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Gautier Capuçon – Emotions (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:17:41 minutes | 1,38 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics
Cellist Gautier Capuçon is accompanied on this album by Jérôme Ducros on piano. The album also features the Maitrise de Notre Dame on Schubert’s ‘Ave Maria’ and the Orchestre de chambre de Paris with conductor Adrien Perruchon.
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Gaudeamus – Sacred Feast (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 50:49 minutes | 830 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © DMP
This superb group of singers once again brings forth their signature sound under the direction of Paul Halley-music filled with spirit, nuance, and freshness of expression. Recorded by Tom Jung for his widely respected label, DMP Records, the album beautifully combines the clarity of sound for which Jung is known with the rich acoustic of this collegiate gothic structure. The realism and immediacy of the performance is documented in a way which truly brings these classic choral pieces to life.
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Gato Barbieri – Caliente! (1976/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 39:07 minutes | 863 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Believe it or not, this Argentinian-born saxophonist spent his early years playing in the jazz avant-garde with the likes of Don Cherry. But for all his free-form experiments, “the Cat” hit his stride with this pristine piece of seminal pop-jazz. His emotional, warm-blooded playing, gritty-sweet tone, and Latin-laced grooves slide down smooth and easy. Covers of Santana’s “Europa (Earth’s Cry Heaven’s Smile)” and Marvin Gaye’s “I Want You” remain faithful to the originals’ vibe, yet take on a seductive Spanish accent thanks to Barbieri’s expressive tenor and a battery of Latin percussion. Elsewhere, hip-swiveling rhythms and tuneful arrangements of cuts like “Fiesta,” “Behind the Rain,” and “Los Desperados” simply simmer. Drummer Lenny White kicks down a rock-solid beat, percussionists Ralph MacDonald and Mtume add the spice that’s funky and nice, and producer Herb Alpert (of Tijuana Brass, and the “A” in A&M Records) polishes the proceedings to a glossy sheen with colorful orchestrations and silky strings.
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Gaspard Royant – Wishing You a Merry Christmas (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 39:19 minutes | 447 MB | Genre: Alternative, Christmas
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Bellevue
Scooping up tracks from Royant’s seasonal singles and marrying them to newly recorded cuts, Wishing You a Merry Christmas is cool, hip and opens with a swinging cover of “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” drawn from Phil Spector’s 1963 A Christmas Gift for You from Philles Records album. After this, the self-composed (“C’mon Baby) It’s Christmas Time!” sets the tone for a ten-tracker which swims in less-obvious waters, even when a song is over familiar.
Royant’s take on John Lennon’s “Happy Christmas (War is Over)” sticks to the template vocally but otherwise injects a gentle dose of Sigur Rós’ textural blur. Eels’ “Everything’s Gonna Be Cool This Christmas” is rendered straightforwardly, but Wham’s “Last Christmas” is given a Roy Orbison-esque makeover. The album ends with a fine, moody, Chris Isaak-indebted run through U2’s “New Year’s Day”.
Tastefulness is a rare commodity with Christmas albums, but Wishing You a Merry Christmas has it in spades. As a similarly classy but new contribution to an easily maligned genre, file it alongside Paul Revere & the Raiders’ bizarre A Christmas Present…and Past, Psychic TV’s Pagan Day, Etiquette Records’ Merry Christmas album, Les Disques Du Crépuscule’s Chantons Noël – Ghosts of Christmas Past and the Ze label’s A Christmas Record.
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Gaspard Augé – Escapades (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 42:00 minutes | 494 MB | Genre: Electronic, House
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Genesis
Gaspard Auge releases his Debut Album Escapades. He is best known as one half of Justice, the duo that united rock and rave and whose dancefloor smashes defined a generation. Gaspard made an instrumental album whose sound will be familiar to Justice ’s fanbase, echoing some previous works and inspirations of the cult duet. Escapades sounds like a UFO landing from another galaxy, or time, a baroque masterpiece that reimagines European classical music for this century.
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Gary Schocker – Music for Introverts (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:16:07 minutes | 1,22 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Centaur Records, Inc.
Gary Schocker is a prolific contemporary composer. He has composed widely for the flute, an instrument he plays himself, but also composes for other instruments, including the piano, which is his other instrument. These are wonderful melodic works, full of personal introspection. Born into a musical family in Easton, Pennsylvania, Schocker began his musical career on piano, making his recital debut at the age of three. By the time he was ten, he had added flute to his musical studies. Schocker made his professional debut as a flutist at the age of 15, appearing as soloist with both the Philadelphia Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic, thus establishing a name for himself even before attending The Juilliard School and winning numerous prestigious competitions, including the National Flute Associations Young Artist Competition, the New York Flute Clubs Young Artist Competition, the East and West International Concert Artists Competition, and Young Concert Artists Competition. In 1988, he cemented his reputation as a versatile performer by filling in, with only a few hours notice, for an ailing Jean-Pierre Rampal in a performance of the Mozart D Major Concerto with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, composing new cadenzas in his head on the way to the concert hall.
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Gary Peacock, Marilyn Crispell – Azure (2013/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 59:10 minutes | 518 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM
Azure features beautiful duets by two great improvisers who proved their compatibility long ago. Bassist Gary Peacock and pianist Marilyn Crispell made some outstanding music together in Crispell’s trio with late drummer Paul Motian, but their duo project also has an extensive history, until now unrecorded. With their shared sense of lyricism, their individual compositional styles and their profound background in free playing, Peacock and Crispell are exceptional musical partners. The album, self-produced in upstate New York, home territory for both musicians, contains pieces written by each one, duo improvisations and highly inventive piano and bass solos.
