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Various Artists – Stockfisch Records – Closer to the Music, Vol. 6 (2017/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:10:35 minutes | 768 MB | Genre: Jazz, Blues, Folk, Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Stockfisch Records
The “Closer to the Music” series is acclaimed by audiophiles, and each of its installments counts among the buyable titles with Stockfisch offers. So far, five parts have been released, and the premiere of the last one took place in 2015. After 8 years, the long-awaited album will be released: “Closer to the Music vol.6”. Based on criteria from various audiences who have been associated with Stockfisch producers for many years, as well as completely new artists. See the full list of songs that went to download.
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Various Artists – Festival 4 saisons, Lausanne – 8 ans d’histoire: 2014-2022 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 52:40 minutes | 721 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Claves Records
8 Years of History is a witness to the first eight years of the 4 Seasons Festival. A classical music festival for and by young people, this is the challenge that was launched in 2014 by Oleg Gafner. Taking place 4 times a year, the Lausanne festival has distinguished itself by its programming with singular ideas and its choice of young local performers.
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Unknown Mortal Orchestra – V (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:10 minutes | 1,25 GB | Genre: Indie Rock, Psychedelic Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Jagjaguwar
Created between Palm Springs, California and Hilo, Hawai’i, V is the first double album from the Hawaiian-New Zealand singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer Ruban Nielson’s Unknown Mortal Orchestra band. Designed to play as one continuous movement and road-tested on dry California freeways, V is the definitive Unknown Mortal Orchestra car record. It’s also the fifth full-length album Ruban has released in twelve years. Across fourteen sunbleached songs – written solo or with his brother Kody – Ruban draws from the rich traditions of West Coast AOR, yacht rock, weirdo pop and Hawaiian Hapa-haole music. Over a laidback blend of singalong anthems and cinematic instrumentals, he evokes blue skies, afternoons spent lounging by hotel swimming pools and the alluring darkness that lurks below perfect, pristine surfaces. It’s a duality expressed in the dilapidated sunset blues and the salt corroded soul Ruban explores through tracks like ‘Layla’ and ‘Nadja. ’ During the pandemic’s early days, Ruban reunited with Kody at a cousin’s wedding in Hawai’i. With assistance from their father, Chris Nielson (saxophone/flute) and longstanding Unknown Mortal Orchestra member Jake Portrait, they brought everything Ruban had been thinking about together. The result was V, due for release on March 3, 2023, through Jagjaguwar. When they talked about records that moved them in that spine-shivering manner, Ruban started thinking about the 70s AM radio rock and 80s pop songs that had lurked on the edge of his subconscious mind for most of his life. He wanted to write his version of records like that, leading to the two glorious up tempo singles Unknown Mortal Orchestra released in 2021, ‘Weekend Run’ and ‘That Life’. However, the golden good times never last forever. Not long after, health issues began to plague his extended family. Putting his recordings aside, he helped his mother and his uncle move home from New Zealand and Portland to Hawai’i, and began dividing his time between Hawai’i and Palm Springs. During this period he reconnected with his relatives, reassessed his past, and started to look at things with fresh eyes. Hawai’i brought back memories of the darker side of his parents’ lifestyle as entertainers. On those trips, he heard those classic AM radio rock records everywhere. They were inextricably intertwined with the palm trees, swimming pools, and glamorized hedonism he’d internalized from his childhood. There’s a type of music in Hawai’i called Hapa-haole (Half white). You can hear it expressed in signature Unknown Mortal Orchestra style through the humid guitar-led atmosphere of V’s penultimate song, ‘I Killed Captain Cook’. Although the songs are presented in a traditional Hawaiian manner, they’re mostly sung in English. Having been influenced by Hawaiian music since Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s first album, Ruban saw a space for himself within the tradition. When he reflected on his success, he realized he had the responsibility and platform to represent Hapa-haole music on the global stage.
