Ahmad Jamal – Ahmad Jamal at the Blackhawk (1961/2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Ahmad Jamal – Ahmad Jamal at the Blackhawk (1961/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 37:51 minutes | 373 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Reborn recordings

Ahmad Jamal at the Blackhawk is a live album by American jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal featuring performances recorded in San Francisco in 1961 and released on the Argo label.

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AHI – Unarchived (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

AHI – Unarchived (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 35:36 minutes | 715 MB | Genre: Folk Pop, Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © 22nd Sentry

AHI is the stage name of Ahkinoah Habah Izarh, a Canadian singer-songwriter, whose album In Our Time was named as a Juno Award nominee for Contemporary Roots Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2019.

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a-ha – Time And Again: The Ultimate a-ha (Remastered) (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

a-ha – Time And Again: The Ultimate a-ha (Remastered) (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 02:37:52 minutes | 1,84 GB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino – Warner Records

Time and Again: The Ultimate a-ha is a greatest hits compilation album by the Norwegian band a-ha. Given how hugely successful the Norwegian trio remains around the world, it’s always a little amusing to think about how many Americans still view them as only having a couple of hits. In fact, the band just celebrated their 30th anniversary last year, releasing a new album, Cast in Steel, their 10th full-length studio effort to date.

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a-ha – Minor Earth, Major Sky Deluxe Edition (Remastered) (2000/2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

a-ha – Minor Earth, Major Sky Deluxe Edition (Remastered) (2000/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 02:33:50 minutes | 1,75 GB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © WM Germany

A-ha’s sixth studio album. This album defiantly marked the end of the band’s hiatus after their previous album ‘Memorial Beach’, shortly after their performance in 1998 at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert, where they performed ‘Summer Moved On’ and ‘The Sun Always Shines on T.V.’. The album achieved top 10 success in 7 countries charting in top 5 positions in 5 of these.

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a-ha – Lifelines Deluxe Edition (Remastered) (2002/2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

a-ha – Lifelines Deluxe Edition (Remastered) (2002/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 02:35:59 minutes | 1,75 GB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © WM Germany

A-ha’s 7th studio album which achieved Top 10 success in 9 countries charting at No. 1 in four of those. This pop album is defined by Harket’s instantly recognisable vocals and their signature electronically charged sound. Selling over 1.5 million copies worldwide, it is not difficult to see why this album is a staple item in any electronic/pop music fan’s collection.

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a-ha – Hunting High & Low (2015 Remaster) (1985/2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

a-ha – Hunting High & Low (2015 Remaster) (1985/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 37:16 minutes | 1,52 GB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino – Warner Records

The classic debut album from Norway’s a-ha. Includes quintessenital new wave hits “Take On Me” & “Sun Always Shines on TV” and has sold over 10 million units worldwide. Hunting High and Low peaked at number 15 on the US Billboard 200.

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Ah Young Hong – Michael Hersch: I hope we get a chance to visit soon (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Ah Young Hong – Michael Hersch: I hope we get a chance to visit soon (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:01:14 minutes | 618 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © New Focus Recordings

Composer Michael Hersch tackles difficult subject matter unflinchingly, delving deep inside the nature of pain, anguish, and suffering in works that frequently explore illness and mortality. I hope we get a chance to visit soon is no exception. The companion piece to his 2012 monodrama, On the Threshold of Winter, which set texts by Romanian poet Marin Sorescu who succumbed to cancer, I hope we get a chance to visit soon engages with the loss of Hersch’s close friend Mary Harris O’Reilly to the disease. Hersch’s own bout with cancer is always lurking in the subtext of these powerfully topical works, manifest in his chosen sonic world that primarily sets texts from correspondence between O’Reilly and Hersch, some of which were exchanged while both were in treatment. These texts are often set in opposition to fragments from the poetry of Rebecca Elson. The work is scored for two soprano soloists and chamber ensemble. Hersch divides the texts between the words of O’Reilly and Elson, establishing contrasting roles and perspectives on the situation that the protagonist finds herself in. That the formal release of this recording comes in the midst of a global pandemic will not be lost on anyone, and only intensifies the contemporary experience of this powerful work.

