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Mayhem – Daemonic Rites (Live) (2023) [24Bit-44.1kHz] FLAC [PMEDIA] ⭐️

Studio Masters By admin · September 15, 2023 · Comments off

Mayhem - Daemonic Rites (Live) (2023) [24Bit-44.1kHz] FLAC [PMEDIA] ⭐️ Download

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A Giant Dog – Bite (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · September 15, 2023 · Comments off

The moment the needle drops on Bite, one’s conception of what an A Giant Dog record sounds like bends like space and time around a starship running at lightspeed.

The biggest point of departure is that Bite is a concept album, concerning characters who find themselves moving in and out of a virtual reality called Avalonia. You’re thrown into it quickly, as a calm, robotic voice says, “Welcome to Avalonia, happiness awaits inside” over a crushing synth line that segues into an opulent string arrangement.

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Szabolcs Szilagyi & Laszlo Borbely – Bach, Complete Flute Sonatas, Volume I (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · September 14, 2023 · Comments off

Bach’s flute sonatas are particularly sensitive, penetrating and soul-stirring music. If I had to use a single word to describe the four sonatas on this disc, surprisingly, I would have to use something far from idyllic. But why should Bach be so idyllic? His perfect structures (far beyond the ‘idyllic’ sound we imagine) remind us of the tragedy of our finitude and imperfection. And perfection never ‘anaesthetises’. With Bach, even the simplest-seeming music (or movement) explores the darkest spheres (along with the lightest, of course) that the human psyche can scarcely imagine. Just listen to the soaring, inducible phrases of the slow movement of the Sonata in C Major, over and over again. Like the stems of a plant spreading towards the light, tirelessly bursting forward, upwards, towards the surface, towards the light. If you listen to it once with deep attention, you will never forget the opening movement of the Sonata in E Minor, with its almost brutal phrasing, and then the fiery even movements that rush in as a counterpoint. But also the shifting moods of the A Major Sonata in the two outer movements, or the ‘heartbeats missing’ in the slow movement. In these Bach prophetically foreshadows the rebellious structures of modernity. And we haven’t even mentioned the second movement in the Sonata in E flat Major, which evokes the Passions…

So these pieces really do speak to us! They contain content that cannot be expressed in words, and beyond that, they ask the ultimate questions of our humanity, and they do it for us. Bach’s language hides for us the evidence of a time before the turmoil of Babel.

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Supergrass – Life On Other Planets (2023 Remaster) (2022/2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · September 14, 2023 · Comments off

Supergrass makes music so effervescent and so effortlessly joyous that it’s easy to take them and their skills for granted. Surely that was the case around the release of their third album, 1999’s eponymous effort, which in its labored fun and weary ballads illustrated just how much hard work it was to craft records as brilliant as I Should Coco and In It for the Money. It suggested the group might have burned too bright and flamed out, but, happily, 2002’s Life on Other Planets is a smashing return to form, an album giddy with the sheer pleasure of making music. What makes this all the more impressive is that this is the record that Supergrass attempted to be – a perfect balance of the sensibility and humor of I Should Coco with the musicality and casual virtuosity of In It for the Money. Where that album felt labored and a little weary, Life on Other Planets is teeming with life. The tempos are sprightly, the hooks tumble out of the speakers, the band mixes up styles and eras, and they never, ever forget the jokes (Gaz’s fleeting Elvis impression on “Seen the Light,” an allusion to Spinal Tap’s “All the Way Home,” or the chorus of “Evening of the Day”). Sure, it’s possible to spot the influence all the way through the album – most clearly T. Rex on “Seen the Light” and “Brecon Beacons,” where Gaz’s warble is uncannily like Marc Bolan’s – but it never sounds exactly like their inspirations – it all sounds like Supergrass. And Supergrass hasn’t offered such pure, unabashed pop pleasure since their debut; there hasn’t been an album that’s this much fun in a long time. Since they’ve been away for a while and have never broken in the States, Supergrass has been curiously overlooked, even though they’re better than 99 percent of the power pop and punk-pop bands out there (plus, their everything-old-is-new-again aesthetic can be heard in such albums as the Strokes’ Is This It?). But, as this glorious record proves, there are few bands around these days who are as flat-out enjoyable as this trio. The world is a better place for having Supergrass in it.

