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Manu Katché – Neighbourhood (2005)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 54:57 minutes | 1,02 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM
Neighbourhood is an astounding, if subdued, meeting of minds. Like other ECM projects of its ilk, this congregation feels as if it arose out of a fundamental and inescapable desire to create music for the sheer enjoyment of it. There is no showing off here. This is laid back, burnished, melt-in-your-mouth jazz perfect for a quiet evening or a rainy afternoon. That being said, this is a far cry from what might elsewhere derogatorily pass for “smooth.” In spite of its overall delicacy the album is not without solid grooves (how can we not bob our heads to the piano-driven ride that is “Number One” or to the swinging horns of “Take Off And Land”?), effectively concise solos (cf. Garbarek’s gorgeous outburst in “Good Influence” and titillating turns from Wasilewski and Stanko in “Lovely Walk”), and enough stellar moments overall to turn any depressing day into a blissful mental excursion. The ensemble plays us out beautifully with “Rose.”
As the brainchild of Manu Katché and producer Manfred Eicher, Neighbourhood is essentially a rhythmic enterprise. Katché’s percussion work provides the crowning motifs to which his compatriots are each a shining jewel. Multiple listenings reveal new nuances of texture and interaction every time. A very fine but impermeable thread connects these musicians and Katché never dominates, waiting in the wings as his motifs take shape of their own volition. The title of the sixth cut says it all: “No Rush.” Take your time with this one and it will reward you greatly. Just press PLAY and you’re there.
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Manu Katché – Manu Katché (2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 52:13 minutes | 729 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM
Eponymously-titled album from Manu Katché. On his fourth ECM disc, Manu’s unique drumming sets the scene and direction, with compositions and arrangements radiating outward from its rhythm-patterns. His strongly propulsive yet relaxed groove is unlike any other drummer’s, and it lifts up the soloists. Personnel in the ever-changing Katché band currently includes Norwegians Nils Pettter Molvær and Tore Brunborg, first heard together on ECM in the band Masqualero in the 1980s: they still play most attractively together. British keyboardist Jim Watson also makes a strong showing with minimalistically-insistent as well as lyrical piano and thick, swirling organ. Recorded March 2012 in the South of France, and issued on the eve of a major European tour.
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Manu Katché – Live in Concert (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:05:56 minutes | 808 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ACT Music
The first live album and ACT debut of the worldwide reknown drummer: A great night at the Parisian New Morning full of intensity, spirit and magic.
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Manu Guerrero – Nuevo Mundo (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 58:11 minutes | 668 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © jazz family
Sounds of North and South American jazz merge in the music of Manu Guerrero. Following a prestigious career accompanying an eclectic array of world class musicians and famous French stars (Celine Dion, Michel Sardou, J.J Goldman…), the Franco-Peruvian pianist finally unveils his own compositions. Manu takes us on a journey through the Andes and France, accompanied by world-class artists, with the rhythmic and refined sounds of a jazz punctuated by South American accents emerging from North American roots in a prelude to recordings that will be available to the public on January 19, 2018.
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RIAS Kammerchor, Münchener Kammerorchester & Alexander Liebreich – Mansurian: Requiem (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 45:23 minutes | 772 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM New Series
Tigran Mansurian has created a Requiem dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Armenian Genocide that occurred in Turkey from 1915 to 1917 – which affected members of the composer’s own family in the most direct way.
It reconciles the sound and sensibility of his country’s traditions with the Latin Requiem text in a profoundly moving contemporary composition, illuminated by the “glow of Armenian modality”, as Paul Griffiths puts it in his booklet essay. The work is a milestone for Mansurian, widely acknowledged as Armenia’s greatest composer. The Los Angeles Times has described his music as that “in which deep cultural pain is quieted through an eerily calm, heart-wrenching beauty”.
The Requiem was co-commissioned by the Munich Chamber Orchestra and RIAS Chamber Choir Berlin and first performed by them in Berlin and Munich in 2011 and receives its premiere recording here.
This album is the sixth to appear in ECM’s documentation of Mansurian’s work, a series that began with the scene-setting ‘Hayren: Music of Komitas And Tigran Mansurian’ in 2003 and includes recordings by violinists Leonidas Kavakos and Patricia Kopatchinskaja, cellist Anja Lechner and the Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Jan Garbarek and The Hilliard Ensemble, and the Armenian Chamber Choir.
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Mansur – Minotaurus (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 36:53 minutes | 453 MB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient, Drone
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © denovali records
MANSUR is the newly initiated project by Jason Kohnen (ex-The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble) joined by Dimitry El-Demerdashi (ex-Phurpa) and introducing Martina Horváth on vocals. The sound of MANSUR navigates between the waters of musical fantasy and reality – it morphs and blends traditional instrumentation with modern day electronica.
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Mansur – Karma (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 44:16 minutes | 481 MB | Genre: Electronic, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © denovali records
MANSUR is the newly initiated project by Jason Kohnen (ex-The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble) joined by Dimitry El-Demerdashi (ex-Phurpa) and introducing Martina Horváth on vocals. The sound of MANSUR navigates between the waters of musical fantasy and reality – it morphs and blends traditional instrumentation with modern day electronica.
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Mansun – Six (Remastered) [21st Anniversary Edition] (1998/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:10:41 minutes | 857 MB | Genre: Britpop, Indie Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Kscope
Mansun were one of the most iconic and innovative British bands of the late 90s. Having signed to the legendary record label Parlophone (home to The Beatles, Radiohead and Sigur Ros) they released four albums ‘Attack of the Grey Lantern’ (1997), ‘Six’ (1998), ‘Little Kix’ (2000) and the compilation ‘Kleptomania’ following the band’s split as well as a popular and now rare series of EPs. Kscope, having now acquired this impressive catalogue, are running a thorough reissue series that delves into a treasure trove of previously unreleased audio and visual material, including the much awaited 21st-anniversary remaster of their experimental Top 10 album ‘Six’ (#6 UK charts).