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Ahmad Jamal – Ahmad Jamal’s Alhambra (1961/2013) DSF DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

Ahmad Jamal – Ahmad Jamal’s Alhambra (1961/2013)
DSD64 (.dsf) 1 bit/2,82 MHz | Time – 42:16 minutes | 1,66 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 42:16 minutes | 836 MB
Genre: Jazz | Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: AcousticSounds | Front Cover | © Verve Reissues

Ahmad Jamal’s Alhambra, recorded live in June 1961 by engineer Ron Malo (the same man who recorded the classic Muddy Waters/Folk Singer), might not be as famous or well-known as Bill Evans’ Waltz For Debby, but it belongs in the same class. This is such a beautiful performance and perfect recording that it by rights should be an all-time audiophile classic. And as a DSD, hi-res download, it’s finally got its chance to get its due. This is as intimate and detailed a live recording as exists. You’re in the room! One of the All-Time-Best Recordings, Captured by Needle Drop Direct to DSD.

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Airto Moreira – Fingers (1973/2013) DSF DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

Airto Moreira – Fingers (1973/2013)
DSD64 (.dsf) 1 bit/2,8 MHz | Time – 35:26 minutes | 1,39 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 35:26 minutes | 787 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: e-Onkyo | Genre: Jazz | © CTI Records ‎

“Fingers” is an album by Brazilian jazz drummer and percussionist Airto Moreira (who was credited simply as “Airto”) featuring performances recorded in 1973 at Van Gelder Studio and released on Creed Taylor’s CTI label. The album reached number 18 in the Billboard Jazz albums charts.

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Allan Holdsworth – The Man Who Changed Guitar Forever (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Allan Holdsworth – The Man Who Changed Guitar Forever (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 08:40:26 minutes | 10 GB | Genre: Jazz Fusion, Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: Qobuz | Front cover | © Allan Holdsworth

Twelve CD box set collection featuring all of Allan Holdsworth’s solo albums from 1982-2003. That title is no hyperbole-it was a proclamation that ran on the cover of Guitar Player Magazine in 2008, and is a feeling shared by fans and guitarists all around the world. Still, though, Holdsworth remains largely under-rated; many who admire his most famous work have overlooked dozens of fascinating finds to be made on his decades of recordings. This collection is a treasure trove of such discoveries, as it brings you all 11 of his albums as a solo artist, producer and group leader since 1980 plus the live-in-Tokyo album Then! And a 40-page booklet full of liner notes and archival photos. You also get previously unreleased bonus tracks, and all these albums have been newly remastered from the original tapes: I.O.U. (1982), Road Games (1983), Metal Fatigue (1985), Atavachron (1986), Sand (1987), Secrets (1989), Wardenclyffe Tower (1992), Hard Hat Area (1993), None Too Soon (1996), The Sixteen Men Of Tain (2000), Flat Tire (2001) and Then! (2003). These albums, many of which have been out of print and very hard to find for years, include one intriguing composition, ethereal track, dazzling fusion rocker and daredevil guitar passages. (more…)

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Afflatus Quartet – Classical: Beethoven, Mozart (2011) DSF DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

Afflatus Quartet – Classical: Beethoven, Mozart (2011)
DSD64 (.dsf) 1 bit/2,8 MHz | Time – 63:32 minutes | Artwork: Front/Rear Covers | 2,5 GB
FLAC 2.0 (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 63:32 min | Artwork: Front/Rear Covers | 1 GB
Source: SACD-R, Cryston Japan / Octavia Records # OVCC-00009

The Afflatus Quartet/Quintet has been in the music scene since 1995. Afflatus Quartet derives from Afflatus Quintet, the winner of the International Music Competition of the ARD Munich 1997 which is one of the most prestigious competitions of chamber music in the world. With Radek Baborák, the world-famous horn player and Afflatus member, taking “vacation” from the ensemble, the four members, each the splendid musician active in Europe, especially in Czech Republic, make the best possible unity with the woodwind quartet ensemble. Their second album features classical repertoire by Beethoven and Mozart. All of them are arrangements, but the distinguished ensemble members of Afflatus create sound rich and full of variety of colors, like an organic instrument made of four musicians, with celestial, beautiful sound for “Classical”.

