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Anca Vasile Caraman – Max Reger: 4 Sonaten op. 42 – Anca Vasile Caraman (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 46:36 minutes | 888 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Stradivarius
Anca Vasile Caraman was born in Romania and began studying the violin at the age of 4 in her hometown with Prof. Mioara Prisada and Alexandru Piculeata. Afterwards, she attended “George Enescu” Music High School in Bucarest with Prof. Olivia Papa, Cornel Micut and Valeriu Rogacev, since 1998, the National Music University in Bucarest with Prof. Octavian Ratiu, where she graduated in 2005. In 2006, she started her Advanced Specialization study course in Violin at Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, studying with Domenico Nordio and subsequently graduating in 2009. She won 9 national prizes in Romania and 3 international prizes, the last of which won in soloist category “Rovere d’Oro 2010”. Caraman also succeeded in important international competitions such as the “Queen Elisabeth” in Brussels and the “Violin Masters” in Montecarlo and she has played as a soloist with the national orchestras of Bucharest, Ramnicu Valcea, Galati, Pitesti, Brescia. She also took part has participated in various masterclasses of violinists: Yuri Torcinsky, Mark Lubovsky, Nabueko Aseada, Giulio Franzetti, Kim Nam Num, Yvry Gitlis, Stefan Gheorghiu, Helena Bondarenko and Umberto Benedetti Michelangeli. From 2012-2018 he taught preparatory violin at the Brescia and Darfo Conservatory. He has performed concert activities in a number of productions in Italy and Romania, as well as in France, Moldova, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, Denmark, Japan, China, the Netherlands, Belgium and England. She currently cooperates with the pianist Enrico Pompili with whom she recorded two CDs, presenting music works by Alberto Bonera; she also plays with various chamber ensembles.
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Alexandra Lowe – Le Voyage (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:53 minutes | 1011 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Champs Hill Records
Soprano Alexandra Lowe and pianist Patrick Milne explore music and text inspired by Greece, the Middle East, and Lowe’s home country, Spain, in Le Voyage; an international journey told through French romantic song.
Highlights include Ravel’s Cinq mélodies in the beautiful original Greek, Shéhérazade and Debussy’s Chansons de Bilitis, alongside lesser-known composer Charles Koechlin’s versions of the same texts. The latter is an astonishing discovery – occupying a more ethereal, mystical plane where the musical language is quite unlike anything else on the album.
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Alabaster dePlume – To Cy & Lee: Instrumentals Vol. 1 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 44:41 minutes | 457 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © International Anthem
DePlume is a Manchester-born, London-based bandleader, composer, saxophonist, activist and orator. He’s a resident at the legendary London creative hub Total Refreshment Centre, a recording artist for the off-grid, Scottish Hebridean island label Lost Map, and now the latest arrival into Chicago-based International Anthem’s growing family of progressive musical explorationists. Whilst much of his music contains vocals – often whispered imperatives – this is a collection of instrumentals, drenched in feeling and recorded over four albums and eight earth years in cities across the UK.
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Alabaster DePlume – GOLD (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:42 minutes | 1,22 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © International Anthem
The lightning rod for Alabaster DePlume’s luminous follow up to the widely-acclaimed 2020 release To Cy & Lee: Instrumentals Vol. 1 was personal. “Someone was going through a thing,” says the Mancunian poet-performer. “I said, ‘go forward in the courage of your love’. And then I thought ‘yeah, that’s what I need to hear as well’.”
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Adam Saunders – Eccentric Stories (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 29:47 minutes | 328 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sonoton Music
Our latest release on Sonoton Music is ‘Eccentric Stories’ – an eclectic and intriguing collection of soundtracks for tales of the peculiar and bizarre. We recorded the album last year, part in our own studio, but also a selection of tracks at Abbey Road studio 2. Featuring strings, woodwinds, mellotron, zither and a sprinkling of toy piano!
