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Norrac – New Born (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 42:05 minutes | 500 MB | Genre: Reggae
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Megawave
“New Born” by Norrac is a new album being released by MEGAWAVE on February 21, 2023. Recorded in France and Jamaica, this is a compelling roots and reggae dub album from producer and multi-instrumentalist Carron ‘Norrac’ McGibbon, who produced, composed and arranged all of the tracks. Recorded and mixed at Studio Norrac, Auxerre (France), Studio Devidal, Bourgoin Jallieu (France), Mixing Lab Studio (Jamaica), and Tuff Gong Studio (Jamaica). Mastered by John Palmer at Andro-Media (USA), it is being serviced to radio by Distiller Promo.
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Ning Feng and Zee Zee – Brahms: Violin Sonatas (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:12:59 minutes | 3,46 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Channel Classics
Violinist Ning Feng is recognised internationally as an artist of great lyricism, innate musicality and stunning virtuosity. Together with pianist Zee Zee he presents the Sonatas for Violin and Piano by Johannes Brahms: Sonata No. 1 in G, Op. 78, Sonata No. 2 in A, Op. 100, and Sonata No. 3 in D minor, Op. 108. Ning Feng believes these sonatas for piano and violin to be the crown jewels of the repertoire, stating: “Ever since I first heard them on a recording, I fell in love with them. And after performing them myself many, many times over the past 20 years, I have learned to appreciate the beauty of the lyrical melodies even more and more deeply understand the musical philosophy of this great composer.”- Ning Feng
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Nina Simone – NINA SIMONE INTEGRAL 1957- 1962 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 04:51:00 minutes | 1,49 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Diggers Factory
Nina Simone was the sixth of eight children. Her mother was a Methodist preacher, and her father worked as an entertainer and hairdresser and in a dry cleaning business.She began playing the piano at the age of three or four. The first song she learned was God Be With You, Till We Meet Again. She showed talent on the piano and performed at her local church.
She made her concert debut, a classical recital, at the age of 12. Simone later recounted that her parents, who had been seated in the front row, were forced to move to the back of the auditorium to make room for white people. She said she refused to play until her parents were brought back to the front, and that incident contributed to her later involvement in the civil rights movement. Simone’s music teacher helped establish a special fund to pay for her education, then a local fund was established to support her continued education. With the help of this scholarship, she was able to attend Allen High School for Girls in Asheville, North Carolina.
After studying at the prestigious Juilliard School in New York City, she planned to complete her education in Philadelphia at the Curtis Institute of Music, but was not admitted. Simone held that she was not admitted for racial reasons. An accusation denied by Curtis Institute staff, since Curtis had long admitted black students. The year Simone applied, only three of 72 applicants were accepted in piano at all. In 2003, just days before her death, the Institute awarded her an honorary degree.
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Nils Davidsen – Fyrtårn (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 47:30 minutes | 380 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ILK Music
Cello and piano has a long story together. With their spontaneous music, Fyrtårn (Lighthouse) presents a different angle on the combination of these two highly interwoven instruments, and challenge the sonic possibilities that exist in this format.
The music played in Fyrtårn is spontaneous compositions based on common thorough sonic researches, illuminated by playfulness and hyper musical communication. Nils Bo Davidsen and Simon Toldam breathe as one when they dive into a music placed in the intersection between contemporary classical music and improvised music. Like two artists painting on the same canvas
Fyrtårn consists of 13 tracks, and is recorded in Koncertkirken, Copenhagen. With its great acoustics, Koncertkirken is home of the vibrant danish contemporary music-scene, and a second home for Nils & Simon.
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Niklas Paschburg – Panta Rhei (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 40:42 minutes | 398 MB | Genre: Modern Classical, Electronic
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © 7K!
Niklas Paschburg’s third album Panta Rhei arrives via 7K! on March 17th, 2023. The title and the music are inspired by Heraclitus’s Greek philosophy that “everything flows” and finds the Hamburg-born artist exploring an unrestricted world of electronic and post-classical music drawn from deep within himself, also accompanied by vocalists Kaktus Einarsson, luìsa, Bianca Steck.
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Nightstalker – Superfreak (2009/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 48:58 minutes | 1,02 GB | Genre: Hard Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Nightstalker
Fifth full-length from the popular act from Greece, a high-end stoner rock band who have much in common with the first 4 Hawkwind, and all Monster Magnet, albums.
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Nicola Sabato – California Hang (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:22 minutes | 1,07 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © SOTIBAT
With the creative fervor that characterizes him, Nicola Sabato has transformed the California sun into a pure groove extract. The ingredients are simple: just go there to talk with the most popular musicians on the jazz planet and its surroundings (they have played with Diana Krall, Roy Hargrove, Nancy Wilson, John Pizzarelli, Kurt Elling, Barbara Streisand, Gladys Knight …). An inspired guitarist, a virtuoso pianist and a supercharged drummer, each at the peak of his personal expression — this could only give a jazz cocktail of a rare intensity!
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Nguyên Lê – Silk and Sand (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 48:51 minutes | 935 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ACT Music
After adventures in the most diverse formations and musical styles, World jazz icon Nguyên Lê returns to the trio format with which he once founded his international career. Together with the Canadian Chris Jennings, one of the most sought-after bassists on both sides of the Atlantic. And the Moroccan percussionist Rhani Krija, whose filigree, colourful grooves have already enriched the music of stars like Sting, Keziah Jones or Dominic Miller.
