Patricia Ulrich, Huw Morgan – The Art of the Modern Trumpet, Vol. 1 (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:44 minutes | 961 MB | Genre: Classical
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The first volume in this groundbreaking series explores the 20th and 21st centuries’ most celebrated works for trumpet and piano; pieces which have allowed the modern performer to discover a kaleidoscopic palette of emotions and characters. From George Enescu’s Légende to Christopher Williams’s XX Mountains of Abstract Thought, the result is an exhilarating journey that surprises and enthralls the listener with tender lyricism, powerful sonorities and stunning virtuosity.
Read moreHussam Aliwat – Born Now (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 41:27 minutes | 451 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Born Now is the first album of the composer and oudist Hussam Aliwat. As much influenced by the cinema as the music, “Born Now” is built on 9 titles rich in dynamics, groove and singular rhythms; its structure and balance are supported by the subtle pace of improvisation. Through this album, the composer tries to overcome the limitations of a specific musical genre. Hussam invents a new mix of oriental, groove, rock and jazz music that invites his listener to travel across the traditional East and the classic West. Led by the sound of the oud, emblematic instrument of the Middle East, the two cellos and the drums, Aliwat takes us on a journey and goes beyond the limits of a specific musical genre, from the traditional East to the classical West, in a same piece.
Read moreHush Point – Hush Point III (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 39:59 minutes | 764 MB | Genre: Jazz
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For over four years, the collective ensemble and de facto workshop known as Hush Point has been developing a unique approach to jazz performance. The quartet of trumpeter John McNeil, saxophonist Jeremy Udden, bassist Aryeh Kobrinsky and drummer Anthony Pinciotti have used rehearsal techniques to broaden their expression and develop a sort of group ESP. This work has produced brilliant compositions that require a high level of musicianship and group interplay. Hush Point’s evolution can be heard on their innovative third recording, Hush Point III.
Read moreHurts – Surrender (Deluxe Edition) (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 44:52 minutes | 532 MB | Genre: Pop
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“Surrender” is the third studio album by English synth-pop duo Hurts. Debuting at #12 in the UK Albums Chart, the album features the singles ‘Some Kind of Heaven’, ‘Rolling Stone’, ‘Lights’, ‘Slow’ and ‘Wish’. Though the duo sometimes return to the comparative safety of moping synthetic orchestras, and soul-reflecting mirrors lying conveniently on the Camberwell Road pavement, for the most part, there’s a new sense of fun to Hurts.
Read moreHurts – Desire (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 44:14 minutes | 513 MB | Genre: Pop
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“Desire” is the fourth studio album by English synth-pop duo of Theo Hutchcraft and Adam Anderson. “Hurts” follow up their 2015 success album “Surrender” with the release of their fourth album “Desire”, featuring the single “Beautiful Ones”. Desire is the sound of a group who have thoroughly found themselves and sees them standing supremely confident, whilst retaining elements of older material including “Wonderful Life” and “Miracle”.
Read moreHurricane #1 – Buddah At The Gas Pump (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 32:41 minutes | 404 MB | Genre: Britpop, Indie Rock
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Long and anticipated new album from shoe-gaze, punk rock British recording artist Alex Lowe and Hurricane#1. The new album Buddha at the Gas Pump is coming this summer, in time for the bands return to Japan tour in September.
Read moreHurray For The Riff Raff – The Navigator (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 40:40 minutes | 769 MB | Genre: Rock
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On Hurray for the Riff Raff’s new album ‘The Navigator’ (March 10/ATO Records), Alynda Segarra tells an interwoven, cinematic story of a wandering soul at a crossroads of identity and ancestral weight. It finds a street kid named Navita traversing a perpetually burning city in search of herself. ‘The Navigator’ is a thrilling call to arms that could not come at a more crucial time. It also finds Hurray for the Riff Raff at its own musical intersection, delving deep into the worlds of Latin rhythms, searing rock, and incisive ballads.
Read moreHuron – Inside Information (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:01:26 minutes | 660 MB | Genre: Experimental, Electronic
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Huron is back with his long awaited album “Inside Information”. The Berlin based musician has come up with 13 original tracks for his album which sounds somewhere between the IDM/Glitch/Electronica. “Inside Information” is an accomplished coming of age for Huron, a conceptual LP that brings together the elements that worked so well on his previous albums, and mixed it into a robust, coherent statement.