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Ulrich Walther – Max Reger (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 05:15:51 minutes | 2,61 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Organum Classics
This recording project unites as a first recording all of Max Reger’s arrangements for the organ in a coherent conception. In addition to all of Reger’s edited arrangements (Bach: Selected Piano Works, Schule des Triospiels, etc.), unprinted manuscripts, drafts, fragments, only verbally expressed plans of the composer (Liszt: Harmonies du soir) as well as two reconstruction attempts referring to them are included for the first time. In addition, the exciting attempt was made to open up all of Reger’s previously unfinished arrangement concepts for a practical performance realization. The 48-page manuscript fragment Bach RWV Bach-B3 gathers a total of five preludes and six fugues from both parts of the Well-Tempered Clavier. The Suite in G minor for small orchestra, here arranged for organ, shows Reger’s extremely free treatment of Bach’s models. Ulrich Walther’s arrangement of the Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Mozart attempts to make Reger’s probably most famous orchestral work accessible in a new way, although it is rarely heard in the concert hall. The production was created in cooperation with the Max Reger Institute. The music, which runs for over five hours, impressively conveys the exciting relationships between arrangement, interpretation and composition.
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U2 – Songs Of Surrender (Super Deluxe) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 02:46:11 minutes | 1,84 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Universal-Island Records Ltd.
Exclusive Limited Edition Numbered Super Deluxe 4CD Collector’s Edition. Featuring 40 new acoustic & re-imagined recordings from the U2 catalogue, Produced & Compiled by The Edge and arranged into individual band volumes. This collector’s edition includes ‘With Or Without You’, ‘Beautiful Day’, ‘Where The Streets Have No Name’, ‘One’, ‘I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For’, ‘Pride (In The Name Of Love)’, alongside fan favourites such as ‘Stories For Boys’, ‘Bad’, & ‘Desire’. U2 have sold over 175 million albums, won 22 Grammy awards, and released 14 studio albums.
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Tyler Bates, Joel J. Richard – John Wick: Chapter 4 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:25:38 minutes | 913 MB | Genre: Soundtrack
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Lakeshore Records
John Wick: Chapter 4 (stylized as JW4) is a 2023 American neo-noir action thriller film directed by Chad Stahelski and written by Shay Hatten and Michael Finch. The sequel to John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum (2019) and the fourth installment in the John Wick franchise, it stars Keanu Reeves as the title character, alongside a supporting ensemble cast including Donnie Yen, Bill Skarsgård, Laurence Fishburne, Hiroyuki Sanada, Shamier Anderson, Lance Reddick (in one of his final roles), Rina Sawayama, Scott Adkins, and Ian McShane.
The film had its premiere at the Odeon Luxe Leicester Square in London on March 6, 2023, and is scheduled to be released in the United States on March 24, by Lionsgate. It received positive reviews from critics.
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Twin Temple – Twin Temple Present a Collection of Live (And Undead) Recordings from Their Satanic Ritual Chamber… Stripped from the Crypt (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 37:24 minutes | 866 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © No label
Twin Temple is an American rock and roll/doo-wop duo. They call their genre Satanic doo-wop. They consist of vocalist Alexandra James and guitarist Zachary James.
Their lyrics reference Satan but also deal with themes like Satanism, sex, love, and also social issues such as individualism, feminism, and LGBT-rights.
According to vocalist Alexandra James, a lot of inspiration comes from her upbringing as a child of mixed race (British-Korean), and the racism she was exposed to growing up in America. Twin Temple says that the central message of their songs is inclusion.
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Trio Nebelmeer – Chausson – Saint-Saëns: Piano Trios (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:33 minutes | 1,05 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mirare
Inspired by the great Romantic works of the piano trio repertoire, the Nebelmeer Trio – named after the emblematic painting by Caspar David Friedrich – embark on a joint exploration of a turmoiled romanticism. Composed ten years apart by two composers with a 20 year age difference, the trios for piano, violin and cello featuring in this album epitomize the quintessence of French Romantic music of the late 19th century.
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Trio Khaldei – Jeux de Couleurs (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:12 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Evil Penguin Classic
Trio Khaldei always tries to break the boundaries of the pure trio repertoire and has a penchant for arrangements of works from the great symphonic repertoire.
Sally Beamish’s arrangement of Debussy’s La Mer is an excellent example. Her reorchestration is not a bland copy of the original but a perfect adaptation of Debussy’s work to the piano trio’s scoring. Over-familiar music reduced to its pure essence: clenched, colourful, intimate.