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Soen – Memorial (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · September 14, 2023 · Comments off

Never ones to take the restrained path, on their sixth studio album Memorial, Soen face down the ills and ways of current society with a crisp, wounded venom that betrays their pain, anger and frustrations. Each guitar carries a greater serrated edge, each melody a richer heart, each lyric a soul and spleen venting definitive proclamation. At the same time, Soen’s unique blend of progression, aggression, and beauty shows more maturity than ever before.

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Stephan Oliva, Susanne Abbuehl, Øyvind Hegg-Lunde – Princess (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · September 13, 2023 · Comments off

“Princess” is the first recording for the duo of Stéphan Oliva & Susanne Abbuehl with the great Norwegian drummer and percussionist Øyvind Hegg-Lunde. The album have been released on the French independent label Vision Fugitive. The Trio will be on Tour in 2017 & 2018.

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Steinar Raknes – On the Road (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · September 13, 2023 · Comments off

Steinar Raknes is a creative bassist and vocalist who isn’t afraid to go his own way.

As a jazz graduate of NTNU in Trondheim, he shocked the Norwegian jazz scene with the band «Urban Connection» which took the concept of jazz trios to new heights. In recent years, Raknes has steadily moved more towards the singer/songwriter segment. The Stillhouse concept, which is really a duo project with Unni Wilhelmsen, was extended with Per Oddvar Johansen on drums, Even Hermansen on guitar and Jørgen Mathisen on clarinet, soprano and tenor sax.

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Neil Young – Neil Young: Live in California (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · September 12, 2023 · Comments off

The 80s are the most discredited and criticized period of Neil Y We are also reminded of this recording, bootleg, which documents a show of November 21, 1986 at the Cow Palace in Daly, California in the company of Crazy Horse, retrieved from the radio program of the time, already printed on triple vinyl, and now available on CD: in the middle of a performance in which Neil entertains even on the phone with the mother and with comedian Sam Kinison, the canadian gives the audience a good dose of classic running in the second part of tracks from albums like “Re·ac·tor” (“Estrella de la Ópera”), “Trans” (“Muestra y espera”, “Was de la computadora”), “Landing On violentoAter” (“Violent Lado”), presenting almost in full preview the repertoire included the following year on “Vida” (“Demasiado solitaire”, “Reina Inca”, “Vacaciones en el Middle East”, “Wide Caminata a casa”, “Cuando Tu Coraz Solitario

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Steppenwolf – The Second (1968/2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · September 12, 2023 · Comments off

The Second is the second studio album by Canadian-American acid rock band Steppenwolf, released in 1968 on ABC Dunhill Records. The album contains one of Steppenwolf’s most famous songs, “Magic Carpet Ride”. The background of the original ABC LP cover was a shiny “foil”, in contrast to later (MCA Records) LP issues and the modern CD sleeve.

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Steppenwolf – Steppenwolf 7 (1970/2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · September 12, 2023 · Comments off

Steppenwolf 7 is an album by the band Steppenwolf, released in 1970, and their fifth studio recording for Dunhill Records. It is the first Steppenwolf album with new bass player George Biondo. While the album featured Steppenwolf’s trademark rock and roll sounds, none of the songs were able to make the Top 40. The album featured a cover of Hoyt Axton’s “Snowblind Friend”, their second cover of one of his anti-drug songs (the first being “The Pusher”). Along with “Who Needs Ya”, it was one of two singles from the album which made the charts but fell short of the Top 40. The album track “Renegade” is autobiographical for lead vocalist John Kay, recounting his flight with his mother from East to West Germany in 1948.

