Cheikh Ibra Fam – Peace in Africa (2021/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 38:11 minutes | 454 MB | Genre: World, Pop
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With his new international album, Peace In Africa, Senegalese singer and multi-instrumentalist, Cheikh Ibra Fam adds nuance to the broad spectrum African world music’s rich tradition.
It took a significant turning point for Cheikh Ibra Fam to realized that the time had come for him to come into his own and to do so under his real name. After four years with Orchestra Baobab, an iconic Senegalese band that has been around for over 50 years, and with three albums produced under his stage name, Freestyle, which established his reputation in his homeland, the next step in his artistic journey was a natural one. As he prepared to leave Senegal and the continent of his birth, all his experiences and personal reflections on music began to make sense, it was as if the puzzle pieces were all falling into place.
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Cecilie Grundt – Cecilie Grundt & Vigleik Storaas (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 36:01 minutes | 601 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Cecilie Grundt & Vigleik Storaas” is the new jazz album by Norwegian saxophonist Cecilie Grundt and award-winning pianist Vigleik Storaas. The album was recorded in February at Øra Studio and released on October 21, 2022 on Grundt Records, the first release on this new label. The album consists of seven classic jazz songs.
Cecilie Grundt and Vigleik Storaas met at the Music Conservatory in Trondheim in 2015 and have since worked together in several projects, especially in the Cecilie Grundt Quartet. In 2020, the band released their critically acclaimed album “Order and Chaos”, which contains eight of Grundt’s own compositions.
On their new album, the duo is dedicated to the Great American Songbook and jazz standards, the common language of the jazz tradition. In her own words: “This album is unlike any other recordings we have made so far, as it is our first album to consist entirely of classic jazz songs.”
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Hildur Guðnadóttir – TÁR (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:42 minutes | 1006 MB | Genre: Classical
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Hildur Gudnadóttir’s first and exciting new film project after her Golden Globe, Grammy and Academy Award-winning ‘Joker’ score and Emmy and Grammy-winning soundtrack for the HBO hit-mini-series ‘Chernobyl’. The film, set in the international world of classical music, centers on the fictional character Lydia Tar (Cate Blanchett), widely considered one of the greatest living composers/conductors and first-ever female chief conductor of a major German orchestra. ‘TAR’ marks a reemergence for director Todd Field, who made his directorial debut in 2001 with the critically acclaimed ‘In My Bedroom’, which earned five Oscar nominations, including best picture. The ‘TAR’ soundtrack is a concept album with music from and inspired by the motion picture including works by Mahler, Elgar, Gudnadóttir and more. Alongside Hildur Gudnadóttir the soundtrack will also feature Cate Blanchett conducting a rehearsal of Mahler’s 5th symphony and 20 year old British-German cellist Sophie Kauer.
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Carly Rae Jepsen – The Loneliest Time (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 54:10 minutes | 683 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Silent Records IGA
CARLY JEPSEN / LONELIEST TIME – Her most introspective body of work to date, The Loneliest Time expands on the emotionally potent songwriting and effervescent sound that Carly Rae Jepsen has showcased on past work like 2015’s critically lauded and culture-shaping E*MO*TION. In bringing her new album to life, Jepsen worked with collaborators Tavish Crowe, Rostam Batmanglij (who helmed production on The Loneliest Time’s acclaimed lead single “Western Wind”), Bullion, Captain Cuts, John Hill, Kyle Shearer, and Alex Hope among others.
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Candy Dulfer – We Never Stop (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:19:29 minutes | 921 MB | Genre: R&B
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © The Funk Garage
Finally, a new full-length Candy Dulfer album called ‘We Never Stop, A party platter of stanky jams, silken R&B, jazz, and pop-funk, ‘We Never Stop’ features several guest appearances by Chic guitarist, producer, songwriter, and three-time GRAMMY Award-winner Nile Rodgers. Take a listen to the first single “Jammin’ Tonight (feat. Nile Rodgers),” a bold injection of party pop-funk with a slick jazz overlay that recalls Rodgers’ 1970s “Good Times” finery.
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bvdub & James Bernard – Departing In Descent (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:19:15 minutes | 773 MB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Past Inside the Present
Departing in Descent is the first collaboration between James Bernard and bvdub – though, unbeknownst to each other, their lives had traveled silently side-by-side for decades. Officially beginning, perhaps, with Brock’s purchase of James’ seminal Atmospherics in 1994 after it was mistakenly stocked in his local house record store, what was and always will be his favorite ambient album of all time connected, as abstractly as possible, two people whose journeys through both music and life had been running in secret parallel for as long as either had ever known.
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Buzz Brass – Horizons (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:16 minutes | 955 MB | Genre: Classical
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Buzz Brass’s third album under Analekta label presents masterpieces from Aram Khachaturian, Paul Dukas, Camille Saint-Saëns, George Gershwin, Lew Pollack, Claude Bolling and Astor Piazzolla. This Brass quintet has been travelling the world and captivating classical-music lovers since 2002. Whether alone or with guest artists, Buzz Brass’s highly original performances never fail to leave an impression. The ensemble has performed over 1,700 concerts for more than 400,000 music lovers across North America, Europe, and China. The innovative arrangements for brass quintet and guest musicians add new shades to the original colours of this music program.