Maurice Ravel wrote his magisterial piano trio in 1914 and finished it in record time because he had been called up to the front. Drawing inspiration from Basque rhythms, a Malay poetry form and seeking out the extremes of each instrument made for an unparalleled, innovative masterpiece.
Trio Khaldei is a champion of Belgian music and, alongside the two French icons, is programming a kindred spirit from right here with us: Frits Celis. His Trio op. 5 from 1958 is characterised by a strong rhythmic drive, a clear sense of structure but, above all, a beautiful, extensive colour palette.
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Trio Brax – Trio Brax (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 56:38 minutes | 1,81 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Lawo Classics
Trio Brax is a chamber music ensemble based in Tromsø, Northern Norway, founded in 2015. In this first recording they showcase music by the three Norwegian composers; Kjell Habbestad, Håvard Lund, and Helge Iberg, as well as music by Paul Hindemith.
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Kelly Rowland – Simply Deep (2002)
PS3 Rip | ISO | SACD DST 64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 53:15 minutes | Scans included | 3,42 GB
or FLAC 2.0 (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Full Scans included | 1,06 GB
It seems hard to believe now, but at the beginning of 2003, it appeared that underdog Kelly Rowland might usurp her fellow Destiny’s Child member Beyoncé in the solo career stakes, having scored a U.S. chart-topper and a U.K. number one album shortly after her bandmate’s Austin Powers-related “Work It Out” failed to even make it into the Billboard Hot 100. Of course, time has shown that this surprising role reversal only ever lasted a mere six months, but while “Crazy in Love” might have blown any comparisons out of the water, its parent album didn’t exactly produce the whitewash expected. Indeed, take away the Chi-Lites sampling booty-shaker and there isn’t much difference in quality between Dangerously in Love and Rowland’s first offering, Simply Deep. Like the former’s early uptempo nature, the latter’s 14 tracks start promisingly with the rock-tinged “Stole,” an emotive tale of school shootings and suicides, the Patti LaBelle-sampling Nelly duet “Dilemma,” and the clattering percussion of “Can’t Nobody.” But other than the Timbaland-esque staccato R&B of the Brandy-penned “Love/Hate,” and the sleek disco-funk of “Past 12,” the album soon becomes bogged down with the kind of gloopy, forgettable ballads that also dominated Beyoncé’s debut. The likes of finger-clicking slow jam “Haven’t Told You,” twinkling nu-soul number “Heaven,” and the Solange-featuring title track are all slickly produced, allowing Rowland’s soulful and seductive vocals to come to the forefront for a change, but they’re so utterly generic that they could have been lifted from several of her fellow young urban divas’ output, with only the gorgeous “Train on a Track,” an acoustic-driven lament to the first flourishes of love, and the chugging guitars and mournful strings of “Beyond Imagination,” deviating from the late-night slow jam pastiche formula. Having been recorded over just three weeks in order to capitalize on the success of “Dilemma,” Simply Deep does sometimes have the feel of a “will this do?” rush job, but skip past the schmaltzy filler and there are several flashes of inspiration which are more than worthy of sitting alongside the highlights of Beyoncé’s back catalog.
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Kellye Gray – Standards In Gray (1990) [Reissue 2005]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 50:29 minutes | 733 MB
DSD64 Stereo (tracks.dsf) 1 bit/2.8224 MHz | Scans NOT included | 2 GB
FLAC Stereo (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Front, Scans NOT included | 491 MB
Top Music International # TM-SACD8014.2 | Genre: Jazz
Kellye Gray was a jazz singer who brought a generous helping of Texas bravado to the stage, Gray was a creative force on the Bay Area scene for a quarter century, even though she often lived elsewhere. A native Texan, singer Kellye Gray began making a name on the Austin scene during the ’80s fronting a versatile band that covered a range of artists ranging from jazz and pop to funk and blues. Her musical diversity and bluesy voice attracted a following among college students and locals alike, and she was soon headlining many of Austin’s music festivals. Standards in Gray is her solo debut album.
