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Donna Blue – Into the Realm of Love (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 39:23 minutes | 457 MB | Genre: Indie Pop, Chamber Pop
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The duo behind Donna Blue exist in a grainy, cinematic realm. One where the twang of jangly guitars, groovy bass rythms and sensual vocals call out to you. Once you’re in, you can only surrender to their noir-romantic sound.
The group’s signature chamber pop music is a chic sixties sound that floats somewhere between Nancy & Lee’s moody western duets and Serge Gainsbourg’s upbeat French hit songs, whilst drawing plenty of inspiration from obscure vintage film soundtracks and psychedelia. Whichever way their next song goes, it leads the way into bygone, or perhaps, for the poet and dreamer, future days – offering an escape from the mundane.
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C Turtle – Expensive Thrills (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 32:33 minutes | 410 MB | Genre: Rock
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Mercurial and moody, C Turtle’s sound is a kind of oozing fuzzy-jumper rock that’s as much about slickly spun lyrical poetry and unfiltered emotion, as it is fractal riffs and howling feedback whining at your heels. The lo-fi quartet’s new album, Expensive Thrills, out on Blitzcat Records, unfurls a handsome union of existential reflection and observation that humanity is seemingly going backwards – with a retro sonic ocean of Loveless-drenched feedback, school of Malkmus-lo-fi and a handsome crunch on the guitars. From head to toe the record bursts with influences spanning the epochs of grunge, alternative rock and indie – from Pixies, Pavement and some of the bands that came through the iconic New Zealand label Flying Nun Records in the 80s/90s like 3Ds and The Clean – yet with an effortless modern zeal that has C Turtle standing head and shoulders with other contemporary trailblazers in bar italia and Lime Garden.
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Port Noir – The New Routine (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 45:21 minutes | 546 MB | Genre: Progressive Rock
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Swedish hard-hitting alt-rock trio Port Noir blends old-school rock with contemporary pop, r&b and hip-hop in a creative and minimalistic fashion. Inspired by bands such as Rage Against the Machine, Death from Above 1979, The Weeknd, Daft Punk, Queens of the Stone Age this trio makes for a fresh and interesting addition to the rock scene. The New Routine doesn’t hold any punches. Its direct, energetic and intense soundscape grips the listener from the first second. “We went back to the music we grew up with and tried to find out what got us into playing in a band in the first place and fused it with the music that inspires us today. The result is our best album yet. It’s The New Routine.”
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Polaris String Quartet – Flow: New Music for String Quartet (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:02 minutes | 1,31 GB | Genre: Classical
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Flow – new music for string quartet: an artistic project that draws composers from diverse places and cultures into a shared musical space.
Constant change being a reality common to everybody’s existence, the concept of flux or flow was adopted as the organising theme for the commissioned compositions. It was left up to each composer to respond musically to the idea. By happy circumstance it has turned out that taken together the five compositions more or less follow the pattern of the water cycle, that circular flow so essential to all human life. Martin Lodge
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Paolo Pandolfo, Amélie Chemin, Thomas Boysen, Markus Hünninger – Couperin: Pieces de violes (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 59:48 minutes | 1,05 GB | Genre: Classical
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…Paolo Pandolfo is a wonderfully rhetorical exponent of this beautiful repertoire. –Nicholas Anderson, Classical Music Magazine June 2013.
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Paolo Bonomini – Violoncello italiano (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:17 minutes | 1,13 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Genuin
Hailing from Frescia, cellits Paolo Bonomini offers a survey of 200 years of musical Italy on his Genuin debut release. The First Prizewinner at the 2016 Leipzig Bach Competition performs works by Joseph Dall’Abaco, Luigi Boccherini, Alfredo Piatti, and Luigi Dallapiccola. In terms of the program, we could hardly imagine a more rich and varied overview, and the young, internationally-successful soloists’s playing more than fulfills our expectations – from his lean and buoyant sound in the playful and exuberant Baroque works, to his crystal-clear articulation and bold risk-taking in the modern selections. A brilliant and highly promising debut!