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Mansun – Attack of the Grey Lantern (21st Anniversary) [Remastered] (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:02:15 minutes | 747 MB | Genre: Alternative
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Kscope
Mansun was one of the most iconic and innovative British bands of the late 90s with Parlophone. They released four classic albums ‘Attack of the Grey Lantern’ (1997), ‘Six’ (1998), ‘Little Kix’ (2000) and the compilation ‘Kleptomania’ following the band’s split as well as a popular and now rare series of EPs. Kscope, having now acquired this impressive catalogue, are running a thorough reissue series that delves into a treasure trove of previously unreleased audio and visual material, including the much-awaited full remaster of their #1 album ‘Attack of the Grey Lantern’.
The band’s output launched them into a fervent cult following, which now holds the annual UK Mansun Convention and started the petition that called for frontman Paul Draper to release his debut solo album ‘Spooky Action’ in August 2017. The solo album, also released on Kscope, hit #19 in the UK album charts and led to a sold-out UK solo tour, during which he performed Mansun’s definitive and most popular track “Wide Open Space”, and its live recording features on Draper’s new live album ‘Live at Scala’. Due to fan-driven popular demand, Paul then played an ambitious second solo tour in early 2018, performing ‘Spooky Action’ as well as ‘Attack of the Grey Lantern’.
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Manoel Vieira – Rhizome (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:19 minutes | 1,25 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Effendi Records
The proper meaning of the title of this album designates a kind of stem in plants which, in particular, has a structure of roots evolving in horizontal directions. However, this title has been designated for the purpose of referring to the various human roots continuously developing in us, representing the accumulation of the various knowledge and influences acquired in life. A development where any element encountered can influence another element reciprocally, leading us to various circumstances where we could be pushed to put out some of this empirical accumulation in the form of art. This album presents the result of an encounter between Brazilian roots and the sound “sphere” of Thelonious Monk, found throughout my musical journey. The album offers a journey through the respective matrices and their cultural origins, so different, but capable of entering into a hybridization process, giving rise to a musical experience both familiar and unknown, spontaneous and deep through original compositions and standard jazz covers.
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Manny Kellem and His Orchestra – Love Is Blue (1968/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 30:19 minutes | 1,11 GB | Genre: Pop, Easy Listening
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Epic – Legacy
Manny Kellem bass player, bandleader, songwriter, record producer. This album was recorded in 1968. Now we can listen to the remastering of this great album in high quality.
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Mannheimer Schlagwerk – The Numbers are Dancing (New Works for Mallet Quartet) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:33 minutes | 875 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Solaire Records
Steve Reich’s Mallet Quartet has been an astounding success story. Now, one of the world’s leading percussion ensembles and a group of four closely connected composers are using his template to lift off into new territories – somewhere between jazz and rock, minimalist pulsations and ambient bliss.
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Mannequin Pussy – Patience (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 25:39 minutes | 338 MB | Genre: Garage Rock, Garage Punk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Epitaph
The third full-length from Mannequin Pussy, Patience is an album fascinated with the physical experience of the body, its songs tracking the movements of mouths and hands and racing hearts, skin and spit and teeth and blood. Deeply attuned to the power of their own physicality, the Philadelphia-based band channels complex emotion in blistering riffs, thrashing rhythms, vocals that feel as immediate and untamed as a gut reaction. But throughout Patience, the Philadelphia-based band contrasts that raw vitality with intricate melodies and finely detailed arrangements, building a strange and potent tension that makes the album all the more cathartic. The follow-up to Romantica 2016 release praised by Pitchfork for combin[ing] punk, shoegaze, death metal, and more, with the ferocious push-pull energy of a mosh pitPatience came to life at Studio 4 in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania. In creating the album, Mannequin Pussy worked with producer/engineer Will Yip (Quicksand, The Menzingers), shaping an explosive sound that never overshadows the subtlety of their songwriting. In the past theres been a chaotic feeling to the recording process, but working with Will put us in a different headspace, says Dabice. It helped us show our progression over the past few years and make a very crisp-sounding record, without losing the dirtiness of what Mannequin Pussy really is.
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Manna/Mirage – Man Out Of Time (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 36:52 minutes | 413 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © New House Music
Manna/Mirage is a project of Dave Newhouse who may be most known for his role in the band The Muffins. In fact, the name of this project comes from the title of an album by The Muffins.
Newhouse has stated that his goal with Manna/Mirage is to “harken back to more of the original AmeriCanterbury sound that The Muffins produced back with our first few albums.”…
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Manic Street Preachers – This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours: 20 Year Collectors’ Edition (Remastered) (1998/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 03:19:03 minutes | 2,30 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Music CG
Manics’ seminal album ‘This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours’ went to No.1 on its release in 1998 and stayed in the UK charts for more than a year before going on to sell over five million copies. It won the Brit Award for Best Album (and the band for Best Group) as well as multiple accolades at the NME and Q Awards that year. The album garnered the band’s first ever No. 1 single, ‘If You Tolerate This Then Your Children Will Be Next’. Now they release the 20 Year Collectors’ Edition of their fifth studio album. The Limited Deluxe Edition includes the original album remastered, unheard demos and live rehearsal recordings plus b sides and remixes from the likes of Massive Attack, David Holmes and Mogwai. The artwork features many unseen photographs by long-term collaborator, Mitch Ikeda.
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