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Ad Libitum Choir, Per-Anders Sjoberg – As You Like (1977/2016) DSF DSD64

Ad Libitum Choir, Per-Anders Sjoberg – As You Like (1977/2016)
DSF Stereo DSD64/2.82MHz | Time – 40:10 minutes | 1,61 GB | Genre: Classical, Jazz, Folk
Official Digital Download – Source: ProStudioMasters | Digital Booklet |  © 2xHD

As You Like It is a 1978 album of jazz and folk music from some of the best Swedish jazz musicians of the day, joined by the Ad Libitum Choir led by Per-Anders Sjoberg. The four musicians performing these traditional and modern numbers with the choir are pianist Bengt Hallberg, bassist Georg Riedel, trumpeter Jan Allan and drummer Egil Johansen

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Adam Agee & Jon Sousa – Suantrai: Traditional Irish Music (2014) DSF DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

Adam Agee & Jon Sousa – Suantrai: Traditional Irish Music (2014)
DSD64 (.dsf) 1 bit/2,8 MHz | Time – 50:01 minutes | 1,99 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 50:01 minutes | 929 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

Adam Agee and Jon Sousa are two of Colorado’s most sought-after traditional Irish musicians. Since 2004, they have been journeying together through the Irish idiom on fiddle, guitar, and tenor banjo, enchanting listeners on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. Adam and Jon have put down musical roots in County Clare, where they lived together, and now make frequent visits. Their connection to their instruments and the transcendent energy in their music is guaranteed to captivate and uplift audiences of all ages. Pure DSD Recording.

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Aaron Diehl – The Bespoke Man’s Narrative (2013) DSF DSD128 + Hi-Res FLAC

Aaron Diehl – The Bespoke Man’s Narrative (2013)
DSD128 (.dsf) 1 bit/5,6 MHz | Time – 63:50 minutes | 5,03 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 63:50 minutes | 1,25 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet | Genre: Jazz | © Mack Avenue Records

In fashion circles, the adjective “bespoke” denotes custom-made suits and shirts and signifies the person who designs and constructs them. On The Bespoke Man’s Narrative, pianist Aaron Diehl extrapolates this notion to matters of musical invention. The five originals and five arrangements comprising the programme were chosen specifically for Diehl’s quartet of young all-stars: vibraphonist Warren Wolf, bassist David Wong and drummer Rodney Green.

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Agustín Galiana – Agustín Galiana (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Agustín Galiana – Agustín Galiana (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 46:59 minutes | 556 MB | Genre: French Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Fontana

Après sa participation à Danse avec les stars, Agustin Galiana est devenu chanteur. Lors d’un entretien exclusif avec melty, il s’est confié sur son album, sa tournée et s’est penché sur ses projets à la télévision.

Alors qu’une célèbre animatrice télé a refusé de participer à Danse avec les stars 9, on se demande bien qui va succéder à Agustin Galiana. Le comédien, connu pour son rôle dans la série Clem sur TF1, a réussi à convaincre le public l’an dernier. Depuis, il s’est lancé avec succès dans la musique, puisque après son premier single “Carmina”, son titre “C’était hier” a recueilli plus d’un million de vues sur YouTube. Lors d’une interview accordée à melty, il est revenu sur ce succès fulgurant, tout en se confiant sur Candice Pascal, sa partenaire de danse, et ses prochains projets à la télévision. S’il a refusé L’Aventure Robinson, Agustin se verrait bien en tant que juré dans DALS. Tandis qu’on a appris qu’une candidate de Koh Lanta, le retour des héros, était partante pour Danse avec les stars 9, découvrez sans plus attendre les réponses du chanteur ci-dessous. / After his participation in Dancing with the stars, Agustin Galiana became a singer. In an exclusive interview with melty, he shared his album, his tour, and his TV projects.

While a famous TV host refused to participate in dance with the stars 9, one wonders who will succeed Agustin Galiana. The comedian, known for his role in the series Clem on TF1, succeeded in convincing the audience last year. Since then, he has successfully launched himself into music, since after his first single “Carmina”, his title “c’était hier” collected more than a million views on YouTube. In an interview with melty, he returned to this dazzling success, while trusting Candice Pascal, his dance partner, and his next projects on television. If he turned down the Robinson Adventure, Agustin would see himself as a juror in DALS. While we learned that a candidate of Koh Lanta, the return of the heroes, was ready to dance with the stars 9, discover without waiting any more the answers of the singer below.

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