The Kraken Consort – O’er the Moor: Songs and Dances from Scotland and Ireland (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:05 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: Folk
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The Kraken Consort was born in 2021 from the imagination of three musicians, friends and colleagues: theorbist Bruno Helstroffer, soprano Chantal Santon Jeffery and tenor Robert Getchell, a Celtic music enthusiast. They share a taste for traditional oral and improvised music, and were keen to team up with instrumentalists with in-depth experience of traditional music: Ronan Pellen (cistre), Brewen Favrau (piper), Sylvain Barou (flute), David Lombardi (violin) and Laurène Durantel (double bass). For their debut album, Kraken Consort revisit the Irish and Scottish musical tradition.
Read moreThe Choir of Trinity College Cambridge, Stephen Layton – Duruflé: Requiem; Poulenc: Lenten Motets (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:02 minutes | 923 MB | Genre: Classical
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One of the twentieth century’s best-loved choral works, Duruflé’s Requiem—a magical synthesis of the old (plainsong) and the new (a harmonic language appropriate to its time and place)—continues to cast its potent spell over performers and listeners alike. This new recording from Stephen Layton and his Trinity forces fully deserves to be regarded as ‘definitive’.
Read moreMo’kalamity – Shine (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 49:21 minutes | 1,01 GB | Genre: Reggae
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Singer, author, and composer, Mo’Kalamity conveys a call for awareness through her spiritual lyrics and her resolutely committed pieces. A trip to Kingston allows him to meet Sly & Robbie, the legendary duo of musicians and producers. Their blossoming collaboration brought to life the album “Mo’Kalamity meets Sly and Robbie – One Love Vibration” in 2018, arranged by the equally brilliant Robbie Lyn on keyboard, Dalton Browne and Mickey Chang on guitar, Dean Fraser on saxophone, Sly Dunbar on drums and Robbie Shakespeare on bass. For Mo, who listened to his inner voice throughout his creative process, leading to recording the album on three different continents, “Shine” is the fruit of his quest for authenticity and personality, bringing together artists that she admires and who represent the evolution of reggae music. Working with these legends, who enriched her musical universe with their talent and creativity, is an honor for her. “Shine” embodies a shared vision and vibration, bringing the music to its peak.
Read moreMildlife – Chorus (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 45:22 minutes | 520 MB | Genre: Psychedelic Rock, Jazz Rock, Jazz-Funk
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Two-time ARIA Award-winning Naarm / Melbourne-based psychedelic jazz outfit Mildlife present their much-anticipated third studio album, Chorus. Following 2020’s Automatic and 2017’s Phase, Chorus arrives as Mildlife’s most optimistic record, serving as a sonic testament to the band’s unwavering adoration for the beguiling realms of 70s psychedelic and cosmic sounds. “Chorus is about a coming together of disparate elements. Not in some sort of utopian aesthetic where everything works perfectly, but in the natural flow and state of things,” shares the band’s Jim Rindfleish. “It’s about cosmic compatibility and chemistry: what makes things work? Not just what makes the band work, but what makes good music, art or love? It’s the rhythm of nature”.
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