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Keith Jarrett Trio – Standards Live (1986) [Japan 2018]
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 54:23 minutes | Scans included | 2,27 GB
or DSD64 Stereo (from SACD-ISO to Tracks.dsf) > 1 bit/2,8 MHz | Full Scans included | 2,21 MB
or FLAC (carefully converted & encoded to tracks) 24bit/96 kHz | Full Scans included | 1,25 GB
“Standards Live” is a live jazz album released by the Keith Jarrett trio in 1986. Originally released by ECM, it has been multiply re-issued. The album presents a performance of pianist Keith Jarrett with Gary Peacock on double bass and Jack DeJohnette on drums, recorded on July 2, 1985 in Paris, at the Palais des Congrès Studios de la Grande Armée, the second of a two-night engagement at that venue.
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Keith Jarrett Trio – Somewhere Before (1968) [Japanese Limited SHM-SACD 2011]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 41:32 minutes | Scans NOT included | 1,66 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Scans NOT included |769 MB
While still a member of the Charles Lloyd Quartet, Keith Jarrett did some occasional moonlighting with a trio, anchored by two future members of Jarrett’s classic quartet, Charlie Haden (bass) and Paul Motian (drums). On this release, Jarrett turns in a very eclectic set at Shelly’s Manne-Hole in Hollywood, careening through a variety of idioms where his emerging individuality comes through in flashes. He covers Bob Dylan’s “My Back Pages” — which actually came out as a single on the Vortex label — in an attractive, semi-funky style reminiscent of Vince Guaraldi. “Pretty Ballad” delivers a strong reflective dose of Bill Evans, while “Moving Soon” is chaotic free jazz. By the time we reach “New Rag,” we begin to hear the distinctive Jarrett idiom of the later trios, but then, “Old Rag” is knockabout stride without the stride. As an example of early, unfocused Jarrett, this is fascinating material.
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Keith Jarrett – The Koln Concert (1975) [Japan 2017]
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 66:17 minutes | Scans included | 2,68 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Full Scans included | 1,23 GB
Recorded in 1975 at the Köln Opera House and released the same year, this disc has, along with its revelatory music, some attendant cultural baggage that is unfair in one sense: Every pot-smoking and dazed and confused college kid – and a few of the more sophisticated ones in high school – owned this as one of the truly classic jazz records, along with Bitches Brew, Kind of Blue, Take Five, A Love Supreme, and something by Grover Washington, Jr. Such is cultural miscegenation. It also gets unfairly blamed for creating George Winston, but that’s another story. What Keith Jarrett had begun a year before on the Solo Concerts album and brought to such gorgeous flowering here was nothing short of a miracle. With all the tedium surrounding jazz-rock fusion, the complete absence on these shores of neo-trad anything, and the hopelessly angry gyrations of the avant-garde, Jarrett brought quiet and lyricism to revolutionary improvisation. Nothing on this program was considered before he sat down to play. All of the gestures, intricate droning harmonies, skittering and shimmering melodic lines, and whoops and sighs from the man are spontaneous. Although it was one continuous concert, the piece is divided into four sections, largely because it had to be divided for double LP. But from the moment Jarrett blushes his opening chords and begins meditating on harmonic invention, melodic figure construction, glissando combinations, and occasional ostinato phrasing, music changed. For some listeners it changed forever in that moment. For others it was a momentary flush of excitement, but it was change, something so sorely needed and begged for by the record-buying public. Jarrett’s intimate meditation on the inner workings of not only his pianism, but also the instrument itself and the nature of sound and how it stacks up against silence, involved listeners in its search for beauty, truth, and meaning. The concert swings with liberation from cynicism or the need to prove anything to anyone ever again. With this album, Jarrett put himself in his own league, and you can feel the inspiration coming off him in waves. This may have been the album every stoner wanted in his collection “because the chicks dug it.” Yet it speaks volumes about a musician and a music that opened up the world of jazz to so many who had been excluded, and offered the possibility – if only briefly – of a cultural, aesthetic optimism, no matter how brief that interval actually was. This is a true and lasting masterpiece of melodic, spontaneous composition and improvisation that set the standard.
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