INXS – Kick (1987/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 39:56 minutes | 459 MB | Genre: Rock
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Chart History/Awards
– Reached #3 on the Billboard 200 and #1 in Australia
– 7x Platinum in Australia (AIRA Certified)
– 6x Platinum in the US (RIAA Certified)
– “Never Tear Us Apart,” “Need You Tonight,” “New Sensation” and “Devil Inside” reached the Top Ten on Billboard’s Hot 100.
Kick is widely considered one of INXS’ greatest albums. The six-time Platinum masterpiece reached the Top Ten in Australia, the U.K., Germany and the United States. It includes the Top Ten singles, “New Sensation,” “Never Tear Us Apart,” “Devil Inside” and “Need You Tonight.” The recording is included in the book, 100 Best Australian Albums. This instant-classic is one of the band’s finest releases.
Read moreInwardness – Space Jazz (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 53:27 minutes | 978 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ozella
Behind Blindfolded Eyes: Don’t let the title of this album fool you. Space Jazz is not about moon landings, worm holes and distant planets. Rather, Inwardness are leading listeners into the spaces between the notes, setting course for equally familiar and alien microcosms. In fact, only a single item is of truly cosmic dimensions here: The band’s long and winding history, which leads across two contents towards a happy ending.
Read moreInUnum Ensemble – La leggenda di Vittore e Corona nei codici del medioevo (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 53:02 minutes | 1,01 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Tactus
The recording of ‘La Leggenda di Vittore e Corona’ focuses on the musical-liturgical repertoire that the ancient Venetian medieval tradition named after the two proto-martyrs. The source (Antifonario Marciano, Archivio di Stato di Venezia, 14th century) sings in the form of the minor liturgy of the Vespers the different moments of the Passio involving Vittore until he joined Corona in the martyrdom, reaching eternal glory. Far from representing only a local cult, the legend of Vittore and Corona is fully part of the history of Christianity and, in particular, of the defenseless yet determined struggle for the freedom of faith, thought and conscience. The style between the Gregorian and the Aquileian rite of the Marcian vespers (first performance in modern times) is very well accompanied by that of the polyphonic pieces taken from European codes of the same period, underlining the salient moments of the legend; the original alternation of the voices and medieval instruments between concordant monody and polyphonic dialogue connotes the performance of the InUnum Ensemble enhancing the narrative.
Read moreInterpol – Our Love To Admire (2007/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 47:06 minutes | 960 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Matador
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of “Our Love To Admire”, Capitol Records reissued this beloved classic. Upon its release, the album debuted in the Top Five in both the U.S. and the U.K. Uncut described the album as “a majestic, grandiose, machine-tooled album, subtly orchestrated with gothic pianos and doomy organs”. Interpol formed in the late 1990s and quickly established a dense, intoxicating sound featuring layers of guitar, bass and synthesizers. The band came up through the vibrant New York scene, alongside such notable contemporaries as the Strokes and the National, but gained crucial early attention in Britain, where they recorded a prestigious live session for legendary BBC DJ John Peel.
Read moreInterpol – El Pintor (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 39:56 minutes | 868 MB | Genre: Indie Rock
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El Pintor is Interpol’s fifth and most exhilarating studio album. It’s a driving, relentless record, taut and epic in equal measure. In contrast with previous records, Interpol took a step back on El Pintor and let the songs happen. What emerged is something urgent and compelling, something revitalized and reenergized. The result is as accomplished and thrilling a collection as the band has ever released.