Read moreHunt Sales Memorial – Get Your Shit Together (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 40:59 minutes | 517 MB | Genre: Alternative
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Debut by Hunt Sales Memorial is an explosive 12-track roots-rock exploration from the Runt band member, “Lust for Life” beatmaker, and Tin Machine co-founder; out January 25th 2019 from Big Legal MessMEMPHIS, Tenn. – A conventional bio of Hunt Sales would start by noting his famous associations, recounting his much-revered work as a sideman for Todd Rundgren, Iggy Pop and David Bowie. It would trumpet the fact that he’s long been considered one of the world’s greatest drummers, a secret weapon deployed in the service of rock royalty. But that’s not how Sales identifies, nor how he sees himself. “I’m gonna fucking tell you who I am,” says Sales with gruff candor. “What I really am is my kids’ father and my wife’s husband. And I’m a heroin addict. A bad heroin addict for 40 years. I’ve been a crackhead. And I’ve been a criminal. Those are the facts. But I don’t do drugs anymore. I’m sober now. All I do is make music – so let’s not be late for the show.”In a career that began when he was teen in the mid-’60s, Sales has seen and done it all. Beyond his impressive rock ‘n’ roll c.v. he’s played blues for the legendary Lowell Fulson, recorded with funk master Bootsy Collins, jammed out with Tex-Mex all-stars Los Super Seven, devoted himself to mastering organ trio music and Dixieland jazz, and served up songs across the spectrum for film and TV. If there’s a professional or creative path to explore, Sales has traveled it. Now leading his new project, Hunt Sales Memorial, he’s stepping out into the spotlight at last. “I’m a new artist that’s an old artist,” offers the 64-year-old Austinite. “I’m a guy who’s worked with the biggest stars in the world, but I’m still unknown and underground.” For Sales, the new chapter of his life came as he finally rid himself of a longtime heroin habit. “The life expectancy for the typical addict is 10 or 15 years. I lived way longer because I was professional junkie,” he says. “But after so many decades I finally had to stop. I outlived my addiction. And the moment I stopped,
Read moreHUNNY – Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 21:33 minutes | 444 MB | Genre: Indie, Post-Punk
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HUNNY is a band from Newbury Park, CA who first made a name for themselves in early 2015 after releasing their debut single “Cry for Me”. They have since released 3 Eps, including 2018’s “Windows II.” Tastemakers and fans alike found the Southern California group to be a perfect mix of post-punk tinged pop and their childhood influences like Prince and The Cure. The result is a sound that feels uniquely them. With a few more years and more material under their belt, HUNNY has gained fans across the globe by touring with the likes of The Neighbourhood, Beach Slang, The Frights and more. This is just the start of a long and promising career for HUNNY. HUNNY is front man Jason Yarger, guitarist Jake Goldstein, bassist/keyboardist Kevin Grimmett, and drummer Joey Anderson.
Read moreHun-Joung Lim, Korean Symphony Orchestra – Anton Bruckner 9 Symphonies (Live) (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 08:59:42 minutes | 9,60 GB | Genre: Classical
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Anton Bruckner: 9 Symphonies (Decca) comes courtesy of the maestro Hun-Joung Lim and the Korean Symphony Orchestra. It has been a decade or more since the KSO (which recorded the seventh symphony under Jae-Dong Chung), the Suwon Philharmonic (which recorded the third, fourth, sixth, and eighth), and the Jeju Philharmonic (which recorded all nine) gave the world a Korean Bruckner—too long, according to Lim.
“Korean orchestras have a relatively short history,” he told Korea.net in 2013. “For that reason, they have had a very limited repertoire and rehashed a limited range of pieces. … Bruckner’s [works] can sound a bit plain and boring at first, but after repeated listens … you will find yourself infatuated by the very melodies and rhythms.”
Recorded live at the Seoul Arts Center from 2014 to 2016, Lim’s interpretations mix various editions of the symphonies, including two apiece by Nowak and Haas. Those interpretations unfold confidently but not brashly (especially the adagios), as if excessive deliberateness or excessive haste would shortchange the “melodies and rhythms” with which Lim is entranced.
The symphonies do not, however, sound circumscribed. Rather, they sound the way one might expect them to coming from an orchestra to whom Bruckner’s daunting complexities represent exciting new challenges. The audiences, punctuating the conclusion of every finale (and the final movement of the finale-free Symphony No. 9) with enthusiastic applause and bravos, obviously received the performances in that spirit.
Read moreHungarian Radio Choir, Andor Izsak – Lewandowski: 18 Liturgical Psalms (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:21:18 minutes | 1,35 GB | Genre: Classical
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LOUIS LEWANDOWSKI, conductor, choral director and organist at Berlin’s Oranienburger Strasse synagogue, was a pioneer of modern Jewish liturgical music, whose reforms led to the creation of a new liturgy for Jewish synagogue services, a liturgy that combined classical Western music with traditional synagogue singing and restored an important role to organ music introducing a Romantic style influenced by Mendelssohn, whose family fostered Lewandowski’s career.
Read moreHungarian Radio Choir, Andor Izsak – Lewandowski: 18 Liturgical Psalms (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:21:18 minutes | 1,35 GB | Genre: Classical
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LOUIS LEWANDOWSKI, conductor, choral director and organist at Berlin’s Oranienburger Strasse synagogue, was a pioneer of modern Jewish liturgical music, whose reforms led to the creation of a new liturgy for Jewish synagogue services, a liturgy that combined classical Western music with traditional synagogue singing and restored an important role to organ music introducing a Romantic style influenced by Mendelssohn, whose family fostered Lewandowski’s career.
Read moreHungarian Quartet – Beethoven: The Complete String Quartets (1955/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 07:58:59 minutes | 4,51 GB | Genre: Classical
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The Hungarian Quartet, formed in 1935, embodied the very best of the Central European tradition of string-playing, and this cycle, recorded in Paris in the early 1950s, represents an essential staging post in the quest for Beethoven “These performances will give endless pleasure,” wrote Gramophone, “… the ensemble attack and technical proficiency of this quartet are beyond praise … and so is their grasp of the music.” These recordings have now been remastered from the original tapes in 24BIT-96kHz digital sound.
Read moreHumphrey Lyttelton And His Band – Humphrey Lyttelton and His Band (1965/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:04 minutes | 679 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Humphrey Richard Adeane Lyttelton (23 May 1921 – 25 April 2008), also known as Humph, was an English jazz musician and broadcaster from the Lyttelton family.
Having taught himself the trumpet at school, Lyttelton became a professional musician, leading his own eight-piece band, which recorded a hit single, “Bad Penny Blues”, in 1956. As a broadcaster, he presented BBC Radio 2’s The Best of Jazz for forty years, and hosted the comedy panel game I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue on Radio 4, becoming the UK’s oldest panel game host.
Lyttelton was also a cartoonist, collaborating on the long-running Flook series in the Daily Mail, and a calligrapher and president of The Society for Italic Handwriting.
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