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Porcupine Tree – Up the Downstair (1993/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 49:14 minutes | 537 MB | Genre: Rock
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Up the Downstair is the second studio album by British progressive rock band Porcupine Tree, first released in May 1993. It was originally intended to be a double album set including the song “Voyage 34”, which was instead released as a single in 1992, and other material that ended up on the Staircase Infinities EP (1994). In 2005, it was partially re-recorded, fully re-mixed, remastered and re-released along with the Staircase Infinities EP as a double album. The re-release contains a new mix by Steven Wilson, along with recorded drums by Gavin Harrison that replace the electronic drums of the original version. Steven Wilson has stated that the title of the album came from a line in the song “Voyage 34.” There is still a title track, however. Another re-release on double vinyl was pressed on 14 August 2008 on Kscope records. This is identical to the 2005 release, except it is printed on coloured vinyl and the Staircase Infinities disc contains the song “Phantoms”.
According to Wilson, Up the Downstair channeled “the Orb and the Future Sound of London, but also Floyd and Ozric Tentacles. If I liked it, I didn’t give a fuck.”
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Porridge Radio – Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder to the Sky (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 43:56 minutes | 884 MB | Genre: Indie Rock, Female Vocal
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When Porridge Radio’s Dana Margolin, one of the most vital new voices in rock, began to consider the themes of her new album, three vivid words began to emerge: joy, fear and endlessness. The artwork of the band’s third full-length, Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To The Sky, is a surreal image that evokes the ducks and dives, slippery slopes and existential angst of life in recent times. “To me, the feelings of joy, fear and endlesses coexist together,” says Dana. “You’re never just happy or unhappy.” Following Every Bad’s release in 2020, Margolin was quickly becoming regarded as one of the most magnetic band leaders around. But if Every Bad established Dana’s bravery in laying herself bare, her band’s third record takes that to anthemic new heights. While there are moments of guttural release, she also finds soft power on songs. “I used to think I had to be loud to be heard,” she admits, “but now I’m definitely less afraid of being gentle.”
The band’s first new single, Back To The Radio, sets out their stall, a lurching call to arms that contrasts Dana’s lyrics of panic and closing herself off. This song is just one of example in WDBLTTS that explores something that has long been an important part of Porridge Radio’s process: playfulness. “I think the album needed to have that balance,” Dana explains. Balance: that’s the word the album seems to be eternally striving for – joy, fear and endlessness in harmony but also self-acceptance. Dana is more aware of how she’s creating a persona as her star continues to rise, and how she’s singing personal songs that now belong to other people which gives her purpose. She says, “I wrote these songs for myself, but I think everyone wants to feel like what they’re doing is useful in some way. I’m ready to embrace it all now, whatever happens.
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Pablo Cruise – Lifeline (1976/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 36:07 minutes | 785 MB | Genre: Pop
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Lifeline is the second album by the California soft rock group Pablo Cruise. Released in 1976, the album reached No. 139 on the Billboard Top LPs chart in the United States. In 1977, Barbra Streisand recorded “Don’t Believe It” with mostly different lyrics for her album Superman.
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Porcupine Tree – IndigO2 (2008) (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:02:08 minutes | 2,60 GB | Genre: Rock
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A few days after filming the concert in The Netherlands that would later be released as Anesthetize, Porcupine Tree wound up a nine date mini tour (and the Fear of a Blank Planet album cycle), with this hometown show. At least two of the band are sick and there are some rough edges, but perhaps with the knowledge that the film is in the can, this spirited performance has a looser and more relaxed feel to other shows with similar repertoire from this period.