Read moreInternational Jazz Consensus – Beak to Beak (1981/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 36:53 minutes | 771 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Alto saxophonist Allan Praskin has a formative influence on the stylistic emphasis on the music of the Jazz Consensus, whose clear domain is … contemporary bebop. “Happy Frog”, the first track on the album, is an Adelhard Roidinger composition where his bass is featured. The piece presents the melody on bass, doubled by saxophonist Allan Praskin on Giant Steps-like changes after an eight bar recurring vamp. “Longing”, penned by Allan Praskin, a beautiful ballad brings forth emotions of loneliness, loss, and melancholy through its haunting melody. It also distinguishes itself in coming to a full stop before a short cadenza in the middle of the melody section. “Beak to Beak”, is Allan Praskin’s swinging ”Be-Bop” inspired variation on the popular standard “Cheek to Cheek”. Obviously apparent, is Allan’s vivacious and resplendent solo owering over the changes as they fly by like a lighthouse and a flock of geese. Here as always, he never isappoints.“Delphi”, I wrote in honor of Allan’s daughter of the same name, now a fine musician herself. This work begins with a rubato introduction played in an open, semi-free style. It is followed by a melody based on a four note motif developed over sixteen bars. It follows a standard A/B/A form with an open two chord coda, which evolves rhythmically from the jazz 3/4 to a samba 3/4 meter. BTW, I’m proud to have suggested the name “Delphi” after the oracle, for Allan’s beautifuland talented daughter.
Read moreInternational Contemporary Ensemble & Colin Currie Group – Steve Reich: Pulse / Quartet (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 31:03 minutes | 534 MB | Genre: Classical
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Steve Reich’s Pulse / Quartet is performed by the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE). An artist collective committed to transforming the way music is created and experienced—and Quartet (2013) is played by the Colin Currie Group, an ensemble led by percussionist Colin Currie that specializes in the music of Steve Reich; these are also the ensembles that gave the world premiere performances of the respective works.
Read moreInternational Contemporary Ensemble – AEQUA (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 57:08 minutes | 1,90 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sono Luminus
AEQUA presents a varied constellation of recent chamber pieces for smaller forces by composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir — ranging from solo piano to string ensemble — orbiting the large ensemble work Aequilibria. The album takes the listener on a journey through Thorvaldsdottir’s distinctive soundworld, where sounds and nuances are as much part of the meticulously structured tapestry of the music as harmonies and lyrical material. The works are performed by the International Contemporary Ensemble, with two works conducted by Steven Schick and a work for solo piano performed by Cory Smythe.
Read moreInterestring Quartet – Interestring Quartet (2014/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 46:06 minutes | 334 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Interestring Quartet is formed by four string musicians specialized in a diverse range of music genres. The name of the band Interestring Quartet is a play on word of the term “Perfect Fourth” in Mandarin, which holds a special meaning in the study of Jazz Harmony and further breaks away from the concept of chord build with major or minor third, to explores the new boundaries of melodic and harmony composition.
Read moreInsomnium – Heart Like a Grave (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:10:51 minutes | 807 MB | Genre: Melodic Death Metal
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Consisting of 12 songs and over an hour of music the masterpiece of the melodic death metal masters, ‘Heart Like a Grave’, evolved to be an epic tour de force of Finnish melancholy, drawing inspiration from some of the bleakest tales, lyrics and poems of the north. Now with four composers in the band the sound of Insomnium is now richer and more versatile than ever before. And yet the essence and core of the music is the same as 22 years ago. The tree grows new branches but the roots go deeper into the black, rimed soil.
Read moreInsides – Soft Bonds (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 38:37 minutes | 716 MB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Further Distractions
Sublime first new recordings in 20 years by 4AD’s original dream-pop experimenters J. Tardo and Kirsty Yates as Insides – RIYL Nouvelle Vague, To Rococo Rot, Slowdive.
Read moreInon Zur – Into the Storm (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 48:14 minutes | 906 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Classical
If you play videogames, you’ve almost definitely heard the music of Inon Zur. One of the most prolific composers of game music, over the last 20 years Zur has worked on such games as Prince of Persia, Crysis, Dragon’s Dogma and Soulcalibur V. He’s best known for his work with the Fallout series, where he’s composed the music for Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas, Fallout 4 and Fallout 76. He also composed the scores for Dragon Age: Origins and Dragon Age II, defining how the rich fantasy world of Thedas sounds.
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