Kate McGarry + Keith Ganz Ensemble – What to Wear in the Dark (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Kate McGarry + Keith Ganz Ensemble – What to Wear in the Dark (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:48 minutes | 1,24 GB | Genre: Vocal Jazz, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Resilience Music

Multi-time GRAMMY nominee Kate McGarry, “one of the country’s premier jazz singers today” per NPR, has teamed with renowned guitarist Keith Ganz (Harry Connick Jr, Luciana Souza) – her partner in life and music – for What To Wear In The Dark, a new collaborative collection out September 3rd via Resilience Music Alliance. Teaming with Downbeat Critics Poll winner Gary Versace on keyboard, Blue Note recording artist Ron Miles on trumpet, and a host of jazz A-listers, What To Wear In The Dark finds McGarry and Ganz using their decorated jazz backgrounds to offer imaginative and fresh perspectives on the indelible pop standards that have helped them transcend their own challenges.

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Kate Lindsey, Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen – Arianna (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Kate Lindsey, Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen – Arianna (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:10 minutes | 1,37 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alpha Classics

Several composers have written music inspired by the story of Arianna (also commonly known as Ariadne) abandoned by Theseus on the island of Naxos. The American mezzo-soprano Kate Lindsey, lauded for her intelligent and luminous singing, chose to illustrate this story by means of three composers: Alessandro Scarlatti, Handel and Haydn and with the help of the Arcangelo ensemble, founded by harpsichordist and organist Jonathan Cohen. The archetype of the woman abandoned, the character of Arianna offers composers and performers alike vast expressive possibilities for an audience always eager to identify themselves with the scarred heroine.

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Kate Lindsey, Baptiste Trotignon – Thousands of Miles (Bonus Track Version) (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Kate Lindsey, Baptiste Trotignon – Thousands of Miles (Bonus Track Version) (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:28 minutes | 1,15 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alpha Classics

Closing the distance between classical music and Broadway, between the old world and the new, this album is born out of a stunning encounter between two performers. Kate Lindsey is an opera star whose career is skyrocketing. She has stunned audiences with her performances of Mozart and Purcell. Baptiste Trotignon is a multi award-winning jazz pianist who plays with big names like Brad Mehldau or Tom Harrell, but who has a long-held interest in classical music, even composing a piano concerto for Nicholas Angelich. Together, they have produced a rich and varied programme around the songs of Kurt Weill, from Nanna’s Lied to Trouble Man, and classics from The Threepenny Opera and Lost in the Stars.

This journey through three European languages brings the listener to the very beginnings of jazz, and features all-new arrangements and deft improvisations by pianist Baptiste Trotignon. Lindsey and Trotignon also pay homage to three composers who, like Weill, all emigrated to the United States: Alma Mahler, Zemlinsky and Korngold. London-based American mezzo-soprano Kate Lindsey joins Alpha Classics for several recordings over the coming years.

“a stunning encounter between two performers”

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Kate Lindsey – Tiranno (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Kate Lindsey – Tiranno (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:32 minutes | 1,36 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alpha Classics

Corruption? Betrayal? Persecution? Tyranny? These subjects resonate with the current events of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. They also provide the subject matter of many seventeenth-century musical works. Kate Lindsey has chosen to devote this second Baroque recital with the English ensemble Arcangelo directed by Jonathan Cohen (following “Arianna” in 2020) to the figure of Nero.

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Kate Davis – Strange Boy (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Kate Davis – Strange Boy (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 26:07 minutes | 267 MB | Genre: Indie Rock, Indie Pop, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Solitaire Recordings Inc.

As a young jazz singer and bassist, Kate Davis shared the stage with Herbie Hancock, Ben Folds, Alison Kraus and the actor-turned-musician Jeff Goldblum. But in 2018 she decided to switch lanes — she co-wrote Sharon Van Etten’s nostalgic indie rock hit ‘Seventeen,’ then in 2019 released her own highly celebrated indie-rock debut, Trophy. Yet even with her impressive resume, covering one of America’s most beloved singer-songwriters is tricky territory to wade into. Nonetheless, that’s exactly what the New York-based indie rock musician did this past summer by recording a cover version of Daniel Johnston’s 1984 album Retired Boxer.