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musica assoluta, Paavo Järvi, Isabelle Faust, NDR Radiophilharmonie, Christian Tetzlaff, Sharon Kam – Thorsten Encke: A Portrait (Live) (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:10:28 minutes | 618 MB | Genre: Classical
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A Portrait oft he composer Thorsten Encke „When you embark on an artistic project, structural considerations can serve as a spark of inspiration. Like an architect, you roll out a blueprint, jot down a series of notes, and establish a basic framework of interval relations. Then you thoughtfully furnish the interior by relating motifs to one another and assigning them dramatic roles within the musical narrative. All of this is certainly necessary. But then, new ideas take you on detours, unplanned inspiration imposes itself on your thoughts, and the structural spark of inspiration dwindles with each new effort. The work acquires a life of its own; it wants to grow beyond its former limits. As an artist, you have to surrender and try to sense where the journey leads you.
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Parov Stelar – Moonlight Love Affair (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 45:27 minutes | 527 MB | Genre: Electro Swing, Nu Jazz
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MOONLIGHT LOVE AFFAIR is a love relationship in which there are no boundaries – The moon colors the world in a different light and makes us see and feel things with different eyes. So in a perfect digital world it is inevitable to let the organic flow in, to look at the other side and to unite. This is exactly what Parov Stelar does to perfection with this album. He takes the digital and organic worlds, combines them into one massive masterpiece and is not willing to compromise, because in compromise both sides always lose.
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Polish Violin Duo – Kaczkowski: Violin Duos, Opp. 10 & 16 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:48 minutes | 1,42 GB | Genre: Classical
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Joachim Kaczkowski, a Polish violinist, teacher and composer, was born in 1789 in the city of Tábor in southern Bohemia. He came from a family with strong musical traditions. Joachim Kaczkowski took his first violin lessons from his father. He grew up in Lviv at a time when such outstanding representatives of the musical community as Polish conductor and composer of German origin Józef Elsner and violinist, conductor and composer Karol Kurpiński were active there.
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Paolo Ghidoni, Marco Grisanti – Beethoven: Violin Sonatas, Op. 30 Nos. 1-3, Vol 2 (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:11:12 minutes | 1,15 GB | Genre: Classical
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Beethoven opened the new century with the publication of his first symphony, but also with that of other important works, such as four piano sonatas (Opp. 26, 27, and 28) and two sonatas for piano and violin – in A Minor, Op. 23, and F Major, Op. 24. Originally, the two sonatas were published in 1801 as a set, under the opus number 23. But something as trivial as their having been mistakenly printed on different-size paper in their second reprint a year later compelled the publisher (and Beethoven) to present them as two distinct works, each with its own opus number – probably to save both face and money. Unlike its companion in F major, the Sonata Op. 23 is a rather stark work, remaining in the darkness of minor keys, and often in a contained, two-voice writing in the piano part. Success was granted to Op. 23, however, after a rather negative response to Beethoven’s three earlier works in the genre, published in 1798 as Op. 12. This achievement encouraged the composer to continue in the genre, with the publication of the Three Sonatas, Op. 30 a year later. Probably written during his sojourn in Heiligenstadt, Beethoven published the works in 1803 and dedicated them to the Tsar Alexander I of Russia. Op. 30 departs from the more traditional writing found in Opp. 12, 23, and 24: both violin and piano parts reach new levels of complexity, with expanded structures, florid virtuosity, and more sophisticated interactions between the two instruments. The final movement of the first of the three sonatas was considered too challenging, and was substituted by a simpler set of variations.
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Pan American – A Son (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 40:16 minutes | 412 MB | Genre: Post-Rock, Ambient
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Mark Nelson’s Pan American beautifully drifts into a sunset sound referencing his classic Labradford output on ‘A Son’, his first new album since start of the decade. RIYL Spacemen 3, Mark Lanegan, Bark Psychosis…
Now a duo revolving original member Mark Nelson of Labradford esteem, and percussionist Steven Hess, whose solo work and with the likes of Sylvain Chaveau and Michael Valera is well loved over here, Pan American return to their post-rock roots with suitably brooding results that sound to these ears like a long evening spent porchside sipping an unending and always chilled glass of whiskey.
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