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Stefano Di Battista – Morricone Stories (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · September 11, 2023 · Comments off

The new album by saxophonist Stefano Di Battista is an authentic tribute to Ennio Morricone’s film music.Di Battista plays with the master’s themes as if they were magical matter, substance of that special and mysterious area of music that almost inexplicably fills our soul. The choice in some cases falls on marginal themes, or rather less famous or forgotten films, such as Veruschka or what you did to Solange, to dig better into a repertoire still to be discovered (Morricone has worked on the music of more than five hundred films). Then of course there is the enjoyment of pure and listen to the themes that we know very well that they become perfect jazz standards, such as Metti una sera a cena, swinging and ironic, or The good the bad and the ugly, who reveals himself as a duel of improvisations, with the sax, who takes the part of that brief hint of notes that at the beginning he was inspired by the verse of the coyote, before splitting up in the emotion of the purest of the Theme of Deborah There was a time in America, which is one of the most beautiful inventions of Morricone. Not to mention the delicate reinterpretation of the mission, with an elegant passage from the original oboe to the soprano sax, until the surprise of an unpublished, a piece entitled Flora, which the Maestro gave to Di Battista.

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Stella Donnelly – Beware of the Dogs (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · September 11, 2023 · Comments off

Stella Donnelly is a proud, self-proclaimed shit-stirrer. On lead single “Old Man,” the biting opener of her electrifying debut album, ‘Beware of the Dogs,’ she targets the song’s titular creep, “Oh are you scared of me old man or are you scared of what I’ll do? You grabbed me with an open hand. The world is grabbing back at you.” When something needs to be said, whether it’s to an abusive man, a terrible boss, or a clueless significant other, the 26-year old Fremantle, Western Australia-based musician is fearless in telling it like it is. Delivered entirely with a sarcastic wink and a full heart, ‘Beware of the Dogs’ proves across 13 lifeaffirming songs the power in sticking up for yourself, your friends, and what’s right. The album showcases an artist totally in command of her voice, able to wield her inviting charm and razor-sharp wit into authentically raw songs. It’s a resounding statement of purpose in recent memory and most importantly, it’s a portrait of Donnelly taking charge. She says, “this album made me feel like I was back in the driver’s seat. It was really liberating and grounding to realize that no one can fuck with this except me.”

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Stefano Bollani – Stone in the water (2009) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · September 11, 2023 · Comments off

“Stone in the Water” features the brilliant Italian pianist’s “Danish trio”, a group that has been honing its improvisational understanding for six years already. Bassist Jesper Bodilsen and drummer Morten Lund (both making ECM debuts) draw on a still longer association, having collaborated closely for more than 15 years. The three players move, with immense subtlety, through a fascinating programme that includes new pieces by Bollani and Bodilsen, plus ballads by Caetano Veloso and Antonio Carlos Jobim, and Poulenc’s “Improvisation 13 en mineur”, bringing fresh colours to the piano trio genre.

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Staatskapelle Dresden – Schoenberg: Gurre-Lieder (Live at Semperoper, Dresden) (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · September 10, 2023 · Comments off

To say that Christian Thielemann’s early March 2020 Gurre-Lieder at the Semperoper Dresden didn’t take place a moment too soon is something of an understatement, when under a fortnight later Europe’s international-level live music making scene had been reduced to solo recitals self-filmed on mobile phones and posted onto social media. Equally fortuitously, it was recorded live, meaning we can now all listen to this ambitious project with its international line-up that would, had 2020 turned out differently, have received a second airing the following month at the Salzburg Easter Festival.

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Wiener Philharmoniker, Karl Böhm – Beethoven: Symphony 6 & Schubert: Symphony 5 (1971 & 80) [Japan 2018] SACD ISO + DSF DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

SACD / DSD By admin · September 9, 2023 · Comments off

This famous 1971 recording of Beethoven’s Sixth by the Wiener Philharmoniker under Karl Böhm, now considered a reference, has been called one of the best versions ever recorded and one of Böhm’s greatest career performances. On this programme it is paired with Schubert’s Symphony No. 5, a 1979 recording which Gramophone praised as a “superb version of this lovely symphony”.

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