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Ace of Wands – Desiring (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 34:58 minutes | 693 MB | Genre: Alternative Rock, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Fortune Stellar Records
The songs on ‘Desiring’ call up a wide range of emotions. With love, lust, loneliness, grief, shame, and guilt, the songs pull the listener into a world where the desire to feel deeply is the chief purpose. The songs are varied and diverse, influenced by cinematic horror rock, sparkling dream pop, and punk. The title of the album reflects the root of the emotions explored – the desire for something more, a different outcome, transforming one feeling into another, and getting clear on who you are.
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Aadal – Voyager (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 47:07 minutes | 481 MB | Genre: Jazz Fusion, Jazz Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Losen Records
The Michael Aadal Group have previously released two albums on Losen Records. Abigail LOS 122-2 in 2013 and Pomona LOS 158-2 in 2016. Following a minor change of personnel and as the newly-named Aadal, the quartet released two albums on another label before returning to Losen Records. And so, it is as Aadal, that they here deliver the enchanting Voyager.
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Aadal – Silver (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 42:14 minutes | 471 MB | Genre: Jazz Fusion, Jazz Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Apollon Records Prog
The Norwegian quartet AADAL is releasing their debut album “Silver” on Apollon Records in February 2020. The music can be described as an intriguing mix of jazz and instrumental rock, but it also contains clear references to the americana genre. Inspired by artists like Brian Blade, Terje Rypdal, Daniel Lanois, The War on Drugs and Bon Iver.
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101 Strings Orchestra – Hit Songs from Hit Movies (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 27:03 minutes | 546 MB | Genre: Lounge
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alshire
The legendary 101 Strings Orchestra present a set of film classics with Hit Songs from Hit Movies. The collection comes courtesy of Countdown Media’s restoration of the master tapes from renowned legacy label, Ashire/Somerset.
101 Strings Orchestra was a brand for a highly successful easy listening symphonic music organization, with a discography exceeding 150 albums and a creative lifetime of around 30 years beginning in 1957. 101 Strings had a trademark sound, focusing on melody with a laid-back ambiance most often featuring strings. Their LPs were individualized by the slogan “The Sound of Magnificence.” The 101 Strings orchestra included 124 string instruments, and was conducted by Wilhelm Stephan.
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5 Seconds Of Summer – The Feeling of Falling Upwards (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:25 minutes | 1,36 GB | Genre: Pop Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BMG Rights Management (US) LLC
Multi-platinum-selling pop-rock band, 5 Seconds of Summer, release their live album The Feeling of Falling Upwards – Live from The Royal Albert Hall. The tracks are taken from the band’s 2022 one-of-a-kind performance The Feeling of Falling Upwards at the world-famous Royal Albert Hall in London, a venue the band busked outside of when they moved to the UK to write for their very first album 10 years ago. The performance included reimagined versions of songs from their 11-year catalog and brand-new songs from their critically acclaimed fifth studio album 5SOS5, accompanied by a 12-piece string orchestra and a 12-member gospel choir.
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Title: Lou Reed – Lou Reed’s Berlin
Release Date: 2007
Genre: Rock
Production/Label: Artificial Eye
Duration: 1:20:54
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: PCM, DTS-HD
Video: MPEG-4 AVC Video / 17997 kbps / 1080p / 23.976 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio / 5.1 / 48 kHz / 2151 kbps / 16-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 16-bit)
Audio 2: Dolby Digital Audio / 5.1 / 48 kHz / 640 kbps
Size: 13,05 GB
The curious tale of Lou Reed’s 1973 album Berlin, is worthy of a documentary in itself. It’s trajectory from critical and commercial failure to one of the most highly regarded records in his canon has vindicated Reed’s vision for the album. This concert film was shot 33 years after the former Velvet Underground front man unleashed Berlin on the world. A remarkable critical volte-face has occurred in the intervening years, although Reed has rarely performed material from the album. Director Julian Schnabel headed to St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn, New York, at the tail end of 2006 to shoot this document of Berlin’s live resurrection. The film is culled from a five-night stint at the venue in which Reed, and a host of guest performers, brought the album back to life.