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Gary Peacock Trio – Tangents (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 53:10 minutes | 940 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM
Whenever he’s not twisting and turning with Jack DeJohnette in Keith Jarrett’s trio (it’s been going on since 1983!), Gary Peacock focuses on his own trio. Along with drummer Joey Baron and bassist Marc Copland, the American double bass player is releasing his second album with a band of impressive calibre. An album recorded in Lugano in May 2016 and produced by Manfred Eicher of ECM. Much like Now This, also released by the label from Munich a year earlier, there is a Himalayan musicality in this album, owing as much to its leader as to his two sidemen – although the term “sidemen” doesn’t apply here – and throughout which none of the protagonists try to draw attention to themselves. Each one contributes to the repertoire (five compositions by Peacock, two by Baron and one by Copland) and the three colleagues reinterpret Miles Davis’ Blue In Green as well as Alex North’s theme for Stanley Kubrick’s Spartacus, providing a fantastic base for improvisation… Being one of the main figures that helped develop the role of double bass in the 60s, Gary Peacock has always been particularly attached to the melodic fabric of what he plays. And Tangents is only one more proof of this artistic commitment.
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Gary Peacock – Voice From The Past – Paradigm (1982/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 49:58 minutes | 1,65 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM
In the realm of the piano trio the bar is set high, and creative bassist Gary Peacock has helped raise it in the groups of Bill Evans, Paul Bley and Keith Jarrett. However, the formative 1981 ECM release Voice from the Past: Paradigm finds Peacock working in a unique quartet setting with stellar accompaniment from Jan Garbarek (tenor & soprano saxophone), Tomasz Stanko (trumpet) and Jack DeJohnette (drums). The uncanny interplay between Peacock and DeJohnette on standouts like “Voice From the Past,” “Moor” and “Ode for Tomten” wonderfully foreshadows the top flight work they would go on to do together in just a few years time in Keith Jarrett’s trio.
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Gary Peacock – Tales Of Another (1977/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 48:55 minutes | 998 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM
Tales of Another is an album by American bassist Gary Peacock featuring Keith Jarrett and Jack DeJohnette recorded in 1977 and released on the ECM label. The album marks the first recording by the group who later became well known as Keith Jarrett’s Standards Trio.
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Gary Peacock Trio – Now This (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:54 minutes | 1,18 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM
In the realm of the piano trio the bar is set high, and creative bassist Gary Peacock has helped raise it in the groups of Bill Evans, Paul Bley and Keith Jarrett. ‘Now This’ is an album with the bassist’s current trio, recorded in the summer of 2014 in Oslo and issued in time for Peacock’s 80th birthday (on 12 May, 2015).
Powerful new versions of some Peacock classics – such as ‘Moor’, ‘Vignette’, ‘Requiem’ and ‘Gaya’ – are interspersed with recent compositions. Pianist Marc Copland and drummer Joey Baron each contribute tunes, and the group also tackles Scott La Faro’s ‘Gloria’s Step’. In this band, roles are very evenly shared, and this is an optimum context in which to appreciate the melodic invention of Peacock’s bass playing. Marc Copland always honours the needs of the compositions and Joey Baron supplies both drive and sensitive detail.
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Tubeway Army – Gary Numan – Replicas (1979/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:17 minutes | 761 MB | Genre: Rock, New Wave
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Beggars Banquet
Replicas is the second and final album by British band Tubeway Army, released in 1979. After this, Tubeway Army frontman Gary Numan would continue to release records under his own name, though the musicians in Tubeway Army would continue to work with him for some time. Replicas was the first album of what Numan later termed the “machine” phase of his career, preceding The Pleasure Principle and Telekon, a collection linked by common themes of a dystopian science fiction future and transmutation of man/machine, coupled with an androgynous image and a synthetic rock sound.
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Gary Numan & The Skaparis Orchestra – When the Sky Came Down (Live at The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 02:00:52 minutes | 1,35 GB | Genre: Electronic
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd
Gary’s sold out live show with The Skaparis Orchestra at The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester. The setlist includes songs from his highly successful ‘Savage’ album and classic tracks including the No.1 single ‘Are ‘Friends’ Electric?’. A breathtaking concert for fans to relive again.
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Gary Numan / Tubeway Army – Replicas – The First Recordings (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:44 minutes | 1,58 GB | Genre: Alternative
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Beggars Banquet
In late 1978, Gary Numan was booked into a small studio in London’s Chinatown with the same musicians that had played on Tubeway Army’s debut album, released a month earlier. Two stereo master tapes were compiled of eleven tracks. A month later they again went to Gooseberry Studio and recorded an additional three tracks, including “Are ‘Friends’ Electric?” and “Replicas”. At the same time, the band recorded a session for the BBC’s John Peel show, taping alternate versions of three songs from the December recordings. Finally Numan returned to an upgraded studio, Marthus Music, in February to overdub and remix the Gooseberry recordings into their released versions. Only one alternative out take still exists (“Down In The Park”) which is included in this release.
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Gary Numan – The Pleasure Principle (1979/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 41:10 minutes | 864 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Beggars Banquet
The legendary proto-new wave / electronic hit from Gary Numan that went on to influence an entire generation of synth-heads and knob twiddlers. The Pleasure Principle went to number 1 in the United Kingdom.
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