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Big Time Rush – Another Life (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 30:49 minutes | 374 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BMG Rights Management (US) LLC
After a seven-year hiatus, Big Time Rush announced they would be reuniting for two performances in New York and Chicago in December 2021. Shortly before these performances, the band released their first single in over eight years, “Call It Like I See It”. This release was succeeded by multiple standalone singles in 2022, including “Not Giving You Up”, “Fall”, “Honey”, “Dale Pa’ Ya” with Dominican artist Maffio, and a re-recording of “Paralyzed”. These singles were promoted by the band’s first tour in eight years, the Forever Tour.
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Sadik Hakim – Memories (1978/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 50:32 minutes | 938 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Progressive
Sadik Hakim was born Argonne Dense Thornton on July 15, 1919, in Duluth, Minnesota and principally raised by his grandparents after both his parents separated and left the family home in 1925.
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San Francisco Symphony & Michael Tilson Thomas – Berlioz: Roméo et Juliette (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:36:50 minutes | 1,72 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © SFS Media
Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony bring unsurpassed storytelling and musicality to their latest recording on the Grammy Award-winning SFS Media label: Berlioz’s dramatic symphony Roméo et Juliette. With a narrative that Berlioz deemed “too beautiful, too musical” to not be performed, this impassioned orchestral scoring of love and despair is further enriched by the vocals of Sasha Cooke, Nicholas Phan, Luca Pisaroni, and the SFS Chorus.
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Paul Lewis – Schubert: The Late Piano Sonatas (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:09:09 minutes | 1,76 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © harmonia mundi
Paul Lewis is today regarded as one of the leading pianists of his generation, having won the most coveted prizes of the great classical institutions, for both his concert career and his recordings on harmonia mundi, topped by three Gramophone Awards including Record of the Year in 2008. He is also the first pianist in the history of the BBC Proms to have played the complete Beethoven concertos in a single season (2010). Early in 2011, Paul Lewis embarked on a two-year concert tour devoted to the works written by Schubert in the last six years of his life. Now completed, he has played in London, New York, Chicago, Tokyo, Melbourne, Rotterdam, Bologna, Florence and at the Schwarzenberg Schubertiade and the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris.
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Shawn Maxwell – Millstream (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 43:12 minutes | 890 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Jazzline
A spirited free-thinker and committed non-conformist, saxophonist-composer Shawn Maxwell is clearly courting another kind of muse. “Jackie McLean and Cannonball Adderley are two of my heroes, and I guess you probably wouldn’t even think of it listening to me play. But I’ve transcribed them and been influenced hugely by them. I love Cannonball. But I’m not gonna be Cannonball.”
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Alana Springsteen – TWENTY SOMETHING (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 53:54 minutes | 677 MB | Genre: Country, Pop, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia
A force-of-nature talent with the passion to match, Nashville-based singer-songwriter Alana Springsteen is already an expert at crafting the kind of songs that imprint on your heart forever. After learning to play guitar at the young age of seven, the Virginia Beach native began penning her own songs at nine, and soon started trekking to Nashville to co-write with industry heavyweights. In the tradition of powerhouse female Country stars she grew up on, Springsteen instills her music with an irresistible mix of charisma, confidence, and warm yet fearless honesty.
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Shellac – The End of Radio – 14 July 1994 Peel Session (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:03 minutes | 1,20 GB | Genre: Indie Rock, Post Punk, Noise Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Touch and Go Records
This is Shellac’s sixth album, composed of sessions recorded for John Peel in 1994 & 2004. Duration: 01:02:03. 2LP is on 180g vinyl and incudes a CD of the full album. Both the 2xLP and the 2xCD version are packaged in a top-load single pocket wide-spine jacket with two printed inner sleeves. Audio quality is paramount, as always, with Shellac. The LP was mastered by Chicago Mastering Service. The vinyl is manufactured at RTI in Camarillo, CA. The pressings are 180 gram audiophile quality. Other than the informational sheet you hold in your hand (or virtual hand), this record will have no formal promotion. There will be no advertisements, no press or radio promotion, no promotional or review copies, no promotional gimmick items, and otherwise no free lunch. Photos of the band are available. And the band is available for email or telephone interviews. The band will continue to play shows or tour at the same sporadic and relaxed pace as always. There is no correlation between shows and record releases. The Band: Steve Albini / Guitar, Todd Trainer / Drums, Bob Weston / Bass.