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Naum Grubert – Celebrating Franck and Scriabin (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:54 minutes | 1,25 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Navis Classics
Pianist Naum Grubert follows up his earlier DSD releases that highlighted the music of Beethoven and Chopin with his third DSD album from Navis Classics at NativeDSD. Celebrating Franck and Scriabin finds Grubert performing selected works from these two composers on a Steinway d274 piano.
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Natalya Boeva & Polina Spirina – Meine Seele weinte (My Soul Wept) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:18 minutes | 1004 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Genuin
“Meine Seele weinte” (“My soul wept”) is the title of the versatile mezzo-soprano Natalya Boeva’s new CD featuring lieder spanning a wide variety of epochs, languages, and styles. It is a co-production of GENUIN and the Bayerischer Rundfunk. Together with her piano partner Polina Spirina, the winner of the ARD International Music Competition in Voice 2018 immerses herself in an exciting selection of works by the great lied composers Franz Schubert, Richard Strauss, and Karol Szymanowski and the contemporary Russian composers Alexander Labyrich and Dmitri Smirnov. Arguably no other genre can probe the most intimate human feelings of deep sorrow and quiet hope as profoundly as the lied. Natalya Boeva and Polina Spirina trace the most subtle emotions and the most imperceptible color shifts of these treasures with utmost precision – a moving interpretation of an extraordinary program!
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Natalie Dietz – Casualty (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:00:14 minutes | 663 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ABC Jazz
Jazz composer and vocalist Natalie Dietz has made a strong impression on the Australian and international jazz scene impressing both audiences and critics with her ethereal vocal tone and original approach to songwriting. A graduate of the jazz vocal program at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Natalie then left for the USA to study at New England Conservatory where she worked with some of today’s most forward-thinking contemporary jazz artists including Donny McCaslin, Jason Moran, and Dave Holland. She has performed extensive jazz club residencies around Manhattan.
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Murray McLachlan – Geoffrey Allen: Complete Piano Sonatas (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 06:27:49 minutes | 5,96 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Metier
Geoffrey Allen was an icon in Australian music until his death in 2021 at the age of 94. What is really interesting about Geoffrey’s music is that it looks orthodox on the page initially, but is in fact extremely thought-provoking. He has a unique way of combining the familiar with the unfamiliar: Geoffrey’s music is always extremely well crafted and looks deceptively simple on the page, but as soon as you begin to play any phrase from his works you discover that he is always subtly reinventing the wheel! There is subtle originality, extraordinary variety and colourful fascination in his prolific output for the instrument. The recordings…will unquestionably amount to a significant contribution to the development of the 20th/21st century piano sonata.
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Mr & Mrs Smooth – Over the Sky (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 31:17 minutes | 346 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © FM Records
Mr and Mrs Smith are a charming, cheeky and charismatic Duo/ Trio with a mission to entertain and impress. Consisting of a core duo made of Serge Le Goueff (Saxophones, Clarinet and Flute) and Paula Renee (Vocals) Mr and Mrs Smith are the ultimate professionals who execute an artillery of styles including classy Jazz, smooth Soul, sultry Motown as well as popular contemporary tunes.
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Motörhead – Bad Magic: SERIOUSLY BAD MAGIC (Deluxe) (2015/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 02:02:44 minutes | 1,54 GB | Genre: Metal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Motörhead Music
A lot happened to Motörhead — or more accurately to Motörhead’s once and future leader, Lemmy Kilmister — after the release of 2013’s Aftershock, and most of it wasn’t good. Lemmy, who along with Keith Richards seemed to be the rocker most likely to survive Armageddon (and why hasn’t someone written a comedy where those two chat while foraging for liquor and cigarettes in the wake of World War III?), was abruptly revealed as all too mortal as he found himself struggling with heart trouble, diabetes, and other maladies, and more than a few fans blanched when they saw the widely circulated online video of a weakened Lemmy pacing off stage at the 2013 Wacken Open Air Festival, too frail to complete Motörhead’s set. 2015’s Bad Magic was the first Motörhead album after Lemmy cut back on liquor and tobacco (and had a defibrillator implanted), and returned to the road, and the truth is the mighty frontman sounds older and weaker for the ordeal. That said, it doesn’t hurt as much as you might imagine; on Bad Magic, Lemmy sounds bloodied but unbowed, an ancient soldier who doesn’t know the meaning of surrender and will happily run you through with a sword as he draws his last breath. If Lemmy croaks or wheezes more often on Bad Magic than he has before, it suits his tales of foul-minded bastards and their despicable deeds, and it’s a fine fit with the bloody-minded attitude that has always been Motörhead’s stock in trade. Just as importantly, Lemmy’s bass work remains thunderous, as thick and dirty as it was in his salad days, and guitarist Phil Campbell and drummer Mikkey Dee continue to bring the noise in inspired fashion. Musically, this album brings very little that’s new to the group’s playbook, but they still sound like Motörhead, something thousands of younger and more agile bands simply cannot do, and if you’re wondering if Motörhead can still kick your butt and blow out your speakers in 2015, the answers are “Hell yeah” and “You know it.” And if the cover of “Sympathy for the Devil” seems an odd way to end this album, if anyone in metal can sound truly convincing as Old Scratch and oddly charming in his pursuit of evil, Lemmy’s in the running, and Bad Magic suggests the man and his band might just be indestructible after all. – Mark Deming
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