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Busch Trio, Daniel Palmizio, Naomi Shaham – Schubert Trio Opus 99 & Forellenquintett (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:20:28 minutes | 2,57 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Alpha Classics
The Busch Trio continues its Schubertian explorations in two works brimming with melodic invention and nostalgia: the Trio in B flat and the famous ‘Trout’ Quintet in A major. But to those who see Schubert as the embodiment of the gemütlich (cosy) face of Vienna, his output, and especially his chamber music, responds with a spirituality, an intensity and sometimes even a fury that are far removed from the atmosphere of the ‘Schubertiad’.
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Brutus – Unison Life (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:49 minutes | 973 MB | Genre: Progressive Rock, Shoegaze, Post-Hardcore, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hassle Records
“More than ever, Brutus sound cohesive here — and their visceral, enchanting music is all the better for it.”
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Broken Bells – Into The Blue (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 41:20 minutes | 808 MB | Genre: Indie Rock, Space Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © 30th Century – Aural Apothecary
Broken Bells are back with their third full length album, Into the Blue. Featuring two of the bigger names in indie and alternative music – the Shins’ singer / guitarist James Mercer and producer / multi-instrumentalist Brian Burton, aka Danger Mouse – Broken Bells combined the pair’s greatest strengths.
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Boston Symphony Orchestra – Barber, Harris & Toch: Orchestral Works (Live) [Remastered 2022] (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:18 minutes | 649 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Archipel
The Boston Symphony Orchestra is one of the leading orchestras in the United States in the field of academic music. Based in Boston. It was founded in 1881 at the expense of philanthropist Henry Lee Higginson. According to the tradition established in American music criticism, it belongs to the top five symphony orchestras of the USA (the so-called “Big Five”).
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Bibio – BIB10 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 45:40 minutes | 495 MB | Genre: Electronic, Folktronica, Indie Pop
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“I like contrast between my albums,” says Stephen Wilkinson aka Bibio. “When I finish an album, I crave doing something different for the next one.”
No more so is this made apparent with Wilkinson hitting a major milestone, releasing his 10th studio album. Over those ten albums he has gracefully glided between electronica, ambient, folk, pop, indie, funk, soul and just about any other sonic avenue he’s decided to turn down. After 2019’s Ribbons, an album he describes as “organic and woody sounding” with a “psych folk vibe”, for BIB10 he decided early on that he wanted to use more synths, drum machines, and electric guitars. “I wanted this album to sound more polished and slick,” he says. “But not ‘software perfect’. My influences for studio production mostly come from the 60s, 70s, and 80s where the craft was very different – getting a more polished sound, without ironing the humanity out of it, was part of the ethos.”
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Bartosz Koziak – Martinů: Cello Concerto No. 2 & Cello Sonata No. 2 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 51:00 minutes | 1,05 GB | Genre: Classical
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Following the album featuring the Cello Concerto “Canti Amadei” by Krzysztof Meyer, Bartosz Koziak releases another programme, this time with music by Bohuslav Martinů. This is yet another studio meeting of the Polish cellist with Martinů’s music after the very well-received recording of the composer’s Duo for Violin and Cello with Anna Maria Staśkiewicz.
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Bart Jacobs – Recommended by Bach (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:21:43 minutes | 2,88 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Ramée
Heinrich Andreas Contius, originally from Halle in Central Germany, was the leading organ builder in the Baltic lands during the second half of the 18th century; his work was particularly appreciated by J.S. Bach. None of his instruments has survived in its original state, but Joris Potvlieghe (Belgium) and Flentrop Orgelbouw (The Netherlands) began an exact reconstruction of Contius’ Liepāja organ to its 1779 state under the management of the Contius Foundation in 2012, using materials and techniques that Contius himself would have employed. The project is unique, as no other instrument by Contius has as yet been reconstructed so meticulously. The organ is characterised by a gentler and more elegant attack that is also somewhat rounder and milder than that of earlier instruments by Gottfried Silbermann and is therefore well suited to the refinements of the galant style. This is the first recording to use the replica of the Contius Liepāja organ in the Sint-Michiel Vredeskerk in Leuven; Bart Jacobs here presents works by composers directly linked to Johann Sebastian Bach as well as to organs built by Heinrich Andreas Contius.
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Barry Douglas – Schubert: Piano Music, Vol. 6 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:22:15 minutes | 1,19 GB | Genre: Classical
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This sixth volume in Barry Douglas’s acclaimed Schubert series features two major works. The Sonata in A minor, D 845 was completed in 1825, just before Schubert started work on his ‘great’ Symphony in C major. As in so much of his later writing, Schubert is pushing at the boundaries of sonata form, particularly in terms of the harmonic variation he introduces throughout the piece. The second movement takes the form of a theme and variations, as does the third piece of the second major work on the album, the Four Impromptus, D 935. Published after his death in 1828, they were composed in 1827 and, like the Sonata, show all the trademarks of late Schubert.
The programme is completed with Liszt’s transcription of Schubert’s ‘Ave Maria’ – a sparklingly virtuosic homage to this famous theme, demonstrating once again Barry Douglas’s extraordinary technical facility.
The album was recorded on a Steinway model D in the Curtis auditorium of the MTU Cork School of Music in Ireland.
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