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Title: Lou Reed – Classic Albums: Transformer & Live At Montreux 2000
Release Date: 2014
Genre: Rock
Production/Label: Eagle Rock Entertainment
Duration: 03:25:12
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: PCM, DTS-HD
Video: MPEG-4 AVC Video / 24958 kbps / 1920*1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio / 5.1 / 48 kHz / 2921 kbps / 16-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 16-bit
Audio 2: LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1536 kbps / 16-bit
Size: 41,56 GB
Eagle Vision’s SD Blu-ray range presents upscaled standard definition original material with uncompressed stereo and DTS-HD Master Audio surround sound for the best possible quality. This release combines the documentary ‘Transformer’ from the acclaimed Classic Albums series, which tells the story of the creation and recording of this legendary album, with ‘Live At Montreux 2000’, a live concert film of Lou Reed s performance at the world famous festival.
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Lightnin’ Hopkins – Goin’ Away (1963) [Analogue Productions 2018]
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 35:18 minutes | Front/Rear Covers | 1,42 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Front/Rear Covers | 681 MB
Sam “Lightnin’” Hopkins, a true poet who invented most of his lyrics on the spot and never seemed to run out of new ideas, was a blues giant of post-war blues whose style was rooted in pre-war Texas traditions. While he cranked up his amp to fierce proportions when performing for his friends at Houston juke joints, producers who recorded him for the so-called folk-blues market usually insisted that he use an acoustic guitar for more “authentic” results. Either way, Lightnin’ seldom made a bad record, and this June 4, 1963, session on which he played acoustic was among his finest, thanks much to the sensitive support of bassist Leonard Gaskin and drummer Herbie Lovelle, who did a remarkable job of following his irregular bar patterns and abrupt song endings.
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Lightnin’ Hopkins – Broken Hearted Blues (2003) [Audio Fidelity SACD #AFZ-010]
PS3 Rip | ISO | SACD DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 60:35 minutes | Scans included | 2,43 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Scans included | 978 MB
Audio Fidelity SACD #AFZ-010 | Compiled & Remastered for SACD by Steve Hoffman
Sam Hopkins was a Texas country bluesman of the highest caliber whose career began in the 1920s and stretched all the way into the 1980s. Along the way, Hopkins watched the genre change remarkably, but he never appreciably altered his mournful Lone Star sound, which translated onto both acoustic and electric guitar. Hopkins’ nimble dexterity made intricate boogie riffs seem easy, and his fascinating penchant for improvising lyrics to fit whatever situation might arise made him a beloved blues troubadour.
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Lionel Richie – Just For You (2004)
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 55:09 minutes | Scans included | 3,72 GB
or FLAC 2.0 Stereo (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | 54:39 mins | Scans | 1,11 GB
Features 2.0 Stereo and 5.1 multichannel surround sound
Lionel Richie spent much of the ’90s relatively quiet, and when he attempted a comeback toward the end of the decade, it didn’t make many waves. It wasn’t until the early part of the 2000s that his profile increased considerably as his greatest-hits disc The Definitive Collection cracked the Top 20, he guest-judged on American Idol, and his daughter Nicole tramped around on the Fox reality show The Simple Life. All of this set the stage for Just for You, his 2004 return to adult contemporary soft rock. There are still gentle quiet storm overtones and subdued R&B beats on a few tracks, such as his duet with Daniel Bedingfield, “Do Ya,” but the overall approach on this record is firmly within the polished, melodic soft rock that brought Richie to a massive crossover audience in the early ’80s, only updated for contemporary radio. Just for You is a well-crafted record; if anything, it’s a little too well crafted, sailing by on its sleek surfaces and carefully constructed songs, leaving it as nothing much more than a collection of romantic, mature mood music. It’s effective romantic mood music, though, and after a few plays, a handful of the hooks begin to sink in, even if the songs themselves are never quite as memorable as his hits from the ’80s. Nevertheless, this is one of the more appealing records Richie had made in quite some time, as it’s both assured and unassuming, relaxed and tuneful. Unlike his ’90s records, it’s consistent, both in its quality of songs and its cohesive sound, and even if it’s not a full-fledged comeback, it’s a solid latter-day record that lives up to his legacy.
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