarante ans de carrière, l’Orano-Rennais de Paris aura su faire de ses faiblesses (voix, charisme) une force, jusqu’à s’imposer comme une référence dans ce pays.
Son rôle d’éclaireur est salué pour avoir dynamité les cloisons entre les genres, radicalité rock et légèreté pop – jusqu’au yéyé –, en montrant que l’on pouvait à la fois se revendiquer du Velvet Underground et de Sylvie Vartan, de Syd Barrett et d’Astrud Gilberto, une attitude ouverte qui définit aujourd’hui la scène française. Sans compter que l’élégance et la discrétion de cet éternel adolescent de 67 ans lui garantissent un fort capital de popularité, qu’il pourra constater à l’automne avec une tournée des Zénith de France et une apothéose à l’Accor Arena de Paris-Bercy, le 22 décembre.
Esther Rose – Safe to Run (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 41:53 minutes | 792 MB | Genre: Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © New West Records, LLC
Everything clicks on Safe to Run, the fourth album from singer, songwriter, and perpetual searcher Esther Rose. It’s the quiet culmination of years spent fully immersed in a developing artistry, and presents Rose’s always vividly detailed emotional scenes with new levels of clarity and control. As with previous work, her songwriting transfigures the chaos and uncertainty of a life in progress, but here she introduces a newfound pop element that attaches unshakably catchy hooks to even the darkest stretches of the journey.
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Escher String Quartet – Janáček & Haas: String Quartets (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:50 minutes | 1,43 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BIS
While the concept of the programmatic and autobiographical quartet seems to have been introduced by Beethoven, nowhere has it been taken up more forcefully than in the Czech lands, as the works presented here attest.
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Erland Cooper, Scottish Ensemble – Folded Landscapes (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:18:30 minutes | 1,39 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mercury KX
Erland Cooper is a Scottish composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist originally from Stromness, Orkney. His newest release, Folded Landscapes, is Erland’s observation on climate change; his belief in the need to come together and have hope for positive climate action.
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Eric Alexander – A New Beginning – Alto Saxophone with Strings (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 48:28 minutes | 570 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © HighNote Records
As difficult times often beget new beginnings, the COVID-19 quagmire gave birth to alto saxophonist Eric Alexander.
To some, a tenor-to-alto switch may not seem to be a newsworthy matter, but for the initiated it’s the stuff of headlines. An inveterate tenor at the apex of the scene for more than three decades, Eric put the alto away in his teen years and never looked back. “But with the dearth of opportunities to play during the pandemic, I started to work on it,” he confesses.
After successfully pitching the idea of using his second saxophone-with-strings project as a debut on alto, the present recording is quite simply astounding. Working with his regular rhythm section and adding ace string arrangements, this altoist delivers one revelatory performance after another.
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Enter Shikari – A Kiss for the Whole World (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 33:57 minutes | 411 MB | Genre: Alternative Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © So Recordings
Enter Shikari are a rock band from St Albans, UK. In 2020, they released their sixth album – ‘Nothing Is True & Everything Is Possible’. It was in the Spring of 2022 that the band descended to the coastal town of Chichester, and a delipidated farmhouse, to rebuild their studio setup and capture their renewed momentum on record. Using only solar power to track the album – in what Reynolds says was to ‘bring back some sense of naivety’ – the life-giving properties and technicolor palate of ‘A Kiss For the Whole World’ were made real.
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Ensemble Pi – Reparations NOW (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:25 minutes | 908 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Bright Shiny Things
Reparations NOW! is Ensemble Pi’s new project, inspired by Ta-Nehisi Coates’ congressional testimony and Ibram X. Kendi’s best-seller book, How to Be an Antiracist – both of which offer powerful and compelling arguments in support of reparations for the African-American community.
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Ensemble Les Surprises and Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas – Nuit à Venise (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:45 minutes | 1,23 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alpha Classics
Venice was surely the capital of music and the arts in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and one of the most coveted positions in the city was that of maestro di cappella at St Mark’s Basilica.
A few lucky chosen candidates succeeded one another in bringing to life the musical splendour of the basilica, all of them fabulous musicians and composers prolonging the legacy of the great Claudio Monteverdi.
For its third recording on Alpha, the ensemble Les Surprises has chosen to sail towards Venetian waters and mix with these geniuses of affect, word-setting and theatre, exploring music that ranges from grandiose double choruses to intimate duets or trios combining sacred and profane.
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Ensemble Il Caravaggio, Guilhem Worms, Ronald Martin Alonso, Camille Delaforge – La Dame de mes Songes (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 49:39 minutes | 1005 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Paraty
In the third of the four songs of Don Quixote by Alexandre Arnoux and Jacques Ibert, Dulcinea is sung of as “La Dame de mes songes” (The lady of my dreams). The title of the present album could also refer to that Spain as dreamed by French composers between 1830 and 1930, unfairly reduced to Andalusia and flamenco. The ensemble Il Caravaggio (here only in trio with baritone, viola da gamba and harpsichord), in its exploration of the colorful and passionate Spanish-French song world in the 20th century, stops not only in Andalusia, but also in Old Castile, Extremadura and Murcia.
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Engelbert Humperdinck – All About Love (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 47:02 minutes | 587 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © OK!Good Records
Engelbert Humperdinck’s 2023 album “All About Love” is a collection of 13 hits , exploring the theme of love in all its facets. The legendary singer and entertainer brings his distinctive voice and charismatic personality to each song, creating an unforgettable listening experience. “All About Love” is another milestone in the career of Engelbert Humperdinck, and is sure to generate excitement among fans and music lovers alike.
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Emmanuel Pahud, Eric Le Sage – Romances (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:02 minutes | 1,09 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics
The SWR called him a “magician”, the Tagespiegel compared him to Pan, the Greek god of flute playing. Without a doubt, there is hardly anyone who can hold a candle to the flutist Emmanuel Pahud in his field. On his album Romances, together with pianist Eric Le Sage, he delves into the world of Romanticism: a great musical passion within his wide-ranging repertoire, which extends from the Baroque to the modern.
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