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Michiel Stekelenburg – Catharsis (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 51:38 minutes | 986 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Challenge Records
As a grown man looking back on my life, I’ve come to realize that I’ve always unconsciously struggled with a deep sensitivity. There were moments when I experienced the world around me so intensely, yet simultaneously felt unable to express it. It seemed as if I were trapped in the eye of my inner storm. Driven by the urgent need to express these suppressed feelings and emotions bubbling deep within, my music finds its origin. I found a way to embrace the complexity of my inner world while sharing it with the outer world.
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Matthew Rotker-Lynn – Introducing (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 36:16 minutes | 773 MB | Genre: Contemporary Jazz, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cellar Live
At age 26, he has already played at top jazz venues such as Smalls, Cellar Dog, the 1905, the Django, the Roxy, Cafe Bohemia, Chris’ Jazz Cafe, and Ornithology, sharing the stage with musicians such as Steve Davis, Alex Claffy, Joe Farnsworth, Pat Bianchi, George Colligan, Willie Jones III, David Wong, Ken Fowser, Brian Charette, Jon Davis, Jason Tiemann, David Kikoski, John Ellis, Sean Smith, and Mike Ledonne, among others.
Originally from Milwaukee, WI, Rotker-Lynn moved to NYC at age 18 to pursue a degree in Jazz Studies at the City College of New York. It was there that he got to study with musicians such as Peter Bernstein, Steve Wilson, Lage Lund, and Ray Gallon, while dipping his feet into the New York Jazz Scene.
Rotker-Lynn currently resides in Queens, NY, and can be heard regularly in NYC’s top jazz clubs. He has recently recorded a six song EP on the Canadian label “Cellar Live” with Alex Claffy and Jimmy Macbride, featuring special guest Aaron Goldberg. Its release date is February 2024.
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Kid Kapichi – There Goes The Neighbourhood (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 37:11 minutes | 484 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Spinefarm
“There Goes The Neighborhood” is Kid Kapichi’s third studio album and was produced by Dom Craik, known for the British chart toppers Nothing But Thieves. The album contains 11 distinctive tracks about misspent youth and nights out in small towns. These songs are equally suitable for protests and parties.
Much like film director Guy Ritchie, a world-renowned figure who remains true to his British roots, the four members from Hastings are determined to stick to their home-grown values and beliefs and bring their songs about working-class pride to as wide an audience as possible.
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John Lurie – Painting with John (Music from the Original TV Series) (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:48:22 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: World, Soundtrack
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Strange and Beautiful
In the penultimate episode of his widely popular and critically acclaimed HBO series, Painting with John, its creator, John Lurie, sat in a Manhattan recording studio, working out musical parts for the show’s soundtrack. “After the illness started, I didn’t think I’d ever be able to do this again,” said Lurie.
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Iva Ugrčić – Gates of Dream (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 52:10 minutes | 709 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Music and Arts Programs of America
Gates of Dream features a selection of solo and chamber works for the flute family by the Romanian composer Doina Rotaru as performed by Serbian flutist Iva Ugrcic. Rotaru works with archetypes and symbols that she carefully weaves into liquid-like heterophonies, blending archaic Romanian influences with contemporary techniques and structures. With the flute as her chisel, she sculpts inventive sonorities while drawing from the past evoking a melancholic atmosphere and feeling of a painful beauty. Award-winning flutist Iva Ugrcic is one of the most exciting and adventurous flutists in the international pantheon. Winner of The American Prize in Woodwind Performance 2023, named BRAVA Magazine’s 2022 “Woman to Watch” and “Musician of the Year for 2018” by The Well-Tempered Ear, Ugrcic is known for her technical brilliance, expressive musicianship, and remarkable versatility. She has garnered international acclaim for her performances, both as a soloist and a collaborator in chamber and orchestral settings in venues across the world.
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Gene Krupa – In Person: Gene Krupa (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 57:14 minutes | 342 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Jube Legends
Eugene Bertram Krupa (January 15, 1909 – October 16, 1973) was an American jazz drummer, bandleader and composer. Krupa is widely regarded as one of the most influential drummers in the history of popular music. His drum solo on Benny Goodman’s 1937 recording of “Sing, Sing, Sing” elevated the role of the drummer from that of an accompanist to that of an important solo voice in the band.
In collaboration with the Slingerland drum- and Zildjian cymbal-manufacturers, he became a major force in defining the standard band-drummer’s kit. Modern Drummer magazine regards Krupa as “the founding father of modern drumset playing”.
Upon his death, The New York Times labeled Krupa a “revolutionary” known for “frenzied, flashy” drumming, with his work having generated a significant musical legacy that started “in jazz and has continued on through the rock era”.
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