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Kate Ceberano – Sweet Inspiration (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Kate Ceberano – Sweet Inspiration (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 53:13 minutes | 992 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Music Entertainment

Kate Ceberano releases “Sweet Inspiration,” the 28th album of her extraordinary music career!

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Kate Bush – The Sensual World (1989/2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Kate Bush – The Sensual World (1989/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 42:03 minutes | 463 MB | Genre: Pop, Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Fish People

The Sensual World is the sixth studio album by Kate Bush. It was released in October 1989 and reached no. 2 in the UK album chart.

Song written by Kate Bush. Originally released as a single by EMI Records on 18 September 1989. Also released on her sixth album The Sensual World. Bush was inspired to write the song after hearing Irish actress Siobhan McKenna read the closing soliloquy from James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’, where the character Molly Bloom recalls her earliest sexual experience with husband-to-be Leopold Bloom. The book was published in 1922. Kate, believing the text had fallen to public domain, simply lifted parts from it and sang them on the backing track she’d created. She approached director Jimmy Murakami to make a video for the song, and he expressed doubts because he suspected James Joyce’s grandson Stephen James Joyce had the rights to the book. Kate then contacted him numerous times, but the Joyce estate refused to release the words. She spent over a year trying to gain permission before accepting defeat.

In the end, she kept the backing track but “re-approached the words”, writing a lyric that sounded a lot like the original text but also added the dimension of ‘stepping out of the page / into the sensual world’, in effect Molly Bloom stepping out of the book and walking into real life.

Musically, one of the main hooks in the chorus of The Sensual World was inspired by a traditional Macedonian piece of music called ‘Nevestinsko Oro’ (‘Bride’s Dance’). A recording of this piece of music was sent to Kate by Jan Libbenga. As in the traditional version, the melody is played on uilleann pipes, in this case by Irish musician Davy Spillane.

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Kate Bush – The Red Shoes (2018 Remaster) (1993/2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Kate Bush – The Red Shoes (2018 Remaster) (1993/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 55:00 minutes | 611 MB | Genre: Alternative Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Fish People

The album is a continuation of Bush’s multi-layered and multiple musical pursuits and interests. If not her strongest work — a number of songs sound okay without being particularly stellar, especially given Bush’s past heights — Red Shoes is still an enjoyable listen with a number of diversions. The guest performer list is worthy of note alone, ranging from Procol Harum pianist Gary Brooker and Eric Clapton to Prince, but this is very much a Kate Bush album straight up as opposed to a collaborative work like, say, Santana’s Supernatural. Opening song “Rubberband Girl” is actually one of her strongest singles in years, a big and punchy song served well with a horn section, though slightly let down by the stiff percussion. “Eat the Music,” another smart choice for a single, mixes calypso and other Caribbean musical touches with a great, classically Bush lyric mixing up sexuality, romance, and various earthy food-based metaphors. Another highlight of Bush’s frank embrace of the lustier side of life is “The Song of Solomon,” a celebratory piece about the Bible’s openly erotic piece. Those who prefer her predominantly piano and vocal pieces will enjoy “Moments of Pleasure” with a strong string arrangement courtesy of Michael Kamen. Other standouts include “Why Should I Love You?” with Prince creating a very Prince-like arrangement and backing chorus for Bush (and doing quite well at that) and the concluding “You’re the One,” featuring Brooker. ~ Ned Raggett

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Kate Bush – The Kick Inside (1978/2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Kate Bush – The Kick Inside (1978/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 43:13 minutes | 483 MB | Genre: Pop, Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino

The Kick Inside (2018 Remaster) is Kate Bush’s debut studio album and features her hit “Wuthering Heights.” The album has been newly remastered by Kate Bush and James Guthrie.

The Kick Inside reveals a young artist positioning herself strategically between the ancient and the modern, between folklore and pop music. Sounding very much of its moment, it is nevertheless an album populated by ghosts and spirits. Not goth but certainly gothic, it is an album of hauntings. Some are literal: That’s Catherine Earnshaw’s spirit tapping at the window in “Wuthering Heights.” Other are figurative: The spellbinding music she describes in “The Saxophone Song” seems to have supernatural origins and powers, and the mysterious lover in “The Man with the Child in His Eyes” only appears “when I turn off the light.” Remarkably these ghosts are not diminished by the modern sound of The Kick Inside. Rather, they thrive in that friction between the old and the new.