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Shellac – Dude Incredible (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 32:41 minutes | 378 MB | Genre: Alternative Rock, Noise Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Touch and Go Records
This is Shellac’s fifth studio album. Recording took place sporadically over the past few years at Steve’s Electrical Audio studios in Chicago. The record was mastered by Steve Rooke at Abbey Road. Audio quality is paramount, as always, with Shellac.
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Takács Quartet – Dvořák: String Quartet, Op. 106; Coleridge-Taylor: Fantasiestücke (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:03:53 minutes | 2,30 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hyperion Records
Dvořák’s mature string quartets are masterly, all brimming with life-enhancing music, and Op 106 is no exception. The Takács Quartet gives superlative accounts of both this and the apt coupling by a young Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.
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Sabir Mateen – Creation (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:11:25 minutes | 831 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © 577 Records
FACTS FIRST: CREATION presents one 47-minute, fully improvised 2012 live performance from Berlin, featuring three Germans and one New Yorker. The Germans are drummer Klaus Kugel, bassist Christian Ramond, and vibraphonist Christopher Dell. Kugel and Ramond have been frequent bandmates since the late ‘80s, currently with clarinetists Michel Pilz and Theo Jörgensmann. A beat is optional in this sort of free jazz, but momentum is a requirement, ands Kugel and Ramond, thinking in tandem, are expert at supplying it. I was unfamiliar with Dell before hearing him on Creation, for which I bear blame as a typically geocentric American, because he provides such color and contrast here, both in his solos and his backgrounds, that he’s now among my very favorite vibists, along with Chicagoian Jason Adasiewicz. The wildcard is the sub-underground shock tenorist Sabir Mateen, who continues to be a mystery man in whatever scene he finds himself. Prepare to be blown away by him—as close as possible to literally.
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Stephanie Shih-yu Cheng – Ravel: Masterworks for the Piano (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:53 minutes | 1016 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Centaur Records, Inc.
Taiwanese-American pianist Stephanie Shih-yu Cheng has performed at major music centers across the world to critical acclaim, including Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York, Dame Myra Hess Concert Series in Chicago, Opera City Hall of Tokyo, National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., and National Concert Hall of Taipei. She frequently appears in recitals with pianist Sara Davis Buechner and has collaborated with conductor Leon Fleisher, and has been featured on National Public Radio, WFMT in Chicago, Chicago Loop Cable Channel 25, Radio Video Mediterraneo in Italy, Living & Travel Section of msnbc.com, and Nippon Television in Japan. She can be heard on the Summit label and her solo album Ravel: Masterworks for the Piano is due to be released in spring 2023 on the Centaur label.
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Russ Johnson Quartet – Reveal (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 51:42 minutes | 569 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Calligram Records
“Johnson’s sterling sound and quicksilver mind place him firmly in the modern jazz tradition.” — DownBeat
From the opening intervals of “Skips,” trumpeter and composer Russ Johnson’s Reveal makes good on the promise inherent in the album’s title. Slyly unveiling interconnected themes and infectious grooves, the chord-less quartet — an unusual front-line of Johnson’s trumpet and Mark Feldman’s violin with drummer Timothy Daisy and bassist Ethan Philion — revels in a vast palette of sonic combinations and permutations. Along the way Johnson and his associates navigate an impressive range of material, from the funky odd-meter groove that suddenly emerges in “Skips” to a masterful plunger elegy for Jamie Branch (“The Long Branch”) and a synthesis of the structured freedom of the AACM with lush post-Romantic harmonies (“The Slow Reveal”). “My entire career has been built on playing music in the cracks between ‘modern jazz’ and more ‘improvised’ musics, says Johnson. “I do not draw a distinction between the two.”