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Kate Bush – The Dreaming (1982/2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Kate Bush – The Dreaming (1982/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 43:21 minutes | 468 MB | Genre: Pop, Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Fish People

The Dreaming (2018 Remaster) by Kate Bush is the English singer’s fourth studio ablum. Newly remastered by Bush and James Guthrie.

Four albums into her burgeoning career, Kate Bush’s The Dreaming is a theatrical and abstract piece of work, as well as Bush’s first effort in the production seat. She throws herself in head first, incorporating various vocal loops, sometimes campy, but always romantic and inquisitive of emotion. She’s angry and pensive throughout the entire album, typically poetic while pushing around the notions of a male-dominated world. However, Kate Bush is a daydreamer. Unfortunately, The Dreaming, with all it’s intricate mystical beauty, isn’t fully embraced compared to her later work. Album opener “Sat in Your Lap” is a frightening slight on individual intellect, with a booming chorus echoing over throbbing percussion and a butchered brass section. “Leave It Open” is goth-like with Bush’s dark brooding, which is a suspending scale of vocalic laments, but it’s the vivacious and moody “Get Out of My House” that truly brings Bush’s many talents for art and music to the forefront. It prances with dripping piano drops and gritty guitar, and the violent rage felt as she screams “Slamming,” sparking a fury similar to what Tori Amos later ignited during her inception throughout the ’90s. Not one to be in fear of fear, The Dreaming is one of Kate Bush’s underrated achievements in depicting her own visions of love, relationships, and role play, not to mention a brilliant predecessor to the charming beauty of 1985’s Hounds of Love.

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Kate Bush – Selection from ‘The Other Sides’ (Remastered) (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Kate Bush – Selection from ‘The Other Sides’ (Remastered) (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 44:46 minutes | 480 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino

Kate Bush is reissuing her entire studio catalog – including numerous rare tracks, B-sides and cover versions – on a series of remastered vinyl and CD box sets. The campaign launches November 16th with the first two of four vinyl packages and the first of two CD sets, via Rhino. The second wave of material arrives November 30th.

The art-rock icon personally remastered the material with producer/engineer James Guthrie, who previously worked on Bush’s 1985 LP, Hounds of Love. The singer’s 10 albums are spread across the three vinyl boxes, and the fourth features rarities previously unavailable on the format. Many of the records have been unavailable on vinyl for decades.

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Kate Bush – Remastered Pt. IV (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Kate Bush – Remastered Pt. IV (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 02:12:25 minutes | 1,36 GB | Genre: Pop, Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino

Kate Bush Remastered Studio Albums And Rarities: This is the first (and definitive) program of remastering undertaken by the artist and includes the release of many rarities and cover versions on HighResAudio for the first time.

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Kate Bush – Remastered Pt. II (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Kate Bush – Remastered Pt. II (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 02:24:26 minutes | 1,53 GB | Genre: Pop Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino

Kate Bush Remastered Studio Albums And Rarities: This is the first (and definitive) program of remastering undertaken by the artist and includes the release of many rarities and cover versions for the first time.

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Kate Bush – Remastered Part I (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Kate Bush – Remastered Part I (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 02:40:59 minutes | 2,46 GB | Genre: Pop, Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino

Remastered Part I is the first box set featuring new remastered versions of Kate Bush’s albums The Kick Inside, Lionheart, Never For Ever and The Dreaming. The albums were remastered by Kate Bush and James Guthrie.

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Kate Bush – Never for Ever (1980/2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Kate Bush – Never for Ever (1980/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 37:25 minutes | 415 MB | Genre: Pop, Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino

Never For Ever (2018 Remaster) by Kate Bush was the singer’s third studio album. It reached #1 on the UK charts, becoming the first record by a female soloist to make it to the top of the chart. Never For Ever (2018 Remaster) was newly remastered by Kate Bush and James Guthrie, and features hits “Breathing,” “Babooshka,” and “Army Dreamers.”

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