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Title: Eric Clapton – The Definitive 24 Nights Blues 1991
Release Date: 2023
Genre: Blues Rock
Production/Label: Warner Records
Duration: 01:31:48
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Audio codec: DTS-HD, PCM, Dolby TrueHD
Video: MPEG-4 AVC Video / 19995 kbps / 1080p / 23.976 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: MPEG-4 AVC Video / 22006 kbps / 1080p / 23.976 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#2: LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Audio#3: Dolby TrueHD/Atmos Audio / 7.1 / 48 kHz / 3728 kbps / 16-bit (AC3 Embedded: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 640 kbps /DN -21dB)
Size: 20.07 GB
In 1990, Eric Clapton performed 18 nights at one of his favorite venues – the famous Royal Albert Hall in London. During the 18 run of shows Clapton performed with three different line-ups: a rock band, a blues band, and an orchestra. Eric returned to the same venue in 1991 with the same three line-ups and played a further 24 shows. The huge undertaking of rehearsing for performances of three distinctly different genres was made even more challenging by the line-up for the rock shows varying from 4, 9 or 13 band members. Clapton has always played with superlative musicians, and these shows were no exception. The bands included Johnnie Johnson, Jimmie Vaughan, Chuck Leavell, Nathan East, Greg Phillinganes, Steve Ferrone, Ray Cooper, and Jerry Portnoy. Additionally, legendary special guests joined Clapton on stage: Phil Collins in the rock ensemble; Robert Cray, Buddy Guy and Albert Collins for the blues shows.
The Orchestral performances were arranged and conducted by Michael Kamen the highly regarded and successful composer who had worked with Clapton previously (Lethal Weapon, Edge Of Darkness). The set list included the epic 30 minute “Concerto For Guitar” that Kamen composed especially for Clapton – released now for the first time. Many of the performances in both years were filmed and recorded. The huge volume of audio and film material from the archive has been painstakingly restored and upgraded by Clapton’s team of Simon Climie (audio production and mixing), producer Peter Worsley (Slowhand at 70 and The Lady In The Balcony), and director David Barnard (The Lady In The Balcony). This remarkable series of shows will finally be given the release that they deserve. A full concert of each genre (Rock, Blues, Orchestral) has been assembled from the hours of material available and will be released on audio (CD, LP, digital) and with an accompanying film on Blu-ray and DVD. The Clapton classics performed with the rock band include “White Room”, “Lay Down Sally”, “Wonderful Tonight”, “Pretending”, and “Layla”. The Orchestral show features a stunning version of “Layla”, plus stand-out highlights of “Bell Bottom Blues”, “Edge Of Darkness”, and “Sunshine of Your Love”. Great covers of “Cocaine”, “I Shot The Sheriff” and “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door” are also featured. The 14-song Blues set includes standards such as “Sweet Home Chicago”, “Have You Ever Loved A Woman”, and “Key To The Highway”. The limited-edition “Definitive 24 Nights” deluxe box sets include 47 songs and almost 6 hours of music on 6 CDs or 8 LPs and 3 Blu-ray’s. The Rock, Blues and Orchestral shows will also be released as stand-alone concerts on LP and CD. The CD formats also come with the film of the show on DVD.
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Paulette McWilliams – These Are The Sweet Things (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 59:06 minutes | 737 MB | Genre: Soul
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Expansion Records
“These Are The Sweet Things” is a 2023 album release by the illustrious soul/jazz singer and songwriter, Paulette McWilliams. With a career spanning several decades and collaborations with legendary artists, Paulette McWilliams continues to captivate audiences with her extraordinary talent and undeniable charisma.
Born and raised on Chicago’s South Side, Paulette McWilliams discovered her passion for singing at a tender age. Influenced by the likes of Sarah Vaughan, Aretha Franklin, and Ella Fitzgerald, she developed a deep appreciation for live music through attending shows at local clubs and outdoor block parties alongside her older sisters.
Santana – Santana (1969) [MFSL 2015]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 36:55 minutes | Scans included | 1,5 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Full Scans included | 728 MB
Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab # UDSACD 2151
Carlos Santana was originally in his own wing of the Latin Rock Hall of Fame, neither playing Afro-Cuban with rock guitar, as did Malo, nor flavoring mainstream rock with percussion, as did Chicago. His first record, as with the best fusion, created something a little different than just a mixture – a new style that, surprisingly, remains all his own. Granted that Latin music has seeped into the mainstream since, but why aren’t Van Halen and Metallica listening to this? Where they simmer, Santana boils over.
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